Hey everyone!
I am having thank you speech dramas. And of course it involves the future in laws...
We are opting for quite a chilled day and don’t plan traditional speeches. We are simply going for both myself and H2B giving a joint, fairly short, thank you speech to our guests.
The only issue with this is…his family.
For my family, we could write a million things to say thank you for. His family on the other hand (Parents, brother and sister-in-law) we don’t really have a great deal to say about and we are really struggling to think of something that isn’t generic, awkward or matches the same level of affection we would show to my family.
My h2b is divorced and has four children from his previous marriage. His parents never really approved of this and although we all get along fine and they have welcomed me into the family, there’s always the elephant in the room.
His brother and sister-in-law are also still very close to his ex-wife and choose to invite her to family events over us. (As an example, at his brothers recent birthday, they invited my h2b’s ex wife to the party instead of us. In fact we only knew of it as my h2b dropped a birthday card in).
I really struggle with this as my family are very close and loyal and would never dream of doing the above. We know we can’t leave them out of the speech as they are family but we also have absolutely no idea what to say!
“Heyyyy bro, thanks for all the times you’ve not invited me and my new wife to family events” ?
Have any of you been in a similar situation? Do you have any wording advice?
