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AIBU?

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Original poster

Doncha wish your DMiL

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Hoodathoughtit · 08/02/2014 14:16

...was a lot like THIS?

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BruthasTortoise · 08/02/2014 15:00

And if imagine if a man had a problem with his new wife dancing with her father or the wedding day people would be telling her to LTB pretty damn quick.

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Hoodathoughtit · 08/02/2014 15:00

Nail Head Bang Bruthas

You too Laurie

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IrrelevantDiscourse · 08/02/2014 15:10

It totally depends on their relationship – if the bride and the MIL get on and she is a great laugh, I think it would be fine.

If she is a mummy's-boy-grabbing nightmare MIL then it wouldn't!

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Hoodathoughtit · 08/02/2014 15:14

If she is a mummy's-boy-grabbing nightmare MIL then it wouldn't!

Or indeed if the bride were a bridezilla from hell with an 'any previous life he may have had is hereby wiped out' attitude it most certainly wouldn't have been fine either. But the bride looked like a good egg to me!

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Eggsiseggs · 08/02/2014 15:14

I think this is lots of fun!
Cheesy as fuck, but aren't all weddings?!!

My MiL would have done something like this ha ha. Missed a trick!

Better than some pearl-clutcher with cats bum mouth beause her DiL didn't invite or serve at the buffet and so on!

Hooda I got your gist! Grin

And fwiw, my wedding day was not just MY day. It was joining up our two families and all our friends in a helluva shindig. That's the point!

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Hoodathoughtit · 08/02/2014 15:17

Sounds like your wedding was my kinda hang Eggs but since you didn't invite me, I'll have my gist back thank you so much Grin

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Thumbwitch · 08/02/2014 15:17

Saw this earlier, was a bit Hmm at the first song choice but the rest of it was ok. I thought she might be a dance teacher or something - they certainly put a lot of oomph into it!

Mind you, I'd never heard of a "mother-son" dance before, that was a bit strange!

Innogen · 08/02/2014 15:19

I'm not bothered about the mother in law aspect of this, it's just that dancing doesn't fit the tone of wedding I would be having.

Not to my taste at all.

BruthasTortoise · 08/02/2014 15:20

My automatic assumption would be that Unforgettable means something to the family rather than a creepy mommy-dearest thing. Could be wrong obviously.

Bahhhhhumbug · 08/02/2014 15:21

I was a dancer for six years and my whole family love dancing (my dad was carried out to ' Lord of the Dance' and we played 'Dance with my Father' too at his funeral. I spent my wedding do dancing with my dad (original oldest swinger in town Smile till about two in the morning and had only one dance with my DH who 'doesn't do' dancing. I loved this and smiled right through it. I don't understand why some always associate dancing just with romantic relationships and therefore deem it inappropriate otherwise. It is for so much more than that and I wouldn't have missed one moment of the hours spent having fun on the dancefloor with my dad.

5madthings · 08/02/2014 15:24

ha ha she looks awesome.

some people seriously overthinking this, and you dont get comments about dads stealing the show with the father of the bride speaches and dance etc.

they look like they are having a ball and are a fun family.

GlitzAndGiggles · 08/02/2014 15:31

I think it's super cringe and cheesy but they're having fun. I don't see how it's any different to father-daughter wedding dances Hmm

TaraLott · 08/02/2014 15:34

Looks fabulous, why not, wish I could dance like that.
Maybe the Bride and groom had already had their first dance.

LovelyJubblies · 08/02/2014 15:34

Hood I thought it was brilliant.
Some people really do have no sense of humour. ..upstage the bride?!..please.
Not all women have mil issues ffs.
I would have loved my dh to have done that at our wedding.
Shock Horror the day is about the bride and the groom.

Caitlin17 · 08/02/2014 15:37

I expected to be sneering at it but was smiling all through it. It's not upstaging the bride, why should mum get a wee bit of a look in?

MollyHooper · 08/02/2014 15:39

Holy crap, normally I hate all those choreographed wedding dances but I couldn't stop laughing there. That woman can mooove!

Some of the responses on this thread are troubling. That's his mum and they are having a laugh. It's his day too.

The whole "It's all about the bride" attitude is vomit inducing. It was four minutes, I think she coped.

I have two sons and hope they marry people a little less needy.

EllaFitzgerald · 08/02/2014 15:41

I would have loved it if my DH and his mum had done this at our wedding! I thought it looked brilliant, she's got some moves Grin

Caitlin17 · 08/02/2014 15:41

Agreed, my post should have said why should mum not get a look in too.

DietofWorms · 08/02/2014 15:43

I think choreographed dance routines are tacky and attention-seeking, whoever's doing them.

But it was pretty entertaining.

BruthasTortoise · 08/02/2014 15:45

My MIL, who has passed away, suffered from poor physical and mental health her entire life. My DH can't remember a time when she was ever able to "mother" him. I would give anything for my DH to have had a Mum who would've been willing and able to do something fun like this on our wedding day - instead she was in the middle of a massive mental break and didn't even recognise him when we went to visit the day before.

Mishmashfamily · 08/02/2014 15:51

Why should she cat ? Mil has already had her wedding.

She probably has a dance made up for the christening too!

'Look at meeeeee, my son, my son, don't forget meeeeeeeeeee'

MrsCakesPremonition · 08/02/2014 15:55

I think it is clear that the groom and his mum adore each other. And as a bride that wouldn't be a problem for me, I adore my mum and wouldn't think twice about my DH adoring his mum too.

MollyHooper · 08/02/2014 16:02

Do you think the groom enjoyed himself Mish?

Looked like he was having a ball.

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Hoodathoughtit · 08/02/2014 16:10

Mish I fear your post says more about you than it does about any MiL. And what's all this with rolling over and playing dead once you've had your turn?

I hope all my family will carry on living until they die.

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TaraLott · 08/02/2014 16:14

Maybe the Mil was supposed to sit in a corner and do her knitting and sip a sherry, only one mind before getting ushered off to bed.
Like I said, it looked great and why the hell not.

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