The groom was taken aback: the bride was furiously shoving her mother-in-law’s face into the cake, and the guests were joyfully cheering her on.
Alena stood in front of the mirror in her hotel room, adjusting the folds of her wedding dress, and felt a familiar anxiety squeeze her throat. She was confident in her choice. Until she heard the mind of her future mother-in-law. “Vulgar,” Valentina Grigoryevna had said when they came to show her the dress. She…