Hi Everyone.
My Fiance is in the Navy and we just recently go engaged on Nov. 22nd. He was only home for that week before his next deployment and left on the 28th. I'm in the process of starting to plan and I feel like already his family is taking over. He is hispanic so his family is VERY large and gets very involved in everything. I on the other hand come from a very small family, and total in attendance on the big day from my side will probably be no more than 50 people, whereas his family estimated to have maybe 3 or 4 times that on their side. My fiance knows that i would prefer a much smaller wedding because it would be much more cost effective among other things and he is completely on board with the idea. But, since he is currently on deployment and we are only communicating via email, he's not really here to back me up when i talk with his family about our wedding plans. How do i make our desires known (since im sure many of you will agree a wedding is a much bigger deal to the bride than the groom in most cases) to his family without coming across as a bridezilla??