Wedding is in August and my fiancé and I are pretty chill, I didn’t expect to have any wedding drama.
One day while out for dinner my future MIL said she wanted to show me some photos of the dress she was planning to wear .. and she prefaced it by saying it was the “cream, not white” dress she wore to her own wedding 35 years ago…. (To give some context: it was a beach wedding and a short dress, not a typical wedding dress). I was so in shock that I didn’t speak for two minutes while she kept looking at me. I squeaked out a ‘ummm… sure….?” before internally freaking out. Thankfully my fiancé immediately stepped in and said no while the MIL gave reasons as to why she wanted to wear it — didn’t want to buy a new dress just for one event (?), thought it’d be a nice homage. My fiancé continued to say no and talked to her privately and she agreed not to wear it so I thought the matter was settled. Fast forward a few weeks I’m at her house and she decides to show me the dress and said she’s 80% sure she’s not going to wear it. She then brings out her garter and offers to lend it to me as my something borrowed …. Even though I’m not doing a garter toss or was going to wear a garter.
Now my fiancé’s brother told him how he overheard her talking about the dress situation to her friend and how she thinks it’s fine to wear it and her friend agreed !!! So obviously she thinks she’s in the right since she continues to bring it up with her friends two months after the ask happened. Four months to go…