[Rockster's Mom]

My wedding is 4 weeks from today. I have my soon to be MIL inviting people after the fact we finalized the guest list and already sent out invitations. My mom informed me that if my MIL keeps doing this and we go over the amount of 60-65 people for food, then my in laws need to pay for the additional plates. I told my fiance this and he said that was wrong because the brides family is suppose to pay for the wedding. I said true, but my parents are paying for everything from the cermony to the reception, plus the wedding is at parent's home in their backyard. It looks like we are not even going to have a rehearsal dinner because I know his parents will not pay for it, and parents will not pay for either (I don't blame them either). My fiance and I cannot afford to pay the rehearsal dinner, because all our spare money paid for DJ, invitations, his tux, misc gifts for my mom/sis/groom's men, and the honeymoon. I just think that his parents should at least offer to help out. Besides all that, I have one groom's men that still has not went and got his tux get. I am starting to think my fiance was right about eloping.