I am working on our programs and am having trouble with the part where you list the parents. FI only has 1 parent that he wants to list (he is estranged from his mom and hasn't seen her in over a decade, nor did she acknowledge the birth announcement we sent her when dd was born.) I, on the other hand, have a mom who is remarried, a dad who is engaged, and an aunt and uncle who were my legal guardians as a chld and raised me as their own. They are, in fact, more "parents" to me than my own bio father. (I've had an on again, off again relationship with him for most of my adult life and we're not close at all.)
I'm not going to list my dad's fiancee since they won't be married at the time. I'm also not listing my stepfather, since we don't get along at all and he's not even coming. He has never accepted or treated me as his child, so he hasn't earned the right to be listed as a parent.
My problem is how to list my aunt and uncle. Do they go under Parents of the Bride, since they were, technically, my pseudo parents growing up and have been HUGE influences on me, as well as role models, for my entire life? It looked funny when I tried to put another heading as "Aunt and Uncle of the Bride" because there will be people there who don't know my history and will wonder what's up with that. I was thinking of putting them under the "Parents of the Bride" with Aunt of the Bride and Uncle of the bride in parenthesis after their names.
With all my parents, my MOH, flower girls, and all that, my half of the program is WAY longer than FI's side - which just lists his dad, a best man, and the ring bearer. It looks really lopsided and goofy.
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