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AIBU to ask DP to uninvite his friend's wife from our wedding?

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Somerville · 04/11/2016 17:23

One of my fiancé's closest friends is an usher at our upcoming wedding. DP is his child's godfather.

However, his wife doesn't like me. Actually, I think it's not personal to me - I think she loved having DP single to set up with her friends and to flirt with Hmm and she's annoyed by him not being available to her.

She began by making unkind jokes at my expense. Never in DP's hearing, and so subtle I wasn't sure whether she meant well but had clumsy phrasing. But it's getting worse and I'm now in no doubt. She's very funny so it looks like a sense of humour fail to take objection to her 'hilarious' comments.

She also calls DP a cutesy nickname that no-one else calls him, often brings up friends of hers who he has previously dated, and touches him a lot. He says she's always been a bit like this but he's assumed she would stop when he was in a serious relationship and instead it has got worse.

I've been ignoring her rudeness because I think she thrives on drama and attention and frankly I don't have time or energy for all this. But DP wanted to try to get to the bottom of it to repair his friendship with them. Fair enough. She said the problem is that I'm over sensitive. But she apologised for bringing up how great his ex girlfriend is looking and for the cutesy nickname (I think he was too embarrassed to properly bring up the excessive touching) and cried, and her DH made excuses for her. DP was cautiously hopeful that she'd improve.

I saw her last night at a hen party for a mutual friend. She referred to my DP as the nickname then laughed and said 'silly me, he says you get jealous about our pet names'. I went and sat at another table.
Later on she told an amusing sex anecdote about a friend of hers who dated a friend of her DH's. I knew from the start that she would accidentally on purpose reveal it was DP and indeed she did. The pregnant bride looked upset so I again just got up and moved. No alcohol excuses as none of us were drinking.

I will be avoiding her in future. And I'd rather not have her at our small-ish wedding. I feel like asking DP to tell her she can't come. I think he will agree to this - especially with the sex anecdote thing - however it is of course then likely that his friend will pull out of being an usher and not attend, which will make him sad. AIBU and if I am, what is a better way of dealing with her? Just sucking it up on our wedding day isn't an option for me.

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Whereismumhiding2 · 07/11/2016 20:22

Get well soon, sweetie too. Tis' the season of viruses and bugs. Warm hot water bottle being wished your way x

madgingermunchkin · 07/11/2016 21:42

Oh my dear Lord, I've just read the dress thread.

His comment about being glad you had spent most of your adult life being loved got me right in the feels. It got very dusty in here all of a sudden.

He doesn't happen to have a single younger brother by any chance?

Benedikte2 · 07/11/2016 22:17

The wrath etc. The OP could ignore her but this woman is likely to make nasty comments and ruin the OP's day. She has no sensitivity and cannot be trusted to act appropriately.
Maybe DH can occasionally meet up with her husband on boys only nights.

honeyroar · 07/11/2016 22:20

How do you read a poster's previous posts? I've never been able to work it out on this forum.

Somerville · 07/11/2016 22:22

Thanks Flowers whereismum. I have had rather a lot of therapy at this point. It's helped a lot with focussing on the positive and articulating my thoughts.

madginger Soz no brothers.

He thought I needed to eat something other than sugar so spent most of the evening following my leek and potato soup recipe. Cooking isn't exactly in his skill set so I've been a wee bit concerned about how it would turn out... but it's hard to stuff up leek and potato soup, right?

My recipe calls for a bit of bacon in the top at the end. We didn't have any bacon. He looked in the fridge for other pork products and found sausages. And very proudly brought me a bowl of sausage soup. Grin

It tasted fine actually, and I can now make lots of sausage jokes for the foreseeable future so it's all good.

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Whereismumhiding2 · 07/11/2016 22:29

Lol, sausage soup!!! Grin
I hope it was divine if a bit... Umm... sausagey lumpy! ... Bless.. X Enjoy your being sausie spoilt!! SmileGrin

onedayimightforget · 07/11/2016 22:50

I haven't read your other threads but Mr Lovely does indeed sound lovely.

As for CMCF, I'm glad that things have played out as they have and it's no longer your decision. She does sound awful but it probably stems from insecurity and for that I feel a bit sorry for her. It sounds as though Mr Lovely's other friends are thoroughly decent though (pregnant bride and pregnant groom) so hopefully CMCF has shot herself in the foot and removed herself from the group without the need for you to.

Imbackbitches · 07/11/2016 23:23

I've just read your original thread after reading this one and may I just say. I love you and want to be your best friend.

That is all

Imbackbitches · 07/11/2016 23:26

Which thread is it where you tell us the odd comment CMCF made about you being a widow?

Or can you just tell me what is was? I'm lazy too

I'm so incredibly happy for you and your family. This bitch doesn't have a chance at spoiling it for you.

Pollyk · 08/11/2016 00:05

Hello Somer - Three days and some crusty looking chilli later (no burnt lasagne!) - I am now up to date with your heart filled story and would like to add to all the others, my best wishes for your family and the very happiest of futures.
I remember at the very beginning of MN ,when it was a smaller community, and one poster's cry for help resulted in a mercy dash IRL. This has reminded me of that time and what this site is really all about. The goodwill and warm fuzzy feeling your story has generated is truly something to behold. And it is so very real. Thank you for sharing, for your honesty, and above all your pure class. I, too, wait with bated breath for the next installment and admit to being completely overinvested!
So - as a latecomer to the party - I have merely hired a hat and will happily sit in the spectator's gallery, clutching my handbag on my knee and squeeeing softly.

Just one thought on the potential name change, might not BeLickedAndCome be more appropriate? Grin

ThumbWitchesAbroad · 08/11/2016 01:35

Heh heh - your sausage soup story amused me - I used to make leek and potato soup a lot, and one of the things I quite liked to do was cut up a cooked sausage into slices and heat them in with the soup, so it sounds quite normal to me! Grin
My other thing was to put slices of Brie into the soup instead of sausage (never at the same time), but only after it was in the bowl. Melting Brie and leek & potato soup is rather lovely, IMO.

Somerville · 08/11/2016 11:23

BeLickedAndCome Shock Grin Grin

I'd properly laugh if laughing didn't hurt.

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Pollyk · 08/11/2016 15:06

Too much? ComeAndBeLickedJaw??

Somerville · 08/11/2016 15:20

Me admitting that conversation is the main reason I need a frigging name change!

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Pollyk · 08/11/2016 15:30

JawComeHereNow??

Pollyk · 08/11/2016 15:30

I can do this all day. (evil Grin)

Somerville · 08/11/2016 15:47

I think the teasing has got to the stage where I have no choice but to hide the thread and name change so you never ever discover whether Cunty turns up at my wedding. (Evil-er Grin)

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Goingtobeawesome · 08/11/2016 15:58
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Pollyk · 08/11/2016 16:08

complete silence from this corner

EatsShitAndLeaves · 08/11/2016 16:21

ShockShockShockShockShock

NOOOO!!!!

Somerville · 08/11/2016 16:46

I feel like I should have an update for you now, but I don't. Flowers

DP is seeing some of his family members today and I've been sitting here wondering if this Cunty situation has come up and if so what their opinions will be. My future IL's are very sweet, but older and more proper traditional than my own parents. I think they might think the plan to relegate usher is a bit impolite and if so I wonder if Lovely might relent.

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TheSnorkMaidenReturns · 08/11/2016 16:58

We'll have to get you banned from Mumsnet if you don't update us ;).

Goingtobeawesome · 08/11/2016 17:07

How will you feel if he does, Somer?

feeling the love today

TransvisionTramp · 08/11/2016 17:25

Ok I'm normally a lurker.
I've lurked on your other threads but am shamefully place marking so I can find out if CMcF gets her comeuppance.
I feel like I know so much about you that we're practically best friends now, so if you've got a space going, can easily make it to an early 2017 wedding. Grin

Somerville · 08/11/2016 18:27

See, the truth is beginning to out. You're all being nice to me because you'll do anything to get close to an open bar. Don't deny it. Wink

gtbawesome
In all honesty I'm a snivelly wreck today with this virus and feeling rather sorry for myself. We're putting so much effort into keeping our wedding as small and intimate as possible, and involving my children in every possible way, and I only want people there who love us and want the best for us and can genuinely celebrate with us. Cunty won't see the humour in whatever the video is that DD1 is making for during the speeches or thinks it's cute that DD2 sings slightly flat while we sign the register or admire DS for being brave enough to do a reading even though he'll struggle to be loud enough. You know? She'll sit there with a fake smile concealing her attitude that my children are complications and I'll know and hate her it on a day I just want to feel loved and in love but will already have some other, harder, emotions to also deal with.

So... yeah. I don't want her DH to remain an usher because it makes it more likely that she'll still attend after Lovely's told her how upset he is by her continued bitchyness. Surely - SURELY - the double whammy of his anger at her and her DH getting the sack will be enough for her to pull out? Hopefully, anyway. Sad

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