Wedding Bells

Well well well my nephew John is getting married. John is the same age as Gail 38. he has not even had a regular girlfriend since the last one he wanted to marry and even moved to Missouri for and then she dumped him. That was a long time ago. Years ago. John is very close to my kids and some of his other cousins, but no one will be at the wedding. He is going to get married in Florida just before they board a cruise ship! Dorothy and Harold are going down but no one else as far as I know. Dorothy is happy and thinks Teresa, the bride to be, is wonderful. However the rest of us are unsure. I think John would have liked his aunts and cousins at his wedding but this is the way she wants to do it. She seems to be on a mission to pull him away from his family. When John has his annual Memorial week end cook out everyone has always came and brought their kids with them with every thing being informal and easy. This past May they sent out invitations and said no children allowed. I don't think that was John's doing he loves the kids John would not have seen any need to send invitations as we are all aware of the cookout, but she wanted to do it that way because she wanted to send invitations to her friends. We think she is a snob and a racist. Which could be the reason she didn't want any kids there with her friends coming. Everything seems to be so one sided in this relationship. He does not seem to have any say in his life now. Is he that "in love" with her? Any how Gail just had to go to the cookout to see what was going on so I watched the kids for her. She said everyone of her friends were pretty much stuffy and the jokes they told were not funny. Of course all of this made Gail act up and do her best to shock everyone. She passed around pictures of her kids and if Teresa didn't want "her friends" to know the kids were bi racial too bad they know now. She also said a lot of outrageous stuff just for the shock value. Gail said anytime she started talking Teresa tried to lead the conversation away from her which made Gail act even worse. heehee! She said they did mix some good drinks. John's niece is also bi racial and they have always been very close and she did not even get an invitation to the cookout. He called her a couple of days before and "invited" her. She was hurt and didn't go. This is just not the way John behaves. A reception is planned for December 16th that is about 2 weeks after the cruise. I want to go to just observe. I don't know if children are invited to the reception or not, but Dorothy is not having her annual family Christmas dinner the reception will take the place of that and if children are not invited a lot of his cousins that he has been close to will not show up. I know it is their wedding and they can have whom ever they want, but with Dorothy giving up her dinner for the reception I am sure she expects it to be a family affair. Teresa's friends will be there , I assume, but her only family is her Mother in CA who is not sure if she will be able to come in and some lady here that she calls her Aunt but is not a blood relative. John has always wanted kids of his own and would be a great Dad but she doesn't want any and even if she changed her mind she only has a few years left to have a baby. I feel like I am maybe being unfair to her and I don't want to do that, but the reception should clear it up one way or the other.