[neefer]

I don’t attend weddings unless I am endorsing and expressing approval of the marriage. Me too. I didn't go to my cousin's wedding. Family members asked why. I explained it wouldn't last. Three years later, they divorced.

I always told my parents I would elope. But my mother-in-law was enraged by the idea, yet she didn't have a dime to contribute to a large celebration. We had an out of state wedding in Gatlinburg in order to keep it small. She complained, of course. I regret not eloping. The only reason we didn't was to appease her, yet she complained it wasn't what she wanted.

[Pollster1]

When the wedding is a second marriage for both, and they were both living with their first partners when they started their relationship, I have trouble with the idea of celebrating the “happy occasion”. That was the most recent one for which I sent my regrets.