That reminds me.
I DID ask my wife's mother for approval. She told me to ask her father (deceased).
So i went to the cemetery and ask her father.
When I retold the story to MIL I told her I that I said to her father I want to marry your daughter, If you have any objection please tell me now.
There was no objection!!
My MIL chased me with a bolo.
This is really really a true story.