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Future Mrs. N
Dedicated September 2014

When did your parents meet your future in laws?

Future Mrs. N, on April 2, 2013 at 10:53 PM

Posted in Etiquette and Advice 73

Just curious if people made a big to do about this and had them meet long before the wedding or at reception dinner?

Just curious if people made a big to do about this and had them meet long before the wedding or at reception dinner?

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  • P
    Devoted August 2013
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    At our Baby Shower for our first child. We had been together 3 years then. Now it has been 8 years and 3 kids.

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  • MrsRight
    Expert July 2013
    MrsRight ·
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    This past fall. i cooked a big dinner at my parents house and messed up the mac n cheese *tears* but my roast beef was on point.

    i'm also going to go dress shopping with my mom and fmil next month so they can get their dresses for the wedding. i love them so much. my sweeties.

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  • Alisa S.
    VIP April 2013
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    My Dad & wife and Mom & husband live in MD; FH's parents live in IN. We are in AZ. By coincidence, FH's parents and my Mom & her husband's vacations overlapped once about 6 months after we started dating, so we all got together for dinner then. Dad & wife and FH's parents will not meet until the rehearsal dinner Friday.

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  • Tiffany M. ( Tiffany P.)
    Master August 2012
    Tiffany M. ( Tiffany P.) ·
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    My parents meet DH's parents a few months into us dating. My parents had come to visit me and wanted to meet the parents of this great guy I had been dating. So we all went out to dinner. It was a little awkward at first, but they seem to hit it off quite well. Now my parents see DH's parents at least once a year when they come to visit for Christmas. In the past year and a half it was more often since we got engaged, had wedding showers, got married, had Christmas and then DH's sister got married (my parents were invited and I was the MOH).

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  • Maggie N
    Master August 2013
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    Our parents met the summer before we got engaged. We invited both sets up to Atlanta and took them all to a Braves game together! Fun, not somewhere where we were pressured to talk and had other entertainment etc.

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  • Ashley
    Devoted October 2013
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    Our parents didn't meet for ages... We've been together for about 2.5 years, engaged for 1.5 of them and my mom only met his mom last summer. She still hasn't met his dad. And my bio dad hasn't met any of them. My stepdad has met his mom, but he really hasn't made a big deal about any of it. My mom, on the other hand, badgered me about having not met his parents for at least a year. She still brings up having not met his dad from time to time. The weird thing is that his dad only lives about an hour away from my folks, but his mom (at the time) lived in Nebraska. We live in Michigan. So it's weird that they've met her, but not him Smiley tongue

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  • Jaclyn
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    They havent. and i hope to keep it that way. i dont mind to introduce my dad. but he's in another country. but i have no intention for my mother to ever ever meet my inlaw's ever!

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  • Elizabeth
    Devoted October 2013
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    Both sets of our parents haven't met yet. I'm hoping to arrange something soon.

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  • Kayla and Walter
    Devoted November 2013
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    Our parents met a few months after we started dating because they all came to our college graduation. I am so thankful that they were able to meet then, because my future MIL passed away about a few months later. I'm glad they met and enjoyed each other and I know they would have continued to have a good relationship.

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  • Arizona Bride
    Super April 2017
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    We've been together 5 1/2 years and married for 2 1/2 years. I don't think they have actually met. They see each other on facebook, but never sat down to speak.

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  • Cassie
    Super June 2013
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    FH and I have been together nearly 2 years....and the wedding is in 73 days...and my family have only met FH's sister and grandfather (he's an orphan)..and they met them in the last month! They still have to meet the other sibling, other family members (which they will at the bridal shower in 3 weeks), and then the family standing in as the parent's....honestly..I cannot stand my FH family at all and if I never have anything to do with them it would be too soon, so FH and I have tried to keep them as separate as possible.....hopefully wedding goes well

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  • Married2013
    Master September 2013
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    FH and I have been together 6 years this year and our parents all met the 1st year we were together. Over the years we’ve gotten together numerous times between graduations, family events, holidays, vacations, casual run-ins, etc. Our parents all know each other fairly well.

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  • Amanda
    Devoted January 2013
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    My mom met DH's mom a few months after we started dating, but didn't meet his dad or stepmom until our wedding day. They live in different states so it never worked out before that.

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  • Ned. G (The one in Wales)
    Expert October 2013
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    After about a 6 months I think purely by accident one day when we were both out with our families.

    Turned out that my mam and his mother vaguely knew each other from work (both worked in a hospital and at some points the same ward - small world)

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  • V
    Just Said Yes October 2014
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    We've been together for 5 years & they still have yet to meet each other.

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  • IamMrsWalker
    Devoted June 2013
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    I am so glad i am not the only one! We have been together for 7 years and our parents have never met not even spoken on the phone

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  • Nay-Nay
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    Parents haven't met each other yet! FH wanted to set something up a while back but my mom wasn't ready to meet her so we held it off. Now my mom wants to meet her but FH parents are divorced so we will need to do 2 separate dinners but honestly I really don't want my mom to meet his mom because his mom is so judgmental but then again so is my mom! LOL - they may just meet at a rehearsal dinner if I have it my way

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  • keekee
    Dedicated July 2013
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    His parents met my mom when we went to check out a venue. My dad hasn't met his parents yet but when we moved into his parents house briefly after college, my dad spoke to his dad on the phone about what my new address was and that didn't go so well haha. My dad thinks you need to scream into the phone in order to be heard and his dad (who got annoyed by my dad hollering into the phone) is very very boisterous/brash and said to my dad, "I don't even know you, but I already want to slap the shit out of you.." His dad forgets that ever happened because that is just how he is but my dad won't let it go.

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  • MrsC
    VIP January 2014
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    I have known his parents since we started dating ten million years ago.

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  • Jennifer
    Super October 2013
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    Our parents haven't met yet. It's hard to find a time to get together when we live 3.5-4 hours away from our parents. Probably schedule a metting sometime in the next few months.

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