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My mom is deceased, and to tell you the truth, the thought never even crossed my mind, even though we have a GREAT relationship.

I went w/my 2 sisters.

Stand your ground, you're shopping for YOUR Wedding Dress, it's up to you who you decide to go with.

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I was also going to say I guess it depends on your relationship with her. I happen to have a really good relationship with my fmil, but honestly, the thought never occured to me to bring her. My own mother is deceased, but I always went with it as a bridal party thing, or a sister, etc. It honestly never occured to me.

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Did not bring FH mom, but will take her to fittings with me. She has 4 boys and 1 eloped and the other one is engaged with no date set, and the other one is not ready to settle down. This experience of planning a wedding has bought us closer. She even went this past weekend to look at the BM dresses I picked out. She is so excited! I guess I am lucky she is not getting on my nerves... YET.

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Didn't have to worry about this one..FMIL lives out of town and my mom traveled to see me one weekend and we found my dress in a day! But i wouldn't have taken her even if we lived close. She is a talker! I have to kindly ask my FI not to tell his mom everything cause she will blab to everyone! She was in town when I went looking for flower girl dresses and she came along since our flower girl is her granddaughter. I think that made her feel included.

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You do not have to invite her.

No way was I bringing mine...this was time for me and my mom! I went many many times and didn't even consider it. We are so dissimilar in styles it just wouldn't have worked. We get along (all though she drives me nutty) but we are so different.

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I love my fiance's mother, but I'm going alone the first time I look for dresses. Not even inviting my own mom. If I find something I like, then maybe I'll ask my mom to look at it. But I would rather narrow down the choices on my own!

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My FH mom asked if she could come when we went to purchase the dress, I didnt want to cause tension so I said yes. But I made it clear to her that she was not going to see the final product. Thats something I wanted only me and my mom to share.

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FH's mom is great. I asked her to go dress shopping with me and my mom but she was busy that day. I ended up finding my dress too so I am bringing my mom and my FMIL to my first fitting this Friday.My FMIL doesn't have any daughters so I wanted to include her as much as I can. She is really nice.

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I've knew my FMIL for about 6 years at the time I got my dress. We get along well, but that's not to say there haven't been some rocky points.

I picked out my dress with my mother and the day we went back to order it, I took my FMIL to show it to her. I tried on a few dresses that day and didn't tell her which dress it was. She was able to guess which one it was because she said it looked the best on me as soon as I walked out with it on. I'm glad that I brought her. She has two sons and wants to feel like a part of the wedding planning even though she cant contribute that much financially. She was happy to have gone and I think it set a nice tone to the planning early on without her participation becoming expected. I'm sure it works out differently for everyone though.

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I didn't even think to invite my FMIL. We have a great relationship, but I felt this event was just for me and my mom. I found out after I bought the dress that FMIL was hurt that I didn't include her - oops! Even if I had known, I would have found a nice way to tell her that it was something I wanted to share with just my mom.

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I asked mine and she didnt wanna go. who cares anyway lol!

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I brought my MIL to see the dress I decided on, but she wasn't involved in any of the shopping.

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I live in MD, and my mom and aunts came up tp see my dress. I felt bad about not inviting my MIL, but I didn't wat her to see me in my dress until my wedding day. I got over those feelings when her own daughter did not take her when she was looking for her dress. Instead she took her cousin and her aunt, when her mother and three sisters were available. I was shocked.

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I brought my FMIL because she does not have a daughter and thought it would be a nice experience. We do get along well though. If we did not I would not have brought her along.