FI and I went to visit his parents last night and the topic of the rehersal dinner came up. Intially, when we started planning they said that because we chose to have the wedding "so far away" literally 45 min away from them, and his mom figured they would be spending about...get ready...2 grand between gas and hotel rooms that they would be willing to give us maybe 400 for the rehersal dinner. Ok, that's fine and I know I sound ungrateful but its more just they way things went about. So anyway, their offer was nice enough and I didn't expect much from them anyway and FI and I planned on payin for it all ourselves anyway. Well NOW, his mom says last night that she's called around and wants to go check out two places with us and see if it'll be ok for the RD. Also that we may need to cut some people's SO from the dinner because "its just too many people". We told her that we planned on paying the difference and that we already had a place in mind. She got all huffy and just sat there with her arms folded across her chest and wouldn't talk to or even look at me. FI said we could just pay for the whole thing and she said "well, you can but you still need to cut 'unnecessaries' and WE still need to go to place a and place b" I understand she feels that since she's contributing, she gets a say but....how does she get a say when she's not.
