A relative of mine (“Tony”) told the family last night that he and his fiance (“Tiana”) are cancelling their destination wedding at the end of the year in lieu of a local wedding in 3 months’ time because they “are sick of waiting” and “never wanted a big wedding in the first place” (NOTE: there are no issues re COVID where we live so this cancellation has nothing to do with COVID). Another relative asked ‘what about everyone who booked flights/accommodation already?’ and they were quite blasé about it all, stating that no one should have booked accommodation this far out. Well, since the wedding was postponed due to COVID and being held in peak season at a super popular location, we and many others (re)booked our non-refundable accommodation months ago.
We won’t ‘make a holiday out of it’ like Tony and Tiana later suggested because we booked accommodation for 2 nights since both FH and I need to save our leave entitlements with work for our honeymoon and were planning on arriving the day before the wedding and leaving the day after. It is a really long drive (9 hours) so it’s not worthwhile for us to drive 18 hours to spend 24 hours on ‘holiday’.
I’m livid having lost hundreds of dollars on accommodation. It’s particularly frustrating for me that Tony and Tiana couldn’t seem to care less about the fact that a number of their guests will be out of pockets hundreds if not over a thousand! Ugh!
