I am finding her increasingly difficult, she has been extremely rude to my parents and gets extremely worked up over very very petty things. My dad helped us move into our house and he brought some bottled water with him for us to have at lunch (our water is rank) she point blank refused to drink it and made a big point of drinking the tap water. She actually cried in Asda once because we forgot to use the bags she had brought. She is very narrow minded and if you disagree or do not fit in with her POV she gets very obsinate.
And the wedding. God.
On Thursday DF's parents came over for a meal and we went to the pub. On the way there df's dad joked that they would buy me a subscription to a wedding magazine for Christmas and she said sniffy 'not likely.'
It was the first time we had seen them since we booked the wedding so over the meal I was explaining about the reception venue and mentioned that the rooms were quite reasonable (£90 for a double) and we hoped the immediate wedding party would stay there. She then gave me such a dirty look and said that SHE would hire somewhere for everyone to stay, because they could not jusify the cost.
She blatently sees our wedding as too much and a big waste of money and she dislikes frivilous spending. But it is being paid for by us and MY parents (who are not getting into debt or anythign silly over it) so I find her rudeness about it very difficult. She has not once shown any happiness or excitement about our wedding and its not the marriage she objects to, its the actual party.
I am just finding her harder and harder to deal with. DF's dad is lovely and very supportive. I am also the one behind my DF who helped motivate him to get a better job, who pays a lot of the bills, who encourages him to ring home, visit home more. But none of this is noticed, she just seems intend on tutting at me for my horrible materialism.