My daughter is getting this Saturday, November 18, 2006. At first we were going to have the reception at my mom's community, because it is nice and is free of charge, to the residents, but only holds 50 people. We only have about 20 people in our family, so it was perfect. The Groom said his mom would like to invite about 30 people, so we decided to rent a hall that seats 97, just to be safe. I sent out about 15 invitations, and I gave the Groom's mom 15 invitations. I put the postage on the invitaions and the response cards. When the Groom's mom asked for 20 more invitations, I decided to give her the bunch, but I would let her pay the postage. Well apparantly she sent out the invitations and didn't put postage on the response cards. Every time I go to my P.o. Box to retrieve my mail, there's notices that I need to pay for postage that people hadn't had on their response cards. I've gotten responses, from response cards stating numbers attending on each response card, 13, 12, 8, and large amounts of people attending and the number is going to exceed the amount of people allowed at the hall. I can't believe it. I'm paying for EVERYTHING, and the Groom's family hasn't offered to do anything. I don't know what to do.
This is unfortunate. Perhaps you could let her know how much this costs. This is especially relevant due to the fact that parents are not financially responsible for their children's weddings. So, you shouldn't have to pay for anything, let alone everything.
If she doesn't want to contribute, there is nothing you can do except ask her to call her guests and tell them that not everyone they are planning on bringing were invited.
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