If any of you remember my post from a few days ago about the letter FMIL wrote to FI about why she thought we should postpone the wedding, you'll be pleased to hear this. FI had a long chat with her about the inappropriateness of her letter and how it made us feel and she relented and apologized.
Then amazingly, she went into worker-bee mode as her way of making it up to us and making sure that we still have a great event. She called today to say she'd talked to a friend who does cakes as a side business and her friend offered to give us our cake! Considering I was planning on buying a store-bought, undecorated cake and decorate it myself, I'm pretty well in shock right now. I'm supposed to discuss tomorrow with her about what I was wanting. Even if it's not perfectly my dream cake, I'm still really happy. And it's one less thing for me to worry about that weekend.
She also asked if we had flowers and several other things taken care of because she was going to talk to some more friends tomorrow to see what they could do. The only thing we don't have covered is my hair, but she's a retired hairdresser and she's going to talk to a former coworker about doing it for me. She'd certainly do it if she could but she's lost most of her sight and isn't comfortable trying to get something "picture perfect" that she can't really see.
Let's just say that the turning of the tides has been a big load off my shoulders!!