Lawsuits, Lies, and Weddings

My cousin EB is getting married for the 3rd time on June 3rd. Funny, huh?
My mother has said that she will not attend the wedding due to receiving her invitaition a week later than everyone else. Why, you ask did she receiver her invitation late? Welllll....let me tell you a little story.
The reason for the late invitation: The Shouting Match
Once upon a time.... (okay this ain't no fairy tale). Anyway, EB rented my youngest brother's house from him while he and his wife and kids were living with my parents due to some immaturity, financial, and drug use problems. While EB lived in their house she totally trashed it. It's been said that the house was left in a disgusting state of filth. Past visits to visit EB never revealed such filth. However it may that visits were scheduled. It may be that she purposely left the house that way out of spite. EB is known to be over emotional and dramatic. At one point she had desired to purchase the house. She called in her realtor and then some questionable and dishonesty transpired. EB then stopped paying her rent. Foreclosure notices were sent to the house and EB would promptly dispose of them. It must be noted that my brother is certainly an irresponsible party in this mess. But due to the cluster of idiots involved it got to the point that attorneys were included and my mom had to pull cash off of credit cards to come up with $3,000 in order to prevent foreclosure. My mother then proceeded to collect repayment by means of half from brother and half from EB. Lawsuits, threats and lies then ensued. The situation came to a point of resolution for a while.
The ugliness reared its head again when EB was moving out of the house and my brother was moving back in. White trashiness and yelling happened in the front yard. Unfortunately my dad was in the middle of it. He said some stupid things to EB that he shouldn't have. His anger was justified but his temper got out of hand. The next thing we knew EB had left the property however her big ugly fiance came looking for my dad. Thankfully they never met up. It must be noted that my money would have totally been on my dad. Dynamite comes in small packages. Not to mention that war related anxiety mixed in with a little craziness makes for a short fuse.

So I received my wedding invitation from EB. My mom did not receive hers. I called EB to politely inquire. Obviously my mom did absolutely nothing to EB and I am entirely removed from the situation. EB gave some bullshit line about not having my mom's address. Lie, lie, LIE. But she said she'd put it in the mail that day so I just let it go. My goal was to mend fences. A week went by and mom didn't receive the invitation. I confessed to having called EB and proceeded to discuss with my mom how there was no way in hell I'd attend if EB didn't invite mom too. Mom was disgusted over it and admitted that she would have attended had EB invited her.

Well guess what finally came in the mail?!

Guess who says she's going to pout and not go because she got the invite a week late??

Here is the e-mail between mom and I:

Mom says: I got EB's invitation yesterday (Thursday) but the only reason she sent me one is because you called her so I'm going to be stubborn and still not go.

Jenni says: Dammit. Now you're just being unreasonable.
Don't punish me for being honest with you and telling you I called her. The entire purpose of my call was to avoid hurt feelings and family gaps. You are throwing good intentions and honesty in my face. Please reconsider. You and I can go together. We'll leave the boys at home. We will have fun. Come on now, please.

So far, no response from her.