Goddamn In-laws

**bigsugar** · 03-03-2006, 04:05 PM

Originally Posted by Grange

That's what my sister and her husband did. It's a hell of a lot shorter so the guests will be thankful.

Tell them that if they want to full mass with the wedding ceremony then she can't wear white. After all doesn't a white dress sybolize the bride as being a virgin and they wouldn't want their daughter lying when she's receiving communion would they?

Heh. They totally believe with all their hearts that their daughter is still a virgin.

**RootSkier** · 03-03-2006, 04:07 PM

So you are going to get the wink wink nudge nudge treatment from her dad and all the uncles on the big night, eh?

Fucking perverts.

**bigsugar** · 03-03-2006, 04:08 PM

Originally Posted by RootSkier

So you are going to get the wink wink nudge nudge treatment from her dad and all the uncles on the big night, eh?

Fucking perverts.

After I "kiss the bride" I'm gonna point at her crotch and yell "I'm gonna rip the shit out of this!"

**Stu Gotz** · 03-03-2006, 04:14 PM

If things get hot with the in-laws, you might want to check with the priest about letting non-catholics take communion. I went to a wedding a few months ago and the groom's family, all good Lutherans, were allowed to take communion. It seemed that the priest and the bride's family were very close, so maybe a few rules were bent so as to include all church goers?

**lemon boy** · 03-03-2006, 04:15 PM

Originally Posted by bigsugar

After I "kiss the bride" I'm gonna point at her crotch and yell "I'm gonna rip the shit out of this!"

soda, right out the nose!

**assgasorgrass** · 03-03-2006, 04:16 PM

Wedding planning=PITA
Trying to please everybody=unpossible
"Your" day=code for "We're" paying for this shit and this is what "We" want.

Going through wedding planning currently. Not Catholic, though I do empathize.

**Tippster** · 03-03-2006, 04:25 PM

The Sacrament is still observed without the Full mass. You're still getting married in the House of God.

I bailed on Catholicism afte being confirmed. I did, however, always envision getting married in a church. Our solution was found in the Episcopal Church down the street from our Apt. They addressed our two main problems with the "old" dogma - our Priest was female and married.

**bigsugar** · 03-03-2006, 04:40 PM

I figure if things get really shitty, we have a trip to hawaii booked for a honeymoon.....we'll just get married there.

Fuck em.

**Elkhound Odin** · 03-03-2006, 05:29 PM

Bigsugar, your situation is just like my sister's. She & hubby-to-be went to Antigua for the wedding. When they arrived at the church for inspection, they found out there was no A/C and the temps were 90's with matching humidity. The courting couple opted to cut out the Mass and just have the wedding bit to keep the crowd from passing out.

When my mom arrived at the island and was told there wasn't going to be a mass, she pitched a huge bitchy fit (like the devil had ascended) and made it clear to my sis & groom that she & dad would leave the island if the mass was not re-instated. My sis relented, much to the chagrin of the groom & his family and all the friends.

To add insult, the groom & family ended up sweating it out in the hot house church an extra 45min before the ceremony started because my sis & parents were late getting to the church. Needless to say the inlaws don't get along. My brother-in-law does all he can not to drink himself to death whenever my parents visit the grandkids.

**DJSapp** · 03-03-2006, 05:42 PM

Originally Posted by assgasorgrass

"Your" day=code for "We're" paying for this shit and this is what "We" want.

Best advice in this thread. Money talks. Why would you buy something you didn't want with your money?

**bigsugar** · 03-03-2006, 05:51 PM

Originally Posted by DJSapp

Best advice in this thread. Money talks. Why would you buy something you didn't want with your money?

I HATE the fact that they are paying for all this.....I know it's tradition, but there definitely is some obligation felt by us.

Whatever, we're not having a mass. That's final. I'm playing the man card.

**flatNshallow** · 03-03-2006, 05:55 PM

There's always the tried and true weekend in Vegas...

**PNWbrit** · 03-03-2006, 06:18 PM

Do the whole Catholic thing and keep them happy.

But insist on all the trimmings - heaven and hell, incense, latin chants, priest buggering a choir boy moments before the service.....

**bigsugar** · 03-03-2006, 06:20 PM

Originally Posted by PNWbrit

Do the whole Catholic thing and keep them happy.

But insist on all the trimmings - heaven and hell, incense, latin chants, priest buggering a choir boy moments before the service.....

....maybe an actual crucifiction.........

**Lurch** · 03-03-2006, 06:50 PM

I have nothing to add except that I'm getting married the same day bigsugar.

**RootSkier** · 03-03-2006, 06:51 PM

Now you're talkin'.

**Cono Este** · 03-03-2006, 07:09 PM

Originally Posted by lemon boy

jesus totally doesn't believe it when you only visit for weddings.

sorry, this is just pure comedy to me. A mass? GMAFB it is YOUR WEDDING, make it YOURS

Totally. It is your wedding, make it yours. I was led off that cliff. I spent the whole night shaking hands with strangers while my buddys got drunk without me.

My mother law is an evil person, she planned my whole life out as soon as i put the ring on her daughters finger. Fuck that she dont pay the rent. It gets worse afterwards, keep them out of your life. Tell your wife "she has her own family now" her mother needs to backoff.

**DJSapp** · 03-03-2006, 07:47 PM

Originally Posted by bigsugar

I HATE the fact that they are paying for all this.....

Simple answer: get fired/liquored up, and do your best Walter Sobchak "I'd never DREAM of TAKING YOUR BULLSHIT MONEY!" Cancel everything, go to Vegas, get hitched at a drive-thru and hit der pooperhausen two-times biznatch.

Now that's playing the man card.

IAS, the last wedding I was at, the parents of the bride ruined the whole thing. From the psyco photographers, to the 'marrage is under attack by gays' sermon to the canceled reception, it was a wreck all because of the parents thinking this is what their little daughter wanted. She looked like crap through the whole thing because of it. Speak up for yourselves and stick up for yourselves. If you have to tell them to shove it and you're doing it your way, then so be it.

**train07** · 03-03-2006, 08:01 PM

Originally Posted by bigsugar

I figure if things get really shitty, we have a trip to hawaii booked for a honeymoon.....we'll just get married there.

now you're on the right wavelength.......if it comes down to "we're paying for this so this is the way it's going to be", call it off and do it your own way.

**LAN** · 03-03-2006, 09:36 PM

Tell your future father-in-law to lick your balls. Or wait ... he's not a priest! One more comment to get me into hell ...

Make it your day, a day that you remember with a smile. Scoober and I thought about getting married at ND, but decided against it when they require a pregnancy test (While I wasn't knocked up, I'm certainly not having the church violate my rights to privacy).

We had the best of both worlds. Found a retired priest, who was cool as shit, and married us outside ... OUR way. To this day we have nothing but wonderful memories of the big day.

**bigsugar** · 03-03-2006, 10:43 PM

I would just like to take this opportunity to assure you all that there will not be a mass.

I will make sure of it.

If they want to get into a battle over who can be the biggest jerk, I'm gonna win.

New shit has come to light, and I am livid.

This is gonna be awesome.

**RootSkier** · 03-03-2006, 10:59 PM

Don't hold out on us after all this. What has come to light....that your mother in law is born again after a slew of abortions all due to her insatiable desire for crack?

**waxman** · 03-03-2006, 10:59 PM

dude, have the wedding your fiance wants THAT is all that matters, it is her day and you have to live with her not the screwy friends or relatives.

as an aside here's a little saying i throw around "happy wife, happy life"

**MeatPuppet** · 03-03-2006, 11:17 PM

Originally Posted by waxman

dude, have the wedding your fiance wants THAT is all that matters, it is her day and you have to live with her not the screwy friends or relatives.

as an aside here's a little saying i throw around "happy wife, happy life"

Waxman took the words out of my mouth, er, keyboard... nevermind.

Talk to your wife-to-be and find out what she wants(in a perfect world, she would want the same thing you want, but you don't know until you talk about it) then make it happen.

Your inlaws may be funding this thing but it isn't about them. They may need to be reminded of that. Just make sure your fiance is going to be OK with whatever you decide to do, and how you do it.

**bigsugar** · 03-04-2006, 11:15 AM

Oh, I want what she wants in regards to the wedding......we have already discussed that a number of times (If it were up to me, we'd just elope.....seriously). The reason I'm making a stink is on her behalf.

Anyways, we went and talked to the priest......He was totally cool, said it didn't matter, so it's really a non-issue.

The new development was just some stuff that was said about me and my upbringing that they apparently don't like......I used to be a bit of a troublemaker. This was all triggered by our unwillingness to have a mass, which was more her idea than mine.

Whatever. They have to deal with it now, it's not our problem.

I'll post a TR on the ensuing confrontation with the in-laws in a couple days.

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