Funny Future mother in law stories... Please

My MIL wanted to ask our guests to pay for their own meal on the invitations, because that's what she did.

The first time I introduced my FMIL and FSIL to my mother, I took them all to a private wedding show at a Disney venue I was considering and got them nice and tipsy on champagne. They're besties now. I feel like I'm in the twilight zone

Sadly I have not met my MIL my fiance doesn't have a good relationship with her but it's funny I've been friends with his cousin for years and I actually met my FIL before I even met my fiance lol and the day I met him he walks into the house saying I smell alcohol. ..he a little cray cray but I love my FIL

My FMIL hated me at first... absolutely hated me when we first dated. ( i guess she knew id be the one) and now 3 1/2 years later she absolutely loves me and calls me her daughter and even treats me like her own. I just love her!

My somewhat FMIL is only five years older than me, pregnant, and due around my wedding date. Really hoping she and FFIL can make it, but we'll see. Obviously she's not my FH's mom, but she's the woman currently with his father (his father is/was polygamous). This will be kid #24 for FFIL. It sound crazy, but it's kind of funny too.

I'm hoping someday I can meet real FMIL.

My FMIL often calls FH to talk to her "grandcat". She tells him she loves him and his gam gam can't wait to meet him. She talks to us too but definitely spends at least 5 minutes of each conversation talking to our cat.

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My FMIL is pretty conservative. I was having dinner with my FILs and FBIL started talking about cougars (older women who date young men, not the animal lol). I asked him if he had heard the commercial jingle for the dating website cougarlife.com and started to sing it. FMIL jumped in and sang it along with me. Everyone was so surprised she knew it, hahaha!

FMIL and I have a very good relationship, for which I'm quite thankful! Wedding planning has proved to get to make the waters a little testy, but for the most part things have been great and somewhat humorous.

Like the time she offered me her 80's puff-sleeved lace wedding gown so I wouldn't have to buy my own. LOL

My mother in law calls me the daughter she always wishes she had, today my fh called her in the car and they were getting into it over something silly (they have a hilarious Italian mother son relationship) and then I say hi and her tone changes and she's elated to hear my voice and fh shakes his head like why does she like you so much lol

My FMIL and I get along pretty well, she and I tend to give each other those knowing looks when something funny is going on around us. And apparently, when FH and I were dating she kept asking why we weren't getting engaged yet? I do feel lucky-hope we can keep getting closer over the years

My name is Alex and she thought my name was Alice. For a YEAR. I thought I was hearing things until I got a birthday card addressed to "Alice"

I've met my FMIL once and she kinda lectured me on not being like his ex wife, but was very subtle about it. It probably didn't help that Our new puppy peed on her carpet a few days later either! Maybe one day she'll fully like me!

My FMIL is a pastor and speaks predominantly spanish. She baptized me in spanish while my FH translated. I think she is a very sweet woman but the language barrier makes it tough. I know she will be happy to see us married.

My FMIL is awesome. I love her to pieces. We all have so much fun together and they think I'm the Cat's meow.

Frankly if my FMIL crude about me marrying her son or did some bizarre things I read about here I'd limit my exposure to her.

Thank goodness she's fabulous!

@elphaba, that's amazing. I would totally play that up and troll her so hard.

My FMIL is pretty great, she definitely has her opinions (like oh you can just send my family an email for STDs....even though I've already printed magnets and just need their mailing addresses)

But we live in the same town and we go over there once a week for dinner together. FH has an amazing relationship with his parents. Probably because they treat him like an adult. I was so shocked that parents like that existed when we first started dating.

FMIL and I have a great relationship. FH is an only child, and I was the only girlfriend that the FILS ever liked! They treat me like their own. The only thing we've come across is she wanted to invite our entire church congregation to the ceremony AND reception - so we compromised and are having a cake and punch church reception before our formal dinner reception. Shes a small town woman, very conservative, so sometimes I need to keep my more liberal ideas to myself when topics come up, but those incidents are more few and far between, and its only when her mom/uncle/FFIL father are around. "Bless her heart".

FFIL father and FMIL uncle though, they've ticked me off before. They're ignorant, crabby, old, small town, southern men. besides the slurs they spit out once in a while, they once had a conversation at the dinner table about how women with tattoos and piercings ruin their bodies and how they're hideous.. not knowing/realizing/caring I have two tattoos myself. I turned bright red and started tearing up, but I'm not the type to make a fuss over it. FMIL mother was sitting with us at another table and over heard them.. she chewed them out in private later.. conversation hasn't come up since

My MIL is something else. She is sweet and nice and so caring, but such a flake. I'm not sure what the term for someone who is past being a flake is, but she's that. She's INCREDIBLY self-centered, it's almost unbelievable.

For example, she flew in on Wednesday for our Sunday wedding. FH picked her up from the airport, and she came to our venue rehearsal on Thursday evening, so we dropped her off that night after agreeing to do some sightseeing with her on Friday. Then she disappears. All Friday and Saturday H called her--easily 10 times a day, plus texts, nothing. She just does this so we weren't worried, we know it's just her being her.

Finally on Saturday night/Sunday morning slightly after midnight he gets a text from her "so what do you need my help with for the wedding?"

Uh, nothing. And she had promised to get video cameras to set them up to film our wedding (this was her last minute idea) which she didn't do (and I'm perfectly happy about that). We've learned that no matter what MIL says we can't believe her. We were actually pleasantly surprised that she showed up to the wedding at all, lol.

Thank you all so much for posting and sharing our stories with me some good some sad and some I just wish I could hug you. My FMIL has two sons and not daughters. I think she is having a hard time adjusting to the idea of not being the only women in her baby's life and not knowing how to relate to me. To help with girl bonding I was thinking dinner and then singing ABBA, a shared favorite band, until we are so embarrassed we have to be friends. Good plan? Good plan.

Love my FMIL to pieces, we took a trip at the end of September to see FSIL and FH. We had so much fun. For her birthday we are do a hat and tea themed party.

My FMIL is awesome! We hang out without my FH all the time haha. She is a ton of fun and just the sweetest person. I lived with FH at my FMIL house for about 4 years until last summer we bought our house. We hung out all the time. It is nice to get along so well with his family and mom. They are wonderful people!