How to deal when friends and family don’t support your wedding
When someone refuses to celebrate your happy times, neglect, criticism, and even humiliation are often the emotions you experience. And that’s why is can be so hard and painful. My father’s negative reaction to one of the most joyous occasions of my life has been a really painful and difficult learning curve. But, most importantly, there are some things that I have learned about having unsupportive friends and family that I hope will help other readers in a similar predicament feel better…
My family doesn’t approve of my wedding
I have known since the day that I came out that my parents would not be attending my wedding, nor any of my six siblings and aunts and uncles. I have been forbidden from telling my last living grandparent to “preserve her health.” How can I share in the excitement of planning when my wedding feels like the final nail in the coffin of my relationships with my family?
Dear loved one who is not getting invited to my wedding…
We’ll skip the awkward well-wishing and wellness inquiries. I know you are angry. You’re probably hurting, maybe livid. You might be ready to cut me out of your life completely because you did not receive that magic little piece of paper in the mail. But here is the grown-up, bare-bones, truth: Not getting invited to my wedding does not mean being uninvited to my life.
Fights about weddings will happen, here’s how to work your politics into the compromise
I wish I read this post about consensual bridal showers when I first got engaged. I wouldn’t have felt so “wrong” when I came across the same scenario… I tried to be polite. I tried to kindly turn it down. That didn’t work. Then things got ugly. This is when I had a big realization… These fights about weddings will exist no matter how hard I try. But there are ways to work your politics into the compromise.