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Vent - may be long, sorry
DH and I just came back from a wedding we both did not want to attend. To understand the issue, i have to give you some short background. The bride's family are super close to Dh's Mom and Dad. The kids pretty much grew up together. Bride has four brohters, all older than her, none married. The family is such a mess, I cannot even start explaining. One of the brothers, two years older than my DH, is in a relationship with an Australian girl. They just had a baby. The bride's mother is divorced (just finalized the divorce after 30+ years together). She believes that women are with her sons for their genes. She has not been the easiest to deal with for the Aussie, which resulted in some animosity between the two women and the son.
When the baby was born, the Aussie posted pictures on her FB. Since we are friends on FB, I saw them all. My MIL asked if I could send her the pictures. I assumed (silly me) that as in all normaly families (here is the root of my assumption), it was ok to share pictures with the baby's father's godmother (this was before I knew there was animosity). Anyways, apparently the newborn's grandparents (todays bride's parents) did not even know the babie's name, not to mention seen him. Obviously drama ensued. I apologized to the mother of the baby for taking her pictures from FB and sending to my MIL. The girl accepted my apologies and that was the end of it.
Fastforward to todays wedding, the bride was talking nasty stuff about the Aussie. The Aussie and the bride's brother (who was in the party) were MIA. At one point, one of the BMs is coming over to me, while I am chatting with MIL and says: Are you Ela? I am Mia, Cristina (bride) told me you were the one in a red dress. I wanted to check how your table is doing.
First of all, maybe that BM was an idiot, but I am not - DH and I were seated at the same table as the brides other brothers - we are all fine. Second: Cristina told me you were the one in a red dress? Are you kidding me, this is more obvious than gravity.
About an hour later, DH and I are talking, brides mom comes over to us, says HI to Joe, super sweet, I say hello and she just pushes my hand away and walks away. WTF? Technically, if it wasn't for me you wouldn't even know what your grandson looks like and what his name is. Yes, that caused some drama at your family, but the bride uninvited the Aussie two weeks after this happened, and the brother decided not to come because who would if your partner was uninvited? Why am I suddenly in the middle of their stupid drama?
UGH. These people are so dumb and without any idea of an etiquette. They said the wedding was starting at 5pm, but actually it started at 5:30 and we all sat in the hot humid sun waiting for the bride to arrive in a horse carriage looking like the one from the Cinderella. The theme of the wedding was Fairytale Love. It was held at a local castle, but both the ceremony and reception were outside, and it was HOT. I will be very happy if I never see this family again!
Re: Vent - may be long, sorry
Thankfully they aren't your family. Ugh, what mess! And she had No reason to rude to you, that wasn't fair. Maybe the family has something against foreign people?
Thank you, Girls, for having my back
I decided that I will not let this bother me anymore. I removed both the bride and her mother from my FB friends, because I don't want them to see my daily posts and check out my pictures. I also don't want them to forward anything to their little friends. I am done with them, and so happy this wedding is finally behind us 
Now off to searching for a house
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