Advice from Judith Martin, Nicholas Ivor Martin and Jacobina Martin.
My sister is getting married for the second time, and is having a traditional wedding party for the first time. My sisters and I are in the wedding, and our children are all included.
She went on a diatribe about how we shouldn’t have had any expectations that anyone would be included, it’s her day, and she won’t “force” her fiance to include him . Am I completely off-base in thinking he should have been included -- or at the very least, that he deserved a phone call to explain why he wasn’t?What would that phone call entail? “Sorry, but we are running this thing purely along gender lines and my future husband decided you don’t make the cut”?
If she is truly an autocrat, could she not find a way to include the whole family? There may well be nothing to be done about it now, but that does not mean that your family cannot voice their disappointment -- when the whole thing is over and the bride has presumably returned to her senses.
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