Okay so any advice would be great. Here is what is going on. I planned my destination wedding in Mexico for June 2023. Quickly found a resort, signed the contract, paid the 20% deposit, and sent out save the dates. All good right?
Well a good friend got engaged a few months I did, this friend has now planned her wedding the weekend before mine. I am trying not to be too upset about it because I know I don’t own the month of June.
We will have 2 girls who will be in both bridal parties and about 10-15 guests in common. At first, I was more upset due to that aspect because weddings are exhausting and expensive and I don’t want people to have to do back to back weekends, one of them out of country at that.
The more I think about it the more upset I get. I don’t want to stress and have to attend a wedding literally days before getting on a plane for my own, I don’t want comparisons which is human nature and I’m feeling a little self conscious about my wedding which I fear will not compare to her $60K event.
And I’m not this type of person at all, but I feel like want the attention, excitement, and those few weeks leading up to it to be about me and I fear with shared friend groups it will just jumble together.
So crazy thought, we’re not tied to our date, why not move it up a couple months? That way both brides have their time to shine and guests and bridal parties have a bit of a breather between events.
Problem is STD already went out, I fear people will think I’m being dramatic by wanting to move the date up, and of course monetary costs of not getting deposit back we already paid which would suck.
What would you do?