[Avodah] children at a wedding

[Daniel Israel]

Quoting "kennethgmiller at juno.com" <kennethgmiller at juno.com>:
> Are you suggesting that a person should not attend a wedding unless   
> he will be there "wholeheartedly besimcha"?
>
> Would that logic forbid a parent to attend a child's wedding, if the  
>  parent is opposed to this shidduch?

This is a minhag, not a halacha, so it doesn't necessarily have to be  
rigorously logical.  However, I would assume that the distinction is  
that the tzar of a child whose parent is remarrying (for whatever  
reason) is connected to the mitzvah of kibud to the other parent.

-- 
Daniel M. Israel
dmi1 at cornell.edu