Parents should know their kids better than anyone. I wouldn't expect a mother or a father to be able to predict their kid's every move, especially in adulthood, but I do expect that when their kid tells their parents who they are, they listen. The mom in this story didn't do that with her 24-year-old daughter, who said she didn't want a proper wedding after getting engaged to her fiancee. Her daughter, Lynn, is an alternative in many senses of the word; she graduated college for the first time at 16, has tattoos and piercings, and fully marches to the beat of her own drum. She reluctantly agreed to a wedding after her mom pressured her into it, but after one dispute over the flowers, she quickly went home and eloped. While her dad understands why she did that, her mom can't get over her devastation over the elopement.