I had possibly the worst weekend ever. As you can read in the prayers thread, my mom was admitted to the hospital on Saturday and is still here (I say "here" because my mom and I both work at this hospital) today with no clue what's wrong. Obviously, that's a source of stress. Then FI and I had a pretty major falling out last night with FMIL, which you can read about
here and
here.
There are 2 major components to my wedding that somehow FMIL decided on without my input. No one asked me about these 2 things, and when I tried to change them, FMIL went nuts and told me no. Guess what the 2 biggest stressors are? Yup, you guessed it. No one asked me how many guests we wanted to have, and no one asked me where I wanted to have the reception. Now we're looking at having waaaay more guests than we wanted (I'm talking if we're lucky it will ONLY be twice as many - from 150 to 300) and being kicked out of our reception space 1-2 hours before we thought we would.
FI and I are so fed up with this that we are seriously considering eloping. We have a date that would work well for us, and we are looking into a venue to use for a 5-10 guest ceremony with cake.
I am going to try, and I mean REAAALLLY try, to work through the 2 issues we're having. If we can find an affordable reception venue that holds more people than the church, then we eliminate both the time issue and the space issue. But FI is not really into the idea of spending $1000 just to make room for his mom to invite her neighbors and her fifth cousins.
I could really use some prayers for guidance. FI and I are not joking around about this elopment thing, and we need to know if that's what God has planned for us, of if all of this trouble is just Satan trying to trip us up from having the wedding we planned.