Claire just wants to be the glamorous mother-of-the-groom—but when she realizes that her daughter-in-law has her own plans for the wedding, she steps back to focus on her own outfit, only for there to be a fight between her and Alice on the big day. Alice claims that Claire has destroyed the wedding by stealing her dream dress, while Claire sees nothing wrong in her actions. Who is wrong?All I wanted was to be the mother-of-the-groom. That’s it. I just wanted to be the doting mother who loved her son more than anything—but this is the story of how my attempt to make my son’s wedding perfect turned into a day we’d all rather forget. When Mark introduced Alice to us, she was unlike anyone I expected him to fall for.
Mark, my son, is a lawyer at a top firm—a position that he secured straight after his graduation from Stanford. “I’m going to be a lawyer, Mom,” he told me once when he was still in high school and doing an essay on the career he wanted to get into. “I could easily see that,” I told him, making him breakfast as he worked away. “It’s to help fight injustices. For children, specifically,” he said, drinking his orange juice. Mark had big dreams, and I knew that my son was always going to reach for the stars. Alice, on the other hand, was completely different from my son. Her entire personality was light and carefree, whereas Mark was serious and brooding. Alice was a self-taught coder, who freelanced from their cozy apartment. Their worlds,
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