Ok, so I'm going to start with I love my parents dearly. But that may be the problem. I was raised not to fight them about, well, anything; that their way was the final way and that was what it was to respect them. That being said, I am also a major people pleaser, especially with them.
So the issue is that when my FI popped the question (in December) my parents told us we couldn't set a date until we had done some counseling with a pastor. Once we had done that we got together with all the parents and they told us they think we should wait because we haven't "lived as single adults" (we're both 20) but that they approve of us and it was up to us when we picked a date. So we picked one (August 13) and they okayed it, but said NOT to reserve our reception location that we really wanted until we had talked to my church (where they want us to get married - I don't really care). So we took their advice and waited for the church secretary's reply that they would hold the church for us, and in the day that that took, the reception location was booked. And NOW the pastor at my church (not the pastor marrying us) has emailed me saying that a church member has asked him to do a service that day so we "may have a potential problem". GAH!!! I am having such a hard time not resenting them for holding us back, when I really believe that was the intention in making us do counseling first - oops, now it's too late to plan a wedding for this summer. So now they're making everything more difficult.
Sorry this is more of a vent, but it's just so hard seeing a friend of mine with such supportive parents when mine seem to want to chain me to their house (I've also been informed that I will be home for all of break and FI may be invited for the second weekend. maybe). Ugh.