Argh!

I have a HUGE headache right now...

After a lovely evening hanging out with Cara, Lindsey, Dan and Marissa, they left me to fend for myself amongst my drunk future in-laws...

The headache started with the evening in the first place. Deb seriously yelled at Marissa for her side of the family not supporting Jason?! Isn't coming to our wedding reception next weekend supporting us? Does Jason really need support for the terrible thing we're about to do - get married? Her comments to Marissa were completely inappropriate. All poor Marissa was trying to do was RSVP that she was going!

So we go there and sit and eat some munchies and wait for the food to be done. We eat the heavily peppered pork loin and the salad (drowning in ranch - oops) and chat amongst ourselves since no one else makes an effort to come and socialize with us. What the hell, don't make an effort at meeting my family for the first time - we'll just talk to each other then.

After dinner we go inside to do the make-up trial run. Marissa plays beauty parlor on me, then Cara, and then Lindsey. We all look beautiful! You're hired! :) Nevermind Jason's niece who insists on singing camp songs to us nonstop or the dog that barks with an insanely high pitched piercing bark.

Finally we're done and go back outside. Cara, Lindsey, Dan and Marissa leave. I'm left there with Jason and his people. We play a heated 3 games of euchere. It's a very loud game with Jason and his sister playing... My headace is throbbing. I tried to drink another glass of wine in the hopes that it would help. Nope. Jason's just getting louder and his brother and sister are just laughing away at him.

His sister invited us to join them Thursday night at Blues on the Mall - you'll be downtown she says. Um, no. We get ONE DAY to ourselves to be newlyweds. No way in hell we're going to meet up with anyone while we're there. Thanks for the invite, but no.

Finally we finish the card games. I was ready to go after the first game... So we finish all three games and we sit down at the other chairs.

Jason's sister then says to me, "I just want you to know how unhappy Jason's nieces are that they are not invited to the ceremony..." So I say to her "Well, we're sorry if we hurt their feelings, but we really can't invite everyone that we want to - that's why we're having a bigger reception." "Yeah, but I just want you to know that they really wanted to be there..." "Well, we really couldn't invite everyone. I have 6 more brothers and sisters who aren't invited to the ceremony either..." "I understand, but I just want you to know that they're really upset that they're not invited..." Then Deb's husband chimed in with something like "I realize that it's your wedding and you can do what you want, so I'm not upset about it, even if I don't like it, it's your wedding. It's just not what our family is used to - that kind of wedding..." Jason was really defensive at this point cuz he's been drinking all day and starts to say that the place is small and if he had his was it would only be the two of us on the beach at all, when his sister goes back into her "the nieces are upset" thing. Jason tells her that she's lucky her and her husband invited at all. I said we would add them to the list of people who are upset with us that they're not invited to our wedding, because there's a lot of them... So now they're getting loud about everything and I'm just rubbing my temples and repeating "We're sorry their feelings are hurt, but we can't invite everyone..."

I honestly, wanted to say - never mind - don't come either and you guys can be mad at us too!

What the hell did she hope to accomplish by telling us that her kids are upset? That we would cave in and invite them? Sure, why not just invite my other 6 brothers and sisters and their spouses and their children too. And why not just invite the aunts and uncles while we're at it. Hell, we'll invite all 122 people that are going to our wedding reception. Forget it. We'll just call Reverend Charles and get married on Monday and everyone will miss it. How about that?!

So Jason's sister is also providing the key lime pie for the ceremony. Mind you, we are providing the plates, the silverware, the napkins, the wine, the cheesecake, and the champagne flutes - basically everything except Jason's key lime pie. And we should get her a thank you gift because why? Seriously, I think we could set up the table with everything without her. Actually, I think it probably will be set up before she even gets to the ceremony.

I am just completely over this entire thing. David and Adam and Amie and their family will also be in Michigan on the day of the ceremony and they're upset that they're not invited too.

But you know what? I don't care anymore. I just want to marry Jason. And to stop hearing about the proper etiquette for putting people at tables at the reception and who to invite to our ceremony and who we are having to the house or not having to the house after the reception and who we're inviting to join us at the restaurant for breakfast on Sunday.

I. JUST. DON'T. CARE. ANYMORE. The wedding is 3 days away. Stop bugging me. Accept it. Come or don't come. Be mad. I don't care. Is it too late to cancel the entire thing and elope?!

Anyway... I have a HUGE headache and I am feeling very defensive and bitchy. But my make-up is still beautiful! :)