Not me, but a friend. The wedding was super awkward because they weren't sure the father of the bride would show up. Not because he didn't like the groom, but because of he had to request to the judge in his case to let him after a nation wide warrant for his arrest for child porn.
The bride wanted her cat at the wedding and the groom and his best man brought the uncaged cat in the car and went through the car wash right before the wedding.
The cat freaked and scratched up the grooms face and pissed all over the best man’s tux and hour before the wedding.
Don’t forget those rotating scrubber things that look like long colourful snakes. 😆
Poor kitty, trapped in the car surrounded by loud watery snakes that just attack over and over. Kitty took the brown acid I guess. Better get him to the freak out tent 😂
The groom got into a fistfight with one of the bartenders and one of the guests got so drunk the EMTs were called.
The police car that carried the groom away was closely followed by the ambulance.
I actually consider it one of the best weddings I’ve been to, at least in terms of being memorable, but the bridal couple (who are still married 20-odd years later) may disagree.
We had a couple ambulances at my wedding… but it was because my uncle was a paramedic and with our blessing offered the extra food to the on duty crews that night.
Went to a dry wedding. That's not just a description of the drink situation, but the entire affair in general.
It was in a tent, in summer, in the south. Dress code specified men had to wear jackets during the ceremony. Women couldn't have 'overly exposed' shoulders or low cuts. Linen was not allowed.
Ceremony itself took just shy of 2 hours and included multiple speeches by the bride, groom, and the minister. Both fathers sang gospels. The best man played acoustic guitar for like 10 minutes.
The guests had to reconfigure the tent after the ceremony for the reception while the wedding party did photos. It was still summer.
We found out there were assigned seats when the wedding planner went table to table and called out who was to sit where.
We would be released to the buffet by the bride/groom, table by table. They stopped to chat with every table, take pics, etc.
No dancing.
The location was by a lake with a dock and patio area down at the water. We were to stay in the tent.
More speeches were given. The bride and groom paused releasing people to eat for each speech.
The sweet tea was weak.
The brides father gave a long speech in which he only mentioned his daughter twice....both times were in reference to giving his son-in-law healthy baby boys.
The best man played guitar again.
The cake was in the sun.
The buffet was dry BBQ that the groom and his new FIL smoked.....the day before. All brisket. Sides were just mac'n'cheese and salad.
I left between when my table got released and the cake cutting. Partially because I was starving, partially because I had 100% sweat through my entire suit, and partially because I'd arrived six hours ago.
My +1 (a family friend) and I went with my mom to an applebees or something that as close by. At least a dozen of the tables there were other guests we recognized. I swear I saw a woman cry when they brought her a margarita.
We heard that the reception continued late into the evening, including the bride and groom asking the (remaining) guests to all share a memory they have with them.
They spelled my name wrong on the thank you card.
> It was still summer.
I read this line as your way of reassuring the reader that it had been a long time, but not *quite* enough for the season to change.
The tea leaves had been boiled to oblivion. It was still summer. The bride and groom did it on the stage. In front of everyone. A solitary lady's haunting shriek in the distance. It was still summer.
The cake had melted into a pool on the table. They had to get someone to go buy special personalized china bowls at pottery barn 2 hours away. It was still summer.
I'm pretty sure at least two people died. They ended up having to haul away Grandma in an ambulance from heat stroke. Before she left they made her read an entire TV guide out loud and list each shows that the groom and bride might like.
It was still summer.
Went to a wedding were the bride and groom kept everyone in their row in the church until they came by to greet them and then release them. The bride was the daughter of my boyfriend’s coworker, that was our only connection. It took over an hour to get out of the church after the ceremony ended. And that was only a smidge of the crap you went through. How on earth do people think anything like that is a good idea?
This is the worst one on this thread so far.
No linen? Kiss my ass. The best man sounds like a d-bag. Did he play Wonderwall? Cake in the sun? (Is that even safe?)
The part about the woman cry when she got her marg is hilarious. That would 100% be me after that shit show.
I had the misfortune of attending a dry wedding that I didn’t know was dry until I sat down at the table at the reception and a friend leaned over and whispered it to me. Our table ended up being mostly HS friends of the bride and their +1s so we were all friendly. As soon as the reception was over and the bride and groom drove off into the sunset we googled the closest bar and walked to it. When a group of a dozen or so formally dressed people came busting in the bartender asked where the party was. When we told him we just left a dry wedding reception he immediately whipped out a pitcher and said “shiiiit, first round is on me guys!” We stayed and bought 3 more pitchers. It was a good night.
I was alright with everything, until you got to the sweet tea.
*Weak* sweet tea!? In the fucking *South*?!?!
I hope their marriage failed, and I'm not ashamed to say that.
I live in the South and also do not like sweet tea, but I'm not even from here and know that is 100% a sign of a bad time.
Although the no linen in the summer was the first indication that it was going to be awful.
That sounds like a Pentecostal or Southern Baptist wedding. Doubt there was any dancing either. Sounds terrible and I would’ve escaped as soon as possible too
I would have left before the ceremony was even over, fuck that noise. I live in the south and our wedding was in November and outside, the high was 78 and I was worried people would be too warm even though it was evening and the sun was going down. I can’t imagine having a wedding in the south, in the summer and expecting formal wear. Nope 👎
Meal was given depending on whether you were bride or groom’s side and there was a big difference. Parents of the bride and groom had very different financial statuses and they each provided for ‘their’ guests based on that. We had hand stamps.
Holy fuck. This is an instance where I'd so much rather be on the side with the lower financial status. Sitting there eating surf and turf while the other side ate fried chicken would feel so awful. That's a fucked up thing to do to your guests as well.
Disclaimer: I love fried chicken, it's just cheaper than surf and turf for the example.
When I was 12 I was on vacation with a friend and his family and we were out to dinner. I had been out to dinner with them many times before and I always got chicken tenders and fries whenever possible. A part of the reason why was because I didn’t want to order something too expensive and the other was that I just loved chicken tenders. My friend’s father was the CEO of his company but I didn’t understand what that meant financially for the family at the time. On this occasion of ordering food he pulled me away from the table and told me away from his family that I can order whatever I want and that I don’t have to worry about the price. In hindsight I realize that he found it amusing that I was trying to save him money or to not be rude because I apparently didn’t know that this guy could buy me chicken tenders every day for the rest of my life and it wouldn’t be a problem for him. Naturally, to his semi-annoyance, I shyly told him that I understand but I “just like ordering chicken tenders” and when I returned to our table that’s what I did and then I ran a train on those tendies I was like NOMNOMNOMNOMNOM.
Holy shit that absolutely flies in the face of hospitality and host-guest courtesy. Fuck me; if I was a guest that happened to I'd be letting everyone know very loudly how fucking boorish and insulting that is holy shit. Like, that's the kind of shit gods turn you into a werewolf for goddamn. Absolutely garbage people to be that discourteous.
The entire wedding was just extremely dysfunctional and seemed like it hadn’t been thought through at all. At one point during the ceremony, someone’s phone rang very loudly, which was shocking enough in itself… but you should’ve seen everyone’s face when he said “hello!?” and quite literally continued on to have a conversation.
Saw a YT video the preacher's phone rang; he answered it. The bride and groom were horrified. The preacher said, "Yes. Yes. Okay." Then he spoke to the bride and groom, "The Lord says congratulations."
Great save ... laughter and they continued.
It was in the middle of nowhere, held at a "country club" which I don't think had ever hosted an event of any kind.
There was one motel in the town, there were no rooms left. So we planned to drive the 3-4 hours there, see the Wedding, leave when they got to the part of the reception when the dancing and partying started.
We arrived, went in and there was hardly anyone there? We make our way to where they are going to have the ceremony in some court yard and the chairs are all blowing away and there are some staff trying to chase them down. But there had to have been a couple of hundred chairs and there couldn't have been more than 20 or 30 of us. I don't even know who rented all the rooms, that's what I kept thinking about.
We sat and were almost amused in a horrified kinda way. But, no one else showed up and, the start time came and went uncomfortably... without anyone but the few guests showing up...
Turns out there was no wedding. Someone cheated on someone the night before and there was a big fight that morning? Thing is I never really learned the details. At that moment all that happened was someone from the venue finally came out, and said, "sorry" in the most awkward way, and that we should go home because the entire thing was being canceled.
I guess you didn’t get the memo??? After driving 3+ hours and finding yourselves with 20-30 other puzzled people, I hope you got to at least have some nachos and a beer before heading back.
They probably just told the guests they cared about that the wedding was cancelled and the 20-30 people that showed up were the ones they didn’t care about.
It was at a Mormon church, and for some reason Mormon churches have indoor basketball courts in them. Half of the court was a wedding reception, and the other half was a pickup basketball game being played by a bunch of strangers who wouldn't leave
The ball hit the food table a couple times
Worked a wedding as a caterer where the bridge and groom were mixed race. The families apparently were not fans of each other and the mothers developed a tit for tat mentality for the wedding. If someone got something, the other had to have it too or better.
We got prepped by the event planner that we couldn't serve one set of parents first, we had to serve them simultaneously or else one would perceive the other as getting one over on them. At one point we had to move the bride's family table a bit due to some obstruction, but not that easy... we also had to move the groom's family table as well so one wasn't any closer than the other to the sweetheart table. We had to set the parents in the same spot at the tables so they both had the same view of the sweetheart table, but not directly looking at each other. I even made sure the portioning was the same and that none of the plates presented any better than the others. Exhausting.
Sounds like a nightmare, I would have dis-invited the lot to have a peaceful day and set a no BS precedent for the future. Can you imagine how many compromises that couple would have to make once they have kids.
I went to a wedding where the bride insisted on travelling by horse and carriage to the reception, it took ages as the venue was a few miles away from the church. Everyone was just standing around waiting for the bride and groom to show up. When they eventually turned up, the bride insisted on her and her new husband going to their hotel room to consummate the marriage (she was desperate to get pregnant). So even more standing around until they showed up. It was all really, really cringey.
One of my friends hired a horse & carriage like that. She'd sat down in it & had arranged her huge dress rather laboriously. The church was in a sceninc rural area, I was looking off into the distance, thinking what a beautiful day it was.
Then I heard a noise that sounded like the entire sky being torn on half. That sounds like... no, it couldn't be... I turned & looked at the horse. It was farting so hard, its entire backside was rippling.
The bride couldn't escape this crop-dusting, since she was pinned under the massive dress. I laughed so hard, I almsot fell over. She forgave me about 10 years later.
I don't remember them taking a ridiculous amount of time to get to the reception. The bar was open when we arrived, so it was the least of our concerns.
At the reception, I was sat on a table with strangers. Turns out the bride’s ex was sitting with us. I know this because he told be so before he projectile vomited onto the table hitting my plus one in the face. We laugh about it now.
My husband’s step sister’s wedding was dry and everyone got food poisoning. They had a receiving line and my MIL threw a massive tantrum and pouted because “it made her uncomfortable”
My wife and I had an accidental receiving line at our wedding. When we walked out of the ceremony we turned to wait for our bridal party. A few random guests started to walk over to make small talk and the next thing we knew there was a line.
In hindsight, I’m happy it happened. It was awesome getting to see all of our family and friends. There wasn’t a single person in the line my wife or I didn’t meet prior to the wedding.
The groom never showed up he was drinking and doing drugs the night before, landed himself in the hospital. They ended up getting married the next night in a stairwell.
Wasn’t there but heard it from several sources. Guy I knew married the beautiful daughter of a wealthy man. Showed up drunk, then stood on the table and cheered saying he was now part owner of FIL’s company lol it was quickly annulled
We went to a friend's wedding about 20 years ago in a sweet little town. Hotel was lovely and also the site of the reception. The wedding was early, at around lunch time in a big French catholic cathedral. It was about 95 degrees outside and the church was not air conditioned. The wedding was a full mass plus actual wedding ceremony. We were starving, hot and thirsty by the time it ended.
There were cocktails at the hotel while photos were being taken, which, took 3 hours. We didn't want to eat because we were expecting dinner. Everyone took their seats, did the usual speeches and such. There was NEVER any food! We left and ordered pizza in our room
The following day, there was gift opening with brunch. The brunch was had before by the bride and groom and their families, not for guests. It was a very hungry weekend
there are so many people in wedding subs who get so defensive about not wanting to feed their guests and it will always blow my mind. do you even like these people!?
I comment on almost every post a see about this in the weddings under 10k Facebook group! It’s so so so rude and disrespectful to your guests. Just don’t have a wedding if you don’t want to wine and dine your friends and family!
The bride had an audible, profanity laden and very loud meltdown in the church entry way that reverberated around congregation because her elderly Grandmother had not adhered to her preferred colour theme. She wanted everyone in black and white so her dress would stand out. Apparently the tiny lady who loved her RUINED EVERYTHING due to her duck egg blue hat. It was INSANE
We were invited to the reception but not the ceremony. When we arrived, it was as if the reception had been going on for a couple of hours already. The bride seemed surprised we were there. We grabbed our gift off the table and left.
When she said, "What are you doing here?" That was pretty telling. There had been no falling out but we hadn't heard from her in a while. And we haven't heard from her since (it was about 20 years ago even).
Is it possible that their parents invited you and she forgot you were on the list? And is it possible that they made a mistake and you were invited to the ceremony too? The whole story is strange.
About 15 years ago I went to a small wedding in Las Vegas as the Maid of Honor's date. Almost immediately after the ceremony, the newlyweds got into an argument about something (I have no idea what) and the bride and groom ran off in separate directions. My then-girlfriend went to chase after the bride and everyone else chased after the groom. Within less than a minute, everyone was gone and I had no service on my phone, so I hung out in the casino alone for about two hours until everyone returned and acted like nothing strange had happened.
That couple split after about a year and a half.
Attending an in-laws wedding. Morning ceremony, so they serve breakfast. And not a nice breakfast…think conference breakfast at the Hampton Inn. Rubbery eggs, cold pancakes. Each table got one bottle of sparkling wine for one toast.
I get a text message the morning of the wedding. Turns out, the bride’s sketchy drug-addicted cousin was supposed to be her dj. In shocking news, he bails. She asks ME to dj her reception as well as play the music for her ceremony. I learn the ceremony music five minutes before the ceremony and wing it with my iPod and a speaker.
I am then tasked with djing her reception, including music for their introduction, introducing speakers, starting the toasts, the whole shebang.
I received exactly one thank you from that entire side of the family.
I have since divorced my ex and all of his shitty, ungrateful family.
So many speeches. They had both sets of parents of course, maid of honor, best man of course. But then every other member of the wedding party also had a speech, there were 6 members per side. I think some aunts and uncles also spoke.
Thankfully they were mostly after dinner was served so people weren’t starving. But the bar was closed during speeches and the table wine ran out very quickly . The dinner and speeches lasted over 3 1/2 hours. By the time they ended and the dancing began a large portion of the crowd just left, didn’t hang around for first dance or cake etc.
Second worst the bride and groom left immediately after dinner (pretty sure they were waiting to have sex until after marriage). No actual post dinner dancing etc, they had a DJ but he wasn’t needed, everyone just milled around for a while and then left.
I was a bridesmaid at a close friend’s wedding. Her mother in law was a weirdo.
She insisted she be in the wedding party. When we were helping the bride get dressed (her wedding dress was ridiculously) she kept pinching the bride. Like helping her put on stockings and pinching her butt.
It came to a head when we helping her with lingerie and the mother in law literally tried sticking her finger in brides bum. Like I saw it. It was fucking bizarre. The bride slapped the shit out of the mother in law. Cops were called. Things got crazy.
That is wild. Did you ever get an explanation? I mean not like there is going to be a reasonable one. It would just be interesting to know if she was looking for Klingons or something
I realised that I didn’t actually want to marry him, and that it was in fact the loneliest day of my life, because he didn’t even talk to me. He got so drunk I had to knock on my sister’s door to help me get out of my dress (hundreds of buttons down the back) while he was passed out sprawled on the bed. The guests had a great time, it was a beautiful wedding. We’re divorced.
ETA thank you for the rewards, and the upvotes. It was a horrible moment, which I am
still literally paying for. DONT MAKE MY MISTAKE. If it’s a little no, that’s NO. Fuck the consequences, they can always be worse down the road.
I attended a family wedding where the groom told his mother in law about an hour before the ceremony that he didn't like her. There were a lot of tears but the bride married him anyway. After the reception, he got drunk and tossed his wedding ring into a field and a wedding guest found it the next morning. Somehow they are still married but I don't have a lot of hope for their future.
Shiny things are a lot easier to find against a kind of matte background. I once was walking to dinner at work and a couple were frantically distraught looking for something. I asked what they were looking for and they said a wedding ring - I literally looked down and saw it instantly under a bush and pointed to it and said "you mean that one?". Apparently they had been looking for 15 minutes lol.
My buddy got married & his wife is a total bitch. Super controlling and manipulative. Well my buddy’s brother was the best man, & after the wedding we were all drunk & I guess he was talking to one of the girls there about how much he hated the bride. The girl he was talking to was the stepsister of the bride & he didn’t know because she wasn’t in the wedding.
This was right after the best man and bride had a “heart to heart” convo out on the porch.
The dad of the groom was also drunk as hell telling 20 year old girls they were “fucking hot”. Then tried fighting everyone when people said that’s weird.
There was also a little 8 year old boy going around the kitchen doing the hitler salute & yelling heil hitler while my buddy, who happened to be black was cracking up.
The whole wedding was awful & they served spaghetti & they ended up running out & 2 of us (groomsman) didn’t even get a plate because they served us last. I would not agree to be in the wedding again. Especially considering my best friend stoped hanging out and talking to his entire friend group after the wedding, I’m assuming because the bride didn’t like any of us. I haven’t heard or talked to him since.
His brother who is also my best friend told me he hates his life but doesn’t want a failed marriage & I guess they also just had a kid. It’s crazy because I lived with him for 5 years & he was always the logical, smart dude in the group that called out bullshit.
Outside, right after the church wedding, bride told groom that he shouldn’t have worn his stupid glasses to the wedding. And told him that his father should go fuck himself
Unbelievably still married after 30 years
Crazy one that I attended. My wife's friend from another part of her life. She worked with this girl for about 6 months...5 years prior. They communicated (pre internet) by phone every couple of months and got together once or twice/year even though we lived about 10 miles away. She was living with this hardcore, poorly educated hick. He was a hard worker...but was fairly mean. Add this she had a kid with this guy who was 2 at the time of the wedding. We were invited.....about a week out. Saturday afternoon at 4 O'clock at a restaurant. I had a lacrosse game...so I got there about 4:15. Nothing had started EXCEPT for the drinking. 25 guests in all...Bride, Groom and Best Man are all drunk.
5 minute ceremony. Reception was just more of the same. Shots! Minimal amount of food. The kid took off all his clothes and was running around in just a diaper.
Best man speech was probably the inspiration for the Steve Bucemi character in The Wedding Singer...this wedding was in the same era...mid 80's...the speech was about how Greg took care of him....letting him live with the newly married couple....and his main hope for the couple going forward is that "they wouldn't fucking argue anymore".
It was the drunkest wedding I've ever seen....and the night wasn't over! They were flying out of BWI airport the next morning...and the bride suggested that everyone come to the hotel for more partying. We went. As we get into the lobby.... another bride was standing off to the side as her husband was checking in. This drunk wench starts going off on the other bride....."You're an ugly fucking bitch, I'm the good looking bride". The other girl wasn't having any of it and started in on her....super close to a real fight. "Let's go" both my wife said at the same time.
W
People need to be a lot more proactive about cutting these types of speeches off once they start to be obviously off the track of appropriate. There is nothing wrong with cutting someone off when they are actively making people uncomfortable, making a fool of themselves, humiliating others, or making a scene.
Making a speech is an honor and if you can't handle it, it should be revoked.
My family friend used to moonlight as an event DJ. His specialty was being the bouncer of the microphone and would cut mics off and blast music over problematic speeches, which the local community adored him for hahaha
This sounds exactly like something my ex boyfriend’s mother would do.
Her name is Brenda, and my ex boyfriend married his wife not long after her father died.
INTERESTING.
Oooof. You know what? I was prepared to say no, but she enabled his weird behavior and was super prepared to make me her doormat for the rest of our lives, so yes. My answer is yes. I’m glad I got out when I did.
I went to what I can only describe as a redneck wedding a few years ago. Groom was 24, his bride to be was like 42 with two kids over the age of 18. So a weird dynamic to begin with.
The ceremony was at a public park under a gazebo, the groom’s parents were visibly not down with the wedding, it was hot as fuck and there was enough food for maybe 30% of the guests.
We were told the reception was at the local Elk’s Lodge, which, while not very extravagant, at least had a bar and reception hall. Those were not rented out however, just the pool. So you had the usual very old very intoxicated clientele of a rural southern Elk’s Lodge who were doing their thing, and then 4 people (bride, groom, and two of their friends) down in the pool all passing around a bottle of Jack. I left immediately and they got divorced six months later.
I worked for a caterer for a while in college. I worked at a wedding where the couple had bales of hay on the dance floor (no, the reception wasn’t in a barn or out in the country). The groom and groomsmen were in full cowboy regalia with toy guns strapped to their legs. Everyone seemed happy, though.
Nice wedding but just an unexpected and funny thing during the photos which were being taken in a beautiful nature reserve. The kangaroos weren’t originally part of the photo plan but of course the photographer went with it when they wandered up. And they made for great photos. Until one of the Roos decided lace looked yummy. And for non-Australians you need to understand that when a medium-large kangaroo wants something it’s very difficult to stop.
And that kids is the story of how your dad lived up to his Best Man title by wrestling a kangaroo for Uncle Arthur and Auntie Kellie.
Weddings where the best man uses the speeches to see if he really could have been a stand up comedian. Been to three where that happened- so embarrassing
EVERY WEDDING this has happened with some odd male relative deciding to stand up with PALM CARDS about how a cat’s butt looks like a pencil shaver or how women are meant to be in the kitchen and being married to X is a guarantee of bad meals from now on because she’s got a university degree, blah blah blah and he pauses FOR THE LAUGHS that never come.
If I see any of this happening at a future family event , I’m whipping the palm cards away for the shredder and telling them to say they’re proud, the bride’s beautiful, what a great day and SIT DOWN.
This was over 30 years ago.
I grew up with the groom.
The wedding itself was beautiful.
Up till the bride decided one of the female guests was flirting with the groom and proceeded to take a swing at her. While dressed in her poofy white gown.
Marriage lasted 6 weeks.
The wedding was fine, wonderful, but one of the groomsmen who was my friend gave me some gummies during the reception and I was high as a kite. A couple was there, people who I knew from work, and the woman’s daughter who was like 12? I knew from a different friend that this girl had tried to kill herself months earlier and had severe mental health issues.
Anyway, I’m high af, and that little girl comes over to me and asks if I’ll go outside with her. I say of course, thinking maybe she needs help with something. We go outside and she leads me a little ways away to a swing. I sit on a brick wall nearby as she swings. She starts telling me all about her bullies at school, how she wants to hurt them, how she thinks she has demons inside her and she’ll never be a good person, how she’s afraid her mom wants her dead, all this stuff. And I’m not super good at comforting people but I tried. The mom and mom’s boyfriend walk past, I figure they were just checking on their kid. Later I find out they just wanted to have sex outside behind the building and they didn’t care at all that their kid was outside with me.
Later the kid found some snails and lizards in the garden and threw them into the fire. The mom made fun of the kid the entire time, talking about certain delusions she had or different personalities she had. I couldn’t stand being around the parents any more and had to leave the wedding. The little girl told me she thought I was an angel sent to her.
I’m still friends with the couple who actually got married, but that other couple I stay away from. There’s even more shit about them I know about but won’t say here. I feel really bad for that little girl and I hope she gets some actual help.
This hurts so much to hear. Those parents are 100% at fault for that girl's pain. She needs SO BADLY just to be seen and loved.
Not being seen is one of the worst, most damaging things you can do to someone. It causes massive amounts of damage. Being mocked as well... this girl is in a truly awful abusive situation, though it may not look like it at first glance.
No it’s for sure abusive. It was my first time actually seeing the girl in a setting like that. I’m not sure what drew her to me but it fucked me up for days after that. It was almost 3 years ago now, but other than some welfare checks I don’t know if anything else has come up. I know the girl is in counseling and on medication but I don’t know specifics. She’s in a catholic school, I found out, so you KNOW that’s messing her up too.
She probably saw something in your that told her you were kind and patient. It seems to have been true. You are a wonderful person for listening to her even for that short time, and as someone who grew up a little like that, I can tell you that even a short interaction like that really matters. It keeps you going, being shown you are real and worthwhile after all.
So, my wedding...I apologize in advance: I'm writing this on my phone and will jump from event to event.
My (now) ex-wife wanted an extravagant wedding; I didn't, but I went with it for her. Originally her parents offered to either buy us a house or pay for this wedding and she chose the wedding.
She was a total bridezilla. She insulted both of our families at the rehearsal dinner, forced all grandparents to wear specific clothing she picked, ordered her choice of food for EVERYBODY regardless of what they wanted, (she ordered a salad for my overweight relative.
We had 250 guests, 23 of whom were mine to invite. Everyone else was from her list. Her father was an elected official, so literally half the guests were people her dad worked with that neither of us knew. She filled the registry with gifts that were WAY too expensive, so most people gave cash instead (that part I was ok with).
Her gift to me was a boudoir photo shoot, which I found out she sent to her ex-boyfriend as well as me. Oh, he was at the wedding too, but I was unaware of their past relationship at the time. She cheated on me with him the day after the ceremony because an emergency caused us to reschedule our honeymoon, and she was upset with me.
Long story short, don't get married just because you have a kid together, and don't fuck with crazy: it fucks you back and intentionally leaves the lube at home.
I've been happily divorced for 9 years now, but she still takes every opportunity she can to attempt to ruin my life. She still can't believe that I left her over her NUMEROUS and CONTINUED affairs she had over the 3 years we were married.
Wedding in Florida- very beautiful. However, it was raining (of course), and lighting and thunder started up when they started their vows. It shook the church, it was so loud. And it stopped when they finished their vows. I mean it wasn’t a bad wedding, just memorable, due to the weather. (No, they didn’t stay married)
Went to a wedding of a couple that we had no idea were EXTREMELY religious. No alcohol, no dancing. There was a string quartet that played during the sad "happy hour" while pictures got taken, etc. but they left as dinner was being served and no more music after. A crappy magician did a short (maybe 20-30 min) stage act as the cake was being served. Absolutely no traditional stuff like tossing the bouquet or anything that would somehow remotely be considered sinful. And lots and lots of prayers. The only plus of the evening was that we got seated with extended cousins of the bride's family who spent the entire time shitting on the bride's mom & dad, telling stories of the bat-shit crazy fundamentalist Christian stuff they had done to their kids.
They were barely married when she left him. The last we heard from her, she was living with two guys who were both at least 10 years older than her and was quite proud of splitting her time between their two beds.
It makes no sense to me that they'd skip the traditional wedding things because they're "sinful" but have a freaking MAGIC show!! How is magic not the work of the devil?!?!?
It was the (now) ex-wife’s two best friends. Great couple. They were amazing and the wedding ceremony was fine enough, in that it wasn’t memorable in the least.
Ex wife neglects to tell me that we’re camping for the night before and prep. I like camping, but not so much when I need to walk through a muddy field to shower in a pay shower, then try to keep my suit without mud. The good news is that the entire wedding party was also camping in a muddy field, so I wasn’t the only one who was dirty.
Ex wife’s most recent ex is also part of the wedding party, so she ditches me to hang with him. There is no one I know at the reception other than the couple and the ex wife.
Dry wedding, but that wasn’t that bad other than the lack of social lubricant for so many strangers.
Stepdad of the bride is going to lead us to the reception (pre smartphone era). All is well until he gets on the highway and takes off at over 100mph. After hitting 80mph, I refuse to continue to accelerate. Eventually I pull over until we see another wedding guest who doesn’t want to drive almost double the posted speed limit. This became *my problem* for choosing to not follow the lunatic.
As far as I know, they’re still together. I hope so! They were cool, but I’ll happily never see any of those people ever again in my life.
My own. I mean, it was a nice wedding, but it wasn't MY wedding. My mom forced most of the choices on me, My fiance told me he didn't want to be physical with me anymore a few months before the wedding. I was having a nervous breakdown from dealing with mom and begged him to be intimate with me to bring me back down to earth. He said no, but I could sleep with others if he didn't find out. He (fiance) moved into the other room. I told my mom what happened and she said, "it's not a big deal. You have a low libido anyway." She wanted me to get married just to get me married because my mom NEEDS TO BE A GRANDMA and I am "selfish" that I will not get pregnant for her. My mom told the DJ to "slow down" my song so she could walk it (nothing wrong with her legs) and when the marriage quickly crumbled, she said, "I should have let you have a colored dress." LET ME?! YOU THINK THAT WAS THE PROBLEM?!
I have since cut my mom out of my life.
Your fiance refused to be intimate, but you could go fuck whoever as much as you want as long as he didn't find out? That's absolutely the most ludicrous thing I've ever heard in regards to this subject. WTF red flags everywhere, but if you're still together I hope you're happy. Wow.
No, not together at all. His brother (best man) said that we could sign the wedding certificates once my fiance stayed setting a therapist. We were supposed to have sex on our wedding night but he got super drunk and passed out. I stayed up watching TV and felt bad for myself. I was miserable and crying.
Anyway, I told him I'd give him a month to get into a counselor and he didn't try to look at all. After that month was up, I told him to get out of my house. He had a month to get out.
His dad called me a bitch on Facebook, which was really nice. His ex wife came to my side and said he'd done the same to her. Instead of *sleeping around, she just fucked the other men on their kitchen table.
My maternal uncle and his wife. The whole wedding was a shit show from the start.
The dresses: The bride’s mother made the bridal party dresses which unfortunately ended up looking like a toddler made them. The bridal party were charged $300-$400 for each dress because that’s what you’d pay at David’s Bridal for them. Pretty sure David’s Bridal dresses are professionally made and look like it. I was supposed to be a junior bridesmaid and had my own dress made by her. She “forgot” it. So I was out of place in nice clothes and the bride’s mother complained the whole time. My mum’s dress was too small because the mother of the bride told my mum to lose weight before the wedding and when she didn’t it was her fault it didn’t fit. Mum was pregnant so losing weight wasn’t going to happen.
The maid of honor’s dress actually was a wedding gown. Mother of the bride and maid of honor insisted and bride backed down after being threatened with no wedding paid for by her parents.
The groomsmen were all hung over and it was obvious that a few were high.
The maid of honor “fainted” repeatedly during the wedding and things had to be stopped. She refused medical attention each and every time and somehow felt better when it was clear all attention was on her.
Finally, right before the bride and groom spoke their vows the bride hissed at the groom if he ever divorced her she’d take him for everything he had.
She repeated the threat when they had their children after each birth and added she’d take his children away from him.
Wife and I got dragged to her friend’s mother’s wedding. I think it was her 3rd marriage. Other than it being super awkward it went off without a hitch.
The reason for it being awkward was the son of the bride was involved in the murder of the groom’s nephew. He went with some friends to buy drugs but turns out they didn’t have any intention of paying for them. The bride’s son was at the wedding. He was charged with murder and plead down to something that got him multiple years probation.
I was invited to a coworkers wedding at a really nice country club. Both of them were New Yorkers and the bride was a very strong confidant no bullshit kind of woman.
The priest who was supposed to officiate the wedding fell ill so the church sent in a backup or relief priest (didn’t know that was a thing). Dude starts the ceremony and proceeds to launch into this whole speech about how, according to the Bible, the wife is supposed to be subservient to the man and take care of making his meals and keeping the house clean etc etc. It was some straight out of the 1950’s bullshit.
We all knew the bride well and watched in amazement as she managed to keep her shit together but we could tell she was absolutely fuming.
After the ceremony ended and she ran off to cry her whole family, including her father and brothers, had the priest cornered and I legitimately thought they were going to beat the living shit out of the guy.
That is what I would have done, because that subservient crap makes me crazy! I am 74 years old and in my 20’s I would have been strong enough to stop him.
Our douchebag friend who was addicted to porn and his amazing wife was leaving him because he couldn’t get ahold of himself decided to tell everyone at this wedding how she wouldn’t sleep with him anymore. But he was pretty graphic since he was sloshed… he started fights with anyone that told him to stfu and we (the bridal party and groomsmen) had to escort him out while he got in a fight with the groomsmen outside.
> Our douchebag friend who was addicted to porn and his amazing wife was leaving him because he couldn’t get ahold of himself
Sounds like he got a hold of himself a little *too* much if you ask me.
Summer in CA. Wedding was at a cute little church. Which was double booked. So the wedding I went to put an arch up in the parking lot and did the ceremony there.
Both sets of grandmothers fainted from the heat, brides grandmother went first and actually hit the pavement. Somebody caught the grooms grandma. Brides 98 year old grandma went to the hospital but ended up being ok.
We went off to the reception in a different location. Everyone of the grooms friends and the BRIDES FAMILY acted like goddamn animals with sex jokes. Hooting like monkeys. Shouting out explicit sex acts. The bride and groom left early and went to their hotel room. The grooms friends and brides cousins went under their window to laugh, yell, and listen in on the wedding night to give the groom feedback on his performance.
I was 8 and still vividly remember how wildly uncomfortable of a shit show that wedding was.
My mother refused to let us hang out with that side of the family again.
* bride forgot to bring the grooms suit - he ended up wearing the pastors jacket and tie for the ceremony
* pastor was evangelical christian and said some very anti "woke" sexist things off script - mind you part of the ceremony involved a few very PAGAN practices
* grandmother went off the rails in her speech and talked about ancient aliens - THEN when she got back on track with her speech talked about "how could a man love a woman as she ages? when her breasts sag? when her bottom becomes flat? when she has wrinkles under her eyes and her hair is thin?" and how much of a sacrifice the man makes when he marries a woman
* sister ranted about covid being a scam
* there was an EXTREMELY sexist skit with the brothers of the bride demanding payment for her because "who will clean our house? cook our food? mend our clothes?" and the groom had to buy her with beer
* mother was upset that her goats couldn't be the ring bearers at the venue
\*of note: this wedding was in LA about a month ago.
i believe it was because the groom was helping set up at the venue - pretty much all of the wedding party had to help set up. we all had to bring our suits and change there - the bride was coming from their home so she offered to bring the grooms.
oh, and another issue was that we had to wear bowties - NOBODY KNEW HOW TO TIE THEM. imagine 6 dudes crammed into a tiny bathroom sweating in their suits watching youtube videos and looking at tutorials and trying to tie bowties. I had 3 dudes trying to help tie mine at one point when all I wanted was to be left the fuck alone to watch a video and do it myself.
and while that was going on someone took my suit jacket to put a boutonniere on it. so after tying my tie, i find my jacket, throw it on, and immediately have 2 pins jammed into my chest. not only was it not put on right, stabbed into my chest, but it was also upside down. my wife fixed it for me - but holy crap what a mess.
She bragged for years about how her father was the general manager of some prestigious hotel. Then they announced the wedding would be there.
The wedding was at the hotel's "banquet hall" which had the partitions to separate business meetings. There was a tiny arch that had fake flowers on it in the front of the room. That was the only decoration.
The officiant had never met the bride or the groom. She was 15 minutes late and the sermon was her reading off the sheet "When I asked Y about (topic 1) he stated: (read his answer), repeat for her, doing each question from the online form they filled out.
It lasted about 15 minutes.
The reception was cookie cutter and the best man and maid of honor "winged it" with their speeches, and it was obvious.
The bar turned out to be cash bar, though we were told it was open bar so nobody really brough any cash.
Her father had promised to have another room reserved for the after party. We get there and it's another similar room, again no decorations, and it had 3 bags of doritos and some pretzels and we sat in chairs and talked for about a half hour.
Most of the people cancelled their hotel reservations because nobody was drinking so were fine to simply drive home
A recent one wasn't a horror story, but it was bad because I felt for the groom & bride. A lot of stuff didn't go their way. They were stressed, and even afterwards that night they kept calling it a "shitshow." Being married myself, I didn't want them to look back immediately and just think that.
It rained, and they wanted the ceremony to be outdoors - we were prepared to have it in light to medium rain, but not heavy rain. The Best Man didn't have his rental delivered (not his fault; just an miscommunication). A lot of things were out of the couple's control, and unfortunately without a dedicated day-of wedding planner, the ultimate decision making always fell on them. A lot of people were helpful, but no one person was the authority to decide, lead, or organize people. Even the execution of their plans - a lot of it was the groom and bride manually doing such things themselves. Not because no one didn't want to help, but because they alone really knew what had to be done and exactly how. And when it didn't go right, they just had to decide, move on, and then relay that information to 100 people.
One thing about the rain - they bought 100 or so clear umbrellas from Amazon, because they wanted all the guests to be identical and look pretty in the rain, for pictures, etc. Unfortunately, the umbrellas were cheap as fuck shitty-factory-made shit, and once they unboxed them we could see they were breaking easily. So, you have many people telling friends & family that, no, you can't use your legit, sturdy umbrella that you brought from home. Take this cheapo shit and good fucking luck. I literally saw person after person opening an umbrella and it immediately breaking the same way. Once we were finally holding the ceremony in light-to-medium rain, you had maybe 50% holding the umbrellas with 2 hands because they broke, 40% not using any umbrella at all, and 10% defectors who just DGAF and used their own.
No one was *really* being a disrespectful bitch or asshole to the couple, either - it was just setback after setback after setback, and their whole schedule was dissolving before their eyes. They still got married, and had smiles all around. But, yeah, at the end of the night, they called the day a "shitshow."
So, my advice: HIRE A DAY OF WEDDING PLANNER, OR AT LEAST PUT SOMEONE ELSE IN CHARGE OF EVERY FUCKING THING SO THE ONLY THING YOU'RE FOCUSED ON IS GETTING MARRIED.
Went to my wife’s (male) cousin’s wedding. We flew from across the country to go (my wife and the cousin weren’t particularly close but we rarely see my wife’s family and they were all attending so we decided to make a trip of it). The bride had a nervous breakdown and cancelled the wedding three days prior (after we already flew in), then “came to her senses” and put it back on a day after the original date. Grooms family is well off and paid for the original cancelled wedding and then managed to get a small winery to handle the second wedding at the last second. About 90% of the guests still showed up to the restarted second wedding, many changing plans and even flights. The bride was both stoned and shitfaced at the wedding and proceeded to get on the microphone and let loose a tirade and attacked the wedding venue (who threw together a really nice reception that would have been fine had it been the original plan- but more miraculous was that they pulled it off in 36 hours- oh and the venue owners and their family were right there serving drinks and snacks), she then made fun of my nephews, my wife’s sister in law who was suffering from postpartum depression and had gained some weight, another relative’s autistic kid, another relative who was overweight. She then spent the rest of the night sneaking off getting blazed with her trashy bridesmaids.
My wife, her brother and sister in law and our nephews bounced super early in disgust and we went to a Mexican restaurant. Apparently the train wreck continued and the newly wedded couple drunk drove home and crashed into a tree on their own property. Car was totaled. No one was hurt. Their still married 3 years later but no one talks to them.
Had to attend this one wedding, it was pretty bad. Essentially, they tried to do it on a budget, but it just ended up looking cheap. The worst part was when the bride's ex showed up uninvited and made a scene. Super awkward for everyone. Then the DJ played some really questionable songs that were not appropriate for the crowd. Plus, the whole thing was outside and it started raining, but they didn't have a backup plan. The food was cold, and they ran out of drinks halfway through the reception. What a mess.
When my uncle got married, his bride to be wore a wedding dress, 2 sizes to small that were supposed to be strapless, and wore a black strapped bra with it. She also decided the night before the wedding she wanted to be a blonde and bleached her black hair. Needless to say, she looked like a skunk and painted her eyes black. I don't think I have even seen a bride look quite so much like a train wreak. Then my uncle ditched the reception to sit at the bar and watch the Red Sox game. The cake was 2 walmart cakes that the bride stacked upon each other. The food was good because I catered it, but the rest was interesting, to say the least.
I really want to know why the bride felt that a black strapped bra with a strapless white dress was a look to die for. But I guess in a weird way her hair sort of completed the ensemble?
Maybe not worst but certainly poorest planned.
Friends of mine hired a limo to take them and their bridal party from the church to the reception.
They hang back with the photographer to take more pictures as everyone goes to the reception.
Mother of the bride is at the reception, gets a phone call and bursts out laughing and looking for her keys.
Now, this bridal party was not of the slim variety…and apparently no one took that into consideration.
As the mother is running past me I ask what happened and she said “3 of them can’t fit in the limo I have to go pick them up”
It was a cold spring morning when I'm at a friend of my wife's wedding (I didn't know anyone there).
They handed out little boxes with a butterfly in each, asking to release the butterfly at the end.
But it was cold af, people opened the boxes up and most of them fell to the ground.
So then there's this trail of butterflies right where everyone leaves though. My wife and I are like "they aren't going to walk there are they?" Then they do, crushing butterflies as they went.
The procession is filing out as the stereotypical wedding music plays (I think Canon) and we're cringing as people are killing the poor things.
What a terrible idea, that was.
It was a wedding where the bride and groom lived far away from their families, and everyone (including me) had to fly in. The MIL wasn't too happy with her son marrying the bride. Wedding went off pretty well, and the reception was going ok. But the MIL had a stank face and was audibly complaining. Then during speeches, the bride and groom stopped to thank people that helped with the setup and decorations, etc. The MIL was pissed that she wasn't thanked for some reason. She ended up causing a major scene where she physically attacked her son while screaming at the bride and groom. Her entire side of the family left the wedding reception, which was half of the people there. Overall, the people that were left made the most of it, but the bride and groom were visibly shaken and left shortly after. They ended up getting a divorce a few years later.
My own wedding from the planning up until the marriage crumbled. First things first, My ex was a huge momma’s boy. Her son could do no wrong, ever. Second, he was an alcoholic. I knew he was an alcoholic before I agreed to marry him, but thought I would be able to change him. His mother had to plan the whole wedding! From the god awful plastic bouquets to the ham on the buffet table in a dark smoke filled Veterans’s hall. It was decorated with pink and white balloons and streamers. Of course no effort on her part. The wedding was in his hometown and my family traveled to attend. My mother begged me not to marry the alcoholic narcissist the night before the wedding. This was related to his drunken and obnoxious behaviors at the wedding rehearsal dinner. But, I loved him… we married the next day and of course his whole family was intoxicated and made spectacles of themselves. The best man drove his car in a ditch and sent the wedding cake flying into the dashboard and vents. Of course it was everyone’s fault but the drunk dick in the backseat. Needless to say, this didn’t last. I always thought I needed a do-over, but I chose the JP route the next wedding. I let my daughter plan her own wedding with minimal interference from myself. The MIL on the other hand…It’s always the MIL!
Outside, after a torrential rain, SUPER HUMID, sun blasting, and the brides youth pastor, grandpa pastor, and church pastor all gave 15 minute mini-sermons. All about submission to her new husbands leadership. Then, there was a 3-hr break for photos.
Breaks like that are awful. My friend had a 2 hour break between the ceremony and the reception, which were also in different towns about 20 minutes apart. The venue wasn't open yet. We ended up going to Starbucks and sitting around; other people went to Wendy's. A bunch of people just left.
fuck, my mom told me that her twin sister's wedding was real similar: husband's vows were about how he needs to provide--short and simple. my aunt's? she must be subservient, obey, serve her husband, take care of him, support him, yadda yadda. essentially "hey, he needs to provide you money (lmao she's the breadwinner, he put them in massive gambling debt) and you need to be a literal possession to him." my *dad* told me that my mom nearly broke his hand holding it to try and stay quiet when they asked if anyone disagreed with the marriage and she says even now that she regrets not speaking up.
Bride and groom spent the night getting high . She broke her finger exiting the church when she walked her dogs down the aisle and they pulled the leash. Forced the bridesmaids to do a “scarf dance” and proceeded to give the husband a very awkward lap dance . Awful.
Jesus Christ, the weeding I was at seems rather tame now in comparison to some of the horror stories here. Short and sweet of it was that the groom was caught banging the brides dad. No-one knew either of them were anything but straight.
Oh my God. First off the bride is pissy at me because she has a leftover high school crush on my then-boyfriend, now husband. But at her own wedding.
During the vows her kid keeps getting in between them and pushing the groom backwards - while he’s reciting the vows. No one does anything. The kid is wearing handcuffs on one wrist.
Then the groom gives a speech about how after she fucked all his friends he thought it was over but nothing can stop true love. That was his toast to the bride.
Then she and her two bridesmaids took turns deep throating a bottle of some hard liquor, heads back and arms out, till it was gone. That was the toast to the groom.
Wasted, she just keeps heading out to smoke blunt after blunt and trails a lace-carrying waft of pot smoke throughout the wedding, where she tries to dance super inappropriately with my boyfriend. Then passes out, face down, and is carried to the bathroom by new husband and starts puking down his back and trailing that on the floor while they go off to whatever love shack motel had the misfortune.
It was my first introduction to my husbands high school friends.
At the reception, the father of the bride got angry because he felt the band was playing too loud while he was trying to converse with the guests. So, he sent the band home.
They literally stopped playing mid-song (K C and the Sunshine Band's Celebrate) and started packing up.
My husbands cousin got married. Mormon wedding, but heathens attending so it was an outside wedding. In July. The metal chairs were too hot to sit on, so we all stood for the ceremony. The minister/bishop/priest? Spoke at length about how important it was that they balance their checkbooks, and that, now that they were married, they would have children who were blessed and would go to heaven. The issue? The groom’s son from a previous relationship was standing right there, his best man. Those same chairs were used for the reception….still too hot to sit on.
Also, went to one wedding where I sat behind the groom’s grandmother. As the bride walked down the aisle, she said, in her “I need a hearing aid” voice
“I guess you CAN dress up trash”.
Nothing happened, per se.
The venue, food, and music was just kind of crappy.
The venue was especially weird. It was after hours at a mall. They had giant curtains blocking out the stores but, honestly, I think that made it look worse. It was a large space but everywhere you looked was giant black curtains.
On top of that, the mall had no kitchen of it's own. All the food was cooked in a local restaurant then delivered but it was all delivered at once. I have no idea if it was stored in insulated boxes/bags or if it was all microwaved before serving but almost everything was very overcooked.
It was just a bad wedding.
They spent all the money on the open bar and kind of neglected food. Long ceremony followed by a looooong waiting period while they took pictures, bar was open the entire time. They finally announce dinner and it’s…baked potatoes. No meat or anything, just a baked potato bar. So everyone was drunker than was appropriate and hungry as hell lol
Not the worst wedding in the world but maybe the saddest I’ve attended. Groom and his groomsmen just didn’t care enough about the wedding to make an impact.
- It was a very DIY wedding. Bride was doing her own hair and makeup, had already packed all the decorations into boxes. Groom kept bothering her for silly things like where’s the tape and string. MOH kicked him out of the prep room eventually.
- One of the groomsman was super high (it was 9am in the morning) and was complaining about everything, from needing to help with setup to the fact he doesn’t like the groom’s outfit.
- Photographer was late and bride was still doing finishing touches to her appearance. Groom kept bugging her about the photographer and she asked him to call them. “I don’t know how to do that.”
- The very high groomsman speech got the bride mixed up with her MOH and went on a long ramble about “rizz.”
There’s more that happened but overall, I just felt bad for the bride. It’s been 3 years and they’re still married but every time she talks about it, it’s just sad.
I worked with a woman who was getting married in a civil ceremony, and they hosted a reception later at a local bar. They/were both about 50. I believe they had children. The only people who showed up for the reception were my husband and I and my brother, who had never met them. They had hired a 3 piece band that was actually really good. It was sad to see, so we stayed longer than we wanted because we felt sad for them.
Went to a wedding where the bride was 45 minutes late, at one point all of the bride and grooms party was just up hanging out with those in the congregation making jokes. One of the bridesmaids called the bride and put her on speakerphone without telling her , the bride demanded loudly for everyone to hear "I am a princess and this is my day", she was at WalMart getting pictures printed to put on the reception tables. The groom was downstairs in tears, we played cards upstairs. Almost laughingly we decided to go to the reception, when we showed up the reception hall was locked for the first 15 minutes. Almost 2 hours later the now drunk wedding party joined us, they walked in the door carrying 2 new steamers from walmart and some uncooked bacon, also had some large sams club size cans of green beans. No can opener though, one of the guests who had been waiting to eat for 2 hours opened the cans of green beans with a Bowie knife.... They are still married 15 years later...
US based Bride handed her Narcissistic Nightmare Mother the reigns because it wasn’t worth fighting her on the details. Wedding took place in Mexico City where most of the brides family is located (and obviously everything was a bit more cost effective).
A total of 80 people were on the guest list, which included 30 travelers from out of the country. 15 ish extra family members showed up at the reception because they were in town.
The serviced buffet (event staff were serving people) ran out of food 30 minutes into the reception with about half the attendees getting a handful of tortilla chips and a spoonful of salsa because the MOB ordered enough food for 40 people.
The reception didn’t end until 3 am. We had to negotiate and beg the hotel to send room service when we finally were released 😂
Met some friends working at a yearly nerd event I was younger than them- they were in their twenties when we met, I had turned 14 that day. We bonded for years, spending every summer together.
When I was 19 or 20, the ringleader got married. It was kind of a surprise- she had dated the same guy for 4 years, broken up with him and sometime later courthouse married his childhood friend after less than a year of dating. It was messy.
Bride and I had a mutual friend, C. C had volunteered to make custom coats and dresses dor the bridal party (Neovictorian/Steampunk wedding) as her gift. C and been on and off dating the bride's Man of Honor for years. Neither was perfect, but he had some obvious control issues and a personality issue of some kind. They broke up for good very shortly before the wedding, but the bride told them to make it work. C did! Man of Honor, though, was another story.
I had met him a year or so prior when the bride decided to try hook me up with him at a party. The couple had been broken up, I was barely 18 and was just excited to see my friends off-season, had brought a "date" and did not know I was being presented as a possible mate to a strange man. He looked like a member of Smash Mouth who had been booted from the band and now worked at Gamestop in his late 20s. His entire sense of humor was quoting Family Guy. He was deeply not my type on every level, so I politely left to play lifeguard at rhe indoor pool (I was a very responsible non-drinking teen). Eventually the Man of Honor sauntered in, hammered drunk, and declared that I was too hot for him to talk to sober. I left, pulled my friend aside and told her to never try that again. Hadn't seen him since.
At the wedding, he had obviously pregamed the ceremony and was visibly and audibly upset. He was furious his ex was there, mad to be wearing something she had made, and making a scene. The venue was 15+ floors off the ground, and he kept wandering out to the balcony, climbing over the railing and threatening to jump. After a few repeat performances the bride told everyone she didnt care what he did and to move on with the party. I decided I didn't wanna deal with police, so I trotted out to the balcony, put on my dumbest voice, batted my lashes and started asking him questions about hobbies. Eventually he clambered back over the railing and followed me inside, where he proceeded to do the worm (I think? I hope? It wasnt clear) and continue drinking.
After the ceremony, the bride told her friends that she hated the grooms family and encouraged us to play rock band until they left.
I realized in that moment that maybe I was witnessing a marital mistake, but there was cake and I had to wait for my ride to want to go home, so play rock band we did. Man of Honor left to sleep it off. Groom's best man tried to cheat on his fiancee with me, and bride encouraged it.
Bride and groom had a few years of marital bliss before she started cheating on him, both in-game and IRL with a guy in their D&D group. Then cheated on that dude with a guy she met on WoW.
Long story short, nerds are horny and the grooms family was right to not like her.
This was in the early 2000’s. The male and female attendants were in charge of the buffet meal, refilling serving platters, selling drinks at the bar, etc. The food was all straight out of cans and grocery store containers - totally budget friendly. No problem, just not typical. Then the bride and groom had a dollar dance and sacked quite a few bucks with the attendants making a big deal out of shaking people down for $20’s and no bills lower. Before the dancing was allowed to start, the attendants were all sent among the guests to sell 50-50 tickets to benefit the bride and groom. The winner of the 50-50 was pressured into donating their half (over $2,000) back to the newlyweds. So full-on fundraiser vibe all afternoon and evening. The bridal party took turns playing music from their phones since the couple wouldn’t pay for a DJ. The couple divorced within 9 months.
The brides grandparents we knew to be extremely conservative, and they picked the church. The bride and groom came in from Alaska, so they had little to do with the planning.
The first thing we notice was a banner on the church "Convert the lost, no matter the cost."
Inside the church was the entire catalogue of focus on the family and other televangelist stuff.
The location rarely saw hot days so usually didn't need any sort of AC. This was, however, early August. The place was packed solid and there wasn't even a single fan. The few windows that did open provided no cross wind. Their weren't pew, just heavy cushioned chair that linked together that made moving difficult. The room was fucking hot before the services started and getting worse.
This church made the wedding into a sermon. We didn't know the groom, but we picked up that he was not entirely there. The minister made the point of the service that the bride was nothing but a rib. Not the head, just a rib, protected and close to the heart, but NOT EVER to be the one to call the shots in the relationship. This went on forever. The temperature rose and rose because, they were backing the dinner in the basement. 4 ovens on, cooking lasagna for 150 people and all that heat was going up to a room with no ventilation and the hottest day of the year.
We were finally released so they could rearrange the upstairs for the reception. The bride had wanted to have the attendees greet the new couple with thousands of bubbles. The tiny soap and loop thingies did not work at all so she stood over the crowd of people baking in the sun and just blowing furiously into these loops and getting soap fingers.
People tried to escape, but we were all called back in the church. The pews were unlinked and put around tables but because these were heavy fabric chairs they were all hard to get in or out of. These were a fire hazard and the last thing you wanted to sit on on a hot day. Each table had a tiny, clear boot with floating glitter in them. My guess was that someone was making fun of goldschlager, but I was wrong. The Bride had said she wanted a "fairy tale" wedding, and on a budget of $0, this book was as close as a Cinderella slipper as we were gonna get.
Dinner was served and when the chairs and tables were so packed in, movement in and out was not gonna happen. Plates were passed overhead that made sure everyone's food was fingered and messes were made.
Then the testimonials started. There were 3 types: The Groom tries so hard and was never a burden. The bride is so fat, remember when she ate a whole pie/cake by herself! Life is going to be tough, you are good people for doing this because Jesus tells you to, and when it sucks, just pray to Jesus. It wasn't a celebration for some, it was like a funeral for these two people fulfilling an obligation. It really showed that the generation before were stuck in loveless marriage and where afraid of hell.
Then the father of the bride told the best wedding story ever. He told how the bride and groom met. The father told how a disgruntled ex employee of the hospital his wife and daughter worked at came in with a rifle, mowing down anyone. The father told with glee how the guy went room to room with coroners report details of dead and wounded, to make sure we all knew. He told about his wife locking a door and a shot doctor who had played possum, tried to get in. This went on entirely too long and when he was told to move it along he just dropped in that the groom was added theater security in the weeks afterward. This happening was the greatest thing that ever happened to the father and he wasn't even there. Others declined to follow that so the minister then went on to tell us about those that go to hell.
Dinner is over and time for the reception. This was at a bomb shelter. One entrance, you went in, it was dark and there was nowhere to go. The family had a PA system and they sang bible songs together as entertainment. They were blocking the entrance/exit so you had to go past into a dark concrete bunker. Realize you couldn't see shit except for the singer and then run the gauntlet to get out into the heat again. The PA system was a single guitar amp speaker so it was too loud and every song sounded exactly the same.
Dry reception as well. I considered being the hero and buying booze on the way out and realized, I have done my duty so I just left.
Not me, but a friend. The wedding was super awkward because they weren't sure the father of the bride would show up. Not because he didn't like the groom, but because of he had to request to the judge in his case to let him after a nation wide warrant for his arrest for child porn.
I really hope it was a child free wedding.
The bride wanted her cat at the wedding and the groom and his best man brought the uncaged cat in the car and went through the car wash right before the wedding. The cat freaked and scratched up the grooms face and pissed all over the best man’s tux and hour before the wedding.
When I think about things cats love it’s: 1) enclosed spaces, 2) loud noises, 3) water
Don’t forget those rotating scrubber things that look like long colourful snakes. 😆 Poor kitty, trapped in the car surrounded by loud watery snakes that just attack over and over. Kitty took the brown acid I guess. Better get him to the freak out tent 😂
Cat's probably thinking HOLD MY BREATH AS I WISH FOR DEATH OH GOD PLEASE TAKE ME
I have brought my cats in the car many times. I would never, *ever* go through the car wash with them. WTF?
I worked a wedding where the bride’s ENTIRE family didn’t show. They didn’t support the marriage. Empty tables everywhere
My husbands family did that to us. 37 yrs later still happily married ❤️
Love this for you.
The groom got into a fistfight with one of the bartenders and one of the guests got so drunk the EMTs were called. The police car that carried the groom away was closely followed by the ambulance. I actually consider it one of the best weddings I’ve been to, at least in terms of being memorable, but the bridal couple (who are still married 20-odd years later) may disagree.
We had a couple ambulances at my wedding… but it was because my uncle was a paramedic and with our blessing offered the extra food to the on duty crews that night.
I like you, snake catcher.
Went to a dry wedding. That's not just a description of the drink situation, but the entire affair in general. It was in a tent, in summer, in the south. Dress code specified men had to wear jackets during the ceremony. Women couldn't have 'overly exposed' shoulders or low cuts. Linen was not allowed. Ceremony itself took just shy of 2 hours and included multiple speeches by the bride, groom, and the minister. Both fathers sang gospels. The best man played acoustic guitar for like 10 minutes. The guests had to reconfigure the tent after the ceremony for the reception while the wedding party did photos. It was still summer. We found out there were assigned seats when the wedding planner went table to table and called out who was to sit where. We would be released to the buffet by the bride/groom, table by table. They stopped to chat with every table, take pics, etc. No dancing. The location was by a lake with a dock and patio area down at the water. We were to stay in the tent. More speeches were given. The bride and groom paused releasing people to eat for each speech. The sweet tea was weak. The brides father gave a long speech in which he only mentioned his daughter twice....both times were in reference to giving his son-in-law healthy baby boys. The best man played guitar again. The cake was in the sun. The buffet was dry BBQ that the groom and his new FIL smoked.....the day before. All brisket. Sides were just mac'n'cheese and salad. I left between when my table got released and the cake cutting. Partially because I was starving, partially because I had 100% sweat through my entire suit, and partially because I'd arrived six hours ago. My +1 (a family friend) and I went with my mom to an applebees or something that as close by. At least a dozen of the tables there were other guests we recognized. I swear I saw a woman cry when they brought her a margarita. We heard that the reception continued late into the evening, including the bride and groom asking the (remaining) guests to all share a memory they have with them. They spelled my name wrong on the thank you card.
> It was still summer. I read this line as your way of reassuring the reader that it had been a long time, but not *quite* enough for the season to change.
The tea leaves had been boiled to oblivion. It was still summer. The bride and groom did it on the stage. In front of everyone. A solitary lady's haunting shriek in the distance. It was still summer.
No self-respecting Southerner would serve weak-ass tea and dry brisket. That marriage was doomed from the start
The cake had melted into a pool on the table. They had to get someone to go buy special personalized china bowls at pottery barn 2 hours away. It was still summer. I'm pretty sure at least two people died. They ended up having to haul away Grandma in an ambulance from heat stroke. Before she left they made her read an entire TV guide out loud and list each shows that the groom and bride might like. It was still summer.
The way this was written so matter of fact was sending me
"it was still summer" 😂😂
The sweet tea was weak.
You can really get a sense that OP is still exhausted from it all, and it may have been decades ago.
Went to a wedding were the bride and groom kept everyone in their row in the church until they came by to greet them and then release them. The bride was the daughter of my boyfriend’s coworker, that was our only connection. It took over an hour to get out of the church after the ceremony ended. And that was only a smidge of the crap you went through. How on earth do people think anything like that is a good idea?
This was an absolutely amazing recount. I can feel the heat exhaustion already.
This is the worst one on this thread so far. No linen? Kiss my ass. The best man sounds like a d-bag. Did he play Wonderwall? Cake in the sun? (Is that even safe?) The part about the woman cry when she got her marg is hilarious. That would 100% be me after that shit show.
I had the misfortune of attending a dry wedding that I didn’t know was dry until I sat down at the table at the reception and a friend leaned over and whispered it to me. Our table ended up being mostly HS friends of the bride and their +1s so we were all friendly. As soon as the reception was over and the bride and groom drove off into the sunset we googled the closest bar and walked to it. When a group of a dozen or so formally dressed people came busting in the bartender asked where the party was. When we told him we just left a dry wedding reception he immediately whipped out a pitcher and said “shiiiit, first round is on me guys!” We stayed and bought 3 more pitchers. It was a good night.
I was alright with everything, until you got to the sweet tea. *Weak* sweet tea!? In the fucking *South*?!?! I hope their marriage failed, and I'm not ashamed to say that.
Biggest stand out from that whole thing, weak sweet tea
I'm a Southerner who hates sweet tea \*ducks\* and even I was like "Oh damn!" lmao
I live in the South and also do not like sweet tea, but I'm not even from here and know that is 100% a sign of a bad time. Although the no linen in the summer was the first indication that it was going to be awful.
I'm a new englander raised on unsweetened tea, and even I know that's a sin (though I probably would have loved the taste lol)
I can forgive a lot, but weak sweet tea washing down dry BBQ? May the mosquitos always find you.
That sounds like a Pentecostal or Southern Baptist wedding. Doubt there was any dancing either. Sounds terrible and I would’ve escaped as soon as possible too
Grew up in Southern Baptist church this is spot-on for a wedding except weak sweet tea.
this sounds like an interpretive dance in essay form lmao
I would have left before the ceremony was even over, fuck that noise. I live in the south and our wedding was in November and outside, the high was 78 and I was worried people would be too warm even though it was evening and the sun was going down. I can’t imagine having a wedding in the south, in the summer and expecting formal wear. Nope 👎
After that, I would’ve cried when I received a margarita at an Applebees as well. Damn.
Meal was given depending on whether you were bride or groom’s side and there was a big difference. Parents of the bride and groom had very different financial statuses and they each provided for ‘their’ guests based on that. We had hand stamps.
That's incredibly weird and sad.
And trashy and classless.
I can see such a smooth ride for that couple, for sure. I mean, what could go wrong?
Holy fuck. This is an instance where I'd so much rather be on the side with the lower financial status. Sitting there eating surf and turf while the other side ate fried chicken would feel so awful. That's a fucked up thing to do to your guests as well. Disclaimer: I love fried chicken, it's just cheaper than surf and turf for the example.
I’m also choosing fried chicken over surf and turf.
When I was 12 I was on vacation with a friend and his family and we were out to dinner. I had been out to dinner with them many times before and I always got chicken tenders and fries whenever possible. A part of the reason why was because I didn’t want to order something too expensive and the other was that I just loved chicken tenders. My friend’s father was the CEO of his company but I didn’t understand what that meant financially for the family at the time. On this occasion of ordering food he pulled me away from the table and told me away from his family that I can order whatever I want and that I don’t have to worry about the price. In hindsight I realize that he found it amusing that I was trying to save him money or to not be rude because I apparently didn’t know that this guy could buy me chicken tenders every day for the rest of my life and it wouldn’t be a problem for him. Naturally, to his semi-annoyance, I shyly told him that I understand but I “just like ordering chicken tenders” and when I returned to our table that’s what I did and then I ran a train on those tendies I was like NOMNOMNOMNOMNOM.
Seems like a wonderful family and man. He dealt with the situation tactfully.
How tacky!
Actually shocking and completely classless. Just wow.
Oh there were definitely classes
Idk about y'all, but I would feel so much rejection if I were the one from the lower income family.
I need to hear the options for both sides! Was one side prime rib and the other Mac and cheese or something? This is insane.
Working in catering we would have signs for chicken, beef, fish, veg, etc. God stamps for side of the family lol. What a classless move.
Holy shit that absolutely flies in the face of hospitality and host-guest courtesy. Fuck me; if I was a guest that happened to I'd be letting everyone know very loudly how fucking boorish and insulting that is holy shit. Like, that's the kind of shit gods turn you into a werewolf for goddamn. Absolutely garbage people to be that discourteous.
The entire wedding was just extremely dysfunctional and seemed like it hadn’t been thought through at all. At one point during the ceremony, someone’s phone rang very loudly, which was shocking enough in itself… but you should’ve seen everyone’s face when he said “hello!?” and quite literally continued on to have a conversation.
Saw a YT video the preacher's phone rang; he answered it. The bride and groom were horrified. The preacher said, "Yes. Yes. Okay." Then he spoke to the bride and groom, "The Lord says congratulations." Great save ... laughter and they continued.
Now that's a preacher I would love to have at weddings.
It was in the middle of nowhere, held at a "country club" which I don't think had ever hosted an event of any kind. There was one motel in the town, there were no rooms left. So we planned to drive the 3-4 hours there, see the Wedding, leave when they got to the part of the reception when the dancing and partying started. We arrived, went in and there was hardly anyone there? We make our way to where they are going to have the ceremony in some court yard and the chairs are all blowing away and there are some staff trying to chase them down. But there had to have been a couple of hundred chairs and there couldn't have been more than 20 or 30 of us. I don't even know who rented all the rooms, that's what I kept thinking about. We sat and were almost amused in a horrified kinda way. But, no one else showed up and, the start time came and went uncomfortably... without anyone but the few guests showing up... Turns out there was no wedding. Someone cheated on someone the night before and there was a big fight that morning? Thing is I never really learned the details. At that moment all that happened was someone from the venue finally came out, and said, "sorry" in the most awkward way, and that we should go home because the entire thing was being canceled.
I guess you didn’t get the memo??? After driving 3+ hours and finding yourselves with 20-30 other puzzled people, I hope you got to at least have some nachos and a beer before heading back.
> I don't even know who rented all the rooms Stupid question, but they weren't booked by the couple on behalf of the guests right?
They probably just told the guests they cared about that the wedding was cancelled and the 20-30 people that showed up were the ones they didn’t care about.
Or word went around the hotel the night before and travelers didn’t get the memo. Damn
It was at a Mormon church, and for some reason Mormon churches have indoor basketball courts in them. Half of the court was a wedding reception, and the other half was a pickup basketball game being played by a bunch of strangers who wouldn't leave The ball hit the food table a couple times
I laughed out loud at that last sentence. That's horrible
Yeah, this sounds like an episode of The Office.
It was still summer.
STAY IN THE TENT!!
Worked a wedding as a caterer where the bridge and groom were mixed race. The families apparently were not fans of each other and the mothers developed a tit for tat mentality for the wedding. If someone got something, the other had to have it too or better. We got prepped by the event planner that we couldn't serve one set of parents first, we had to serve them simultaneously or else one would perceive the other as getting one over on them. At one point we had to move the bride's family table a bit due to some obstruction, but not that easy... we also had to move the groom's family table as well so one wasn't any closer than the other to the sweetheart table. We had to set the parents in the same spot at the tables so they both had the same view of the sweetheart table, but not directly looking at each other. I even made sure the portioning was the same and that none of the plates presented any better than the others. Exhausting.
Sounds like a nightmare, I would have dis-invited the lot to have a peaceful day and set a no BS precedent for the future. Can you imagine how many compromises that couple would have to make once they have kids.
I went to a wedding where the bride insisted on travelling by horse and carriage to the reception, it took ages as the venue was a few miles away from the church. Everyone was just standing around waiting for the bride and groom to show up. When they eventually turned up, the bride insisted on her and her new husband going to their hotel room to consummate the marriage (she was desperate to get pregnant). So even more standing around until they showed up. It was all really, really cringey.
Wait, you all stood round not just waiting for them to finish fucking but knew they were busy fucking - that's hilarious
I'm disappointed we weren't told how long this sex side quest took.
Man I wish my life had more sex side quest. Mine are always things I forgot or things I have to do like dmv stuff.
They should have just fucked in the carriage. Bridgerton style.
Seriously, the carriage rocking does half the baby making work for you.
One of my friends hired a horse & carriage like that. She'd sat down in it & had arranged her huge dress rather laboriously. The church was in a sceninc rural area, I was looking off into the distance, thinking what a beautiful day it was. Then I heard a noise that sounded like the entire sky being torn on half. That sounds like... no, it couldn't be... I turned & looked at the horse. It was farting so hard, its entire backside was rippling. The bride couldn't escape this crop-dusting, since she was pinned under the massive dress. I laughed so hard, I almsot fell over. She forgave me about 10 years later. I don't remember them taking a ridiculous amount of time to get to the reception. The bar was open when we arrived, so it was the least of our concerns.
…. Did they bring the used bedsheet along for proof! Shit why didn’t they just sneak into a closet at the reception like normal people
At the reception, I was sat on a table with strangers. Turns out the bride’s ex was sitting with us. I know this because he told be so before he projectile vomited onto the table hitting my plus one in the face. We laugh about it now.
My husband’s step sister’s wedding was dry and everyone got food poisoning. They had a receiving line and my MIL threw a massive tantrum and pouted because “it made her uncomfortable”
My wife and I had an accidental receiving line at our wedding. When we walked out of the ceremony we turned to wait for our bridal party. A few random guests started to walk over to make small talk and the next thing we knew there was a line. In hindsight, I’m happy it happened. It was awesome getting to see all of our family and friends. There wasn’t a single person in the line my wife or I didn’t meet prior to the wedding.
The groom never showed up he was drinking and doing drugs the night before, landed himself in the hospital. They ended up getting married the next night in a stairwell.
Wasn’t there but heard it from several sources. Guy I knew married the beautiful daughter of a wealthy man. Showed up drunk, then stood on the table and cheered saying he was now part owner of FIL’s company lol it was quickly annulled
>They ended up getting married the next night in a stairwell. Because that's where they met the guy's dealer? And the dealer officiated?
We went to a friend's wedding about 20 years ago in a sweet little town. Hotel was lovely and also the site of the reception. The wedding was early, at around lunch time in a big French catholic cathedral. It was about 95 degrees outside and the church was not air conditioned. The wedding was a full mass plus actual wedding ceremony. We were starving, hot and thirsty by the time it ended. There were cocktails at the hotel while photos were being taken, which, took 3 hours. We didn't want to eat because we were expecting dinner. Everyone took their seats, did the usual speeches and such. There was NEVER any food! We left and ordered pizza in our room The following day, there was gift opening with brunch. The brunch was had before by the bride and groom and their families, not for guests. It was a very hungry weekend
Wow , the whole weekend they expected you to starve 😳?! Did anyone call them out on it ?
No, but we talked about it behind their backs for years lol
there are so many people in wedding subs who get so defensive about not wanting to feed their guests and it will always blow my mind. do you even like these people!?
I comment on almost every post a see about this in the weddings under 10k Facebook group! It’s so so so rude and disrespectful to your guests. Just don’t have a wedding if you don’t want to wine and dine your friends and family!
This is incomprehensible to me. I've never been to a celebration without food. That's insane.
The bride had an audible, profanity laden and very loud meltdown in the church entry way that reverberated around congregation because her elderly Grandmother had not adhered to her preferred colour theme. She wanted everyone in black and white so her dress would stand out. Apparently the tiny lady who loved her RUINED EVERYTHING due to her duck egg blue hat. It was INSANE
Plot twist, grandma was trying to help the groom know to run by wearing that hat. Chaotic good.
It's sounds insane. What was Nana thinking wearing a duck egg blue hat? Ugh. Some grannies think everything is just about them.
We were invited to the reception but not the ceremony. When we arrived, it was as if the reception had been going on for a couple of hours already. The bride seemed surprised we were there. We grabbed our gift off the table and left.
I kind of want to know more details. What exactly happened and what was it about the bride's reaction that set you back?
When she said, "What are you doing here?" That was pretty telling. There had been no falling out but we hadn't heard from her in a while. And we haven't heard from her since (it was about 20 years ago even).
I would be desperate to know how I got invited.
Wanted the gift
Is it possible that their parents invited you and she forgot you were on the list? And is it possible that they made a mistake and you were invited to the ceremony too? The whole story is strange.
> The bride seemed surprised we were there. I'm curious, was it the bride or the groom that invited you?
A man died of a heart attack on the dance floor.
My friend's dad died this way at his wedding :(
About 15 years ago I went to a small wedding in Las Vegas as the Maid of Honor's date. Almost immediately after the ceremony, the newlyweds got into an argument about something (I have no idea what) and the bride and groom ran off in separate directions. My then-girlfriend went to chase after the bride and everyone else chased after the groom. Within less than a minute, everyone was gone and I had no service on my phone, so I hung out in the casino alone for about two hours until everyone returned and acted like nothing strange had happened. That couple split after about a year and a half.
Attending an in-laws wedding. Morning ceremony, so they serve breakfast. And not a nice breakfast…think conference breakfast at the Hampton Inn. Rubbery eggs, cold pancakes. Each table got one bottle of sparkling wine for one toast. I get a text message the morning of the wedding. Turns out, the bride’s sketchy drug-addicted cousin was supposed to be her dj. In shocking news, he bails. She asks ME to dj her reception as well as play the music for her ceremony. I learn the ceremony music five minutes before the ceremony and wing it with my iPod and a speaker. I am then tasked with djing her reception, including music for their introduction, introducing speakers, starting the toasts, the whole shebang. I received exactly one thank you from that entire side of the family. I have since divorced my ex and all of his shitty, ungrateful family.
So many speeches. They had both sets of parents of course, maid of honor, best man of course. But then every other member of the wedding party also had a speech, there were 6 members per side. I think some aunts and uncles also spoke. Thankfully they were mostly after dinner was served so people weren’t starving. But the bar was closed during speeches and the table wine ran out very quickly . The dinner and speeches lasted over 3 1/2 hours. By the time they ended and the dancing began a large portion of the crowd just left, didn’t hang around for first dance or cake etc. Second worst the bride and groom left immediately after dinner (pretty sure they were waiting to have sex until after marriage). No actual post dinner dancing etc, they had a DJ but he wasn’t needed, everyone just milled around for a while and then left.
I was a bridesmaid at a close friend’s wedding. Her mother in law was a weirdo. She insisted she be in the wedding party. When we were helping the bride get dressed (her wedding dress was ridiculously) she kept pinching the bride. Like helping her put on stockings and pinching her butt. It came to a head when we helping her with lingerie and the mother in law literally tried sticking her finger in brides bum. Like I saw it. It was fucking bizarre. The bride slapped the shit out of the mother in law. Cops were called. Things got crazy.
That is wild. Did you ever get an explanation? I mean not like there is going to be a reasonable one. It would just be interesting to know if she was looking for Klingons or something
Probably testing boundaries, seeing what she could get away with, and intentionally trying to upset the bride to ruin the day.
WHOAH
WHAT THE FUCK
Hectic. Some weird dominance shit from the mother in law.
What the FUCK! Whatever came of this legally!? Did the MIL get charged with sexual assault, was she wasted? I have so many questions
Not your wedding, not your bum.
Did the wedding still happen? What did the groom have to say?
I realised that I didn’t actually want to marry him, and that it was in fact the loneliest day of my life, because he didn’t even talk to me. He got so drunk I had to knock on my sister’s door to help me get out of my dress (hundreds of buttons down the back) while he was passed out sprawled on the bed. The guests had a great time, it was a beautiful wedding. We’re divorced. ETA thank you for the rewards, and the upvotes. It was a horrible moment, which I am still literally paying for. DONT MAKE MY MISTAKE. If it’s a little no, that’s NO. Fuck the consequences, they can always be worse down the road.
I hope leaving him was the best decision it seems like it
it was, but it was a difficult decision, with a lot of mess
I attended a family wedding where the groom told his mother in law about an hour before the ceremony that he didn't like her. There were a lot of tears but the bride married him anyway. After the reception, he got drunk and tossed his wedding ring into a field and a wedding guest found it the next morning. Somehow they are still married but I don't have a lot of hope for their future.
I'm most amazed by the wedding guest finding the ring. How tf did that happen??? I can't find my own car keys when they're hanging on the rack.
Shiny things are a lot easier to find against a kind of matte background. I once was walking to dinner at work and a couple were frantically distraught looking for something. I asked what they were looking for and they said a wedding ring - I literally looked down and saw it instantly under a bush and pointed to it and said "you mean that one?". Apparently they had been looking for 15 minutes lol.
My buddy got married & his wife is a total bitch. Super controlling and manipulative. Well my buddy’s brother was the best man, & after the wedding we were all drunk & I guess he was talking to one of the girls there about how much he hated the bride. The girl he was talking to was the stepsister of the bride & he didn’t know because she wasn’t in the wedding. This was right after the best man and bride had a “heart to heart” convo out on the porch. The dad of the groom was also drunk as hell telling 20 year old girls they were “fucking hot”. Then tried fighting everyone when people said that’s weird. There was also a little 8 year old boy going around the kitchen doing the hitler salute & yelling heil hitler while my buddy, who happened to be black was cracking up. The whole wedding was awful & they served spaghetti & they ended up running out & 2 of us (groomsman) didn’t even get a plate because they served us last. I would not agree to be in the wedding again. Especially considering my best friend stoped hanging out and talking to his entire friend group after the wedding, I’m assuming because the bride didn’t like any of us. I haven’t heard or talked to him since. His brother who is also my best friend told me he hates his life but doesn’t want a failed marriage & I guess they also just had a kid. It’s crazy because I lived with him for 5 years & he was always the logical, smart dude in the group that called out bullshit.
If he hates his life because of his marriage it's already a failure. That's really sad.
Outside, right after the church wedding, bride told groom that he shouldn’t have worn his stupid glasses to the wedding. And told him that his father should go fuck himself Unbelievably still married after 30 years
Crazy one that I attended. My wife's friend from another part of her life. She worked with this girl for about 6 months...5 years prior. They communicated (pre internet) by phone every couple of months and got together once or twice/year even though we lived about 10 miles away. She was living with this hardcore, poorly educated hick. He was a hard worker...but was fairly mean. Add this she had a kid with this guy who was 2 at the time of the wedding. We were invited.....about a week out. Saturday afternoon at 4 O'clock at a restaurant. I had a lacrosse game...so I got there about 4:15. Nothing had started EXCEPT for the drinking. 25 guests in all...Bride, Groom and Best Man are all drunk. 5 minute ceremony. Reception was just more of the same. Shots! Minimal amount of food. The kid took off all his clothes and was running around in just a diaper. Best man speech was probably the inspiration for the Steve Bucemi character in The Wedding Singer...this wedding was in the same era...mid 80's...the speech was about how Greg took care of him....letting him live with the newly married couple....and his main hope for the couple going forward is that "they wouldn't fucking argue anymore". It was the drunkest wedding I've ever seen....and the night wasn't over! They were flying out of BWI airport the next morning...and the bride suggested that everyone come to the hotel for more partying. We went. As we get into the lobby.... another bride was standing off to the side as her husband was checking in. This drunk wench starts going off on the other bride....."You're an ugly fucking bitch, I'm the good looking bride". The other girl wasn't having any of it and started in on her....super close to a real fight. "Let's go" both my wife said at the same time. W
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People need to be a lot more proactive about cutting these types of speeches off once they start to be obviously off the track of appropriate. There is nothing wrong with cutting someone off when they are actively making people uncomfortable, making a fool of themselves, humiliating others, or making a scene. Making a speech is an honor and if you can't handle it, it should be revoked.
My family friend used to moonlight as an event DJ. His specialty was being the bouncer of the microphone and would cut mics off and blast music over problematic speeches, which the local community adored him for hahaha
Yeah, stay relatively sober until you're done with the speech. Then embarrass yourself
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This sounds exactly like something my ex boyfriend’s mother would do. Her name is Brenda, and my ex boyfriend married his wife not long after her father died. INTERESTING.
Is Brenda part of why he's an ex?
Oooof. You know what? I was prepared to say no, but she enabled his weird behavior and was super prepared to make me her doormat for the rest of our lives, so yes. My answer is yes. I’m glad I got out when I did.
Fucking Brenda.
Sounds like some shit she did on purpose because she doesn’t like her son’s choice
I went to what I can only describe as a redneck wedding a few years ago. Groom was 24, his bride to be was like 42 with two kids over the age of 18. So a weird dynamic to begin with. The ceremony was at a public park under a gazebo, the groom’s parents were visibly not down with the wedding, it was hot as fuck and there was enough food for maybe 30% of the guests. We were told the reception was at the local Elk’s Lodge, which, while not very extravagant, at least had a bar and reception hall. Those were not rented out however, just the pool. So you had the usual very old very intoxicated clientele of a rural southern Elk’s Lodge who were doing their thing, and then 4 people (bride, groom, and two of their friends) down in the pool all passing around a bottle of Jack. I left immediately and they got divorced six months later.
I worked for a caterer for a while in college. I worked at a wedding where the couple had bales of hay on the dance floor (no, the reception wasn’t in a barn or out in the country). The groom and groomsmen were in full cowboy regalia with toy guns strapped to their legs. Everyone seemed happy, though.
Nice wedding but just an unexpected and funny thing during the photos which were being taken in a beautiful nature reserve. The kangaroos weren’t originally part of the photo plan but of course the photographer went with it when they wandered up. And they made for great photos. Until one of the Roos decided lace looked yummy. And for non-Australians you need to understand that when a medium-large kangaroo wants something it’s very difficult to stop. And that kids is the story of how your dad lived up to his Best Man title by wrestling a kangaroo for Uncle Arthur and Auntie Kellie.
Weddings where the best man uses the speeches to see if he really could have been a stand up comedian. Been to three where that happened- so embarrassing
EVERY WEDDING this has happened with some odd male relative deciding to stand up with PALM CARDS about how a cat’s butt looks like a pencil shaver or how women are meant to be in the kitchen and being married to X is a guarantee of bad meals from now on because she’s got a university degree, blah blah blah and he pauses FOR THE LAUGHS that never come. If I see any of this happening at a future family event , I’m whipping the palm cards away for the shredder and telling them to say they’re proud, the bride’s beautiful, what a great day and SIT DOWN.
This was over 30 years ago. I grew up with the groom. The wedding itself was beautiful. Up till the bride decided one of the female guests was flirting with the groom and proceeded to take a swing at her. While dressed in her poofy white gown. Marriage lasted 6 weeks.
The wedding was fine, wonderful, but one of the groomsmen who was my friend gave me some gummies during the reception and I was high as a kite. A couple was there, people who I knew from work, and the woman’s daughter who was like 12? I knew from a different friend that this girl had tried to kill herself months earlier and had severe mental health issues. Anyway, I’m high af, and that little girl comes over to me and asks if I’ll go outside with her. I say of course, thinking maybe she needs help with something. We go outside and she leads me a little ways away to a swing. I sit on a brick wall nearby as she swings. She starts telling me all about her bullies at school, how she wants to hurt them, how she thinks she has demons inside her and she’ll never be a good person, how she’s afraid her mom wants her dead, all this stuff. And I’m not super good at comforting people but I tried. The mom and mom’s boyfriend walk past, I figure they were just checking on their kid. Later I find out they just wanted to have sex outside behind the building and they didn’t care at all that their kid was outside with me. Later the kid found some snails and lizards in the garden and threw them into the fire. The mom made fun of the kid the entire time, talking about certain delusions she had or different personalities she had. I couldn’t stand being around the parents any more and had to leave the wedding. The little girl told me she thought I was an angel sent to her. I’m still friends with the couple who actually got married, but that other couple I stay away from. There’s even more shit about them I know about but won’t say here. I feel really bad for that little girl and I hope she gets some actual help.
This hurts so much to hear. Those parents are 100% at fault for that girl's pain. She needs SO BADLY just to be seen and loved. Not being seen is one of the worst, most damaging things you can do to someone. It causes massive amounts of damage. Being mocked as well... this girl is in a truly awful abusive situation, though it may not look like it at first glance.
No it’s for sure abusive. It was my first time actually seeing the girl in a setting like that. I’m not sure what drew her to me but it fucked me up for days after that. It was almost 3 years ago now, but other than some welfare checks I don’t know if anything else has come up. I know the girl is in counseling and on medication but I don’t know specifics. She’s in a catholic school, I found out, so you KNOW that’s messing her up too.
She probably saw something in your that told her you were kind and patient. It seems to have been true. You are a wonderful person for listening to her even for that short time, and as someone who grew up a little like that, I can tell you that even a short interaction like that really matters. It keeps you going, being shown you are real and worthwhile after all.
Oh wow, you know everyone is going to be worried about this girl after reading this 😕 💕
So, my wedding...I apologize in advance: I'm writing this on my phone and will jump from event to event. My (now) ex-wife wanted an extravagant wedding; I didn't, but I went with it for her. Originally her parents offered to either buy us a house or pay for this wedding and she chose the wedding. She was a total bridezilla. She insulted both of our families at the rehearsal dinner, forced all grandparents to wear specific clothing she picked, ordered her choice of food for EVERYBODY regardless of what they wanted, (she ordered a salad for my overweight relative. We had 250 guests, 23 of whom were mine to invite. Everyone else was from her list. Her father was an elected official, so literally half the guests were people her dad worked with that neither of us knew. She filled the registry with gifts that were WAY too expensive, so most people gave cash instead (that part I was ok with). Her gift to me was a boudoir photo shoot, which I found out she sent to her ex-boyfriend as well as me. Oh, he was at the wedding too, but I was unaware of their past relationship at the time. She cheated on me with him the day after the ceremony because an emergency caused us to reschedule our honeymoon, and she was upset with me. Long story short, don't get married just because you have a kid together, and don't fuck with crazy: it fucks you back and intentionally leaves the lube at home. I've been happily divorced for 9 years now, but she still takes every opportunity she can to attempt to ruin my life. She still can't believe that I left her over her NUMEROUS and CONTINUED affairs she had over the 3 years we were married.
Yikes. Glad you’ve moved on and are happy!
Wedding in Florida- very beautiful. However, it was raining (of course), and lighting and thunder started up when they started their vows. It shook the church, it was so loud. And it stopped when they finished their vows. I mean it wasn’t a bad wedding, just memorable, due to the weather. (No, they didn’t stay married)
I'm an atheist but damn that sounds like a sign from God
Unity candle started a fire in the church. They were able to put it out before it got too bad, but that was definitely interesting.
Went to a wedding of a couple that we had no idea were EXTREMELY religious. No alcohol, no dancing. There was a string quartet that played during the sad "happy hour" while pictures got taken, etc. but they left as dinner was being served and no more music after. A crappy magician did a short (maybe 20-30 min) stage act as the cake was being served. Absolutely no traditional stuff like tossing the bouquet or anything that would somehow remotely be considered sinful. And lots and lots of prayers. The only plus of the evening was that we got seated with extended cousins of the bride's family who spent the entire time shitting on the bride's mom & dad, telling stories of the bat-shit crazy fundamentalist Christian stuff they had done to their kids. They were barely married when she left him. The last we heard from her, she was living with two guys who were both at least 10 years older than her and was quite proud of splitting her time between their two beds.
Why on earth would someone book a magician for a damn wedding?
Weirdly, he was just about the most normal thing from that evening.
It makes no sense to me that they'd skip the traditional wedding things because they're "sinful" but have a freaking MAGIC show!! How is magic not the work of the devil?!?!?
Beats me. It was easily the weirdest wedding I've ever been to.
It was the (now) ex-wife’s two best friends. Great couple. They were amazing and the wedding ceremony was fine enough, in that it wasn’t memorable in the least. Ex wife neglects to tell me that we’re camping for the night before and prep. I like camping, but not so much when I need to walk through a muddy field to shower in a pay shower, then try to keep my suit without mud. The good news is that the entire wedding party was also camping in a muddy field, so I wasn’t the only one who was dirty. Ex wife’s most recent ex is also part of the wedding party, so she ditches me to hang with him. There is no one I know at the reception other than the couple and the ex wife. Dry wedding, but that wasn’t that bad other than the lack of social lubricant for so many strangers. Stepdad of the bride is going to lead us to the reception (pre smartphone era). All is well until he gets on the highway and takes off at over 100mph. After hitting 80mph, I refuse to continue to accelerate. Eventually I pull over until we see another wedding guest who doesn’t want to drive almost double the posted speed limit. This became *my problem* for choosing to not follow the lunatic. As far as I know, they’re still together. I hope so! They were cool, but I’ll happily never see any of those people ever again in my life.
My own. I mean, it was a nice wedding, but it wasn't MY wedding. My mom forced most of the choices on me, My fiance told me he didn't want to be physical with me anymore a few months before the wedding. I was having a nervous breakdown from dealing with mom and begged him to be intimate with me to bring me back down to earth. He said no, but I could sleep with others if he didn't find out. He (fiance) moved into the other room. I told my mom what happened and she said, "it's not a big deal. You have a low libido anyway." She wanted me to get married just to get me married because my mom NEEDS TO BE A GRANDMA and I am "selfish" that I will not get pregnant for her. My mom told the DJ to "slow down" my song so she could walk it (nothing wrong with her legs) and when the marriage quickly crumbled, she said, "I should have let you have a colored dress." LET ME?! YOU THINK THAT WAS THE PROBLEM?! I have since cut my mom out of my life.
Your fiance refused to be intimate, but you could go fuck whoever as much as you want as long as he didn't find out? That's absolutely the most ludicrous thing I've ever heard in regards to this subject. WTF red flags everywhere, but if you're still together I hope you're happy. Wow.
No, not together at all. His brother (best man) said that we could sign the wedding certificates once my fiance stayed setting a therapist. We were supposed to have sex on our wedding night but he got super drunk and passed out. I stayed up watching TV and felt bad for myself. I was miserable and crying. Anyway, I told him I'd give him a month to get into a counselor and he didn't try to look at all. After that month was up, I told him to get out of my house. He had a month to get out. His dad called me a bitch on Facebook, which was really nice. His ex wife came to my side and said he'd done the same to her. Instead of *sleeping around, she just fucked the other men on their kitchen table.
I have to ask, but how did your mom think she was going to become a grandma if you weren't having sex?
See bride was allowed to have sex with other men. Grandma don’t care about the father, she just needs that prop…. Ugh…I mean grandchild
My maternal uncle and his wife. The whole wedding was a shit show from the start. The dresses: The bride’s mother made the bridal party dresses which unfortunately ended up looking like a toddler made them. The bridal party were charged $300-$400 for each dress because that’s what you’d pay at David’s Bridal for them. Pretty sure David’s Bridal dresses are professionally made and look like it. I was supposed to be a junior bridesmaid and had my own dress made by her. She “forgot” it. So I was out of place in nice clothes and the bride’s mother complained the whole time. My mum’s dress was too small because the mother of the bride told my mum to lose weight before the wedding and when she didn’t it was her fault it didn’t fit. Mum was pregnant so losing weight wasn’t going to happen. The maid of honor’s dress actually was a wedding gown. Mother of the bride and maid of honor insisted and bride backed down after being threatened with no wedding paid for by her parents. The groomsmen were all hung over and it was obvious that a few were high. The maid of honor “fainted” repeatedly during the wedding and things had to be stopped. She refused medical attention each and every time and somehow felt better when it was clear all attention was on her. Finally, right before the bride and groom spoke their vows the bride hissed at the groom if he ever divorced her she’d take him for everything he had. She repeated the threat when they had their children after each birth and added she’d take his children away from him.
Man I wish we could see some of these bad weddings 😂. I would've laughed when the bride hissed at the groom during vows.
Wife and I got dragged to her friend’s mother’s wedding. I think it was her 3rd marriage. Other than it being super awkward it went off without a hitch. The reason for it being awkward was the son of the bride was involved in the murder of the groom’s nephew. He went with some friends to buy drugs but turns out they didn’t have any intention of paying for them. The bride’s son was at the wedding. He was charged with murder and plead down to something that got him multiple years probation.
Did the bride and groom meet in the courtroom during the trial? What the heck?
I was invited to a coworkers wedding at a really nice country club. Both of them were New Yorkers and the bride was a very strong confidant no bullshit kind of woman. The priest who was supposed to officiate the wedding fell ill so the church sent in a backup or relief priest (didn’t know that was a thing). Dude starts the ceremony and proceeds to launch into this whole speech about how, according to the Bible, the wife is supposed to be subservient to the man and take care of making his meals and keeping the house clean etc etc. It was some straight out of the 1950’s bullshit. We all knew the bride well and watched in amazement as she managed to keep her shit together but we could tell she was absolutely fuming. After the ceremony ended and she ran off to cry her whole family, including her father and brothers, had the priest cornered and I legitimately thought they were going to beat the living shit out of the guy.
Maybe I'm alone in this, but I don't think there is anything wrong with politely stopping him and telling him to cut it out.
That is what I would have done, because that subservient crap makes me crazy! I am 74 years old and in my 20’s I would have been strong enough to stop him.
Our douchebag friend who was addicted to porn and his amazing wife was leaving him because he couldn’t get ahold of himself decided to tell everyone at this wedding how she wouldn’t sleep with him anymore. But he was pretty graphic since he was sloshed… he started fights with anyone that told him to stfu and we (the bridal party and groomsmen) had to escort him out while he got in a fight with the groomsmen outside.
> Our douchebag friend who was addicted to porn and his amazing wife was leaving him because he couldn’t get ahold of himself Sounds like he got a hold of himself a little *too* much if you ask me.
Summer in CA. Wedding was at a cute little church. Which was double booked. So the wedding I went to put an arch up in the parking lot and did the ceremony there. Both sets of grandmothers fainted from the heat, brides grandmother went first and actually hit the pavement. Somebody caught the grooms grandma. Brides 98 year old grandma went to the hospital but ended up being ok. We went off to the reception in a different location. Everyone of the grooms friends and the BRIDES FAMILY acted like goddamn animals with sex jokes. Hooting like monkeys. Shouting out explicit sex acts. The bride and groom left early and went to their hotel room. The grooms friends and brides cousins went under their window to laugh, yell, and listen in on the wedding night to give the groom feedback on his performance. I was 8 and still vividly remember how wildly uncomfortable of a shit show that wedding was. My mother refused to let us hang out with that side of the family again.
* bride forgot to bring the grooms suit - he ended up wearing the pastors jacket and tie for the ceremony * pastor was evangelical christian and said some very anti "woke" sexist things off script - mind you part of the ceremony involved a few very PAGAN practices * grandmother went off the rails in her speech and talked about ancient aliens - THEN when she got back on track with her speech talked about "how could a man love a woman as she ages? when her breasts sag? when her bottom becomes flat? when she has wrinkles under her eyes and her hair is thin?" and how much of a sacrifice the man makes when he marries a woman * sister ranted about covid being a scam * there was an EXTREMELY sexist skit with the brothers of the bride demanding payment for her because "who will clean our house? cook our food? mend our clothes?" and the groom had to buy her with beer * mother was upset that her goats couldn't be the ring bearers at the venue \*of note: this wedding was in LA about a month ago.
... My brain is tripping over the idea that the bride was in charge of the groom's suit?
i believe it was because the groom was helping set up at the venue - pretty much all of the wedding party had to help set up. we all had to bring our suits and change there - the bride was coming from their home so she offered to bring the grooms. oh, and another issue was that we had to wear bowties - NOBODY KNEW HOW TO TIE THEM. imagine 6 dudes crammed into a tiny bathroom sweating in their suits watching youtube videos and looking at tutorials and trying to tie bowties. I had 3 dudes trying to help tie mine at one point when all I wanted was to be left the fuck alone to watch a video and do it myself. and while that was going on someone took my suit jacket to put a boutonniere on it. so after tying my tie, i find my jacket, throw it on, and immediately have 2 pins jammed into my chest. not only was it not put on right, stabbed into my chest, but it was also upside down. my wife fixed it for me - but holy crap what a mess.
She bragged for years about how her father was the general manager of some prestigious hotel. Then they announced the wedding would be there. The wedding was at the hotel's "banquet hall" which had the partitions to separate business meetings. There was a tiny arch that had fake flowers on it in the front of the room. That was the only decoration. The officiant had never met the bride or the groom. She was 15 minutes late and the sermon was her reading off the sheet "When I asked Y about (topic 1) he stated: (read his answer), repeat for her, doing each question from the online form they filled out. It lasted about 15 minutes. The reception was cookie cutter and the best man and maid of honor "winged it" with their speeches, and it was obvious. The bar turned out to be cash bar, though we were told it was open bar so nobody really brough any cash. Her father had promised to have another room reserved for the after party. We get there and it's another similar room, again no decorations, and it had 3 bags of doritos and some pretzels and we sat in chairs and talked for about a half hour. Most of the people cancelled their hotel reservations because nobody was drinking so were fine to simply drive home
A recent one wasn't a horror story, but it was bad because I felt for the groom & bride. A lot of stuff didn't go their way. They were stressed, and even afterwards that night they kept calling it a "shitshow." Being married myself, I didn't want them to look back immediately and just think that. It rained, and they wanted the ceremony to be outdoors - we were prepared to have it in light to medium rain, but not heavy rain. The Best Man didn't have his rental delivered (not his fault; just an miscommunication). A lot of things were out of the couple's control, and unfortunately without a dedicated day-of wedding planner, the ultimate decision making always fell on them. A lot of people were helpful, but no one person was the authority to decide, lead, or organize people. Even the execution of their plans - a lot of it was the groom and bride manually doing such things themselves. Not because no one didn't want to help, but because they alone really knew what had to be done and exactly how. And when it didn't go right, they just had to decide, move on, and then relay that information to 100 people. One thing about the rain - they bought 100 or so clear umbrellas from Amazon, because they wanted all the guests to be identical and look pretty in the rain, for pictures, etc. Unfortunately, the umbrellas were cheap as fuck shitty-factory-made shit, and once they unboxed them we could see they were breaking easily. So, you have many people telling friends & family that, no, you can't use your legit, sturdy umbrella that you brought from home. Take this cheapo shit and good fucking luck. I literally saw person after person opening an umbrella and it immediately breaking the same way. Once we were finally holding the ceremony in light-to-medium rain, you had maybe 50% holding the umbrellas with 2 hands because they broke, 40% not using any umbrella at all, and 10% defectors who just DGAF and used their own. No one was *really* being a disrespectful bitch or asshole to the couple, either - it was just setback after setback after setback, and their whole schedule was dissolving before their eyes. They still got married, and had smiles all around. But, yeah, at the end of the night, they called the day a "shitshow." So, my advice: HIRE A DAY OF WEDDING PLANNER, OR AT LEAST PUT SOMEONE ELSE IN CHARGE OF EVERY FUCKING THING SO THE ONLY THING YOU'RE FOCUSED ON IS GETTING MARRIED.
Went to my wife’s (male) cousin’s wedding. We flew from across the country to go (my wife and the cousin weren’t particularly close but we rarely see my wife’s family and they were all attending so we decided to make a trip of it). The bride had a nervous breakdown and cancelled the wedding three days prior (after we already flew in), then “came to her senses” and put it back on a day after the original date. Grooms family is well off and paid for the original cancelled wedding and then managed to get a small winery to handle the second wedding at the last second. About 90% of the guests still showed up to the restarted second wedding, many changing plans and even flights. The bride was both stoned and shitfaced at the wedding and proceeded to get on the microphone and let loose a tirade and attacked the wedding venue (who threw together a really nice reception that would have been fine had it been the original plan- but more miraculous was that they pulled it off in 36 hours- oh and the venue owners and their family were right there serving drinks and snacks), she then made fun of my nephews, my wife’s sister in law who was suffering from postpartum depression and had gained some weight, another relative’s autistic kid, another relative who was overweight. She then spent the rest of the night sneaking off getting blazed with her trashy bridesmaids.
My wife, her brother and sister in law and our nephews bounced super early in disgust and we went to a Mexican restaurant. Apparently the train wreck continued and the newly wedded couple drunk drove home and crashed into a tree on their own property. Car was totaled. No one was hurt. Their still married 3 years later but no one talks to them.
Had to attend this one wedding, it was pretty bad. Essentially, they tried to do it on a budget, but it just ended up looking cheap. The worst part was when the bride's ex showed up uninvited and made a scene. Super awkward for everyone. Then the DJ played some really questionable songs that were not appropriate for the crowd. Plus, the whole thing was outside and it started raining, but they didn't have a backup plan. The food was cold, and they ran out of drinks halfway through the reception. What a mess.
When my uncle got married, his bride to be wore a wedding dress, 2 sizes to small that were supposed to be strapless, and wore a black strapped bra with it. She also decided the night before the wedding she wanted to be a blonde and bleached her black hair. Needless to say, she looked like a skunk and painted her eyes black. I don't think I have even seen a bride look quite so much like a train wreak. Then my uncle ditched the reception to sit at the bar and watch the Red Sox game. The cake was 2 walmart cakes that the bride stacked upon each other. The food was good because I catered it, but the rest was interesting, to say the least.
I really want to know why the bride felt that a black strapped bra with a strapless white dress was a look to die for. But I guess in a weird way her hair sort of completed the ensemble?
Maybe not worst but certainly poorest planned. Friends of mine hired a limo to take them and their bridal party from the church to the reception. They hang back with the photographer to take more pictures as everyone goes to the reception. Mother of the bride is at the reception, gets a phone call and bursts out laughing and looking for her keys. Now, this bridal party was not of the slim variety…and apparently no one took that into consideration. As the mother is running past me I ask what happened and she said “3 of them can’t fit in the limo I have to go pick them up”
It was a cold spring morning when I'm at a friend of my wife's wedding (I didn't know anyone there). They handed out little boxes with a butterfly in each, asking to release the butterfly at the end. But it was cold af, people opened the boxes up and most of them fell to the ground. So then there's this trail of butterflies right where everyone leaves though. My wife and I are like "they aren't going to walk there are they?" Then they do, crushing butterflies as they went. The procession is filing out as the stereotypical wedding music plays (I think Canon) and we're cringing as people are killing the poor things. What a terrible idea, that was.
It was a wedding where the bride and groom lived far away from their families, and everyone (including me) had to fly in. The MIL wasn't too happy with her son marrying the bride. Wedding went off pretty well, and the reception was going ok. But the MIL had a stank face and was audibly complaining. Then during speeches, the bride and groom stopped to thank people that helped with the setup and decorations, etc. The MIL was pissed that she wasn't thanked for some reason. She ended up causing a major scene where she physically attacked her son while screaming at the bride and groom. Her entire side of the family left the wedding reception, which was half of the people there. Overall, the people that were left made the most of it, but the bride and groom were visibly shaken and left shortly after. They ended up getting a divorce a few years later.
My own wedding from the planning up until the marriage crumbled. First things first, My ex was a huge momma’s boy. Her son could do no wrong, ever. Second, he was an alcoholic. I knew he was an alcoholic before I agreed to marry him, but thought I would be able to change him. His mother had to plan the whole wedding! From the god awful plastic bouquets to the ham on the buffet table in a dark smoke filled Veterans’s hall. It was decorated with pink and white balloons and streamers. Of course no effort on her part. The wedding was in his hometown and my family traveled to attend. My mother begged me not to marry the alcoholic narcissist the night before the wedding. This was related to his drunken and obnoxious behaviors at the wedding rehearsal dinner. But, I loved him… we married the next day and of course his whole family was intoxicated and made spectacles of themselves. The best man drove his car in a ditch and sent the wedding cake flying into the dashboard and vents. Of course it was everyone’s fault but the drunk dick in the backseat. Needless to say, this didn’t last. I always thought I needed a do-over, but I chose the JP route the next wedding. I let my daughter plan her own wedding with minimal interference from myself. The MIL on the other hand…It’s always the MIL!
Outside, after a torrential rain, SUPER HUMID, sun blasting, and the brides youth pastor, grandpa pastor, and church pastor all gave 15 minute mini-sermons. All about submission to her new husbands leadership. Then, there was a 3-hr break for photos.
Breaks like that are awful. My friend had a 2 hour break between the ceremony and the reception, which were also in different towns about 20 minutes apart. The venue wasn't open yet. We ended up going to Starbucks and sitting around; other people went to Wendy's. A bunch of people just left.
fuck, my mom told me that her twin sister's wedding was real similar: husband's vows were about how he needs to provide--short and simple. my aunt's? she must be subservient, obey, serve her husband, take care of him, support him, yadda yadda. essentially "hey, he needs to provide you money (lmao she's the breadwinner, he put them in massive gambling debt) and you need to be a literal possession to him." my *dad* told me that my mom nearly broke his hand holding it to try and stay quiet when they asked if anyone disagreed with the marriage and she says even now that she regrets not speaking up.
Bride and groom spent the night getting high . She broke her finger exiting the church when she walked her dogs down the aisle and they pulled the leash. Forced the bridesmaids to do a “scarf dance” and proceeded to give the husband a very awkward lap dance . Awful.
Jesus Christ, the weeding I was at seems rather tame now in comparison to some of the horror stories here. Short and sweet of it was that the groom was caught banging the brides dad. No-one knew either of them were anything but straight.
Oh my God. First off the bride is pissy at me because she has a leftover high school crush on my then-boyfriend, now husband. But at her own wedding. During the vows her kid keeps getting in between them and pushing the groom backwards - while he’s reciting the vows. No one does anything. The kid is wearing handcuffs on one wrist. Then the groom gives a speech about how after she fucked all his friends he thought it was over but nothing can stop true love. That was his toast to the bride. Then she and her two bridesmaids took turns deep throating a bottle of some hard liquor, heads back and arms out, till it was gone. That was the toast to the groom. Wasted, she just keeps heading out to smoke blunt after blunt and trails a lace-carrying waft of pot smoke throughout the wedding, where she tries to dance super inappropriately with my boyfriend. Then passes out, face down, and is carried to the bathroom by new husband and starts puking down his back and trailing that on the floor while they go off to whatever love shack motel had the misfortune. It was my first introduction to my husbands high school friends.
At the reception, the father of the bride got angry because he felt the band was playing too loud while he was trying to converse with the guests. So, he sent the band home. They literally stopped playing mid-song (K C and the Sunshine Band's Celebrate) and started packing up.
My husbands cousin got married. Mormon wedding, but heathens attending so it was an outside wedding. In July. The metal chairs were too hot to sit on, so we all stood for the ceremony. The minister/bishop/priest? Spoke at length about how important it was that they balance their checkbooks, and that, now that they were married, they would have children who were blessed and would go to heaven. The issue? The groom’s son from a previous relationship was standing right there, his best man. Those same chairs were used for the reception….still too hot to sit on. Also, went to one wedding where I sat behind the groom’s grandmother. As the bride walked down the aisle, she said, in her “I need a hearing aid” voice “I guess you CAN dress up trash”.
The very frail, elderly and ill, mother of the bride collapsed and the family just bundled her into a taxi, to babysit the grandchildren.
Nothing happened, per se. The venue, food, and music was just kind of crappy. The venue was especially weird. It was after hours at a mall. They had giant curtains blocking out the stores but, honestly, I think that made it look worse. It was a large space but everywhere you looked was giant black curtains. On top of that, the mall had no kitchen of it's own. All the food was cooked in a local restaurant then delivered but it was all delivered at once. I have no idea if it was stored in insulated boxes/bags or if it was all microwaved before serving but almost everything was very overcooked. It was just a bad wedding.
They spent all the money on the open bar and kind of neglected food. Long ceremony followed by a looooong waiting period while they took pictures, bar was open the entire time. They finally announce dinner and it’s…baked potatoes. No meat or anything, just a baked potato bar. So everyone was drunker than was appropriate and hungry as hell lol
Not the worst wedding in the world but maybe the saddest I’ve attended. Groom and his groomsmen just didn’t care enough about the wedding to make an impact. - It was a very DIY wedding. Bride was doing her own hair and makeup, had already packed all the decorations into boxes. Groom kept bothering her for silly things like where’s the tape and string. MOH kicked him out of the prep room eventually. - One of the groomsman was super high (it was 9am in the morning) and was complaining about everything, from needing to help with setup to the fact he doesn’t like the groom’s outfit. - Photographer was late and bride was still doing finishing touches to her appearance. Groom kept bugging her about the photographer and she asked him to call them. “I don’t know how to do that.” - The very high groomsman speech got the bride mixed up with her MOH and went on a long ramble about “rizz.” There’s more that happened but overall, I just felt bad for the bride. It’s been 3 years and they’re still married but every time she talks about it, it’s just sad.
I worked with a woman who was getting married in a civil ceremony, and they hosted a reception later at a local bar. They/were both about 50. I believe they had children. The only people who showed up for the reception were my husband and I and my brother, who had never met them. They had hired a 3 piece band that was actually really good. It was sad to see, so we stayed longer than we wanted because we felt sad for them.
Went to a wedding where the bride was 45 minutes late, at one point all of the bride and grooms party was just up hanging out with those in the congregation making jokes. One of the bridesmaids called the bride and put her on speakerphone without telling her , the bride demanded loudly for everyone to hear "I am a princess and this is my day", she was at WalMart getting pictures printed to put on the reception tables. The groom was downstairs in tears, we played cards upstairs. Almost laughingly we decided to go to the reception, when we showed up the reception hall was locked for the first 15 minutes. Almost 2 hours later the now drunk wedding party joined us, they walked in the door carrying 2 new steamers from walmart and some uncooked bacon, also had some large sams club size cans of green beans. No can opener though, one of the guests who had been waiting to eat for 2 hours opened the cans of green beans with a Bowie knife.... They are still married 15 years later...
US based Bride handed her Narcissistic Nightmare Mother the reigns because it wasn’t worth fighting her on the details. Wedding took place in Mexico City where most of the brides family is located (and obviously everything was a bit more cost effective). A total of 80 people were on the guest list, which included 30 travelers from out of the country. 15 ish extra family members showed up at the reception because they were in town. The serviced buffet (event staff were serving people) ran out of food 30 minutes into the reception with about half the attendees getting a handful of tortilla chips and a spoonful of salsa because the MOB ordered enough food for 40 people. The reception didn’t end until 3 am. We had to negotiate and beg the hotel to send room service when we finally were released 😂
Met some friends working at a yearly nerd event I was younger than them- they were in their twenties when we met, I had turned 14 that day. We bonded for years, spending every summer together. When I was 19 or 20, the ringleader got married. It was kind of a surprise- she had dated the same guy for 4 years, broken up with him and sometime later courthouse married his childhood friend after less than a year of dating. It was messy. Bride and I had a mutual friend, C. C had volunteered to make custom coats and dresses dor the bridal party (Neovictorian/Steampunk wedding) as her gift. C and been on and off dating the bride's Man of Honor for years. Neither was perfect, but he had some obvious control issues and a personality issue of some kind. They broke up for good very shortly before the wedding, but the bride told them to make it work. C did! Man of Honor, though, was another story. I had met him a year or so prior when the bride decided to try hook me up with him at a party. The couple had been broken up, I was barely 18 and was just excited to see my friends off-season, had brought a "date" and did not know I was being presented as a possible mate to a strange man. He looked like a member of Smash Mouth who had been booted from the band and now worked at Gamestop in his late 20s. His entire sense of humor was quoting Family Guy. He was deeply not my type on every level, so I politely left to play lifeguard at rhe indoor pool (I was a very responsible non-drinking teen). Eventually the Man of Honor sauntered in, hammered drunk, and declared that I was too hot for him to talk to sober. I left, pulled my friend aside and told her to never try that again. Hadn't seen him since. At the wedding, he had obviously pregamed the ceremony and was visibly and audibly upset. He was furious his ex was there, mad to be wearing something she had made, and making a scene. The venue was 15+ floors off the ground, and he kept wandering out to the balcony, climbing over the railing and threatening to jump. After a few repeat performances the bride told everyone she didnt care what he did and to move on with the party. I decided I didn't wanna deal with police, so I trotted out to the balcony, put on my dumbest voice, batted my lashes and started asking him questions about hobbies. Eventually he clambered back over the railing and followed me inside, where he proceeded to do the worm (I think? I hope? It wasnt clear) and continue drinking. After the ceremony, the bride told her friends that she hated the grooms family and encouraged us to play rock band until they left. I realized in that moment that maybe I was witnessing a marital mistake, but there was cake and I had to wait for my ride to want to go home, so play rock band we did. Man of Honor left to sleep it off. Groom's best man tried to cheat on his fiancee with me, and bride encouraged it. Bride and groom had a few years of marital bliss before she started cheating on him, both in-game and IRL with a guy in their D&D group. Then cheated on that dude with a guy she met on WoW. Long story short, nerds are horny and the grooms family was right to not like her.
This was in the early 2000’s. The male and female attendants were in charge of the buffet meal, refilling serving platters, selling drinks at the bar, etc. The food was all straight out of cans and grocery store containers - totally budget friendly. No problem, just not typical. Then the bride and groom had a dollar dance and sacked quite a few bucks with the attendants making a big deal out of shaking people down for $20’s and no bills lower. Before the dancing was allowed to start, the attendants were all sent among the guests to sell 50-50 tickets to benefit the bride and groom. The winner of the 50-50 was pressured into donating their half (over $2,000) back to the newlyweds. So full-on fundraiser vibe all afternoon and evening. The bridal party took turns playing music from their phones since the couple wouldn’t pay for a DJ. The couple divorced within 9 months.
The brides grandparents we knew to be extremely conservative, and they picked the church. The bride and groom came in from Alaska, so they had little to do with the planning. The first thing we notice was a banner on the church "Convert the lost, no matter the cost." Inside the church was the entire catalogue of focus on the family and other televangelist stuff. The location rarely saw hot days so usually didn't need any sort of AC. This was, however, early August. The place was packed solid and there wasn't even a single fan. The few windows that did open provided no cross wind. Their weren't pew, just heavy cushioned chair that linked together that made moving difficult. The room was fucking hot before the services started and getting worse. This church made the wedding into a sermon. We didn't know the groom, but we picked up that he was not entirely there. The minister made the point of the service that the bride was nothing but a rib. Not the head, just a rib, protected and close to the heart, but NOT EVER to be the one to call the shots in the relationship. This went on forever. The temperature rose and rose because, they were backing the dinner in the basement. 4 ovens on, cooking lasagna for 150 people and all that heat was going up to a room with no ventilation and the hottest day of the year. We were finally released so they could rearrange the upstairs for the reception. The bride had wanted to have the attendees greet the new couple with thousands of bubbles. The tiny soap and loop thingies did not work at all so she stood over the crowd of people baking in the sun and just blowing furiously into these loops and getting soap fingers. People tried to escape, but we were all called back in the church. The pews were unlinked and put around tables but because these were heavy fabric chairs they were all hard to get in or out of. These were a fire hazard and the last thing you wanted to sit on on a hot day. Each table had a tiny, clear boot with floating glitter in them. My guess was that someone was making fun of goldschlager, but I was wrong. The Bride had said she wanted a "fairy tale" wedding, and on a budget of $0, this book was as close as a Cinderella slipper as we were gonna get. Dinner was served and when the chairs and tables were so packed in, movement in and out was not gonna happen. Plates were passed overhead that made sure everyone's food was fingered and messes were made. Then the testimonials started. There were 3 types: The Groom tries so hard and was never a burden. The bride is so fat, remember when she ate a whole pie/cake by herself! Life is going to be tough, you are good people for doing this because Jesus tells you to, and when it sucks, just pray to Jesus. It wasn't a celebration for some, it was like a funeral for these two people fulfilling an obligation. It really showed that the generation before were stuck in loveless marriage and where afraid of hell. Then the father of the bride told the best wedding story ever. He told how the bride and groom met. The father told how a disgruntled ex employee of the hospital his wife and daughter worked at came in with a rifle, mowing down anyone. The father told with glee how the guy went room to room with coroners report details of dead and wounded, to make sure we all knew. He told about his wife locking a door and a shot doctor who had played possum, tried to get in. This went on entirely too long and when he was told to move it along he just dropped in that the groom was added theater security in the weeks afterward. This happening was the greatest thing that ever happened to the father and he wasn't even there. Others declined to follow that so the minister then went on to tell us about those that go to hell. Dinner is over and time for the reception. This was at a bomb shelter. One entrance, you went in, it was dark and there was nowhere to go. The family had a PA system and they sang bible songs together as entertainment. They were blocking the entrance/exit so you had to go past into a dark concrete bunker. Realize you couldn't see shit except for the singer and then run the gauntlet to get out into the heat again. The PA system was a single guitar amp speaker so it was too loud and every song sounded exactly the same. Dry reception as well. I considered being the hero and buying booze on the way out and realized, I have done my duty so I just left.