‘Unhinged’ mother-in-law cancels engaged couple's honeymoon hotel reservation, lies to save face, then gets disinvited from their wedding: ‘My heart doesn’t wanna see her for the next five years’

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Apr 4, 2025 9:00 AM EDT

A newly married couple's honeymoon is the time for them to unwind and bask in the idea of "forever" with their one and only. Most honeymoons are destinations that both partners have dreamt of since they were young, so it means a lot to them for the excursion to be as perfect as possible. Most of the time, the honeymoon lives up to the couple's expectations. Other times, well… Let's just say that family might not always have your best interest at heart, especially if the family members in question are your in-laws.

In this next story, a woman's mother-in-law takes it upon herself to cancel her son and his fiancée's hotel reservation they had planned for their honeymoon. The mother-in-law has always been a bit sour on the woman and even went so far as to invite her own guests to their upcoming wedding without permission. You can tell what kind of person she is, but she's gone too far this time. Scroll below to read the entire story and the text exchange between the woman and her MIL.

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  • "I'm definitely not gonna have her around for my wedding, children, holidays etc."
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  • The only thing the woman's mother-in-law gains from canceling their reservation is a stamp of approval about the fact that she's a horrible person/. She may dislike the woman, but she is actively sabotaging her son's special moment, too. If you're looking for parenting tips, you probably don't want to rip a page out of the MIL's book. 

  • "AIO at my unhinged MIL who cancelled the hotel booking made for our honeymoon"

    As the title reads, my dearest MIL stealthily canceled our honeymoon hotel reservation. For those of you who don't know, I posted on Reddit a few days ago
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  • about how my MIL and SIL went behind our backs and invited their friends to our wedding after we explicitly said no. This incident happened about a week
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  • ago and just a few days after that, my MIL lied to the hotel reception, faking a phone call to cancel our honeymoon suite booking.
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  • She and my FIL were visiting Chicago (where we live) for 10 days to see their son. My fiance mostly stayed home during their visit to make the most of their time together. A few days ago, after breakfast, MIL asked to
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  • borrow his phone for an urgent call to her church, claiming her network was out of range. Nothing about it seemed off so obviously he handed it over. Our best guess is that's when she
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  • called the hotel, pretending to be me and told them we had to cancel because we were postponing our trip. Since the call went from my fiance's number and she claimed to be me, the
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  • hotel had no reason to question it. The cancellation went through on 03/28 and they even sent a confirmation email to his email (which was used at the time of booking).
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  • We've been super caught up in the thick of our wedding preparation, so he hasn't been getting time lately to actively check his emails everyday. This morning, while looking through his inbox for a vendor detail, this
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  • cancellation mail caught him off guard. For the first half n hour, we were absolutely dumbfounded with 1000 questions on our mind. When we called the reception to check, they informed us everything that I mentioned above. They said that I (who
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  • apparently called them), even told them the reservation number and check in dates for final verification. It was a very straight answer, it's MIL, because there has been no one over at our place in the past 10 days who
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  • could've pretended ro be "me" and pulled this off. My SIL and her 6 y/o kid are staying with us because of her marriage issues (that's a whole other drama), but she's been at her friend's place for five days now.
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  • When we planned our honeymoon last year, my FIL was the one who suggested this very hotel so MIL obviously knew about it. But we kept on wondering how the h I did she get the reservation details the reception asked for. After this,
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  • Nathaniel (my fiance) rang her thrice but she didn't answer so I texted her. She responded like a weirdo she is (as you can see in the screenshots) and my last message didn't even get delivered in blue. Three hours
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  • later, she finally called us when both of us raised h I on her. She tried red herring us with her BS, but after realising we are on the verge of disinviting her from the wedding, she finally accepeted what she did. When we asked her
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  • about the reservation details, she said she got it from Nate's email when he gave her his phone unlocked for making the call. The story she tried to fake sell us was that she wanted to
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  • surprise us with a honeymoon suite at an even better hotel, as a wedding gift. Ofc none of us bought that nonsense and Nate counter questioned her for details of this supposed new hotel.
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  • She started fumbling, spat out the name of some godforsaken random a hotel in Rome and dodged the call saying she's babysitting our nephew at the moment. We just called the rando hotel which is our "wedding present" you guys, and why am I
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  • not surprised there's no room booked under either of our names, let alone suite. We tried booking ourselves again at hotel 'X' which we originally booked and our suite's already gone to the person next in queue. We
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  • tried settling for other rooms but they said May's the peak season in Europe, so they can't accomodate us at the moment and will notify if something opens up later. I really wanna hop on the next flight to Ohio right now and go nuclear on her a
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  • 22 8 tried calling you thrice. Can we talk whenever you have a moment? Hello yes! I am quite occupied right now, babysitting Yes? 1. I just have one question Did you cancel our hotel reservation? I am sorry, which hotel? The onw we booked for our honeymoon One* I am not sure if I am catching up, let me call you once is home. The questions pretty simple, did you cancel it or not? Why did we get a mail from the hotel saying a cancellation has been made under my name?
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  • 22 B The onw we booked for our honeymoon One* I am not sure if I am catching up, let me call you once is home. The questions pretty simple, did you cancel it or not? Why did we get a mail from the hotel saying a cancellation has been made under my name? I don't get it. Are you upset the booking is cancelled or upset because of having it cancelled under your name? a, you're still not answering me Let me call you once I'm free. Delivered Text Message SMS The cancellation was made three days ago fr
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  • Alert-Fee5079 I would never speak to this person again, bl d or not. Hopefully your fiancé sees that too.
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  • Just_here2020 You did disinvite get from the wedding right? Right? And are refusing to see her for all holidays for at least a year? Because some people learn from empathy and some people need a 2x4 to be encouraged to learn.
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  • ParisInnTheRain We did tell her directly that she wouldn't be part of the ceremony before hanging up the call. For the past few hours, we've been discussing how it would reflect on the family when people notice the MOG isn't there. My heart doesn't wanna see her for the next five years honestly.
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  • Edit: If I wasn't clear, lemme rephrase, we're trying to figure out a reasonable explanation for anyone who asks about her absence. I'm definitely not gonna have her around for my wedding, children, holidays etc. But we can't make a drama of our own family infront of hundreds of guests by shaming what she did. Nobody is more enraged than us but we've still gotta hold our ground here.
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