A mum has been left in tears after her husband invited seven family members to stay at their small home the week of their daughter's wedding.
The run up to a wedding is a stressful time, with lots of last minute jobs and final details to attend to. One mum is "having kittens" after her husband suggested they give up their bed and limited space to allow two families to stay.
The families only speak Italian, so the mum, who cannot speak the language, is reliant on her husband to revoke their invitation but he's putting his foot down as his relatives are travelling to England specifically for the wedding. The mum - and the bride - are anxious and stressed about having to host such a large number of people in the run up to the wedding.
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Taking to Mumsnet's popular Am I Being Unreasonable (AIBU) thread, the mum wanted to gauge whether she was in the wrong in the situation. She also sought advice on what to do, in her post titled, "Daughter getting married, husband invited 2 families to stay in our house".
She penned: "Am I being unreasonable to think that my husband inviting two families to stay in our house the week of our daughter's wedding is a bit much? To put it mildly. The two families consist of his niece and husband and [their] two children, and his sister-in-law and their two children. And no, we don't have any spare bedrooms, so my husband said we will give one family our bedroom while we sleep wherever there's a couch, and the other family will take the front room with a sofabed. Any other time, fine - but it's the week of our daughter's wedding which will surely be chaotic just waiting for the bathroom in the morning with 11 people in the house! I want to bury myself in a hole somewhere and cry...
"It's adding to my daughter's anxiety, who is already stressed out with wedding plans, and me, as mother of the bride, I'm having kittens! Please let me know if I'm over-reacting..."
The mum's post was met with heaps of responses from fellow Mumsnet users. One said: "Tell him either he apologises and rescinds the invitations or you will. Whilst laying the blame firmly at his feet".
Another made a Brookside joke: "I'd love to tell you that you're overreacting, but I would have buried my DH [dear husband] under the patio if he had suggested the same thing! When is the wedding?"
A third said: "YANBU [you are not being unreasonable] at all! You don't want you or him to be overtired and risk it all ruining the wedding. The families he has invited are CF [cheeky f*****s] too! The priority here has to be your daughter and yourselves!" Another quipped: "your husband has lost his mind".
One Mumsnet user suggested: "I'd tell him you and your daughter are moving into a hotel for a week so that you can relax and enjoy the build up and preparations and he can host his family and all that comes with it".
Another asked: "Blimey, your DH is a delight. Serious question here - do the booked guests know that there will be 11 people in a 1 bed place? I would not want to stay if that was the case (and yes, I know that some people have no choice etc,) so it's worth a go if that would appeal to your DH as a better idea. If not, I'd leave them all to it and book yourself into a nice hotel instead."
And another added: "What a stupid thing to do, I'd tell him to cancel their plans, can they not get a hotel. To put you out like that on a really special week is really selfish of him. I would be fuming."
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