If you remember the plot of the fairy tale about Cinderella, then the evil stepmother wasn’t actually against her stepdaughter going to the royal ball – she just had to do so many chores around the house that the whole team wouldn’t have been able to finish it on time. Today we have to get acquainted with a story somewhat similar – only the MIL-to-be unexpectedly turns out to be in the role of Cinderella.
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The author of the post has a son who’s going to marry soon and his fiancee seems overly intrusive towards the author
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In fact, the bride-to-be has very strained relationships with her family, so she allegedly wants to ‘replace’ her own mom with the MIL
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The author, however, isn’t actually that happy about her DIL’s desire
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Recently the bride-to-be begged the author to be the one who cooks 1K cookies for the wedding reception, according to tradition
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The author found out that it should be the bride’s mom or female relative who bakes – and flatly refused
So let’s meet theuser u/Elegant_Throat_8297, the Original Poster (aka the OP), whose son is soon to be married to a wonderful girl named ‘Wendy.’ It just so happens that Wendy has a verystrained relationshipwith her family – and in particular with her own mom, so she is trying in every possible way to have the author replace her mother.
Firstly, it was the first time in the original poster’s entire life she heard about such a tradition. Secondly, she urgently googled it – and it turned out that yes, such a tradition really exists – and one of the women on the bride’s side should bake the cookies. Oh yes, thirdly – it must be at least a thousand pieces.
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Yes, that’s right – we conducted our own research andfound outthat the cookie table is indeed a real wedding tradition, inherent in both national wedding receptions, for example, Italian or Polish, and some regions of the USA as well. For example, thecookietable is common for weddings in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and Youngstown, Ohio.
At the same time, in some states – such as, for instance, California, Texas, Nevada or Washington,the weddingcookie table tradition is practically unknown. This, firstly, allows us to conclude where exactly the events unfolded in the story we are describing (probably one of the four states listed above), as well as where Wendy’s family is from.
However, a significant part of commenters are quite sure that the issue here is not so much about cookies, but about relationships in the future family. “There seems to be a huge empathy gap her from you towards your future DIL. It sounds like she has little to nofamily support. She’s likely hoping to be close to her in-laws,” one person presumed. “Suck it up, apologize and offer to coordinate the cookie table. You’ll be glad you did,” another one advised.
The netizens were very divided over this story – and some of them admitted it’s actually not about cookies but about joining the family
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