FMIL is Giving Me Grief Over Children at the Wedding!
Original post by Jan60504
Ok, so, we decided from day one that we weren't going to have children at our wedding because, mainly, there are so many kids in the family that we just can't afford it. So, FI went over to his mom's last night and he comes home saying that she wants the kids there and she's all ticked off about this and that it is now MY responsibility - not even FI's and Mine - just MY responsibility to figure out what to do with all of these kids!!! In my family it is the parent's responsibility to find a sitter or something for the day - they wouldn't dream of asking me to do it. But, FI's family is VERY DIFFERENT!!! I don't know what to do with 32 children - I can't afford to pay for even a sitter for them! Plus, then wouldn't it only be fair for me to have to plan something for my family's kids too? I can't do that and I'm quite frankly really peeved that she's putting this on my shoulders! She has been nothing but difficult with everything! Help - Am I wrong??? FI is trying to make his mom happy by 'compromising' as he calls it - which means she doesn't get her way about having the kids at the wedding but I find something else to do about them. I say let her find something for the kids to do! Am I being a total witch? I'm so frustrated! P.S. - I can't talk to her or anyone else in his family - they don't speak english! Thanks girls - sorry it's so long.
Re: FMIL is Giving Me Grief Over Children at the Wedding!
Re: FMIL is Giving Me Grief Over Children at the Wedding!
Tell her to find a babysitter. It is your wedding, you decided no kids. Anybody who has a problem with it doesn't have to come. Parents can find there own babysitter. Most of them probably have one anyway. It is not your problem.