Skip to main content

Post content has been hidden

To unblock this content, please click here

Mandi
Master October 2020

My Groom is Too Hands On...

Mandi, on January 21, 2020 at 3:02 PM Posted in Planning 1 6
I love my fiance. But I don't like it when he doesn't listen. Its annoying when he doesn't listen to me. But when he doesn't listen to himself? Oh. My. Gawd.

Proper etiquette tells us that any guest over 18 should receive their own invitation to our wedding... common sense tells us that 1) sending 4 invites to the same house is a little excessive 2) an 18 year old male doesn't really care about a wedding invitation. So I asked my fiance what he thought we should do as this is his immediate family. He decided sending one to his grandma at that address, and one to his parents to cover everyone else would be fine. [If this is where the etiquette police decide to attack, I don't need you.] So we decide to hand deliver these invites to his mom and grandma. They live a couple blocks away and we were already headed over there.
We go over, drop them off, and an hour later, he asks me if we have separate invitations for two of his siblings. ARE YOU KIDDINF ME?!? YOU were the one who decided this was the way you wanted to do things. And now you're questioning why I went along with you!?! I was so mad.He has NO recollection of choosing white shirts for going under suits. (I didnt choose them. I dont like white and would prefer black.)He has NO recollection of the invitation discussion.Today I sent him a screenshot of an email I got from the photobooth people. Asking what our colors, theme, and wording we want on our photo strips. I wanted his input. Obviously our colors are chosen. He joked that our theme is "things we like" the other day. So I was curious if i should tell them that to try to get some of the stuff incorporated or not. And I wanted to know if he had anything else he wanted other than just our names and date. He asked if they had samples. So I sent him samples. Instead of answering the questions, he just picked out 3 of the samples. No! Help me answer the questions. The questions I sent you before I sent you samples. If they're going to design something for us, let them design something. Then if we don't like it, we can choose something already made and have then tweak it for us.He wants to be involved. And I let him be involved. But somehow he just manages to forget everything we talk about, or ignore what I actually want him to do. And just does whatever he wants.And then the tasks I do give him, he doesn't complete. I asked him to pick music 8 months ago, and I'm going to start nagging him about it in 3 weeks.
Being the groom must be great. Because if something goes wrong, it's the bride's fault. Even if it's the groom's fault. Because the groom doesn't remember screwing things up. 🤦‍♀️

6 Comments

Latest activity by Tori, on January 24, 2020 at 12:51 PM
  • Kristyn
    Devoted July 2020
    Kristyn ·
    • Flag
    • Hide content
    Omg girl I can completely relate to this!!! its so frustrating and i feel for you completely 100%! for example just last week I showed my fiance a picture of the dresses I was looking into for my bridal party and he said yuck I hate that color (he picked out the color scheme from examples I had months ago!!!) i told him he picked them out showed him the example image he liked and he says yea i like those (it was the same color as the dress he just fussed over) sometimes I just voice my opinion and say just think about this all together and the day off is it all gonna come together or is it gonna look crappy lol
    • Reply
  • Jennifer
    Super March 2020
    Jennifer ·
    • Flag
    • Hide content
    If it makes you feel better, my fiance actually was given morphine once, (he's highly allergic and the nurse was fired) and he actually died for a few minutes. After this occurrence, he never fully regained his memory. It isn't terrible by any means but he forgets conversations all the time and will blame me for something. I have to just let it go and not fight it. It gets annoying but sometimes I guess we just aren't fully present sometimes in conversation. Even I forget full blown conversations. I am not sure where mine stems from, could be many things, but I just try to remember that sometimes people have other things on their mind when engaging in even the most important conversations.
    • Reply
  • MrsD
    Legend July 2019
    MrsD ·
    • Flag
    • Hide content

    I'm sorry you are feeling this way. Have you guys gone to pre marital counseling yet? It sounds like listening (like actually listening) is something your fiance could work on. Going forward, I'd have some kind of binder or journal you both add every wedding decision you make to so he can look back on things he said or agreed to.

    • Reply
  • V
    Champion July 2019
    Veronica ·
    • Flag
    • Hide content
    I'm so sorry this is happening. I experienced similar frustrations. My husband insisted on making custom save the dates. I wanted them sent out in November, but he didn't get them done until December. He also wanted custom invitations and escort cards. After asking for about 4-5 months to make them I picked out invitations without his helped and we found a template together for the escort cards. He went on vacation for a week two weeks prior to the wedding so I spent that week doing the escort cards. He also wanted a cardbox that looked like a house that he was going to make. He literally finished it the morning of the wedding. We have getting ready photos of him painting the cardbox. For songs, I picked like 5 songs for each part of the wedding then sent him the listen for him to pick from those songs. It was way easier to give him options. My husband also didn't like some of the vendors I picked, but he refused to help so I told him to either find new or deal and of course he choose to deal. Unfortunately I I think this is a guy thing.
    • Reply
  • Mrs. S
    Master November 2019
    Mrs. S ·
    • Flag
    • Hide content
    Sounds just like my husband, I had to do everything and he would contradict his own ideas. I learned to just not care so much and not dwell on it.
    • Reply
  • Tori
    Devoted October 2021
    Tori ·
    • Flag
    • Hide content

    Wow, sounds like my FH! I think he has selective memory loss, I swear! Anything wedding related -- "what? I said that? No I didn't!" I'm going to start having him sign things when we discuss the wedding so I have record Smiley xd

    • Reply

You voted for . Add a comment 👇

×
WeddingWire celebrates love ...and so does everyone on our site! Explore how we embrace diversity

Groups

WeddingWire article topics