Family

MyWedding13 · September 2010

How do you all plan to blend your family and your new family after you are married? How are you going to do holidays and other get-togethers? Just curious b/c I have no idea how to do it!

Victoriatx · September 2010

the two families are states away. if anything we will split time between the two, id like to keep them seperate for a good long while. FI's family is so odd and stuffy. We both of more fun with my family anyways.

MyWedding13 · September 2010

We are kind of having issues with my family (I kind of always have) and I feel much more loved and comfortable around his family. I love going to his parents' house and just enjoy my time there. I guess I am feeling guilty about not wanting to really be around my family as much

psuxray07 · September 2010

Hmm, good question! I'm not too sure about this yet. We live in PA, and my family lives in PA -we've been doing hoildays with them. FI's mom's side lives in GA, and his dad's in MI. We've been going to MI for 4th of July, and if we can swing it, I think we may travel to GA around New Year's time (only sometimes though, because NYE is our wedding and will be our anniversaries). We can always just plan get togethers with them at other times, though

neelynicole · September 2010

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/wedding-boards_chit-chat_family?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Wedding BoardsForum:14Discussion:8a384ea8-96b9-461d-a244-79f7e0a18d1fPost:547fe20b-5383-466b-b135-294921d847a5">Re: Family</a>:
[QUOTE]I guess we sort of lucked out in this area. I'm Jewish, H is not... so the "bigger" holidays never conflict with each other.
Posted by bellebride116[/QUOTE]

Same here, except FI is Jewish and I'm not. btw, belle, happy new year! ;)

We do the high Jewsih holidays with FI's family. And being that most of the close family only lives 5-10 minutes away from us it makes it a lot easier.

My family doesn't do a lot for holidays to begin with. Growing up, we only did the 'family' things for Christmas and Thanksgiving. So now, FI and I spend every other year at my mom's for Christmas and the opposite years, we fly her down to take a trip to Mexico as a combo Thanksgiving/Christmas/my birthday thing.

jenn.daniel · September 2010

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/wedding-boards_chit-chat_family?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Wedding BoardsForum:14Discussion:8a384ea8-96b9-461d-a244-79f7e0a18d1fPost:a0c25d5d-5670-42d8-a822-7629c63475ab">Re: Family</a>:
[QUOTE]We are kind of having issues with my family (I kind of always have) and I feel much more loved and comfortable around his family. I love going to his parents' house and just enjoy my time there. I guess I am feeling guilty about not wanting to really be around my family as much :(
Posted by MyWedding13[/QUOTE]

This is me. Last year my parents came here for Thanksgiving. FI's parents invited us and my parents to their house in Richmond this year, but my parents still haven't made up their mind! Otherwise FI's parents and we will go to SC. This will be the second year in a row we spend with FI's parents for Christmas and New Years.

jessienjeremy · September 2010

Most of my family leaves far away but my mom lives here. She usually travels for holidays. So thanksgiving is his family and we spend christmas eve with his family and on christmas day we do my mom and dad if he is in town.

Kate61487 · September 2010

FI's family's in Chicago, mine's in NW Indiana, so it's about an hour, hour and a half between - as such we try to split the holiday's the best we can.

Easter we do sunrise mass with his mom, an early lunch with his family, then drive to Indiana to do a dinner with my fam

Thanksgiving we do an early meal with my family, then go to dinner with his family. We then spend the night at his cousin's and his whole family goes black friday shopping together

Christmas eve we do with his family - They do a polish wigelia (sp?) so that's a big deal. Then we stay til midnight, open presents with his mom, then drive to Indiana to be with my parents Christmas morning.

We'll probably stick with this pattern for a few years, but when we start having kids I'm sure that amount of driving/the late nights and early mornings just won't work. Ideally at that point I'd like to start having at least one holiday at OUR place and have everyone come :-)

For a different perspective - my aunt and uncle lived in DC and had family in Cali and "Chicago" so they made their annual trip to Cali for Easter to see the whole family (all 13 of my aunts siblings would make the trip) and then they'd do Christmas by us.

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