The Wedding - Season 2, Episode II

Things have not improved since I last wrote. In fact, if anything, they have gotten worse. My FIL still refuses to meet “a man who, at night, will sleep in my daughter’s bed”. My MIL has made it her personal crusade to convince him to let SIL and P come to dinner but so far all it’s gotten her was some serious fights. She tries to tell him that they do want to make it right, and he should be like the Father in the Prodigal Son story, and even Jesus dined with the publicans, etc. I have even offered my house (and got into a fight with my husband) for a family reunion, if being in neutral territory would make FIL more comfortable. But there seems to be nothing we can say to convince him.
And so SIL is starting to consider asking one of her brothers to walk her down the aisle. How sad is that?
Tomorrow we start looking for a wedding dress. This time I won’t have enough money to give her the dress as I gave my other SIL (with the trip to Brazil, the trip to Israel and the first dress…), but I kinda get the feeling she’s expecting me to, so I’ll have to find a subtle way to let her know I won’t. She’s been complaining that my in-laws spent all their money on my other SIL’s wedding and now there’s none left for hers, and she doesn’t want the flower girls to wear the same dresses …this is not going to be easy.