Okay probably not as bad as a lot of these, but still very fresh in my mind as I was just recently married 2 weeks ago. We were supposed to be married in city hall and set a date for the parents and siblings to attend (both moms were adamant about being present), but intrusive MIL then decided that she’d invite the whole family (aunts, uncles, grandparents, cousins, about a total of 25 people), I insisted that 30+ people cannot attend city hall and she responds with “I’ll do whatever I want”. So being the type A personality (or pushover) that I am, I planned a small wedding by planning a ceremony in a famous park and booking a private dining room, extremely expensive in the large city I live in. It came to about 22 people, with invites specifically named by guest. Mr and Mrs X, etc. I didn’t want strangers, pop up plus ones or children at this intimate adult event. I verbally expressed to his whole family that no children were invited, since the invitations weren’t clear enough for any of them. I received text after text that I should allow them to bring husbands 2 year old niece to the wedding in the weeks following up to the wedding, I told them that she’d be counted as a head and there’s a max amt of people (25) and we’d also have to pay the very large plate/open bar fee for her. I didn’t want children there, but you know, since it’s their day, I said “whatever makes you happy”, just let me know so I can inform the restaurant with a final head count. They continued to text me that they could not afford the “astronomical price of her plate” and I expressed that we were paying for this and expected nothing in return. They decided that they would not bring her and confirmed the night before the wedding. Long story short, we arrive at this quite intimate ceremony in a small location in the aforementioned famous park and she is there, okay cool, nothing was going to dull our shine. No one said a word regarding her presence, BUT she continuously screamed and ran back and forth across the ceremony during the 5 minute vow and ring exchange, she ran into most of the professional pictures of the two of us, in which we only had 1 hour booked and a set number of shots. She arrived to the reception at $200+ a person excluding tax and gratuity, and again, during cake cutting, jumped into my arms, and decided she’d be the first to eat the cake, spoon goes right into the top of the cake as I’m making my toast with this 2 year old in my arms (aww how cute, look at the baby... another special moment kind of dulled out). I am not the parents and nor should I be having to hold a child during my cake cutting or tell her to STFU during a very intimate vow/ring exchange and/or cake cut. They still haven’t even mentioned their disregard for any of our wishes. They completely acted like no wrong doing was done, each intimate moment has her in the pictures or videos screaming, she’s in my arms during cake cutting, and you can tell the manager is not happy that we brought an unexpected guest as I gave final headcount the day before. Half of the photos are a little odd as she is not our child, nor do we ever want any, but I’m sure you could’ve picked up on that by the context of this post.