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Wedding Guests And Participants Share 30 Instances When The Whole Celebration Went Straight To Hell
If you read any thematic website or blog dedicated to weddings, you will most likely come across various advice on how to make your wedding unforgettable. No, the advice is absolutely correct and appropriate - after all, what could be more boring than this decorous walking down the aisle, a solemn exchange of rings, a kiss to a storm of applause...
Okay, I'm just kidding. The calmer the wedding is, the better. At least for your nerves. Because otherwise, here is an absolutely mind-blowing collection of stories by netizens from all over the world who came together to answer the question “What's the worst thing you've seen happen at a wedding?” in the AskReddit community.
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#1
I was the matron of honor at my BFFs wedding.
Her dad was semi recently married to his 4th? Wife. So, brides “step mom” but only in name. She and the bride didn’t get along, but were surface level cordial to each other. Step mom is super weird about $. Because she had none, and married the dad for his. She was very upset about how much he spent on this wedding for his only daughter. So upset apparently, she showed up in a floor length, full on white wedding gown of her own.
The wedding coordinator sees them walk in, pulls me aside and let’s me know this b***h just walked in to the cocktail hour before the ceremony in a god damn wedding dress and asks if I think the bride should be made aware or if we should just hope she doesn’t notice until after the vows etc. I told her I would take care of it, and did. We did the “getting ready pics” in the bridal suite, and after she was all ready to go and it was 15 mins till showtime… I took the bride out to the patio overlooking her gorgeous venue, and watched her guests scurrying to find their seats and we shared a secret cigarette like we were teenagers again… and I told her that I saw her step mother in the lobby. And that i unceremoniously poured an entire glass of red wine down the front of her dress.
deanna woods 2 years ago
Hopefully that wife is now an ex. Getting mad at a father for spending HIS money on HIS daughter.
Kathryn Baylis 2 years ago
Because she thinks it would mean less money in the bank for her when he kicks off. Not realizing he’ll divorce her sorry money grubbing a*s LONG before he draws his last breath. Hope he was smart enough to have her sign a pre-nup.
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Nikki Gross 2 years ago
Do you honestly think that only one person in history has done this s**t? If so, you live in a very sheltered world and for the record I would have done the same damn thing.
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Erin Aardvark 1 year ago (edited)
At the risk of using outdated slang (because I live under a rock), you go girl!
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#2
Very Christian ceremony. Priest is a total alcoholic who assured the wedding party he had experience. Shows up to the rehearsal and crushes a beer/finishes his smoke then doesn't know the groom should walk the isle first + a bunch of other details. Big day happens and he's drinking the church wine and forgetting his cues. Forgets to say the classic,"you may now kiss the bride". The entire audience is yelling "KISS HER" to the groom and Mr.half cut priest thinks they are egging him on. That's how the bride had her first kiss of the marriage with our local problem priest.
Hokuloa 2 years ago
Hope they were catholic, because it’d take some good confession to get beyond punching a priest…
Margrete Sonnenberg 2 years ago
I checked the original and apparently the groom had to be talk down to not commit violence.
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Easily Excitable Panda 2 years ago
I’m going to assume that when OP says the priest “crushed” a beer, that the priest shotgunned the beer and crushed the empty against his forehead.
Lil Miss Hobbit 2 years ago
Can this please be a stupid rom-com movie where everything goes wrong on the wedding day but the couple sticks together
#3
Alright, not a disaster, but funny.
My wife and I booked out a small hotel in Nicaragua for the wedding. I cue the music to start the ceremony, the music starts, and there's this long delay.....
All of a sudden, from around the corner we hear "MY VEIL IS STUCK IN THE CACTUS!!!!"
One of my best friends was the officiant and there's a great photo sequence of us going from puzzled to hysterical laughter up front.
BookFanatic 2 years ago
Yep! My best friend's nephew (7-8 yo) was her ring bearer and everyone told him what an important job it was and to make sure he kept the rings safe. He ended up tying the rings to the pillow so well that we had to stop and ask the guests if anyone had a pocket knife.
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Jennifer_Crowley_Luci 2 years ago
I was just thinking that cactus is pretty bad*ss! :D
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boone williams 2 years ago
The saguaro cactus (pictured here) only grows in one place, and it ain't Nicaragua. But props for pics of the land of AZ!
WindySwede 2 years ago
first I thought that the one playing music had gotten his pen is, stuck on a cactus. translate veil, and realize,,! Thought is was a rerwite of something else. I need some sleep!
Erin Aardvark 1 year ago
This is one of those stories where you say "someday, we'll look back on this and laugh."
Upstaged75 2 years ago
Who pissed in your cornflakes? How do you know they aren't FROM Nicaragua?
Load More Replies...I already wrote in one of my previous posts that the great Argentine writer of the 20th century, Jorge Luis Borges, divided all world literature into four main plot stories: the siege of the city, the return home, the quest, and the sacrifice of a god. I don’t know what Borges would say about this selection of wedding tell-tale stories, but they can all be roughly divided into three main plots: alcohol abuse, ordinary human stupidity and unforeseen force majeure circumstances.
#4
My own wedding. My MIL is an alcoholic and we asked her not to drink. My FIL, her ex husband, was with his new wife. Long story short, when we were wrapping up reception she is so drunk she tried to hit him with a bottle of champagne and missed and swung around and knocked herself the f**k out..
Edit: I forgot to add the aftermath. Shocked at the upvotes because it’s a tame story compared to some on here.
We were asked to leave immediately obviously and had to do something with her. We were so mad that we decided to drop her off at the police station and they took her to detox for the night.. 😁
Edit 2: and this is the tamest story I have about my good ol’ MIL… imagine that..
XenoMurph 2 years ago
I'm annoyed they didn't ask my permission. My legs look awesome though.
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Dread Pirate Roberts 2 years ago
LOL I love their solution to the MIL's behavior. Just dump her off and let the popo MAKE her detox. Tired of your shenanigans, MIL!
#5
Best man starts off speech with, "I've seen *the groom* with a lot of girls over the years...". You know the cliché speech where it goes on to say but you're the best for him, etc. etc. Turns out the bride and groom were dating long before the best man even became a friend. Essentially outed him as a degenerate cheater. She was super p***ed.
Marcellus II 2 years ago
Why? I think this is a good advert for having them.
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Sorry, but that's an a*****e move, he should have told the bride beforehand, so that she could decide whether she even wants to marry him or not. And he should have told her in private, because the bride might feel very humiliated by everyone hearing that her partner cheated on her. I can MAYBE understand someone not wanting to tell the bride at all, if you feel like it's not your place to out your friend's secrets, but that's clearly not the case here, because then he wouldn't have said it in his speech.
Gabriele Alfredo Pini 2 years ago
From what I understand he didn't know that the two were dating. Maybe long distance?
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#6
To begin with there were sustained 40 below zero F temps so a lot of guests did not attend at the last minute. The MOH and Best Man, who had just met the day before, disappeared for a bit and the bride searched and found that they had used the groom's parents van as a place to have sex. Problem was that MOH had just given birth to a baby a few weeks before and she was hemorrhaging. Bride left with MOH to go to the ER. In the meantime, a huge percentage of the guests started getting violently ill. As it turned out, the beef was tainted. The health department shut down the caterer some days later, and all guests had to be contacted to see who ate the beef.
This is all first hand factual info. I was there. I lived this. Thank God I ate the chicken. The couple divorced 18 months later.
hitex 2 years ago
Perhaps all the mishaps was universe' way of saying 'this marriage will be a sh**show'
Hey! 2 years ago
MOH. Probably why the doctors tell you to abstain for 6 weeks. Probably why many women passed away so close to the birth of a child (in the past).
Xenon 2 years ago
Who the hell would *want* to have sex before fully healed. Ouch!
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Mikey Kliss 2 years ago
Just had a baby a few weeks before? Its like a warzone down there for at least a couple month
Alcohol, of course, occupies a special place here. Of the forty-two stories presented in this collection, at least sixteen are related to the fact that one of the guests or direct participants in the ceremony had too much to drink. And two or three more stories are pretty questionable. No, we can certainly assume that the absolutely sober guests decided to have a little fight as a wedding entertainment, but something tells me that it couldn’t have happened without the participation of the demon drink. After all, the wedding fistfight is a long and noble tradition, dating back almost to ancient times.
#7
Conservative Baptist sister’s wedding. My older sister at her wedding reception had music playing on speakers, naturally (we grew up listening to a lot of RnB so a lot of this was playing). Suddenly the music just stopped and remained off for the remainder of the evening, really odd atmosphere. Turns out the pastor and his wife had gone up to her at her table and told her if she didn’t turn off her ungodly music they would leave. So she being a devout Christian girl just turned it off for them. At her own wedding. I would have just been like “ Ok don’t let the door hit your judgemental butts on the way out.”
deanna woods 2 years ago
The pastor and his wife should have minded their own business at someone else's wedding.
pocwaddler 2 years ago
I was at my niece's wedding when the pastor hired from a newspaper ad wanted to preach a sermon. This is 90+ temperatures, even the cake was melting. When we objected he walked out in a huff, so I ended up doing the ceremony. They got married at a JP the next day. It's quite a family legend.
The Other Guest 2 years ago
Were they friends with the pastor and/or wife? I don't think I've ever attended a wedding where the officiant attended the reception.
UpupaEpops 2 years ago
Is it customary to invite the pastor to your wedding reception in the US? Devout or not, that seems weird to me.
Couragetcd 2 years ago
The pastor probably performed the ceremony and it could have been at their church, including reception. Many Baptists in my family have all get togethers of weddings, showers, reunions, funerals all at churhes
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Kel_how 2 years ago
I went to a Baptist wedding that had no music or dancing. I didn't know many people there, so I only talked a little.
Michael Largey 2 years ago
Baptists are not allowed to have sex standing up. They fear it might lead to dancing.
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Joshua David 2 years ago
Having the titles should ensure they're at least fair and friendly people.
#8
I went to a friend of mines Aunts wedding. It was a second marriage for both of them so they wanted something “relaxed”
They threw it on one of the family members property and had all the guest do grueling manual labor to get the property ready for the wedding. We were literally landscaping in the Texas summer.
I was climbing trees to hang lights, we laid sod, we laid down stone for a walk way, my friends mom cooked food for days and made all of the floral arrangements. We were setting up tables and chairs, you name it. We worked from 6am until almost midnight for 3 days.
Finally the wedding happens and it’s beautiful. I was actually really proud of what we had done. It looked professional.
We go to cut the cake and the couple is no where to be found. They just left without telling anyone and went back to their hotel. I was offended by that because we had worked SO HARD for them and they didn’t even stay for the entire wedding.
We never got a thank you or any appreciation for it. Other people were upset too and took their gifts back before leaving.
Easily Excitable Panda 2 years ago
In case anyone is wondering about the photo, the care home industry in the U.S. uses the term “elopement” as a euphemism for “escape” or “wandering off.”
Bart 2 years ago
A friend of mine asked all wedding guests to help one day in their renovation project as wedding gift in their invitation. I thought it a wonderful idea and it was fun.
Some guy 2 years ago
But you went in knowing that was the deal, and I assume they properly expressed their appreciation.
Load More Replies... Nice Beast Ludo 2 years ago
So rude! No thank you?? Nothing? Unbelievable .. looks like they found their soulmate good riddance, Thanks for cleaning each other out of the dating pool for anyone else
Marcellus II 2 years ago
Laying sod which a wedding party will walk on immediately? Yeah, might as well immediately throw it in the bin.
Dread Pirate Roberts 2 years ago
I hope they never have kids. They'll just use them as more free labor (and I'm not referring to chores. I mean hard labor).
#9
Bride was dancing during the reception, fell and broke her left arm. Lots of pictures from the ER- photographer went with them! When the Dr. heard he’d be setting a bride’s arm, he put on a suit! They worked hard to get the swelling down so she wouldn’t have to have her brand new wedding ring cut off. Crazy.
ETA: I was in the wedding party, I was 10, this was a long time ago! The bride was my aunt. The fall happened after dinner. Before they left for the hospital the cake was quickly brought out for the bride and groom to cut. Everyone went on partying after they left. I haven't seen the pics since she got them back from the photographer. I remember pics of her and the Dr. in the suit, my uncles in their tuxes doing wheelies in wheelchairs, and her red rimmed eyes while cutting the cake.
“It’s not surprising that wedding stories are often associated with some ridiculous cases or drunken antics,” says Denis Tsykanovsky, a wedding host from Tel-Aviv, Israel, whom Bored Panda asked for a comment here. “In the end, a wedding is perhaps the largest event that the average person organizes in their entire life, and in the end, by the ceremony itself, nervous tension reaches its climax. Some people cannot stand it and break down right at the ceremony, others successfully overcome this stage and then relax... and then His Majesty Alcohol enters the scene..."
“I have seen a lot of funny situations at weddings, but professional ethics, of course, do not allow me to tell anything. I would like to note just one more nuance - very often at wedding parties there are many people at the table who either do not know each other at all or know each other very superficially. And where there are strangers and alcohol combined, all sorts of strange things can always happen..." Denis smiles.
#10
As bride was walking down the aisle organist hit every wrong note. My friend said to me "this is the only thing you will remember about this wedding". That is until the brides father (who was marrying the couple) introduced the newlyweds as his new son in law and slightly used daughter. You could have heard a pin drop
Angela C 2 years ago
I'd have punched dear old dad in his stupid face right there in front of everyone
Michael Largey 2 years ago
Maybe she had been briefly married before or idiot dad thought she wasn't a virgin.
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Purplescales 2 years ago (edited)
This sounds like the kind of cr ap my dad would pull and then act like he couldn't understand why anyone would be upset by what he did. He's dead now and I won't have to worry about my mythical future wedding at least.
#11
The groom tried to do a little dip kiss on the bride before they walked back up the aisle… he dropped her a*s on the floor.
Everyone let out a collective gasp, that immediately turned to snorting chortled laughter. It was the most awkward thing I’ve ever witnessed in real life.
Thankfully the bride was my sister, and I will get to remind her of this forever. AND have photo evidence 😂
WindySwede 2 years ago
"Thankfully the bride was HIS, sister" I read in my head before my eyes moved further... Darth Vader: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlgef12WOpo
#12
My wedding. Evening was wrapping up and I hadnt seen my new-husband in a while. He had taken off to local bars to continue partying with friends. Without.His New.Bride. My BIL (as advised by my heavily pregnant sister) escorted me to find him somewhere. We were in our mid-30s!!
I'm daily grateful for my sister and BIL in my life. And even more grateful ex is long gone.
What can we even talk about if at my own wedding, or rather after it, when my wife and I were left alone in the bedroom, our curtain rod unexpectedly collapsed, and we spent nearly half of our wedding night putting it back in place and mending everything around it... I think you also have some incredible narratives under your belt, so please feel free to tell your own stories in the comments, but not before you read our entire list. Just believe me, there is something to crack up at here.
#13
12 speeches, 2 musical numbers, one PowerPoint presentation.
WindySwede 2 years ago
I've think I seen that on at least one wedding? Pictures and such.
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Fat Harry 2 years ago
I've been to a wedding that included a Powerpoint presentation, and it was absolutely hilarious in the best possible way. The groom's brother had made a presentation about all the terrible cars the groom had owned. I can't even remember how they fit that into the context of the wedding, but it was very, very funny.
Dragons Exist 2 years ago
Honestly if the PowerPoint was well made and had good content it's fine
Nice Beast Ludo 2 years ago
When I hear "musical numbers" I think of the wedding party being screamed into costume changes and doing some strange wedding rendition of broadway
WayoftheStarPrincess 2 years ago
Oooh, this was like the one time I went to a Pentecostal wedding. Also lots of song about Jesus riding trains.
#14
My brother's second wedding. For the first dance, the DJ played the wrong song for half a second before stopping, and starting the right song. The Bride disappeared for 2 hours afterwards because "the wedding was ruined."
Neb Skram 2 years ago
if that "ruined" the wedding its not going to take much to ruin the marriage
Angela C 2 years ago
What a crybaby drama queen. If this is how she handles one tiny mistake this marriage is doomed
deanna woods 2 years ago
Don't know why you got downvoted, but I fixed it.
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Ross “Sarcastic Dad” 2 years ago
No idea why this picture was picked for this story, but I love it.
LizzieBoredom 2 years ago
Everyone knows DJ Cats can't read record labels.
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Erin Aardvark 1 year ago
The wedding is ruined because the DJ played the wrong song for HALF A SECOND?! Buh-WHAT now?! Love the picture, though. Kitty's playing "Nashville Cats."
#15
This happened at my own wedding reception
My mother's best friend just got out of a sloppy divorce. Truly horrible. She proceeded to get blind drunk. During the speeches, she gets up from her seat, completely blacked out, throws up all over her table. She proceeded to p**s herself and pass out on said table and flipped it. In the fall, her dress managed to rip and she was completely naked on the floor. We had first responders as guests at our wedding so they managed to get her wrapped up in a table cloth and carry her outside to an ambulance that showed up rather quickly.
Edit; I'm no wordsmith
SnackbarKaat 2 years ago
Blacked out, vomits, pisses herself, flips the table and rips the dress to being butter naked....all in 5 seconds
Dread Pirate Roberts 2 years ago
Am I a horrible person for laughing at the ripped dress part? Sounds like some kind of obscene slapstick 😂
Ivy at Eve 2 years ago
And I thought my aunt was bad bu at least she didn't vomit. At least not at the party. One brother was marrying, other brother was recently divorced and anti-marriage. That was fun to start with and to put a cherry on top, said aunt was drunk, a widow and horny and did her best to pull the pants from every male not part of the family. I watched how a waiter barely evaded having her hands in his pants. Consequently, all males mysteriously dissappeared unto auntie dearest went home. Luckily with a designated driver.
#16
My cousin married into a very religious family. During the after party somebody spiked the punch so to rid the room of the sin of alcohol one of the religious people set the table and punch bowl on fire.
WindySwede 2 years ago
if it sets on fire it can't be just spiked it must have been reeeaaaly strong?
Load More Replies... Nice Beast Ludo 2 years ago
I read that wrong... i thought they spiked the punch to rid the sin of alcohol...like drugged everyone instead so they weren't specifically drunk.
#17
A giant brush tail possum fell through the ceiling at my cousin's wedding. The bartenders managed to chase it with a broom into the supply closet behind the bar before calling security, who called a pest removalist.
WindySwede 2 years ago
Invite the friends as well, make a table: tenor.gif 
ILoveMySon 2 years ago
"Excuse me, this is a private party. We have zero tolerance of wedding crashers."
TiNaBoNiNa 2 years ago
Awwww brushies are way cuter than North Amercan opossums! oppossum-6...9a7462.jpg 
A B C the Third 2 years ago
It's a completely different species. Possums =/= opossums.
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Michael Largey 2 years ago
In some Southern weddings, possums are actual members of the wedding party.
Dread Pirate Roberts 2 years ago
That would make the wedding even better! As long as said cute, fluffy critter isn't hurting people or carrying diseases lol
Illustrious G 2 years ago
I thought the same! Best kind of wedding crasher, a furry friend! (Coming through the ceiling was probabaly terrifying for all involved, however!!)
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I went to a small 20ish people wedding in the Tuscan hillside of Italy. It was at this old castle. As the bride was giving her speech a phone started to loudly ring. Everyone was looking around to see who the idiot was. Ended up it was one of the priests who was standing just infront of them…. What made it way worse was the guy picked up the call and started talking loudly. The bride understandably was like “are you f*****g kidding me!?” Does make me kinda laugh to think how much they must have spent for their special day to have that happen.
David Leick 2 years ago
Was it the deceased's phone? ... Did they answer?
Load More Replies... Gabriele Alfredo Pini 2 years ago
During a mass in our seminary the phone ringing was the bishop's!
Easily Excitable Panda 2 years ago
“Dammit, I’m working! I’ll get the money for the guns and blow later!”
#19
I had to break up a fistfight between the groom and the mother of the bride.
Hugh Cookson 2 years ago
1987 ; nice venue ; beautiful Elizabethan Manor House in Suffolk with barley twist chimneystacks, a stunning garden and a lake. The owner had somehow been persuaded (I suspect by lots of cash in plastic bags) to allow a gypsy (traveller) wedding between a girl and a boy who's families were widely known to hate each other, never did find out but, hey. Anyway, it started sort of ok and my staff had just served the main course when it all kicked off, plates glasses, food, tables being thrown. I managed to get all of my guys out and lock the door to the main part of the building and kitchen - and, crucially, the bar. Then it spilled out onto the lawns leading to the lake, by which point the police had turned up in force ... an interesting day. Funny thing, the bride and groom apparently stayed together and her Father paid for all of the damage, although I suspect the tax man didn't see a penny of either what the wedding cost or the retribution paid.
David Leick 2 years ago
Not to distract from your story, but your username made me do a double take.
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The Chocolate Gecko 2 years ago
I would have set up a gambling table and screamed 'uh-LLLLLLLLLLLET'S GET READY TO RUMBLEEEEEEEEE!'
AnnwylTheBloodyLovesFerghus 2 years ago
At my cousin's wedding reception afterparty (no one was ready for the party to end, so they moved the celebration to the bride's mother's house), two of the bridesmaids got into a hair pulling-scratching-punching-wrestling-around-on-the-floor, fight. They began by screaming obscenities at each other and it escalated from there. They were sisters who also happened to be the bride's sisters in law. They didn't get along, but they'd promised to observe a truce for the duration of the festivities. They lied! It took several adults to finally pull them apart. Additional entertainment was provided by one of the contenders after the fight. By crawling around the floor on hands and knees desperately looking for her hairpiece. While wailing that she had to find it. Oh, and the slit on the back of her dress had torn up to her waist. Thankfully, she was wearing pantyhose. Better than nothing. Yes, both participants had consumed great quantities of alcohol. The bride was not amused.
Squirrelly Panda 2 years ago
If I was the bride I would have either dumped my new hubby, or gone no contact with my mother, or, if both were total jerks, possibly both.
#20
I dated a girl in high school. It didn’t last, but we remained friends. At her wedding, her dad told me how he wished it was me marrying his daughter and how he always assumed we would get married. They had several pictures on display. I was in more pics than the groom.
VonBlade 2 years ago
I would like to take this opportunity, sloshed as I may be, to say a word or two about Martin. As far as I'm concerned, my daughter could not have chosen a more delightful, charming, witty, responsible, wealthy, let's not deny it, well-placed, good-looking and fertile young man than Martin as her husband. And I therefore ask the question "Why the hell did she marry Gerald instead?"
Shelby Moonheart 2 years ago
Both my mom and his mom thought we'd get married. We didn't. He has a lovely family with another woman. I'm happily married to someone I met at college.
Jaya 2 years ago
Completely inappropriate. Parents don't get a say into who their kid chooses as a life partner. You think someone else was perfect for your child? So what, it's not about you, clearly your child (or that other person) doesn't agree.
nia not long 2 years ago
How is it inappropriate?? It's not like the dad screamed it out at the wedding nor voiced disapproval for the groom to anyone else. He just said it in a private side conversation.
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Sunshine Lady 2 years ago
Several years ago, when I was already married to my husband, in a fight my father told me that he thinks I made the wrong choice. He was telling me about an ex boyfriend of mine who he thinks I was supposed to marry. Never mentioned it before that or after. Just enough so I know he doesn't approve my choice. Good thing is I don't care.
Red Reilly 2 years ago
At my ex's engagement party my ex's mother got WASTED, slated the current partner and said how she wished it was me getting married. I was like...ummm no thanks they guy cheated on me. What was even better was she then told my ex that everything she said, I SAID! so a week later my ex and their partner were like 'that was really messed up what you said' She was and is a mess.
#21
My first time attending a Syrian wedding they raise the bride up on a chair on the dance floor and she fell right off, then they try to get the poor thing back up on it and shes like " I'm good" 😅
Kim 2 years ago
Went to a serbian wedding and they shot guns in the air... not what I expected.
BetterBitterButter 2 years ago
There's been several deaths in India in celebratory firings especially in weddings.
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The bride’s water broke
Easily Excitable Panda 2 years ago
Can someone please come up with a “plus one” joke? It’s in there, but I can’t figure it out!
VonBlade 2 years ago
The best I can do is something along the lines of "oh I see we have a last minute addition to the paige boys/flower girls".
Load More Replies... Sunshine Lady 2 years ago
It's not uncommon these days. Especially where I live many people are already having kids before marriage. Not sure why.
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It started super late, it was super hot out, the future father-in-law was wasted and left before it started. He then showed back up in a red bath robe and his gun. Cops got called. It was a whole thing.
Oh, and then after the reception we were all trying to convince one of our friends not to drive. He insisted he was fine... Drove his truck into the river.
Astrophile 2 years ago
FIL was the one in the bath robe. A friend was the one driving :)
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Auggie 2 years ago
why would you even let him drive?? If it crashed into somebody you have part of the blame
Nice Beast Ludo 2 years ago
If this is someone in the wedding I'm sure they had a lot of other things to do other than babysit this idiot. Why is it anyone's responsibility but his? You might as well serve zero alcohol if every drunk driver will be your fault. People need to learn to police themselves or not drink. He probably snuck out without telling anyone
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Husband making out with a bridesmaid on the dancefloor. I know a portion of the friends there knew they had an open relationship but I seriously doubt grandma and Aunt Carol were in on it
hitex 2 years ago
Open relationship or not, perhaps you can stay monogamous for your wedding day
LizzieBoredom 2 years ago
It's good when the bride and groom both know it's an open relationship.
LeftEyedAsmodeus 2 years ago
I have been a swinger for pretty much all of my adult life - my wedding day belongs to my wife and no one else. She is the only one i Love.
Hokuloa 2 years ago
If you’re in the US, because marriage secures various important rights for life partners. Even swingers need to be able to have medical, financial and legal rights for their partners in case of emergency…
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#25
We got to the church and took our seats. Vibe was off, but didn’t think much of it. Then the start time passed and nothing happens, didn’t think much of it. Finally I said something to a friend next to us, something like, “gee this is late?”
“Yeah it’s terrible isn’t it?”
“Huh? What?”
“Oh you didn’t hear …”
The entire wedding party got food poisoning from the rehearsal dinner the night before. One bridesmaid, then another, then siblings, parents, bride and groom, everybody. They had a small ceremony at the bride’s parents house. No church ceremony but a short talk from the pastor (in part to kill time before the reception). They made a short appearance at the reception, but that was it. Just wholly unfair.
The Starsong Princess 2 years ago
I went to a wedding where the bride had food poisoning and was hospitalized. She missed the whole thing. They asked everyone to still go to the reception because it was paid for but it was mostly a bust. The groom made a brief appearance to thank everyone but was otherwise at the hospital with her. They had a party a few months later for her to wear her dress annd do photos and they are still happy ten years later.
#26
The bridesmaids gave a short* presentation about some mlm health and beauty thing before the wedding ceremony. Apparently it was the bride's idea.
*Like half an hour
Auggie 2 years ago
what does mlm mean in this context? I'm used to male lovng male being mlm lol
Christine 2 years ago
Multilevel, marketing scheme, like a pyramid scheme, where you sell something and try to recruit other people to sell it, so you can make money off them too.
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#27
Grooms dad had a pool running on how long before the couple split. He had 3 years locked in. I put fifty bucks on 5. They're still together, and, honestly, they deserve each other in the worst way.
#28
Well, let me tell you about this one time I saw the groom accidentally confess his undying love for the maid of honor instead of the bride during his speech. Chaos ensued. Good times, good times.
#29
… week before the wedding my then gf, groom and his fiancée were driving home for four hours from another persons wedding. Fiancée wasn’t nice to him. Just the kinda things you don’t say in general and def not in front of outsiders. Two days later, 4 days before the wedding, I told him I don’t think he should marry her. She’s not nice to him. In our culture it’d be a thing and I told him no one who loves him would care. I did this in a public setting as I was fully expecting him to punch me. He did not. We finished our beers and went home. I was still invited to the wedding. Day of wedding we are all seated and waiting for stuff to start. Grooms brother comes and says “groom needs your help”… I thought it was help with tying a tie because he was bad at that. I get upstairs to the room and he’s in a wife beater and basketball shorts with his mom and dad. He says “you were right. I can’t do this. Help me”. Parents want to slaughter me but I know deep down inside they were happy about it. I know this because I am just that arrogant and believe no one would ever be mad at me for real. I offer an escape plan. He leaves. I return to sit next to gf and say “no wedding. Play it cool”… ten min later brides mom comes down says wedding is off and leaves the room. Everyone is stunned. We casually leave. Gf wants recap of my convo from the bar. I tell her. She blames me. I say love works in mysterious ways. She says I’m an idiot. This was roughly 15 years ago.
MichelleDonut 2 years ago
Yeah I really wish people would stop using that word, it's just awful
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Mike Fitzpatrick 2 years ago
If a wedding is that easily done in, there's no sense in it anyway. He obviously was not committed to it.
Xenon 2 years ago
I disagree. Maybe the groom had been thinking sort of along the same lines but hearing his bestie cemented it in his mind. Wedding is all set to go, he thinks it's too late to back out at first, then it hits him the seriousness of the commitment he's about to make, and to a woman who doesn't respect him or treat him well. He finally fully realizes he can't go through with it, despite the resulting embarrassment and drama. I am sure this isn't the first, or last this exact thing has happened.
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#30
The best man giving the toast at the reception and saying the groom’s first wife’s name instead of the current one
LegendsNeverDIE 2 years ago
My mind is replaying that wedding scene from friends 🤣
Load More Replies... Easily Excitable Panda 2 years ago
That’s why you should only marry people who have the same first name. I have an acquaintance who did this, and it’s very helpful for the ret of us.
Load More Replies... Sarah Mezei 2 years ago
My husband's cousin called me Suzi in his speech, lol. In all fairness he was fairly inebriated.
Jojo_hobkin 2 years ago
Just like the DJ issue, small mistake which could be an everyday thing.
Pittsburgh rare 2 years ago
Why were you downvoted? Would you guys like to be called by the ex's name? Well, then.
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#31
My cousin was getting married and we took her dress upstairs to get photos in an archway and her groom had to wait 5 minutes in the bathroom as to not see the gown. Dude flipped out. It was insanely awkward. She’s been married 5 years and he hasn’t worked in 2, throws tantrums, won’t eat fast food unless it’s piping hot and fresh yet has a fear of leaving the house. I’d say his behavior was the worse thing I’ve personally seen at a wedding, but her actually marrying him might have been the worst.
#32
Best man showed up to the reception whacked out on something (it was more than just drunk). Proceeded to make an a*s out of himself and the groom babysat the guy all night to make sure he didn’t do anything too terrible and missed his own reception.
What the guy did when he wasn’t being watched: made crude remarks to grooms mom (whom he had known for better than 15 years), sexually assaulted the brides aunt (like crotch grabbed her), made uncomfortable observations about grooms cousin and her developing womanhood, made people leave due to his behaviour and consequent assholery post rejection (was told about that afterwards). And attempted to grope the brides chest 5 minutes after he arrived (which is when the groom stopped drinking and knew it was going to be a problem). There were likely other things that were highly inappropriate that were never mentioned.
But wait! There’s more! After unsuccessfully trying to take his keys away, the jackass sneaks away from his babysitters and tries to drive home. Misses the road and instead drives around the building between the trees and into the field where the rv’s are parked. Misjudged the cars width and caused a ton of damage to brides cousins trailer when he hit it. With his moms car that he’d borrowed. They finally get the keys away from him and at this point the bride is aware of what’s happening and offers help (the groom and the bride’s little brother were trying to hide it from the bride so it wouldn’t ruin her night). Her family sees how upset she is by what’s happening that each one that sees her crying vows to beat the hell out of the guy for her. She constantly escorts family away to try to deescalate. He fights with the cab driver and the cab driver refuses to take him. After an hour of him causing a huge scene in front of the hall the brides uncle walks over and calmly talks to him (like think laid back Hawaiian island calm or smooth jazz kind of vibe) and basically talks him into the cab. Bride and groom pay for the cab and pay the driver more in a tip than the fare. When he was finally gone it was time to pack up everything. The reception was over. The bride ate a piece of her wedding cake in a tiny back room sobbing while the Dj cleaned up. Missed the father daughter dance, the mother son dance, the bride and groom’s first dance. Bouquet toss, garter toss, and the fun of getting hammered with friends and family.
Edit to add: this all happened in a span of about 3 hours. The reception started at like 7 (it was a week after the destination part) and the best man showed up a couple hours later and was loaded into the cab by 1:30am.
Michael Largey 2 years ago
Yeah, in funerals at least you know how things are going to turn out for the parties involved.
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Nice Beast Ludo 2 years ago
Has anyone heard of police intervention with the first sexual assault?? Just stupid
afia kooma 2 years ago
People must secretly love drama when they dont evict idiots like this Instead they invest their whole evening to is? Smells burned
Upstaged75 2 years ago
One of my brother's old friends is an alcoholic. He wasn't that way when they were growing up, but he is now. We told my bro not to invite the guy since he always causes some sort of drunken drama. Brother invited him anyway, and surprise (not really) the guy caused drunken drama. I think he ended up passing out in a bush and slept there all night. He couldn't even control himself for one night to help celebrate my brother's marriage. I'd have dumped someone like that as a friend but I guess my brother felt sorry for him.
#33
nothing truly awful. just a bit sad. My friend was very much a woman into her wedding, not a bridezilla, but she wanted a nice wedding, it was a big thing to her, she put a lot of effort into it, and it was nice, a bit overdone for my tastes, but it was nice. Until the evening. when the groom, (who all her friends thought was an a*****e, but what can you do, her choice) got absolutely plastered with his ex squaddie mates. ended up we took her, very upset, back to our hotel and left him passed out in a pool of vomit on the dancefloor for his mates to look after. They are still together, but I think that was a wakeup call for him as to how close he came to ruining it, and he's been a bit less of an a*****e since then, they are still together and have kids now. but f**k me, he came so close to f*****g up his marriage on his wedding night.
#34
Father of the bride told her "it's not too late to run" while walking her down the aisle. Everyone heard.
#35
The bride tripped and rolled down a large embankment and was covered in grass stain.
#36
Matron of honor throwing up just as the officiant was asking if anyone objected.
Astrophile 2 years ago
One of the words seems to say “boogers” and it’s freaking me out even more
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Bride and groom got in a huge drunken fight after the rehearsal dinner, it escalated to include shouting and name-calling between both families, then the wedding got cancelled the day of.
#38
While working at resort we had a wedding party come through that, after the reception, started walking back to their rooms before having a massive bride side vs. groom side fist fight. Probably 30+ people total involved.
#39
Mother of the bride got drunk and ruined the wedding cake she had promised to make and decorate. Father of the bride (and cake maker’s ex husband) called her a f*****g b***h. Stepfather of the bride yelled at father of the bride and said you can’t talk to my wife like that. Father of the bride punched stepfather in the face, got in his Cadillac drunk, and peeled out spewing gravel all over the venue.
#40
The priest said the brides name wrong twice during the ceremony until she had to correct him
Kim 2 years ago
Happened at my friend’s son christening, his name is Leon and preist kept saying Elon despite corrections.
Hokuloa 2 years ago
My cousin’s wedding was like this. The pastor got their names wrong multiple times. They were married in our family’s historical church. Like the name of the family member who built the church a couple hundred years previously was literally inscribed on a metal plaque as one entered the church.
UpupaEpops 2 years ago
I don't know what the priest would do about mine. Unless they are fluent in my language, my name is not getting pronounced. I would probably turn it into a game where whoever guesses how it will end up getting butchered will get a prize.
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Con O Cuinn 2 years ago
Priest got my mate's name wrong twice at his funeral before going off on a tangent about the upcoming abortion referendum.
Upstaged75 2 years ago
This happened to a friend of mine. Except he did it throughout the whole ceremony. All of us were questioning if WE had been saying it wrong for the last 20 years. :) Nope, he was just an idiot and she was too embarrassed to correct him. He ended up getting sloppy drunk at the reception and passed out in bed in another of my friend's hotel room.
#41
At my friends wedding the flowers wilted, wedding cake ended up in the floor, and some guy wrecked his Corvette in the parking lot of the church -- single car accident, ran over a tallish curb and screwed up the door pretty good...impaired probably.
#42
I was a wedding photographer for 15 years. And shockingly, I don't have a thousand crazy stories.
But the time someone spilled red wine on a bride's dress during cocktail hour probably takes the cake for me.
Hugh Cookson 2 years ago
My staff once accidentally removed the ladder that our very 'large' Canadian wedding photographer went up to get a panoramic shot of the wedding party looking down towards the lake in the Hotel grounds - this was usually the last shot before everyone went in to have the wedding breakfast. It was a pretty grim day, wet, cold, windy. Poor sod was up there for 2 hours, only rescued after one of the kitchen porters snuck out for an illicit cigarette.
Astrophile 2 years ago
Omg…….😭😭 can you imagine being that photographer lmfao
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Greg Baughman 2 years ago
I've been a wedding DJ for about 30 years... and I have LOTS of stories. LOL
What do you think ?
the_avenging_knight (her/she) 2 years ago
Pandas., if I ever. say I'm going to get married you all have premission to show up at my house with bats and actual angry pandas.
Easily Excitable Panda 2 years ago
Bats as in baseball or the flying kind? (I have access to both.)
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Leo Domitrix 2 years ago
Ah, wish I could add my stories. Let's see, at my sister's funeral, our cousin pitched a fit b/c she felt mys ister's death overshadowed her Big Day (which was the next day) and to which none of us were even invited anyway; groom pushed cake into bride's face and she decked him; drunken groomsmen in kilts kicked up their feet and gave entire of everyone a glimpse of their circumcision status; man planned a surprise wedding, and she said no (smart move in her case); and at my lunch, which was all the "wedding" we had (went to a judgge), my dad and my FIL stood there telling us we were utter idiots for marrying. Ah,t he warm fuzzies.
Hphizzle 2 years ago
Acquaintance married into an toxic marriage. I asked her later after all this drama came to light, did she know he was like this before the wedding. She said yes, she knew. I asked why she went through with it. She said too many people were involved in making the wedding happen so she didn’t want to cancel it. Like potential kidnapping, restraining orders, and the like type toxicity. Seriously people, if the red flags are a waving, DO NOT go through with the wedding. It’s not worth it !
BookFanatic 2 years ago
The only bad wedding story I know is secondhand, and it pales in comparison to these. My parents didn't get a "real" wedding cake. The cake guy thought the wedding was next week. Her dad called the bakery and raised holy heck-in-a-hand-basket. Her mom looked around and said "Oh, well, good thing I made a German chocolate sheet cake in case we ran out of the wedding one." Moms, man. They run the world.
Zedrapazia 2 years ago
This all kinda sounds like people on weddings just shouldn't drink, especially if more than half of them have anger management issues and latent drinking problems ...
Rocco MZ 2 years ago
Lesbian wedding where the wedding party was treated like employees. We missed most of the reception because the b****y wedding planner had us waiting in the lobby of the venue to make our grand entrance. Then she forgot us. We weren't allowed to drink or go out and smoke. When we were finally let in, all the guests were finished with their food. Then we had to leave to go decorate the after party venue. Spent $750 being in a wedding I barely even attended. Our "gift" as a wedding party member was a spaghetti dinner in their basement that consisted of cheap jar sauce, cheap pasta and bread and butter. It was also BYOB. Oh and our gift was a beer bottle opener that broke the first time we used it. They lasted five years. Most toxic couple ever. We used their wedding as a how "not" to plan and execute a wedding. We had six people in our wedding party and we gave them Maine gift boxes for each of them & mailed them out prior to the wedding so they wouldn't have to pack it in their luggage
Ivy at Eve 1 year ago
It was my brothers wedding. I guess my widowed aunt got out of mourning. She got drunk and tried to got in the pants (not a turn of phrase) of every good looking (in the broadest sense) guy. At one time, every non related no wait staff male below 40 was mysteriously gone. Reappeared as mysteriously when she was gone...
the_avenging_knight (her/she) 2 years ago
Pandas., if I ever. say I'm going to get married you all have premission to show up at my house with bats and actual angry pandas.
Easily Excitable Panda 2 years ago
Bats as in baseball or the flying kind? (I have access to both.)
Load More Replies... Leo Domitrix 2 years ago
Ah, wish I could add my stories. Let's see, at my sister's funeral, our cousin pitched a fit b/c she felt mys ister's death overshadowed her Big Day (which was the next day) and to which none of us were even invited anyway; groom pushed cake into bride's face and she decked him; drunken groomsmen in kilts kicked up their feet and gave entire of everyone a glimpse of their circumcision status; man planned a surprise wedding, and she said no (smart move in her case); and at my lunch, which was all the "wedding" we had (went to a judgge), my dad and my FIL stood there telling us we were utter idiots for marrying. Ah,t he warm fuzzies.
Hphizzle 2 years ago
Acquaintance married into an toxic marriage. I asked her later after all this drama came to light, did she know he was like this before the wedding. She said yes, she knew. I asked why she went through with it. She said too many people were involved in making the wedding happen so she didn’t want to cancel it. Like potential kidnapping, restraining orders, and the like type toxicity. Seriously people, if the red flags are a waving, DO NOT go through with the wedding. It’s not worth it !
BookFanatic 2 years ago
The only bad wedding story I know is secondhand, and it pales in comparison to these. My parents didn't get a "real" wedding cake. The cake guy thought the wedding was next week. Her dad called the bakery and raised holy heck-in-a-hand-basket. Her mom looked around and said "Oh, well, good thing I made a German chocolate sheet cake in case we ran out of the wedding one." Moms, man. They run the world.
Zedrapazia 2 years ago
This all kinda sounds like people on weddings just shouldn't drink, especially if more than half of them have anger management issues and latent drinking problems ...
Rocco MZ 2 years ago
Lesbian wedding where the wedding party was treated like employees. We missed most of the reception because the b****y wedding planner had us waiting in the lobby of the venue to make our grand entrance. Then she forgot us. We weren't allowed to drink or go out and smoke. When we were finally let in, all the guests were finished with their food. Then we had to leave to go decorate the after party venue. Spent $750 being in a wedding I barely even attended. Our "gift" as a wedding party member was a spaghetti dinner in their basement that consisted of cheap jar sauce, cheap pasta and bread and butter. It was also BYOB. Oh and our gift was a beer bottle opener that broke the first time we used it. They lasted five years. Most toxic couple ever. We used their wedding as a how "not" to plan and execute a wedding. We had six people in our wedding party and we gave them Maine gift boxes for each of them & mailed them out prior to the wedding so they wouldn't have to pack it in their luggage
Ivy at Eve 1 year ago
It was my brothers wedding. I guess my widowed aunt got out of mourning. She got drunk and tried to got in the pants (not a turn of phrase) of every good looking (in the broadest sense) guy. At one time, every non related no wait staff male below 40 was mysteriously gone. Reappeared as mysteriously when she was gone...
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