Imagine your mother-in-law wearing the dress YOU wanted to wear for your wedding…TO YOUR WEDDING.

In-laws can be tricky, ESPECIALLY around wedding season.

There’s even a term for it: “monster-in-law.”

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And after reading these examples…I think it’s a fair name.

Here are 21 awful monster-in-laws who should’ve been uninvited from the wedding.

3.This awful mother-in-law stole the bride’s hairstylist.

The bride says her future mother-in-law scheduled a vow renewal ceremony two hours before their wedding at the same venue because "she wants the day to be special for her also"

5.This woman sounds like she’d make the WORST in-law.

7.This monster-in-law tried to wear this.

8.This MIL somehow managed to be even worse in her outfit choice.

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9.And this MIL tried to wear her wedding dress to her kid’s wedding.

10.This MIL literally canceled her child’s wedding without telling them.

11.This MIL was just a nightmare.

The mother of the groom demanded that the bride's hairstylist help her first, and it took so long that the bride couldn't get her hair done in time for the wedding and had to wear a ponytail

12.This MIL wanted to pull an awful “prank.”

13.This mother-in-law completely ignored COVID restrictions, along with her child’s wishes.

14.This mother-in-law tried to overshadow the mother of the bride’s cake.

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15.This MIL was THE drama.

16.This MIL tried to change the wedding venue after literally everything was booked.

17.This MIL was a control freak.

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18.This future mother-in-law was straight-up racist.

19.And finally, this MIL embarrassed the bride at her own wedding.

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A future mother-in-law texts a photo of the dress she's wearing to the wedding, and it's a white wedding dress; the mother-in-law says the color is called champagne, not white

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The couple asked the bride's mother to make a cake for their wedding because she's a baker, and the groom's mother responded by buying a giant cake to overshadow the homemade one

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The mother of the groom says they hate weddings and feel that her son having a wedding with a Black woman is him choosing "them" over "us," with them and us in quotes

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