I'm on here today laughing at 4-months-ago me who first came on The Knot all shiny and new to wedding planning. I was shocked at how many people on here came to complain about their friends and relatives doing something nuts and I naively thought to myself "wow, I'm glad my friends and family aren't like that"
Ha.
Fiance's cousin thinks he's a groomsman. He thinks this despite never having a single conversation with my fiance about the wedding or the wedding party. He came out of left field at Easter dinner asking "So, who are the other groomsmen?". Fiance bean dipped at the time, but there will probably be some fall out coming.
Fiance and I specifically picked the hotel we did because it has an included brunch for all hotel guests. We figured that if we let people know we'd be down there in the morning they could come by and get breakfast at their leisure and we'd get some extra time with our OOT guests. If they chose to do something else with their morning that's fine too. Now, my mom wants to host a brunch for just her side of the family somewhere else. This will force me to choose which guests to spend time with and will force some guests to choose whether to go to my mom's brunch or the hotel one. Potential cluster, but I'm still hoping to gently talk her out of it.
My FIL's agreed to cut down on the relatives they'd like us to invite to the wedding by hosting a Family Reunion over the summer so I can meet some of Fiance's more distant relatives. We agreed on the grounds that it be an Family Reunion that we attend, we are in no way guests of honor, it should not resemble a wedding reception... so far fiance has had to talk them out of a band and a caterer.
I guess weddings really do bring out the crazy.