Ok, 'nother wedding one.
I'm getting married this summer. My lovely parents want to help out with money and planning, which is great. Unfortunately, they are a bit eccentric. Neither one of them really understands how to find a taxi rank, and catching a bus is a major undertaking (they don't use public transport much). My mum never learned to judge when she's hungry, so she'll go without eating properly until her blood sugar drops, at which point she will need food urgently, within 10-20 minutes, or she'll get furious and make a huge fuss.
The thing is, I would love to get them helping with the planning, but their suggestions tend towards the bizarre as they're used to the way they function. For example, they think that the evening do should end around 10pm so everyone gets home safely before it's too late, and they want to take me and my partner out for a breakfast in the morning so we don't get 'tired' during the ceremony. They're convinced that most people are just like them, and that I'm naive to think my guests might like to stay up until midnight/ chat for a little while before eating/ make their own way to the venue instead of getting driven their in shifts by my dad in his beat-up people carrier!
Am I being unreasonable to want to tell them that most people don't share their rather specific approach to life? And how can I control this so they don't feel they have to organize everything?