Got a cousin's wedding to go to in August....

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I really don't want to go. It is my dad's side of the family, and I am not close to anyone there. Whenever we had occasional family gatherings with them, my cousins don't speak to me, even though I try starting conversation with them. I just don't see the point in going.

Plus they are all NTs and all have a boy/girlfriend, who they will obviously bring along to this wedding, and I will be the only one without a partner and feel like a forever-single loser amongst them all. I know it's not that bad but it just gets to me. I just don't want to have anything to do with them and I don't want to exist at this wedding. Also I have been to weddings before and have never liked the food they serve at the sit-down meals. It's always unusual food I have never tried before, and I've never liked it and so ended up sitting there feeling starving hungry. Plus I don't drink alcohol either.

This wedding is one of those all-day weddings, which I find boring anyway. I am trying to think of ways to get out of it. It isn't until August, which gives me plenty of time to come up with a way to get out of going without feeling rude or unsupportive, but the months are going by really quickly and so August will soon be here before I know it. I don't want to just say I get socially anxious or something because they will just be like ''but there will be a lot of family there'', which is true but social anxiety is not the reason why I don't want to go. The reason why I don't want to go is because I have nothing in common with any of my cousins on my dad's side, none of them hardly speak to me, and they will all bring their partners and will be wrapped up in them because that is typical of NT youngsters. But I can't tell them that because to them it's not a very good reason and it sounds mean.

Have you ever got out of going to a wedding you didn't want to go to?

I have recently had to go to two weddings and yeah, they are so boring and I feel you with the food issue because I have allergies and no-one ever caters for me. I smuggle food into hotel rooms heh.
The usual method for surviving weddings is to drink so much that you don't care any more, but if you don't drink, it can be a painful experience. I think weddings are just something we have to bare.
The only wedding I have ever got out of going to is my cousins and that’s because I was the over side of the world at the time.

Oh and another thing I hate about weddings is the gender binary system is so strong at weddings, people always want you to wear something they think is 'appropriate' thinking they can just push aside your own gender feelings like they are nothing.
That being said a mate of mine turned up to a family wedding in a dress once and everyone seemed to have bore that quite well, but I’m not that brave.

I think many will share you dislike for weddings though! Try not to beat yourself up about being single though, it can be cool to be single. Oh just a warning, people tend to get offended easily when it comes to weddings but don't let that put you off not going if you really don't want to go.

Ya even my cousins wedding is coming up in May
but im not going.

its my fathers side of family. same here my cousins dont give a dime to me
they are all smarty pants and consider me a snob

infact when i was a teenager and attended social gatherings
my aunt used to call names and make fun of me in public

my uncle is calling me on phone but im avoiding his phone
my hubby said he will go he as booked the tickets
and he will go

if you dont feel like going dont go..........create a boundary
dont let people walk all over you

Last year I was on my cousin wedding. I didn't want to go but she lives next city, is my closest family besides parents (she is my father's sister daughter), two months younger than me and we are life-long rivals so I couldn't say "no". It would be lame. I would as well admit I lost to her if I didn't show up or show up without a date.
So I asked a NT friend that I know he loves weddings to come with me. He agreed.
We had some fun. The music was too loud for my taste so we spend most of the time outside talking, playing with wedding balloons (imagine two 24 year old adults throwing a balloon to each other xD), walking the neighborhood in the middle of night and watching youtube clips on our smartphones. But we were also dancing, especially later when I started to feel like I am going to fall asleep and needed some physical activity to wake up. Thanks to him i realized I can dance as long as I got a partner that doesn't care about his foots being tramped. xD
Then the wedding finished and we got back home. He was staying overnight (or the morning since it was already 4AM). Suddenly he asked me "Wanna have sex?". I instinctively answered "NO!" without thinking how he might feel hearing so straight rejection.
It was the last time I seen him. He went to the quests room, left the house when I was sleeping and since then he seem to avoid meting with me or any of my other friends. Weirdo.

And when I was younger (like 17) I was on another wedding. This was a more far family (grandpas sisters daughters daughter) and I was feeling bad (1st day of "month") so I strongly didnt want to go. But my parents forced me so I told them I can go but I won't wear any skirt. I went in jeans, top with just a silver line as decoration and a formal, unisex shirt on it. I looked quite like a boy (one that is too poor to buy a suit). xD But I guess noone really care, some people even told me I got "a nice outfit, universal one" (wait... come to think about it now... could it be a sarcasm? ) and I was allowed to do whatever I wanted. I stick to 11 year old far cousin (sister of the bride, btw, the bride was 16 - and pregnant) and we spent most of the time walking around the city, shopping (there were some 24/7 shops) and talking.

Anyway. If you got any friends you might do the same as me - ask one of them to join you. If not - you can take a book/smartphone with you and just kill time outside the ballroom, you can even take a walk. It's OK. Noone really care. And you might met some wedding member just as bored as you and hang out with him/her. Remember - not only your family will be there. Half of the people is going to be from the other side.

It doesn't sound like you'll have much fun there or that you'll feel included. That's okay and not your fault. I'm not particularly close with my cousins, either. NTs usually make excuses for not attending events they don't want to attend to save face. If you're really not that close with that side of the family, they shouldn't give you too much trouble. Send them a card expressing how you wish you could have been there but ____. That's what I'd do, at least.