Planning a wedding can be tricky, particularly when it comes to deciding on the guest list.
So what should you do when your soon-to-be sister-in-law is a threat to your big day running smoothly? Do you omit her name from the invitations and risk igniting the mother of all family dramas? Or do you bite your tongue and invite her, knowing full-well it could come at the cost of your dream wedding?
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It’s precisely the dilemma Reddit user ‘dontwanttoinvitesil‘ says she’s struggling with right now. Planning to wed her 27-year-old boyfriend in the next year or two, she’s trying to decide whether inviting his drama-magnet sister ‘Stephanie’ is worth it.
My fiance and I have been together for five years. Despite disliking certain things about his siblings, I both love and like them — I love them like family, and I genuinely enjoy being around them.
While three of the fiancé’s four siblings are happily married, his oldest sister Stephanie is still struggling with her longterm relationship ending two years ago.
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If you're really against her wrecking your wedding, plan to elope!
Why would you expect your wedding to be perfect? Is anyone's wedding perfect? At my wedding the problem was my fiance's brother in law (fiance's sisters husband) who was absolutely sure that I was wrong for my husband and we would divorce within six months. 18 years later I am glad he was like that as I stuck it out in difficult parts of our marriage ( particularly when our kids were small) just to spite the guy. He was not going to win. I know another couple who were completely in love, approved by everyone around them as the perfect couple and they divorced ten years later very acrimoniously. Take this as a challenge to become a more patient and loving person who sincerely cares about her marriage rather than the person who only cares about the wedding.