Today, my fiancé and I decided to just have a small wedding and have a big reception later, out of concern for everyone’s health and safety. My mother won’t stop asking us, “What’s the point now?” I thought our marriage was the point. FML
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Halloween
A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
Today, my fiancée called off our wedding out of the blue. After a long discussion about it, it turns out that last week I voiced an opinion about the wedding she didn’t agree with, and doesn’t want to spend her life married to someone who’s going to argue with her every five minutes. FML
Today, my fiancé told me that he was having second thoughts on our engagement. Instead of just calling it off, he took me to a fancy restaurant and took a public poll on whether we should get married. The majority said no. FML
Today, my fiancée called off our wedding at the last moment, because her neurotic sister thinks she's "too fat" to be the maid of honor, and says she needs several months to lose weight. So that's a few thousand dollars wasted. My fiancée says I'm "overreacting" and that I "just don't get it". FML
Today, I don’t usually ask much from my dad because I know how incapable he is but after two years delaying my wedding due to Covid restrictions, I thought I could at least ask him to stay sober long enough to walk me down the aisle. More fool me I suppose. FML
Today, I got married and my mom refused to be there because my dad, whose guts she hates, was there even though I promised repeatedly that I would keep them apart. I couldn't do the mother-son dance. She keeps insisting that it was a "lapse in judgment." Yeah, like we're really going to be able to have a do-over. 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 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, I asked my fiancé if we could get legally married at the courthouse before we had the big wedding ceremony, just to quell my irrational fear of being left at the altar. He agreed, then didn’t show up at the courthouse. Nightmare realized. FML
Today, my father-in-law decided he was going to just completely take over our engagement party, so now my fiancé just wants to go to Reno and get married there. FML
Today, my boyfriend of several years told me the only way he’d ever consider getting married was if we had no wedding, just signing the paper at the courthouse with no ceremony or guests whatsoever, and as long as we don’t tell anyone about it. He doesn’t get why I’m devastated. FML
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Top comments
MandazInTC 33
Forget her. It's you and your fiancé's day. If she can't be on board, she may not need to participate on your day. Also, I commend you on your decision to try to stay safe. I'm sure that was a hard decision.
loopylaura88 17
omg im dealing with the exact same issue! I got asked if i really want a little "dinky" wedding
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MandazInTC 33
Forget her. It's you and your fiancé's day. If she can't be on board, she may not need to participate on your day. Also, I commend you on your decision to try to stay safe. I'm sure that was a hard decision.
RichardPencil 32
Your marriage isn't the point. Otherwise, everyone would just get married at a courthouse. You and your thug husband are screwing your mom out of one of the best days of her life. That's the point!
RichardPencil 32
You need your sarcasmometer recalibrated. Your detector is not registering an "Obvious."
Hangryko 32
Your sarcasm is more difficult to detect here.
RichardPencil 32
The fact that I'm writing it here should be a pretty big clue! How often do you see me being sincere here?
Hangryko 32
Sorry, I deleted my original reply. Your second paragraph was definitely more sarcastic than the first, so I got confused.
Hangryko 32
Point, I suppose.
loopylaura88 17
omg im dealing with the exact same issue! I got asked if i really want a little "dinky" wedding
Hangryko 32
It's your wedding, it's your choice. It's between you and your fiancé; the rest of the family gets no say in it. They should be grateful you're both even holding a reception later when it's safe to do so.