Her Future Mother-In-Law Would Not Stop Telling Her That Her Wedding Needed To Be Child-Free, So She Told Her Mother-In-Law To Either Stop Meddling In The Wedding Plans Or She Was Going To Just Elope With Her Fiancé
This woman and her fiancé are currently engaged, and they first met while attending college. She attended university on a scholarship, though, while her fiancé was a “legacy” student.
For context, legacy students are applicants who “may or may not meet the qualifications to get into a certain university.”
Nonetheless, these students’ families have a long history with the school– for instance, alumni– and donate either to the endowment or contribute in some other form to the institution.
Despite her fiancé being one of these students, though, she still claims that he is a seriously charming, kind, generous, and intelligent person who honestly did not need any familial connections to get into the school.
Even though her fiancé is full of humility, she still claims that her future in-laws are a seriously fancy family. In fact, they are even apparently pressuring her to have a big and luxurious wedding.
Still, she feels that the absolute worst part about her in-laws meddling in their wedding plans is how her future mother-in-law will not stop claiming that the wedding needs to be child-free.
Now, this idea completely goes against all of her family beliefs. She is originally from Colombia and grew up very close to her family.
Anyone who was even remotely related to her but similar in age was called “primo” or “prima”– which means cousin. And anyone older than her was referred to as “tio” or “tia”– which means uncle or aunt.
So, she understandably wants all of her little cousins and siblings to be there on her wedding day.
nataliakabliuk – stock.adobe.com – illustrative purposes only, not the actual person
“And one of my dreams has always been a wedding picture where it’s just me in my wedding dress, just surrounded by kids,” she revealed.
For whatever reason, though, her mother-in-law is totally against that and keeps insisting that the reception should be child-free.
Anyway, she and her fiancé are currently visiting his family for Christmas right now. And yet again, another conversation came up about how no children should be allowed at the event.
So, she finally had enough of hearing it from her mother-in-law and kind of lost it. More specifically, she claims to have “politely informed” her mother-in-law that if she heard even one more word about how she should be planning her wedding, then she was going to convince her son to skip the event altogether and just elope. Yikes!
Now, she also opened up about how her fiancé is on the spectrum– so he honestly is not looking forward to having a massive wedding either. Quite frankly, he even said he would be happy with a courthouse wedding.
So, thankfully, he is also on her side in terms of her mother-in-law and is not happy that his mom is trying to dictate how they celebrate their big day– especially since her in-laws are not paying for anything.
“We are paying for everything ourselves,” she noted.
Ever since she kind of told off her in-laws, though, her mother-in-law has been beyond dramatic. In fact, her mother-in-law has been comforted by her fiancé’s sister and sister-in-law.
And now all three women are accusing her of being totally cruel for threatening not to throw a wedding for her mother-in-law’s eldest son.
Still, her future father-in-law does agree with her and her fiancé that how the wedding is planned is ultimately their choice.
So now, with her in-laws torn over how her wedding should go, she has been left wondering if giving her future mother-in-law an ultimatum was the right thing to do or if it makes her a jerk.
Does it make sense why she would want her entire family to be there on her big day? Why do you think her mother-in-law is so against children being at the wedding? Did she have a right to put her foot down, or did she take it too far by threatening to elope? What would you have done had you been in her shoes?
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