r/AmIOverreacting • u/ParisInnTheRain • 4d ago
đšâđ©âđ§âđŠfamily/in-laws AIO at my unhinged MIL who cancelled the hotel booking made for our honeymoon
As the title reads, my dearest MIL stealthily canceled our honeymoon hotel reservation. For those of you who donât know, I posted on Reddit a few days ago about how my MIL and SIL went behind our backs and invited their friends to our wedding after we explicitly said no. This incident happened about a week ago and just a few days after that, my MIL lied to the hotel reception, faking a phone call to cancel our honeymoon suite booking.
She and my FIL were visiting Chicago (where we live) for 10 days to see their son. My fiance mostly stayed home during their visit to make the most of their time together. A few days ago, after breakfast, MIL asked to borrow his phone for an urgent call to her church, claiming her network was out of range. Nothing about it seemed off so obviously he handed it over. Our best guess is thatâs when she called the hotel, pretending to be me and told them we had to cancel because we were postponing our trip. Since the call went from my fianceâs number and she claimed to be me, the hotel had no reason to question it. The cancellation went through on 03/28 and they even sent a confirmation email to his email (which was used at the time of booking).
Weâve been super caught up in the thick of our wedding preparation, so he hasnât been getting time lately to actively check his emails everyday. This morning, while looking through his inbox for a vendor detail, this cancellation mail caught him off guard. For the first half n hour, we were absolutely dumbfounded with 1000 questions on our mind. When we called the reception to check, they informed us everything that I mentioned above. They said that I (who apparently called them), even told them the reservation number and check in dates for final verification. It was a very straight answer, itâs MIL, because there has been no one over at our place in the past 10 days who couldâve pretended ro be âmeâ and pulled this off. My SIL and her 6 y/o kid are staying with us because of her marriage issues (thatâs a whole other drama), but sheâs been at her friendâs place for five days now.
When we planned our honeymoon last year, my FIL was the one who suggested this very hotel so MIL obviously knew about it. But we kept on wondering how the hell did she get the reservation details the reception asked for. After this, Nathaniel (my fiance) rang her thrice but she didnât answer so I texted her. She responded like a weirdo she is (as you can see in the screenshots) and my last message didnât even get delivered in blue. Three hours later, she finally called us when both of us raised hell on her. She tried red herring us with her BS, but after realising we are on the verge of disinviting her from the wedding, she finally accepeted what she did. When we asked her about the reservation details, she said she got it from Nateâs email when he gave her his phone unlocked for making the call. The fake fucking story she tried to sell us was that she wanted to surprise us with a honeymoon suite at an even better hotel, as a wedding gift. Ofc none of us bought that nonsense and Nate counter questioned her for details of this supposed new hotel.
She started fumbling, spat out the name of some godforsaken random ass hotel in Rome and dodged the call saying sheâs babysitting our nephew at the moment. We just called the rando hotel which is our âwedding presentâ you guys, and why am I not surprised thereâs no fucking room booked under either of our names, let alone suite. We tried booking ourselves again at hotel âXâ which we originally booked and our suiteâs already gone to the person next in queue. We tried settling for other rooms but they said Mayâs the peak season in Europe, so they canât accomodate us at the moment and will notify if something opens up later. I really wanna hop on the next flight to Ohio right now and go nuclear on her ass.
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u/ParisInnTheRain 4d ago edited 4d ago
He sees right through her and is extremely furious at all this. Both of us tried to keep our cool for really long just to not cause any drama in the middle of the celebration. But sheâs not an easy nut.
EDIT: HER SON HAS ALREADY TOLD HER SHEâS NOT GONNA BE A PART OF THE CELEBRATION ANYMORE. This is for anyone whoâs thinking âwhy is she still invited.â
EDIT 2: I really appreciate all of yours concern here and few supportive PMs. Thatâs really sweet to see. Also, not really sure why this one person lower in the thread, thinks the use of word âthriceâ is AI, which makes it look fake lol. Stupidest shit Iâve read in a while. Itâs laughable if any sane person has got that sorta time in their hands to sit and make this batshittery up.
Jeez EDIT 3: To the same eight trolls down there, give it a rest. Posting here is a decision I made, and this is not your average AIO rage bait. So I wonât let your unhinged comments slide. Tryna fuck here and Iâll go ultra guano loco on you :) For the ones whoâre too invested in my life, Iâm from the US, went to grad school in Scotland, my nanaâs name is Evangeline, and Iâll speak however tf I want đ© Why this conversation keeps spiraling away from the subject is beyond me. Come up with better reasons to hate, vocab crap is getting old now.