While a wedding day tends to always be about the bride and groom, guests may sometimes try to implement unique ways to bring attention onto themselves. Sharing the love of the special day, a woman's mother-in-law is encouraging her niece to get engaged on the day of her son's wedding.
However, this has struck a nerve with the bride-to-be - who is getting increasingly 'paranoid' about the situation. Seeking advice on popular forum Reddit, the woman questioned whether she's overreacting about the ordeal.
She explained: "I think my mother-in-law is encouraging her niece to get engaged at my wedding. I feel like I'm being paranoid but I just have this unsettled feeling that she is going to do something at our wedding."
Planning to get married in the UK, the anonymous woman has revealed that the relationship between her and her mother-in-law has progressively worsened since she booked the wedding.
The Reddit user said: "She was furious and moaned about the price of the hotel. We suggested she stayed in a different hotel. There are ones for £60-a-night, but she said no, why should she do that when we (partner and I) could pay - we refused."
"Anyway, my partner has this cousin. She's our age and is also very conniving. I have recently been picking up hints that they intend to get engaged at our venue and that my mother-in-law is in on it," she explained further.
"My partner, who is very good at putting his mum in her place, is convinced I'm being paranoid. The little hints I'm getting is basically like when the wedding is brought up they give each other a little smirk.
"After all the fuss for this cousin to have her kids there, she is now not bringing them to the wedding as she wants a 'special weekend away with her partner'.
"She said they plan on getting engaged in 2024 (the year we get married) and then looks at me smiling.
"She wants a big fancy engagement. She's even said she wants it to be a big party, but they are basically homeless and are always in a financial struggle, so I don't get how she will do this, but she is insisting she will."
Seeking advice, she questioned: "Maybe they are just messing with me but I just feel so uneasy. Do you think I'm overreacting?"
Since sharing, the post has flooded with responses - where people expressed their advice to uninvite the family from the wedding.
Taking to the comment section, one person wrote: "I'd uninvite from the wedding based upon the history with her alone, let alone potentially getting engaged at your wedding."
Meanwhile, someone else said: "If they get engaged at your wedding, get your family to say loudly how tacky can you be to get engaged at someone else's wedding. How cheap do you have to be where you hijack someone else's party."
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