NParent Wedding Stories

Oh boy, she sounds like a peach. To quote my GC SIL "Are you still really upset about things that happened two years ago?" Damn right. My NMil was a horror at our wedding in 2012 and no one stopped her. I went NC with her a month later. I didn't even know all that she did until months later, but here are some tidbits.. Because she and EFil wanted to pay for half, we had to dis-invite about 30 of my family members so that "we could have a smaller wedding and save for a house" What really happened was she invited 40 people that I had never met before. The wedding was only 90 people to begin with and we are completely financially independent from them now and still live in our apartment. My husband was Limited Contact by the wedding due to her behavior and told her he did not want to do a mother/son dance. She is frowning in every picture that is not posed, had a relative browbeat him at the reception to change his mind and did not speak to me at all the entire day. We were lined up to start the procession at 4pm when the wedding coordinator comes up to me and says "I'm sorry, Lullabies, but your mother in law wants to delay the start because some people haven't arrived yet." (Once again, people I did not know). We had to be ushered through an area where the guests who were already there saw us and sit in the office of the venue until she felt it was time... I, unlike her, had friends of different races and cultures who were guests to the wedding. Apparently, she quizzed them at the door demanding to know who they were and why they were there... I agreed to go look at mother of the bride/groom dresses with her and my husband's grandmom. Knowing my mom had been laid off for a few years, she wanted to go somewhere where the dresses cost at least $500 to start and pouted that they were too cheap. I came from a working class family while she was always priding herself on being educated and upper middle class. I dumped her ass off at her car and was told by my mother I was rude. I had had enough at that point. Two months before the wedding, my aunt who has schizophrenia had a psychotic breakdown and needed to be hospitalized. My mom and I took her to be evaluated while my then-fiance stayed home to watch my grandmother on hospice and my baby nephew. It took all night and it was deeply emotional for me. The next day was a holiday which his family celebrated. My SO chose not to go because he was exhausted and NMil didn't speak to him until about two weeks before the wedding. There's more, but it's hard to look back on that day with fondness because of her idiotic behavior. We haven't even made a wedding album because it would only be my side of the family and our friends. We definitely wish we had eloped at this point and that's why yes, something can still bug you after 2+ years. It's not like she's ever going to apologize and the pain is still there.

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