IN-LAWS RUINED MY WEDDING: HORROR STORIES

From BuzzFeed, here are some stories of how in-laws ruined the wedding:
– “My now sister-in-law went behind my back to change my dance floor color, flowers, and music. She wore black ’cause she said she was ‘going to a funeral,’ made a scene before I walked down the aisle, made one of my bridesmaids cry, and wished I went overboard the day before my wedding when we were all on a boat.”
* Must be nice to know you’ve married a guy with mental problems in his family.
– “My father-in-law’s speech was about his daughter, not his son who had just married me.”
– “My mother-in-law decided to accept a babysitting job on my wedding day. She then brought the 2-year-old to the wedding, which was specifically a no-kid wedding. Not only did no one know who this kid was, but my mother-in-law barely even paid attention to the kid and got drunk.”
* 2-year-olds will do that to ya.
– “My now-husband’s sister came into town several days early, dropped her kids off, and took off on various tours and day trips. We were trying to get ready for our wedding with 70 total guests, and we had to watch her kids.”
* Sister-in-laws are not coming off well in this survey.
– “My former mother-in-law offered to drop off the wedding invitations at the post office. Fast-forward to the wedding, and the groom’s side of the church is full. My side has literally, like, three people. Weeks after the wedding, my father-in-law asked me to get his eyeglasses out of their truck. During the hunt for his glasses, I found all my unmailed wedding invitations crammed under the passenger seat. The return label on the invitations made it easy to tell if the guest being invited was from the bride’s side or the groom’s. My mother-in-law had only mailed invitations for her son.”
– “Our wedding was at my house, my husband had only moved in the week before. After the ceremony, my mother-in-law said, ‘I need to go lie down; where’s my room?’ My husband asked, ‘You mean a room you can use?’ ‘No,’ she said. ‘Where’s MY room?’ She had purchased a one-way plane ticket and fully expected to move in with us, on our wedding day.”
– “My mother-in-law came and stayed with us four days before the wedding. Two days after she arrived, she told my husband not to marry me — she had someone else for him.”
– “During the ceremony, when we were saying our vows, my mother-in-law stepped in between us and started fiddling with my husband’s boutonniere.”
* Hey – those photographers are expensive. You really do want everything looking just right.
– “While we were on our honeymoon, my mother-in-law unwrapped all the gifts, took the gift cards and cash, and threw away the cards so we did not know whom to thank for what.”
– “My younger brother was getting married in a small, outdoor wedding in the rural north Georgia mountains. Before the vows, the mother-in-law-to-be drove her car up to the couple, pointed a shotgun out the window, and told her daughter to get in the car. After a brief discussion, she got in and they drove off. We all went home. My brother never saw her again.”
* The old reverse-shotgun wedding. Very hard to pull off well. Good job!
* There’s something to be said for all those pandemic-canceled big weddings.
* Notice these surveys never ask for wonderful stories where everything was perfect? That’s not a good sign.
* PHONE TOPIC: Do you have an in-law horror story from your wedding?