My FI and myself have pretty much handled everything for the wedding ourselves. However, throughout the process my mother has felt that she hasn't be "involved." Now, she is the mother of the groom so she understands that she takes a little bit of the backseat to the parents of the bride. Plus my future MIL is a strong willed woman and she can overpower some people. So I try to think of ways for my mom to get some involvement. She has felt left out in the past because her relationship with my brother wasn't the best and my brother did a justice of the piece. I have compassion on her and I understand that it's tough not having a daughter. So I thought she could help with the ceremony programs. Now I already formatted, typed out and printed out each panel to the wedding program ( we are doing a 5 panel, fan program, 90 total programs). I printed all this stuff out and organized it in seperate boxes and sent it over to my future MIL's house. I told my mother to please call early this morning to schedule some time for the two of them to link up today and start putting together the programs. We're 3 days out and I still have to type out and print all the seating cards so I was hoping that they can handle this without me. Of course I give my mother a call at 5:30pm....and she hasn't even called my future MIL to schedule a time. Classic. This is why I just do things myself. Now I gotta play parent and start following up on every little thing because this is a clear sign that somebody else is going to drop the ball on the other items. Quick....someone find my cape.