^ let's see how long your MIL waits to start snickering about you after u use ur methods :)
Baree these days is more like a gift to a bride. I don't know about anyone else here, but when I try to shop for a GIFT for SOMEONE ELSE, I try to figure out what the recipient likes and dislikes. So if you get a gift/bari outfit that u don't like, u don't have to wear it, that doesn't mean someone is being catty or mean. I don't go out in public wearing suspenders because they are hideous, likewise I wouldn't wear an outfit just cuz someone gave it to me specially since they didn't care to get me something I would actually like.
And yes it does suck even more if ur husband is paying for everything and ur MIL thinks she should just buy everything she likes. People aren't dumb, they know what they are doing when they buy something for u without asking and expect u to love it.
bingo
In the end I guess we'll just have to get over the ugly baree things ........i've actually protested against any baree jewelry picked by my MIL by telling my fiance I don't want any but there's this whole "what will people say" garbage ....what kinds of jewelry did you girls get in your baree? I think that's a bigger deal because jewelry is expensive and people should at least consider your opinion on this matter if not the clothes.....i'm afraid of my MIL picking out the typical chamkila all gold with no stones jewelry....EEEKKK