To think that the amount of wine at our wedding one of anybody else's business!!

[bridetobewithinterferingmil]

Dp and I are getting married - woooh!

We want to pay for it all ourselves and are on a pretty limited budget so got a good deal on some wine from a wholesaler. Since we bought it mil has not shut up about how she's worried it will run out half way through the reception and embarass her!! It is our wedding after all! So we siad fine we've bought loads of fizzy water and stuff and peeople can drink that and we don't actually want a wedding full of drunken people - at our expense!

Now she's rung me up today and said one of her friends has got a son (who I suppose we'll have to invite too now) who is something BIG in the catering business and he'll take the water away and sort out more wine for us.

AIBU to think mil should keep her neb out and that I should be able to sort out my own catering arrangements?

You're wasting minutes, onebat. Minutes, I tell you.

Look Bang - it's better than the last one I did - which featured the Pontipines

No, the polywotsit one and the knife sharpener are both shit I mean.

Bang, you are a curmudgeon. Bah humbug.

Well yes those precious minutes would have been spent concentrating a bit more on 'dancing on ice' - precious indeed!!

Is she going to pay for it then?

Our in-laws got involved in this aspect of our wedding too - we had a caterer in to our village hall for the food, but bought the wine ourselves. Wine was from Makro, and we had sparkling chardonnay for the toasts (Jacobs Creek - yummy!) They kept asking if we were going to have enough, being snippy about the fact it was Piat d'or but never offering to pay for anything else/more.

I am reliably informed that my MIL went round every table after the meal and removed all the half drunk bottles and took them to my in-laws table before the evening reception got going! The bloody cheek of it!

If she's not going to cough up, then tell her you are quite happy with the arrangements as they are. If she wants to pay, then go ahead and let her.

Eve didn't read the whole thread

was this not a real post then?