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Not gonna lie, weddings make people crazy. And you consolidated all the crazy that's usually spread out over 6-24 months of planning into a very short window of time. They will get over it. I nearly punched my mother for all the temper tantrums she was having on my wedding day and now she acts like it never happened. It will go away and your best bet is to stay out of it. Realistically you can't please everyone and this situation had a lot of people feeling left out, so lots of people are "displeased" with you. Apologize to anyone who feels left out and just plan your big day.
People are going to know you got married. It's not going to stay a secret so just go with the flow.
Eik, what a mess! It's really hard to try and keep things like that on the DL and please everyone. My best friend and her husband tried to do the same thing - her mom took their JOP idea and ran with it, inviting the whole family and many friends to a combination Halloween party/backyard wedding. It got really big and out of control and was a bit of a crazy mess, but overall it was lovely though kind of kooky. They both still wanted to do a "real" wedding PLUS his family didn't know (huge long story on that one), so for the "real" wedding they tried keeping it a secret. Worked -- up until the minister announced how wonderful it was to have everyone there to witness A & L's recommittment of their vows. Oops!
So my suggestion is, let it be known that the larger ceremony is a vow renewal after your small, simple marriage ceremony held for financial and logistical reasons. Most people love a good party and shouldn't be offended or upset that they're not attending your "real" wedding. And if they are? Screw 'em. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.
As far as your family's outrageous behavior goes... I'm sorry, they sound awful and it sucks you have to put up with this. You tried to be nice and include them, and instead they're throwing it in your face. I'd simply let it be known through the grapevine or in person (whichever works best for your family) that you did what you thought was best and that's that. Sorry if anyone is offended or upset, but what's done is done.
I hope it all works out and you & your husband can enjoy married life.
Just make your big "wedding" a vow renewal... which it is, since you're already married. People will either get over it or not, and you don't have a lot of control over that.
I'm sorry to hear this has happened to you.
You can't "fix" this. Life happens. Just roll with it. (I know. Easier said than done.) But know, you can't control what other people do. You can only control what you do.
I suggest you send out announcements. Of course announce that you are married, briefly state that you and your DH will soon be moving to a new state because of your husband's fantastic job opportunity, and a formal wedding or celebration will be held in the future. Kind of like a STD. The announcement will explain the need for the rush wedding in the park. Make a verbal announcement to your family that you wanted it to be a secret, but since that is no longer the case this is your plan. NO BACK AN FORTH WITH THEM! Go ahead and purchase and wear your ring(s) and change your name. Then enjoy the beginning of your life as the wife of the man you love.
BTW Congratulations!
Yeah, the whole "secret" wedding doesn't work when that any people are in on it. I agree with the post above me. Send out an announcement/ STD for the future official wedding and get rings and be MARRIED!!Thats what you are so you might as well start enjoy it. I'm sorry that it didn't turn out the way you hoped. Your family is acting immature, don't let them steal your joy! If you act like you screwed up by doing this way people are going to feed into it. You said your ceremony was beauitful so just remember that and forget about your negative family. Best of luck!
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Hello my fellow brides! I really need some advice to help "pick me up". This is a long story but here goes: My fiancé' and I have been together for 8 years (we met when I was 16) and he has been my best friend! We were recently engaged on 11/23/11. We are very much so in love and we are both very excited about spending the rest of our lives together. A few days after the engagement, he was offered a job with Boeing in a different state in which they are paying for him to relocate plus living expenses. Because we are not married, they won’t include me in the relocation and I won’t be able to get on his health benefits. Because of this, we decided to marry before moving just to make it official for the move but we were still wanting to do the big wedding later in May of 2013 just as we had originally planned. We thought of going to the courthouse and keeping it a secret just between the two of us but we wanted to still make this special since it was the "official marriage". The situation got VERY sticky when we asked his grandmother (which is an ordained minister) to marry us this past Friday being that his mother was in town and was leaving on Saturday. She originally agreed and the plan was to have myself, my fiancé, his mother, my mother and his grandmother in attendance. A few hours later, she called and said never mind, that she couldn’t do it because she had a concert to go to on Friday and she didn't feel that we should get married like this. After that call we received a call from his mother stating that she also felt rushed and that she had plans to go to a lounge with her friends that night since she was leaving the next morning. From there my mother contacted her pastor (which I had never met) and he agreed to do the ceremony. We met that night and went over the vows. After a three hour meeting he then told us he would be charging us $250 which was a bit high! After thinking about it, I told my mom we were not going to pay this man $250 and that the most we could do was $150. After discussing this with the man, he had a HORRIBLE attitude and i REFUSED to allow someone like that to marry us! My mom was LIVID!!! On top of that she had already been trying to control the WHOLE process trying to make me to a particular park in which there was a possibility that we could be kicked out because you have to pay to get married there. She wasn't trying to hear what I wanted to do at all!! She was just trying to control everything! I finally told her that I was going to have my Great Aunt marry us and that I wanted the ceremony to be held in a public park. Now that this situation was behind us and I had a location that was open to the public and a pastor that was family, I felt better!!! BUT NO!!! IT GOT WORSE! We decided that we could open the door to more CLOSE family so that they can share the experience with us EVENTHOUGH we were still doing the big wedding next year. We ultimately decided to invite only 10 close family members and have my great aunt marry us. I decided to have my mom as my maid of honor and my best friend and my 1 bridesmaid. My fiancé did the same with two of his close friends. He didn't even have any family there just his 2 friends. The ceremony was beautiful and everything was great until my two aunts (which are very close to me and are like friends) walked off after the wedding without taking pictures or saying much of anything to me! Later on I found out that the world was PISSED at me! My two aunts were mad because I didn't put them in the wedding and that I chose a friend who they don't like, my god son was pissed because my Grandmother told him that she accidentally told him about the wedding and that's the only reason he was invited (which was not true, I had always intended on having him there, but she opened her mouth before I was able to tell him). And even though the wedding was supposed to be a secret I feel like everyone knows! I'm getting Facebook messages from family that I haven't seen in YEARS saying "I’m so upset you didn't invite me!".... And other family member out of state posting on Facebook "CONGRATS TO THE NEWLYWEDS".... IT WAS SUPPOSE TO BE A SECRET and now I feel like my big/actual wedding is now compromised! We didn't even exchange rings and I’m not changing my last name until the big wedding but now I feel like all that is just not going to be that perfect day anymore!!! On top of this, I have been arguing with my two aunts trying to explain to them why I couldn't have them in the wedding that it was planned in 2 day's and they are screaming and sending me nasty text messages! All the same, my Mom and my Aunt are now into it and they are blasting nasty posts about each other on Facebook statuses!!!! I feel like everyone ruined my wedding and I have been crying every day since!!!! I can't even enjoy this moment with my "Husband" and now I feel like I should have just listed to him, and we should have just done this with no one but us two!!!! PLEASE HELP! What should I do??? How should I fix this? Am I overreacting???? Is my big wedding still going to be "special"?