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There is a well-known engineering concept that the more parts a machine or contraption has, the more likely it will be prone to breaking. Same goes for weddings.
Because there is so much potential for something going wrong in a wedding, it’s also likely that the guests will catch wind of it, if not be affected by it. And once they do, you’re sure to hear about it online, like in this AskReddit thread answering the question what's the worst wedding experience you ever had? And, well, some of them are definitely doozies.
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#1
I was supposed to be in the bridal party and was told that things were casual, and to just show up the day of wearing something "dressy casual" I felt good in. I showed up, saw the wedding party in coordinated outfits with their corsages, bouquets, and the whole 9 yards, and realized they hadn't had the guts to tell me they didn't want me in the bridal party after all. We took our gift, checked out of the hotel we'd paid for at their specific recommendation (and that they cancelled the shuttle for because "we forgot you were staying there"), and drove 800km back home with our wedding present.
I am not friends with any of those people anymore, and thank god.
White Sauce Hot Sauce 1 year ago
My petty self would've stayed at the hotel and partied on my own, just to spite them.
TheGoodBoi 1 year ago
This. Now you don't have to spend the whole day at a wedding and can have a mini vacation! Have it turn out better than expected.
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Michael Largey 1 year ago
A college friend had a big formal wedding with a reception at an elite country club. I received no invitation in the mail, but a week before she called me up and said I could come "if you want to". She made it so clear that she wanted me to decline that I countered by accepting (mostly out of curiosity). Her best friend flew in for the wedding but knew no one there except the bride and me. So I had been invited solely as a dinner companion for the friend (at the suggestion of the friend.) The bride was not happy when I showed up. Neither I nor the friend cared much. We left right after dinner and had a quite excellent time together.
KatSaidWhat 1 year ago
Hope you utterly ghosted all of them - I also bet they blew up your phone asking where the present was.
Chelsea McKee 1 year ago (edited)
Either way it's not looking good. Either the women intentionally excluded OP after accepting a position in the bridal party or they couldn't have informed her during any stage in the planning process that they had misspoken or changed their mind. Despite never having said anything they then insisted on her staying at a specific hotel, where she actually checked in to then showed up to the actual f*****g event. What a waste of time and money!
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The Original Bruno 1 year ago (edited)
DAMN! That's about the shittiest I've ever heard. I'd've toasted the couple at the wedding party. Wouldn't've been a very feel-good toast.
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#2
My sister's wedding. It was outdoors in South Texas in the summer, and the heat was awful. My sister had picked the venue when it still had water in the ponds, but at the time of her wedding, everything had been drained for repair, so it looked like an old quarry with some mud puddles here and there.
The night before, we met at the venue for a rehearsal. My sister decided all the bridesmaids had to wait in the bathroom, but the bathroom smelled like a large dead thing and a lot of poop. One of the girls pulled perfume out of her purse and started spraying it everywhere. I had an asthma attack and was trying to take my inhaler and step out of the awful bathroom for some fresh air. My sister was screaming, "Do you have to f*****g do that now? Can you f*****g process down the f*****g aisle and worry about your f*****g breathing when it's not my f*****g wedding eve!" Her new in-laws drove me to the ER because my mom refused, because I was being dramatic and trying to steal my sister's attention on the eve of her big day.
The Original Bruno 1 year ago (edited)
I have hope that the sister was mortified when she realized that she wasn't just being dramatic. Of course, after so many decades of seeing both parties select the most evil bastard they can dredge up from the deepest pits of Hell, I still always get hopeful to see who the candidates are every political primary season. (When the least evil president in the last century was an insane sexaholic scion of an organized crime family whose brother (whom he appointed Attorney General!!!!!) probably had Marilyn Monroe murdered...) So I maybe slightly to the far side of Forrest Gump in my optimistic assessment of strangers.
Load More Replies... TheGoodBoi 1 year ago
Sorry, let me just pause my asthma attack. You're right, I'll just stop breathing.
Marcellus II 1 year ago
Sheesh, wedding day eve is not the day to be breathing. Wedding day itself looks busy too. How about the day after, would that suit you? You're just being difficult.
Load More Replies... SheamusFanFrom1987 1 year ago
OP should've just pulled out of that figurative crapshow... Sheeesh, Bridezillas... -_-"
Nitka Tsar 1 year ago (edited)
And now of course I‘m wondering if the groom was stupid enough to stay after that or if he was decent like his parents and got tf out of there
Dread Pirate Roberts 1 year ago
Oh, yes, how dare she have a medical emergency on your special day, princess 🙄
Flora Porter 1 year ago
The moment someone puts you in danger like that, consider them in breach of whatever contract you've made.
#3
At my rehearsal dinner, my mother planted herself in the middle of the room, sobbing and telling anyone who would listen, (family, friends, wedding party) that I'm making a mistake, my fiance is a loser and the marriage will never work because he's "low income". I've never been so mortified in my life. Although this is her typical behavior, I guess I thought she'd at least act normal for my wedding events. All my guests left early and after the dinner, I went to their house and FLIPPED OUT. They blamed me for her behavior. 🙄 Typical. The next day my dad called to tell me to beg my mom to come to my wedding because she wasn't coming after I yelled at her. I told him no. Tell her to stay home. This is my day, not hers. Her attendance isn't needed. She showed up and told people how she wished I looked as good as her that day 🙄 Sadly this behavior isn't the worst I've received from her. I've been no contact for a decade now. And my marriage she claimed wouldn't last - we're celebrating our 20 yr anniversary this year. But sadly, people STILL talk about her behavior at my rehearsal dinner.
BROmanicus85 1 year ago
Wait... after all that c**p, OP still maintained contact with their mom for a decade?! Sh!!!!!!t.... I would've blocked her right then and there, during the wedding, and in front of her as well, so she'd know it!
Apachebathmat 1 year ago
Good for you, I’m 20+ years free of my choosing beggar, attention seeking, point scoring, lying, toxic parents and I don’t regret it one bit, sounds harsh but I don’t even know if they are still alive, I don’t want to know either as, albeit harsh, I just don’t care
Donald Holder 1 year ago
If this was your mother's 'normal' behavior and knew it, I wouldn't have frickin invited her.
Naomie Moore 1 year ago
Wow, that is a doozy. Glad you didn't let her behavior ruin your life. Happy Anniversary! My mom would say stuff to me that made me cringe. One time she told me that both my brother and I "married beneath us." My brother and his wife did very well and my ex husband made a lot of money and will never be able to spend it all. And his son that has a lucrative profession himself, will never want for anything.
As mentioned above, the concept of a wedding is complex, no thanks to social, cultural and economic factors (among others). And the more complex a wedding is, the more potential there will be for something to go haywire. Does it have to do that? Not necessarily, but there are some aspects that are common inevitabilities.
#4
My daughter's wedding. No one showed up to the bachelorette party night before. Groom had the flu day of wedding and was vomiting all over the restroom. Bridesmaid had a seizure during the actual ceremony. Groom's ex shows up and ruins the first dance. And someone forgot to invite grooms birth mom to the ceremony and she missed it. T O T A L D I S A S T E R
Edited to add something else I forgot. The groom didn't book anywhere to stay the wedding night. When we realized it (the afternoon of the wedding) he opted just to sleep in his mom's basement. HELL NO. I found them a hotel room.
Sue User 1 year ago
Someone forgot to invite the grooms birth mom? Um, wouldnt that someone be the groom? You know, the same person who expected to spend his honeymoon in moms basement ?
Charles McChristy 1 year ago
So, you don't know the difference between a mom and a birth-mom? r/woosh
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Tom De Paul 9 months ago
Held at the trailer park where all the participants live.
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Scotira 1 year ago
From reddit: "Nope. COVID hit and it all fell apart. They had the marriage annulled 8 months later."
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Id row 1 year ago
"Someone" forgot to invite the groom's mom? Uh, that would be the fault of the bride and groom. Groom sounds like an idiot, so I'm guessing he's the 'someone' who forgot.
Vera Diblikova 1 year ago
Why will she marry that idiot? Wedding or no wedding, I wil run immediatelly,, or, better, i do not waste any time with such individuum.
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#5
The bride got chickenpox a week before the wedding and still had her scabby spots the day of. Minister didn't show up. The whole church waited a half hour before they found out he had forgotten and went out to play golf instead. They got someone else from a church directory who took another twenty minutes to show up. Meanwhile, the groom's mother was going around giving odds on how long the marriage would last.
They're still happily married 42 years later.
Edit: My husband just read this and said "are you nuts? It took more like an hour to figure out the pastor wasn't coming and at least 45 minutes for the replacement to show up." In my defense, it was over forty years ago!
Michael Largey 1 year ago
We were at a wedding where the arranged celebrant never showed up at all. Fortunately, one of the guest had a past where they had once been an ordained minister - and technically still were (maybe). So they performed the ceremony, and everyone lived happily ever after.
Rob D 1 year ago (edited)
Clergy never forget to ask for the deposit check though. #priorities. *my grandparents were married by a fall down drunk priest who opened their ceremony with, "well, let's get this over." The (different) priest who married my parents was seen by them having dinner with his boyfriend months later (still was a fully frocked catholic priest).
Bookworm 1 year ago
Right? Like, people forget dentist appointments and movie nights, but how do you forget to put 'OFFICIATE WEDDING' on your calendar?
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Max Fox 1 year ago
I was wondering how the bride had chickenpox as an adult, then I read that it was over 40 years ago, before there was a chickenpox vaccine available.
Ora Hall 1 year ago
I got chicken pox when I was 22, and yes, it was well over 40 years ago.
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Reviewer UK01 1 year ago
We were married on an island and the venue helpfully showed us images of all the times the minister missed the boat. Sailboats, dinghies, even a lifeboat made an appearance
#6
On my wedding day my alcoholic MIL got absolutely hammered, fell down stairs and went unconscious and stopped breathing. I was 36 weeks pregnant at this time and had to do CPR. She came around after a few compressions, when the paramedics arrived she verbally abused them. The worst day, still happily married to my beautiful husband though, he's had a tough childhood as you can imagine.
Donald Holder 1 year ago
I may be the duh person here, but it's my opinion that if you know all this as the groom and bride to be, WHY THE F**K IS SHE INVITED? Or, why in worse case scenario, not make the wedding party NON alcoholic?
Naomie Moore 1 year ago
Things people do . . . Thank goodness, you and your husband live a wonderful life. Never let anyone get away with poor behavior in your lives.
wyngerd 1 year ago
She simulated. If cpr is needed, you don't just come back, without your heart shocked.
Duuuuuuude 1 year ago
Not sure why this is getting down voted. I have been trained to train others in cpr and this is correct. Cpr doesn't bring you back like in the movies. It's sole purpose is to squeeze the heart, thus artificially pumping blood and delivering enough oxygen to your body to prevent brain damage and organ failure until paramedics arrive.
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One of the bigger threats to a happy wedding day is something that actually haunts us on the daily—running behind schedule. And it’s not just because you’re late. Guests can be late. Staff can be late. Things might take too much time.
This is, however, easily resolved with an MC who can herd everyone into a schedule and make sure your schedule has time dedicated to transitions and logistics between things.
#7
They ran out of food for the last 2 tables, who just happened to be the coworkers of the bride. We had to order pizza delivery and pay for it ourselves. The bride's family refused to pay for it. You never remember the good weddings, but you never forget the bad ones.
Panda Kicki 1 year ago
Sounds a bit like a (ex) friends wedding. She wanted to splurge on shopping, but not using catering, get flower arranged or pay photograph. So a 100+ wedding, closest friends and family was expected to "help out a bit". On the day of the wedding ste hit us with extreme lists of work, doing 600 small canapees with different ingredients, do a 3 meter flower portal, put out chairs, drape them in cloth, do elaborate decoration with shitloads of small stuff, glitter and candles. We missed most of the wedding and was then sent straight to the kitchen to plate and serve a buffet for 100+ guests. She had ordered to little food, some ran out, other wasnt edible ... We barley had time to eat and afterwards we had to clean up and do dishes as bride didnt want to pay for that. Also only booked the venue a short time to we had to just stuff things in our cars so the place could be emptied.Exhausted. At least we got loads of cake as bride had ordered a weird flavour noone wanted to even try.Yucky.
Panda Kicki 1 year ago
She had frequent tantrums with tears during the day as we wasnt as good or quick as the professionals she refused to pay. Apparently we destroyed her wedding.
Load More Replies... The Other Guest 1 year ago
There's no way I'd sit at a reception eating pizza that I had to pay for. I'd be out the door & sitting in a nice restaurant. I bet work was reaaaaaallly awkward afterwards.
Michael Largey 1 year ago
Unfortunately, maybe not. Some people are incapable of feeling embarrassment because they simply don't get the concept. And these people sound just like that.
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Suby 1 year ago
That's why it's a good idea to just have the gift shipped to them after the wedding. Time to change your mind.
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Naomie Moore 1 year ago
Not the best catering service. I always built in meals for the staff, and everyone else working the wedding, officiant, band/entertainment, church or catering hall or hotel staff, photographer, videographer, security staff, etc. and whatever number they gave me as final headcount, I still added at least 10%. The fact that the brides parents refused to pay is just plain rude. They are responsible for providing final head count a few days before the event. If I was the bride, would give them their money back and take them all to a nice higher end restaurant to make up for the lack of hospitality on behalf of her parents.
Jude Laskowski 1 year ago
One good thing about my dysfunctional family is that they would never run out of food. Never, ever.
Milkteagirl 1 year ago
I ran my guest head count with the caterer over and over again for our wedding buffet, like a gazillion times. I was so scared to run out of food. As ours was a small, intimate affair--only 30 of the nearest and dearest family and friends--it would have been a nightmare if we ran out of food for less than 50 people. So basically you can avoid this disaster by constantly reviewing (and revising, if needed) your head count and checking in with your caterer for the food requirements.
#8
SIL got married in Wyoming. She's a tad crunchy. Her bro and I lived in NYC.
Hotel Block: she gets married the weekend of graduation at U of Wyoming and doesn't have a hotel room block. Same town for the wedding and the college. We are forced to stay 45-60 mins away.
Rehearsal Dinner: it's in a cabin at the state forest. Groom's mom is cooking green chili for dinner (he's from Arizona/NM). I'm not the pickiest eater but I do not care for that and there is nothing else to eat. Not even chips and salsa. We had to drive an hour back and find a drive thru.
Wedding Day: we were told it was outdoors in May. I thought 50s for weather. Nope! Up in the mountains and it was about 35 degrees. I basically froze.
There is almost a 2 hour gap between the ceremony and the reception (not Catholic) so we had to drive an hour to the reception town and since it was lunch time we stopped at Denny's for food. I think my MIL got a grand slam.
We get to the reception at a church undergoing renovations. THERE ARE NO STALLS OR SINKS IN THE BATHROOMS. Their mom was very overweight and I had to hold her arm for balance/be the lookout while she peed. We then had to go to the kitchen (where Groom's mom was cooking dinner) and use the prep sink to wash our hands.
Her cake was decorated like mountains bc they love the outdoors. THERE WERE REAL ROCKS ON THE CAKE FOR DECORATION! I almost cracked a tooth.
It was also a BYOB wedding but no one told us to bring anything so I was forced to drink lavender lemonade (it was gross).
That was the worst wedding I've ever experienced.
Nitka Tsar 1 year ago
Most of this sounds like OP was the problem in my opinion. How is it the couples fault that this OP did not like the food or didn‘t look up what temperature it was in the mountains?
BigCityLady 1 year ago
Uhm, the rehearsal dinner is hosted by the grooms parents and is usually held at a restaurant for a number of reasons, at the very least food allergies. The rehearsal dinner invitees consist of the families of the bride and groom, wedding party members and at times those who are considered extremely close friends of the couple. The decision to allow the MOG to cook the dinner of only ONE entree besides the food allergies of any attendee but it also creates an opportunity of food poisoning as well as a blaring signal that the parents of the groom were glaringly disrespectful of food choices allowed every attendee! I also see it as an opportunity to be CHEAP, selfish possibly an opportunity for the MOG to ensure an opportunity for glorious gratitude as she is thanked by those for her “selflessness” of feeding everyone.
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ShellsBells 1 year ago
So I did some Googling and apparently there are a lot of Catholic churches that only do weddings at 1 pm on Saturdays. So after the wedding, there's usually a gap until the reception, typically around 5-6 pm.
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Idgafwyt AllDat'N'ABagOfChips 1 year ago
Where I'm from, someone who is crunchy tends to be more earthy, like hippie-ish. Lol, more free spirited individuals, hope this helps.
Load More Replies... Robert T 1 year ago
What's with all these Rehersal Dinners? My rehersal was about half an hour at the church the a few days before. We only went through the basic motions of the ceremony so that everyone knew where they had to stand.
Pandapoo 1 year ago
I (bride) had to work during my rehearsal dinner. Lol. There really wasn’t anything to rehearse, but my sister wanted to host one.
Load More Replies... The Original Bruno 1 year ago (edited)
I dunno if Europeans will get this: Outside of east-coast private schools, most of America's top universities started off teaching agriculture and mining, or were established by Congress which gave away cheap land in the middle of nowhere to found "Land-Grant" universities. Usually, small towns grew up around them, but they still have absurdly insufficient infrastructure to handle thousands and thousands of families coming to watch graduations. So instead of being in cities like New York and Chicago and Atlanta and Houston and Philadelphia and Baltimore, they're in small towns like Binghampton and Urbana and Rome (, GEORGIA!!!) and College Station and State College and College Park. Yeah, the locals weren't always creative with naming the new towns.
María Hermida 1 year ago
So...? What's so difficult to understand about that?
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#9
At a cousin's wedding reception, at an ultra swanky private club, one of my cousin's friends got really drunk and accused one of the (all black) serving staff of stealing her purse. She was screaming racial insults and insisting that the police come and arrest the whole staff. Eventually, she was dragged out of there. Her purse was later found in her car. I have never been so ashamed of being born white in my life.
Libstak 1 year ago
Please tell me she was charged with several hate crimes, I am utterly mortified on behalf of the staff.
Lucky2BAlive 1 year ago
I am mortified on behalf of those of us who aren’t bigots or racists. No has the right to judge anyone until the accuse the person staring back at them from a mirror.
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Isabella 1 year ago
There were other occasions where the OP was ashamed for being born white? I am never ashamed to be born white or of a certain ethnicity. It is not my choice, it is not my choice or responsibility how other people are behaving or what other people of my race have done or are still doing.
Ariom Dahl 1 year ago
So sad to read this. Sounds like she sleeps in a kennel and gnaws bones. (Polite way of expressing an opinion that would probably be censored or get me kicked off this site.) The shame is not yours but hers.
TheGoodBoi 1 year ago
What's wrong with sleeping in a kennel and gnawing bones?? /J
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StumblingThroughLife 1 year ago (edited)
Some say you speak the truth of what's in your heart when you get that drunk. I was embarrassed by finding out that on the occasions I got like that, I ended up making friends with everyone in the nightclub by chatting my face off - usually in the Ladies (Bathroom for those in the USA), arrg, lol. I lost the desire to drink about 25 years ago. I doubt I could handle it, haha.
crazydogmama 1 year ago
I once got so drunk and therefore became Chatty Kathy, and apparently my friends started asking where my Off Button was located. And when I passed out, they got their answer. :D
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BirdMom 1 year ago
Okay...but why are YOU (OP) ashamed of being white?? This horrible woman is the one who chose to be a racist jerk. ..that doesn't reflect on the entire white race. I'm so tired of us buying into this idea that all white people should feel guilty and ashamed all the time because of something someone else did.
Marnie 1 year ago (edited)
I'm betting she's under 40. There is a trend among some younger people where they have to fight over who can beat themselves up more in order to not appear like racist, biased jerks. As an example, kid made a YT video about how he got clean after years of heroin addiction, then he and his girlfriend and his daughter got kicked out of his GF's mother house, and then some other thing happened. And then he was still in kind of a bad housing situation. But then he of course had to throw in (it was obviously rote), "At least I'm privileged enough to have a roof over my head." They have to do that. They have to "acknowledge their privilege," and "be allies", etc. etc. or they might be shamed or be unable to pat themselves on the backs for not being racist. They are racing to the bottom of who can do this the most. Hopefully they reach bottom soon.
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Flora Porter 1 year ago
In vino veritas. So often you get to see behind the mask when people are drunk. I'm an anxious introvert sober but happy and affectionate after a couple of glasses of wine.
Needless to say, the more organized the wedding is, the less problems you’re gonna have. Sure, there’ll always be that one aunt who needs to phone you on the details the morning of your wedding, but there’d be more people if not for good communication. A wedding planner can help with that.
#10
The wedding was to take place on the east coast. It was huge, expensive, and had been planned for two years. The wedding party traveled from all over to participate. The bride announced her apologies at the rehearsal dinner the night before that there would be no wedding.
Six months later, friends are told that the couple is going to try again. To avoid any stress, they’ve decided on a courthouse wedding, and specific friends from the old wedding party were asked to visit. The day of, the bride announces she can’t get married at a courthouse.
One year later. The couple announces that they have proudly gone through intensive therapy, and they are planning a destination wedding in Hawaii! They expected everyone to fly out to support them in their regenerated relationship. Family members and a subset of the wedding party (from #1) fly out. As everyone is assembling on the beach, the bride announces that there will be no wedding and encourages everyone to, “enjoy your vacation in Hawaii!” The groom ended the relationship shortly afterwards.
E.V. 1 year ago
I think she just likes to plan weddings. She should be a wedding planner, not the bride lol
eric p 1 year ago
As long as she planned a great vacation to Hawaii I would not be mad
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sharyn turnicky 1 year ago
If bride was the person canceling all the weddings, then the groom dodged a divorce
Addie Alexander 1 year ago
Anyone who spent the money on that last attempt, kind of have no one to blame. Lol
Petra 1 year ago
"Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me." It's about not learning from your past experiences. The way you shortened it doesn't really make sense.
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#11
My mother, sat in the front row, was crying so hard she was escorted out of the room by my sister while I said my wedding vows. she was devastated I was marrying a woman (I'm a lesbian). yes, I'd come out to her, three years before this; I'd told her I met someone I'd like to marry, two years before; I told her I got proposed to, half a year before, and invited her to the wedding; politely uninvited her because she was upset; she begged to be re-invited; she attends and LEAVES DURING MY VOWS. she walked back in about ten minutes later. I'll never forget this lol.
Tim Fawcett 1 year ago
No they didn't - they said "Keep Her - we don't want people like that!"
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StumblingThroughLife 1 year ago
Way to spoil their wedding! ☹ My sister (then 19) came out in the late 80s - my dad, (in his mid-eighties now) is/was very conservative, but he didn't even blink when she told him, and happily went to her F/F wedding 7 years later and has always been supportive.
Kare Deter 1 year ago
I don't care who my kids love and sleep with. I only care that they are safe and happy.
Ralph Watkins 1 year ago
She would have been much happier if you married a man. It does not matter if the man is abusive, cheating, & a dead beat. Darn it, you would have been better off with a man. Hey, commit to who you love the most. Gender should not matter.
#12
Mine. My sister in law announced her pregnancy during a toast. No one supported her decision to do it, but it was ruined. We’re getting remarried in Alaska by ourselves for our 25th anniversary ❤️.
ManBlob 1 year ago
It should be against the law to announce your own pregnancies, engagements etc. At someone else's wedding.
Ellinor 1 year ago
Depends if the groom and bride agree to it prior (I know that here it's not the case but still)
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PFD 1 year ago
Bad taste, but "ruined"? If that can ruin your wedding, you really are doing it wrong. (The post with flu, vomiting, seizures, unbooked rooms, an intervention by the ex and a forgotten mother... *That's* what ruined looks like.)
Justme 1 year ago
I’m one of the few who wouldn’t care if someone made an announcement, proposed, co-celebrated, or wore white at my wedding. It’s tacky and makes that person look bad, but if I got sour over it then I’d be the one to look bad.
Just-4-2day 1 year ago
My mom wore white to my wedding. Nobody mistook her for the bride. I did not care then and I don't care now.
Load More Replies... KatSaidWhat 1 year ago
Honestly, I would have shouted out "Stay classy, MIL, now back to their day".
Naomie Moore 1 year ago
At my wedding, we had a couple that decided to get divorced and had the class NOT to say anything to us until after we returned from our honeymoon.
In fact, there can be heaps of problems that having a dedicated person to help plan and manage would resolve: having your playlists in order, guests suddenly deciding they’re vegan, heck, even if the weather decides to be a pain, they probably won’t perform a ritual to cast the rain away, but they could compensate for it with added logistics.
They will, however, likely have trouble with family drama.
#13
This happened a very long time ago. I was dating this guy and his sister sent out wedding invites to Hawaii. His mother offered to pay for us to attend. So,the two of us and his parents flew out. At the airport the happy couple greeted us and we all went to dinner. Lots of toasts, happy memories, and quite a few of her family attended this dinner. The next day all of us were left to wander the island while the couple were busy with last minute things. The day of the wedding... my then-boyfriend and I were woken up to frantic banging on our hotel room door. It was his Mom, crying. Long story short, the groom-to-be let the bride know that he would not be attending the wedding. Turns out, dude never sent his family invites because he knew LONG before the wedding that he was gonna bail. He just finally did it on the wedding day itself. What a wild trip that was!
Sonja 1 year ago
In such a case, it should be possible to sue for emotional damage and financial recommendations. It's one thing to get cold feet last minute or realising that the wedding is honestly a bad idea on the wedding day, sometimes people suppress their feelings and don't want to see what's right in front of their nose, but this wasn't a last minute revelation. This was a guy maliciously blindsiding his bride and her family for months since he never even sent the wedding invites to his family. That's hard proof that he knew he'd gonna bail. There's no excuse for such behaviour
BigCityLady 1 year ago
Agreed!!! And WHY the hell is everyone speculating that it is the BRIDE that has committed an atrocity to justify this spineless and gutless prick?? The groom had already decided he wasn’t to follow throug my NOT inviting his side of the ceremony!! Along with the fact that he was determined to INSULT and degrade to bride to be on their wedding day!! The groom took every opportunity to end the engagement at the time he decided NOT to attend and could have been man enough to give her the courtesy to tell her to her face and NOT pull such an egregious stung like this!! The groom needs to grow up and take responsibility for what he did to not only the bride but also the everyone that spent thousands of dollars to attend, not counting shafting the brides parents financial expenditures.
Load More Replies... Naomie Moore 1 year ago
Classless and the bride dodged a bullet there. Hope they still had the reception. Brides family paid for it, might as well enjoy the food and bash the tacky groom and family.
Laura Williams 1 year ago
Took that long to grow a pair. He couldn't say something the night before?
Mónica Elisabeth Sacco 1 year ago
Sounds kind of a vengeance against the bride and family. Why?
#14
A long time ago was invited to a wedding of a college friend. Invitation was very fancy so we dressed up in suits to attend. Had a difficult time finding the place, arrive and find out that it’s in a literal horse pasture. Smelled of manure and was an extremely hot summer day so that made it worse. Looking for the groom to offer congratulations and find him dressed in shorts and a T-shirt playing football with some buddies. The Bride? nowhere to be found, they had already gotten married earlier in the day and she was inside taking a nap. We had arrived a good 45 minutes before the time listed on the invite? anyways for the reception they set up a potato bar in the pasture and there were millions of
flies covering the food. We excused ourselves and never saw or heard from him again.
Nina 1 year ago
What the actual flies? Why bother sending fancy invites if you're getting married ahead of stated time in a horse pasture?... So many questions
Jenn Smith 1 year ago
I wonder if this one was due to shortage of funds and " making do" with the circumstances. Would have been nice to call and inform guests though.
Steve Hall 1 year ago
I'm sure the flies were bouncing between the potato bar and the horse c**p pile.
April Armstrong 1 year ago
My sister arrived at my wedding wearing a complete SAFARI outfit and only gave me a Get well card.
#15
Catholic wedding. Had all the celebration and joy of a mass funeral held for children after an orphanage burned down. The priest quoted Revelations. If you want to know what part of Revelations seems appropriate for a wedding, none of it is.
Cat Dragon 1 year ago
"'And the angels poured out the bowls of God's anger onto the world.' Anyway, you're married now."
Donteatme666 1 year ago
Nope none of it is wait still no. To anyone who hasn't had contact with the Bible revelationions is pretty fire and brimstone
BarkingSpider 1 year ago (edited)
At my cousin's catholic wedding the priest went in at least a solid half hour about death
Michael Danhauer 1 year ago
Catholic raised here (non practicing now) and I must say by the book Catholic weddings are the worst... 1 hour of normal mass then an hour of ceremony... Priests are rarely entertaining conversationalists and listening to two homilies (personal speech/interpretation of the gospel) for each is quite a drag
Ropre 1 year ago (edited)
I got married in a church but my husband and I did not opt for a mass. We wanted it to be quick...."Do you"...."Yes"..."Do you"...."Yes"....and we were out of there! My husband and I were raised as Roman Catholics but my family and I weren't really religious and him and his family weren't either.
Linda Robinett 1 year ago
And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. Rev 22:7 referring to Jerusalem not a person.
Family drama can be kinda sorta avoided by finding a good seating arrangement, but families might still cross paths on the dance floor or on their way to the bar. Or maybe Uncle Tim will decide to share an embarrassing story that makes everyone think that you just married your cousin. Wait… Did you?
#16
My auntie’s wedding to her second husband.
Her son and new husband don’t get along especially after a few drinks, so early into the reception a fight kicks off between them, drunk angry men from both sides of the family rush in.
Eventually police march into the reception decked out in riot gear (there was a brawl of about 20 people duking it out, the few members of staff that tried to break it up got hurt by both sides for their troubles) and dragged a majority of them (including my cousin and new uncle) to prison.
My auntie didn’t care, she found the whole thing hilarious when she told my parents (who had wisely left early because they know what they are like) the next day.
This is the 3rd wedding I’ve attended on my dad’s side of the family over the last 10 years and there has always been a fight, but that by far was the worst.
Made me and my now wife chuckle when we told them politely but firmly they are not invited to our wedding, and lo and behold we had a perfect wedding because those drunken cocaine sniffing twats weren’t there to ruin things.
BROmanicus85 1 year ago
Wait, what?!?!?!?! C0caine wasn't censored by BP?!?!?! The end of days is near, indeed...
Violet Smith 1 year ago
Yeah, you can't even talk about the dials ( k*n*o*b*s) on your stove around here, loll.
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TheGoodBoi 1 year ago
They just need a boxing ring included in the venue at every wedding with a loud speaker that has the Mortal Kombat guy's voice. "Round one, FIGHT."
#17
The groom's grandfather had a heart attack on the dance floor and died.
ManBlob 1 year ago
How dare he take the attention away from the bride?! /s Seriously though, that must've been awful for everyone there.
The Original Bruno 1 year ago
I'm sorry, but I did LOL pretty hard at that.
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Hooked 1 year ago
My late husbands grandfather died the day after they attended our wedding. They slept in a hotel and we all had breakfast together next morning. When grandparents arrived home later that day, grandpa said he was a bit tired and was going to lay down for a nap. Never woke up. Instead of honeymoning in New York, we attended his funeral. Five years and 2 kids later, I was widowed myself. To this day (25 years later) I never visited NY. Can't do it. But at least grandpa had a perfect last two days. He enjoyed our wedding immensely.
Zedrapazia 1 year ago
It's not much to say and still a very depressing situation but hey, at least he died happy.
Helena 1 year ago
I was going to say that. Depressing for the wedding party, great for grandpa. He went out celebrating surrounded by family.
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David 1 year ago
I know of a case where the Bride's father had a heart attack and was taken away by an ambulance. While he died on the way to the hospital, the family decided not to tell the new couple until the next morning, to not disturb their wedding. The Bride was upset after the fact, that she thought her father was OK and just in the hospital. But later admitted, that it was the right call.
Rachel Furn 1 month ago
My Grandfather slipped and fell over in the bathroom. He was hurt, but not badly. No one told me about it until I got home from my honeymoon.
#18
My cousin was married in NYC 9/23/2001. One of the guests was missing her fiancé, a firefighter reported then as missing. God Bless America was played, and it was a pretty rough moment….
Linda Robinett 1 year ago
I would have postponed the wedding. The entire country was in mourning.
Laura Williams 1 year ago
So sorry I can't begin to understand her loss. Hope she finds/found happiness.
Oh, but there’s more to the human factor. Someone can most definitely be ill and hence drop out at the last minute. There might be some uninvited guests because someone didn’t understand what plus one means. And maybe that plus one will cause a domino effect that will ruin your dress. And then Uncle Tim is sure to get involved.
#19
My husband picked up a shift at work on our wedding night. Don’t worry, though — he didn’t actually end up working on our wedding night; he was just cheating.
I found that out way later. It was COVID, and I discovered later (by going through his phone finally after the most sus behavior in the world) that he wasn't actually going to work like a third of the time he claimed, and actually he hadn't been faithful, ever, with anyone he was with. Yeah. He's the ex. Funny enough, recently he tried to beg me back, and I just sent it all to his current girlfriend,the main side, who actually blew up her own marriage to be with this fool. It's only been a few months, and he's already trying to backwards cheat on her. What even is that?
SheamusFanFrom1987 1 year ago
Poor excuse of p*nis-wielders like this disgust me. Good for OP on publishing his poor fidelity track-record -_-"
Rob D 1 year ago
You need not wield penis to cheat. And this post also involved a cheating married woman.
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Tiffany Marie 1 year ago (edited)
Someone with very low self esteem and a gaping hole in their chest.
Pug Pug 1 year ago
How do you cheat on your wedding night? I mean i know how, but Why? what does it get you? The wedding night? like he wanted to say he f****d two people on his wedding night. Like a real-world achiement? Also what woman think that low of them self that keep f*****g him? Must be rich, good looking, or a hugh d**k, otherwise what is the point of him. need more details.
Tom De Paul 9 months ago
What's the attraction? His looks? His money? Sexual prowess? I'm curious.
#20
The priest called the bride by the wrong name the entire 2-hour long Catholic ceremony. The poor bride corrected the priest each time the first 10 times or so. The priest was the groom's uncle. The groom never corrected him.
Eventually, the bride looked like she had tears in her eyes and was going to start bawling so she stopped correcting him. The priest just kept using the wrong name through the end of the ceremony. Afterwards, I wondered if the couple was even legally married since he never got her name right.
Zedrapazia 1 year ago
Smack the priest. I've read a reddit story about that last year and it fixed the priests behavior really quick
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Michael Largey 1 year ago
During the ceremony, she should have begun all her responses with "Rabbi, ..."
Robert T 1 year ago
Is there some weird subtext that the uncle thought the groom should be marrying someone else?
SheamusFanFrom1987 1 year ago
Hopefully bride started calling the spineless slap nut excuse of a groom the wrong name from there on out -_-"
Kraneia The Dancing Dryad 1 year ago
Was the wrong name the same as someone the groom used to date? Or was the priest just an idiot?
Gabriele Alfredo Pini 1 year ago (edited)
If the document are correct and signed the marriage is valid, both for the Church and for the State (if the marriage is combined like in Italy), but certainly a good letter to the bishop...
Chelsea McKee 1 year ago (edited)
I would have left. That is so dehumanizing to intentionally not use a person's name, especially after they correct you.
#21
During my wedding vows, a fly landed on the minister’s face… near his lip. Using his tongue like a lizard, he pulled it into his mouth and swallowed it. It was horrifying.
As you might have noticed from the answers that Redditor had, things can be a lot worse: your brother might be hooking up with his new step-mom’s daughter (knowingly or not); your sister might decide to announce her pregnancy, stealing your thunder (and likely the lightning too); and someone getting so drunk, they smash the band’s instruments because they didn’t like the music.
#22
The music for the wedding was recorded by the bride and groom, neither of whom were singers. Basically prerecorded karaoke.
Upstaged75 1 year ago
At one wedding I went to a relative of the groom stood up and sang "Morning Has Broken" by Cat Stevens to a karaoke track that she played on a boombox. She was SO awful. I nearly peed my pants trying not to laugh. Afterwards for years, a friend who was at the wedding and I would randomly call each other and immediately burst out in to that song and then hang up without saying anything. And then laugh so hard we'd cry. :)
Kare Deter 1 year ago
Mission accomplished. She gave you a great memory of her wedding : )
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Kokomo Rose 1 year ago (edited)
Okay, maybe not traditonal, but a sweet gesture since it's the bride and groom's day, not a place to just entertain family, right?
Alexandra Nara 1 year ago
like the whole night or just for one dance..one dance may be sweet but the whole night would be really torture
Michael Largey 1 year ago
I would have gone out to the parking lot for a cigarette. And I don't smoke.
#23
The groom didn’t like the music so he proceeded to smash all the bands equipment, I really don’t like being around drunks.
Rizzo 1 year ago
Considering what I would do to someone who damages an instrument of mine, the only question here is whether he survived.
Nimues Child 1 year ago
My instruments' wellbeing is a hill I would gladly die on. Kudos on the observation, Rizzo.
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Nitka Tsar 1 year ago
I don‘t think someone can be a good person, if they get violent while drunk. You can get stupit, loose inhibition, but getting violent just shows that you have that always inside you.
Storm Rise 1 year ago
There's a red flag of epic proportions. What will he do to the bride when he gets pissed off with her?
Seanette Blaylock 1 year ago
Especially when drinking, and he doesn't care enough to keep what wits he might normally have about him on what should be a day he'd really WANT to remember.
Load More Replies... TheGoodBoi 1 year ago
Since that's the only way to get the music to stop. You could've just...idk...told them to stop?
#24
My father's speech (which he was asked not to do) included saying "I (the bride) and my sisters had always been a disappointment.
You could have heard a pin drop. It was devastating. I actually left my own wedding, went home and watched tv trying to compose myself, then stuck on a smile and went back. It depressed me for months.
Anna Ekberg 1 year ago
It needs to be normalised cutting toxic people out of your life even if they are family.
Karin Nachtkrapp 1 year ago
Family is like an appendix. You only have one, but you cut it out if it gets toxic.
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Nina 1 year ago
If there's a risk of an unwanted speech, shouldn't you have people in on it to cut hem off or redirect attention?
Cecil 1 year ago
Good question. Sorry somebody downvoted you. Here's an upvote
Load More Replies... Michael Largey 1 year ago
I would have introduced his speech with "Please don't pay any attention to what my father is about to say. As many of you know, he's a mean drunk."
Alexandra Nara 1 year ago
same thought here..I would be furios... but I would speak a toast to the father, wondering how such a douchebag got such a wonderful daughter.
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Marianne Grann 1 year ago
You should have stod up and said that HE had also always been a disappointment for his daughter’s as a Dad!
Sure, all of these can be resolved (more or less) by having a good wedding MC who will keep tabs on everyone, but there’s also another, simpler (again, more or less) option. The wedding experience is definitely a challenge for everyone. For some, more so than others. So why not embrace it?
#25
My father’s step sister's wedding. I was 5, it was hot, the groom smushed cake in her face even after she told him not to, she smushed cake in his face and broke his nose. Blood everywhere, we left as the ambulance was arriving.
When I was in my 30s, at my cousin’s wedding, his wife had asked him not to smush the cake, and he didn’t, the best man who was a massive ahole, did it instead. We left. Didn’t get any cake at either wedding.
ManBlob 1 year ago
I never understood the idea of smashing the cake at anyone's face. What's the fun in that?
Zedrapazia 1 year ago
A hooray for the bride for breaking his nose, he got his punishment
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Tina Girard 1 year ago
You have to be a special kind of A-hold to smush cake in the bride's face.
TheGoodBoi 1 year ago
If I was the groom, I would've smushed the best man's face.
Load More Replies... StumblingThroughLife 1 year ago
IMO. it's very disrespectful. Also, (usually pricey) wedding clothes get wrecked, as well as the Bride's probably professional makeup. I'm hoping it is one of those pathetic trends that soon end up in the "Why were we so f**ing stupid?" bin.
PFD 1 year ago
It's an interesting symbolism. It can signify a shared commitment to face life together with a shared delight in fun and silliness. But it's definitely something that has to be not only consensual, but wanted by both parties - or the symbolism takes on a very very different significance. (I prefer the equivalent Czech wedding ritual of feeding each other soup. It's still got potential to be fun but is also about challenges, mutual support and nurturing, and working together. Plus, you still have the cake.)
Cerise Hood 1 year ago
Even worse if it was a tiered cake, some bakers put wooden sticks in to support it. I think one bride ended up in the ER because of that.
SageHare37 1 year ago
My husband and I had an agreement in advance. I didn't want to spend our reception covered in cake, though he thought it would be fun and silly. We compromised that he could smear icing on my nose, which was easy to wipe off. We got to be silly, and I didn't spend the reception with cake everywhere. Plus no wasted cake.
Jeevesssssss 1 year ago
If that happened to me the smasher would get a slap in the face and a glass of red wine over their head before being kicked out.
#26
My own.
Trapped in an elevator with the groom for hours the night prior. Was mistakenly sent a red hummer with no AC on the hottest day of the year instead of the limo I rented. Wedding commissioner was 2 Hours late and didn’t have a phone. Almost got fake married. Rented a boat to get married and cruise around on. It was an old ice breaker with lots of character and I planned all my decor around it. On the day the boat didn’t work and we had to ask all the guest to grab whatever was on their table and re-set it up on the new boat. Which had maroon everything and my colours were teal and coral. That boat was just coming back from a bar party cruise so they hosed it down. As soon as I got on it my entire dress soaked up the water to my waist. Had to change into my friends sundress. There was not enough food and it was disgusting. The new boat had used all the fresh water on board on the last cruise so they hooked up the lines to some nasty slat water and were making drinks with that until people realized. There was no water on board and no gun drinks. The only thing to drink was palm bays. Even kids. Again on the hottest day of the year. Then we danced to 2 songs and they shut the music off as it had to be off by 12 even though we’re started hours late after the first boat didn’t work. I was so pissed I stormed off the boat. In the boat move one of my bridesmaids lost her keys and ended up having to come to our hotel room at the end of the night. Didn’t get refunded a dime. There was honestly so much more but I think I’ve blocked it all out.
Nina 1 year ago
Dang, that must've been one disappointment after the other. That boat company didn't have a solid plan b and really f-d up
Naomie Moore 1 year ago
Crestfallen for you. Hope you are at a better place now. Blocking out bad memories is a coping technique. Hope you can get a therapist to help you through this really rough patch.
#27
One of my good friends from high school got married in December. The couple gave the DJ a list of accepted music. You want to know what was NOT on that list? Dogs barking Christmas carols.
This guy played three songs of dogs barking Christmas carols in a row and the groom was PISSED. He asked after the 2nd one for the guy to stop. He didn't. By the third, I thought the groom was going to fight the guy. Who does that to someone's wedding? WTF?
It's the most annoying thing...
Rob D 1 year ago
Anyone remember when DJ was a skill position? Not a hungover college kid with a MacBook on shuffle and an aux cable?
Terry Tobias 1 year ago
I dated a guy in the 80's-90's who was a great DJ! He worked for a mobile service and was really popular. This was back when you mixed vinyl so it was very hands-on, and the equipment was huge and very heavy! Imagine carrying crates of albums, then later CDs, to every show. There was one New Year's Eve where he had three weddings in that one day. I spent the day with him and helped during his shows, all while dressed to the nines. It was exausting but so much fun!
Load More Replies... MushroomHead22 1 year ago
no. barking carols would have been acceptable. you are a DJ being paid. they gave you a list of approved songs. do your damn job.
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justanotherweirdo 1 year ago
Honestly, I’d enjoy that if it was my wedding. Still, if they asked him to stop, he should have stopped. Can’t stand those types of people.
Petra 1 year ago
Yes. Cats too. There's probably more animals too, but I haven't heard them. They're computer generated.
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Sometimes, everything goes wrong in a wedding. And then you feel bad that parents (and maybe even more) invested so much into it but it left you feeling negative about it. And when you finally reach that “oh, well, it was kind of a disaster, but we're married now, so that's all that matters!” phase, it still feels like it might upset some people. But it has to be let go.
#28
I've been to two weddings where the Christian ministers went off the rails. One decided he needed to go on a diatribe about how the (cis-gender heterosexual) couple getting married was fighting the "good fight" against gay marriage. The other one decided he needed to discuss his personal sex life during the sermon. Nearly walked out of the first, nearly threw up in the second. Absolutely bizarre.
Michael Largey 1 year ago
On the other hand, Jesus - Whom they both profess to admire - knew how to behave at a wedding.
Veronica Jean 1 year ago
Jesus turned water into wine. JESUS KNEW HOW TO PARTY
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Kiss Army 1 year ago
It wasn't a wedding... but at my husband's parent's funeral (it was a joint funeral) we were provided a military chaplain because his father got military honors and they didn't have their own clergy... anyway, we did not know this guy but he went off the rails giving this LONG sermon about suicide and how wrong it is to take your own life, etc... He went on like this for at least 20 minutes with everyone looking around at each other like WTF? My mother-in-law passed away on the table during emergency heart surgery and my father in law passed away from cancer/Alzheimer's so we have no idea why he went on a suicide rant.
Bookworm 1 year ago
I don't know where they dug up the guy who did the service for my great-aunt's funeral, but he'd clearly never met her or spoken to any of the family about her, because he spent most of it talking about how much we were going to miss her and the hole her death would leave in our lives. Which most of the time is probably a safe bet for a generic funeral speech, except for the very pertinent fact that Great-Aunt Trudy had been estranged from the entire family for decades.
Load More Replies... eric p 1 year ago
This is why no one should get married in a church... get someone you are close to to officiate
Donald 1 year ago
I'm about as far away from religious as it gets, but a very religious family wouldn't consider not getting married in a church. Respect peoples choices.
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Ralph Watkins 1 year ago
My one cousin married into a Christian cult. Before their vows they had to stand in front of everybody & confess that they had sex before marriage. The husband went to a school run by the church that was not recognized as an educational institution. So he technically had no formal education. She was to have no contact with her family after marriage. Recently I reconnected with my cousins from that remote area. No mention of her. I finally had to ask if she was alive. Her siblings had no idea. Their mom said she knew where she lived. That's it.
Naomie Moore 1 year ago
Normally I am easy and go with the flow. Not here. I would have taken the religious portion of the ceremony and play it back on Sunday service. Assuming they had the ceremony video taped.
Ren 1 year ago
My cousin's catholic minister talked about someone else's wedding she officiated during the entire ceremony.
Tom De Paul 9 months ago
She? Catholic? Minister? I see some problems and have questions.
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The grooms dad made a speech that started with 'When we first met
eric p 1 year ago
There are such things as unattractive people, but know the time and place to voice that opinion. A wedding toast is definitely not it
Jeevesssssss 1 year ago
"Unconventionally attractive" is a better term. Unconventionally attractive people can become beautiful in your eyes when you get to know their character. Just as conventionally attractive people can become ugly in your eyes when you realise they're árseholes.
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#30
The married bride’s dad went behind the reception hall for a make out session with her maid of honor. They got busted by his 9 months pregnant niece, who had a massive blowup in front of everyone. Meanwhile half the groomsmen were in the parking lot fist fighting a bunch of guys next door.
Michael Largey 1 year ago
Short version - Everybody was kung fu fighting.
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Naomie Moore 1 year ago
Where was security? Did the brides parents get divorced? Drunk groomsmen would have been 86'd by me. .
Mrs.C 1 year ago
I think it's supposed to be "The Bride's married father..."
Load More Replies...So, what are your thoughts on any of this? Have you ever experienced a wedding so crummy, it made you sick on the spot? Share your stories and takes in the comment section below!
And if you don’t even want to remember, well, then why not forget with more?
#31
It was the 4th of July and fireworks were going off. 3 scared local dogs came running in the church down the aisle and the brides family was freaking out. No one thought it was funny. I did though.
Angrykitten 1 year ago
I hate fireworks for this reason. That and how it can be very triggering for veterans
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Cadfael 1 year ago
I HATE fireworks. Waste of money, and cruel to the elderly, war veterans and animals. In this present time with laser shows being to fantastic, why not have that instead?
KillerKiwi 1 year ago
Because this is ‘MURICA and we will do things the ‘MURICAN way
Load More Replies... Sammie 19 1 year ago
Fireworks hurt my ears. Even if they are being let off a few miles away and I can't see them my ears and body feel the vibrations in the air. My ears are weird. On the other hand my cat (may she rest in peace) absolutely loved lying on the windowsill to look out at the fireworks. The only way I can watch them is with the sound of on videos on YouTube lol
Naomie Moore 1 year ago
This is downright dangerous. Hope someone knew to shelter the dogs that were trying to escape because they were petrified. Not funny at all.
#32
Saw a bride give a very well thought out vow and remembrance, and the groom said >”wow, that’s a lot. Ditto”.
Tiffany Marie 1 year ago (edited)
I wonder if she ever felt like it was a mistake to marry him. Even if your married 50 years, doesn't mean it's a good marriage. Co dependency plays a role. People settle too.
Angrykitten 1 year ago
Some people freeze up, or aren't very eloquent so writing/speaking a vow like that would be very difficult.
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Martie Groat 1 year ago
Just watched Addams Family Values; Joan Cusack's character said these exact words in her wedding to Christopher Lloyd's character...
Cerise Hood 1 year ago
Reminds me of the guy who had a more crude vow and the priest tried to get him to say something more.
Laura Williams 1 year ago
Nope stop ditto. Okay everyone this is ending and have fun at the reception. I will talk to ditto and tomorrow we might be married. Show up to reception not knknow and work out overnight.
#33
I do wedding videography. A few years ago, I was covering a wedding in this incredibly formal cathedral. So much formality that I had rules where I could and could not be (not super typical with most venues)
All morning, the groom had been slamming beers with his groomsmen. Everyone celebrates in their own way, right?
The bride and groom meet at the altar and begin to exchange vows. Mid bridal vow, the groom begins to burp. Everything turned slow motion after that. The groom projectile vomited all over the altar and the bride, before running away while continuing to vomit. It was so silent that his upchucking echoed throughout the cathedral.
The groom returned wearing his best man’s suit jacket, and the bride had magically blotted away the vomit stained on her dress.
Although the vows were never finished, they still got happily married. True love prevails.
Seanette Blaylock 1 year ago
Shouldn't the officiant have stopped the whole thing when it became obvious the groom was too intoxicated to give valid consent to a legal contract?
Disgruntled Pelican 1 year ago
Was it a Catholic wedding? If so, I'm really surprised the priest even let them up the aisle.
#34
My uncle got so drunk at my sister’s wedding that he confessed to having an affair and completely ruined the family💀.
Laura Williams 1 year ago
The joy of drunk people they tell the truth. Someone tell bil girlfriend she is to stupid for me to deal with. It might cause her harm if I see her.
Karin Nachtkrapp 1 year ago
I guess it was unforgettable, never said it had to be in a good way though.
#35
I was roofied (drugged) at the reception by a woman I never met before. I didn't know anyone at the wedding. I was the plus 1.
SheamusFanFrom1987 1 year ago
Good powers-that-be, I hope OP is okay and nothing serious happened T_T
Dread Pirate Roberts 1 year ago
😦 that is so messed up...I hope no one did anything to her while she was passed out
Ron Baza 1 year ago
If a woman he didn’t know was the only person to get the OP a drink, the odds would favour it.
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It was held in the couples backyard and all of the guests brought dishes and essentially catered for them. When the ceremony took place, no one sat down because the “officiant” didn’t tell anyone to. When it was time to eat, the groom went and sat at a table with his friends and the bride sat at a table by herself. We had to invite her to our table. At the end, they opened and read everyone’s cards containing money in front of the guests. Thought that was tacky as hell.
Justme 1 year ago
My wedding was similar - at my in laws house, only 20 people standing around us as we said our vows, potluck afternoon tea style, it was perfect.
Sammie 19 1 year ago
At my wedding to my late husband was us two, my best friend and his best friend, his mom, his daughter and son in law and our two bosses. My stepdaughter loaned me a beautiful dress, did my hair and makeup as her present. Her husband took our wedding pictures and had them made into a wedding album as his gift. His mom made our small wedding cake. Our bosses used their posh cars to drive us to the courthouse and home and we hade sandwiches and cake with everyone. All we spent was the money for the wedding licence.
Load More Replies... eric p 1 year ago
The opening of gifts is common if the wedding is a destination or the couple rarely sees the guests. It is still tacky but becoming a lot more common
Kiss Army 1 year ago
At my sister's wedding the caterer delivered the food to the wrong building at the venue and the people in that building accepted it because they "thought it was a gift". Who would send a whole catered buffet as a gift is beyond me... anyway the caterer scrambled to remake and deliver another buffet meal but we had to stall for almost two hours so some of the guests suggested they open their gifts to kill time. It was fun but unusual.
Load More Replies... The Redhead 1 year ago
Went to the wedding of my ex husband's cousin. At the end of the evening the bride who was drunk started complaining about how uncomfortable her dress was so she took it off and was just in her lingerie, then her & the groom sat down opened all the cards (didn't read them) but did count all the cash they got out loud in front of the few remaining guests.
Naomie Moore 1 year ago
And no one said anything to the groom? Where were the respective parents? This marriage already has flaws. Groom doesn't even put his wife first?
Angel Stage 1 year ago
I've been to a couple weddings where they did not tell us to sit down and I was so confused.
Ashleigh Jordan 1 year ago
Sounds like more of a birthday party for these people. Weddings happen every year right? 😂
#37
My cousin's wedding. For context, there had been some family issues about some inheritance and the relationship was cold, but we still got an invitation. He had booked a hall and a cook but not a catering service, and we found out when the reception started. The friends/sisters of the bride banded to serve the courses, and me and my brothers (cousins of the groom) doubled as waiters to take them to the tables. We managed to eat in installments, taking g a couple minutes here and there to wolf down some food before we got back to serving tables. He didn't thank us. He didn't even acknowledge us. At the end of the reception he passed to every single table to toast with the people there and thank them for coming. He completely ignored us. It's been over ten years since the last time I've talked to him.
Rosecrucian Roeth 1 year ago
Twatwaffle..........luvs it! Has such a medieval snort to it.
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Hi, will you please serve people food at my wedding? Is that how it went?
Kim Lorton 1 year ago
He is a moron. You all cousins? Are heroes! So are the brides side helpers!
#38
At my dad’s wedding, having to run around to find my brother for toasts, found him upstairs hooking up with our new step mom's daughter.
Bill Hankel 1 year ago
It's flat out an inappropriate time and place, that's why it's a problem!
Nitka Tsar 1 year ago
So? What‘s so bad about it? Except maybe that they should not to it at that particular moment.
#39
The bride was wearing a $10k dress but didn’t feed her guests. The wedding was in the afternoon in a church with the reception “to follow immediately after” at a ball room nearby. The wedding party went to take pictures and everyone had to wait for them to get back and go through the line first. One tray of appetizers for 200 guests went pretty quickly. There was only 2 buck chuck white wine or water to drink. No soda, no iced tea, no beer. The bridal party spends 2 hours taking pictures while we wait to eat. They had set up a “stations” buffet but didn’t spring for plates at each station so the line moved through a snails pace at every station. We finally got something to eat 5 hours after the ceremony.
Laura Williams 1 year ago
I can do just as well 2 cases of soda gallon of every kind of liquor. Food was KFC chicken and my aunts saurkraut and sausage. His family didn't drink for religious reasons. There were 3 of us wedding members pregnant. No sides just chicken. Cake cut with none of the grooms side knowing. It was held in a backyard in the evening in June near Chicago. Most people getting eaten by bugs. I was on the grooms side all 3 pregnant people got no cake. It was fun.
#40
Had to go to an indian auspicious wedding that started at 10pm and the actual marriage was at like 3am bc that’s was when the moon aligned with saturn or smth. wasn’t bad just felt like a fever dream.
Eshaa Venkatesh 1 year ago
Very normal at Indian weddings, but no one is expected to stick around for it other than immediate family. The standard format is bride and groom start off with a 'varnmala' ceremony - garland exchange. Then sit up on a stage while guests are supposed to come up and give their blessings and gifts. There is a self serve buffet laid out during this time, so everyone eats once the blessings are done. Then they leave. Only the immediate family and close friends stick around and the real wedding starts at around midnight....and can go on till the wee hours of the morning. But then again, India is a country of composite subcultures, so every state has a different style of weddings. South Indian weddings happen in the day time and can go on for upto 9 hours. That's why divorce rates are so low in India, nobody wants to go through all of that a second time round 😄
#41
The bride neglected to tell anybody the ceremony was outside…in November. Most of the women including me were shivering in cocktail dresses, except for the ones who stayed inside for the ceremony (the back wall of the venue was all glass so you could still easily see) which upset the bride. The bars were also outside because the bride thought cocktail hour with the fire pits would be fun. Except there were two fire pits and 300 people. Everybody was doing a shot and taking a drink with them back inside the reception hall, which upset the bride. There weren’t enough passed appetizers to go around (at least the people I were with and I never got any) and dinner took an hour to be served *after* the planner had us all sit. When the food finally came the outside was hot but there was still ice in the middle. From there, a lot of people just straight up got up and left. Some went to McDonald’s right down the road and came back (with their food), others went to raid the dessert wall they put out. Which also upset the bride since it was all gone before she got to try any. I would be more upset that my guests were cold and hungry than the fact I didn’t get a cookie but to each their own….anyway, the wedding had ~300 people there, but only ~100 made it to the dancing portion of the night. The first hour of which the bride spent crying in her suite about how people were being rude.
#42
Wedding Officiant here. Bride was short chubby plain and sort of frumpy. But she was smiling, happy, and a beautiful bride because every bride is beautiful on her wedding day. MoB was just the opposite. Tall, blond, overly made up. For the reception she changed into an off white, backless sheath with a thigh slit up to her waist and heels that were more suited to the pole, not a wedding reception. She pre-flighted on the way, so she rolled in drunk and loud. First one on the dance floor, going table to table working the room. Flirting with every man in the place. Including me! Did I mention the part about Minister? So it went on, she got drunker and louder. All eyes on her. As her daughter slowly withdrew and shrunk back into herself. Eclipsed by her mother. On her wedding day.
Libstak 1 year ago (edited)
I hope poor daughter blossomed like a rose in spring in her married life, finally free of that narcissistic witch.
Tiffany Marie 1 year ago (edited)
Her mother has a personality disorder, sounds like histrionic due to the attention seeking behavior, attire & excessive flirting. Also maybe some narcissism. The bride seems like a nice girl who probably needs some therapy from childhood wounds of the mother. Self worth issues and low self esteem im sure. I hope she didn't marry her mother. People tend to marry others who remind them of their traumas.
May Calhoun 1 year ago
The mother sounds truly awful, but the minister doesn’t exactly sound like a peach either…
sharyn turnicky 1 year ago
My Grandmother would have called the Bride's mother "WhiteTrash", I would never disagree with my "Nanny"!
Anna Ekberg 1 year ago
This one was really sad, wondering how that poor girls life must be with a parent like that.
WindySwede 1 year ago
That was the day when a street in Portugal was flooded with red wine? (To try to stain MOBs dress..) /jk. wine-flood...00-c50.jpg 
#43
One of my military buddies was getting married to a girl who was also in the military - pretty big wedding, to include maybe some 100+ people who were either still active duty or veterans. In the middle of the reception, after playing a handful of the upbeat hits, the band had everyone on the dance floor. They'd just run through Mr. Brightside, Valerie, Shout, etc. and as they rolled out of All The Small Things, the singer said something to the effect of "hey, we know this is a big military wedding so this next song is for you!" And so began a slow and downbeat rock rendition of the national anthem. Like.. Aretha Franklin slow. For those who aren't familiar, common protocol for military members and veterans is to stand at attention (straight and still) and salute or place their hand over their heart as the national anthem played. We were all pretty drunk and had spent the past fifteen minutes jumping and shouting and singing and dancing before, on cue, standing stiff as a board for five f*****g minutes while trying not to fall over. The band IMMEDIATELY recognized the issue but like...once you start playing the national anthem you can't just stop because it's awkward, right? Think of the troops! Anyway. The only thing that's worse than being really f*****g hammered and trying to not fall over while some bloke in his late forties takes some artistic liberties with the national anthem is when that bloke doesn't commit to the bit and tries to half-a*s the performance. F**k, that was weird. Would never think to put the national anthem on the "do not play" list, but I think it's not a bad idea..
The Original Bruno 1 year ago
Tempo change! "werrrrrrre sooooo gaaaaaallllaaaaantlyyyyy streeeeeeaming...... a one, two, three, four! And the rockets red glare! The bombs bursting in air!"
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#44
Probably the wedding where my whole family and a bunch of other guests got food poisoning from the reception. Missed the first day of Grade 5 after spending all night throwing up. We each got a cheque for $50 from the venue a few months later. $50 seemed like big money at the time lol.
Petra 1 year ago (edited)
True, but at least they didn't have to go through the hassle/cost of sueing to get some compensation.
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My ex husband turned up to our wedding in an ancient baseball jersey, jeans, and trainers, when I had gone for the full white big dress. Then he f***ed off 2 hours into the reception because he’d arranged to play video games with his mates that night. No, the marriage did not last, but that was mostly because he got a kick out of beating the c**p out of me.
#46
This happened before I was born but a great story. Cousin was getting married, everyone gets to the reception, all ready for the bride, she walks down, absolutely stunning and BAM! A dude runs into the church with blood all over him screaming that someone’s trying to kill him. The cops in the family barricade the front door, the place gets locked down, police are called, apparently the guy had gotten into an argument at the pub and had been stabbed. The other guy is found and taken to the police station and dude covered in blood taken to the hospital. During this time the groom was so overwhelmed that he drank most of a bottle of whiskey, managed to make it through the vowels before he threw up in the church. They all get to the reception and begin to party, some more heavily than others. One uncle get absolutely shitfaced and decides to do a striptease on the bride and groom’s table, went full Monty before some of the men grabbed him and made him go home. My family is absolutely wild. Another story of the other side of the family was a couple of cousins got married back in the 70’s-80’s, I was told that ‘it was so funny because none of us knew if we should sit on the bride of grooms side. That should not be a conversation that ever happens.
#47
Buckle up for this one. A friend of mine had asked if I would DJ for her wedding. We grew up and lived in an area that was riddled with poverty/crime/etc. So her wedding wasn't big or fancy, but she was a good friend and a very sweet and lovely person. Anyways I guess you could describe her and the grooms families as white trash. They had the event in a small community center, and the food layed out was dollar store canned ham dumped on potato chips with mustard on top. During the ceremony, after she had walked to the alter, her step dad stumbled in wearing dirty jeans, a leather vest without a shirt underneath, and reeked of stale beer and cigarettes. During the reception, her step dad got extremely drunk and punched her mom in the face. The groom started to beat him up in the middle of the hall. Her step dad's father, who was babysitting their kids, left the 2 children (both under 10) at his house and came to grab her step dad and take him away. I felt awful for her.
R.C. 1 year ago
"Dollar store canned ham dumped on potato chips with mustard on top." I'm sorry, what!?
The Original Bruno 1 year ago
Off-brand SPAM? As opposed to the classy SPAM brand canned ham. (Say SPAM brand canned ham ten times fast.)
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#48
I found out I had Covid 30 min before my own wedding ceremony and everyone had already arrived.
MushroomHead22 1 year ago
ok well stay away from people, and its not like you or your husband to be wouldn't be in contact after the wedding after anyway...
#49
Found out my dad had Parkinson’s at my brother's wedding (last in the entire family to find out, they had been hiding it from me for a while), my grandma was newly confined to a wheelchair and pooped her pants at my brother's wedding.
At my ex friend’s wedding I showed up prepared to be the maid of honor and found out from the makeup person that there was another maid of honor. We found out she had two of us working as maid of honor secretly. We both quit.
I lived 7 hours away, in college and worked multiple jobs so it was hard for me to get away and do wedding stuff. She constantly texted me and called me to tell me how horrible of a friend I was. So she ended up telling this other person (turns out it was a distant cousin or something) that I was no longer the maid of honor and she was now on duty. Well I was never told this, but I continued to do what I could from far away. It was really awkward, the other girl was so sad and hurt but I just wanted to get out of there.
crazydogmama 1 year ago
My sister's 2nd wedding was held in a field in Montana during the summer, it was disgustingly hot, no tents, only a porta-pottie, and no water or other drinks. They were two hours late because they went a freaking car race beforehand (we didn't know this at the time). They also hadn't prepared any of the tables, centerpieces, chairs, etc. We had to set it all up. My mother suffers from IBS, and she got diarrhea and dehydrated. But no one would leave with me, so we stuck it out. I don't remember how the food was even served, because mom and I couldn't eat by that point, anyway.
#50
It was in the yard of a post office. The groom wore a red sweatpants material, shorts suit. It was the bride's 5th wedding and the groom's 3rd. They are divorced now.
Queeqec 1 year ago
What's wrong with shorts for a wedding? I got married with both of us in shorts and t-shirts, 10 yrs ago, still going strong. 10/10 recommended
MushroomHead22 1 year ago
the bad part about this was the 5th and 3rd wedding. not the shorts.
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#51
At the reception, a drunk lady was beating the s**t out of her date, some scrawny, snaggletoothed dude about a foot shorter and 150 pounds smaller than her. Dude kept yelling, "Stop, stop!" But the lady kept wailing on the guy. Wild stuff.
Phoenix 1 year ago
And no one intervened? If it was a dude beating his female date they'd have been all over him.
#52
I was all set to be best man for my friend's wedding. It was going to be a small wedding at their church with a lunch afterward. At 7:30 the morning of the wedding, the groom called me and told me the wedding was cancelled, and he said that he "would call me and explain later". He didn't call me the next day, or the next, or the next... After that, he just dropped off the face of the earth and I never saw him again. The bride "didn't want to discuss it". I called his dad, and he said that groom had left town for boot camp. It was a really weird situation.
#53
The groom was hammered and instead of feeding the bride cake, launched it layer by layer across the room.
My sister was the MOH in a wedding where the bride's father didn't like the groom. A fight broke out and the bride's father, uncle, brother, the groom and his father and brother were arrested. The bride spent her wedding night at my house crying her eyes out. They divorced about two years later.
#54
Couple got married at a 5 star resort. After the reception everyone went down stairs to get pictures by the fountain and running through the sparklers. We all went back up to find the banquet staff eating the cake. If the bride had gotten any redder her dress would have changed colors.
Kiss Army 1 year ago
If it was after the reception and they had left to go downstairs, the staff probably thought it was leftover and ok to eat. After we were done eating, we invited the staff to come in and eat.
Rob D 1 year ago (edited)
Yes this needs context. Were they over alotted time to the point where going downstairs was considered the exit? Some resorts are so busy they need to "flip" halls event to event. If so staff was in cleanup mode. Withhold judgement. Just knowing what I know about the type of people that book 5 star resort weddings and the people that work at resorts. There's more to this than s****y staff.
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I was a bridesmaid in a wedding where the couple chose to DIY much of the event. I flew red eye across the country to be in the wedding and got assigned tasks for the 2 days leading up to the wedding with the rest of the bridal party- like all day, for two days. We hand-made all bouquets and flower arrangements, decorations, etc for the day, cut veggies/fruit and prepared all food for the cocktail hour AND drove it to the venue, stuffed it in the fridge there and got it sorted out, set up the tables, chairs, place cards, everything for the reception. Like we set the entire wedding up. The worst part though was that the bride was so overwhelmed by this that when you asked her a question she would lay on the floor and not answer. Simply ignore you. The day of the wedding we helped with everything too (like people approached me the entire reception if there were missing chairs or flatware to get them things), helped set up all the food (which was ordered from a restaurant and dropped off), drinks, dessert, everything. It was madness. Oh and in the middle of it the bathroom at the venue stopped working.
Shannimal 1 year ago
Sounds like my SIL's wedding. Hubster and I flew from NC to MI and all she did for 2 days was bark orders at us. Had us up till 2am the night before making bouquets, back at the venue at 7am to put up lights, the arbor, etc while she got her hair and makeup done and gave direction from the hotel room's window. We were never told we were going to be setting up her whole wedding. Then she had the audacity to ask us to help clean up when it was over. We all (her mother included) left anyway. To make it worse, we knew from the start they shouldn't have gotten married and everyone told her so. Surprise, surprise, they barely lasted a year. What a waste. Most selfish person I've ever met.
Rachel Pelz 1 year ago
Well, it can work if you have a team of people who actually want to do DIY over several days...
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#56
The vicar forgot he was doing my sister in laws wedding. We all rocked upto the church. No vicar. Then the bride was late of course. Still no vicar. Then the best man had to go and do physically wake up the vicar who was asleep/passed out. S**t wedding. Doomed from the very start.
#57
Mine-I wanted to do a small courthouse wedding and weekend getaway. My husband and his mom changed our plans from North Carolina to Arizona so that all of her friends and family could attend. He was a huge mamas boy and did as his mom asked. The ceremony was mormon and creepy, and jam packed with ppl I did not know. I had to wear the ugly temple garb on top of my wedding dress. It was so ugly. Even tho we were mormon, I had originally planned a courthouse wedding for just the two of us and to get sealed later. We had a reception in my Mil's backyard, filled with the same fkn ppl. We ate imitation crab and sheet caked baked by granny. I ended up getting my period too. Instead of a weekend getaway I got to hang out with my husbands family and play cards. Bonus points-everyone was "concerned if I had married my husband for a greencard". I kept replying "I am a US citizen". According to my husband, his mom bribed him with $3000, which she then took back to pay for the reception she had in her backyard.
Smol Frog 1 year ago
Not divorced, but I hope mom got some good karma later on
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I have a few moments that stand out: My stepbrother’s wedding. As the bride was walking down the aisle, Grandma(sitting in front of me) says “well it looks like you CAN dress up trash”. I had to work so hard to hold my s**t together through the ceremony. My uncle’s wedding. They did a choreographed interpretative dance to illustrate their love. It ended with them both on one knee doing jazz hands. My husband’s cousin’s wedding. It was a Mormon ceremony performed outdoors so us heathens could attend. The man officiating it spoke about the importance of them balancing their checkbooks. The corker was when he said “now that you are married, you can have children who are blessed and will be welcomed into heaven”. Cousin’s son, from a previous (non married) relationship, was his best man. So so f****d up.
eric p 1 year ago
Why get married in a mormon church if they are clearly not adhering to true mormon traditions (having a child out of wedlock)
Michael Largey 1 year ago (edited)
Failing to follow you religion's teachings on a single instance is hardly the same as abandoning that religion. Most religions teach that we are all sinners. (Although some keep in practice more than most.)
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#59
Outside wedding in June in South Carolina. It was hot as s**t and I was an usher. DJ ended up passing out from the heat and the ambulance pulled up right on the dance floor. Good times.
#60
When i was a kid the first wedding i went was my dad's friend and his wife brought a stripper to strip for him on the dance floor and dad told me not to look.
Anna Ekberg 1 year ago
Never in the history of mankind has the "don't look" worked on children. Ever.
#61
The food was terrible. I usually go for the filet since generally speaking I don’t go to many weddings that mess that up. I ordered and it took forever to be served, and when it was it was a hockey puck. Completely inedible. I had asked for medium rare. Then turns out there were multiple weddings at the venue and the groom and groomsmen got into a fight with the other wedding’s party. A glass door was shattered and cops were called. My family had to have cereal when we got home shellshocked over the situation. We no longer talk to that family for a myriad of reasons but the wedding was a red flag in retrospect.
eric p 1 year ago
"For a myriad of reasons" is grammatically correct and the preferred phrasing in this context. Do not correct someone's English if you lack the knowledge to do so...
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My cousin got a d**k pic from her father (my uncle) on her brothers wedding night.💀
He drunkenly was sexting some lady he met online and accidentally sent it to her.
True story.
️ ️~ lefty libra️ ~ 1 year ago
but have you ever seen a nice, mellow deck pic?
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#63
I was voluntold to come to this wedding because my friend didn’t want to go by himself. It was his old buddy and GF that as I learned had just been busted for cooking m*th in a cheap motel room. They were only getting hitched to the judge might go easy and they could get conjugal visits. It gets worse. The “preacher” was the girl’s stepfather. Imagine a white bread hippy dressed like a TV Hollywood Injun with a feather in his headband and streaks of lipstick on his cheeks to look like war paint. The wedding procession song was an old Maxell dub tape with some s****y R&B song crammed into a single speaker tape player. I got tapped to be the guy that had to stop and rewind the f*****g thing during “rehearsal” where it took them 12 tries to walk from the sidewalk to the porch before they didn’t f**k that up. The “reception” was two cases of Schmidt beer and some kook that juggled flaming torches. We just called him flame twirler guy. The brides mom called him Pigpen because he was filthy. A few days later they both were sent up for 5 years prison. The girl got out early because she claimed she was forced into it by an abusive relationship. Pinned everything on the guy and ran off with some dude she had been banging behind her now ex-husband’s back. I’ve told people about how abyssal this was and they think I’m lying. .
Karin Nachtkrapp 1 year ago
Honestly, this sounds like something out of a B romance movie. Also, love the fact you used "Voluntold", I always find it hilarious to hear.
#64
Catholic priest went on a rant mid-ceremony about The Jews. He had a strong accent and the AV was a bit c**p, so there was a lot of confused people looking around going “are you hearing what I’m hearing?” The reception that followed had the worst food and drinks I’ve ever had at a wedding, at what was ostensibly an upscale venue. The groom’s Irish family were supposed to play a few folk tunes to start the dancing, then the DJ would follow. They played for two hours. They weren’t great.
#65
The groom got very, very drunk before the wedding. He could barely stay standing up during the ceremony and ended up passing out in the bathroom during the reception. The bride had no idea he was in the bathroom until he was dragged out of the bathroom by venue staff who then called an ambulance for him. They are still married.
#66
Nothing too crazy but for one wedding I went to it got very awkward when the bride's cousin started making racist jokes against the groom's family during toasts/speeches. Technically the bride and groom were both Asian, but if you know about Asian culture you know that East Asians commonly look down on South East Asians. The cousin's jokes did not land and I recall one of them not even making sense. My whole table cringed.
Nika the Great 1 year ago
I don’t feel like “cringe” is the right word to apply to this situation
Jeevesssssss 1 year ago (edited)
Omg... yes. It's prevelant amongst Nigerians, looking down on SE Asians, too. And if anyone thinks racism is confined to Caucasians, DON'T call a Pakistani "Indian". (British. I live in a very multicultural and very blended area of the UK. If you want to refer to someone indian/pakistani/bangladeshi/nepalese/etc. but are unclear as to specifics, "desi" is a non-pejorative umbrella term used by desis themselves to cover the whole group without offence.)
#67
My cousin's ceremony was a 45 minute sermon, with the sun in our eyes, that ramblingly covered topics including making fun of people who believe in climate change and shaming anyone who doesn't have kids. Many members of the audience were audibly and visibly uncomfortable at many points. They've been married 2 years and still haven't popped out any babies, wonder how that's been received by their pastor...but I do get updates from her about how hard marriage is but how blessed they are to be making it work. Yikes.
MushroomHead22 1 year ago
marriage is the same a relationship. there is nothing to work on. if you did not work in a relationship, you will not work in a marriage. marriage is just a relationship, with extra steps that, if it ends, means you lose your stuff.
#68
Several years ago now we went to a wedding that ended at, let's say 1pm. The reception, well cocktail hour, started at 5 with dinner listed on the invite at 6. Dinner was not served until nearly 8pm...with no explanation or reason. The newly weds took an extra long time with their post-ceremony photos is the theory we had. MANY people started to leave long before dinner was served.
Sunshine Lady 1 year ago
We were on wedding like this. Waiting for the bride and the groom to finish their photoshoot, everyone hungry, 2 hours spent in waiting. Additional points for us, who left a newborn baby at home just to honor them and attend.
Karin Nachtkrapp 1 year ago
Points to y'all for not bringing a baby to a function like this, especially a newborn. I know a lot of people would, uncaring of the consequences it would have on anyone else or the baby themselves.
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Was at wedding where bride was preggo and they rushed into it.. she broke down uncontrollably sobbing during the vows, not out of joy. The second thing I remember was a giant bowl of mac n cheese set out on a sad buffet table. The mac had corn in it.
#70
The country club didn't put alcohol in any of the cocktails, which were served before anything else. There were no canapes. The appetizer was mulligatawny soup served ice-cold in tiny espresso cups. The entree was a 3oz portion of meat, a few asparagus, and some cheese potatoes. One of the couples at our table ate kosher, which resulted in their meals being served late and not plated, revealing them to be some kosher TV dinners the country club held on hand. All of this was directly after a 4 hour long Catholic wedding ceremony. We stopped at Whataburger on the way home.
Inés Olabarria Smith 1 year ago
It’s th second very long catholic wedding in this article. Normally is an hour here, maximum 1,5 including a lot of music. Find it odd.
#71
My cousins wedding. Our grandfather was slowly dying of heart disease in hospital. Between the ceremony and reception he passed. So the grooms side of the family all left the reception before it even started while the brides side just sat there. Should’ve taken it as a sign. They divorced a while later.
#72
Close friend's wedding. Flew internationally to attend. Got my nails, hair, makeup done. Bought a $500 dress. Made it through the ceremony. Immediately after went to the bathroom and was uncontrollably vomiting and s******g. It was everywhere. I had to ask staff for help. They ended up closing off the bathroom because vomit was all over the walls. I had to exit the party covered in my own filth.
#73
The couple's officiator did not show up for the wedding. We later learned that the couple failed to pay them. The officiator sent the couple an email saying they were not going to show up. It was awkward waiting for hours for the officiator when the couple KNEW they were not going to show up. Finally they had one of their friends officiate. On to the refreshments. Probably the worse food I ever had at the wedding. Everything was bland. Also much to my dismay it was a dry wedding. I couldn't even get a mimosa. On top of that the AC at the venue went out the morning of. It was June with the temp of 90 degrees in Atlanta. The venue thought it was a great idea to set up a big industrial fan but it was useless. All it did was circulate hot air. What a hot mess that was.
#74
I watched my husband's brother and his new wife (who are by nature, very shy and typically introverted) MAUL one another at the altar. Their kiss was so weird and uncomfortable to watch, it was exactly like that one couple from Virgin Diaries on TLC. It was trembly, and robotic but also full tilt and awkward as all hell. They weren't virgins either, and had been together for years at that point.
#75
Was in the wedding ceremony one if my best friends. During the reception part of wedding my then wife goes off for around 30 to 40 min. I started to wonder where she went off to, figured she was off talking to friends, we knew a lot of people there and this was 1995 so. She come up to me and I'm like where u been I was starting worry about u. She said off talking to so in so and brushed my concern off. I had a strange feeling as she seemed kinda flushed and disheveled like she'd been dancing for a while. Come to find out she'd been F'ing a guy at the wedding who the bride had introduced to my wife a few days either when they were hanging out. 2 months later she leaves me and a year later she married that same guy. So good for her right? 15 years later she dumps the guy and crushes him. We had been married for only two years so I dogded a big time bullet.
#76
At the end of the night the bride stumbling around with a plastic carrier bag full of open budweiser bottles that were spilling everywhere while she frantically asked had anyone seen the groom. Apparently the groom was busy upstairs with her friend. All confirmed afterwards. Obviously divorced now.
#77
Danced so hard, I threw my back out.
Michael Largey 1 year ago
My dancing has gotten my entire body thrown out of any number of weddings
Petra 1 year ago
He hurt his back dancing. The phrase used implies that he hurt himself badly.
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Drove 150 miles to a family wedding that we were invited to, but not in the wedding party. Hot, humid, summer day. Sun at highest point. Held in a converted barn with no air conditioning next to a freshly plowed field. No bathrooms-only one port a potty. The handwashing station next to it was broken. The groom was already drunk. Several groomsmen and the legal drinking age bridesmaids were drunk. The bride was tipsy. The only drinks were sugared soda (Pepsi, Mtn. Dew, etc.), Coors (original tall yellow cans), and liquor. No water. We asked for cups (plastic only) of ice and waited for them to melt. *They ran out of ice.* The bride made the food. She's known not a great cook. They ran out of vegetable platters. There was no other fresh food. There were deviled eggs on the tables, unchilled. The best man had recently married, and he and his wife really needed to leave and get a room. There were not more than 50 guests, but it was set up for at least 250. There was an emcee, but it was a family friend, and their microphone audio was not good. The music sounded fine, but they kept cutting off songs right after they started to play. They decided to play "Wrecking Ball" by Miley Cyrus (odd choice for a wedding?), and the kids were screaming for one of the brides friends to replicate the video by taking a swing on the chandelier-type flower arrangement in the middle of the barn. We could have done it by Zoom and had a much better time.
#79
This happened October of 2016. My SO at the time didn’t look at the wedding invitation that had the location, and only relied on me to look at it. I looked at it and thought it was a hotel since it said go to the hotel which has a shuttle service to the ceremony. Turns out, reception (that we were invited to, not ceremony) was at the same location as the ceremony and not at the hotel. My SO lost his s**t on me, said he’d never marry meh, said I’m illiterate, etc. again, he never looked at the invite with the directions. We get there, and he just spends the time flirting with another woman, ignoring me the whole time, not talking to me and we don’t even dance. We leave, he yells at me more in the car. He makes me sleep on the couch.
#80
Well, at my wedding my friend’s dumb girlfriend fell asleep on the couch by the dance floor in the middle of the reception. No medical issue, it was maaaaybe 9pm? Just had too many margs and needed a nap.
Jeevesssssss 1 year ago (edited)
I've been that gf. It's a helluva lot better than getting weepy, picking a fight, or projectile vomiting (all of which I've also done. Not at weddings, just parties. I had a drink problem. I've learned my limits.)
What do you think ?
Anna Ekberg 1 year ago
Alot of these stories could have been avoided if people didn't get completely wasted the day before their wedding. To the extend that it affects their own wedding day in a bad way. 🤷♀️
Rizzo 1 year ago
Dammit, at our wedding we didn't have a rehearsal. Maybe that's why we're still married? ;) We stayed at the northern sea for vacation and got married on top of a lighthouse. Very romantic. :)
Zedrapazia 1 year ago
The worst wedding I've ever been at was ruined by the parents of one groom. They had only one job, and that was to bring a traditional wedding cake from the groom's home country. They didn't bring a cake and instead decided to show their immense wealth off by dressing up super pompous like a bunch of Louis XIV monarchs, which totally didn't fit the very leisure wedding ... then gifted the groom a photo of some luxury car they wanted to gift him instead (it later on turned out that the car had previously belonged to another cousin who just didn't want it anymore). There was no cake at all and I had to go out with another two girls and rush to the next Dunkin' Donuts (the only store that was still open that late) and get as many donuts as we could as a replacement. They were a bit dry since they'd been sitting out since the morning, but it was passable. The wedding was fine nonetheless, but the groom has been on bad terms with his family since. Uber rich people are strange.
Mad McQueen 1 year ago
My neice was to get married in November. Kinda long dating relationship and they moved out of state from where everyone even their friends were located. So we would have to drive and rent a car. Book a hotel at one of their two choices and of course buy nice new clothes as other nephew got married earlier in April that year and they didn't want us in the same outfits. Week before event was told his mom was sick and wouldn't make it so it was all cancelled and postponed at a date not yet known. 4 month later they have broken up. No wedding. She is moving back to the state. So out a deposit on a car. A deposit on a hotel room and the cost of new clothes. Because they actually shouldn't have rushed to get marrried just because two of their friends were that year and they all wanted to be part of it. Except her groom. He dodged that bullet. She's a zilla for sure.
Gavin Johnson 1 year ago
Concierge at a halfway posh hotel, acted as toastmaster / front man for the hotel at weddings for just over 5 years, every nightmare you’ve had I’ve witnessed from the other side. Behind the scenes we aren’t getting a great laugh out of your chaos / infighting / d**g abuse (yes we will call the Police) / drunken antics / falling in the moat / DJs and bands not appearing / grooms or brides walking out / you name it, honestly we aren’t laughing AT ALL…….
Tempest 1 year ago
A cousin of mine got married with a small ceremony and reception, both of which went well. What went wrong was the wedding photography. The photography studio that was hired somehow managed to lose all the digital copies of the photos from their computers (something to do with a problem encountered during transfer or something). There weren’t really much useable photos taken by any guests either because this wedding was in 2012/2013 when only a few guests had cameras/camera phones. I had a small digital camera but being a young and stupid kid almost all my photos from that day were of random nonsense. Sadly my cousin never got any professional photos from his day and worst he had to nearly go to war trying to get a refund from that studio.
ZombieRedfox 1 year ago
My MIL and her "friend" showed up drunk to our wedding rehearsal, almost falling out of the car, and threw-up in the parking lot. Her friend drove her home and she ended up missing the entire rehearsal. She showed up at the rehearsal dinner and looked s**t faced.
Donald 1 year ago
My cousin got married outside, in July, it was swelteringly hot and she was late to her own wedding so we sat outside and cooked. Ceremony and reception were relatively smooth but nobody was watching the groom and how much he was drinking. I snagged a ride in a limo to go back to my family home and the after party. My cousin's maid of honor flashed everyone in the limo her lady bits multiple times and another brides maid threw up back there. We got back to my family home and find the groom passed out drunk on the front lawn. My cousin Thomas and I got him into my parents guest bedroom to sleep it off and he pissed and s**t the bed. My cousin went to Applebee's and got hammered and left the groom at my parents for the night. They divorced 2 months later. It was, something.
Patricia Steward 1 year ago
With some obvious exceptions, a lot of these could have been laughed off and provided great stories.
Anna Ekberg 1 year ago
Alot of these stories could have been avoided if people didn't get completely wasted the day before their wedding. To the extend that it affects their own wedding day in a bad way. 🤷♀️
Rizzo 1 year ago
Dammit, at our wedding we didn't have a rehearsal. Maybe that's why we're still married? ;) We stayed at the northern sea for vacation and got married on top of a lighthouse. Very romantic. :)
Zedrapazia 1 year ago
The worst wedding I've ever been at was ruined by the parents of one groom. They had only one job, and that was to bring a traditional wedding cake from the groom's home country. They didn't bring a cake and instead decided to show their immense wealth off by dressing up super pompous like a bunch of Louis XIV monarchs, which totally didn't fit the very leisure wedding ... then gifted the groom a photo of some luxury car they wanted to gift him instead (it later on turned out that the car had previously belonged to another cousin who just didn't want it anymore). There was no cake at all and I had to go out with another two girls and rush to the next Dunkin' Donuts (the only store that was still open that late) and get as many donuts as we could as a replacement. They were a bit dry since they'd been sitting out since the morning, but it was passable. The wedding was fine nonetheless, but the groom has been on bad terms with his family since. Uber rich people are strange.
Mad McQueen 1 year ago
My neice was to get married in November. Kinda long dating relationship and they moved out of state from where everyone even their friends were located. So we would have to drive and rent a car. Book a hotel at one of their two choices and of course buy nice new clothes as other nephew got married earlier in April that year and they didn't want us in the same outfits. Week before event was told his mom was sick and wouldn't make it so it was all cancelled and postponed at a date not yet known. 4 month later they have broken up. No wedding. She is moving back to the state. So out a deposit on a car. A deposit on a hotel room and the cost of new clothes. Because they actually shouldn't have rushed to get marrried just because two of their friends were that year and they all wanted to be part of it. Except her groom. He dodged that bullet. She's a zilla for sure.
Gavin Johnson 1 year ago
Concierge at a halfway posh hotel, acted as toastmaster / front man for the hotel at weddings for just over 5 years, every nightmare you’ve had I’ve witnessed from the other side. Behind the scenes we aren’t getting a great laugh out of your chaos / infighting / d**g abuse (yes we will call the Police) / drunken antics / falling in the moat / DJs and bands not appearing / grooms or brides walking out / you name it, honestly we aren’t laughing AT ALL…….
Tempest 1 year ago
A cousin of mine got married with a small ceremony and reception, both of which went well. What went wrong was the wedding photography. The photography studio that was hired somehow managed to lose all the digital copies of the photos from their computers (something to do with a problem encountered during transfer or something). There weren’t really much useable photos taken by any guests either because this wedding was in 2012/2013 when only a few guests had cameras/camera phones. I had a small digital camera but being a young and stupid kid almost all my photos from that day were of random nonsense. Sadly my cousin never got any professional photos from his day and worst he had to nearly go to war trying to get a refund from that studio.
ZombieRedfox 1 year ago
My MIL and her "friend" showed up drunk to our wedding rehearsal, almost falling out of the car, and threw-up in the parking lot. Her friend drove her home and she ended up missing the entire rehearsal. She showed up at the rehearsal dinner and looked s**t faced.
Donald 1 year ago
My cousin got married outside, in July, it was swelteringly hot and she was late to her own wedding so we sat outside and cooked. Ceremony and reception were relatively smooth but nobody was watching the groom and how much he was drinking. I snagged a ride in a limo to go back to my family home and the after party. My cousin's maid of honor flashed everyone in the limo her lady bits multiple times and another brides maid threw up back there. We got back to my family home and find the groom passed out drunk on the front lawn. My cousin Thomas and I got him into my parents guest bedroom to sleep it off and he pissed and s**t the bed. My cousin went to Applebee's and got hammered and left the groom at my parents for the night. They divorced 2 months later. It was, something.
Patricia Steward 1 year ago
With some obvious exceptions, a lot of these could have been laughed off and provided great stories.
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