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My mother didn't understand the concept of punctuality and was laid on every occasion of our lives. Now she's livid because I got her a special invitation for my wedding. My parents are late for everything, like everything. Both my sister and I have been disappointed so many times. Graduation ceremonies, birthday parties, and even my father's retirement dinner. It is completely my mother's fault. She is a wonderful mother, and I love her dearly. She just does not understand the concept of punctuality. I saw her talking to her sister on the phone and reminded her that she needed to be at my baby sister's dance recital. She waved me off and arrived after my sister had danced. We are all used to it. My dad is just done trying to get her on time for anything. My now wife told me in no uncertain terms that if my mother were late for our wedding, she would do terrible things to me. She was only half joking, but she was a witness to my mom and dad arriving halfway through my cousin's quenciniera. So here is what I did. It is completely on me. My wife was not involved. If there is a PP move, it was completely mine. When we were getting samples for the wedding, I talked to the printer and had one special invitation printed with the time on it stating one hour earlier than the actual start time of the ceremony. My mother was beside herself when they left the house and thought they would miss the wedding since she was a part of it with her and my mother in law lighting the candles we would use to light the unity candle and stuff. When she arrived and noticed other people were also just arriving and parking. She was so relieved that we were starting late that she just went with it. The ceremony went off beautifully and so did the wedding pictures and the reception. The problem came last Sunday. My parents came over for a big family dinner and we only bothered to start the grill once they showed up. She asked why everyone wasn't eating and we just said we knew we would be waiting for them since they were always late.