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Did anyone else who's planned a wedding, have to deal with Momzilla?
My mother-in-law could have written an instruction manual for Momzillas. My husband is an only child, so our wedding was her One Big Chance. I could go on all day about some of the stuff she pulled, but here's the worst:
She really, really,
really wanted us to get married in their hometown... so that all
her friends could easily attend. We really wanted to have the wedding in Boston, because that's where we were living and that's where all our friends were. It was obviously more important to us that our own friends be there, and we knew our friends probably wouldn't travel (they were all starving college students and new grads), whereas her friends were perfectly capable of traveling.
We'd picked out a few possible locations for the reception, and faxed over copies of their brochures for her to read through.
Know what came back? An email with an Excel spreadsheet comparing prices at each of 3 of the Boston locations to the local HOLIDAY INN in her town. To make matters worse, at the Holiday Inn she had priced out a combination steak and chicken meal. At the places in Boston, she priced out a steak meal AND a chicken meal for each person and ADDED them.
Then she told us it would cost less than half as much to get married there as it would in Boston. Well, duh!! I didn't talk to her for about two weeks after that, and to this day, years later, it still annoys me. (could you tell?
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We wound up going with a location just outside Boston, that was none of the three she compared. They did a wonderful job without breaking the bank. So there, Mom
(In light of the Golden Rule - "he who has the gold, makes the rules" - I should point out that although our in-laws gave us a little money, we paid for almost everything ourselves.)