https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/04/12/ask-amy-she-mom-become-showerzillas/

DEAR AMY: I was asked (along with four other women) to help plan my friend Kath’s baby shower. When we first met up to discuss the baby shower, we talked about the normal, usual things like the theme, food, games — things like that.

Kath and her mother have turned what is supposed to be a simple, intimate event into a full-blown catastrophe.