 Dr. Dale Atkins understands your wedding woes and has the perfect sanity-saving solutions for emotional issues, family questions, and fears about the engagement, wedding planning, and future.
 | I am the Director of Food Service at a local senior center and I have eight employees under my supervision. I only planned on inviting my supervisor to our wedding because we are pressed for space. I thought I'd just leave all my employees off of the invitation list and explain the situation to them. However, there is one employee who is pushing for an invitation, and even her husband is saying he can't wait to see me walk down the aisle. Would it be wrong of me to invite my employees to attend just the ceremony? We are having our wedding ceremony outside and have a lot of room. It's the $25 per plate meal and space at the reception hall we can't handle. |  |  | Everyone wants to see their friends and associates get married! That fact does not mean that you need to feel pressured to have everyone in attendance (even the man who is prodding for an invitation!). Of course you can invite your employees to attend the ceremony and explain, beforehand, that you and your fiancé are keeping the reception small. You can inform them that if they would like to attend the ceremony to witness your vows, you would be delighted to have their blessings. You need to do what is comfortable for you and your fiancé.
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 Dr. Dale Atkins is a professional psychologist and frequent media expert specializing in couple and family relationships. Dr. Dale is also an author with five books to her credit: Sisters; Families and Their Hearing Impaired Children; From the Heart (co-author); I'm OK, You're My Parents; and the most recently published, Wedding Sanity Savers (co-author). Currently living in Connecticut with her husband and dog, Dr. Dale has two grown sons and a private practice in New York City. | |
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