The summer before my *first* wedding, we went to seven, yes 7, weddings (she had seemingly hundreds of cousins). I cheerfully drank and ate all that was offered while internally noting "we won't do that, or that, or that..." So I viewed these events as valuable learning opportunities even if I never did get the names of all those cousins (and aunts, and uncles, and...) straight.
The summer before my *first* wedding, we went to seven, yes 7, weddings (she had seemingly hundreds of cousins). I cheerfully drank and ate all that was offered while internally noting "we won't do that, or that, or that..." So I viewed these events as valuable learning opportunities even if I never did get the names of all those cousins (and aunts, and uncles, and...) straight.
That's the right way to look at it IMO