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Just Said Yes December 2020

Memorial Table Problems- Advice needed!

Sydney, on August 31, 2019 at 2:48 PM Posted in Etiquette and Advice 0 5
Hi friends. So long story short my dad and I are not very close at all with my dad’s side of the family. However I plan to invite a portion of my dad’s family to my wedding just out of common courtesy. Among those to be invited are my godparents (aunt and uncle on my dad’s side) and my grandpa on my dad’s side. I’m planning a memorial table that will be featuring my fiancé’s late relatives and my late aunt, grandfather and great grandmother in my mom’s side. A few have passed on my father’s family’s side, most notably my dad’s mother (the grandpa I’m inviting’s wife and my uncle I’m invitings mother) and my cousin who passed in a car accident a few years ago (my aunt and uncle/godparents daughter). However I was truly not close at all with either of them, went to their funerals and maybe saw them a few times while they were alive, the last times being years before they passed. My mom is saying that I should just put those I was close to on the memorial table since I barely knew my cousin and grandma on my dad’s side, however I don’t want to offend anybody on that side either if they come. Any advice for this situation? The memorial table sign reads “Loved you then, love you still, always have, always will.” Thank you for your input!

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Latest activity by Kelly, on August 31, 2019 at 6:03 PM
  • Caytlyn
    Legend November 2019
    Caytlyn ·
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    I personally would still put them. Unless you had some kind of awful relationship with any of these people like physical or emotional abuse, it's not going to hurt you to put their photo on the table. Excluding them could hurt others.

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  • Nicole
    Super October 2021
    Nicole ·
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    You should still put them, especially since you are inviting their family members. This is an easy enough way to prevent offending people.

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  • C
    Master January 2019
    Cassidy ·
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    I didn’t have a memorial table for exactly this reason, I didn’t want to have to keep adding people just because it would be nice for someone else.
    But, since you’re already having a table, I’d go ahead and add them. I don’t think it’ll hurt anything by having them there
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  • Soon2BSmith
    Expert October 2020
    Soon2BSmith ·
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    I would put them just out of respect. That could definitely cause a disaccord. It's a touchy subject but I would be fair.

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  • Kelly
    Super October 2019
    Kelly ·
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    This was a dilemma that I had. I had a memory board made up, that said all of my grandparents & my FH paternal grandparents names. However I have decided that I’m going to include my maternal grandparents pics & my FH paternal grandparents pics but not my paternal grandparents pics.
    A few reasons for this - I wasn’t close to them (or my dads side) at all, nor were they close to me. One Easter when I was very young, my grandmother called the house phone, I answered & she said may I speak with my son - not happy Easter, not even hi - May I speak with my son.
    Still until recently I was going to rise up & do the same for everyone. Then on Sunday we had my bridal shower & my paternal family was there - and they proceeded to talk s#*+ about me - others told me that they were taken back. I realized that it doesn’t matter what I do, I can try to include everyone. I can try to be nice & fair, but they are still going to say what a brat I was when I was a child & how I don’t deserve anything good that’s happening to me as an adult. To be fair, I wasn’t awful when I was a child, apparently I didn’t share properly - and they literally tell stories saying that I didn’t share toys & that I should be ashamed of myself & the fact that I don’t recall things that I did when I was 6 just proves that I’ve never changed. It’s bizarre.
    Anyway, I realized that they are going to talk about me - be upset w/ me over silly things, so the very least thing that I can do is be true to myself. So I’m going to be true to myself.
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