My grandparents think they can decide who comes to my wedding.

They were in for a rude awakening.

I got married last year.

Hooray!

But a year before that, me and my now wife settled on a venue and then started the

process of whittling down guests.

We had a ceremony capacity of 80. I come from quite a large family with few friends.

She has a small family, but lots of friends. Mostly, we share her friend group. However, this did

lead to us making a couple of rules. Only inviting family members to the day part of the wedding,

we had both actually seen during our five-year relationship.

None of the random cousins or uncles who never enter our lives?

No one below 16.

We came to our own conclusion, rightly or wrongly, that we would rather have more adults

there who were more likely to enjoy the day instead of kids who might not.

Also if we invited all the kids in the family, it

would be a quarter of our capacity. So when we got engaged, my grandparents, the only ones

I have left on my side, were very happy and immediately told me to invite who we wanted

and to sod everyone else, do what we want. Once we made the decision regarding venue, the decision around the inviting children

followed pretty much immediately after.

Now, this is where the drama begins.

I'm the oldest grandchild, to their oldest son.

They had three sons, my dad and two uncles.

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