This evening our families got together for a lovely dinner; my mom hosted my fiancees family over to to return the favor for a year ago when my fiancee’s family invited them to dinner so I could ‘offically’ propose to my fiancee. Whew!
It went wonderfully. My mom hosts get togethers, but she really went all-out this time. The only one that complained was my mom’s cat, which is not accustomed to little kids.
Its pretty amazing how two completely different cultures can really come together when it comes to food, booze, and agreeable weather. Fiancee said its really important to her that our families get along, because (unlike my dad and moms families) her whole extended family gets together for events and she wants to do the same for my family.
We share cultural differences but they end up meshing well. They’re used to cooking very early on, and people eat as they show up. We usually like to serve all our guests at once, and put out appetizers to tide people over.