Best Friends Wedding - whinge #1
I am very honoured to have been chosen as a bridesmaid for my best friend's wedding and am so thrilled that she's getting married to a lovely bloke. It's going to be a fantastic day and they'll be a lovely couple in the future.
However, a couple of things are getting to me (and DH too). The first being the number of events we are having to have for this wedding.
So far I've been to four bridesmaids dress fittings and there are still 2 more. There is so little done between each, I really don't know why we keep having to go to these. I do keep comparing all of this to my wedding, which I probably shouldn't do, but for my bridesmaids we had 2 or possibly 3 dress fittings to get the whole thing done.
On top of that, DH, DD and I are going to a lunch for all of the bridal party to meet- once again lovely idea, and I don't really have a problem with it, apart from the number of opportunities we'll have to meet people with all the rest of the events coming up.
We have also been invited to a cellar party for the bride and groom, but have decided not to attend, as it is on our wedding anniversary.
There is also a hens night, which is fine. The organising of this is taking a bit of time - meeting with bridesmaids, etc. But that is all expected when you are a bridesmaid.
We then have a wedding rehearsal, fine again.
Then the wedding (yay!).
Then the day after the wedding, a wedding lunch to reminisce (?) about the wedding day. The invitation for this has been included in the wedding invitation.
Thinking back, we did have people (wedding party and close family) back to my parents house the next day to open presents, but it was a very casual invitation without expectation that people be there.
Maybe this isn't too much, I don't know? What do you think? Am I being rude by missing the cellar party and possibly more of the festivities? There are 5 bridesmaids, so there'll be plenty of people there.