I know I'm not family anymore, but give me the details for your destination wedding.

Welcome to my family drama.

So, I'm getting married in April and having a destination wedding in Cyprus.

Because we have family all over the world, and some have jobs where they need to close dates like a year in advance,

we sent out Save the Dates as soon as we closed the venue, back in May. One of the people I sent a saved the date to is my stepbrother's wife.

Then they started divorce proceedings this summer.

Now, I've never liked her.

She's actually quite a nasty person and she only ever speaks to me when she needs something.

When I sent out the actual invites, I sent them with the names of all the invitees.

So I sent my brother an invite with his name, his stepdaughter, his daughter from a previous

marriage who I see as a niece, and their child together. Her name was not on the invite.

I knew this meant that it was very likely her children could not come, since they would have

to leave the country, and she

could prevent that, which I completely understand and is totally in her right. I understood that

when I sent the invites. My stepbrother told me straight away that he and the kids would likely

not be able to make it, but he let me know if things changed by the time he needed to RSVP.

So that was two months ago. I've actually not spoken to his

wife since long before the divorce proceedings started. Today she texts me, translated.

Hi, O.P. When's the wedding and what hotel are you staying at? Send me those details so I can check

the options to come. Now I'm thinking to myself, girl, you aren't family and this is a small

destination wedding. What are you thinking? So I called my dad and stepmom to consult how to respond to her.

Apparently my stepmom asked if she could take her son, since my stepbrother can't go, and she wanted

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