Now I’m sure that a certain MyLot member will recognize this discussion so I’m going to be very careful how I word it. Let’s say you were getting married and your parent (s) were pretty much housebound due to age and illness…they get out but only a couple of times a year to a doctor and then it’s a huge undertaking. You really want them to travel 30 miles to where you live and attend your wedding. Would you insist they come or would you try to work it out to maybe visit them the day before or the day after since you know the traveling and everything would be really hard on them?Also if you were getting married and really wanted your parent to walk you down the aisle, but they are sick (sick enough to have to lie down before the wedding) would you still insist they attend or would you ask someone else to step in for them?In the first case, if it’s too hard for my parents to make the trip I’d simply go ahead with the wedding, move it closer to them or simply get together the day before or the day after. I wouldn’t insist on it b/c then while I might be happy that their there, they wouldn’t be enjoying themselves. As to the second part, if my parents were too sick to...
