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"We had our rehearsal dinner and then opened it up to all of our guests for welcome drinks. Everything was very elegant and going well until my mother-in-law's side of the family showed up. All of the women arrived wearing white in protest of us not allowing children at the wedding. It was humiliating and petty. Then the wedding day came! The ceremony started, and when it was my turn to walk down the aisle, I couldn't have been more excited. We had lost three grandparents between us in the two years leading up to our wedding, so we decided to honor them by acknowledging them at the beginning of the ceremony. Once they were mentioned, my mother-in-law got up from her seat, approached us at the altar, and interrupted our wedding to say that an aunt who had passed away hadn't been mentioned. My husband immediately told her to sit down, but the damage was done, and guests thought she was objecting to our marriage.…