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‘This Ends In Divorce’: 39 Wedding Industry Workers Share The Moment They Saw Red Flags Fly Above The Bride And Groom
A wedding is a celebration of love and commitment but sometimes not everyone present thinks the couple will live happily ever after. While the guests are all boozed up and having a good time, the staff who provide the fun see everything that's going on, and some of the details apparently point to a breakup of the newlyweds.
Just a few days ago, Reddit user Justhearmeoit posted a question on the platform, asking, "People that work in the wedding industry, have you ever seen a couple and immediately thought 'this ends in divorce?' Why?" Their call was immediately answered.
From arguments over money to hooking up with someone else, here are some of the most upvoted answers.
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#1
All the f**king time. You know how they say 50% of weddings end in divorce? I can pretty much predetermine who that 50% are going to be with about 98% accuracy.
I bake wedding cakes for a living. I own my own bakery, but have also worked in a country club kitchen, doing basically the same thing + other pastry chef duties day of weddings. I've seen them both for the tasting/design consultation, and on their wedding day. I see how they interact when they're just together, but also when under stress of the big day. I've seen everything. Lots of cheating, lots of drunks, lots of terrible mothers.
Once had a Mama's boy who ignored his wife when they were supposed to be having their cake tasting to cuddle their mother and hand feed her cake. His mother was NOT supposed to be there, and you could tell the bride was pissed. By the end of it he had kissed his mother on the lips multiple times. Divorce.
Have seen a woman b**** and complain at everything her fiancé said. Any suggestions he had for what he liked resulted in him being called stupid. Anytime she'd open her mouth he'd cower and flinch. Their cake actually got canceled like a month before the wedding, so we didn't get anything but the deposit even though we'd started baking it. First time I've lost out on money and I've been relieved.
Once had this arrogant [jerk] Turkish guy marrying into this Bangladeshi family. Bride was sweet, about 10 years older than him, and came from a fairly well off family. Generally got the impression that this being a Turk/South Asian marriage was kind of a big deal, even though they're both Muslim, but since she was 30-something they wanted her to get married so they allowed it.
Guy complains about everything during the planning process, especially over them not serving alcohol. Is generally a [jerk] to us, but is just straight up cruel to her. like at one point when we were meeting I asked after her wedding dress, because south asian wedding dresses are gorgeous. She's showing me this amazing dress and he says straight up 'I don't know what she picked that one, she looks fat and old in it. every other woman is going to be more beautiful than her one her wedding day.' He then shows me this dress he picked out, which isn't traditional south asian style at all, and is very western and very fugly and basically makes the model in the picture look naked it's so sheer. When she says something about how no mosque would let her in dressed like that and her traditions are important, he just sneered and said she should 'get over it' and her traditions weren't that important. Divorce red flag.
Found out later they didn't last a day. From the way the servers tell it, midway through the reception, guy raises his hand to his new bride when she asked him a question about being drunk and she flinched and turned away, protecting her face. He grabs her by the arm and rips her around, pissed. Her mother and aunt were standing three feet from her and lost their f**king minds, realizing what must've been happening there. His response when Mom started to lose her s**t on him was to hit the mother. So in the middle of this very big, 600+ person Bangladeshi wedding, this 20-something outsider dickhead no one wanted her to marry anyway smacked a well respected woman in their community. There was a brawl, the cops were called, marriage was annulled.
elStiJneriNO 4 years ago
"canceled like a month before the wedding, so we didn't get anything but the deposit even though we'd started baking it." you start baking a month in advance?
T. 4 years ago
When you need a lot of sugar decoration, you can start with them quite in advance, since they won't spoil. So yeah, depending on the cake, starting a month prior does make sense.
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RoseTheMad 4 years ago
I'm so happy to hear that poor woman didn't end up married to that jerkwad of a guy. And I bet she looked beautiful in her traditional dress anyway. Honestly, the South asian fabrics like in Saris and such are STUNNING.
deanna woods 4 years ago
That last groom wasn't just a jerk, he was an abuser too. I am glad that the bride's family stepped in to stop him.
Interestingly, the divorce rate in the US has been steadily decreasing since the early 90s. Nonetheless, it's interesting to learn about the factors that contribute to people splitting up, whether it's a lack of support from family and friends or an extramarital affair.
In 2019, the INSIDER Data team analyzed a study done by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), which polled 52 people (31 women and 21 men), who had been involved with PREP, a "prevention and relationship enhancement program" that focused on teaching couples communication and conflict resolution skills.
The course took place before the couples tied the knot, but the study surveyed individuals who ended up divorced, 14 years after PREP took place. It aimed to glean information on why their marriage had failed, and whether it had been a combination of factors, or due to a "final straw."
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#2
Photographing the groom and you see his eyes light up when a guest arrives. You look over and it’s a cute woman in a short dress. He smiles, walks up to the woman, picks her up and swings her in his arms.
Best smile I captured of the groom all day. Marriage didn’t last 6 months from what I’ve heard.
danielw 4 years ago
I doubt very much that the groom was showing the same affection to his bride. maybe your right, maybe it was the kid sister or something. but if the interloper was anything other than his sister... and maybe even if it was the groom's sister... I sort of doubt he was showing the same affection to his bride.
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DforDory 4 years ago
I would have slapped my fiancé off of the face of earth if he did something like that on our wedding day...or any other time, for that matter.
Ruth Mayfly 4 years ago
I don't think hitting someone is ever the right answer. Leaving them if necessary, yes.
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Bored Batgirl 4 years ago
Sister, cousin, niece, childhood friend....doesn't have to be something nefarious
Brandi VanSteenwyk 4 years ago
Giving the benefit of the doubt, she could've been a cousin that hadn't been around for years. But... Depending on what state they were in, being a cousin might not make any difference.
Just JoLynn 4 years ago
So I take it he invited his side piece to the wedding hoping his wife wouldn't notice.
Little or no premarital education and religious differences — 13.3%. Even though all those surveyed had participated in PREP, for some it still wasn't enough. "I probably wish that we would have had more premarital counseling and had somebody tell us we should not be getting married," one participant said. Another added that, while the course was helpful in communication, it wasn't realistic about the growth of marriage. "Premarital counseling teaches you how to get along, and that you should communicate, but it doesn't really talk about the phases of a marriage over time."
As for religious differences, 69% of married people say that their spouse shares their religion, according to a Pew Center survey. And on average, per Fox News and according to the book "Til Faith Do Us Part: How Interfaith Marriage is Transforming America," couples in interfaith marriages are less happy than those in same-faith marriages.
#3
I worked fine dining/catering for over 20 years so Iʻve worked lots of weddings and receptions. I once heard a bride at the reception during the toasts say that she actually thought she was asking out the grooms twin brother on their first date and that might actually be cute except she ...just kept going on. How the twin was more compatible, etc. then she ended the toast with "well...as nice as you are youʻll make a great first husband". I was walking past the camera man at that time and you can hear me on tape saying " did you get that? Tell me you got that".
HufflePuffleGothleGay 4 years ago
#identicaltwinstrugglesthatshouldntbestrugglesitjustturnsoutthebrideishorrible cheeeck
Jayne Kyra 4 years ago (edited)
Would have been hilarious if the twin had made a speech about how he would say no if she were to ask him out.
WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago
The groom must have been over the honeymoon to know that he's just the first husband.
Mathieu Brouwers 4 years ago
I know two twin brothers who both are married over 30 years. Their dad could not tell who was whom. Their school teachers couldn´t. And their wifes can´t, even today. Only their mother was right most times. At both weddings they wore the same suit, except the jacket. They switched the jackets often. I´m pretty sure they still exchange their friends and wifes.
Mewton’s Third Paw 4 years ago
Exchange their wives? You mean like swingers or something, or just pulling pranks? “Exchange” is a weird word for this.
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Pascale Pierloot 4 years ago
So actually they weren't so identical at all??? And she went for the best next thing?
grey galah 4 years ago
The groom is lucky. She's so self-centred to be unaware of what she's saying
Lack of support from family — 17.3%. According to a 26-year longitudinal study that looked at 373 couples, a husband having a close relationship with his wife's family decreased the risk of their divorce by 20%. However, a wife having a close relationship with her husband's family increased the risk of divorce. According to the study's researcher, psychologist and professor Terri Orbuch, "Wives should maintain boundaries with their in-laws, and husbands should remember to take care of their in-laws and treat them as important."
#4
Not sure if this belongs here, since I'm really sure that they got divorced after, but anyway:
I was helping out at my parents restaurant where a huge wedding party was hosted. I was busy serving drinks and suddenly loud yelling and screaming startet right behind me. Turns out the bride had somehow found out that the groom had hooked up with her sister right before the wedding ceremony (and apparently on a few occasions before) and in her anger she stabbed him in the chest with a dinner fork several times.
We had to call an ambulance and the police. It was like hell
Jayne Kyra 4 years ago
Another Reddit follow up summed up: Groom and sister ended up together, had 2 kids, plan to marry but C-19 happened.
deanna woods 4 years ago
Are people this terrible that they think sleeping with their sibling's significant other is OK?
danielw 4 years ago
I'm sure the EMT's were decent people, surely? though if this was any one of a dozen soaps... the bride would have ran off with one of the firemen.
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Tully Cloud 4 years ago
OMG!!! Ok, she got some issues!!!! DAMNNNNNNNNNN!!!! But I would be pissed to!
Koolkat 4 years ago
She has issues? What about the shitty groom and her turd of a sister?
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Stannous Flouride 4 years ago
Not to worry, commercial dishwashing machines are the best things to autoclaves.
Substance abuse — 34.6%. At least one partner in 50% of the former couples surveyed by the NCBI cited substance abuse as an issue: 34.6% of individuals overall did, but in only 33.3% of cases, both partners agree that substance abuse was to blame for their divorce. "He never admitted that he even drank. It wasn't me against him. It was me against him and the disease," one participant said. Of those who indicated their marriage indeed had a "final straw," 12.1% reported it was because of substance abuse.
#5
At a wedding when the “I do’s” came, the groom said, “I guess”.
HufflePuffleGothleGay 4 years ago
not committed to spending the rest of his life with his S.O ... girl , walk out
Honu 4 years ago
Or he's one of those people who thinks humiliating his partner is a funny joke. Another vote for girl, walk out.
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Night Owl 4 years ago
If so, it's the wrong (probably worst) time for that joke
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Yoga Kitty 4 years ago
If he pulled this "prank" at a German registry office he would no longer be able to marry that day. The registrar is not allowed to declare the couple as legally married if one of the partners seems to be in doubt - even if it was meant as a joke!! They will be sent home and have to fix a new date. Marriage is no joke.
Too much conflict and arguing — 57.7%. Survey participants revealed that they didn't resovle their conflicts calmly or effectively, and it only got worse over time.
They reported that "communication problems increased in frequency and intensity throughout their marriages, which at times seemed to coincide with lost feelings of positive connections and mutual support." One participant concluded, "I got frustrated [with] arguing too much."
#6
When the bride and groom argued over why the grooms mother shouldn’t get all money given to them on their wedding day. Ya that was a red flag.
DforDory 4 years ago
Excuse me...? Why on earth would anybody think the money should go to any of the inlaws? :O
WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago
Perhaps the parents of the groom paid for the wedding and the mother wanted to get some of the money back... In some people's mind that's an absolutely valid and logical reason.
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Jayne Kyra 4 years ago
Follow up from Reddit is even better: "So they originally just wanted a small wedding but the the grooms mom said this is my only son, this wedding has to be huge. She said she would pay them back after the wedding for the extra costs. That’s where the argument started. Then weeks after the wedding the bride and groom had maxed out their credit cards and spent all there money to pay for everything and the grooms mother had all the wedding money and didn’t pay for a single thing! Needless to say they divorced after 6 months. What makes it crazier is that they had been childhood sweethearts and been together for 12/13 years."
Viviane 4 years ago
I'm actually glad to hear that they split up. It's possible that they had issues before that, but the bride's eye's opened after that.
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GirlFriday 4 years ago (edited)
True Story: when my nephew got married, we found out at the reception that the mother of the bride was going to take all of the money that was given to the couple as "payment for stress of the wedding". MOB was bragging about it in the bathroom that she was assigned to take the gifts home and the couple would open them at brunch the next day and it was her intention to remove the cash and keep it and her daughter was OK with this. My family (and we are a large family) went to the gift table and removed our gifts (most of which was money) and even returned some to our friends as well. At brunch the next day, the couple got several cards and no money. We took our cards to my nephew a few days later and he was shocked and had no idea this was going on. Our gifts totaled almost $10K. I cannot imagine that horrible woman stealing that kind of money from a a young couple.
Viviane 4 years ago
GirlFriday - WTF - "payment for stress of the wedding"??? What next, suing the couple for distress? Sending a collection agency after her daughter for the cost of raising her? The MOB was quite possibly lying about her daughter being okay with the theft. Good on you and the family for circumventing this shameless embezzler.
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Samantha Comerford 4 years ago
Why shou.d she have it in the first place ... It’s not her wedding ?
Nevits Yibble 4 years ago
That's crazy. You don't give wedding money to the groom's mother. You send it all to me.
Dolly_of TheCowboy 4 years ago
This kind of incident is apparently a bigger issue in some cultural groups that still think woman=property and once the marriage is arranged or goes ahead the bride's family has to pay a dowry that becomes the sole property of husband's/husband's family and if she does not cough it up she will suffer. There is a hidden problem with domestic violence related incidents over dowry in Australia (cannot speak for other countries but as the individuals come from outside Australia originally...). Many women whom have married into families that live in Australia and she comes from another country view dowry as their right, regardless of what the arrangements or laws are or how she is treated, and her family as an ongoing cash cow to cough up more dowry even after the agreed amount has been paid. Many have been lucky to escape being murdered (some not so lucky) over dowry
D. Pitbull 4 years ago
This ... requires a little more explanation I believe. So... Asians - well, SE Asians anyhow (I'm ethnically Chinese, Born in SE Asia, parents were born in SE Asia, we all moved to Canad when I was an infant - so... looots of cultural influences here...) - the way we do weddings... well YEAH it's an expensive event... and **that** is specifically why money IS given - so that the bride/groom/whomever paid for the wedding isn't living in a refrigerator box afterwards. The point is, this is a celebration of the event for these two people - and you've been allowed to see this important event in their lives. Tell me how much sense does it make to 'ensure' that they're broke as a joke afterwards... but they sure have lovely hand towels??? - so yeah... if the mom paid for the entire wedding bill... yeah... she'd get the freakin' money. I don't know about you - a gift of towels/dishes/furniture is fine... but really I'd rather get that myself.
Seabeast 4 years ago
If she paid for the wedding, it was her gift to the couple. If she wants to get paid for organizing weddings, she should become a wedding planner.
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I perform ceremonies as an officiant, and know other officiants. The worst (IMHO) are the weddings that are just a bad idea. The couple is young, inexperienced, and selfish. I mean, even courthouse weddings can last decades, but if you have a wedding that is clearly not planned out, they are often not though out as well. Weddings that are rebellious as a "f**k you daddy, I am 19 and marry who I want!" I give about 2 years, especially if the bride and groom are out of sync with one another, or one just looks like "this was the other's idea primarily."
Oddly enough, weddings with cheesy themes (Star Wars, Elvis, etc) last longer than the traditional styles. I have theories on that, but don't have enough data that's not anecdotal to back it up. But I think casual weddings where everyone is relaxed, happy, and having a good time because the wedding is about celebrating rather than ceremony will last the longest.
A sense of humor helps. If both the bride and groom are relaxed and silly with one another, those last the longest.
Ember 4 years ago
My whole wedding cost less than £200. We borrowed our outfits and only had a couple of witnesses at the local registry office then had some party food at my mothers house with a few friends and family for a reception. I arrived by taxi and we left the same way. I never understand why people spend a small fortune on one day when it’s all the days AFTER the wedding that are the most important. We have been married 26 years now and have watched friends spend so much money on the ‘Big Day’ and last less than a year.
Mohsie Supposie 4 years ago (edited)
Sense of humour is compulsory. It should be illegal for people without a sense of humour to get married!
Gab s 4 years ago
Exactly Mohsie. How do people expect to survive life without humour is beyond me. My parents are married for 38 years now and I envy them. They had their ups and downs throughout life but now close to retirement it's my dad's main hobby to prank and troll my mom then share his accomplishments with kids. She 100% enjoys the attention.
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Leslie Burleson 4 years ago
The Star Wars / Elvis phenomenon is indicative of a couple that knows each other's likes , and they are creating something displaying the love they have ... not necessarily the money they have. That is my husband and I . We'll be married 25 years in May. We were very young , very dumb and got very lucky . We never fight. We are complete opposites but we always know what the other is thinking. People hate playing games with us . Just an odd word would remind either of us of something, so it is easy to play those games where you can't use certain words. Say the word we are supposed to explain was spaghetti . One of us would be like "remember that orange fish?" The other person is like "spaghetti" ! everyone else is like "wtf?"
Leo Domitrix 4 years ago
Got married by a judge standing in a fire department, still together and that's nearly 30 years. BFF with big glorious weddings from a magazine: on third divorce. Yeah. the ceremony doesn't dictate the marriage.
deanna woods 4 years ago
My parents got married at the local courthouse and had the reception at Pizza Hut. Been married for forty one years.
Kisses4Katie 4 years ago
My husband and I have been together almost 20 years, we had our son at 18, married at 21, and it cost us $71 and I wore a t shirt. We got married young but I'd never dream of anyone but him. ❤️
Ria C. 4 years ago
Yay you! Glad things have worked out, you all are an exceptional couple. Teen pregnancy is rough from what I have seen/heard sometimes. 🥂 💘
Load More Replies... Nubmaeme 4 years ago
The best "themed" wedding I ever attended was a Battlestar Galactica one. A little over 30 years ago, I was on staff at a BG convention. Richard Hatch, the original Captain Apollo, was the main attraction there. A couple decided to have their wedding during the convention so more of their friends could attend. Every person in the wedding party was dressed as Colonial warriors. Both sets of parents and the minister even dressed as the Lords of Kobol. Richard attended as a surprise and much welcomed guest to the couple. I was standing with Richard during the ceremony. He was amazed at the detail in their uniforms, the Lord's robes and even in the wording of the vows so everything was in character and stayed on theme. The last I heard anything of the couple was that they were still together more than 3 decades later.
DDmaybeandor 4 years ago
Hmm, guess my husband and I are an exception. Married very young and cheaply but we've been together for almost 20 years.
#8
It was the third time the bride had hired me and all the guys had been carbon copies.
Seabeast 4 years ago
Had a physical "type" and keeps hoping to find one that also has a compatible personality.
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DG 4 years ago
Apparently it might have been daddy issue, since her dad died when she was a teen and the guys looked alot like the dad, right before he died 🤷🏼♀️
Crazy Meerkat Lady 4 years ago
Imagine her walking into the bakery every couple of months... "Hey Charlie, what's up? The usual please, I'll bring you the caketopper groom later this afternoon, thanks bye"
The Canvas Lamb 4 years ago
I have a theory that some women (and maybe some men) love the excitement and being the center of attention during the planning process and wedding itself that life afterward is a big letdown for them. So they get divorced and start the process all over again. I remember seeing a episode of "Say Yes to the Dress" where a woman was buying her third, very expensive wedding dress in about ten years.
#9
Ugh I photographed this awful couple. She was a sour cow, barely cracked a smile and all day she was following him round saying "Maaaark! Get my shoes! Maaaark! Where's my bag? Maaaark!" He looked completely miserable and barely spoke all day. At one point we asked them to kiss for a photo and she said "Oh, we're not that kind of couple."
DforDory 4 years ago (edited)
Errmm...you're not a couple, but a dame and servant. Better let eachother go and find happiness somewhere else, without any hard feelings.
Viviane 4 years ago
My mother pretty much treated my dad like the help within a few years after he retired. My spouse and I thank each other for all kinds of little things and it's so much more pleasant. One of my colleagues said she does the same. She does seem very, very happy with her husband.
Nevits Yibble 4 years ago
So what kind of couple are you then? It was at that point when they peeled off their faces.... they were aliens from outer space! I tried to run, but too late - they turned me into a chrysalis. I believe it's their intention to now devour me at their leisure.
J.C. 4 years ago
They're not "that kind of people"? I get "not being that kind of people" as much as the next guy. PDAs are not my thing either. But... If you do not kiss for a photo on the day of your wedding, that can't be good.
#10
Night before the wedding, the bride-to-be tried to sleep with me on her stag night, crying on my shoulder she wasn't ready for marriage.
Even my 18 year old hormonal brain did a big NOPE there. They lasted a year.
Draco Malfoy 4 years ago
Good for you for saying no though. Much better than some of the people in this list
Debrina Blackmoon 4 years ago (edited)
Damnit, Hazel Lily-why not DELETE your fucktard bullshit, huh?! Why post this which has NOTHING to do with ANYTHING here?!
Furry_Danger 4 years ago
Not likely, If they were, they are an adult and could easily cancel. Even then, most likely she was a little rushy with the marriage and realized what it was about a little too late.
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I worked at a hotel in the kitchen, we did a trashy wedding where the cake was brought in from walmart, groom was caught making out with a bridesmaid in a conference room and we saw the bride throw her ring into a storm drain across the street.
Leslie Burleson 4 years ago
Um, some people , who aren't trashy, can only afford a cake from Walmart . Also, you can spend thousands on a cake , or you can put that money to better use somewhere else in the wedding or for charity . It's just cake
Lexi Mitchell 4 years ago
Yeah that jab was uncalled for. Also speaking from experience, almost every Walmart brand item I’ve tried has been fantastic. Their donuts are actually amazing.
Load More Replies... Valley Girl 4 years ago
Hey now! I had a Walmart cake and it was wonderful. 4 tiered, filled, and beautiful. We just didn't see any reason to blow $1,000 on a cake. We didn't get a limo either. We rented a badass Charger instead!
Sandra Givens 4 years ago
Don't blame that poor cake from Walmart. My mother and father's cake came from A&P grocery store, single layer chocolate because that's what the store had. Not everyone wants to spend hundreds on a cake, which is what they cost these days.
Ren Karlej 4 years ago
Chocolate cake of any kind is infinitely superior to traditional wedding cake! Mine was chocolate orange and made by my sister!
Load More Replies... Rebecca Bandy 4 years ago
Guess I'm trashy then because I prefer Walmart cakes/cupcakes over any of the "fancy" ones I've tried.
Debrina Blackmoon 4 years ago
Then maybe most of us are extremely trashy for getting ANYTHING from there! Oh, well. Sure.
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Lisa Shelton 4 years ago
Trashy actions are one thing but let's not look down on people for buying a cake they can afford instead of going into debt over it.
#12
They had a big fight the night before the wedding and were considering calling it off. Until the bride showed up 30 minutes before the ceremony, no one was sure if she would be there at all. The groom danced with his MOM more times than he did with the bride. The bride was snippy and nitpicky with the staff all night. The word "annullment" was cast around and I hope to god they went through with it the next day because holy s**t.
Night Owl 4 years ago
Or the groom in this case only danced that much with his mom to avoid the snippy bride
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#13
I’m a photographer and I’ve shot 3 weddings bc I hate them and they are not for me. Bless you guys who do it, but it’s too much work and drama for me, and not worth the money. Anyway, one of the weddings, the groom called the bride unattractive (she was stunning and used to model, was maybe a size 2, and he was cute, but generic cute), he kept taking shots of vodka with his boys, and asked for a full on photo shoot with his mom. He was definitely a mama’s boy, bc mom was hovering, but you know it’s bad when mom suggests that he maybe take some photos with his wife. He told me to stfu every time I redirected, so after the 3rd time that happened (and he flashed me his junk?), I started packing up. When he started yelling at me, I just told him no one talks to me like that, and I’d send them a refund. I knew right then that it wouldn’t last. He started crying and said he’d behave. He did, but it didn’t matter bc 2 weeks later the marriage was annulled. No one wanted the photos. I was paid in full for photos no one wanted. Bride’s dad had paid me, and tipped me well too. When I offered to refund him half anyway, he said the bride knew when the groom yelled at me and cried that it wasn’t going to work, so I earned it. I guess the whole fam was trying to get them to call it off.
deanna woods 4 years ago
This groom wasn't just a mama's boy, he was an immature child that shouldn't have been getting married in the first place.
KT 4 years ago
WHY on earth do people put themselves into these horrid heart breaking situations?
RaroaRaroa 4 years ago
He'd probably been taking shots of vodka when she talked him into proposing, then didn't have the balls to back out. She was focussed on her dream, not reality, until realising after the wedding what a mistake it all was.
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Marilyn Ransberry 4 years ago
Gay guy and doesn’t admit it. Hope he figures it out before hurting others.
#14
I work and n a hotel. I came in one night to find the wedding was already wrapped up (it was supposed to go until 1 AM and it was 11 PM) because the wedding couple had a fight and she went home with mom.
At another one they had a huge rehearsal dinner fight which spilled out into the lobby. Everyone in the lobby found out that she hated his parents, she was pregnant and she had no idea who the father was, and a few other things. Half the guest list packed up and checked out the next day. They still got married.
EQXL 4 years ago
Nope unless he really badly hated his own parents and wanted to stick them one.
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Yeah, you heard 4 years ago
I just don't get the point of rehearsal dinners. Is it an American thing? Why would you need to practice eating dinner, making speeches etc? It's like having two weddings, one after the other. Weird.
Niamh Gallagher Kerr 4 years ago
I'd have hung around for the wedding at least there'd be entertainment and chances are you wouldn't get your money back from the hotel room. 🤣🤣
Batgirl Kitty 4 years ago
Pregnant and not knowing the father? What is this, some sort of bad teen drama?
#15
Heard from a friend who did calligraphy that a bride came to get wedding invites and the usual wording of 'bride mum and dad and groom mum and dad invite you to the wedding of bride and groom" , bride didn't want grooms parents names on the invite. My mate did an invite mock-up called the couple for a check and the groom lost it, because grooms parents were the ones paying for most of the wedding. They didn't need any invites.
WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago
Why would you be so mean to not put the grooms parents names on the invite?
Ozacoter 4 years ago
Specially if you put yours. I wouldnt put my parents or in laws names in the invitation because they have nothing to do with it. But you cannot put just yours.
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April Miller 4 years ago
My brother’s soon-to-be-ex-wife demanded our parents’ names not be included on wedding invites because her parents paid for the wedding. However, our parents gave them $15k for the rehearsal dinner, which is part of the wedding. God I can’t wait to get that woman out of the family.
Ren Karlej 4 years ago
$15K for the rehearsal dinner??? My whole wedding cost less than £800! Tiny but perfect.
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Bill Taylor 4 years ago
My in-laws hosted our wedding in the back yard of their Victorian mansion and my parents names were not on the wedding invite. Depending on the circumstances, sometimes it is proper to leave the groom's parents off of the invitation.
scorpesh 4 years ago (edited)
For my friend's wedding her parents were paying for most of the wedding,the groom's side got to pick the location(which was close to them,we literally had to travel from one state to another as both were from different states),they had another reception from the bride's side for people who could'nt attend the wedding...not to mention the dowry that's a given and all of this right after her dad's retirement.I don't understand why traditions have to be one sided especially for these kind of special occasions.[PS. It's a default to include the couple's parents names in some cases their grandparents names as well on the invite].
#16
Worked wedding receptions, here are some favorites:
Bride started stripping on the table while the groom was outside.
Bride and best man [were found] in a closet.
Bride lost her ring less that 3 hours after being married.
Mother of the groom lit the table on fire because she didnt like the bride or her family.
Groom was passed out drunk less than 30 mins into the reception. He pregamed in the limo. Our bartender refused to serve him when he arrived. Groomsmen loaded him back into the limo to sleep it off and he didnt come back that night.
HufflePuffleGothleGay 4 years ago
you woulda thunk people would have taken this more seriously...
Ivo H 4 years ago
The one with the ring could be just accident though... If she wasn't used to wearing one and the size wasn't spot on, it could've just slipped
Hannah M 4 years ago
.... lit the table on fire.... I'm sorry, what? This is not an appropriate reaction
danielw 4 years ago
maybe it was the same bride as the first... and she was just trying to help with the strip show??
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NMN 4 years ago
Different weddings, the person said "here are some favorites" for wedding receptions...
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Easily Excitable Panda 4 years ago
Honestly, other than the danger to the lives and well-beings of a huge number of people, I'm kind of with the groom's mother on this one. Here's hoping she was stone cold sober when she did it.
Night Owl 4 years ago (edited)
I read it as every paragraph for a different, separate wedding reception (with different brides)
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"bride lost her ring less than 3 hours after wedding" LOL totally me. though it will also not be on purpose. I'm just that kinda person that little lerperchauns love to prank....
#17
I was a wedding planner for almost a decade and saw these types of couples regularly. My biggest key indicator for this was whether they cared more about the wedding day than actually being married to one another.
For example, I remember one couple who really wanted an over-the-top wedding that would be good enough to be featured in a popular luxury wedding magazine. They spared no expense. They became so obsessed with this that they were even choosing members of their bridal party based on their looks rather than their relationship with them. The bride had 2 brothers, one brother looked like a model for Hugo Boss and her other brother looked a bit like fat Thor. Well, only the "hot" brother was selected to be a groomsman. Things like this caused a lot of tension between family members and fights between the couple. It was awkward a lot of the time. I knew for sure this couple wouldn't make it for long.
Interestingly enough, the couple divorced a week before their wedding was featured in that luxury bridal magazine.
Dynein 4 years ago
Can't there just be a trend where people who dream about having their "big day" just make that day their birthday or whatever milestone of their choice? Personally I don't care for that kind of thing, but if someone's dream is to have a lavish, styled event where they are the center of the attention (they could even get themselves a piece of jewelry for the occasion!), I'm cool with that. Just so long as they don't make major life-changing decisions out of the desire to have such an event.
Katinka Min 4 years ago
I was plannning to make my 50th a big event, since I never married. I'd saved up a lot of money - and then Covid came, I lost my clients (I work tourism) and have since burned through my savings. Oh well...maybe my 60th...
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Leo Domitrix 4 years ago
This. It's the marriage, not the wedding. If you want a fancy party with fancy dress, etc., then just throw one, whatever, but enough of the Big Day! I was raised to believe I didn't need it, and thank you, Mom, for that! :-)
Ren Karlej 4 years ago
My parents promised to buy us a ladder so we could elope! Totally agree - marriage is way more important than a big wedding. I got married at the same time as a colleague. She had a big flash day with all the trimmings and mine was tiny (but perfect of course!) and guess who divorced after a year? Not me. Such a waste of money really.
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Batwench 4 years ago
I am sorry but I thought “fat Thor” was pretty hot. So I probably would have not done well at that wedding.
Aragorn II Elessar 4 years ago
He looked more like a Viking than the previous Thor’s
Load More Replies... D. Pitbull 4 years ago
Yeah... this is why the actual "legal part" of the wedding for mine (vows, ring exchange, etc.) was at my in-laws house (we tossed a coin to see whether it'd be at my parents or the in-laws) with only direct family and the official doing the legal paperwork thing present. The "reception" ... was essentially a massive af party held a week later. No "wedding party" just a couple of "thanks - we got married, let's have fun" sorta-speeches. I got to cut my (Cheap but ginormous Costco-sourced) cake with a saber (pirate wedding). I mean... waaaay better than a cake knife.
Easily Excitable Panda 4 years ago
Relationship goals: get featured in a luxury bridal magazine. If you get divorced before it goes to press, it the split doesn't matter at all!
#18
I've told this story before but I was working as a cook at a golf course and, at one of the weddings we catered, the bride got incredibly drunk and kept sitting in the laps of all the male guests and flirting with them pretty heavily. I think she made out with one of them too IIRC. Her new husband just sat at the head table by himself looking more and more like a guy who made a $30,000 mistake.
Shelp 4 years ago
Poor man. And also the guests who sleep with a drunken bride the day she gets married are really the lowest beings.
WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago (edited)
What about the bride who sleeps with other men on the day she gets married? It still takes two to tango.
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#19
Not actually in the industry but i have helped out a friend with a few weddings. Two of the weddings i could just tell they weren't going to make it. The first wedding the bride and groom hardly talked the entire wedding. It was like they had nothing in common. And then later the groom pretty much f**ks off half way through and went home because i quote "he was tired". So he just left his bride having to take pictures with the wedding guests on her own. He never came back that evening so she had to greet everyone off etc. Funny enough about a year later i heard they're filing for divorce.
Another time was actually last summer. Just before the wedding speeches the groom went go hang out with his friends for like half an hour leaving the bride sitting there alone and delaying the speeches. Then right after the bride and groom cut the cake he once again went to go hang out with his friends and abandoned his wife. So she was left alone having to mingle with all the guests and he made no interaction with her side of the guests. He stuck with his friends the rest of the evening. His wife basically had to go and beg him to come and take more wedding pictures. At one point in the evening he actually went for a drive with his friends for about an hour and his wife had no idea where he was. I mean i get wanting to mingle with your friends at your wedding but to not even mingle with your wife's family or friends on your wedding day seems quite rude.
Kathrin 4 years ago
It's a tradition in Bavaria that the groom's friends 'kidnap' the bride, take her to a nearby restaurant or bar and the groom has to find her and has to pay the bar bill to get her back. Perfect tradition to ruin weddings :)
NatalieC 4 years ago
I've known people who would disappear frequently during the day. They were doing drugs.
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#20
Many years ago I had a side hustle doing cakes and would often get orders for wedding cakes. Long story short, the bride to be threw a full-fledged stompy-footed tantrum, locking herself in my bathroom and refused to come out because the groom was "unreasonably insisting" on having a say in what the cake flavour was going to be. Like, I'd say through the door, "Get out of my bathroom!" and all I'd get was a whiny defiant little "NoooOooooooOooooooooO!!!!!!" IIRC she was about 22.
Shelp 4 years ago
She told you she was 22, but judging by her behaviour she was more likely 5.
Nevits Yibble 4 years ago
A young bridezilla developing into a future Karen right before our eyes. It is these wonderful examples of personal growth stories that warmly restores my faith in humanity oh my god I'm going to cry
J. Normal 4 years ago
I was a bridezilla, My sister (MOH) hated my choice of napkins. I said "tough I like them" we actually got into enough of an argument she threatened to not be in the wedding. It pissed her off when I said I did not care, the napkins were more important than her. I was not going to be bullied on my wedding day
#21
I work in the industry (side hobby) and I saw it before entering.
Recent husband came to me, a total stranger to him, and asked what I would do if I found my fiance f**king her dance partner 3 weeks before the wedding.
I just shook my head and walked away.
2 months.
Sarah Grape 4 years ago
that pic bothers me. the fact that girls dress up and boys just come in jeans.....IDK. its just kinda a deal breaker for me. If I dress up for you, you can have the same amount of respect for me. hope thats not too high expectations, just the way i think
JessG 4 years ago
I wore sneaks on my wedding too, but some women just like those. Why ask? You do you
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#22
I ran a fairly upmarket hotel & restaurant that sometimes hosted weddings. Made a rookie error and booked in a wedding for Christmas Eve. This should have been a warning sign, as it shows a pretty significant lack of consideration for friends and family making them travel across the country on one of the most irritating days of the year, when we’d all rather be at home with family preparing for the next day.
They turned up 3 hours early and the battle axe of a bride proceeded to shout at us for not being prepared, surrounded by her incredibly embarrassed but not unsurprised family.
There were various other red flags throughout the night, but the main one was when the husband got blind drunk on whiskey and asked me to go to his hotel room with him and “break him in” as a married man. I politely refused.
#23
When I used to work the occasional wedding on weekends there was this one couple that made me think yea she’s going to end up alone. She took the microphone in the middle of a song that everyone was happily dancing to and then kept saying “it’s my day but I’ll wait til your done your conversation!” “Don’t worry it’s only my wedding day” “helloooo bride wants to talk” blah blah it was hella rude, when she was finally satisfied with the silence she started her speech by berating everyone for taking so long to be quiet and then went on to talk about how she’s so happy and she loves her husband and don’t take the centre pieces. It was awful if I was a guest I would’ve taken my gift and left
Draco Malfoy 4 years ago
Sounds like when teachers used to be like: "You're just wasting your own time, I'll wait." When people were talking in class. Oddly enough, these teachers were always the worst haha
Draco Malfoy 4 years ago
True, but if she is that narcissistic when things don't go exactly how she wants, imagine how it would be for the husband.
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Theoretical Empiricist 4 years ago
The thing about it being the "bride's big day" always irked me. To paraphrase Mr. Potato Head taunting Ken, "You aren't the partner I want to spend the rest of my life with - you're an accessory!"
deanna woods 4 years ago
This bride sounded like an entitled brat that constantly has to be the center of attention.
Nevits Yibble 4 years ago
So that's when Jesus comes out of the sky and..... steals one of the centre pieces! Run Jesus run! Good old Jesus and his shenanigans, bringing a smile to the wedding guests...
Jen Cook 4 years ago
I don't get the whole "it's my day". It's about uniting two people and two families and I could care less about the details, surrounded by the people I want to share the moments of my life that mean the most is enough for me. It's our day, I'm having it because I want to share it with those people and appreciate them taking the time and often spending the money to be able to attend, that's pretty special I think.
#24
I'm a musician and the son of a wedding photographer.
I've actually played in a band whose leader, on the wedding day, took a deposit for the divorce party that was to follow. The groom's mother laid it down and said "I give it six months".
Nine months later, there we were, and there she (the bride) wasn't.
Yeah, you heard 4 years ago
"I really wish I could cure my Parkinson's. Hey, this page about crap weddings on bored panda might have some useful info in the comments section" said no one, ever.
Bacony Cakes 4 years ago
And then you get scammed by an essential oils spambot. Bet you a couple bucks that Dr Ernest Albrecht is a PhD in Bul- Homeopathy.
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#25
I’ve shot a couple of weddings and the worst “yikes” one involved a bride who would glare at the groom nearly 97% of the time. Made my job getting good photos to try and paint the day in a happy light near impossible and when grilled with the “why didn’t you get more shots, I paid for your service didn’t I?” From the bride was awkward as hell. To be fair I only barely was able to scrap together enough to meet the contract’s expectations due to the bride scowling the majority of the time. For some added context; it was a relatively small family/friends only wedding and held on some land that one of the parents owned. The groom was having fun and talking to all sorts of people introducing himself to those he hadn’t met and was overall a really cool dude who was super excited for the whole event, the bride was a contemptful bridezilla that hated he was having fun and the attention wasn’t solely on her, I’d detail more but some of the .. ‘events’ of the day can only be explained with some details that would dox me pretty quick to anyone at the event. This was the one that made me get out of wedding photography.
From the context of Facebook they got divorced about 3 months afterwards. The groom had nothing but nice things to say about my work and how glad he was I got shots of him and his now late dad together smiling, while the bride complained about just about everything. “Why didn’t you get any good pictures of me and my mother?!” Because literally half an hour after I arrived on sight you had told me you were avoiding her because she ‘was a selfish b**** who shouldn’t even be here.’ Ugh. While profitable it is such an exhausting market/industry.
Viviane 4 years ago
My mother complained that my wedding photographer didn't get good pictures of her. The photographer had rightfully told my mother to stop trying to "perfect" my dress when I needed to meet the photographer for pre-wedding shots. My mother was pretty annoyed at the photographer after that and it showed in the pictures. For the record, I thought my dress was fine and I was paying for photography, not tailoring.
#26
I used to drive a limo and did a few weddings. This one Saturday afternoon I am picking up both bride and groom, best man and maid of honor.
Poor groom has his arm in a full cast and immobilized with a steel rod. Turns out he had shattered iy a week earlier while riding an ATV.
They all get in the car and the bride-to-be starts ragging him hard core, telling him he is such an idiot, he has ruined the wedding, he is such a loser. She is not letting up and not letting go. Obviously she knew about the injury so it wasn't a surprise. She was just using it to drop F bombs and other unwholesome words in his general direction
I pull up to the church and she and the maid of honor leap out and go into the church. The best man asks if he still wants to go through with the wedding, and the poor dumb schmuck says yes with the enthusiasm of a sleepy sloth.
I just wanted to say "No, dude. Dont spend the next few years with that Witch B****." But he was getting out of the car by then. I dont know how it turned out, bit I am sure it wasn't good.
TheRandomBorger 4 years ago
When Draco Malfoy doesn't approve of your choices, you know you screwed up
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deanna woods 4 years ago
That bride was a real piece of work and no one should have to put up with that.
#27
Catered weddings for a year or so, here's some of the more bat s**t ones off the top of my head:
Entire wedding party dropped molly about an hour into the wedding, bride was colossally f**ked up while the groom looked like he s**t himself while staring at the alpacas they hired to take pictures with. (Yes they hired alpacas, no I don't know why.)
Bridezilla screamed at our serving team for serving too much chicken and not leaving enough for her, after she refused to eat untill 3 hours past dinner service. Groom was nowhere to be found after that.
Brides mom tried to f**k one of our chefs, a very good looking 6'3 italian man. Bride had to pull her away from the kitchen two times, causing a fun argument between the brides mom and dad. Bride started crying and the groom decided to disappear to go take a few shots instead of comforting his wife.
Max 4 years ago
Alpacas are very soft, and being on drugs probably makes them a wonderful experience. Or a horrifying one, based on that account by the person who thought they saw a sheep whose neck just kept extending...
#28
I don't work in the wedding industry but I have a depressing wedding story.
I have a friend who I grew up with, she was always gorgeous and incredibly popular with guys and I always thought she was a great person. As I got older I came to realise she was actually extremely toxic in relationships and did better when she was single. She had been seeing a new guy for two months when one day I receive a wedding invitation in the mail. Knowing her history it was a massive red flag for me. I turn up to the wedding and it's at a gorgeous little backyard type wedding, it's spring and everything looks perfect. I greet her family and it's like I've turned up to a funeral, not a wedding. They're all extremely solemn and when I ask about the groom her mother rolls her eyes and says "This. Is. A. Mistake."
Wedding commences and as the bride comes down the aisle her face is grey and like she would rather be anywhere else. They exchange vows while the bride does everything in her power to not touch her husband to be, even standing a solid metre away from him as they stand at the front. She actually cringes and looks away when he gets choked up saying how much he loves her. When the priest announces the kiss the bride takes a slow step forward and presents her cheek for him to kiss instead of her lips. No one cheers, it's just an awkward shuffling of feet and a few scattered claps. It was the worst wedding I've ever been to.
They lasted about 3 months, before separating.
Viviane 4 years ago
I don't know why the woman accepted marrying him. Maybe she liked him at first, then realized she didn't and hoped he would figure it out and back out.
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deanna woods 4 years ago
If you are this apprehensive do not get married. You are setting yourself up for a whole lot of grief.
Elizabeth Molloy 4 years ago
This annoys the hell out of me; the wedding vows state that you should not enter into the union lightly.
#29
Probably 2 late but after seven years in the industry 2 stand out.
I. Groom focused on “the boys” all night. Rarely saw the bride and groom together. In his speech he mentioned the bridesmaids and groomsmen the proceeded to spend the rest of his speech talking about his new place of “hierarchy” in the family. Never mentioned her. 3 months later it was over.
Second and most favourite. TLDR: bride drives herself to the ceremony, pops the Ute and skulls a drink in front of the guests. Is drunk before the reception begins. Shows the mc she’s not wearing anything but her garter under the dress. Pulls her strapless dress down to show me her nipple. Groom spends whole night outside chain smoking. And that’s the short version.
juice 4 years ago
according to the reddit link, the poster elaborated a bit: "...Involves tequila slammers during the bridal party entry, the bride nearly puking a fresh p*ssy shot all over me (thankfully she gagged enough times for me to hand her the dirty pint glass I was carrying for her to use instead), going to clean puke from the bathrooms and finding the groomsmen racking lines off the baby change table and of course like any true blue Aussie bogan wedding ... a punch up." (i'm not sure what that last line means though)
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juice 4 years ago
"pops the ute" means opens the back/trunk of the car; "skulls a drink" means drinks the whole thing in one go
Laura Silverstein 3 years ago
For the second one…I didn’t know u were at Sarah palin’s wedding!
Nevits Yibble 4 years ago
The long version: groom spends the whole night outside, behind the building, leaning against the greasy dumpster with Dave the dishwasher - a hairy, fifty-ish man in a soiled apron. They quietly chain smoke under the cool blue glow of a bug zapper. Off in the distance, a single bark of a dog encroaches the gloomy silence…
#30
I’m a wedding photographer, and the first red flag was how much flipping money they were spending. They had multiple venues, one was a golf resort. Really fancy schmancy. Could’ve bought a really reeeeally nice car with that kind of money. Down payment on an expensive home kind of money.
Second, when I showed up to do the getting ready shots in their house the husband’s family was really nice to me, almost treated me like a family friend. Whenever she was brought up his family would look at me and make a face or roll their eyes, obviously not happy with his choice of lady. It seemed implied that since they already had a kid that I guess he haaaaas to... which was kind of sad.
I had half a mind to tell him that he didn’t have to get married if he wasn’t happy. Which I may have implied very gently.. Not professional I know but she was kind of a monster, not just the day of, but even after. In my opinion, she treated her new husband really poorly. Right after the ceremony, they were outside and she was already yelling at him about something. Just checked, and they’re still married but according to her posts she’s antivax.
WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago
"they’re still married but according to her posts she’s antivax." So, there's a shimmer of hope for the husband.
Reynard 4 years ago
Being an anti-vaxxer is a red flag because they are irrational, unscientific, and lack logic and reason. Run away from them.
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I work for a catering company... I knew they were going to get a divorce as soon as the bride started grinding on the best man when the groom was puking his guts out in the corner.
#32
Not me, but my little brother did catering for a bit after he graduated college. He told me a few stories:
Groom drank ten beers during dinner, proceeded to projectile vomit on the wedding cake.
Bride's mother overheard groom talking about his high school wrestling career, tried to drag bride out of the venue yelling about "I TOLD YOU TO FIND A GENTLEMAN"
Bride and groom got into a fistfight before dinner because bride had ordered lilacs instead of roses for the tables out of personal preference
Furry_Danger 4 years ago
"MY DAY IS RUINED THANKS TO YOU! Stupid...idiots...Can't even get the right flowers....Why isn't anyone sympathetic to me?!"
Hugh Cookson 4 years ago
Nothing : I have catered for two gypsy weddings over my, what feels like, centuries long career in catering, front and back of house. The first one was going well until the two fathers (who didn't like each other in the first place) had a full on bare knuckle fight on the dance floor - this is in a very nice Elizabethan manor house dating from the 1580's - cheered on by all of the guests ; only 4 people were arrested that time. The second happened not far from that venue (there were several large, established communities of travellers / gypsies around the area and if a venue was rash enough to say yes to a wedding, they would pay above the odds, and up front, and in cash ...... go figure). Let's just say it got out of hand, only 2 people stabbed, 28 arrested, 3 charged with Grievous bodily harm, one with attempted murder, 2 counts of arson and several accusations of theft and general assault., some of those against my staff. It was an interesting day (or two inc clearing up)
Colin Mochrie At Its Finest 4 years ago
How many straight guys get angry over flowers? Enough to fist fight?
#33
Yes. One of my brides was nervous and got so drunk before the ceremony that she had to be helped down the aisle. Then when the ceremony was over, instead of kissing the groom ("we now pronounce you man and wife") she licked him from chin to eyeball. She fell during the recessional and knocked over a waiter carrying champagne. She couldn't be in their post ceremony photoshoot because she kept falling. When it was time to cut the cake, we couldn't find her. Our staff went to her hotel room and found her covered in her own vomit, still in her wedding dress. She had the audacity to ask for a refund after all of this. They're divorced now...
Colin Mochrie At Its Finest 4 years ago
Honestly, though...I doubt it was shocking behavior like it was her first time. He knew and still dated her, proposed (guessing, as typically|traditionally they do) and went through the engagement period. So I don't feel bad for him.
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#34
I worked in a tux shop for a while after highschool. The friction in a couple's relationship was directly correlated with how involved the mothers were. Whether it was motherzilla of the bride or a momma's boy groom, if they had their finger on the scale, you could see it.
danielw 4 years ago
there's involvement and then theirs domineering, though. being there to help, and provide, "No really, that chartreuse dress looks hideous' comments can in fact be helpful. (case in point, the SiL's mother's only contribution was 'picking out' the bridesmaids dresses... which were chartreuse... and would match MoB's dress.)
#35
I worked weddings as a server for about a year and saw a ton of different things but one stands out specifically. This venue was on a golf course and in the middle of the reception all of the groomsmen and the groom got drunk and decided it was a good idea to go swimming in one of the ponds in their tuxes. The bride was standing on the back porch screaming at them, asking him how he could be such a dumb ass and lamenting loud enough for the world to hear that she married him. I didn't see the bride for the rest of the reception after that. Pretty sure that marriage ended pretty quickly...
Viviane 4 years ago
If it was after the ceremony, I'd probably laugh it off and tell the photographer to get pics. I could see some really memorable pictures coming out of that. C'mon, it's not like the groom went skinny dipping with the bridesmaids. In which case, the pics could be entered into evidence...
Lisa Shelton 4 years ago
I could understand being upset if the tuxes were rented, but you don't lament marrying them unless you want to start divorce proceedings right there.
Paul Budhram 4 years ago
I mean... -1000 points is quite bad. I don't know how you ban here, but that's got to be enough.
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Used to serve at a lot of weddings. At one very expensive engagement party the groom got drunk and tried to pick a fight with one of the servers. He then punched another guest and had to be walked out. Bride seemed upset but not shocked.
#37
Well, usually canceling the wedding twice the week before the actual wedding is a good sign.. They made it two weeks before divorce.
#38
Yes I’m a wedding photographer and think this often, when I’m at the rehearsal and they often have nasty arguments over small details
troufaki13 4 years ago
Sometimes it's the stress though... I don't understand why people put so much pressure on themselves about having "the perfect wedding" when at the end of the day what matters is the marriage. If I ever get married, a simple ceremony at the city hall would be enough for me :)
Nevits Yibble 4 years ago
It could be they're suffering from Parksinsons and having tremors. I heard of this website that offers treatment with a good product. Can't remember where I saw it though
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Julia Atkinson 4 years ago
I can't understand why people spend OBSCENE amounts of money on weddings. To me it's as ridiculous as putting your family in debt so you can have an expensive funeral.
#39
My background is in Marriage and Family Therapy and I work at a wedding venue now. There have been many times that I thought a couple is destined for future therapy, if not divorce. Especially when I see the “four horsemen of the apocalypse” as described by Gottman— criticism, contempt, defensiveness, or stonewalling.
I also assume that things won’t end well when either of the bride or groom is a big bully towards me or the other vendors— it just makes me feel bad for the future spouse.
But we don’t tend to hear much from the couples once they are married, so I usually won’t know how things end up down the road.
Lauren Caswell 4 years ago
Stonewalling involves refusing to communicate with another person. Intentionally shutting down during an argument, also known as the silent treatment, can be hurtful, frustrating, and harmful to the relationship. Basically being like a stone wall, cold and uncommunicative, as a punishment to their partner
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But... you know... it's the gays who ruin the sanctity of marriage. *eyeroll*
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Ozacoter 4 years ago
I loved one of my best friends wedding. They had a small wedding. They married in a building that had a great garden. Beautiful and free because its from the city hall. Then went with their families for lunch at a restaurant. In the evening/night they hired a small place where the friends had some snacks and drinks with them. The brides dress was a beautiful white dress that was not a wedding one so it costed less than 100 euros. I dont want a wedding but if I did I would like something small and simple like that.
TexasPK 4 years ago
We had a courthouse wedding....40 years ago this year! So glad that we did not want (or deal with the headaches of) a big, expensive wedding.
Lauren Caswell 4 years ago
Congrats on your ruby anniversary! You guys obviously have your priorities in order :)
Load More Replies... WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago
When you know about Florida man, it's not very hard to believe each and every story. I've worked a short period as a waiter and I've heard and seen some things that were quite similar to some of these stories.
Leo Domitrix 4 years ago
I was first married of my friends (to the shock of all, me included). Five times a brides-maid/matron. Warning signs that the marriage is doomed: 1. the groom and his buddies are even drunker than the bride in order to "get in the mood" to marry (both bride and groom on 3d spouses now); 2. the bride cries on your shoulder the night before, "but we spent all th emoney and got all thepeople here!" (also on 3d spouse, not same as earlier people). 3.Bride was more worried about her dress than having any fun at the reception, did'nt last a year. 4. At rehearsal, bride's people don't mingle at all with groom's people even for small talk. ........ So I asked, what's the common factor? and refused to be part of any more weddings. Didn't work. Wasn't me.
Hannah Edwards 4 years ago
My friend did our wedding photos as a gift for my husband and I as we couldn’t afford a professional photographer. She did some research and found that a low angle looking up was supposed to be flattering. Needless to say we are all nostrils and chins in the pictures. I still love the photos though because they were her gift to us and are a keepsake of our lovely wedding, but they are hilarious.
Colin Mochrie At Its Finest 4 years ago
Where she found that info, I don't know. It is not a good angle. :)
Load More Replies... Billy Bob the 4th 4 years ago
Yeah, I came to the conclusion that a lot of people are garbage. It's harsh, but if people can't be bothered to act like an actual human for ONE day, imagine spending your life with them.
Teucer T 4 years ago
Simple enough... If the bride and/or groom are more focused on the party than their future spouse, it's doomed... Because at that point it is "just a party."
A.M. Pierre 4 years ago
A sign I’ve seen is people who have been living together for a while and are like, “Well, I guess it’s what we should do next. Plus, it’d be really hard to separate everything now.” Going into any huge commitment because “I guess I should” and not “yes I want to” does not start it out in the right foot.
Ozacoter 4 years ago
I loved one of my best friends wedding. They had a small wedding. They married in a building that had a great garden. Beautiful and free because its from the city hall. Then went with their families for lunch at a restaurant. In the evening/night they hired a small place where the friends had some snacks and drinks with them. The brides dress was a beautiful white dress that was not a wedding one so it costed less than 100 euros. I dont want a wedding but if I did I would like something small and simple like that.
TexasPK 4 years ago
We had a courthouse wedding....40 years ago this year! So glad that we did not want (or deal with the headaches of) a big, expensive wedding.
Lauren Caswell 4 years ago
Congrats on your ruby anniversary! You guys obviously have your priorities in order :)
Load More Replies... WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago
When you know about Florida man, it's not very hard to believe each and every story. I've worked a short period as a waiter and I've heard and seen some things that were quite similar to some of these stories.
Leo Domitrix 4 years ago
I was first married of my friends (to the shock of all, me included). Five times a brides-maid/matron. Warning signs that the marriage is doomed: 1. the groom and his buddies are even drunker than the bride in order to "get in the mood" to marry (both bride and groom on 3d spouses now); 2. the bride cries on your shoulder the night before, "but we spent all th emoney and got all thepeople here!" (also on 3d spouse, not same as earlier people). 3.Bride was more worried about her dress than having any fun at the reception, did'nt last a year. 4. At rehearsal, bride's people don't mingle at all with groom's people even for small talk. ........ So I asked, what's the common factor? and refused to be part of any more weddings. Didn't work. Wasn't me.
Hannah Edwards 4 years ago
My friend did our wedding photos as a gift for my husband and I as we couldn’t afford a professional photographer. She did some research and found that a low angle looking up was supposed to be flattering. Needless to say we are all nostrils and chins in the pictures. I still love the photos though because they were her gift to us and are a keepsake of our lovely wedding, but they are hilarious.
Colin Mochrie At Its Finest 4 years ago
Where she found that info, I don't know. It is not a good angle. :)
Load More Replies... Billy Bob the 4th 4 years ago
Yeah, I came to the conclusion that a lot of people are garbage. It's harsh, but if people can't be bothered to act like an actual human for ONE day, imagine spending your life with them.
Teucer T 4 years ago
Simple enough... If the bride and/or groom are more focused on the party than their future spouse, it's doomed... Because at that point it is "just a party."
A.M. Pierre 4 years ago
A sign I’ve seen is people who have been living together for a while and are like, “Well, I guess it’s what we should do next. Plus, it’d be really hard to separate everything now.” Going into any huge commitment because “I guess I should” and not “yes I want to” does not start it out in the right foot.
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