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SS's Wedding Turned Out OK...

RB's picture

Well, it all turned out OK. BM showed up with her father (SK's grandfather) almost late. Parked where they weren't suppose to park, therefore blocking in the caterers and Justice of the Peace. Then she walked up to my husband and I and pretended to be really sugary nice to us. Talk about being uncomfortable! Oh, and she made googly eyes at my little boy. That really creeped me out.

She waked my SS down the aisle, sat down in the front row, next to her father. There wasn't enough room for anyone to sit next to them other than SD's and only one of the SD's sat with her, but half way through the wedding that SD moved to the back of seating area. Another SD sat in the next row behind her with her daughter and boyfriend and then my husband, kids and I sat in the third row back with another SD and her friends sitting behind us.

BM made it through the photos, but then decided to have a smoke break with one of the SD's and missed the group photo with everyone in it, she got mad, had an argument with the SD that she had the smoke break with, loaded her father up in their vehicle and left. But as she was leaving she drove up to me as I was standing next to the driveway and parked for a moment and starred at me and my older son, so we just walked away. Then she drove off. Weird. Really weird.

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stormabruin's picture

So, BM had a smoke break with one of her daughters while the group photo was taken. Did the daughter make it in for the photo, or did her & BM both miss it? It does seem odd that no one would take notice she was missing, or if they did notice she was missing no one went to get her. I'd be upset if I were her too. That's a picture that will be looked at many times by many people & will be important to your SD. I imagine she's probably disappointed her mother isn't in it as well.

justbdais's picture

I don't think it really matters whether she was in the photo or not. When wedding photos are being taken it is generally done at one time so everyone should know not to leave (even to smoke) if they want to be in the photo. And if the family is big, then it would be easy to not notice someone is missing unless they were in the wedding party which it sounds like BM and SD were not.

stormabruin's picture

Even in a large group photo, being a wedding photo usually someone will place people, & the first people they place is the bride & groom. The next set of people are the parents. Someone should've noticed her missing.

stormabruin's picture

Not saying she should've left until pics were done, or that anyone is responsible for babysitting her. I'm just saying, if for some reason I wasn't in the group & no one cared to let me know it was time for a group shot, I'd be pissed too.

RB's picture

OK, this wasn't one of the "family" photos everyone. The crazy BM was there for all of those. This was a great big group photo of EVERYONE at the wedding. She knew it was coming and her and her and her daughter decided to take a smoke. She even showed up for the photo and then turned around and went for her smoke break.

stormabruin's picture

Oooohhhh. Okay. Well, if the bride got all of the group photos & her mom was included in those, then I don't feel like someone should've had to go hunt BM down. If BM knew what was going on & chose to leave anyway, she has no room to be upset because she chose a cigarette over the photo op.

RB's picture

I didn't break any "wedding rules" either. I stayed in the background and didn't self invite myself into anything. I just stayed in the background like a step mom is suppose to do at the weddings. I waited for approval prior to joining any photos or anything.