The Crazy Aunt

My fh has a few nut jobs attending our wedding...it should be interesting hah

Luckily my crazy relatives couldn't afford to come. I really didn't want to be embarrassed by my family in front of DHs family. It's such a big day and there will be many people who may never see each other again and you, as the bridal couple, will have judgements made on you by some of these people based on other people whom you invite.

I sat at a wedding where the grooms grandma told the best man he was going to hell for being Jewish... I remembered this story when I invited people. I'm glad many of my crazy relatives couldn't make it, it was destination wedding for them (thank God). Now I get to go watch my cousins wedding with some of my shit show family members.

Yup, crazy aunt that married into the family and has to judge everyone for everything. She lives in a flimsy glass house if you catch my drift but she still runs her mouth. I'm just glad I'll have 139 other people at my wedding to be concerned with than her. Bye Felicia!

DH's horrible aunt started badmouthing the couple celebrating their wedding in the other hall at our venue, because it was a same-sex couple. DH and I were sooooo mortified. I hope my family and friends didn't hear that horrible woman.

This wasn't my wedding or my relatives, but at a wedding, the (Croatian) father of the groom came to yell at the guy I was dating at the time, because he introduced the (Mexican) bride and the groom. He yelled (in Serbo-Croatian, not in English, thankfully) that it was his fault that he'd end up with black grandchildren. I don't know much Serbo-Croatian but I definitely know the words for black and grandchildren, and I can vouch that he said exactly that.

I have an aunt who was FURIOUS that I did not invite her to go dress shopping. I only brought my FMIL, my daughter and my two bridesmaids. We aren't super close but that didn't stop here from saying "you bitch" after I told her I already bought a dress. She also started Jenny Craig when she found out we set a date and insists on telling me during most of our conversations that she "doesn't want to be that fat aunt" at my wedding and that she's going to look better than her sister... eye roll

I didn't want to invite my father's sisters to our wedding, but my brother talked me into it because they are family and while they are toxic, they still love me and would be so hurt if they weren't invited. They came, and honestly, they were on their best behavior. One even bought our flowers for us and gave us money to contribute to our rings. She was also very helpful when my mother died and brought food and paper products to us and helped us host guests. The other sister on the other hand started acting out and made a scene at my mother's memorial service. She behaved at the wedding but acted like a crazy person at the memorial. I still haven't forgiven her for being jealous of the attention my mother received while I don't know dying. She said my she knew my cousin and I didn't come visit her and she hoped when she was dying we would at least come to her funeral. Then she cut into the receiving line at the service and started loudly telling people that I looked like her. I calmly whispered to her that that was neither the time nor place and to please remove herself from the receiving line. If it wasn't my mother's service and if it wasn't in my home church and wouldn't have caused a scene, I think I would have scratched her eyes out. I appreciated her good behavior at the wedding but not the memorial less than 2 weeks later.

Double post: pleas forgive my novel. Crazy aunts are something I feel strongly about because I have 2!

I think every family has some crazy in it. I have a few and FH has a few. Should be interesting when they all collaborate at the wedding.....

It's not a crazy Aunt, but one of my parents' older friends from Synagogue did a similar thing to me! She told me at my college graduation party, when I was 22, that I needed to get a move on because my "eggs were dying". When I went totally blonde (by far my best hair decision), she told me "you'll never meet a nice Jewish boy with your hair that color"... 2 weeks later I met FH. Once we were together for a while she sent me a letter telling me that I needed to be very careful in my career choices, because I don't want to be more successful than my SO and thereby threaten him. I'm not inviting her.

Crazies all around!

I have 2 crazy aunts. I'm inviting them and to be honest they are a lot of fun. Just quirky and odd. They won't start drama. A crazy cousin will but she's boycotting the wedding because she is mad at most of the family,but we don't know why.

Sadly, most of the quirky people on both sides of guest list have passed on. :-(

As far as crazy things being said, my mom told me I shouldn't smile too widely in my wedding pictures - if I do, everyone will notice my oddly placed front tooth. Umm, thanks mom, but I think everyone's already noticed it, and the only person it really bothers is her. LOL

Ugh... we have one. I don't even want this "man" at our wedding, but at this point he is a GM. I knew he was a little ignorant but didn't realize how bad it could be until last week when he was over. He is racist... like BEYOND racist. My daughter's bf is black and the things that came out of the GM mouth... oh my goodness. Completely unacceptable, especially to a 16 yr old girl. He believes everyone should have blonde hair and blue eyes. I let him know that I'm one of those "half breeds" he loves so much. My family are all metis, 2 of my bridesmaids are native and 1 is from Peru... If he could say the things he said while totally sober I hate to see what happens when he's had some drinks :/

I actually told FH that he needs to have a chat with him and that if he can't behave like a decent human being for a few hours then he can't come to the wedding, period!

There are a couple of loonies on my mom's side, pretty "close" relatives (as far as blood relation) so they will unfortunately be invited. Sigh. Though they mean well, a big ol group of them joined a church a couple of years ago and ever since then they are ALWAYS talking about it, trying to get me to visit (which I have, once). It's their life. I'm not super religious, so it's pesky. They're also the types who think they know everything about everything and always try to "advise" me when I'm doing fuckin great and killin life. hahaha

seriously, it sounds like your aunt just... doesn't get it. combined with having no filter. she sounds harmless enough! lol