A woman who is due to get married in just a couple of days' time says her future mother-in-law has now started all sorts of "drama" over disagreements about dress shopping and corsages.
According to the bride-to-be, her mother-in-law accused her of not including her in the lead-up to the wedding, after she chose not to purchase pricey corsages for the women on her husband's side of the family.
She also took issue with not being invited along to a day of wedding dress shopping and even went as far as to threaten to rescind her invite altogether.
The bride in question claims she has tried to make her mother-in-law and her sisters-in-law feel included. She's invited them along to food and cake-tasting events, which they couldn't attend, and even invited her mother-in-law's tennis friends along to her wedding to keep her sweet, despite not really wanting them there.
Taking to Reddit, the fed-up bride wrote: "My parents are paying for 30%, and my partner and I paying for the rest. My parents' attitude about this whole thing is, we trust you you'll plan a beautiful day just tell us the date and time and we'll be there."
Her mother-in-law on the other hand kept on making requests about where her friends should be seated, despite the future bride having her own family to think about.
The bride revealed: "My mother-in-law went off two days before our wedding about how she didn't get to go dress shopping with me. I don't want her to! I only wanted to go with my best friend and my mum. That's it. She never earned that right."
Given her tendency to stir up drama, she felt she had no choice but to exclude her mother-in-law from the all-important shopping trip, fearing that she'd only cause trouble.
Reaching out to fellow Reddit users for advice, she continued: "She would have wanted everything her way or she would threaten not to come.
"She involved my brother-in-law and he started saying we didn't include him either. Do people really include all their family members in every aspect of planning? It sounds like a nightmare.
"My partner doesn't have a good relationship with her either. He took my side and told her off which I'm happy about. Then she retracted and said she was coming and she loves us.
"But I'm just so hurt that she keeps using these manipulative tactics to get her way! To me, threatening to ruin my wedding is a complete no-go zone."
One person urged her: "Don't cave in. Next time she says she won't come just say, sorry, that is your choice. Sorry, we won't see you there, then change the subject.
"If she wants to act like a two-year-old then treat her as one. You caving in will tell her that she can do this for the rest of your life."
Another advised: "I would have called her bluff and let her know no one is forcing her to come if she doesn't want to and leave it at that. Whether she comes or not, the wedding will continue because it's not about her, it's about the bride and the groom."
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