How Should We Deal with My Fiancé’s Trumpy Dad on Our Wedding Day?

We’re trying to balance doing some traditions and forgoing others.
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Help! My fiancé (though we’re technically paper married) and I are planning our wedding in my parent’s backyard this spring and we have some family drama we can’t figure out how to resolve.
My parents are still happily married and contributing financially to the wedding. My partner’s parents are not married - her mother is remarried and her father is single. We’re trying to balance doing some traditions and forgoing others that don’t feel right to us.
One we’re really struggling with is the “father daughter dance.” Though it’s not a huge deal to me, I think it would be really meaningful to my dad — he’s always been my role model and someone I really admire and respect. My ...

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