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Mother-In-Law Stories
January 22, 2010
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Frequent
Fry Her TM.
- The Outsider DIL, 4 of 4 needed/Posted:
22-JAN-10
For my wedding, I was forced to make SIL a bridesmaid. Then, MIL
started pushing for me to put her as my MOH, and started trying
to arrange my bridal party for me so that she was in the MOH spot.
SIL also went out of her way to be a pain, as did MIL. The two
of them made it so that I finally went dress shopping by myself.
My parents had disowned me when I was younger, so I didn't have
my mom or my sisters. SIL deliberately tried on the wrong size
bridesmaid's dress so that she could say that she didn't like it.
MIL and FIL kept trying to get me to get the dresses that SIL and
MIL wanted (full length, for summer - I wanted tea length and got
tea length, and all the rest of my wedding party thanked me, as
it ended up being 101 degrees with full sunlight during the ceremony).
SIL got pregnant around Christmas, and then I ended up scrambling
to find an inexpensive bridesmaid's dress that all my bridesmaids
could wear and afford. All the while, I'm being threatened by MIL
and FIL that I better make SIL look good. I finally found one that
wouldn't work with everyone's figure. It was empire waisted, so
it would work for SIL's baby bump. And, it was tea length. Well,
two weeks before the wedding I got an email from SIL. "Oh,
by the way, my dress doesn't fit." She and MIL had been talking
behind my back about getting her a different dress, so it would
look like she was MOH. I happened to overhear them. So, I knew
it was a ploy. She started sending me all these pictures of these
EXTREMELY too short for a pregnant woman (like, if she were to wear
them, her behind would have been hanging out) non-maternity dresses
that looked nothing like the other bridesmaid dresses. I searched
and searched. Literally, every waking moment of my day was spent
trying to find her a dress that was similar to the other dresses.
I finally found a maternity dress that was similar enough to the
others, and was only $80. It was really cute. So, I called her
to tell her that I found a dress, and emailed the picture to her.
She called me back, "Oh, where can I go to try it on?"
in an excited tone, like a child who had gotten her way with an
adult. I told her that it was on line, and it was a maternity dress.
The way it was made, not fitting wouldn't be a problem, as it was
stretchy at the top and you could adjust it. The bottom was flowy.
She immediately sounded mad. When I hung up, I told DH, "Watch,
I know that she will find something wrong with it." Sure enough,
the next morning there was an email from SIL, "Oh well, this
dress is too expensive. With shipping it comes out to over $100."
That wasn't true, as the site had free shipping, and the original
dress was only $70. She could have returned it, not to mention
that she and BIL are much better off financially than DH and me.
She sent me pictures of more dresses that were too short and non-maternity.
I told DH that he needed to speak with his mother and tell her that
SIL was going to be out of the wedding, as I had had it with her,
at this point, and I was sick of the whole thing. She had put me
behind with my other wedding tasks by pulling her little stunt.
Finally, MIL bought the dress for her, after my DH explained to
her that it was either SIL got the dress, or that was it. He was
tired of her and MIL stressing me out about it. About a week before
the wedding, FIL came upstairs and cussed me out about not making
SIL MOH. This, after she didn't mail my bridal shower invitations
or my hen night invitations until less than a week before the event,
so no one showed up. Then, she charged my other bridesmaids for
all the food that she wouldn't let them bring themselves. She over
bought, then took all the food home for BIL's party the next day.
She called meetings for nothing, at the last minute, and made all
the other ladies rearrange their schedules in order to attend.
FIL said that I should only thank SIL, and not my other bridesmaids,
because they had "done nothing". He was trying to blame
other stuff on me, like my DH cleaning the fridge and throwing out
something of MIL's, etc. I was so upset by this that I spent about
5 hours in the bathroom dry heaving. The morning of my wedding,
I had made it clear that I wanted to go to this place, near where
our wedding venue was, for breakfast. The plan was to meet up at
9 AM at the hotel up the street, leave MIL to check in, then go
to a coffee shop downtown that I loved. MIL made me late, then
made up some story about having a hair appointment that she was
running late for. She dropped me off at SIL's, rather than where
we were supposed to meet up with the others, leaving me to try to
call everyone at the last minute and let them know to meet us at
the coffee shop instead. Then, when we showed up at SIL's, MIL
just sat around for around 30 minutes (more than enough time to
get me downtown, to where I needed to be). We finally got a hold
of the other ladies and let them know not to meet us at the hotel.
SIL started trying to change our breakfast location to a place that
she wanted to go to. Never mind that I had stated for weeks that
I wanted to go to a particular coffee shop that was closer to everything
than the place she suggested. I finally played my 1 wedding day
borderline bridezilla hissy fit card, as I was all done. So, finally
we got everything done, got married, and went up north for a couple
of days.
Signed - Borderline Bridezilla
Hissy Fit
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