My mother posted my pregnant bride photos on her facebook – how should I deal with this?
My husband and I got married just over a week ago in the Bahamas. We wanted it to be very private, casual, and discrete, because I am six months pregnant. We wanted to get married earlier but couldn’t because of my job (long story). We were engaged for 14 months though and very committed to getting married.Anyway we didn’t really want to make a big fuss about the wedding and wanted to do it in private away from very judgmental friends and family members. So, we went to elope in the Bahamas. My husband’s mother, however, decided to come along at the last minute, and once she decided to come, my mother insisted upon coming too. We didn’t feel like we could tell our mothers not to attend our wedding, so we didn’t explain to them that we just wanted it between the two of us.Anyway, I didn’t even notice this during the ceremony because I was so caught up with staring into my new husband’s eyes, but my mother took incredible amounts of photos, as did my new mother-in-law. The day my mother returned, she had pregnant bride photos all over her facebook. When I say this I mean that somehow, her photos made me look hugely pregnant. I did not want any pregnant bride photos at all, and certainly not plastered all over facebook for all our friends and family to see. I asked my mother to remove the pregnant bride photos, and she removed four out of the eighteen she had posted. The ones left still clearly showed that I was pregnant. She also put on photos where I had my eyes closed or had a funny expression on my face. We did not want our wedding to be portrayed in this way.My question is – how do I explain to my mother forcefully enough that I want her to remove the offending photos?To answer busymama’s question – we got married pregnant because I didn’t want to have the baby out of wedlock for religious reasons. We wanted to be discrete about it though!
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