Boo People!

So this morning, I'm feeling really sick just thinking about the wedding! People (read: Parents) have been making me feel really stressed about pretty much everything. My parents and Seth's parents (even Seth's sister) keep making comments about how the aunts and uncles really wanted to come and are really disappointed that they're not invited. Okay - that's nice, people. How about instead of complaining now, you just keep all that information to yourself? I mean, you all signed off on this whole small wedding idea back when we started planning. If you had a problem with us not inviting aunts and uncles, you should have said something back then. Now it's too late and all you're doing is making me, the one who originally thought up this whole small wedding thing, feel really guilty and bad!

So I have this vision of what my wedding's going to look like, but even though I do, I've been trying to involve people (read: my mom) who want to be involved. I went dress shopping with her, I went rental company shopping with her, I show her all my ideas and ask for advice before I go through with anything. I got her input on my wedding invites and my favor ideas. I showed her my ideas for flowers and ceremony pieces. Pretty much anything I've worked on, I've shown her and asked her what she thought. But is that enough? Of course not.

Snippet from this morning's e-mail from mom:

I kind of wish you had stuck to your original idea of a big wedding. I enjoyed being a part of the planning, helping you look for places on the internet and I was looking forward to visiting places with you and helping to pick out the menu and stuff.

Thanks Mom, that's really helpful. How the heck am I supposed to respond to this? "Okay Mom, sorry you're bummed, I'll just go ahead and cancel the wedding which is supposed to be in 46 days and start over from scratch so you can be more involved." I mean, seriously! What was she trying to do with this e-mail? Make me feel bad? Well, you've succeeded Mom, thanks! I feel awful and don't really want to get married anymore since it's becoming such a problem for you and the aunts/uncles we didn't invite.