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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Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
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)
Dreamcatcher619 6
So you let her black mail you, stand up be a man and if you can't do that then don't let her pay for any of it or else it will never change.
gothicwriter 0
i fear my mother in law will do the same...good luck
alexFYL 11
Ditto. I would like her to pay for it but I know she'll be all commandeering and too traditional. I'm not religious and I have zero intention on having a religious wedding, period, not even for their sake (Oh how nice for someone to LIE in the face of your god, right? That's ridiculous). We already had a mini-conversation about the honeymoon too, I was looking through a magazine and wistfully said I wanted to go to the Maldives, not looking for any input from her on the subject whatsoever and she said it's too expensive and I can go to Disney Land instead. LOL.
InsaneGenius 0
Tell her no and stick with it no matter what, or run like hell. Your husband-to-be has to put his foot down too, if not, run like hell. Seriously.
kinga08 0
Oh boy, this is just the beginning. She seems like one of those people that do you a favor and have a habit of throwing it in your face for the rest of your life. Either stand up to her, or wait until you can pay for your wedding on your own. This is funny actually, because I was discussing the cost of weddings with my married co-worker today. Weddings are pretty expensive, even if you don't do anything extremely lavish. Good luck OP, hopefully it won't ruin your special day.
Blondiebee88 0
You don't seem to have a problem taking her money, you don't like her ideas get a loan. If your old enough to get married your old enough to grow up and act like it.
johnnybagodonuts 2
kill her, that's the only logical solution
CraigsGirl0530 0
Been there. Done that. My now ex mother in law did the same thing.
zombiekitten87 12
ok, no problem. all you do is smile and say " thanks so much but we won't be needing your contribution after all, and thanks so much for wanting to help but I think I have it covered." it's your ******* wedding, grow a friggen set if your fiance won't.
certified_camel 0
sucks for you, like a lot. Sneak around and see what shes up to and try to change what you can is all i can tell you :)
aardvarkish 17
Is she paying for the divorce too?
kweenbitch 0
very true. my in laws and I STILL don't get along after FIVE years of marriage...and I refused their monetary help for the wedding. there are times that due to their never ending involvement in our lives, I feel like ending the relationship. but the love I have for my husband keeps me here (for now). good luck, you're going to need it!
alexFYL 11
I feel you. I'm not even engaged and I already had to have "the talk" with my boyfriend about his mother. I asked him how he would feel if the reason why we broke up is because of his mom... because she is just so rude and passive aggressive. I know it was not very nice of me to put it that way but it finally got the point across because he told his mom to back off me. This conversation seems to happen about once a year when she forgets.
alexFYL 11
OMFG... this keeps replying to 181 when I'm trying to reply to 180, but the numbers keep changing. I'm trying to @#$%ing reply to kweenbitch.