Not sure if it's advice i'm after, I just need to vent a little I think. Me and my partner have been trying to come to a compromise because we have differing views about how we want our wedding, a process that is being made more difficult at the moment by my mother. She is determined that we are going to invite all of our distant relations in Poland, and i'm equally as determined that we're not going to do this as I haven't seen them since I was a child and I don't want our wedding to be one of those weddings where everyone who has met the bride and groom once is invited. She has roped my dad in to try and convince me, he was on the phone last night saying that mum was in tears over it and felt I was being selfish to ruin her experience of being mother of the bride (I don't have any sisters). I really don't feel that i'm being selfish here, but she's putting on so much pressure that it's difficult to talk to her at all. She also had a minor panic attack when she saw the name of h2b's friend on the guest list because he happens to be a professional footballer. I tried to explain to her that odds are he won't be able to come but we're sending him an invitation to be polite, and even if he did come it's not as if he's David Beckham and will have photographers trailing him. It's possible that many of our guests who didn't go to school with h2b won't even know who he is and what he does for a living. But still, mum turns it into this major drama.
I should also add that the only thing they are paying for is the photographer, but does paying for the photographer give my mother this much right to give her opinion?
