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AIBU?

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Am I being unreasonable ?

113 replies

LVS2627 · 20/03/2023 16:14

My partners brother and his girlfriend are getting married this summer.
My little girl is going to be flower girl.
Am I being unreasonable to feel abit miffed at the fact my parents haven't been invited to atleast their evening do?
They both know my family reasonably well as I do with my partners brothers girlfriends family- I even invited her family to my little girls 1st birthday party.
On top of this my mum will be picking my little girl up from the evening do as children aren't allowed for the eve reception. Shes going to have to travel 45 mins there and back to collect her which she doesn't mind but I just feel guilty. My future sil also had the cheek last night to say 'oh well she can come in for one drink' like she's going to want to do that when everyone's drunk and dressed up.
I think my parents would have loved to come just to see my little girl in her flower girl dress.
Maybe I'm being unreasonable?

OP posts:
Fromwetome · 20/03/2023 23:40

Op you posted in a thread asking for judgement, AIBU is a thread
Specifically for judging a situation as unreasonable or reasonable. What do you expect exactly???

Singularity82 · 20/03/2023 23:44

Op “AIBU?”
everyone “yes”
OP “no I’m not”
😂😂😂

MrsMiagi · 21/03/2023 15:49

I just read the other thread. You sound bitter and jealous and looking for reason to complain. Comes across like you don't have enough in your own life perhaps, so gazing in jealousy at others. YABVVU

TaunterOfWomenInGeneralSaysSayonarastu · 21/03/2023 16:19

Why do you even think it's a "thing" for a groom's brother's partner's parents to be invited to the groom's wedding?

QuackMooBaaOink · 21/03/2023 16:30

Sorry OP, some replies are a bit blunt but you did ask for opinions.
YABU.
Weddings are expensive, they are not the same as a kids party. They will possibly have had people they are much closer to who haven't made the cut for an invite, it isn't personal. But these things are expensive.
The groom's, brother's, girlfriend's, parents, who they know "reasonably well" is a bit of a stretch for a wedding invitation! People have to have a cut off somewhere and a boundary and you should respect that. It really isn't unreasonable for them to have not invited your parents.

Neededanewuserhandle · 21/03/2023 17:11

YABVU not to put a proper title/subject.

Justforlaffs · 21/03/2023 17:17

Your bil and sil are probably polite and friendly to your parents at family events as they are your parents and it is obviously the norm to be polite and friendly to your future SIL’s parents. Anyone would be.

It does not mean they are “close” or have any kind of relationship with tour parents other than they occasionally see them at family gatherings so are friendly and polite!

IneedcoffeeinanIV · 21/03/2023 17:19

I do think YABU. It's your Partners brothers wedding, I don't think they would even think to invite your Parents as they're not his in laws. Weddings are expensive and they can't just invite everyone they know reasonably well

LondonJax · 21/03/2023 17:20

I too have just read your thread from last year about your soon to be SIL and her family.

Why on earth would you want your parents to go to the wedding of a woman who spent time with your MIL whispering behind your mum's back (allegedly) at your DD's birthday party? You don't think they'd do that again? Seriously?

You mention on there that YOU feel like an outcast now your SIL and her family are joining in with your partner's family. They will be the only two families at the wedding...and you want your parents to come along to that sort of 'toxicity' as you put it in your other thread, just so they can see your little girl in her dress?

I actually think your parents got off lightly by not being invited if what you say of the SIL/MIL relationship is correct in any way.

Maray1967 · 21/03/2023 17:46

Tricky one - they probably have to keep an eye on numbers. I did invite my BIL’s future in laws to our evening do even though I’d never met them before. Future SIL introduced me to them there and there. BIL invited my DF and DSM to their evening do when they married.

maddy68 · 21/03/2023 18:56

Why would they be?

Honestly YABU

Bucketheadbucketbum · 21/03/2023 19:01

Tomkirkman · 20/03/2023 16:20

You expect the Grooms Brothers girlfriends parents to be invited to a wedding.

And are pissed off that they are not?

This

YABVU

lilaco · 21/03/2023 22:30

Wow. Just, err, wow.

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