This is kind of long so please bear with me. My fiance and I got married almost a month ago. We live in Arizona and all of our family, both his and mine, is primarily in Pennsylvania. Most of our families and our friends were not able to attend the wedding because of the distance factor. We had a really small ceremony and then a little celebration afterwards.
Once we are done school in May we will be heading back east to have a big reception with all of our family and friends there. We are both really excited about this. I haven't seen any of my family in two years and my parents and I are really close so I'm really really stoked for this.
His family loves drama...so of course they decided to add some just for fun. His Uncle and his fiancee, who got engaged about a year after we did, are planning on getting married in May. By the time they got engaged we had already picked a date and booked the recepetion space. We picked the 28th because the venue we will be using is free and it was one of the only days available. His Uncle and the woman he is marrying have both been married previously so this is their second wedding. Now they are angry at us because they want to get married in the 29th.
We were good friends with his uncle and his fiancee, but now they aren't talking to us, like a couple of high school kids! I said it was fine if they wanted to get married then, because it's actually more convenient for family members if they are out of town! Now they aren't going to come to our reception because they are having their rehearsal dinner. Does anyone have any ideas about how to make peace in all of this? Maybe if we have our reception start earlier or something? I don't know. Any suggestions at all would be appreciated!