There is an US tradition that the Grooms family needs to pay for the out of towners formal dinner and the Brides family pays for everything else. So, my father was angry over being expected to pay for the out of towners as it was for the relatives of the other side. He refused to pay for or attend it and there was a private meeting between the two sets of parents (I wasn’t invited) that apparently went into a hostile argument started by my father with my mothers support.
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