peanutjewel
Rough_Rock
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- May 1, 2008
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- 14
Need some ediquette help...My family is really close, and I would love for all of them to be at my wedding. My problem is my cousin has been with a woman for a couple of years. I don''t like her. She doesn''t shower on a regular basis (not being mean...being truthful, the woman smells...BAD), and would probably show up to the wedding wearing sweatpants or her pj''s. My cousins kids are also horrible teenage brats. Their family show up at events just for the free food. They go to baby and bridal showers without even a small inexpensive gift...just show up and eat. At our family''s weddings they go around and pick up the extra favors and take them...sometimes taking favors of people who are there and leave the table for a second. I love my cousin, but don''t like his kids or the woman he is with. My sister said she didn''t want to invite them to her wedding (a VERY expensive beautiful elegant affair) but was basically like "they''re family, you have to invite them, what can you do?" I don''t want them there, just to eat and steal the favors. I feel guilty, but I am thinking of not inviting them. My aunt (cousin''s mother) would probably be upset and complain to the rest of the family about it, and some of my other relatives, while understanding my point, would also feel that I have to invite them. My MOH says it''s my day and I''m allowed to be a bridezilla and not invite them if I don''t want to. Any ideas or suggestions on how to handle it? I want to invite all of my other cousins and they''re families, just not the one cousin''s family, and I know I can''t invite him and not his family. Am I being mean and unreasonable?