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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ethan Allen daughter here.  I think I am a little bitter but less so than years ago.  My elderly mother is the sole parent left.   In her younger years when she was still working and I was getting married she always cried poor but then two months later she'd have brand new EA furniture.  Or have a carpenter come in to build custom cabinetry to house all her crystal and fine china collection.  When we were getting married i asked her if she could help pay for the food at the hall.  We had a 100 people at the wedding but the hall was a church hall.  She looked askance and said "you know I'm poor".  Then she'd turn around and buy more furniture three months later.  It just bothered me.  I was asking her to cover 4k worth of catering. We were not having caviar.  My hubby and I were paying honeymoon etc.  We ended up paying for everything except dress.  I can't remember what dress cost but witj alteratons veil Etc it was about 600.  I think had she really been poor it would have been ok.  For example my mother in law was a Catholic school teacher who had been widowed for years so we didn't want her to cover anything.  Although she wanted to pay for rehearsal dinner. We agreed to her offer and split it with her.  [/quote]

What kind of a loser asks mommy to help pay for the wedding? If she wanted to, she would have offered.[/quote]

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