Couples spend a lot of time, money, and effort planning the perfect wedding. The big day can be made perfect in a variety of ways, but there are still a number of things that could go horribly wrong. And the majority of the time, it is out of their control.
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This article compiles some of the most shocking wedding day mishaps shared on this Reddit thread. The fact that some of these incidents may not even remotely qualify as “disasters” in the eyes of some, does not change the fact that they caused a lot of stress on what was supposed to be a perfect day and still have a disaster-like feel to them.
Divorced father of the groom started up about how much better his new wife was compared to his old wife, during his speech. On and on and the qualities of Asian women vs white women.
I was at a wedding where one of the bridesmaids had gotten married a month earlier and thought it was a good idea to change out of her dress into her wedding dress for the reception. We, at the wedding party, told her to change back. She decided to stand at the head of the buffet line and tell each and every one of us as we came through the line how she felt. It goes on and on. Booze was involved so you can imagine how it was. She refused to change out of her wedding dress until one of the other bridesmaids locked her in the bathroom and told her to change or it was going to get physical. She changed and left not long after. The rest of the reception was a fantastic time.
The groom and his best man got completely trashed the night before the wedding, and the best man ended up beating the crap out of the groom. We are talking black eye, swollen cheekbones, steri-strips closing lacerations and quite a collection of colors from red to deep purple.
The wedding went on as scheduled as if nothing happened. The best man was at the groom’s side during the ceremony and then gave the toast at the reception. The only time the fight was mentioned was when I overheard the photographer telling the bride that she would be able to photoshop the groom’s face if the bride sent her some photos of what he normally looks like.
At the reception, the bride received a tip to go out to the parking lot where she found her new husband making out with his ex-gf. The ensuing fight came inside the hall and the party screeched to a halt. Both families were displeased and stuck him with ALOT of bills. We kept our gift.
In the Catholic church, the priest is late with the first wedding of the morning, two other couples are waiting their turn outside with families and friends gathering on two different ends of the church porch and eying each other. The first wedding comes out with their families and friends, rice gets tossed, etc.
It starts raining.
The late priest then gets a glorious idea. He has the two couples and their suite enters the church from the rain and then… surprise! Tells them they are all getting married together.
Right now.
Two couples who do not know each other at all, never met, not a single member of either party has ever come across anyone from the other gang but, hey! just get married together, people, that’ll save time.
So, both families and friends from the wedding I was attending, all get stuck together on the left side of the aisle, while both families and friends of the other couple sit on the right side, people glaring at the priest who does not give and proceeds.
The priest then tops it with a ridiculous mini-speech stuffed with horrible puns (I kid you not) about the church and a brothel (his lame pun was in French, all this happened in France: “l’église n’est pas une maison où l’on passe, l’église n’est pas une maison de passe”), asks in a round if Fiancee1 & Fiance1 plus Fiancee2 and Fiance2 want to get married, the four of them shyly utter “yes” and that’s it.
Some various mothers and aunts of brides and grooms tried to politely explain to the priest he had been rude, that you do not talk about brothels at the altar and that he sort of spoiled the weddings, but to no avail. He was very happy with himself because he was no later I suppose.
The sister of the bride I knew was about to get married herself soon. She was a catholic, her fiancé a protestant and they both attended this failure. This is how they decided that their own wedding would be at the protestant temple, not the catholic church because enough with this mad priest and his puns.
I was an attendant at my best friend’s wedding. Her father walked her down the aisle and while he was not visibly drunk, he had a hard time walking behind her to sit in the pew. He stepped on her dress ripping it from her back down to her a** (her thong was red). They had to stop the wedding so that she could find safety pins.
The sister of the bride who wasn’t invited showed up drunk and got in a fight with the bride until the father of the bride broke it up by putting the sister in a chokehold and dragging her out of the venue. The bride was surprisingly fine afterwards Source: I’m a wedding caterer
My cousin was the groom and had about 500 people in attendance. He got on the mic and said there’s no bride, so we had the party anyway. He married someone else 2 years later
There was this guy outside of the hotel walking up to groups of people in the smoking area, asking how much each person weighed. He was very overweight himself, and his jeans looked to be on inside out. He was severely underdressed for the occasion, and no one seemed to know him. Anyways, he would ask a person’s weight, and then exclaim “I can bench that!”. Until one guy (I think he was a family member of the bride) got into an argument with him and started asking around if anyone knew this person, figuring that he was a wedding crasher. That’s when this gentleman decided to cut a deal with everyone. “If I can pick up that bench with my bare hands, can I stay for the party?” To which everyone agrees, because the bench was clearly bolted to the ground. So, he walks over, puts his hands on the bench, crouches down, and with all of his might… s**ts his pants in front of everyone. He stood up and waddled off through the parking lot to never be seen again. I did hear throughout the night people talking about a guy who was on shrooms outside, trying to lift a bench. So, I guess he was also tripping balls.
There was like an 8-year-old boy who had loads of confetti in his hand so I didn’t think much of it, turns out he thought it was sugar paper and ate all of it, he then proceeded to projectile vomit everywhere through the middle of the ceremony. Was one of the funniest and most disgusting moments of my life
After arriving 45 minutes after the ceremony was to begin, during the ring exchange, the groom gets this blank look and says he didn’t know he was supposed to buy her another ring. SIL slipped off her wedding band and handed it off to the preacher.
One of my wife’s coworkers got married this past summer. Her father passed away from a fatal heart attack the morning of the wedding but her family insisted and convinced her to go in with it, so she did. It was awkward and nobody in the building made it through without crying, even the minister.
My mother-in-law handed out an EP of my now sister-in-law to as many guests as she could & threw a fit in the middle of the dance floor later that night because I didn’t let her daughter sing with the band or karaoke. Her exact words were, “How dare you make today all about you.”
Just prior to my sister’s wedding ceremony beginning, as everyone was getting in place and last-minute things were being done in this big old Catholic Church, my Father notice a woman with a confused look at the back of the Church and approached her, asking if she needed anything. She informed him she was the BRIDE, then opened a beat-up suitcase she had which contained something resembling a wedding-type dress. My Father, suspecting she had some mental health issues played along, suggesting that she may be in the wrong church. When that didn’t work, he slipped off and called the police. In the meantime, the lady walked up to my soon-to-be brother-in-law and said “You aren’t going to leave me this time.”
When the police pulled up to the Church, the lady spotted them and made a quick exit. Turns out she had a habit of pulling the stunt.
My brother-in-law still occasionally reminds my sister that he had a choice on their wedding day, but still chose her.
Not a bad thing that happened to me, just really awkward. Went to the wedding of someone from my church a few years back. When it came time to say the vows, he pulls out a sheet of paper and reads on for like 5 minutes, getting really intimate and pouring his heart out to her. It was kind of awkward tbh. But the icing on the cake was her response. When he was done, she just giggled loudly and awkwardly and got out “ditto!” That’s it. That was her wedding vow. So freaking awkward.
For the bouquet toss, a middle-aged guy forced his middle-aged girlfriend out onto the floor and then stood by her so she couldn’t leave. The bouquet was caught by an excited little girl. The guy proceeded to yank the bouquet out of the little girl’s hands, gave it to his middle-aged girlfriend, and then ran off the floor cheering loudly to high-five one of his buddies. The little girl ran away crying.
We were partying in Puerto Vallarta, and there was a beautiful wedding going on at the hotel next door. A friend of friend of mine was pretty drunk, then just sprinted for the wedding. He hopped the wall, blasted through the seating arrangements, then body slammed the like, 6-foot-tall wedding cake.
He spent the next two days in a Mexican jail, and will forever be a prick in my heart.
I was a waiter at a wedding where the bride’s grandmother (90’s) choked on something and no one noticed she didn’t talk and was choking in her seat not able to move.
She falls out of her chair and the groom being a doctor had to get the blockage out and then perform CPR. While this was all going on the bride’s father had a heart attack the room was completely silent my manager was working with the groom to take care of both.
Sadly, the grandmother didn’t make it and the father had some complications afterwards from what I heard from my manager.
A day that was supposed to be happy turned into a day no one wanted to remember.
My friend got married around the age of 21. Neither he nor the bride had much money, so the wedding was modest but still very nice. They did have a lovely 3 tier cake though.
The ceremony goes fine and “The bride will cut the cake” music is playing. She was a dainty, tiny little thing, maybe 5’2″ and 100 pounds soaking wet. If she swatted a fly it might not even notice. She approaches the cake with the knife, barely touches it and BOOM! the whole thing immediately collapses, all three tiers somehow, all over someone’s elderly grandmother who was seated right by the ill-fated cake.
That old lady, who had barely moved throughout the whole affair, shot out of her chair like she was fired from a cannon, screeching murder and sending cake shrapnel all over those nearby. Another close friend and I watched the whole thing from close range and were paralyzed and purple from hysterical breathless laughter, as were many of the other guests.
I later heard the bakery refunded them for the cake due to its not-up-to-code construction. They should have charged them double for generating memories that no one there will ever forget.
During the “Man of Honor” speech, the guy repeatedly said the name of the bride’s ex instead of her new husband. Three times. “When I first saw [Bride] and [Bride’s ex], I knew they were perfect for each other”. Stuff like that. And he caught himself, too, every time. He was insanely embarrassed… but he still did it three times throughout the speech.
It was so awkward watching it happen… probably the biggest social trainwreck I’ve ever seen.
I once worked at a wedding where one of the guests thought it would be perfectly reasonable to change her baby’s diaper on a table where other guests were eating. I offered to show her the restroom where we had a baby changing station or even an empty banquet room, but the disgusting said she was finished and had the audacity to shove the dirty diaper at me and tell me to throw it away for her.
The other guests looked both disgusted and mortified.
I worked at a wedding a few years back when I was a catering chef. The bride was not feeling well at all and her mother confided in me and so we were trying to help her mother convince her to take a few more photos (cake cutting, etc) before she went to change her dress.
We finished it all up and the bride went to change then ended up lying down a bit. We sort of chalked it up to her not eating enough and having a stressful day.
Well… apparently, she was newly pregnant and very nauseous. Somehow the DJ found out about this and took it upon himself to casually mention it to all of the wedding guests. Several times. The poor girl and her husband didn’t want anyone to know.
Groom’s family were solid, fun, ‘working class’ folks. Bride’s family were uppity middle class, and the bride’s mother was totally uptight. Bride’s mom insisted on having the reception at an expensive golf course and made the bar cash-only. Groom’s family decided to tailgate in the parking lot. Coolers, truck beds, lawn chairs, having a good time. The bride’s mom actually called the cops on the groom’s family during the reception. The rest of the night was tribal warfare. The bride and groom started kicking their own family members out of the reception for picking fights and being pricks. The bride eventually broke down in tears and hid in her hotel room. Bride’s mother would not let the husband into the room.
Their marriage lasted about a year before they divorced.
My alcoholic cousin showed up at his brother’s wedding, threatening to kill the whole bridal party because he wasn’t invited. He crashed his truck into the steps of the church and got a few sentences out before he passed out face-first in the aisle of the church. He hit the floor so hard and was so drunk that they thought he was dead. He ended up with a concussion and served 10 years in prison since driving into the church was his 3rd DUI offence. It really killed the mood that day but the bride and groom still went through with everything and tried to make the best of the day
I went to a wedding recently and the groom is from Mexico. His entire family was absent from the wedding because half of them suffered from the earthquake and the other half is nervous about traveling to America in general.
Halfway through the reception, the DJ turns on the Rocky theme song, gets on the mic and says something along the lines of, “We wanted to do something special for the happy couple because they are so special, so here you go…”. Simultaneously, a foldable wall was being lifted slowly into the air to reveal something.
The groom began weeping and people were clapping, all assuming it would be his family behind the divider to surprise him. It ended up being the desert table…that they paid for…that was planned anyway. It was pretty heartbreaking to watch.
Friends got married several years ago on September 14th. It was a Sunday night wedding/ceremony – music, dancing, the whole thing. People were there having a great time, even though most of us had to work the next day. We were just so happy for them.
Bride’s father gets up to make his speech, suddenly gets very serious, and says that while it’s a happy occasion, we can’t ever forget the fact “that we’re also marking the anniversary of a very awful day…”
awkward silence
the poor bride’s face falling
“…I’m of course talking about all the people that lost their lives on September 10th.”
Long, painful, silence. Nervous glances were quickly exchanged.
Someone finally called out, “11th!”
Undeterred, the bride’s dad then called for a moment of silence and we all bow our heads for a full minute. He might have gone on to say something else about his daughter or welcoming his new son-in-law to the family, but I certainly don’t remember it. 🙁
My cousin got married a couple of years back and I hadn’t met some of her family. After the actual ceremony, we started to socialize a bit with people and my stepdad was clearly upset over something going on at another table.
He walked off and the bride and groom came over to say hello. My cousin comes over and just sighs then points over to a table across the room.
“You see them over there? That’s my mom’s cousin. That’s her husband, their kids, annndddddddd their girlfriend.”
What.
It wasn’t until I looked over that I realized most people were avoiding their table because they were both all over this third party with their children in front of them visibly uncomfortable.
Now normally I don’t give care, but my cousin had made it pretty clear she didn’t want the GF attending her wedding since 1. She didn’t know her and 2. It was wildly inappropriate how they acted.
To top it all off and make matters worse I later learned they had recently lost their youngest child to SIDS and their other two children discovered her dead because both parents were hopped up on drugs.
I did catering when I was younger and we had a lot of weddings.
The worst was a wealthy Texan marrying a Muslim woman. The Texan family proceeded to get absolutely hammered. Building beer can pyramids on the table.
The Muslims didn’t drink at all.
Her whole family was nearly silent the entire time. Neither side mixed together at all. The uncomfortableness was palpable.
Then an old man comes up to me and asks if I have any towels. Thinking he spilled something I said I could get some paper towels and clean it up. He said he needed something bigger. Now I am worried about what spilled. Then he starts asking if I could get towels and if there was a room no one was in.
It took me a second to figure out what he wanted.
He and all the other men needed to pray. The Texan family had made no arrangements for this at all. I basically got rectangular table linens for them and we opened up a small event room down the hall where they all prayed.
Several of the Texans threw up and a couple didn’t make it to the bathroom. The Muslim family was just pissed off the whole reception.
A few months after my parents split up, during my eighteenth birthday party, my dad called everybody’s attention away from the meal we were finishing, removed a ring and inexplicably a rose from his jacket and proposed to his then-girlfriend. He tried to sound like it was such a spur-of-the-moment thing too like “I’m sorry but when I saw you today, I couldn’t wait any longer.”
Anyway, the wedding came and it was a hilarious trainwreck. He rented out this big theatre in the middle of town that’s used for putting on stage shows. He was sure to teach all the bridesmaids and groomsmen a bunch of weird meaningless gestures that he thought looked solemn and interesting. Set up these big gaudy set pieces, and then the best part:
After some introduction of the bride and stuff, Lady by Kenny Rogers came on blaring over the PA in the theatre. My dad was ready to make his grand entrance. Over the next five minutes or so he slowly and painstakingly trod down the theatre aisles, holding a broadsword with one hand above his head, like some kind of knight’s ritual.
The whole thing was a beautiful cringe-fest, and I would’ve got pictures and video if I wasn’t standing in the middle of the stage making dumb gestures my dad taught me. I’ll never forget it as long as I live.
Bride asked the groom not to shove cake in her face because her dress had been her mother’s and she didn’t want to get icing on it. He did anyway. Icing got all over the dress. She went into the bathroom and cried. All the women in his family went in there, except for one large aunt who acted like a bouncer and kept anyone from her side out. I was one of her bridesmaids and her best friend at the time and they wouldn’t let me go in and talk to her. She told me later that his mother and aunt and sister basically verbally abused her and shamed her for being upset.
She eventually wound up leaving him and is married to a woman now.
At my wedding… The night before, my best man/best friend gets in from Boston in time for the Rehearsal. We get to the dinner after the rehearsal and he’s complaining about feeling stiff and hot. We just shake it off from travel. He spends the night in the hotel suite with me that night and he’s basically having cold sweats. Basically, was up all night with him obviously not doing well at all… He assures me in the morning he’ll be ok.
We get to the ceremony and you can see he looks bloated but he’s saying he feels better. Halfway through the ceremony, we are kneeling at the altar (Catholic wedding) when he leans over to me and whispers “I don’t think I’m going to make it”… My eyes get wide and my wife leans in to ask what he said and I respond “I think we are about to lose him”. As soon as I finished that sentence he starts swaying and then just goes limp. I grabbed him under his arm to hold him up before he completely slinked down to the ground. Another groomsman jumps over and grabs his other arm and my sister takes over his left side from me… He regroups and comes back in time to give me the rings, rallies through the pictures like a champ and makes it to the reception. He starts fading as it comes time for speeches. HE stands up in time for his speech and…. NAILS IT. Best “Best Man Speech” I’ve ever seen. By the end of it, I had undergone on my head a stuffed doll his grandmother sewed for him as a child that he named after me. People are laughing hard; my wife is questioning her decision to marry me with all of this new info. Just fantastic. He sits down and takes in the laughs and just fades away. We ended up sending him to the ER right then.
Turns out he had Swine Flu and ended up in the hospital for 2 weeks (our whole honeymoon) as they tried to figure out what was wrong. Spinal Taps and multiple tests before settling on Swine Flu (which was just spreading at the time).
Both the craziest and best thing that happened at our wedding (aside from, you know, marrying my wife)
At the wedding dinner, one of the guests claimed she couldn’t sit in the main dining room as there was no ventilation as she was allergic to alcohol. She reckoned the gravy had it in and would cause fumes. It was a rainy day but she was stuck outside at a table with her partner. A few guests chose to join her so she wasn’t left out. The bride’s sister marched outside accusing her allergy to make up in her head and if the others didn’t get back inside then they can all go home. That pretty much set the mood for the evening and made those guests start crying and feeling unwanted at the wedding. To top it off as the bride and groom finished their first dance the DJ announced the father and daughter dance was next – the bride’s father passed away a few months before her wedding.
My grandfather re-married recently. The bride FORGOT the dress. So my grandfather had to take the 2-hour drive back to her house to pick it up and then bring it back so we can actually start the wedding. The whole time he was gone she wouldn’t quit crying and freaking out. It was an absolute nightmare.
A mega brawl broke out at my cousin’s wedding. It was in the main hall. I came outta the restroom and a royal rumble was taking place. One by one more added to the fight when their relative was being attacked.
The ruckus made its way to the cake table where several people crushed the table sending a hundred small plates of cake into the middle of the swarm. Then it became an ice rink when the cake smeared onto the floor. People were pissed trying to kill one another but were “doing the Frankenstein” dance slipping on the cake. Then the money gift basket table was crushed and the bride and groom’s money went everywhere. This caused everybody who wasn’t fighting to then starts fighting because people had the nerve to start stealing the money. I’d guess at least 50 people were fighting. All of the money was lost and somebody stole the rest of the cases of booze from behind the bar. Never seen anything like that in my life ha. Before you ask yes it was an Irish wedding.
it was my uncle’s wedding and the morning of the wedding my mother refused to get out of bed and was sneaking drinking since the am. So, she rocks up just drunk before the wedding starts. She interrupts the priest by standing and saying “let me marry them” then she sits back down. she falls asleep at one point with her head resting on the chair ahead of her. Then she wakes up and starts yelling at her sister (my aunt) that my aunt’s husband has always wanted her (he actually hates her) and how she has such a better life than her sister. This is all happening during the ceremony. After the ceremony, she interrupts the first dance insisting it is her turn to dance. Everyone was dumbfounded. when the first dance ends, she begins to pole dance from the tables and flail around. She then slaps my sister and screams at my grandma (her mom) that she was an abusive mom and that she is messed up from her mom being abusive. Now all my mom’s siblings are rolling their eyes cause my grandma has never once been abusive. My mom is just loving the attention she is getting. and then she passes out before dinner. And that’s my abusive alcohol-addicted mother for you.
VERY expensive wedding. No expense spared really. They had hundreds of guests. Rented an entire hotel in the middle of the city centre. During the course of the day, the groom kept getting up and leaving the room and would be gone for 20 minutes at a time. So, the bride’s 3 sisters, (one of whom was 8 months pregnant) decided to follow him. They followed him to a room in the hotel. They didn’t let him know that they saw him, went to fetch the bride, and her mother, and as a group/mob, they knocked on the door. When he opened it, they barged in and found a semi-naked woman in the room with him. He had paid for his mistress to stay in the hotel on the day of his wedding. The other woman got into the bride’s face and basically told her to go and f**k herself.
The bride, her sisters and her mother kicked the ever-living out of the mistress (husband fled). The pregnant sister’s dress was covered in blood, and she had one of the girl’s teeth embedded into the flesh between her knuckles. The wedding dress looked like Carrie’s prom dress. The mistress had a broken eye socket, and a broken nose and lost 9 teeth (or so I heard) she was in the hospital for weeks. It was in the national newspapers!
Friend’s wedding in Acapulco. Bunch of friends staying together in an apartment. On the trip came along another friend who wasn’t invited to the wedding, but just wanted to relax in the beach during the weekend. When the bride knew this other guy was in Acapulco, she invited him along to the wedding, so he wouldn’t stay alone during this time. At the wedding, and as alcohol was beginning to kick in, this guy who wasn’t originally invited thought it would be a good idea for everyone to jump into the pool that was right next to the reception. The thing is he started by pushing someone into the pool but miscalculated and the guy fell flat on the floor. Then, trying to make things less awkward, he rolled the guy who was lying on the floor till he reached the pool. The guy he threw into the pool was the bride’s father.
Going to write a small book here so please bare with me:
Unfortunately, it was my wedding. And my best friend of 20 years made it a night I would never forget. Started about 6 months prior to the big day when I asked her to be my maid of honor. Her first comment was, “well, what do you expect of me, you know I’m always really busy with work and my boyfriend from h*ll”. Told her she just needed to stand with me and help keep me calm. A few weeks later asked her about getting a dress. She stated she had no extra money to buy one, even though I had found one on eBay for $20 with shipping. Fine I told her, I’ll buy the dress, you just need to tell me what size you need. Radio silence for weeks. I came up with plan B and decided to just have my sister and daughter stand up with me. The big day arrives. Family and friends all show up early to set up the reception hall with decorations and make everything perfect for us. Call a best friend who lived an hour away to find out where she was at. She tells me she overslept and might be a little late for the wedding. Ohhh for fricks sake. Fine, the rest of us head out for getting our hair done and then arrive at the church and get dressed in our wedding attire. Just as we are about to walk out to start the walk down the aisle, my best friend comes running in. Drunk. With boyfriend from h*ll, also drunk. Thankfully sister and friends, send them to seats and away from me. The ceremony goes beautiful, one of the most amazing moments of my life, marrying the other half of my soul. Afterwards, during pictures outside, a drunk bf comes up and asks, how soon food will be served at the reception because they’re both starving. I tell her we are doing pics then all heading over. She decided it would take too long and since they were out of alcohol (drank it all on the drive down) they were going to get food and more vodka. Whatever you lord, you have really tested my enormous amount of patience already. Arrive at the reception hall, it was more beautiful than I could have imagined and was a dream come true to walk into a perfect winter wonderland with my husband. Everyone arrives, food is served, and happiness and joy are in abundance as I am surrounded by all my amazing people. But… not so fast… very drunk boyfriend from h*ll comes up to the head table b**ching how it is the fully stocked bar we have at events with Bar tender, is not an open bar and how awful we are for not providing for our guests. People come, make him go away, and happiness again.
If you have read this far, the best is yet to come. Stick with me for a little bit longer.
Dancing and smiling happen, time for speeches. The best friend who insisted on giving a speech is nowhere to be found. Another friend jumps in and saves the day. Best friend and boyfriend from h*ll are nowhere to be found. But wait, angry guests, are coming in from outside saying their boyfriend from h*ll is outside threatening all teenagers to give up their drugs to him because he is an undercover cop. Send big brothers out to deal with it. Please oh please just make them go away. Then the unthinkable happens. While I was caught up in my bliss, I see a sister and a group of friends run into the bathroom and run out with copious amounts of wet paper towels. WTF is going on? They say no don’t worry go back to your reception we got this. After much insisting they spill the beans. The boyfriend from h*ll locked best friend in the car because she had gotten too drunk, she had crapped all over herself, her clothes and the car. She was out in the parking lot raving like a lunatic. Dear Lord, please give me the strength to not murder on the night of my wedding. Many people attempt to make them go away. Boyfriend from h*ll walks off into the night. Finally, end of the night and time for me and the new hubby to drive off, our families gather around, including his family that flew across the country to be with us on this special day. Oh, but what do we walk out to….. my best friend, naked from the waist down, with only a large open jacket on, squatting down on the tire of the car next to ours. The local police department was having its annual Christmas party at the same location, and the owner of the vehicle walks out, yes, its a cop. My husband quickly grabs me and gets me into the car and we drive off. I want to cry. I want to scream. I want to find a shovel and dig a hole for two bodies. I wish that was the end of it but no. There is more, unfortunately. While admiring the concrete view from our hotel windows I see them. Oh no. Please no. He runs in to get a room. Comes out with a sheet. Gets her out of the car, wraps her up, and they proceed to fight. Scream, throw punches and she loses the sheet. Naked in the parking lot of our hotel. Staff comes out, and makes them leave. I am hoping against all hope, this is finally the end of it. A few minutes later my phone starts going crazy. Friends from all over town are looking for drunk best friends. She left her boyfriend from h*ll at a corner store and drove off into the night. A few minutes later, I get a call from my sister, who is watching our 2 small children. The drunk best friend is there. And smells too high h*ll. Gets her showered, in clean clothes and put to bed. Her phone is ringing now. The boyfriend from h*ll saying he is coming over to murder everyone in the house for not letting him come over, drunk best friend, instead of going to sleep, called him and told him where she was. Cops come. He gets arrested. She goes to sleep. 20 years of a normal, loving friendship down the..
I hope this doesn’t get lost! My wife and I were travelling to where we were due to get married and stayed over at a hotel on the way. It just happened there was a wedding taking place at the hotel, we were sitting outside on the balcony enjoying a drink and watching the wedding party across a small lake. The bride and groom were having various photos taken with different people and seemed to be having a great time until the photographer (I guess) suggested they sit on a fence by the lake. I can see this so clearly even now years later, the best man or part of the wedding party gave the bride a gentle push as a practical joke, and she went straight over backwards into this murky, algae-covered lake. The groom leapt in to save her and dragged her out. Everyone stood speechless and the groom literally sprinted after the best man who ran into the crowd and the bride ran off crying. This all happened at around 6 pm so the party had barely begun. I’d love to know how the rest of the evening played out.
I attended a wedding where birdseed was used instead of rice for the ceremonial ‘tossing’. The groom got pelted in the eye with the stuff and started yelling in pain “oh my eye! it burns!” — he quickly rushed away while everyone watched in shock. Shortly afterwards, those who participated in the ‘tossing’ started complaining of a burning sensation on their skin. Some people’s eyes were watering and a few kids started crying.
Turns out whoever bought the birdseed didn’t realize it was laced with cayenne pepper.
There was a wedding I went to in Niagara Falls in the late afternoon, and the reception was at a hotel that was almost an hour over the Canadian border, through customs. While we waited for the bride and groom, the only refreshments available were from an overpriced cash bar and a commensurately expensive hors d’oeuvres buffet.
Two hours and $30 later, which we had to spend to keep three young children from hitting a major blood sugar crash, the totally unapologetic newlyweds showed up. Once we learned that no dinner would be served, we paid our respects and got out of there. Our hungry children ate McDonald’s burgers at 9 pm.
The couple was pretty poor. I’ll just start with that.
When we arrived and checked into our hotel, we ended up being locked IN the room because someone had destroyed the doorknob from the inside. The phone to the front desk also didn’t work. We could only call room-to-room. Since we didn’t know where anyone else was staying yet, we just started dialing random rooms until we could get someone to help tell the hotel we were trapped.
Two of the bridesmaids couldn’t get off work because the whole wedding party worked at the same K-Mart, and they didn’t have anyone to fill the shift. Two guests filled in.
One of the groomsmen was arrested for cocaine possession, so the husband of a guest/bridesmaid filled in that spot in the wedding lineup. He even fit in the other guy’s rented tux!
They left their unity candle in the car. It melted, so the minister’s wife had to run to the nearest craft store to buy a new candle.
The groom really wanted a limo, so they spend their DJ money on a limo….which caught fire in the parking lot of the reception.
Because they spend the DJ money on the limo, they asked me to be DJ. At the time I was pretty much a metalhead, and all of their CDs were country or rap that had gotten trashed at a party the night before, so everything skipped or didn’t play at all. We basically alternated between Leanne Rhimes and the Dr Doolittle (Eddie Murphy version) soundtrack.
One of the out-of-town visiting guest’s dog was killed by a large snake in the water-filled trench that ran behind the bride’s parents’ house.
One of the couple’s friends printed out their wedding invitations at home, as their gift to the couple, on their color dot matrix printer. Sadly, they spelled the groom’s last name wrong, so every single thing that anyone gave them that was monogrammed had the wrong spelling.
Our family had given them $150 to spend on food so the guests could have something to eat. The only food/drink they provided was a few cases of 7up that they bought using the mother of the bride’s refrigerator rent money. They came back with 2 trays of pre-cooked chicken wings and a tray of baked beans, and then the bride took the rest and spent it on her new “beautiful acrylic nails”.
When the food was brought out, the whole groom’s side of the family bum-rushed the table. When they were done, nobody from the bride’s side of the family got any food…even though we were actually the side that paid for it and traveled something like 1,000+ miles to this wedding. We ended up going to Sizzler afterwards for dinner, getting terrible service, going to Long John Silver and getting gross food and ending the night at McDonald’s.
After a few months, the groom was arrested for drug trafficking, related to that possession-charged groomsman, and spent several years behind bars. In the meantime, the bride found out he had SEVEN children before they got married, which she never knew of. (Not that it really matters, but she had 4 children from 4 previous fathers (no kids together)).
As far as I know, all 4 kids were taken away for a time, she and her sister were both homeless for a bit, but they are all now living together with the kids, and I believe he’s out of prison, but they are not living together. No divorce, just…moved away and don’t live together or contact each other.
The bride and groom were cutting the cake. The bride takes a piece of cake and gently pushes it into the groom’s face. The groom takes the back of the bride’s head and slams into the whole wedding cake. The cake was ruined and the bride’s make-up, dress, and hair were ruined. It was an ice cream cake. 10/10
My sister had a photographer take pictures of her in her wedding dress prior to the wedding. It was a sexy album of pictures where throughout the photo shoot she had taken her dress off and was in risky sexy lingerie and eventually naked… It was a present for her husband and she put it on a flash stick as a present for him that she snuck to him during the wedding. He didn’t quite understand what the present was and why she kept winking at him and his stupid brain assumed it was just wedding photos so he stuck the flash stick into the laptop that was attached to a projection screen at the reception… my dad and brother were the first to notice. Preeeeetty awkward. My brother dove for the computer and ripped the flash stick out of the USB port though hoping that no one else noticed the naked pictures of our sister…
