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Carolyn Hax, March 8 2024, "Wedding guests melt down over rules for which kids get invited"

Grinding, pre-wedding misery

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Rachel Wildavsky
Mar 24, 2024
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Link to the original letter here.

My take: To recap, a cousin of the groom is indignant because older kids are aren’t invited to the wedding, while little kids are. It so happens that all the older kids are from the groom’s side, while all the littles are from the bride’s.

It’s a “snub,” a bunch of the groom’s people now wan…

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