Just looking for a little advice here because I come from an easy "no drama" family and I don't know how to deal with this nonsense (and my fiancé isn't proving to be much help with his own family)
To make a long story short, we live in the Bahamas and had originally booked a venue and a long weekend style wedding at a small resort on another (close) island but due to some logistical issues and staffing changes at the resort we have decided to move to wedding here to Nassau where we and about half of the guests live. The other half will be my family coming from Canada.
Anyway, I have been searching for months for the perfect venue that isn't a zillion dollars as everything here tends to be quite expensive and I'm not into the idea of spending a ton on a single day. I was getting super frustrated and nervous as I was having no luck and the wedding is getting closer (supposed to be March 7th) and my guests want to book their trip. Well, my finance's aunt and uncle very graciously offered their gorgeous vacation home which is in a very exclusive gated community for us as a free wedding venue and we are dying to take them up on their offer but the problem is his mother doesn't get along with her brother (who owns the house) and is making an issue out of it. The brother and his wife have said they don't feel comfortable attending the wedding because of the drama but would like to make it up to us by letting us use the house.
My fiancé is of the mindset that we should just do what we want and his mother will have to get over it because it is our day and this will essentially solve all of our current planning issues and allow us to firm up our date for out of town guests but I am really nervous that she is going to make this into a big issue which will cause a blow up.
Has anyone here had a similar issue or just have some advice?
Thanks!