Dear family: you suck

For those of you who were unaware, I have a really large family.

My mom is one of 8 children.

Check out the family tree:




Yep, rather extensive. Since I created that tree, my cousins Matt & Jake have gotten married (not to each other) and my cousin Carin & I still have our weddings coming up. My Aunt JoAnn, in the meantime, found out that her husband has two children from a previous union. The Wolf family keeps growing and growing.

So of course, I understand that some of my relatives will be unable to attend our wedding. It makes perfect sense - even statistically it is very improbable that they would ALL be there.

I also have taken into consideration that my family is a bunch of deadbeats. I have never met a family that whines more about money issues than they do.

Still, I have to say, my family rather sucks.


I have never ever missed a family wedding. I went to Jack & Kerry's, to Jen & Bobby's, to Colleen & Paul's. I trekked down to Florida for Drew & Kim's, for Aunt Jo & Sal's, and again this year for Jake & Andrea's. I suffered the 97 degree weather at Matt & Kezia's the other week! In fact, Jon and I BOTH spent the money to go to Jake's and sweltered at Matt's.

The first family wedding I am going to miss is Carin's, which happens to be the exact same day as my friend Kelly's (in RI, which I am sadly missing) and Lauren & Dave's, which is here, and the one we are going to because Jon is a groomsman and I (might?) be singing in it. Plus, hello, I definitely want to be at that one!


So despite the fact that my family is large, it is statistically improbable for them to all be there, and they are deadbeats... I thought that maybe the fact that I have been to EVERY ONE would count for something.


Guess not.


All of my aunts & uncles are coming, with the exception of Jo and Sal, but that is understandable because, as I said, they just found out about those kids and they are in some real financial trouble. But the rest are coming, I think, under pain of death from my mother.

Out of all 10 billion of my cousins, only Pam is coming.

Now, I know she would not miss it for the world, she knows Jon pretty well... she is also reading in the wedding.


But, family, you totally suck otherwise. I am really surprised that none of my cousins are coming. It is a mixed blessing - our bar tab will be much lower - but still, it sucks that they are not even making the effort. Trust me, Jon and I know what a financial hardship it is to go to weddings. Did I mention that this year we not only flew to florida for a weekend, but also traveled up to Mass. for a weekend for Kris & Krista's wedding, but also flew to Chicago for Brian & Suzanne's wedding?! We (okay, I) have also made sure that if we were unable to make a wedding or shower or whatever due to scheduling conflict, we still sent a present! We WANT to celebrate your special days with you, we WANT to be there and have made every effort to do so.

And so I cannot help but feel that they do not really care. And maybe they don't. It is just a bit sad. I totally understand not making the showers and stuff like that (actually, some of my cousins did come for an hour) but like... the wedding day? I HATE that we are missing weddings this year. We are missing Brandon's, which is this weekend, because it is in DC and we have another wedding to sing in. As I said, we will miss Kelly's & Carin's because we are in another wedding. We will also likely miss Lauren & Josh's wedding because it is in Asheville, NC, on Black Friday... and we will be getting back from our honeymoon then. But sheesh, we WANT to be there.




Anyway... I do understand. I am really not as upset as I actually seem. It sucks, but oh well. Nothing I can do about it. It is what it is, as my Dad says.


I *think* our grand total for our wedding will be approximately 115. A good sized crowd, and a LOT of our friends are coming (you guys are AWESOME!!!). There shall be dancing. :) Still, we invited, oh, 250ish? Less than half are coming! Again, oh well. We will have lots of fun with those that are there. And darn it, I am going to look hottt in my wedding dress. So there. :P