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Fairytales usually end with the newlyweds living happily ever after but who still reads Hans Christian Andersen when Reddit offers one trainwreck of a story after another?
Recently, u/Olya_roo made a post on r/AskReddit, inviting people to share what wedding moment made them think the couple is not going to last long. At first, it may sound odd. After all, a wedding is a celebration of love. A new beginning. Not the end. Plus, there's enough booze to drown all the uncertainty at least until the day after. But that's not always the case.
As of today, the post has 85K upvotes and 24K comments, many of which describe the red flags that sometimes arise on the big day. Below are some of the most noteworthy ones.
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#1
Prior to my wedding I’d asked my husband to practice dancing with me because I’m uncoordinated, due to a disability. He blew me off and said we’d be fine. As we were dancing, he spoke in my ear, not even quietly. “What are you doing? What’s wrong with you? You’re embarrassing me!!” We lasted 2 years. Leaving was the best decision I ever made.
Nadia Montera 4 years ago
I'm impressed it lasted two years. I would have disolved the marriage right after the dance
Mewton’s Third Paw 4 years ago
Everyone tries to one-up the woman who didn’t leave soon enough. It’s kind of gross. Like there isn’t nuance to the story of why she wasn’t ready to separate.
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New Prometheus 4 years ago
I felt bad even reading this. My ex was the same. Guilt-shamed me to sex in the morning after the wedding. I regretted the whole relationship immediately, but it took that 2 years to gather courage and leave. It felt inappropriate to leave sooner than that, because of the wedding. I will never get married again.
Lucas 4 years ago
Oh, please don't feel bad. It wasn't your fault. Surely this proves you aren't alone and that it is human nature to try and make things work? All those leaping straight to 'I would have left then' have probably never been in that situation and can't know the pressures we put on ourselves, let alone the pressure from the other person. People are so quick to judge. I do hope you are in happier circumstances now.
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IzzieM 4 years ago
I was thinking the same thing...then again, sometimes we ignore or rationalize those red flags far to long.
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Yvonne Dauwalder Balsiger 4 years ago
So sorry this happened to you. Glad you got rid of him! Well done!
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#2
I was at a wedding when a phone went off during the ceremony.
In the middle of exchanging vows.
It was the grooms.
He took the call.
They are divorced now.
TmKhr 4 years ago
"Dude! What's up? Hey guess what? I'm getting married! Yeah! Now! Wait a sec dude... honey, where are you going? What do you mean this is over?"
Lisa Reuss 4 years ago
More like, "Yeah, hello? {whispering} What? I told you not to call me today. Yeah, I'm getting married. No, no, it's fine. I'll see you later. You'll be at the reception, right?"
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Robert T 4 years ago (edited)
Not really. I actually had to turn mine off at my own wedding when the vicar asked people to turn the phones off for the ceremony (I'd forgotten and we made a joke of it). It was unlikely to have rung, as pretty much everyone who might have called me was at the wedding. I had it, as we had to coordinate getting cars to the reception, including my own, before going to the church. Unless the best man is going to stay with the groom the whole time before the wedding, it's pretty much essential for coordinating things.
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New Prometheus 4 years ago
Makes one think. Maybe he was extremely nervous and didn't know what he was doing? On drugs? Or waiting for a call from long lost lover? Or results from paternity test?
AzKhaleesi 4 years ago
"Baby I told you not to call me today.... Yes, shes standing right next to me, I'll see you next week after my trip."
Laura Jones 4 years ago
my brother in law got his mobile out and was playing games on it while his bride was signing the register
u/Olya_roo told Bored Panda they never expected this thread to become that popular.
"I am always interested in people's experiences, especially private ones. So, l asked this question [out of curiosity]," they said.
"I was really surprised by people's answers — like 60% of them were extremely detailed and private; you can really feel the pain in some of them."
#3
Just before the wedding started my mother turned to me and said “You are making the biggest mistake of your life, if we get in the car and leave now I will never say another word”
She was right…
Tassenküchlein168 4 years ago
Obviously not. "She was right" = the daughter did the mistake.
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Lynne Harbison 4 years ago
My parents didnt like husband and didn't come to the wedding. Didn't speak to us for 4 years. They apologised 20 years later and said he is the best son-in-law they could wish for. Now been married nearly 55 years. Parents are not always right!
Karen Marshall 4 years ago
My aunt, who never met my to be hubby, said to him 10 minutes before the wedding,"don't ever hit her." His reply, "only when she deserves it." He'd never shown any signs of violence until after we married. I took his abuse for 4 years. I should've run like hell when he said it. When people show you who they are, believe them.-Maya Angelou
John Juan 4 years ago
Too bad the Mom didn't express her misgivings at an earlier opportunity. Calling off a marriage "just before the ceremony started" would be VERY hard to do. Planning, arrangements, rehearsals, expenses, gifts received, friends all there and both families to face; my goodness! I'm not saying it wouldn't have been the right thing to do. I'm just saying that Mom's timing sucks.
Lucas 4 years ago
Might have been saying it regularly but this was a last ditch attempt. Parents sometimes don't like their future in law, doesn't mean they are right. This one time they were.
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Stille20 4 years ago
Yes, but not all parents are right. My father doesn't approve of my finance, but there is nothing wrong with him. He's just not my sister's "perfect" husband. By mine is supportive, loving and emotionally mature, as well as financially stable. So the same words could be wrong.
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Patricia Healton 4 years ago
My father did the same right before we walked down the aisle. I should have listened to him too.
Iron Eddy 4 years ago
Why?? What happened (in case u are willing to share)?
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Linda McGuigan 4 years ago
I said something similar to my Daughter just before her wedding I said you don't have to do this we can just have a party 3 years and two kids latter I was right
#4
Groom slept with another groomsman the night before he married his wife. Wanted to go to a gay bar at the bachelor party. Came out two years into the marriage. Denial ain't just a river in Egypt.
Vorknkx 4 years ago
Sadly, a lot of people do this on purpose, to hide being gay for various reasons (usually fear or social pressure).
Dre Mosley 4 years ago
So he was living a lie and deceived his wife into living it with him. Stop using phony relationships with women to mask your homosexuality.
Lisa Reuss 4 years ago
She should be able to sue him for something, like theft. He took YEARS of her life when he knew he was gay. I mean, if he wanted to go to a gay bar for the BACHELOR PARTY, he wasn't even hiding it. That's f*cked up.
Pudgy Panda 4 years ago
There are two issues here. One is hiding your true sexual identity from your SO. The other is infidelity. The groom here was wrong on both counts.
#5
The groom took the stupid cake thing to an extreme. The bride had given him his bite, and mushed a little on his chin or nose. He then took a piece and MASHED it into her face so hard that I was expecting her to end up with a bloody nose. Cake and frosting got up her nose, in her eyes, down the front of her dress, etc.
The bride had to go get cleaned up, had her makeup re-done, and was ugly-crying within an hour of saying, "I do." He didn't give a damn.
Viktor Feurer 4 years ago
There are a lot of videos on failarmy about this cake-smearing thing. I think this "custom" is really disgusting and dishonest.
Mewton’s Third Paw 4 years ago
Cake smearing is disgusting even when it’s friendly. You’re not 3. It’s a very stupid tradition.
Hannah Edwards 4 years ago
I’m not sure where the ‘cake mashed in face’ thing came from, but it’s horrible.
Lucas 4 years ago
Was never a UK thing, if people do it now they copied it from elsewhere. The cake's first cut was the thing and then it would be cut up by others and served. Not a traditional to feed it to each other. Don't get why people would push it in each others faces at all.
Load More Replies... Dorothy Parker 4 years ago (edited)
My daughter and I watch weddings on television (not bridezillas, though.) We despise the cake smashing by either spouse. It's actually fairly violent on occasion. Have never seen it with same sex couples.
New Prometheus 4 years ago
He just wanted to hit her, I bet everybody cheered and laughed when that happened. He must have got quite a kick out of it. Poor bride, I feel so bad for her.
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#6
When she went alone on her honeymoon, because she booked a trip to the caribbean despite her newlywed husband having a severe sun allergy
Vasana Phong 4 years ago
Very selfish, I have a skin disorder (discloid lupus) not fun at to be in the sun
Luna W. 4 years ago
That's an autoimmune disease not a skin disorder... I have systemic lupus and problems with sun exposure.
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SuperChicken 4 years ago
What an inconsiderate beeyatch! I hope they're not together anymore, and he found a much better woman.
#7
Don't know what happened... Sat down with bride and groom, filling out the contract. Got the deposit. He stood up, said forget it, and walked out. 2 months later I get told the wedding is off, 3 months later she calls to rebook, different groom. Day of the wedding I am at the church... Got the final payment the week before... No one shows... No one, just me and the DJ.
matilda 4 years ago
I bet she wanted to show him (the first guy) and it's so sad
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Elizabeth Molloy 4 years ago
This is for the Reception venue after the wedding.
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When the maid of honor professed her love for my brother during her toast at my brother's wedding... and her husband walked up to the head table, picked her up and carried her away before she could embarrass him further. They lasted about 3 months after that. My brother and his wife on the other hand are still happily married 20 years later.
Miss Frankfurter 4 years ago (edited)
When my parents got married it was very quickly because my dad was in the army and was being sent overseas in a few days. So the reception was a very small one back at my mom's house where she still lived in a small house with her parents. Her sister-in-law (by marriage) was a terrible flirt to the level of cringe embarrassment. My dad was sitting in the living room in a dining room chair. She proceeded to sit on his lap and put her arm around his neck. In front of everyone! At the little reception! What did my dad do? He just looked at her, stood right up thus landing her @$$ on the hard floor, stepped over her and went in the kitchen to get a drink.🤣 Epic wedding story.
ChickyChicky 4 years ago
Thank you for sharing this wonderful story. LOL!
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A lot of the stories shocked u/Olya_roo, and some left them in legit terror. "[At one point], I wanted to call the ambulance and have some of those insane people locked in a hospital," they said.
"This thread was a really fun experience, and I am so honored to see people still replying to it, and people ... contacting me."
#9
Two friends of mine got married, and when they gave their vows, the guy started laughing at the part about being faithful. Oops.
Caro Caro 4 years ago
What a twat. She should have left then and there, go to reception venue and party without him.
Vera Mzega 4 years ago
.......or maybe shed been unfaithful a couple times 🤷♀️
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Fiona Autiero 4 years ago
I forgot the vows completely, did a nervous giggle thing, said that I would be faithful then repeated that I would be faithful! Totally blank! My husband whispered in sickness and in health, chuckling away, then the priest said that it was all ok and give each other a big hug before continuing ❤️ Still married and still having a laugh 20 yrs on.
#10
When the groom went in for the kiss after their vows and the bride presented her cheek instead. They divorced less than a year later after it was discovered she had been cheating on him pretty much their entire relationship.
Debbie Barnes 4 years ago
Why did she go through with the marriage, if she was seeing someone else? I don't understand why people do this?
Ozacoter 4 years ago
I will never understand that. My cousin didnt want to marry (they were many years together and commited) but her boyfriend insisted. They married and a few months after she discovered that he had been cheating on her with several women since before the wedding. Then why pushing it?
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Destiny Cobb 3 years ago (edited)
did the marriage last for 1 day? 1 week? or 1 month? Or did it last for 1 minute? LOL
Randy Klefbeck 4 years ago
The worst lie. At least my fiance' confessed two months before our original scheduled wedding.
#11
Bride disappears right after dinner for about an hour. After she returned, groom's father comes up and asks for the mic. Proceeds to announce to the entire place that his son's new bride was just upstairs schtupping her ex boyfriend, and that the marriage is over.
Pink Floydian Panda 4 years ago
I am surprised at how many stories like this there are. Weddings bring out such intense, raw emotions that people just can't seem to control themselves. You would think the bride could get it together for what is supposed to be the happiest day of her life.
Ellie Rosser 4 years ago
Whelp, maybe the ex was so good it WAS the happiest day of her life ;-)
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Lisa Reuss 4 years ago
Good for groom's father for not letting that slide. More people should call others out for this type of behavior. I get that relationships falter, people go through hard times, spouses cheat. But to cheat AT the wedding, DURING the reception, with an ex (why are exes at the wedding anyway?), and where someone can catch you...yeah, you deserve to be humiliated for that.
Dpl do 3 years ago
How was it in anyway, his in business? That message should have come from the groom.
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SuperChicken 4 years ago
Holy cow! I have no words. And with her EX-boyfriend, even. That is more than a slap in the face on the groom. I hope the groom recovered well after that.
Dan Buczynski 4 years ago
At least she showed her true self in time to tear up the Marriage Certificate.
#12
I was maid of honour. Me, best man and the couple went into a separate little room to do the signing stuff. Bride excused herself to go the bathroom and the groom started making pretty mean remarks about her cooking (sth she's passionate about) to the officiary. She came back, heard they were talking about cooking family meals together and gave him the warmest smile, thinking he had praised her. He scoffed awkwardly and changed the topic. That always stuck with me. He wasn't laughing WITH her but AT her, behind her back. They lasted 7 months.
Miriam L 4 years ago
That's horrible... Not as gruesome as some of the other stories here but so sad
Stephanie IV 4 years ago
In a weird way, this is even more gruesome, to me.
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Lisa Reuss 4 years ago
He's telling her to her face (apparently) that he likes her cooking, criticizing her cruelly to other people, and making her look foolish ON HER WEDDING DAY. What a douche.
Jackie Nettleton 4 years ago
Why did you sign the paper, I would think that you would have the decency to at least tell her that
Mickie Shea 4 years ago
This is terrible. Never run down anyone, especially when you care about them enough to marry. What a jerk
#13
A fun light-hearted dance with the groom followed by a close and slow dance with her male best friend.
Lasted 18 months and now she's living with the "friend".
New Prometheus 4 years ago
These things happen in plain sight and many are way too naive about them. Not saying that men and women could not be friends together, just saying that they very rarely can be THAT (slow-dancing, emotionally and physically intimate) kind of friends together without it causing problems to actual spouses.
New Prometheus 4 years ago
Just wanted to add that here's nothing wrong with being jealous and cautious, often these feelings are justified. Of course there is unhealthy jealousness but I am talking about normal negative feelings everybody experiences in their relationships at some point. I wonder the very fashionable shaming of healthy jealousness - listening to that little voice could have saved the groom of this story from a lot of trouble.
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Bender Bending Rodríguez 4 years ago
You... you got what I need but you say he's just a friend ... and you say he's just a friend, oh baby
John Juan 4 years ago (edited)
I see what you did there. ....oh, Baby, you...
Load More Replies... I want cake 4 years ago
Societal expectations? When my fiancé and I had been together for a year or so, his friends and family all started to badger us to get married. They genuinely didn't understand that we felt it was too soon.
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sylvanticx 4 years ago (edited)
i have a male best friend who's like my brother. i adore the guy and would do anything for him within reason. we'd NEVER dance like that
Ellie Rosser 4 years ago
Why do people do this. If you're just not that into him then don't marry him.
Dre Mosley 4 years ago
She had been banging the "friend" the whole time and likely after she had married the other guy. Why even bother tying the knot with the guy you don't really want?
#14
Portuguese wedding. Fist fight broke out at the head table during the reception. Between two groomsmen. They were arguing about which of them had slept with the bride first. Groom was oblivious.
He came home from work early one day two years later and caught her in bed with another man. Surprised it took that long.
Midnight buffet was amazing though.
#15
At my aunts wedding.
Pastor: “Repeat after me…. For Richer and for poorer” The bride: “ for richer and for richer”
Yea they didn’t last long
SuperChicken 4 years ago
Could we be a bit more of a gold digger 🙄? I'm surprised that the groom even went through with wedding.
#16
The part of the vows where you pledge monogamy? The audience laughed
Mickie Shea 4 years ago
Sure it was poly-wedding and the guest were all various partners. Had the wrong officiant.
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Glirpy 4 years ago
I’ve never heard of traditional wedding vows saying anything at all about monogamy. This post is fake.
#17
The groom had a “best woman” instead of a best man. Nothing wrong with that, but her toast left the whole room in awkward silence because she was clearly in love with him.
Debbie Barnes 4 years ago
I think that's quite sad.. Not the best time to make that speech.. But still quite sad..
J. F. 4 years ago
Oh, I think I saw that one - it was the one with the romantic christmas story IIRC
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Purbasha Banai 4 years ago
Just what my mind screamed. Thanks for commenting 😀
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Leodavinci 4 years ago
At the reception of a daughter of family friends, a mike was being passed around for people to praise and advise the newlyweds. At one point it reached an ex-boyfriend, and it got rather quite as everyone knew and were half expecting him to make a scene. He proceed to extol the virtues of the bride until it was becoming a bit embarrassing for her and everyone else. He finished up by saying, "and if you ever need or want anything, anything at all... well, your Dad is right next to you."
Dre Mosley 4 years ago
Maybe she had been suffering in silence and couldn't hold it in anymore.
#18
When they disappeared for half an hour during the reception. They were both “saving themselves for marriage” and were desperate to bone down. Which is a fine thing to want. But it turns out that was more or less the main reason they got married. They made it almost a year.
Dre Mosley 4 years ago (edited)
They got married just so they could have sex without "sinning?" SMH.
CultOfBambi 4 years ago
So sex before marriage is a sin - but they separated/got divorced within a year and that's OK? What religion are they that this is acceptable? Have to admit that religion isn't my specialist subject...
#19
She told me two days before that she found her fiancé annoying and that she didn’t like him and that he was AWFUL in bed.
She was visibly, endlessly uncomfortable at the rehearsal wedding/dinner combo.
Then she sobbed the ENTIRE morning, day-of. She ended up not getting any makeup done cause she wouldn’t stop scream-sobbing and refused to get dressed, stalling the wedding ~35 minutes.
She then said 45 minutes of “vows” that she had prepared (9 pages of things like inappropriate vows to friends and family, his parents and sisters, none of them her husband), and then ALMOST didn’t say “I do”. Managed to get a, “uh, yeah, okay, yeah I do” out of her almost a full 60 seconds after she was supposed to say anything.
I could go on for HOURS, but it was the most painful and awkward wedding I’ve ever been to. I’ve got my money on 10 months. We’re 1 month in.
Nadine Bamberger 4 years ago
There could be intense pressure from her family behind it or he would only stay with her if they "took the next step", maybe she thinks it's what she should want..... I can't think of a healthy reason.
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Ivana 4 years ago
Then why get married? No one was like "Hey, you want me to go make an announcement and take you home? I think it is clear you don't want to do this."
Elizabeth Molloy 4 years ago
Her friends should have just got her out of there.
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Why did the person presiding over the wedding actually bother marrying them at all???
NsG 4 years ago
Yeah, if she had wanted to ge dressed and go full makeup, I'd say she was one of those idiots who just want a wedding, they don't actually want to be married (gotta have the Insta life!). But sobbing so no makeup can be applied? Scream-sobbing? That's not someone interested in the spectacle, that's someone in distress.
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Scarface's Mom 4 years ago
Why on earth didn't he run for his life?? Forget about her..clearly he had zero backbone just like her.
#20
When the groom started off his speech by saying, “we all know I didn’t want to get married but we’re here for bride and child we had together_.”
1 year, 3 months later they were finished.
tiari 4 years ago
Why? I think forcing someone into marriage is even more disrespectful.
Load More Replies... Dre Mosley 4 years ago
Marrying for the "sake of the children" is so outdated. It's not healthy for a kid to be around two people who don't want to share a life together.
Hugo Raible 4 years ago
Tell this to the divorced fathers who only see their children every second week.
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The bride told her bridesmaids that she didn’t actually want to get married. Multiple times. No one told the groom until after the divorce.
tomandjerry56 4 years ago
If you don't want to get married.....then why not say so....if you don't feel like you can be honest with your fiancé, why say yes?
Tesla Sulu 4 years ago
afraid of hurting the other person (yes, this is silly, nut it can be confusing what to do)
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New Prometheus 4 years ago
Lesson: listen to your heart, not expectations of others. Otherwise, you will end up in BP's fail compilations.
44f5 Dixit 4 years ago
No one told groom cause no one else suppose to tell him that other than his would be wife
Vasana Phong 4 years ago
It’s sad they all all the way with it just not to disappoint everyone, or everything was booked, no refunds..ect ect
Paula Marowsky 4 years ago
Groom actually deserves a real bride that loves him for real. Not this clown dressed in withe
Mickie Shea 4 years ago
So may good people out there and yet so many confused people find eachother.
#22
I used to work for an event center that hosted a lot of weddings pre-Covid.
After one ceremony I saw the groom slap the butt of one of the bridesmaids in the hallway. She laughed and with a big smile said, "Oh Jeremy, you'll never change!"
Vanessa Richardson 4 years ago
Off topic, but the dresses in this picture are beautiful! I love the color.
#23
When there's name calling. I particularly cringed at "it's because we so get each other and are so comfortable that he can call me dumb slut as a nickname." They didn't last the year.
Michelle M 4 years ago
I have a friend like that. His girlfriend calls him demeaning name and he's totally fine with that but she doesn't allow it from him. They're like best friends, he says. If my best friend did that, I would end the friendship straight.
Elizabeth Lewis 4 years ago
My daughter and I are like that. We will call each other all sorts of nasty things, however as soon as one of us says it's enough, it stops.
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NsG 4 years ago
This is a direct insult. However, I will point out that some more subtle "insults" can also be meant fondly. My hubby will jokingly (and it's obvious to BOTH of us it's a joke) call me a witch (yes, witch with a W), because I can respond with "I'm not a witch, I'm your wife!" - a line from a movie that means so much to us I walked down the aisle to the instrumental theme music. From the outside, it seems he is being disrespectful, but it's an inside joke between us. I fail to see how "dumb s**t" can ever be an inside joke - just rude.
Jasmine Hufflepuff Henderson 4 years ago
I immediately got the reference from Princess Bride and I love it.
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Aroace tiger (any pronouns) 4 years ago
I do stuff like this with my friends but the worst I say is bitch and dumbass. Is that wrong?
Vanessa Flores 4 years ago
not at all! Many of my friends do the same. It’s mostly with the people you can joke around with the most and as long as you say it in a joking manner and they don’t get offended it’s okay!
Load More Replies... SuperChicken 4 years ago
How can you call your partner/spouse/SO such names, or any degrading names? It's one thing to joke around, but to call them is just mean, and is really beyond me.
Lisa Reuss 4 years ago
No one who loves and respects you calls you "dumb s**t" as a nickname. Not more than once, maybe, as a joke. But as a pet name? Tells you all you need to know. Time to roll.
#24
An infamous one for me was leaving a venue late one night and as I’m walking to the train I can see the bride down an alley, on her knees with the best man.
JuJu 4 years ago
I don't get why it's so often the best man/bridesmaid. Aren't they usually the best friend of groom/bride? Why would they do that?
Katherine Boag 4 years ago
I think you mean: why would the bride/groom do that?
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TheWickedOne 4 years ago
I'd beat the ever loving s**t out of my "best man"... kick the bitch to the curb. SEE YA
Mickie Shea 4 years ago
Why settle for a mere groom when you can play the flute of the BestMan
#25
I was the best man at a wedding a few years back. At the rehearsal dinner, his future in-laws were treating him like cr*p. They were bossing him around, making him do cr*p, and talking down to him. They didn’t let him hang out with his groomsmen afterwards while the bride went out and got drunk.
They are now divorced.
SuperChicken 4 years ago
Talk about taking advantage of a really nice guy. Normally, I'm sad when I hear someone is divorced or going through it - but instances like this, good for the guy!
Lisa Reuss 4 years ago
Assuming the groom was a grown man at the time, why didn't he speak up then? The couple might still be married, or might never have gotten married, if he weren't such a pushover.
Myxomatosis 4 years ago (edited)
My BFs family treats me like that. We've been together 10 years and I have NOT seen his mother in 4 years. I WILL NOT MARRY.
Bisexual-Dragon (she/they) 4 years ago (edited)
Ok I'm sorry unrelated but is Bored Panda really censoring the word crap like come on
YoyoSthlm 4 years ago
Can someone please explain this whole rehearsal dinner thing? Exactly what do they need to rehearse? If something goes wrong the next day it'll probably be something you couldn't plan anyways. And isn't it ruining the whole surprise when everyone already knows what's going to happen?
#26
Had an old boss who was divorced. He told me once "I should have known it wasn't going to last when the only happy moment I had on my wedding day was when I snuck out to smoke weed with my buddies in the parking lot."
Pungent Sauce 4 years ago
I was there! I remember suddenly there was a uniformed cop who came around the corner and saw 4 very well dressed guys burning one, and we all froze. Cop rolls his eyes ”C’mon guys, I have enough trouble with the kids” and walked on…(Woodstock, IL 1985)
Carl Dombek 4 years ago
My favorite "I should have known it wasn't going to last" moment involves a man who, upon arriving at their hotel for their honeymoon, suggests that it's time to have married sex for the first time. His new wife says, "Oh, yeah, I guess we HAVE TO do that, don't we?"
PeachPossum 4 years ago (edited)
He should have gotten in the car and driven away without the bride
#27
When he smashed the cake in her face and hair, then went off drinking with his buddies. In 12 weeks, she filed. Good thing I didn't buy an expensive gift.
Tabitha Osika 4 years ago
It's a red banner not a flag! I was pregnant and nauseous at my wedding. I asked him to just skip that whole cake foolishness and when it came to it he grabbed half the darn and shoved it in my face so hard that I choked. Frosting and custard was in my dang sinuses he shoved it that hard. Not even 2 months later he started hitting me. I should have run that day.
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#28
One where the wedding was all about the groom promoting his band. He even "sang his bride a song" that was literally just him showing off his vocal range with some classic piece. She stood up and joined him on stage half way through and he looked annoyed that he had to share the limelight. They lasted about 2 years (he was sleeping with the other vocalist in the band.)
#29
The most beautiful wedding I've been to ended in divorce. Venue was where the groom's father is buried and he cried as he made his vows to the bride there. Turned out he'd been cheating on her for months and they divorced a while later. Something so repugnant about marrying someone you're cheating on practically over your father's grave. To date it's the only wedding I've been to that ended in divorce.
Michelle M 4 years ago
That's just disrespectful to the father, family and bride. The groom is an ah
#30
The entire bridal party, including parents of the wedded couple, entering in to a betting pool of how long the marriage would last, at the wedding reception.
IIRC the best man won (price is right rules) at 14 months
tiari 4 years ago (edited)
If everybody told the two of them that marriage is a bad idea and they did it anyway, I don't really see a problem. Sometimes you just know as an outsider, I don't see it being bad taste if you don't pretend.
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Jennie-Lind Normand 4 years ago
This sounds like my dads second wedding! My new step sister and I were taking bets as we got drunk, I don't remember who won but the marriage didn't last 6 months. fwiw, my dad is a narcissist with a violent temper and my step mom is a wonderful woman, his 'true colours' came out not long after the wedding.... my step sister and I started the bet when my dad almost got in a fist fight with his new step son at the reception!
Colleen Garland 4 years ago
Hope you are still friends with your "new step sister".
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Azure Adams 4 years ago
I've done this at many weddings I got paid to officiate. Those ones I also hold off a few weeks before submitting the marriage license just in case
Tony Oertelt 4 years ago
between my family and my wife's family, no one gave us more that 5 years. the first 2 were so rocky, but it's been 20+ and still strong
#31
My husband was the best man at a wedding. The bride was a nightmare. Not just during the wedding, but in general everyday life. All of the friends hated her, and she had no friends of her own. We knew it was doomed when: during the portraits, the bride was making everyone miserable as can be. The groom said (exact words): "I'll just send her to therapy. And, if that doesn't work, we can just get divorced."
Dre Mosley 4 years ago
Imagine willingly going into a marriage already knowing your wife is an awful person
Azure Adams 4 years ago
Speaking as a therapist: therapy won't change her unless she is a willing participant in the process. Go for the divorce
#32
He complained she was mean to him throughout their dating life. The day before the wedding all of the groomsmen and the grooms friends told him not to marry the girl. Like straight up. They lasted less than a year.
Lauren Caswell 4 years ago
Hmm. I get that you don't want to marry someone who is mean. I know my ex used to tell everyone how awful and mean I was, until one day when we were with a group of friends and he he lost "control" and socked me in the face for frowning at him. You could have heard a pin drop. Thing was that was normal for me. But always take it with a grain of salt: advise your friend but don't just blindly hate the other party. His friends used to give me so much s**t til he showed his true colours (his friend group changed somewhat after that as you can imagine)
Caro Caro 4 years ago
I'm sorry you had to go through that ! Glad you got out of that uh, I was going to say relationship but lets call it SH!T.
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#33
When he raised his eyebrows and gave her a knowing look during the “for richer or for poorer” portion of their vows. For context, he was a newly drafted pro athlete and she was a big fan of his signing bonus
Tassenküchlein168 4 years ago
This is what the reporting person saw. Sounds somewhat jealous to me.
#34
One of my friends got married, afterwards she looked at me, crying, and said " what did I do? ". They were separated by the time the plane landed from their honeymoon. He was a good guy, she was a mess. The beta fish in the flower centerpieces lasted longer than the marriage.
therarestbanana 4 years ago
Betta* fish and they don't belong in vases or bowls. People should really do more research about fish, they're not decorations!
ChickyChicky 4 years ago
I took home a betta from a wedding and he had a very happy life for about 2 years with me.
Load More Replies... Alexis Draskinis 4 years ago
Holy crap! Did i write this!? We had the exact same scenario happen to a friend...even down to the fish we had that lasted longer than their marriage!! Lololol!
Sophia Atkinson 4 years ago (edited)
Unless your screen name was once Boosully, someone might have stolen it from you.
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Jessa Goldstein 4 years ago
Interesting choice for a centerpiece; don't beta fish fight to the death if they are in a container together?
Helena Houzarová 4 years ago
There was probably only one fish per centerpiece.
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Inga Viviane 4 years ago
Shitty people. If you use fish as decoration, you are a shittyhuman being and This is violence against animals. Its disgusting.
crazy_cat_notAlady 4 years ago
the beta fish line cracked me up. whoever has written this has a wicked sense of humor.
#35
Groom got into a fist fight with the father of the bride. Split after 4 months.
Context- Groom and brides dad (actually most people in these families if I'm honest) have pretty aggressive drinking problems. Father in law has always hated him. I wasn't around for what actually set it off but it ended when the bride got in the middle, got an elbow in the eye and the happy couple left for the night. This was in rural Canada. Not Letterkenny, but basically Letterkenny. I'd say the father in law won the fight though.
IlovemydogShilo 4 years ago
Is this Letterkenny Co. Donegal Ireland. I grew up there. It's a great place and NOT known for the obstreperous nature of its inhabitants . Quite the opposite. The Letterkenny people are really warm kind and friendly.
DogMom 4 years ago
Letterkenny is a Canadian TV show that takes place in rural Canada.
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#36
I was at the wedding of one of my mum’s oldest friends and she clearly had more fun dancing with the best man after the wedding.
Long story short, they dated for a while after the divorce.
#37
The groom and best man had a dancing routine for getting into the church ceremony and they got nearly halfway through it and I guess the groom felt they hadn't received much applause and wows from us the attendees and decided to go back to the entrance and start all over. Sigh...
Lisa Reuss 4 years ago
What?? This sounds so...baffling. That wedding is doomed because, clearly, it's all about the groom.
#38
My brother’s ex-wife. Throughout the exchange of vows, she was looking at everyone but my brother, making sure all eyes were on her. Later, she instructed the photographer (a family friend who was cheap) to “mingle” and get shots of people “being happy”. Within 10 minutes, she’d summoned the photographer back shouting, “Whose wedding is this?! I meant get shots of people being happy for me.”
Al Christensen 4 years ago
There are a lot of women for whom getting married is really about fulfilling their little girl princess fantasies, about being the glorious center of glamorous attention. For them, the groom is just a necessary player in the pageant.
#39
The bride and groom did the first dance then spent the rest of their reception completely apart from each other getting s**t-faced with their own separate friend-groups. The only other dancing all night was the bride dancing with her high school friends, the father-daughter dance and the mother-son dance, during which the groom was crying. The best man's speech didn't mention the bride at all and basically boiled down to "Groom, you're married now but our bond is older and stronger, all of our hunting and fishing trips together are the best thing in our lives, can't wait for more." Such a sad, desperate atmosphere. They made it a little over one year.
I want cake 4 years ago
I think that a lot of people just don't understand what a long term relationship is about. So many people choose a partner based on physical attraction and feeling in love, and while those two things are an important first step in making that choice, they are by no means the ones to build on. It's become super uncool to talk about the future when starting a relationship, but it's so important to do that. For example, my fiancé and I talked about our ideal life, what would that look like, our dream home, dream retirement, plans for the future in general, our own upbringing and what we would want to pass on if we ever had children and what we would do differently, and so on. Of course a lot of these things can change overtime, but if you're at a similar point in life with similar goals, you're much more likely to grow together and build a sustainable and happy relationship. This should be taught in schools.
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Kristy Nelson 4 years ago
I think sometimes people really don't know how to get out or they really believe they will make it work. 😞
#40
I was kindly included in a last-minute plus-one to the wedding of a family friend who I'd never met before. At the rehearsal dinner (or the German equivalent, the Polterabend) the guests smashed ceramic and porcelain items on the ground. I was fresh in Germany, so this was all pretty out of context and frightening, but my boyfriend explained that it's a tradition - reminding the couple that life is sometimes difficult and you have to work together to clean it up. The bride kind of half-heartedly motioned to the groom to sweep it up. He did a little bit, then just moved on to talk to his friends, leaving most of the shards strewn around the yard. Additionally, I don't think I saw the couple talk to each other once over the next three days of celebrations. It was a gorgeous wedding, and I'm so grateful that I was invited (really good way to begin living in a new country), but it wasn't surprising to hear that they'd divorced a few years later.
JuJu 4 years ago
Why have a Polterabend when you are not prepared to use snow shovels to clean up (and probably have ordered a small container)
Lila Launehase 4 years ago
It is a bit tricky. The Polterabend can get really nasty if you have "funny" friends who hide your brooms and shovels or other stuff. There are regions, especially in little towns where tradition is a big thing, where you don't have a choice because half of the town is going crazy.
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Nicki 4 years ago
Awwww....I like this tradition! Much better than the cake smash in the face tradition here in the states. Although in the Black culture here we have a tradition called "Jumping the Broom", which I love! It is a symbol of sweeping away the old and welcoming the new, or a symbol of new beginnings.
Tomáš Houdek 4 years ago
Yeah in my counry smahing a plate is common tradition. Husband and wife are supposed to sweep it before having a feast. Also friends are suppsed to make it harder by "accidentally" throwing collected shard back to the ground. Family should keep one shard as a reminder of the wedding.
#41
Wedding videographer here, I think my favorite moment was when I was sitting at the miscellaneous table with all the randoms and the girl next to me, the grooms ex, drunkenly admitted to sleeping with the groom a few months prior
#42
Groom was going after the garter - blindfolded. Picked the wrong girl (Maid of Honor). Should have known it wasn't his bride when the garter wasn't there. Had his head up her dress for WAY too long!
Yvonne Dauwalder Balsiger 4 years ago
I wonder too. While it is really entertaining to read about it, I am just glad, all my attended weddings so far were with a bride and groom visibly happy to be there and while some guests really got drunk, they all managed to either just fall asleep where they were or could be led to their room peacefully.
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Her friends took turns motorboating her (females), and he said, get it out of your system as after tonight you never get to do that again. Was a good sign also when she dove into the pool with her bridesmaids at the reception...in her wedding dress.
Pink Floydian Panda 4 years ago
What happened next?! Did she wind up leaving him for one of the bridesmaids to motorboat in sickness and in health? Please do tell us the rest of the story!
Neil Bidle 4 years ago
Get it all out of your system, because from today you WILL be a different person whether you like it or not. Sounds reasonable.
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October 4 years ago
During one wedding I was seated at a table with about ten people. Someone asks how we all know the bride and groom. First girl says he's an ex of the groom. Second girl says she's an ex of the groom. Third girl says: 'Omg is there anyone here who hasn't slept with the groom !?'. Turns out I was the only one who hadn't...
lazy panda 4 years ago
It's hella ballsy to invite 9 exes to your wedding and seat them all the same table. Wow!
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Laura Lou 4 years ago
I went to a wedding where the pastor was the groom's father and he kept going on about how the bride was to always serve the groom. She should always have dinner ready with a smile, be ready to fulfill her duties in the bedroom, etc. Nothing about what the groom needed to do. Was super awkward with children of all ages there.
Michelle M 4 years ago
Seems like marriage has lost the value it once had. Better to be single or just be in a relationship than go through these shits. But don't be fooled by these posts. There are still many beautiful marriages out there. Just getting fewer by the day.
D S 4 years ago
I think people seem to put much more focus and effort on the wedding than on the marriage itself and tbh that´s just a day. It might be a great day or all your plans might fail and the day go completely amiss but that´s not the marriage. The marriage is what you do everyday to your spouse and how you live together and make stuff work while dealing with everything else. Some os these seem like people who focused on the wedding but forgot it´s a marriage they´re supposed to be getting into...
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Rose the Cook 4 years ago (edited)
Bride left the reception and had the marriage annulled when they argued over her young son going on the honeymoon with them. They had been having an affair for years behind her husband's back before she eventually divorced her husband so they had plenty of time to organise and agree on details regarding her son accompanying them or not. Incidentally the groom married and divorced 3 more times after. The bride never remarried.
Glirpy 4 years ago
Hi everyone. Hey, if you are planning on getting married, I would very much appreciate if you could just cancel those plans and send me the money you would use for your wedding. I could really use it right now. Thanks! (And don’t forget to include a thank you note to me about how I saved you from making a big mistake)
Octavia Hansen 4 years ago
My happy wedding tale: As a punk rocker, my hair was FLAMING PINK. At my sister’s wedding rehearsal dinner, groom’s family said mean things just loud enough to hear but not to my face. That night, I rinsed it to black, wore it tastefully pulled back with ribbons as I stood next to her. My sister CRIED with happiness -- she would NEVER has asked me to change but I did it for her, not for them. Did not want my clown pink to ruin her wedding photos. Shame the marriage only lasted a few years. Guess the family found other things to hate.
Maneki Neko 4 years ago (edited)
Went to a wedding where the bride disappeared during dinner. She had been sick for hours and blamed it on too many cigarettes and too little food during the day. We knew there must have been something else - like her realising what she just did. She wanted to be married „before 30“, to whomever it seemed as none of her friends liked him. While one of grooms colleagues drove her home at 8 p.m. groom got drunk and shouted „Bride would have loved to see you all party hard“. We left at 9 p.m. Things started to go downhill in their honeymoon and they separated 3 months after the wedding. Two years later or so, bride married his colleague who drove her home. 2 kids and 15+ years later, they‘re still together.
Leo Domitrix 4 years ago
Weddings are such high-stress high-money events that I think people feel "trapped" by them, and forget the marriage. Friend of mine decided to "go through with it". The minister mentioned the word Divorce 13 times in the sermon (we counted) and then they were done within 5 years (domestic violence, infidelity).
VeryDarkMatter 4 years ago (edited)
When he said "Rachel" instead of "Emily".. oh no, that was on TV
Steve Wilson 4 years ago
Many years ago I was asked to be the best man for a wedding between two friends who decided to get married at the spur of the moment. So they went to one of those “marriage parlors”. They had to get the license and had a few drinks as they waited for the results. During the ceremony when the preacher asked the groom if he “takes this woman to be his lawful wife” he replied “Yeah. But I’m drunk”. Didn’t last a year. Both been dead for years.
October 4 years ago
During one wedding I was seated at a table with about ten people. Someone asks how we all know the bride and groom. First girl says he's an ex of the groom. Second girl says she's an ex of the groom. Third girl says: 'Omg is there anyone here who hasn't slept with the groom !?'. Turns out I was the only one who hadn't...
lazy panda 4 years ago
It's hella ballsy to invite 9 exes to your wedding and seat them all the same table. Wow!
Load More Replies... Laura Lou 4 years ago
I went to a wedding where the pastor was the groom's father and he kept going on about how the bride was to always serve the groom. She should always have dinner ready with a smile, be ready to fulfill her duties in the bedroom, etc. Nothing about what the groom needed to do. Was super awkward with children of all ages there.
Michelle M 4 years ago
Seems like marriage has lost the value it once had. Better to be single or just be in a relationship than go through these shits. But don't be fooled by these posts. There are still many beautiful marriages out there. Just getting fewer by the day.
D S 4 years ago
I think people seem to put much more focus and effort on the wedding than on the marriage itself and tbh that´s just a day. It might be a great day or all your plans might fail and the day go completely amiss but that´s not the marriage. The marriage is what you do everyday to your spouse and how you live together and make stuff work while dealing with everything else. Some os these seem like people who focused on the wedding but forgot it´s a marriage they´re supposed to be getting into...
Load More Replies... Rose the Cook 4 years ago (edited)
Bride left the reception and had the marriage annulled when they argued over her young son going on the honeymoon with them. They had been having an affair for years behind her husband's back before she eventually divorced her husband so they had plenty of time to organise and agree on details regarding her son accompanying them or not. Incidentally the groom married and divorced 3 more times after. The bride never remarried.
Glirpy 4 years ago
Hi everyone. Hey, if you are planning on getting married, I would very much appreciate if you could just cancel those plans and send me the money you would use for your wedding. I could really use it right now. Thanks! (And don’t forget to include a thank you note to me about how I saved you from making a big mistake)
Octavia Hansen 4 years ago
My happy wedding tale: As a punk rocker, my hair was FLAMING PINK. At my sister’s wedding rehearsal dinner, groom’s family said mean things just loud enough to hear but not to my face. That night, I rinsed it to black, wore it tastefully pulled back with ribbons as I stood next to her. My sister CRIED with happiness -- she would NEVER has asked me to change but I did it for her, not for them. Did not want my clown pink to ruin her wedding photos. Shame the marriage only lasted a few years. Guess the family found other things to hate.
Maneki Neko 4 years ago (edited)
Went to a wedding where the bride disappeared during dinner. She had been sick for hours and blamed it on too many cigarettes and too little food during the day. We knew there must have been something else - like her realising what she just did. She wanted to be married „before 30“, to whomever it seemed as none of her friends liked him. While one of grooms colleagues drove her home at 8 p.m. groom got drunk and shouted „Bride would have loved to see you all party hard“. We left at 9 p.m. Things started to go downhill in their honeymoon and they separated 3 months after the wedding. Two years later or so, bride married his colleague who drove her home. 2 kids and 15+ years later, they‘re still together.
Leo Domitrix 4 years ago
Weddings are such high-stress high-money events that I think people feel "trapped" by them, and forget the marriage. Friend of mine decided to "go through with it". The minister mentioned the word Divorce 13 times in the sermon (we counted) and then they were done within 5 years (domestic violence, infidelity).
VeryDarkMatter 4 years ago (edited)
When he said "Rachel" instead of "Emily".. oh no, that was on TV
Steve Wilson 4 years ago
Many years ago I was asked to be the best man for a wedding between two friends who decided to get married at the spur of the moment. So they went to one of those “marriage parlors”. They had to get the license and had a few drinks as they waited for the results. During the ceremony when the preacher asked the groom if he “takes this woman to be his lawful wife” he replied “Yeah. But I’m drunk”. Didn’t last a year. Both been dead for years.
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