Jimmy Fallon Asks People To Share The Worst Wedding Fails They’ve Encountered, They Deliver 30 Funny Responses
It's wedding season, which means get ready to see some corny hashtags along with videos and photos from wedding parties filling up your feed. While some people may feel romantic envy seeing all the love in the air - others are reveling in the inevitable embarrassing moments and funny accidents that can come from such big day events.
When there are open bars, extended families, future-in-laws who don't get along or any other fantastic mix of variables, there is sure to be some excitement or, rather, epic fails. In honor of this season, Jimmy Fallon asked his followers to tweet out a funny or weird story of a funny wedding mishap they experienced attending with the hashtag #WeddingFail, for the chance it could be read on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon show - and boy did they deliver. Scroll down to check out the best tweets, and don't forget to upvote your favs!
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That´s just AWESOME!! xDD And it fits all of them so perfectly :)
That's not exactly needless to say - but I'm relieved that's the case.
That was very sweet of them to try and catch her. Haha, what a cute family photo.
Nope. Grew up on a dairy farm with over 200 cows. Birthing calves was a common place event and I don't believe it. Never heard any of them make much noise at all - cows giving birth for the first time, cows having difficulty and needing a vet to help them give birth. Nope.
A 12 year old who 'kept getting refills' of 'spiked lemonade' would do more than 'feel a bit weird towards the end of the night' - I seriously question this one.
"If you want something done right, you gotta do it yourself." At least you have to outline what you want and check at every step.
My ex was a groomsman in my wedding. He's really good friends with my husband. We all get along well and spend a lot of time together (including his wife and our kids). Not everyone hates each other after a breakup.
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Hope it was before the signing of the papers so the bride to be could leave the dirty rat at the altar. EDIT: Oops, I read the post wrong. He isn’t the dirty rat, the ex is.
The only dirty rat was the former girlfriend reading old love letters.
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Why was she even asked to talk at the wedding let alone why was she there
I would escort her out once she started the drama show. I'm fortunately, friends worth all my exes, and very protective of them. When they met the right girl, I thanked her for loving a taking care of someone I loved too. And when they'd be jealous and insecure, I'd remind them: we didn't last. If it was good, we'd still be together. So, no competition there. I'm happy for my exes. Buy none of them could be happy for me, when I married. One even wrote " No congratulations to the new couple." My ex husband also didn't dare to show( he left me for another, no hard feeing on my side). Stupid, to marry another, and still want to have the ex. People need to learn to let go, and be happy for each other.
We invited this lovely couple to the wedding my Mom threw for my brother & his first wife (his first, her third). He was 30 & she was 26 & my Mom was paying for the entire wedding. They told her to plan the whole thing & they actually had gotten married legally for insurance reasons earlier. My sister-in-law was a lapsed Methodist & we were Reform Jews, so it was a very low key brunch with a Reform Rabbi on a Sunday morning at a restaurant. No dancing. We did have a pro pianist throughout the first half to play for the guests. We basically had the “same” beautiful wedding my friend had at the same restaurant a month earlier ( only with different guests). She had the above “The Little People” from Chicago & they were terrific. Everybody loved them & they broke up the lull mid morning. They were a huge hit with the schmaltzy, North Shore crowd. Not so much with five people from California who knew- unforseeable and not a slight. Bride kept saying, “I’m sure it’ll be fine.” It wasn’t!
Who are The Little People from Chicago and what does 'North Shore crowd' mean? I'm not from America, so have no idea what that means.
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My MIL was 30 mins late to my wedding and because she had my daughter who was flower girl I couldn’t start without her. I later found out that she was late because she wanted to finish her cup of tea. She was also in charge of bringing the stereo to play the song I was going to walk down the aisle too. She forgot so our friend played the song on his car stereo. We had a juke box for music and were dancing to the chicken dance when the top of my dress popped open and I wasn’t wearing a bra so I quickly ran into the kitchen so my SIL could do the zipper back up. My daughter decided to do a poo explosion through her nappy and went all over her dress so my In-laws took her to their house, washed her and she spent the rest of the wedding in track pants and a jumper. But even with all these things I had the best time, I loved my wedding. The only thing I would have changed is the photographer, I should have hired a professional instead of cutting costs and using a family friend.
If it's any consolation my sister ended up paying a fortune for her photographer and he wasn't that good. My photos were actually better (good camera).
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I went to an old friend's wedding...hadn't seen her in years but we were best of friends all through our childhood. Somehow I got put in charge of cutting the cake for everyone. I ended up cutting it so the structure that holds up the top tiers came loose and the cake toppled over. Cake went everywhere.
I was a bridesmaid four times, and schedule for a fifth. During one marriage ceremony, the priest's sermon included the word "Divorce" exactly 13 times. Yes, I counted. And, yes, they ended up divorced. And this was the priest that did their premarital couples counseling... What-the-what?!
"And this was the priest that did their premarital couples counseling" Makes sense. He got to know the couple and works with people professionally so probably knows people really well so he made an informed guess or simply listened to his gut feeling --- which doesn't excuse him using the word that much during the wedding ceremony (should have talked to them in private instead), unless he improvised and did it subconsciously
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my cousin did not believe us when we told her we were too large breasted to wear strapless bridesmaid dresses. Her maid of honor bowed at the alter at the beginning of the ceremony and completely came out of the top. flashed the alter.
As a punk in the 90s, I had PINK hair. Went through my sis's wedding rehearsal with pink, then went home that night and rinsed it to black for her next day, the big day. She cried her thank you. She was not going to ask me to change . . . but . . . I did NOT want her wedding pictures to have a BOZO with pink hair, for the rest of her life. I changed my hair back after the weekend . . . Love you, sis!
In my country we have a whole tradition for the bride and groom's entrance to the reception. You have to do a bunch of things, but the the very first is the bride has to kick over a small metal pot full of water (resembling a tiny cauldron) laid on the floor. The spilled water in your path would bring luck and happiness. Of course I couldn't turn it over on my first try. On my second I kicked the thing too hard and sent a metal missile flying at my mother's feet. Luckily she stepped out of the way on time. I still don't know how we're supposed to take it. We had a good laugh about it though.
My cousin got married to a girl from an extremely old-fashioned family, and she wanted her first kiss to be her wedding kiss. Nothing wrong with that, expect they definitely did not plan how the kiss would go. On their first attempt, he knocked off her glasses. On the second attempt, she hit her tooth on his nose. They finally landed the kiss on Attempt #3.
I am gonna say that about half should be listed on r/thathappened. But funny non the less.
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With my first wedding (this SHOULD have been an indication) SOOO many things went wrong: 1) the photographer wanted to get pictures of the girls down by the river ahead of the ceremony, so she told me she would take me down to the river in her van (because of my poofy dress) but she told me to sit in the front because she had children and who KNOWS what kinda sticky mess was back there....I get out of her van and my mom starts crying...I am like I know mom it's an emotional day..she said...no...you have blue ink ALL down the back of my dress...so I tried to laugh it off saying it was my something blue. 2) At that point we decided to go to the dry cleaners to see if they had ANYTHING to take out the ink...and if you have seen my big fat greek wedding, there was this little greek guy spraying windex on the back of my dress to try and take out the stain (didn't work) 3) at this point someone was sent ahead to tell my ex that I was going to be late...to my own wedding...and why I was late
cont...so everyone knew there was ink down the back of my dress, so they were all looking to see if they could see it 4) my parents rented a horse and carriage (I didnt know) but it was so hot that the horse was getting all antsy and started barrelling down the street (we thought we would have to jump on him to stop him) 5) then we get to the reception and because it was so hot the topper on my cake was starting to make the cake tilt...the cake was two tiers up, 2 tiers to each side with a waterfall in the middle...so my dad took the cake into the kitchen where it was cooler so that it wouldnt melt...the kitchen staff cut my cake...I DIDN'T GET TO CUT MY OWN CAKE 5) we purposely stayed at a different hotel than the rest of the wedding party. We didnt want to lose the key..so we told the BM to hold the key, who gave it to an usher, who gave it to his gf and his mother..who then WENT to our hotel and ransacked the hotel to the point that there were CHIPS, SOURCREAM, SHAVING CREAM...
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I let my husband plan our wedding. It involved a pit bike; liquor, lottery tickets and cigarettes filled piñata; and every bar game you can think of. It was fun. I didn't marry him because he was fancy that's for sure.
My husband and I were on a really tight budget and are not fans of large weddings, so we wanted just to have ceremonies with best man and maid of honor and a lunch later, with sth for families later on, if even. My FIL didn't agree with that, so basically his side of family showed up in front of municipality and we learned of that shortly before, and instead of lunch we ended up at my in-laws' house. I am not a bridezilla, I like those people and do not regret having them at my wedding, but I do feel aggravated that we didn't know of that, and thus my side of the family didn't attend the wedding (let's have 'em all then). Oh, and my first maid of honor couldn't make it due to family obligations, and even though I loved my actual m.o.h., I could've picked up a better one by holding up a sign in the middle of main street on another continent, saying First one who says yes gets the title. All photos are horrible one way or another. So, there. XD
I used to work at a Reception Center as banquet captain. One instance the groom got so drunk and went outside to puke and passed out in bushes. His new wife left without him saying "he can find his own way back" Another time at a reception the bridesmaids were in the men's bathroom basically f*ing and blowing guys who lined up for them. Yikes Crazy stuff happens at wedding receptions for sure.
My sister and her husband spent a small fortune on their wedding (I mean a ridiculous amount of money for what was essentially a 6 hour party). It was beautiful, sure. The reception was at an upscale restaurant on the beach (Salty's on Alki in Seattle). We had spent an entire afternoon tasting cakes at Edible Cakes & Monuments. She had chosen a a very tasteful & elegant cake, 3 tiers, nothing over the top. So we get to the reception and this HIDEOUS cake had been set up in the corner. It had BLUE roses cascading down the side of all 6 tiers, and they were melting due to the heat. She called the bakery the following week and they basically refused to refund her money (it was right around $500), even though she had pictures of the cake she ordered and the cake she received. We had to picket in front of their store before she got her refund. Not surprisingly - they went out of business less than a year later.
My photographer was a friend, who thought that he only needed to take a few photos and then enjoy the reception as a guest; I have 4 decent photos total. My videographer accidentally recorded everything in negative-my dress is black, my hair is white, my teeth are green. We look like aliens getting married on another planet. I was late to the wedding, because the person who was supposed to drive me there decided a bride should be able to take her time and thought I would appreciate an extra hour of fussing over myself. Instead, I looked like a jilted bride, holding my bouquet and train next to the door looking out the window for an hour. Someone thought to change the batteries (last minute) on the boom box we were using for the music out in the forest setting we picked. The "new" batteries didn't work, so there was no music. My guests sang "dum dum dum dum, dum dum dum dum" for the wedding march. Then a tree fell in the forest and the electricity went out at the reception venue.
Dogs should be in every wedding. When my cousin got married, she insisted on having her spoiled rotten doberman there. Right when it got to the vows, the dobie started wailing for attention. They tied his leash to a chair with the MIL sitting on it send thr dog literally dragged the chair over to the couple. It wanted to be part of the ceremony...
Cake lady showed up with less than half we paid for, I put the ring on my husbands right hand instead of left and more than half of my family just didn’t show up.
Perhaps they'd heard there wouldn't be enough cake? Seriously, I'm so sorry. The cake and the ring things don't matter anywhere near as much as family doing that to you. I was an 'emergency bridesmaid' at a friends wedding when her sister and mother refused to go and then got groped by her father during the reception (but said nothing - who wants to let a bride know THAT'S going on?). What a great family that poor woman has.
Load More Replies... We made all the wedding arrangements ourselves, small wedding. My sister knew a professional photographer so we used him. Turns out he shot advertising art. No family photos, no posed photos during the wedding, took us years to track him down for the photos he took the morning of the wedding in his studio. More than half the photos have my sister's best friend's son photobombing the event. And my crazy's aunt's boyfriend in a red cardigan (at a formal wedding) was in the center of all the rest.
My brother's wedding. Big Catholic ceremony.. The priest was a "little" tipsy. Never said their names. Completely skipped the vows. The entire "Do you take to be.. blah blah blah.. None of it
My wedding fail has to be the time I said "I do" I found out that 'my' 2 sons were not mine and she was sleeping with 5 men behind my back and 3 of them were random guys off the internet
My MIL was 30 mins late to my wedding and because she had my daughter who was flower girl I couldn’t start without her. I later found out that she was late because she wanted to finish her cup of tea. She was also in charge of bringing the stereo to play the song I was going to walk down the aisle too. She forgot so our friend played the song on his car stereo. We had a juke box for music and were dancing to the chicken dance when the top of my dress popped open and I wasn’t wearing a bra so I quickly ran into the kitchen so my SIL could do the zipper back up. My daughter decided to do a poo explosion through her nappy and went all over her dress so my In-laws took her to their house, washed her and she spent the rest of the wedding in track pants and a jumper. But even with all these things I had the best time, I loved my wedding. The only thing I would have changed is the photographer, I should have hired a professional instead of cutting costs and using a family friend.
If it's any consolation my sister ended up paying a fortune for her photographer and he wasn't that good. My photos were actually better (good camera).
Load More Replies... I went to an old friend's wedding...hadn't seen her in years but we were best of friends all through our childhood. Somehow I got put in charge of cutting the cake for everyone. I ended up cutting it so the structure that holds up the top tiers came loose and the cake toppled over. Cake went everywhere.
I was a bridesmaid four times, and schedule for a fifth. During one marriage ceremony, the priest's sermon included the word "Divorce" exactly 13 times. Yes, I counted. And, yes, they ended up divorced. And this was the priest that did their premarital couples counseling... What-the-what?!
"And this was the priest that did their premarital couples counseling" Makes sense. He got to know the couple and works with people professionally so probably knows people really well so he made an informed guess or simply listened to his gut feeling --- which doesn't excuse him using the word that much during the wedding ceremony (should have talked to them in private instead), unless he improvised and did it subconsciously
Load More Replies... my cousin did not believe us when we told her we were too large breasted to wear strapless bridesmaid dresses. Her maid of honor bowed at the alter at the beginning of the ceremony and completely came out of the top. flashed the alter.
As a punk in the 90s, I had PINK hair. Went through my sis's wedding rehearsal with pink, then went home that night and rinsed it to black for her next day, the big day. She cried her thank you. She was not going to ask me to change . . . but . . . I did NOT want her wedding pictures to have a BOZO with pink hair, for the rest of her life. I changed my hair back after the weekend . . . Love you, sis!
In my country we have a whole tradition for the bride and groom's entrance to the reception. You have to do a bunch of things, but the the very first is the bride has to kick over a small metal pot full of water (resembling a tiny cauldron) laid on the floor. The spilled water in your path would bring luck and happiness. Of course I couldn't turn it over on my first try. On my second I kicked the thing too hard and sent a metal missile flying at my mother's feet. Luckily she stepped out of the way on time. I still don't know how we're supposed to take it. We had a good laugh about it though.
My cousin got married to a girl from an extremely old-fashioned family, and she wanted her first kiss to be her wedding kiss. Nothing wrong with that, expect they definitely did not plan how the kiss would go. On their first attempt, he knocked off her glasses. On the second attempt, she hit her tooth on his nose. They finally landed the kiss on Attempt #3.
I am gonna say that about half should be listed on r/thathappened. But funny non the less.
Load More Replies... With my first wedding (this SHOULD have been an indication) SOOO many things went wrong: 1) the photographer wanted to get pictures of the girls down by the river ahead of the ceremony, so she told me she would take me down to the river in her van (because of my poofy dress) but she told me to sit in the front because she had children and who KNOWS what kinda sticky mess was back there....I get out of her van and my mom starts crying...I am like I know mom it's an emotional day..she said...no...you have blue ink ALL down the back of my dress...so I tried to laugh it off saying it was my something blue. 2) At that point we decided to go to the dry cleaners to see if they had ANYTHING to take out the ink...and if you have seen my big fat greek wedding, there was this little greek guy spraying windex on the back of my dress to try and take out the stain (didn't work) 3) at this point someone was sent ahead to tell my ex that I was going to be late...to my own wedding...and why I was late
cont...so everyone knew there was ink down the back of my dress, so they were all looking to see if they could see it 4) my parents rented a horse and carriage (I didnt know) but it was so hot that the horse was getting all antsy and started barrelling down the street (we thought we would have to jump on him to stop him) 5) then we get to the reception and because it was so hot the topper on my cake was starting to make the cake tilt...the cake was two tiers up, 2 tiers to each side with a waterfall in the middle...so my dad took the cake into the kitchen where it was cooler so that it wouldnt melt...the kitchen staff cut my cake...I DIDN'T GET TO CUT MY OWN CAKE 5) we purposely stayed at a different hotel than the rest of the wedding party. We didnt want to lose the key..so we told the BM to hold the key, who gave it to an usher, who gave it to his gf and his mother..who then WENT to our hotel and ransacked the hotel to the point that there were CHIPS, SOURCREAM, SHAVING CREAM...
Load More Replies... I let my husband plan our wedding. It involved a pit bike; liquor, lottery tickets and cigarettes filled piñata; and every bar game you can think of. It was fun. I didn't marry him because he was fancy that's for sure.
My husband and I were on a really tight budget and are not fans of large weddings, so we wanted just to have ceremonies with best man and maid of honor and a lunch later, with sth for families later on, if even. My FIL didn't agree with that, so basically his side of family showed up in front of municipality and we learned of that shortly before, and instead of lunch we ended up at my in-laws' house. I am not a bridezilla, I like those people and do not regret having them at my wedding, but I do feel aggravated that we didn't know of that, and thus my side of the family didn't attend the wedding (let's have 'em all then). Oh, and my first maid of honor couldn't make it due to family obligations, and even though I loved my actual m.o.h., I could've picked up a better one by holding up a sign in the middle of main street on another continent, saying First one who says yes gets the title. All photos are horrible one way or another. So, there. XD
I used to work at a Reception Center as banquet captain. One instance the groom got so drunk and went outside to puke and passed out in bushes. His new wife left without him saying "he can find his own way back" Another time at a reception the bridesmaids were in the men's bathroom basically f*ing and blowing guys who lined up for them. Yikes Crazy stuff happens at wedding receptions for sure.
My sister and her husband spent a small fortune on their wedding (I mean a ridiculous amount of money for what was essentially a 6 hour party). It was beautiful, sure. The reception was at an upscale restaurant on the beach (Salty's on Alki in Seattle). We had spent an entire afternoon tasting cakes at Edible Cakes & Monuments. She had chosen a a very tasteful & elegant cake, 3 tiers, nothing over the top. So we get to the reception and this HIDEOUS cake had been set up in the corner. It had BLUE roses cascading down the side of all 6 tiers, and they were melting due to the heat. She called the bakery the following week and they basically refused to refund her money (it was right around $500), even though she had pictures of the cake she ordered and the cake she received. We had to picket in front of their store before she got her refund. Not surprisingly - they went out of business less than a year later.
My photographer was a friend, who thought that he only needed to take a few photos and then enjoy the reception as a guest; I have 4 decent photos total. My videographer accidentally recorded everything in negative-my dress is black, my hair is white, my teeth are green. We look like aliens getting married on another planet. I was late to the wedding, because the person who was supposed to drive me there decided a bride should be able to take her time and thought I would appreciate an extra hour of fussing over myself. Instead, I looked like a jilted bride, holding my bouquet and train next to the door looking out the window for an hour. Someone thought to change the batteries (last minute) on the boom box we were using for the music out in the forest setting we picked. The "new" batteries didn't work, so there was no music. My guests sang "dum dum dum dum, dum dum dum dum" for the wedding march. Then a tree fell in the forest and the electricity went out at the reception venue.
Dogs should be in every wedding. When my cousin got married, she insisted on having her spoiled rotten doberman there. Right when it got to the vows, the dobie started wailing for attention. They tied his leash to a chair with the MIL sitting on it send thr dog literally dragged the chair over to the couple. It wanted to be part of the ceremony...
Cake lady showed up with less than half we paid for, I put the ring on my husbands right hand instead of left and more than half of my family just didn’t show up.
Perhaps they'd heard there wouldn't be enough cake? Seriously, I'm so sorry. The cake and the ring things don't matter anywhere near as much as family doing that to you. I was an 'emergency bridesmaid' at a friends wedding when her sister and mother refused to go and then got groped by her father during the reception (but said nothing - who wants to let a bride know THAT'S going on?). What a great family that poor woman has.
Load More Replies... We made all the wedding arrangements ourselves, small wedding. My sister knew a professional photographer so we used him. Turns out he shot advertising art. No family photos, no posed photos during the wedding, took us years to track him down for the photos he took the morning of the wedding in his studio. More than half the photos have my sister's best friend's son photobombing the event. And my crazy's aunt's boyfriend in a red cardigan (at a formal wedding) was in the center of all the rest.
My brother's wedding. Big Catholic ceremony.. The priest was a "little" tipsy. Never said their names. Completely skipped the vows. The entire "Do you take to be.. blah blah blah.. None of it
My wedding fail has to be the time I said "I do" I found out that 'my' 2 sons were not mine and she was sleeping with 5 men behind my back and 3 of them were random guys off the internet
