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When did you meet your sibling’s in laws to be?

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Narrick · 30/03/2024 13:07

When did you meet your sibling’s in laws to be?

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IHateLegDay · 30/03/2024 14:02

IHateLegDay · 30/03/2024 14:00

We all went for a drink after a 6 months - 1 year of us going out.
I only see her about twice a year so even though it's been nearly a decade, we've never really gotten to know each other very well.

I totally misread the question! Sorry I thought you meant our siblings in law.
My sister's mother in law I met a handful of times before she passed. She was a lovely woman!

MinervaMcGonagallsCat · 30/03/2024 14:02

Met PILs a fair few times in the first few years of our relationship.

Met the rest at FIL's funeral 🥲

awitchoftroubleinelectricblue · 30/03/2024 14:07

Several years after they'd met each other and only because they happened to be at the house at the same time as I visited (they weren't married by that point so no wedding).

I haven't met either of my younger siblings' partners' siblings.

2mummies1baby · 30/03/2024 14:12

My sister and brother in law have been together for 25 years and I've never met any of his family (they eloped for their wedding). My siblings and dad only met my wife's family at our wedding (our mums had met briefly before).

cheddercherry · 30/03/2024 14:20

The one who is married I met their in laws at the wedding (briefly, tbh wouldn’t recognise them now if I saw them) and never met the others.

However on the reverse, my husbands brother has met all my family, we just tend to do more gatherings my side and they pop over more often so bump into either other.

Narrick · 30/03/2024 14:55

Seems to be a range.

I’m ethnically Mediterranean so families meeting is just the done thing pre wedding. My parents were born here so culturally we do things the “English way”.

Weirdly enough my parents’ siblings ended up marrying people from the same culture despite my grandparents not enforcing it. Not explicitly at least.

Sister is first of my generation to marry (a Scot). Wasn’t sure of protocols :)

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Dontcallmescarface · 30/03/2024 15:21

Elder sibling..never they weren't invited. Younger sibling...the day before the wedding.

Whatifthehokeycokey · 30/03/2024 17:01

Hen party (MIL and SILs) wedding (FIL).

SleepingMermaid · 30/03/2024 17:07

At the wedding, haven't met them since

alphabettispagetti · 30/03/2024 17:26

I think that this largely depends on where you live. My brother and I have always lived at least 3 hours away from each other, sometimes 8. His in-laws are in another totally different bit of the country. I met his MIL-to-be a few months before the wedding, met the rest of the family at the wedding 8 years ago and that's it. But then when we go & visit my brother & SIL we go for a couple of days and stay and his PIL go for a few days and stay so we naturally go at different times. If they all lived a couple of miles away, I imagine it would be more frequent.
On DH's side of the family, we see his mum & brother a lot but I've only met wider family members a couple of times (once being FIL's funeral). DH has met my aunts, uncles & cousins a few more times but that's largely because there were a couple of big weddings, 60th birthdays and things as well as a couple of funerals

JustToBeMe · 30/03/2024 18:29

Met/knew them before my sister did Grin

I was friends with her husbands sister, she got to know him through me 😆

Hellocatshome · 30/03/2024 19:00

At the wedding and never seen them since. We live at opposite ends of the country.

Sunnnybunny72 · 30/03/2024 19:19

Never met her as didn't go to brothers's wedding and he's now divorced anyway.

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