Mother-In-Law Tries To "Fix" Daughter's Wedding, Family Intervenes

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Jan 27, 2021 11:00 AM EST

The last thing that anyone needs on their big wedding day is the obnoxious, entirely toxic fumes of an impossibly entitled individual stinking up the atmosphere. Well, that's exactly what our story's entitled mother-in-law was there to provide. Helen continually insisted on "fixing" her daughter's choices for her wedding day. This ultimately amounted to the rest of the family calmly and discreetly banding together to ensure that none of Helen's terrible ideas came to fruition. You could say the mission was definitely accomplished. 

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    Font - r/entitledparents + Join u/BrigadoonRoseFall • 12d 1 A 2 W1 28 35 S 42 8 40 It's basically my wedding! XL So this is a story about my SIL's mother that happened just over 8 years ago. My SIL brought this up during a family zoom call to which one of my nieces immediately asked for me to write it up here. It's taken a few days since the call to get it all typed. I've ended up with a monster wall of text, but I tried to cut a lot of it out too! There is a TLDR at the bottom too! I hope you a
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    Font - To set the scene the wedding was set to happen on a farm run by my Aunt Rose. This farm is set up to be photo ready for wedding and events that people wish to have there. It comes with a hefty price tag for a rental and for her gift to Ron and Alice, Aunt Rose donated the venue and the on site lodge for all of the guests. Her children donated their time to clean and set the venue up, her husband donated his cooking ability. Other family members provided the ingredients and there wasn't a
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    Font - The wedding dress was made by Alice, her sister and two of our cousins. The most expensive thing the pair purchased were the rings. Most people would be happy to spend so little for a wedding but the mother of the bride was a problem from day one. She had to have her say in everything, just, no one listened. It wasn't her day, it was Alice's day. She got progressively more angry as the family went with Alice's choices and not her ideas. Alice got to design everything, including the weddin
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    Font - The family adored Alice but it was very clear that without needing to say anything, we all tuned out Helen and her terrible demands. Alice had ordered sunflowers and an array of orange and yellow roses and other flowers. They arrived before the rehearsal dinner and were put in the walk in fridge to keep them looking good for the following day. Helen got very emotional when she saw the flowers that night. Fred said he had a bad feeling in his gut when Helen went off just before the rehears
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    Font - She also requested that he save the sunflower heads and they could do something with the beheaded ones on the dining tables for the reception. Crisis one averted. However, while Fred was dealing with the sunflowers, I was dealing with another crisis altogether. Helen was standing off to the side of the event after finishing the meal. She was on the phone and like my brother, I found a feeling of 'wrongness' in my gut so I wandered to listen in.
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    Font - She was talking to her husband, Alice's stepfather, on the phone. She was saying what a great surprise this would be for Alice and how excited Alice would be to see her stepfather. I stepped into Helen's space and told her point blank if that man showed up he would be leaving with more holes than god intended. Helen scoffed off the threat until she saw the look in my eyes. She told her husband she would call him back before hanging up. She told me that she could invite her husband, after
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    Font - I looked over my shoulder and made eye contact with George. He sensed the brewing trouble and responded in the way only George ever responds with. He brought her a fruity, sweet drink and asked if there was a problem. She drank down the drink as she told him her woes of how I was so cruel to her. He patted her arm and took her off to the side where he proceeded to keep her glass very full. I went and warned my uncle to shut the gate prior to the wedding and when he found what was going on
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    Font - However, around drink 4, she admitted that she'd 'fixed' the stupid cake she'd seen in the fridge. George acted like he hated the cake as well to get out what he could from her as he found out this woman had wanted coconut cake. The thing her daughter was allergic to. BADLY allergic to. Turned out she had bought a few tubs of coconut frosting from the store and spread it over the base cake layer. It was around 3 am when this revelation came out. George kept piling her with drinks as he le
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    Font - All of the food was being inspected by the family as Aunt Rose, her husband and kids set to work with the siblings to fix everything. The cake needed to be remade, the poorly spread coconut frosting had completely ruined the cake. Family members were woken up while the bride, groom and wedding party were left alone to sleep. George said he would keep an eye on Helen and fix things with her husband. He was going to send the man somewhere completely different from the wedding venue. The fam
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    Font - I told Alice her mother was sleeping off a hangover while she was getting dressed for the day and she accepted it rather quickly. She had been told by some of her family that she HAD to invite her. As she tugged her stockings up, she told me she couldn't believe her wedding was here. She was getting to marry her Prince Charming in Ron and she was trying not to cry before getting her make up done. Helen missed the wedding despite her sister and her other daughter trying to wake her up for
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    Font - Helen screamed at her daughter the first day they returned from the honeymoon and told her how disappointed she was with the wedding she SLEPT through. She wanted Alice to dress in her wedding dress and take photographs with her mother and her stepfather. Ron put a stop to that REAL fast. No way was her stepfather ever coming near her again. Helen was blocked and Alice tried to figure out what all had happened at the event in those wee morning hours. We told her, with everyone coming forw
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    Font - Aunt Rose told her that in a crisis you can't lose focus. Make a plan, follow through and things will work out alright. Alice took that advice to heart. She's a wedding planner now and she is a stone wall for brides against their mothers or any influence beside the husband. It is their day and that's it. Everyone else can shut up and listen to the bride and groom! Hope you all enjoyed! TLDR: MIL tries to 'fix' her daughters wedding choices. Gets so smashed she misses the wedding completel
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