UPDATED! i'm trying real hard to suppress this murderous rampage....

it's very hard ... i'm so angry that i'm shaking. i've been angry since yesterday. this is not good.

it all stemmed from FILs having 7 half-empty tables .... Craig has been talking to them (read: fighting) since yesterday and they just refuse to have 6 tables as we originally asked. We even offered to give htem an oval table of 14 instead (since they had 2 tables of 7 as it was so why not) ... but apparently those two tables of 7 can't be merged

So FH and I went home and re-did the tables ourselves (took us a whopping 15 minutes) and made 6 good and full tables.

got a call from FILs this morning with the following complaints:
1) theyy still want 7 tables ... 6 will be crowded (um, no it won't ... we didn't put more people at a table than was allowed!)
2) they feel like they have no say in anything and are just 'the money' (they're giving us a portion of the costs, my parents are giving a portion, and FH and I are paying the rest)
3) at the food tasting, when Craig & I looked at the paper with the entree choices, we showed that paper to my mom first, and THEN offered it to FILs ... they're mad that they were last ... but seriously?! they have the ability to talk - they could've asked! and of course i'm giving the options paper to my mom first - i like her more than FILs!!!
4) a friend of theirs was VERY mad at them and they, in turn, are VERY mad at us because we originally told them our wedding date was august 8th and then we changed it and the friends didn't know ... um ... august 8th was NEVER an option! we never considered that date even for a second ... and if the friends had the wrong date, it's because FILs TOLD them the wrong date at some point because FH and I never did!!!
5) they're STILL upset that FH's brother's son isn't the ring bearer (this was a huge issue 7 months ago but it was resolved and FH even told his parents back then that he NEVER wants to hear about it again ... guess they didn't listen)
6) the seating chart craig and i made can't work because two of their friends (FRIENDS!!!) requested to sit with somebody specific and we didn't acomodiate them! W.T.F....!!! who makes seating requests?! how rude!

anyway, so sorry for this super-long vent but i'm livid! i want to punch them in their faces and then kick them while they're down .... SOOOO mad!!!





UPDATE:
FH just emailed me and said that his parents worked out a new seating chart with six total tables They pretty much kept the same chart FH and I made last night except that they switched 2 couples around I'm so relieved that i won this battle without actually killing anyone ... but i won't be forgiving them for their ridiculousness just yet.