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We are having the reception at my house, and they guys (friends and family) want the garage open so they can all huddle in there the entire time and play pool (My garage is the guys nightly hangout/bar and hangout go until daylight at times ).... nope doors are closed Sorry men!!! not staying until 4am in my garage on my wedding night.. me and the hubby got things to do lmao

View Quoted Comment Your mom would hate my daughters cake!

She just showed me a drawing and it will be 3 layers of purpleness!

My FH's aunt told us last week that her husband was seeing if he could get time off for the wedding, and she'd let us know that night if they could come. Keep in mind our Save the Dates went out in March so they've known for 8 months to request off.

...our RSVP date was 9/27. We never heard back from her. Going on a month late for her RSVP but we are saving them seats cuz not many people from his family can come, so he wants them to come if they can.

My FMIL also has booked 2 separate airbnbs AND a room at the hotel near the venue "just in case". I don't get it but if it makes her happy ::shrug::.

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You are smart for not listening to her. I'm a photographer (nature and wildlife mostly) and have photographer friends who shoot weddings, but this is definitely the area I am being MOST particular about. If you are investing any amount of money into your wedding, a high quality, professional photographer is an absolute must.

My FH and I live about four hours from where I grew up (and where my family still lives). My mom doesn't have the best eyesight and doesn't own a cellphone or have GPS, so she gets really nervous about driving to places she isn't familiar with because she has a hard time seeing the road signs and navigating (to be fair, she was always bad at this and has been doing "dry runs" to important events at new locations since I was a small child). So she's planning on getting a ride with my cousins to our wedding - but they were planning on leaving after my cousin's teenage son gets out of school on Friday, and my cousins live about 50 minutes farther away (so more like 5 hours from where we live and 5.5 hours from our wedding venue). Our wedding is on Saturday.

I had to remind her that as my mother she was expected to have a slightly bigger role in the wedding than just being a guest in attendance and that she was going to need to be at the rehearsal dinner the night before. It hadn't even occurred to her that 1) she'd be involved in the wedding, 2) we would "practice" beforehand, and 3) she'd get to our venue by like 8-9pm if they waited until after school let out, which would give her zero time to interact with us before the wedding day which would be super busy. Needless to say my mom and cousins are adjusting plans now!

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And I bet it is beautiful!!

My mom was very insistent that we open our presents at the reception. I tried explaining that I felt like it was tacky, this is not a birthday party or a shower, We've been arguing about it for months. I have FINALLY convinced her that I am NOT doing it.
Then there is my FMIL. I have celiac disease and cannot have gluten. I react even to cross contamination. My mom is our caterer (with a team). Everything will be gluten free for our wedding, so I do not have to worry about being sick on our honeymoon. My FMIL offered to make the food for our rehearsal dinner. We have our venue Tuesday-Sunday and planned on doing dinner and rehearsal onsite Friday night. She told FH she wanted to make Manicotti or Spaghetti. He told her that it would be awfully expensive because GF noodles are pricey. She wasn't going to use GF noodles... "Well Renay can just bring her own food that night" You know, to my own rehearsal dinner. He is STILL working to change her mind. We even gave her a great alternative. But "We're Italian, and you aren't serving pasta at the wedding because of her 'issues' "