We have been invited to my cousin's wedding in May (I believe) but I was hoping you could share what helps you or your child to cope better.
My daughter has already had many panic-attack-like meltdowns at just the thought of it. It is just over a 4 hour drive with no traffic but we are leaving on a Friday and coming home on the Sunday since the wedding on the Saturday. We've also booked the place we are staying just a 10 minute walk from the wedding so if she gets overwhelmed it's a quick walk back.
We have shared the menu with her so she can choose what she would like. We have planned to take melatonin with us so she can hopefully sleep better. We have not yet, but we plan to, show her photos of where we are staying, the people getting married and the family (since we haven't seen them since our kids were tiny), and anything else she wants to know.
We honestly have no clue how she will cope, specifically sensory-wise. I have also told her that we need to buy dresses to wear which she point blank refused (which i expected) so we have agreed she can wear something more like a suit but buying things is just so stressful because she hates the feelings of most clothing and you never really know what it's going to be like when buying from online.
So, if you have been to a wedding, please can you share what helped you cope better, if you are comfortable with that. I just want her to be as stress-free as possible.
