Time to fess up!! Have you had a heated disagreement or two with your parents or in-laws about the wedding? Are you innocent or guilty? Next Question: Have you forgotten to wear your ring? Back to the Beginning: Innocent or Guilty?
Time to fess up!! Have you had a heated disagreement or two with your parents or in-laws about the wedding?
With my mother? All the time! But that's just my relationship with my mother even before I got engaged. I love her to pieces, but we both don't communicate well with each other.
My FMIL is a little opinionated, but is a very nice person and I love her for how she has accepted me into her family and how nice she is to me. She insisted on having "her people's" RSVP cards addressed to her house on just those envelopes. FH's and everyone else's RSVPs could go my my parents. Our invitation specialist, a long time family friend who's been in the business for decades, tried to explain the etiquette on this, but this was what she wanted. My mom, was just like, okay, we'll do it this way. She didn't want to be "that in-law" that was a you know what, so she just let it go. However, when we were alone in the car, my mom asked me, "What was that?" I was like, "Yeah, she's a little opinionated."
Another thing that happened is from something that started before we got engaged. My best friend since childhood got engaged about a year and half ago. In March, 2018, FH and I spent a week in Orlando with her and her FH doing Disney. I had previously agreed to be her bridesmaid. She invited me a year in advance to spend the weekend with her, meet her other best friend and do bridal stuff together. FH proposed on September 30th and our wedding planning began right away. FH booked my flight to Atlanta a few months ago.
Then my friend called me while we were at his parents house to talk about it. MIL over heard and started saying things like, "You're traveling a month before the wedding? It's too soon!"
After I got off the phone, I reminded her that she and her husband went to a wedding the night before theirs! She said, "oh that doesn't count, because that marriage only lasted about six months." (MIL and FFIL have been married ever since.) I told her that wasn't the point and that I would be home in plenty of time before our wedding and that it was between me and FH. Then she said, "It's none of my business." (Well, duh!)
Later, FH said to me, "Lily, if I had a problem with it, I wouldn't have bought you the ticket."
A month later, my friend came for the weekend for my 2nd bachelorette and the bridal shower. Apparently, she had heard everything FMIL had said in the background of that phone call, because she asked me who was speaking to me. When I told her who it was, she burst out, "Who the f does she think she is?!!!" I told her that I agreed with her sentiment, that I already took care of it and that my commitment to her remained.
That was the only and biggest disappointment I have had with my FMIL.
Oops My mom, FS and I all live together. My FS and I cannot talk about wedding stuff around my mother AT ALL. House rules! She loses her d@mn mind and yells about how it's too much money for one day. Our budget is less than $9000, closer to 8k, for around 120-140 people. I am frugal. Our relationship has spanned almost 13 years and I believe we deserve our day. I love my mom but it's hard to plan when we have to literally hide in the house, go outside, or sit in a car to talk wedding.
Totally innocent. There's been no need to involve my in laws or my mom with the planning. We are doing just fine planning everything ourselves with our planner.
Innocent, they do not bother me at all about it. Which I should be thankful for
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August 2020
Monique ·
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My future in laws have been amazing, they're so supportive and loving. My dad has been great as well so no fights with those 3. My mother on the other hand, oh boy. We had a big argument last month about our relationship and dresses so she's no longer invited