I didn't think this would happen to me at all. So, my MIL has told me, multiple times, over and over for the last year now, that she does not want to invite *Anybody* from her side of the family. I checked with her, right before we ordered STDs, that this was still the case, and she confirmed that she wanted *nobody* from her family invited (including her father, who is senile and whom she would be completely responsible for). So, after the STDs were ordered, but not sent, she tells me that she chaged her mind and will bring her father. Fine, one extra person is not a big deal, and we really wanted him anyway.
Now, she's decided that indeed she will invite some of her brothers, nephews, etc. And apparently, her method of inviting them is to send them an email telling them to send me their address "if they want to come" and cc-ing me on those emails. What a lovely thing to wake up to! So far at least one nephew wants to come. I have no idea whether we can accomodate more people in the venue, I know we were just under the limit already. And since she went about this in such a crazy way, and all of these people are family, I feel like we're going to have to dump friends in order to include them. I just wish she would have given me a damn list of addresses last summer, so that I could have included them in the original numbers, and sent them STDs and invites the way everybody else on the planet invites people to weddings. Gah!