Today, my future mother-in-law informed me that since she is putting money into our wedding, that all the planning and arrangements are under her authority. FML
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Today, my soon-to-be mother-in-law decided that she is going to be in charge of planning my wedding. All decisions must be approved by her, and anything she doesn't like will be thrown out. She also wants to go on our honeymoon with us to make sure I don't "defile" her son. FML
Today, my mother-in-law became my boss. FML
Today, I was talking to my future mother-in-law about my upcoming wedding. She told me that I wasn't allowed to have the wedding at a church, nor wear a white dress, nor have roses for flowers, because that would mean I'd be "copying" her. FML
Today, my future mother-in-law finally admitted that I'm "not the girl for her son" and that she will do anything to break us up. FML
Today, marks the sixth day in a row that my mum has called me to discuss my upcoming wedding. She's obsessed and has intimidated the actual planner I hired into going along with her plans. She's slipped up twice already and accidentally referred to it as her own wedding. Just great. FML
Today, six weeks before my wedding, my mother decided to claim that she never agreed on paying for it and that she doesn't think she will. Now I have six weeks to scavenge enough cash for the wedding she planned in the first place. FML
Today, I called my mom to make sure she could attend on the wedding day my fiancé and I had discussed. She started off with criticizing the venue we considered, then went on to criticize my fiancé, and then stated she would under no circumstances help out, but demanded to pick my wedding dress. FML
Today, a week after my fiancé and I got engaged, his mother is already complaining that she isn't involved enough in the wedding arrangements. We haven't even set a date yet. FML
Today, I found out my daughter was planning a wedding and invited everyone but me. FML
Today, I'm getting married. A few months ago, I allowed my mother in-law to take care of catering. She begged to be a part of the wedding, so I gave her the caterer's number and order info. It appears that I will not be eating at my own wedding because she decided to order food I'm allergic to. FML
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biggary19 3
stand up to the bicth now unless u wanna hear her shit 4 the rest of ur life
chosha_fml 27
Have a smaller wedding and tell her that you can't accept her help if it's conditional. This isn't the way to start a marriage, with her asserting her authority over your decisions.
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Comments (335)
winnn_fml 0
its 2011! stop playing the ms Cinderella card, otherwise ydi
cass85 8
Considering she's probably putting a fair amount, knowing how much even a venue is, then yeah, she deserves some input, not all the decisions but definitely input. I'd expect that if my parents of my partner's parents were contributing a sizeable amount. I highly doubt she means that she makes the all the choices, Its more along the lines that she wants to see her money spent appropriately and perhaps not on burlesque dancers as entertainment or a cake that costs three grand. You can either whinge and whine about a perfectly understandable arrangement OR you can pay for your own damn wedding and do it your way. Yeah I have sympathy with you in that we'd all want our wedding to be entirely our wedding but I don't think its unreasonable for anyone effectively paying from your "super-speshul" day to want to stay in the know and have the right to veto anything they believe is ridiculous. So yeah, you can sulk about it and whinge about it, you can accept her terms gracefully or you can plan a day that you can afford yourself.
alexFYL 11
If she's just giving an amount of money, why can't they spend it on a super expensive cake and burlesque dancers? What if that's what they want? If she's giving money for specific things, that's a different thing and somewhat unacceptable. Another poster wrote about their MIL wanting to pay for chair covers and a gift table cloth, that's okay but if she demands to have certain centerpieces and bridesmaid dresses BECAUSE she's giving money, that's horrid.
wytang 3
Shouldn't you pay for them? I mean she's not the one marrying, you are.
heyred 11
Don't accept the money. Its just a wedding, which lasts a day. Your marriage will hopefully last a lifetime. Stand up to her now or YDI.
mk58 31
lmao, 237. I agree.
underpaid011 0
sounds fair! her money her plans. assuming she is not just putting in a portion of the money and then making unreasonable demands that will increase the cost but not her contribution. you always have the courthouse option, or the go to Vegas and get married by an Elvis impersonator option you can hold over her head.
fizzypop14 3
if op is a girl than fyl. If op is a guy then who cares?
ChibiChibi_fml 28
If the OP is a guy, he would still have the right to care. It is the grooms day as much as it is the brides. Just because some brides are bossy, whiny, bitches who don't want to let their fiance have a say does not mean their fiance shouldn't have a say.
Stumblebum30 5
And it begins....
reddwarf_fml 0
run....... that's all I can say....... run
ohowe 1
Nip it. Nip it in the bud. Barnie knows best.