Partner's mother cut quickly, then partner's sister and my sister wrapped with paper and ribbons. I am not sure. Because of the different table setting, partner's family got confused and they thought some of friends were my cousins. So I had to tell them they were my friends. We had to explain a couple of times why.
Some people are comfortable following rules instead of doing something different.
When we went to a transit desk in Amsterdam, we were told that only one seat is available at the moment. After she did some works, finally we got two seats to Tokyo from Amsterdam. Anyway we flew on the same flight, but not seated together. On the way back from honeymoon, we had a problem that we could not seat together. My partner got in the middle seat two seats front of me.