Hi all,
My fiance and I got engaged just the other day, but we've been "planning" our wedding for quite some time and have had a date in mind for a few months now.
A friend of ours (I won't say a close friend, but more than an aquaintance) got engaged about a month ago. We found out that she is getting married the week after the date we have in mind. We would have some mutual friends who would be invited to both weddings but I don't think there would be a huge amount.
So now we are engaged and going though the process of letting people know. While telling a mutual friend of our plans, he mentioned that the venue we wouldlike is also the same as the other engaged couple (we are all military and it's on base). So not only are we planning to get married the week before, but also at the same place.
The date was chosen because depending on which route FH takes, he will either be gone May - late Aug or just July - late Aug that year so we needed something after that time period but before he went back to school. There’s no chance of us “upstaging” them because, to be blunt, they have much more money than us and I’m sure will have a more high-scale ceremony than we plan on having. FH would like to sit down and chat with her (he’s closer to her than I am) just to let her know that we mean no hurt feelings by doing this.
Would you be upset?