okay... FOG told son and his lovely fiance that as a wedding GIFT we would like to give them a honeymoon... future DIL begins rattling off the requirements for her honeymoon... location, name of resort, length of day, day of departure, date of return, time she would prefer her flights to leave and if we needed the name of her travel agent she had already been to see her... HER honeymoon will cost US $7,200.
We... the FOG and SMOG were gobsmacked... food probably falling off our forks and out of our mouths... thank goodness I didn't have a mouth of wine I might have spit or choked... dunno... did NOT see this one coming.
Santa is the one that brings you all you ever put on your wish list princess... this is a wedding present... a gift... and I'm NOT Santa Claus! are you kidding me?
This was something thoughtful that we wanted to give to them... we knew enough to ask the type (beach, europe, etc) and general time that they have available to vacation... but what do we do when THIS is the response to us choosing a honeymoon as our wedding gift ???
and it wasn't like she's making the demands independently...
every sentence starts with... my mother said this was the resort she wants us to stay at, my mother said... my mother said...
we both stammered around and I could tell the FOG was sending the "are you kidding me?" signals with his eyes to his sons eyes. We kind of just left it like... well, we know what you are dreaming for, but we hope the gift we are able to give works for you.... check please!
I don't want to be TACKY when I break it to her... but we will not fork over that kind of green... in her dreams... FOG is considering asking his son if we should choose another gift and let someone else send them on their dream vacation.. we knew they'd want to lay on a beach but to be told by the bride that it must be a specific all inclusive because her mom said so... can she really be THIS spoiled and clueless???
help. tactful replies for us to them are needed... got to nip this silliness in the bud... without making someone upset or mad at us for not being able to give the EXACT dream honeymoon that seems to have been planned already by the grooms FMIL....