My wedding is over a year off yet and I'm already feeling a bit cornered by family. My FI and I met in college... while attending scool in 2 different states. He lives in Michigan (half his family is in Minnesota) and most of mine is in the St. Louis area. It's about a 8 1/2 - 9 hour drive, which we have no problem doing for each other obviously... but I'm worried for family it might be another story.
Either way, one of our families is going to have to make the commute. I feel myself getting tense whenever a family member asked, "So where are you two gonna get married?" My aunt was jokingly suggesting (or somewhat hinting) that we should meet somewhere in between, which while a nice compromise, makes the wedding planning really difficult for us, since we'd both have to commute. And I'll be living in the Boston as of this September for graduate school, so frequent trips to the Midwest aren't not really ideal.
My FI and I were kind of hoping to get married in Ann Arbor, MI. Gorgeous area, we know a couple who found a beautiful venue there, and mostly because my FI can browse venues at his conveniene since he'll be right there (finshing his last year of school).
I just don't know how to break it to my family that they may be the ones having to travel and have them thinking his family is just taking the easy way out or something. I know I should probably just suck it up and tell them, but I'm not sure how to yet. Any advice?