she is trying to ruin our wedding
by imabearcat on 05/08 @ 7:18pmI honestly need input from y’all on this situation.
When I first met my fiancé he was living at home with his mom. He had just returned from Iraq and was changing military branches. I thought it was odd he was living with her, but didn’t say anything about it. Ever since I’ve known him he has never made an effort to talk to his mom, or have anything to do with her. (I’m the one that made sure he remembered her birthday, mother’s day etc.)
Our marriage is next month and his mom has spent the last 4 months trying to ruin it. I asked her in January after we got engaged for her list of people to invite. She waited until a week before we sent them out (in Mid April) to finally give me the list. She wanted the invitations herself and tried to get them, but since my parents paid for them and I was going to be putting wax seals on them I told her not to worry about it. As soon as the invitations were mailed out, she called me and was angry because “You didn’t put seals on MY invitations” (which Is a lie. I enlisted my entire family to help me do the wax seals and spent 2 hours doing them) Then, she said, “You didn’t put MY name on the invitations” which is news to me. Her son is a grown man. Regardless she had 4 months to say something and never did, my fiancé was in the store ordering them with me and never said a word.
She also “volunteers” to do things and then either doesn’t do them at all, or messes everything up. She actually tried to get people to donate money for the rehearsal dinner. She told the restaurant that we were going to have the wedding there.. when she knows good and well we are having the wedding at my church.
We have a set amount of food, plates etc. She went behind my back after I asked her nicely not to invite more people because we simply don’t have enough food, or wedding cake which I explained to her and invited more people to the wedding.
She also will play a manipulation game where if she doesn’t get what she wants from us, she will call my parents and tell them that we are “refusing” to give her information and what’s to know what’s going on.
She also wants to go on our honeymoon with us, and include his brother and the brother’s wife. Anyone else find that to be weird and creepy?
Basically, anything I do for the wedding she thinks that she can do better. She constantly accuses me of not doing things I did do ( like mail out her invitations, put seals on them, or even talking to her about our photographer) even when there are people around that hear and see me doing these things.
The problem is now, my fiancé is siding with her. The last 5 months he hasn’t said anything except “ignore her” now, he saying that I need to involve her more and it’s not her fault that she forgets things, invites more people when she knows its’ going to cause financial strain, complains about everything we do, and that she should be as involved as my parents.
I am the bride. She is not the mother of the bride, and she also ruins everything she touches.
I feel as though him sticking up for her is him picking her over me. I have not ever been rude to her, I just simply thank her for her input but decline her advice. Now, he blames me and says that she’s the innocent one and I’m the one who’s at fault.
I honestly am a nice person and just want an un-complicated wedding. The amount of complaining and manipulation she has done has made planning the wedding completely miserable.
What am I supposed to do? I feel like I can’t even trust my fiancé since he is picking her over me, and blaming me for her actions.




9 Responses to “she is trying to ruin our wedding”
This situation fits right into the “cut your losses” category. You need to give the ring back and extracate yourself from this ridiculous situation.
There is no etiquitte book on the planet which states the MIL assists with the wedding. HER JOB IS TO SHOW UP, PERIOD. End of discussion. That you included her in the planning process was a huge mistake, which you can now see for yourself. Some people are just plain irresponsible and will ruin all they touch. They are best left out of the details.
The rubbish about being “excluded” is insane. The response to this stupidity is: “Oh, poor dear MIL should not have to worry herself with such details. I would not THINK of putting wedding planning stress on her!” And then continue to leave the bat out of the loop.
Or give the nutter something to do that you are NOT using for the wedding. For example, give her 20 spools of pink wire ribbon and tell her you need big, handmade bows for all of the pews. You won’t really be using them, so it does not matter if she screws it up or plain old doesn’t follow through. All she does is waste HER time, not yours.
If you think things will change/improve after you are married, you are sadly mistaken. Your dolt of a fiancee has chosen his number one woman, and it ain’t you.
Get out now, before there is a messy divorce to deal with; or heaven forbid, a child in the mix, which will effectively tether you to these two losers for a very, very long time.
Better to rip off a bandage now and whince at the sting than be trying to clot an open wound in a few years. Your situation is a train wreck already in process. GET OUT. DO NOT LOOK BACK.
well after another day of fighting, now he say’s he wasn’t standing up for her, he was trying to explain or make assumptions as to why she was acting out. Since this, his mother hasn’t called (but then again, she only calls on the weekend and gets enjoyment out of making me angry) so it shall be interesting to see if she calls.
She has also decided to “throw me” a bridal shower after I told her 5 seperate times not to. She DIDN’T aks me if I was free and the funny thing is, she picked the same day my mother and grandmother are giving me a shower. When I called to tell her I wasn’t coming, talk about pissed. She was rude on the phone and kept saying’ No way. No. No. No” So I simply told her, “Well ___ my grandmother/mom actually asked me if I was free that weekend over 3 weeks ago.. and your invitation to the shower is already in the mail.” Do you even THINK she was going to invite my mother, or my sister the maid of honor? NO. This “bridal party” isn’t even about her. She came out and said, “Oh well if you don’t go then I’ll just take a picture of you and my friends and I will party without you”. Wow, big loss for me!
hmm….I’d be starting to think If i really want to go ahead with this wedding. Your husband to be must stand by your side with EVERYTHING, ALWAYS. It’s the manipulation and poor me attitude and guilt trips that makes most men feel sorry for their unbalanced mothers. This woman is always going to be a nightmare. Any chance you can move away, to atleast give the marriage a chance?
Imabearcat,
Tell your parents that this woman is a nut job and not to give her the time of day. The next time the whining starts about the wedding …flat out tell her “YOU ARE NOT THE HOSTESS OF THIS SHINDIG….BACK OFF!” Take the extra invitees off the guest list and inform her she isn’t to do that again. She can do the uninviting/explaining that she overstepped. Do another mailing to your invited guests to bring the invitation, turn the uninvited ones away at the door.
Inform your intended that you will be handling his mom as tough as she needs to be handled…too bad, so sad, if her feeling get hurt.
my mother and I decided to give her the manipulation right back. We had a list of everyone we invited which is going to be given to the woman in charge of helping us at the church and she is going to check people off of the origional list. Her 7 more guests won’t be on it, and they won’t be coming in.
WHy would you even marry into this? You and her are going at it like wildcats. It will continu as long as you marry this guy. Girl – you ned to call the whole thing off and move on. It this the kind of life you want ? A constant fight with your MIL?
Run! (Don’t walk).
I agree. If this is what is happening now…it can only get worse from her on out!
Speak to you BF and let him know…it’s either you or his mom. Choose one.
Call that wedding off and elope with fiancee,only if he moves overseas with you.If not,then just call it all off.Cut your losses and move forward.