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Am I off base here?

Ok so my mom originally asked me for the guest list for the bridal shower that she's throwing with my sister (MOH) and best friend/bridesmaid.  As far as I know she made the rsvp date august 1st and the shower is on the 8th.  She's been hounding me since Monday to ask my friends if they're coming since they haven't rsvp'd yet. 
I told her that I'm not really supposed to be involved and it's making me feel really uncomfortable that she wants me to check in with everyone to get their RSVPs before the date is even up.

So she just gives me attitude and says the place needs to know the number so she'll just tell them 20 since that's all thats RSVP'd so far.  I'm like fine, but just really uncomfortable and this totally sucks because it's turned into a fight with her b/c she doesn't understand why i won't just call MY friends to see if they're coming.  It's not like I asked for this shower!  Not that I'm not grateful, but it's such a weird position she's putting me in, imo.

She was also like well I'll just wait until MOH gets home to take care of it because "i feel like MOH and BM were supposed to be doing this and I've already done more than I want to".....nice, right?!  (For the record, I'm pretty sure her only duties assigned to her by MOH was to hire the place/catering and recieve the rsvps.  (MOH has been away at sea for the past month doing research and comes back 8/2).

Am I totally wrong here? Should I just call or email my friends and ask them if they're coming at this point? (even if i'm not wrong)
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Re: Am I off base here?

  • You are not wrong at all.   But knowing me I would send out a email to everyone.  I would title it " when momzillia attachs"  And write somethinglike my mom is  embracing the momzillia attitude,  Please if anyone hasn't RSVP to the shower please do so.  She is driving me crazy ;)
  • Agree with others - not your job and the stinking RSVP date hasn't even come and gone yet.  Your mom needs to relax.
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  • Yeah, it's not even August 1st yet.  Your mom needs to slow her roll.
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  • You're not off base.  My mom did a similar thing with the wedding RSVPs when my sister got married two year ago, and when my mom started making phone calls a week before the RSVP date, people got annoyed. 

  • What I'm gathering is I bet she didn't make the RSVP date as early as she should have if she's so worried about getting a number in to someone at the place where it's going to be.

    I compromised and sent an email with all my friends email addresses to my BF/BM to see if she would check into it for my mom (which I know she will, that's why i love her!).  And I sent an email to FMIL to ask her to look into the guests on her side of the family.

    Thanks for letting me know that I wasn't just being weird about something that didn't matter.  I knew it just felt so awkward.  Really didn't want to make these phone calls:
    "Hey friend, are you coming to my party to bring me lots of presents?! Great, thanks!!!"
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    [QUOTE] I compromised and sent an email with all my friends email addresses to my BF/BM to see if she would check into it for my mom (which I know she will, that's why i love her!).  And I sent an email to FMIL to ask her to look into the guests on her side of the family.
    Posted by jakstr0808[/QUOTE]

    That's exactly what I was going to suggest.  Just have someone else do it.  But like the others said, the RSVP hasn't even come yet, your Mom needs to chill.
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  • my mom is doing a very similar thing right now with the engagement party she is throwing for us. frustrating but all of the above situations are great ways of handling it. I did exaclty what you did. luckily i have a great moh who knows how to deal with my mom effectively and politely.
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  • It isn't a big deal to call a few of your friends and just ask if they are planning on coming. My mom kept asking me about a few friends for my shower and she wasnt being momzilla about it by any means but I also had no problem just shooting a phone call to someone.
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