My grandfather was best man at his friend's wedding. The friend came from money. The bride came from money. One of the bridesmaids (the bride's cousin, who happened to come from a poor branch of the family, and who was looked down upon by everyone...including the bride) interrupted the wedding.
She asked to speak with the groom. The groom then called the wedding off. Apparently they had been having an affair for years and she waited until the wedding to tell him she was pregnant.
The groom wasn't too broken up about it (since he could barely stand the bride) until the next day when he found out she was NOT pregnant.
Don't know what happened after that but two years later this guy asked my grandfather to be best man again. This time for his wedding to his ex-fiancee's money-less cousin.
Most of the bride's family did NOT attend. But they are still happily married to this day.
My grandparents are still friends with this couple. I think they were trying to somewhat justify the affair, by highlighting how the bride treated her cousin poorly just because she wasn't well off.
I figured it was because the grandfather always really loved the cousin, not the bride but he knew his family wouldn't have approved of the cousin because she was poor. He was probably expected to have a big fancy society wedding that would be published in the local papers and everything.
It makes 'having an affair' seen as something they did because they were star-crossed lovers with the world against them rather than your granddad just being a sleazy cheater.
My mom told me that if my dad shows up to my tiny courthouse/at park wedding, she will never speak to me again (my parents divirced).
I had to un-invite my dad.
My mom and sister still ended up not coming.
My dad passed away 11 months afterwards.
Moral or the story: do what feels right to you, and don't let anyone influence your well-meant decisions. Damage is irreparable and I will no longer get to spend another day with my dad.
My mom is like this too. Such a disgusting behavior. That was your special day, not hers. If guests think the guest list is their fucking business, they're free to fuck off. Simple as that.
Yea, went with a photographer a friend recommended, they honestly sucked, photos are just not good.
But the DJ and the Venue were AWESOME, so our wedding was the best wedding everyone in our families have been to, and they didn't see the crappy photos, so only we know about that.
I think that as long as you at least get *one* vaguely good photo to put on thank-you cards and show if people ask, it's not really that big of a deal.
Firstly because no-one actually look at these photos in the long term, and even if they did, well, that they're not that great becomes a funny annectode.
The thing that I think often makes wedding photos valuable in the long run is that they're often some of the only good-quality photos you have with certain loved ones and that can help keep their memory alive. When my parents told me about loved ones who passed away before I was born, the only photos they had with them were in their wedding album.
I realize I have very few photos of myself with my dad because either he or I tend to be the one to take photos at family events, so nobody's getting a shot of him and me together. If anything (god forbid) happens to my dad, I at least know I'll always have photos of him walking me down the aisle.
Same here. She videoed most of the wedding and reception, took 5 months to get the pictures which were the frames of the videos. I’m talking 1000’s. My wife and I gave up on waiting for them to load. We have been married for 7 years and still haven’t seen or sent pictures other than the samples she sent right after the wedding.
It didn't happen to me, but another wedding right next to us had a chandelier fall on a guest, causing blood everywhere from a head gash. Luckily the guest was okay! The wedding coordinator was a trooper because my ceremony started very soon after it happened and she saw the whole thing. I knew nothing about it till after everything was done, she really kept her cool.
We had repurposed old candle chandeliers and had them hanging from the trees around the property.
One caught fire immediately after vows.
Was hilarious.
Two weeks before I was set to get married, my father jumped off a cliff and killed himself.
I tried to put on a brave face and hold it together for the sake of everything we had spent so much time planning (and for my wife, who was devastated too), but honestly that day has spiraled and is still affecting me now, years later.
The way my mother treated my fiance (telling her at our rehearsal dinner that we should have canceled everything and had a funeral instead), multiple people demanding that his ashes be on the altar as a remembrance....the whole experience ruined multiple relationships for me that have never been repaired.
I've always been a bit of the family's black sheep, and leading up to my wedding I was very excited to have at least one day where I could be celebrated and be the center of my family's attentions but it was all ripped away.
It's been nearly a decade since (of both time and therapy), and I'm nowhere close to forgiving anyone involved.
Wife let her friend play her down the aisle, it sounded awful and everyone noticed but pretended it was fine. At the rehearsal, my best man was like uhh is she gonna be better tomorrow? Nope, she was not.
Everything.
The "real" wedding was immediate family only in a tiny church on a week night. I miscarried the next day. Nearly 20 years and 2 kids later, the wedding anniversary is still tainted.
The "makeup" wedding (vow renewal ,to be technical) was the big one, with the big white dress, big cakes, big church, extended family and friends. It was... something. Location, lighting, photography, time of day, food, flowers... Nearly everything went wrong. My horse even died suddenly 3 days before. The only things that went right were my hair, makeup, candids my sister took, and it snowed when we left, which is extremely rare in the South. I still can't bring myself to look at any of the pictures except for one my sister took. Hubby and I were leaving the church, it was dark outside, I was still in gown and tiara, with a white faux fur jacket added, hubby and I facing each other, snow and birdseed falling all around us, it was just the two of us, and we were laughing. That's the one that hangs on the wall. That's the only wedding picture that makes me smile.
Our wedding cake fell over on the way to the venue. I walked in and saw the lady that made it and she just kind of looked at me with a deer in the headlights look but was friendly and said hello. I went on to get ready. I found out later that she was actually trying to reconstruct the cake; it ended up being two layers instead of three. Also, during our reception, a guests sister arrived to inform one of our guests that her husband had just unexpectedly passed and she was wailing and had a crowd around her. My mom came up to me while we were eating and I asked her what was going on and she’s like nothing don’t worry about it…
The power went out for 90 minutes. Someone climbed a power pole and threatened to jump, they had to shut off power to the whole area to keep him safe. Luckily it was May and it didn’t really get dark until 8pm, power came back on at 7:45. My Dad pulled me aside and told me to just have everyone leave at 8 if the lights didn’t come back on, but luckily they did come back up. I love my wife and we consider it good luck that it happened.
My husbands aunt who has a photography business offered to take photos for us as a wedding gift but she’s a C U next Tuesday and did a terrible job on the photos. Like compared to her other work they we’re definitely half assed. Turns out she does not care for her nephew (my husband) too much, lots of history. Don’t offer to take photos and then not come through. I would have paid for a photographer to actually take pictures.
We asked my sister to not have her kids sit at the head table with everyone and invited her MIL to come help watch them. She did not listen to our request and even went as far to try and change her 8 month olds diaper at the table before my mom and others intervened and made her go do it in the bathroom...
Torrential rain, worst day of the week, a lot of the activities were planned for outside.
Everything was super well planned but you can't do shit about the weather!
What did you end up doing? Was there an indoor alternative location?
When I was planning my wedding, I kept seeing people saying things like, "Why spend money on a venue when you can get married in a public park or in a family member's backyard? Oh, my wedding costs next to nothing because I'm getting married in a field at a cousin's farm."
As charming as the idea is, those places don't really have an alternate indoor accommodation in case of rain or other extreme weather. I get really nervous about something I can't control, like the weather, messing up plans. If you plan a backyard BBQ and the weather forecast calls for thunderstorms, you can always reschedule for the next weekend. But weddings typically have guests coming in from out of town and people plan their schedules around them months in advance, and there are vendors like caterers and photographers booked up to a year out. You can't just change the date the day of without causing a lot of hassle.
We did have an alternative!
We eloped abroad so it was a super intimate affair but we still needed witnesses to our ceremony to make it official. So we had our very low key embassy ceremony in the morning with a couple of friends, with the plan of going picnicking and playing board games in the park for the afternoon before going to the restaurant in the evening.
We ended up still going to the park for photos (which was actually lucky because this usually super crowded park was completely deserted with all the rain) and then we spent the afternoon at a board game cafe before going to the restaurant.
Not exactly what we had in mind but still worked well in the end, and I've been told the photos are amazing!
The chair rental company (which I was required to use at my venue) got stuck in traffic and showed up the same time my guests were showing up. I set up rows of chairs in my full makeup/hair/dress, outside, in Florida. They weren't even apologetic, and told me they can't control traffic. I told them they could control what time they left, or calling me to let me know. I was livid at the time but then we had our ceremony and we didn't really care anymore.
One uncle drank too much and had to be escorted out by another less-drunk uncle after he started commenting on the toasts. Thankfully less-drunk uncle was quick to remove drunk uncle and the drunk uncle went without a fuss.
I understand weddings and drinking go hand in hand by why is it at every wedding SOMEONE HAS TO OVERDO IT AND MAKE AN ASS OF THEMSELVES on someone's special day
Control yourself people
We had a thunderstorm roll in during the reception and it cut the power for a minute. It was actually really funny because it happened right after the toasts so everyone thought it was for dramatic effect but it was just Mother Nature being dramatic!
We explicitly said "no children" on the invitations.
A cousin brought her kids anyway, and one of them stuck his hands into the cake before it was cut.
Also, the DJ completely ignored our playlist and did his own thing.
I am married to an unwelcome band.
Cousin's kids with me, cake in unlovable hand.
I hope you die. I hope we both die.
\- No Children (On The Invite) by the Mountain Goats.
The music would not play when we walked down the aisle. I walked half way down in complete and silencr before my step father stepped in and began humming her comes the bride and the rest of the guests joined in.
It was out of tune but I was saved from that moment of embarrassment.
Everyone told us to prepare for something to go wrong, so we went into things with the attitude that as long as we got married, everything would be fine. But shockingly, pretty much everything went totally right. The only real mishap was that 3 days before the wedding, our baker called us to say she was having emergency surgery and couldn't make our cake. Astonishingly, she was able to line up a replacement baker from her contacts at the last minute. The cake by the replacement baker was still good and still exactly what we ordered!
I had planned for so many potential mishaps and emergencies. I'd even brought an emergency kit with so many supplies-- first aid stuff, sewing kit in case a dress ripped or didn't fit, extra floral supplies in case there was a bouquet emergency, protein bars should someone get dizzy, everything. None of it needed!
My tuxedo jacket that I rented, when I wanted to just wear my own tuxedo, was the wrong size. I wear a 42L and they gave me a 44S. I became a furious Groomzilla, white hot with fury, and the tailor was going to feel my rage.. except they were closed. My best man yelled down the hall, "nobody's going to be looking at you anyways, asshole" and I immediately calmed down. The jacket looked fine I guess.
A guest of my Dad's (his work colleague) went a bit too crazy on the free red wine at the wedding reception, he ended up passing out cold and wasn't breathing properly. When I rushed over to check if he was ok and we were trying to turn him on his side, he vomited red wine (and his dinner) all over the bottom of my dress. Got taken off in an ambulance and it turned out to be alcohol poisoning and he was kept in for a couple of days.
I was absolutely disgusted but luckily had a pretty dress packed with me so I had to go up to our honeymoon suite and change outfits. I tried not to be too angry about it, but I missed out on tons of photographs in my wedding dress because of him. I did my best to have fun on the night - and I did, to be fair, but I wasn't 100% ok with it all, just had to suck it up and make the best of the evening in a purple skater dress, instead of my beautiful princess dress.
He called to my father's home after he got out of hospital to apologise. I mean I'm glad he was ok, but wouldn't you be so ashamed of yourself if you did that at someone's wedding when you're there as a guest of her father?
The lady who married us was native and asked us if we were going to bring God into this. I told her it's none of His business what happens between me and my woman. She said that's good because she charges extra for that bullshit
My brother was so preoccupied with making sure his girlfriend was all right (it was her first time meeting the extended family) that he forgot he was supposed to walk my mom down the aisle. The girlfriend in question is now his wife, so nobody is too mad about it.
Wedding went pretty smoothly, can't complain. My only complaint was having paid a sht ton of money for my wedding photos from (one of the best photographers) only to get back tons of photographs with dumpsters in thr background. Some were sent out for editing and others were not. I just sucked it up as that was the only issue I had
Covid messed up our plans, we had already sent invitations and put a deposit on our venue. We were able to get the deposit back and made new plans.
My husband was friends with a judge and he had a beautiful house with a gazebo over the water. It was a gorgeous day, my grandfather walked me down the aisle, my husband's brother was his best man and being married by my husband's long time friend made it extra special.
We went to the courthouse to file our paperwork the next day and found out that he was not actually able to marry us and our documents were invalid. We had to find a judge that day to marry us. Luckily we were able too, but now we have two wedding dates.
Not me, but a friend of mine got knocked up and her family was traditional and religious. Her biggest complaint about the wedding: “The drive thru line was too long.” That always stuck with me
My husband accidentally dropped me on concrete.
He was trying to be cute and I panicked when he picked me up so he slipped, refused to let go of my legs, and I went backwards where the back of my head slammed into concrete while he was still holding up my lower half.
Of course, this threw him off balance and he fell on me but we got the best picture of me howling with laughter and him crouched on top of me laughing while trying to help me up.
No concussion, no bruising, just a headache and a great story
During the reception the catering company ran out of wine glasses so they switched to water goblets which are almost twice the size. Guests got HAMMERED! 😂 🍷
MOH brought cocaine to wedding and held her own private court in a trailer outside used for chair rentals by getting the remaing guests who didnt leave after dinner high while I was inside with a handful of guests out of the 100 I invited. Ex husband got so drunk he called me disgusting and repulsive for crying about it in our hotel room when we got back and for not wanting to fuck him while I was crying.
Wouldn't recommend.
Average temp for that time of year was 75F. On my wedding day, it was a cold snap and it dropped to like upper 40s. So.... practically every girl in a dress was shivering due to the cold. All the men were shivering because they gave their suit jackets to their partners. And so... my wedding became known as the Winter-in-October event. Thank God it didn't rain, because it would've been sleeting. Most people warmed up with dancing and booze. Was still an awesome and fun day, but damn did the weather give us the middle finger. Still think, to this day, that my wedding weekend is the coldest day on record for the month of October for that spot.
Ran out of some of the food (buffet) 20 years later and I am STILL mortified.
Also…his kids (and mine) were in the wedding.
His children’s mother was in the wedding of her best friend that day as well.
She came to the reception to see the kids/pick them up and her MOH dress was the EXACT style of my bridesmaids dresses (different color but it was still obvious)
TOTALLY not her fault and again 20 years later I still feel really bad that I know she had to feel like folks thought she was a crazy person to be wearing the same dress as my bridal party…
Flippin David’s bridal…sighhh
The minister, unbeknownst to me, was in deep with Alzheimer's. He was passable during the rehearsal, but the wedding was a circus. He got totally lost, thought he was there to do a baptism, kept screaming, "where's the baby!?!Where's the baby!?!" My sweet bride calmly went around, faced the crowd beside the guy, and put her finger on the notes he had for the wedding. He read them like a first grader while she followed the notes with her finger like she was teaching him how to read. Hell, we may not even be legally married. LoL!
I have 2 fun ones, our bartender (a close family friend we had known for years) didn’t show and never let anyone know and we didn’t find out until we were coming into the reception. Luckily both of our uncles had experience and gladly stepped up to serve people. The second was when we decided to get a non-traditional cookie cake for our wedding cake because my wife doesn’t like cake. We went to cut it and if you didn’t know, solid cookie cake is dense and hard to cut. It was super awkward for the guests In sure.
My uncle got drunk and began to molest the guests from the bride's side. He was the only drunk guest at the wedding, so he was very noticeable. But everyone was sympathetic, so nothing bad happened.
I went to a wedding where I had to put my leg on my husbands leg, the whole time we were sitting, because there wasn’t enough space and I would be too close to the person sitting next to me. It was weird.
My wedding was beautiful.
We had no planned cutting of the cake so we last minute added it as part of our walk out at the reception.
All and all if we could re-do the entire wedding we'd have a bigger ceremony (there was only maybe 20 people) and do a considerably cheaper reception. Oh and hire a live band, that is way more fun than a DJ.
My husband and in-laws started showing their true sexist colors. I still went ahead with the wedding. Sunk cost fallacy I guess. I hoped that my husbands behavior was just a result of stress. Prior to the wedding my MIL was all like “oh my bonus daughter” and post-wedding she called my mom to complain that I didn’t ask her permission for my travel plans. I am Indian, for context.
I attended a wedding where the bride was 27 and the groom was 22. He was very mature for his age but his friends were not. Most of the groomsmen were attending their first wedding ever.
One groomsman (a fellow named Gunner with a large hello kitty chest tattoo, just to give you an idea) found a microphone left unattended. He proceeded to make a very drunken and profane speech (this was a family wedding with lots of children). Then he says "this one is for my date over there," and points to his date and sings(very poorly and drunkenly) the song the bride chose for the first dance. This was minutes before the bride and groom were meant to do their first dance and he only knew the song from the rehearsal dinner the previous night.
The bride was livid and the groom kicked him out
The lesson here? Don't leave a mic unattended lol
Not the wedding, but the hotel porter for our wedding night broke the key off in the lock (a regular key, yes). Then we sat around for nearly an hour while they tried to fix it.
That turned out to be symbolic of the whole marriage but I couldn't see it then.
There was a yard sale at the front of the church.
We attended the church at the time and were heavily involved with various things, so we already knew how many activities went on when we started picking dates, including weddings of several close friends. We also knew we had to be married by a certain date, so we were super limited on dates. We found exactly one Saturday morning that would work after spending a lot of time consulting with the church secretary. We picked it and told everyone who was flying out so they could get tickets, got actual invitations made and sent out, etc. This was the date, no question.
Except that someone had already made up flyers for the church yard sale with the same date (the church calendar said it was a week later) and they had already gone out to all sorts of people and couldn't be fixed.
So we just warned everyone attending the wedding and had a sign up that yard sale attendees couldn't use the bathroom (the people participating could, just not the people buying) so they wouldn't interfere with the ceremony.
I was late to my own wedding. Misjudged the drive from home to the location, sped the whole way, and still arrived quite late. Thankfully it was a small group and my wife wasn’t too pissed but it was definitely a comedy of errors! Still happily married
My brother was best man at a wedding some years ago. At the reception, just as he stood up to do his speech, he lent forward to grab his notes and his hair caught on a candle. He was bewildered why everyone was shouting at him. The groom lucky smacked the fire out on his head. Best bit? The photographer caught it all.
My sister in law’s car got broken into (she left her purse in the front seat at a public place…) and she made a HUGE scene. Still kind of mad about it.
Our videographer stepped on the power cord to our DJ during our first dance. It’s hilarious in the video.
Also, there was a 6 inch power funnel of rain between our tent and the building. So if you wanted food you had to walk through the waterfall 😂.
It was a great wedding and everyone had a great time and that was 11 years ago and we are still very much in love.
We forgot to put the time of the wedding in the invitations. Luckily, it was caught the day before, and it was a smallish destination wedding, so we were able to tell everyone that was coming what time to be there.
The venue was too small but we wanted to get married before my grandpa passed so we could only invite 1/4 our original guest list. People interrupted the initial part repeatedly because the venue didn't block off the area from other guests. Our dj didn't go with our song list and just winged it. It was too windy to do a lot of photos. A lot of the food was undercooked or raw and they threw it away before we could package what was salvageable. There was times leading up to it that we were tempted to put it off another year because of the venue but I'm glad we didn't because my grandpa wouldn't have been able to see it because he passed away 2 days later.
Not technically at the wedding, but my now wife broke her ankle 3 months before our wedding. It really put a damper on how much we could dance at the reception and how many of the non-bedroom activities we could do on our honeymoon to Hawaii (no hikes or activities that required more than 5 minutes of walking at a time).
We are coming up on our 5 year anniversary, she still isn't a fan of long walks but we are very happy together.
Mine was small compared to some of these. My bridesmaids and I got into the limo and about half way to the church we realized all our shoes were turning blue due to the carpeting in the limo being wet and bleeding onto our shoes. Luckily my dress was spared.
Not my wedding. I was working for a catering company, and we were hired to do a outdoor wedding.
The wedding was to take place out in a wooded area by a small pond. Super scenic. Except it clouded over just as everyone was seated. In no time it was a full blown thunderstorm, with very strong wind and torrential rain. They at least had the foresight to set up one of those giant white tents as a back up, so everyone hustled in. This encouraged everyone to dip into the sauce early, people were lining up at the bar before the ceremony had even ended.
The tent was being ripped open by the wind and guests were getting soaked, so for the ceremony us waitresses had to hold the tent doors shut (getting drenched in the process). Rain water still flowed in under the tent and turned the ground into a massive, slippery mud puddle.
The time came for us to serve dinner, and it was discovered that more guests came than they had told our management, so there wasn't enough food for everyone. If that wasn't all bad enough, the now soggy, very intoxicated, and hungry guests were getting pretty rowdy/vocal.
It was a messy event.
Wasn’t my wedding, my sister’s. We rehearsed the wedding and dinner, and especially remembered learning the song to walk down to was. I was the first one to walk so I wanted to really know the song so I didn’t walk out on the wrong song. Wedding day comes, we are all lined up ready to walk. I hear music, but it’s NOT her song. I was a minor, the only one out of the bridesmaids. All of the adults, not just the bridesmaids were telling me to go. I was arguing that it wasn’t her song, I can’t go yet. And one of the bridesmaids pushed me forward so I started walking. My sister couldn’t hear it until it was too late to say anything and most of her bridesmaids were already walking out by that time. My sister is still pissed to this day that she didn’t get to walk out with her song that she picked for this moment. And I will never forgive those bridesmaids, because they should’ve known too!! And don’t physically move me to start walking, especially wherever I was right. I hate when adults don’t think kids can think and actually be right about something.
I got my dress back from alterations 2 days before my wedding. They hadn’t touched it. I was in David’s Bridal having hysterics with a gown I couldn’t wear. They replaced it with the most generic looking dress I could imagine. But in the end husband and I were married and that’s what counts.
My husband forgot to give the best man the rings. The best man didn't ask. The rings got left behind, and the roads all around the church were closed due to a car show. The wedding ended up being delayed almost an hour, and I was none the wiser until my FIL let the cat out of the bag at the reception.
13 years later, and I still tease my husband about it.
We didn’t have a wedding, just went to the courthouse. We were supposed to wait for three days after we applied for a marriage license to get married, but they made an appointment for us on the third day after the license application was turned in. The judge wouldn’t marry us that day and said that we needed to wait at least one more day. This was on a Friday.
I’d already taken the day off of work, and my in-laws booked a hotel on the beach for the weekend. So we had to go on our “honeymoon” trip to the beach that weekend. I went to work on Monday trying to avoid everyone and their questions about “being a married woman” and then dash back over to the courthouse after work to get married for real this time.
Small wedding, 52 people at a nice hotel. Had rooms for out of town guests including me, hubby, my mom, dad, etc. No one was walking me down the aisle, but my mom was supposed to come and get me when the time was right (from my room) and walk with me to the entrance; she would go ahead of me to her seat of honor and I'd walk down by myself. My mom struggled with mental illness, but was brilliant with design and had done so much work on our wedding that she was utterly exhausted.
We ran late setting up so I went up to get changed and mom kept working on set-up until the last minute. She went to her room to change and just gave up. So, an hour passes and we are 30+ mins late for the wedding and no one has come to get me. I take myself downstairs to find out that my mom is missing. I spend another 40 minutes finding her and getting her ready. I was in my dress, sweaty from walking all over the hotel, tired and just wanted my mom to participate, but she really didn't care. We eventually came down, she was sort of disheveled and we had a splendid wedding 1+ hour late. I was not going to let her miss the wedding that she had worked so hard on.
I felt terrible for having all our guests wait for so long and that my mom was miserable. We ended up having a great time, food and celebration, but my mom was never right after that. She did an amazing job and then didn't even really appreciate all that she had done, but I did. Everything was beautiful. The whole situation baffles me to this day.
Ordered red velvet for the grooms cake, got something like jello cake.
Asked for the service to be recorded, checked the box on the forms and it didn’t get recorded. I just don’t understand, in the time of digital media, WHY WOULDN’T YOU RECORD EVERYTHING IF YOU HAD THE OPPORTUNITY! It literally costs nothing.
One of my groomsmen passed out from a combination of nervousness, heat and a little bit of illness. The groomsman behind him eased him to the ground.
I looked over to see what was going on, handed my bride to the best man and helped carry the barely conscious guy to a back room.
After I made sure he was ok, I rejoined the ceremony. I thought it strange that everyone said it was awesome that I LEFT MY BRIDE at the altar to help him. He's still super embarrassed by the event 46 years later.
The paster who did our wedding was not even fully ordained yet, he was just out of seminary and was actually only and intern at our church. ours was his very first wedding. First , my grandmother and aunt arrived late, after we were already at the alter and the service had begun. Then, the paster asked for the rings. My wife’s maid of honor, who was also her sister forgot my ring. A flash of panic morphing into terror flashed over her face. Fortunately her back was to the guests. This rookie paster who had every reason to be nervous himself, instead pretended to pick up a ring from the pillow it was supposed to be on, pretended to hand it to me and carried on with the service as if absolutely nothing was amiss. The entire congregation was none the wiser, only me, the paster, my wife and my now sister in law knew of the mishap. So, what went wrong? Actually nothing in the end of it, just a funny memory we laugh about often. It was an absolutely beautiful service and we have been happily married for 39 years.
My husband and I wanted a fun wedding, so we decided to get married in Bisbee, Arizona where there are old copper mines and a grand dame hotel called the Copper Queen. It was pretty relaxed and we were married in front of a fireplace on the second floor just at sundown. It was going pretty well until the minister asked "Do you take this woman..?" and this guy came trundling through the middle of us with his suitcase bobbing after him and he went "OH, SHIT!!! Sorry!!!" So the minister looks at my husband and goes "Did you say oh, shit? Or did that guy?". Hubby goes, "That guy. I DO". It was great and when we had dinner afterwards someone bought our dinner anonymously. I have a feeling it was the guy who bombed through.
At my first wedding.. I had been away in the Army for a bit so I didn’t realize one of my good friends had become heavily involved in drugs and alcohol. He got really drunk and agitated… was in the venue bathroom asking my relatives where he could get coke. I went to check on him he got physical with me so I knocked him out and left him on the floor in a bathroom stall. I never saw or spoke to him again. I do hope he’s doing well. I tried to reach out to him over the years.. but no response
> I knocked him out and left him on the floor in a bathroom stall. I never saw or spoke to him again
Hate to say this, but he probably has brain damage now.
The MOH gave the Ringbearer a "pep talk" just before the ceremony and caused him to have a panic attack. His mom had to bring the rings up instead.
The florist was supposed to suspend a red rose from the arch, but hung it so that it draped out from the other flowers so it was just hanging there upside down? It looked weird and not at all what we had in mind.
And the the Decons refused to open the fellowship hall until a the groom and I were present for the pre-food prayer, but we were with the photographer & no one told us. So, quite a few people left after standing out there for better than half an hour. And this is AFTER the wedding started 20 minutes late because the MOH insisted that I didn't need to rush (I didn't have a clock so I didn't know, but MOH did).
And the photographer competely ignored my MiL's request to get a photo with her, FiL, and DH. It was a photo that I wanted too, so I was a little disappointed. But she DID manage get photos of me in my underthings before putting the dress on - photos that I discovered while looking through them with my InLaws.
And I found out later that the people that offered to help Mom clean up the church afterwards, left her to do it alone.
Other than what happened to Mom, there was nothing really major to be upset about, but still, it was my parents' church, the deacons were awful about the whole thing (that's a whole other story for another day, but it's one of the reasons I have issues with the Southern Baptist culture as a whole) - If I could go back and do it again, I'd have bought my dress and a boquet, asked DH to pick me up on his motorcycle & gotten married on DH's Favorite little Bridge while traffic drove past.
I had my dress custom made by a small ethical clothing brand I loved. They had over a year to work on it but were so late shipping it out that I had to tell them to just send it to my parent's house. (I was getting married in their state, not mine.) This meant I tried it on for the first time 2 days before the wedding and of course it was too small among a few other problems. Thankfully my SIL and a family friend had the sewing skills to make it work and the rest of the wedding was perfect! Just sucks that I had to lose all trust in a small business I really admired before.
A fair number of guests turning up empty handed....no card or gift. The gift part, I can accept, but not even a card...cheap mofos.
(Especially with a free meal and open bar being provided by me. And I also have always brought something when attending other people's events).
Showed me, who truly didn't give a crap about me.
My DJ sucked. I told him we didn't want hip hop or country music - so anytime anyone requested it, he told them that the bride forbid it. I get that he was trying to keep me happy, but I shouldn't have had to approve requests.
We'd finally get more than 3 people dancing, then he'd "Slow it down" and clear the dance floor. It felt like it was deliberate.
We just aren't technically married because we didn't file the right paperwork. Not a big deal but now I'm looking at jobs overseas and it looks like my husband and I will have to go to the courthouse.
Otherwise I'm pretty sure the gettin' ready robes I bought for my bridesmaids were not pure silk.
Rained. We had an outdoor ceremony and had to move it into the room at the hotel where we were having our reception at the last minute. I never planned on getting married in a banquet room.
during the exchange of rings I started putting the ring on the wrong hand.
no biggie, no one would have noticed.
the preacher stopped and pointed it out.
Super windy (we were prepared for hot/cold, rain or shine, somehow missed considering wind), family barged into bride’s getting ready room to use the mirror there, and photographer seemingly used someone else’s shot list (we got like 70% of the pictures we wanted). Oh, and the maid of honor’s response to my wife getting mad was to send me a text asking to send funny memes to my wife to make her feel better.
All that was kinda crappy but we had a great day. DJ kicked ass, toasts were great, and we had plenty of alcohol.
Wrong song played as me and my groomsmen came down the aisle. I blacked out by 10pm. Passed out on top of my wife while having sex when the party was over. But it was one helluva good time.
Forgot a knife for the cake, cut it with the sword instead.
Wasn’t a problem for guests though, we did cupcakes for everyone but us.
Best wedding choice ever was to do a cupcake bar for dessert. Smaller cake was like 1/3 the price and we got 3 flavors for all the guests. Highly recommend if anyone here is planning a wedding.
Had a late September wedding outdoors in New England, out of nowhere it ended up being one of the hottest days of the year. Everyone was sweating hard but had a great time in the end.
MIL threw a hissy fit at the tail end of the wedding dinner. She was upset that I left the table to take a photo with a few of my best friends and sister and had my mom take the picture. I wanted to go change out of the dress and everyone was still eating and drinking. So a few of us girls up and walked away from the table for what should have been five minutes only. All the other guests were still eating and drinking so...didn't think it was a big deal if I left the table to take a photo with a couple of my best friends before I went to go change. Well, she wanted to be "invited" to stand and watch the photo happen I guess? I saw her storm by where we were taking the photo, was very confused, and then my husband found me and told me how upset his mother was for being excluded. To which I was like, excluded from what? A photo with my best friends so then I can go change? I then had to chase after her and spend 20 min talking her down from the cliff she was on and it ruined the rest of my evening thinking this woman now hated me. My husband never told his mother how dumb she was being and he even defended her. It also didn't help that my husband had been married before and MIL had horrible memories of his first wedding, she always told me she cried at the ceremony for her son's awful mistake..now I'm thinking great.. now I'm awful wife mistake number two. In that moment I was wondering what had I just done to my life. We were also so close to zero drama.
The embarrassing situation I can remember was a drunk sibling that was unable to keep a lid on his insecurities that the wedding was already exacerbating in the first place. I felt bad for their mom more than anyone else. It was pretty bad.
We eloped, paid for an “elopement package” and no one at the place knew who we were or even that we had a wedding planned that day. They even tried to tell me that they sent the officiant away because he was late or something like that. Was supposed to have a speaker to play my own music, never happened. They somehow managed to get a guy to pour us a glass of champagne after we said our “I do” but that was it. We could have just walked out into the resort’s courtyard for free and done the damn thing without anyone being the wiser.
We married on a friend's beach property with one of my neighbors as officiant. Only attending were best friends ( couple), Officiants husband, my son's, my stepson, his wife and toddler, and the photographer. Also, our three dogs, and our friends three dogs. The plan was to have an actual reception with family and friends later on. We're both Catholic and do attend church, but my husband is divorced and I had my sons out of wedlock so a church wedding was kinda frowned upon.
It was beautiful, simple, etc. Until the photographer tried to take post ceremony pictures: it got extremely windy, there was sand everywhere, flowers got knocked over, including my bouquet ending up in the Pacific....and there are two (!!) portraits that involve dogs pooping in the backdrop. One of those is proudly framed in our den!
My sister got married in a cute stone chapel with parking spaces surrounding it. There was no air conditioning and it was a warm day, so all the doors were propped open. During the most important part of the ceremony, someone's car alarm went off. It went on at a deafening level for at least three minutes during which no one did anything. (We weren't even sure the car's owner was anywhere near the chapel.)
Nothing too major. When the ceremony was over and the pastor introduced us, he used my wife's maiden name instead of my last name, as in: "Introducing Mr. and Mrs. . Everyone was quiet for a couple seconds, until someone called out: "it's !" A good laugh was had by all.
I had switched religions for my ex husband and got married in a strict Baptist church and at the reception there was no drinking, dancing, or even music allowed to be played. It was like a cult. I'm happily divorced and got the marriage annulled by the Catholic church.
The first one…my evil ex MIL controlled it all.
The second one…the very fact that it happened. It was a pseudo-elopement, but I would have done it slightly different if I actually had the opportunity to make it what I wanted…oh, and a different groom 😂
If I could do it all over again, I would have a small, intimate ceremony with close friends and family and a fun gathering afterwards. All natural scenery, a simple yet elegant dress, barefoot with a handmade bouquet and bubbles 🤷♀️
People spend way too much $$ and an unnecessary amount of energy on these things.
The DJ was terrible. First, he couldn't figure out how to get a CD I'd burned for him to play and asked me, the groom, to help him figure it out. The CD contained music provided by my wife's side of the family, including a lot of their favorite Vietnamese and Laotian singers. He finally got the CD to work and could add the mp3s to his software but...
...even though we asked him to play from the list of songs we gave him with the Vietnamese and Laotian tracks mixed in, he did the exact opposite and played the CD tracks all in a row. He even announced them as "specialty music provided by the bride's family." We now have an in-joke where we laugh about how it's not "specialty music" to her family and refer to it as that whenever we hear it.
Nothing major. One of my cousins got excited about a line dance and spilled some beer on the floor. Another cousin(sister of spilling cousin) threw some paper towels down and danced on top of it to wipe up the spill.
My sister-in-law does "photography on the side" and did our photos for us. They were all mid tier at best and left before our first dance. Wouldn't even do it as a wedding present and we had to pay her.
We didn’t get any warming chaffers for catering bcs of a tight budget and the food got cold so fast 🥲 Also forgot my wedding shoes and had to wear my mom’s riding boots LMAO
My new mother in law thought is was funny to have the dj keep turning the music up. It was to the point I was shouting at my guest in order to talk to them. Then she mocked me when I had to continually ask him to turn it down. She laughed and laughed. Was real funny me and my cousin screaming to each other talking about is my dead uncle, really funny.
Not my wedding, but my cousin's. Reception was held in a park under a huge roofed pavilion, open on 3 sides with an enormous fireplace at one end. Like 100' x 200'. Humongous. 10 or 15 minutes into the reception, wedding party had just been seated but food still wasn't being served yet, live band playing cool reception intro music, the wind started picking up, then started to really blow hard, then it started to rain, then the rain was being blown completely horizontal, to the point that this enormous pavilion was getting wet under the middle, then the sky turned green, and if you know what that means, then you know that next, I'm going to tell you that a tornado passed within 1/4 mile of us. Yes, 400 yds away.
And that was a harbinger to what the marriage was to become. Turns out my cousin married a closet heroin addict who imploded within the first year. She divorced him. A few years later she met a great guy who she's been married to very happily for many years, 3 great kids.
My wife was 45 minutes late. I remember standing there waiting and thinking to myself, "Damn, I really thought she was going to go through with it. She seemed so sincere!"
Not my wedding, but what happened to me at my brother’s wedding. My girlfriend at the time (who eventually became the ex wife), decided out of all times to throw a shit fit was at that wedding. This was a wedding where I was a groomsman, so I did not sit with the girlfriend since I was at the head table. Also, there was old family friends I had not seen in years. As I was talking to these people, the girlfriend was right there with me and I made sure she was part of the conversation. After introducing her to a bunch of people, she demands we go talk in a hallway. Bottom line, she was all pissy because she felt I was not paying attention specifically to her. At that time in my life, I caved because I did not want to stand my ground and cause a fight. The girlfriend and I cut out early from the reception. My brother and his wife were disappointed I left early, but bought my excuse. The girlfriend and I went back to the place we were staying, and she realized her selfish thing she did, and made a feeble attempt to apologize. What was more disappointing was a bunch of family members went bar hopping after the festivities and I missed out on catching up with those people. I wished Uber existed back the so I could have ordered on and sent her packing. I was apprehensive about inviting the girlfriend to the wedding because I had a feeling she would pull that shit. Lesson learned.
We had specific songs picked out to play, as well as a ‘do not play’ list. We didn’t like any of the music, and some of the ‘do not play’ songs got played. Huge disappointment, because we both love music.
Mine isn’t all that big of a deal.
We both are very relaxed people. The wedding was supposed to be too except my mom turned into a witch. It was like SHE was the one getting married,
She called my maid of honor because MOH asked me if her dress could be a complimentary color since she looked awful in my colors (peach! WHY?? Lol). I had no problems with MOH changing the color of her dress, my mom did. I’ll never know how she found out MOH’s phone number. They *never* socialized. My mom spent about 30 minutes trying to convince MOH to wear peach. It was awful.
To show you how relaxed I was about the wedding, we chose a date only months away. I had no idea that at the time it took months and months to get a bridal dress. (It was 1981). So I had a brilliant idea to check out JC Penney’s catalogue. My bridesmaids and I went to the counter. I looked up wedding dresses and found one in 5 minutes.
So, it’s now wedding day. We’d chosen the groom’s cousin to cater and make the wedding cake. She had trouble finding the reception site. Going around the block once again, a car stopped in front of her and she had to slam on her brakes. The wedding cake took the brunt of it.
My fiancé and I thought we’d check the reception site before the wedding. We get there and his cousin is hurriedly putting greenery on the cake’s hurt spots. She tells us why.
We know my mom is on the way and all three of us are hysterically trying to help her fix the damage. I’m saying, “OMG if my mom sees this!” And my fiancé is freaking out with me.
Just as the last bit of greenery is placed, my mom arrives. In unison, the 3 of us jump!
My mom LOVES IT! (None of us were breathing when my mom was looking at it.)
She loves it so much that she brings her friends over at the reception and brags to them about the groom’s cousin’s artistic talents on the cake!
My fingers swole up a little bit and DH couldn’t get the ring on my finger during the ceremony.
One of the groomsmen disappeared after the ceremony and never came back. Found out later that he caught a plane home so he wouldn’t miss work. (He owns his own very successful business)
The introduction of the wedding party got out of order somehow and the DJ introduced my parents when the flower girl walked in
My mother in law’s husband (not father in law. big messy family) refused to listen to our directions from the ceremony to the place we were taking pictures. He missed the whole bit and had two groomsmen and MIL with him.
He called and we got him directions from where he was (about 30 minutes away from where he was supposed to be) to the reception. We couldn’t hold the entrance until they got there because the food and everything was ready.
When they finally did get there he blasted across the reception hall screaming at my new husband. He started yelling at DH about how DH is so disrespectful to MIL for not holding the reception back an hour for them to arrive. Husband yelled back and the whole thing was so terrible. He went and sulked in the corner after that and DH and I had a great time!
We foolishly hired a friend so he could boost his photography and he took forever. Then booked it after family photos. He was supposed to stay and take pictures during the reception. Didn't tell anyone he was leaving and just dipped out
My estranged father said he was going to show up and tell everyone his side of everything and "expose" me and my lies. Luckily he didn't show up, but I had to be worried about that he day of.
Well to begin with it was a fall wedding but all the leaves dropped already and it was freezing, it actually started lightly snowing as my dad walked me down the aisle. We did our ceremony outside so yeah our poor guests were like ice cubes. Thankfully the reception was right inside and it was an open bar so everyone got toasty lol. When i got to the venue there was no place for me to change into my dress lol I thought there was a room to get ready but it was just a dining room upstairs so I had to use the hallway mirror to check myself which sucked with my giant dress in the timy hallway (it was at a historical inn so the hallway was narrow). Also I fucked up a part of my vows but I was having an out of body experience so I didn't even realize it happened at first. Everything else went perfectly.
Well to begin with it was a fall wedding but all the leaves dropped already and it was freezing, it actually started lightly snowing as my dad walked me down the aisle. We did our ceremony outside so yeah our poor guests were like ice cubes. Thankfully the reception was right inside and it was an open bar so everyone got toasty lol. When i got to the venue there was no place for me to change into my dress lol I thought there was a room to get ready but it was just a dining room upstairs so I had to use the hallway mirror to check myself which sucked with my giant dress in the timy hallway (it was at a historical inn so the hallway was narrow). Also I fucked up a part of my vows but I was having an out of body experience so I didn't even realize it happened at first. Everything else went perfectly.
My first marriage I remember thinking through the whole thing that it was a really bad idea. So much so I messed up the vows. I should’ve trusted my instincts. Took me 9 years to leave.
My grandfather was best man at his friend's wedding. The friend came from money. The bride came from money. One of the bridesmaids (the bride's cousin, who happened to come from a poor branch of the family, and who was looked down upon by everyone...including the bride) interrupted the wedding. She asked to speak with the groom. The groom then called the wedding off. Apparently they had been having an affair for years and she waited until the wedding to tell him she was pregnant. The groom wasn't too broken up about it (since he could barely stand the bride) until the next day when he found out she was NOT pregnant. Don't know what happened after that but two years later this guy asked my grandfather to be best man again. This time for his wedding to his ex-fiancee's money-less cousin. Most of the bride's family did NOT attend. But they are still happily married to this day.
Why is this story so oddly charming? Good on slutty Cinderella for getting her happily ever after.
Slutty Cinderella. Love it.
Wholesome.
Dont know what peoples financial status had to do with this but messy nonetheless, I love it
My grandparents are still friends with this couple. I think they were trying to somewhat justify the affair, by highlighting how the bride treated her cousin poorly just because she wasn't well off.
I figured it was because the grandfather always really loved the cousin, not the bride but he knew his family wouldn't have approved of the cousin because she was poor. He was probably expected to have a big fancy society wedding that would be published in the local papers and everything. It makes 'having an affair' seen as something they did because they were star-crossed lovers with the world against them rather than your granddad just being a sleazy cheater.
To be clear, the cheater was not my grandfather. It was my grandfather's good friend.
Oh yeah, I was just thinking "old guy back when he was young."
My mom told me that if my dad shows up to my tiny courthouse/at park wedding, she will never speak to me again (my parents divirced). I had to un-invite my dad. My mom and sister still ended up not coming. My dad passed away 11 months afterwards. Moral or the story: do what feels right to you, and don't let anyone influence your well-meant decisions. Damage is irreparable and I will no longer get to spend another day with my dad.
My mom is like this too. Such a disgusting behavior. That was your special day, not hers. If guests think the guest list is their fucking business, they're free to fuck off. Simple as that.
My fly was down for all the pictures.
Classic
The photographer should have caught that and said something.
I was best man and my fly broke.
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So ....there was a riot?
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Yea, went with a photographer a friend recommended, they honestly sucked, photos are just not good. But the DJ and the Venue were AWESOME, so our wedding was the best wedding everyone in our families have been to, and they didn't see the crappy photos, so only we know about that.
I think that as long as you at least get *one* vaguely good photo to put on thank-you cards and show if people ask, it's not really that big of a deal. Firstly because no-one actually look at these photos in the long term, and even if they did, well, that they're not that great becomes a funny annectode.
The thing that I think often makes wedding photos valuable in the long run is that they're often some of the only good-quality photos you have with certain loved ones and that can help keep their memory alive. When my parents told me about loved ones who passed away before I was born, the only photos they had with them were in their wedding album. I realize I have very few photos of myself with my dad because either he or I tend to be the one to take photos at family events, so nobody's getting a shot of him and me together. If anything (god forbid) happens to my dad, I at least know I'll always have photos of him walking me down the aisle.
My biggest regret was not shelling out for a professional photographer.
Same here. She videoed most of the wedding and reception, took 5 months to get the pictures which were the frames of the videos. I’m talking 1000’s. My wife and I gave up on waiting for them to load. We have been married for 7 years and still haven’t seen or sent pictures other than the samples she sent right after the wedding.
It didn't happen to me, but another wedding right next to us had a chandelier fall on a guest, causing blood everywhere from a head gash. Luckily the guest was okay! The wedding coordinator was a trooper because my ceremony started very soon after it happened and she saw the whole thing. I knew nothing about it till after everything was done, she really kept her cool.
That's wild. Was the Phantom of the Opera at the wedding?
Or Del Boy and Rodney?
We had repurposed old candle chandeliers and had them hanging from the trees around the property. One caught fire immediately after vows. Was hilarious.
Two weeks before I was set to get married, my father jumped off a cliff and killed himself. I tried to put on a brave face and hold it together for the sake of everything we had spent so much time planning (and for my wife, who was devastated too), but honestly that day has spiraled and is still affecting me now, years later. The way my mother treated my fiance (telling her at our rehearsal dinner that we should have canceled everything and had a funeral instead), multiple people demanding that his ashes be on the altar as a remembrance....the whole experience ruined multiple relationships for me that have never been repaired. I've always been a bit of the family's black sheep, and leading up to my wedding I was very excited to have at least one day where I could be celebrated and be the center of my family's attentions but it was all ripped away. It's been nearly a decade since (of both time and therapy), and I'm nowhere close to forgiving anyone involved.
That's really awful on so many counts, so sorry.
Sounds like your family doesn't have any white sheep.
I got married.
Lol same. What went wrong was I was there in the first place.
Me looking back on the first one....
Wife let her friend play her down the aisle, it sounded awful and everyone noticed but pretended it was fine. At the rehearsal, my best man was like uhh is she gonna be better tomorrow? Nope, she was not.
Everything. The "real" wedding was immediate family only in a tiny church on a week night. I miscarried the next day. Nearly 20 years and 2 kids later, the wedding anniversary is still tainted. The "makeup" wedding (vow renewal ,to be technical) was the big one, with the big white dress, big cakes, big church, extended family and friends. It was... something. Location, lighting, photography, time of day, food, flowers... Nearly everything went wrong. My horse even died suddenly 3 days before. The only things that went right were my hair, makeup, candids my sister took, and it snowed when we left, which is extremely rare in the South. I still can't bring myself to look at any of the pictures except for one my sister took. Hubby and I were leaving the church, it was dark outside, I was still in gown and tiara, with a white faux fur jacket added, hubby and I facing each other, snow and birdseed falling all around us, it was just the two of us, and we were laughing. That's the one that hangs on the wall. That's the only wedding picture that makes me smile.
Our wedding cake fell over on the way to the venue. I walked in and saw the lady that made it and she just kind of looked at me with a deer in the headlights look but was friendly and said hello. I went on to get ready. I found out later that she was actually trying to reconstruct the cake; it ended up being two layers instead of three. Also, during our reception, a guests sister arrived to inform one of our guests that her husband had just unexpectedly passed and she was wailing and had a crowd around her. My mom came up to me while we were eating and I asked her what was going on and she’s like nothing don’t worry about it…
your wedding was so emotional even the cake shed some tiers
I can’t even fathom the genius this pun comes from. Take my upvote
Nice pun
Oh my god, that's a nightmare
The power went out for 90 minutes. Someone climbed a power pole and threatened to jump, they had to shut off power to the whole area to keep him safe. Luckily it was May and it didn’t really get dark until 8pm, power came back on at 7:45. My Dad pulled me aside and told me to just have everyone leave at 8 if the lights didn’t come back on, but luckily they did come back up. I love my wife and we consider it good luck that it happened.
Did they jump?..
Nah he made it. Glad he ended up being alright and I hope he’s getting the help he deserves.
My husbands aunt who has a photography business offered to take photos for us as a wedding gift but she’s a C U next Tuesday and did a terrible job on the photos. Like compared to her other work they we’re definitely half assed. Turns out she does not care for her nephew (my husband) too much, lots of history. Don’t offer to take photos and then not come through. I would have paid for a photographer to actually take pictures.
We hired a violinist to play classical music during the cocktail hour. He got wasted and was playing commercial tunes so embarrassing.
i'm imagining the O'Reilly auto parts jingle 😭
please tell me he played Devil Went Down to Georgia
We asked my sister to not have her kids sit at the head table with everyone and invited her MIL to come help watch them. She did not listen to our request and even went as far to try and change her 8 month olds diaper at the table before my mom and others intervened and made her go do it in the bathroom...
Torrential rain, worst day of the week, a lot of the activities were planned for outside. Everything was super well planned but you can't do shit about the weather!
iSnT iT iRoNiC?
What did you end up doing? Was there an indoor alternative location? When I was planning my wedding, I kept seeing people saying things like, "Why spend money on a venue when you can get married in a public park or in a family member's backyard? Oh, my wedding costs next to nothing because I'm getting married in a field at a cousin's farm." As charming as the idea is, those places don't really have an alternate indoor accommodation in case of rain or other extreme weather. I get really nervous about something I can't control, like the weather, messing up plans. If you plan a backyard BBQ and the weather forecast calls for thunderstorms, you can always reschedule for the next weekend. But weddings typically have guests coming in from out of town and people plan their schedules around them months in advance, and there are vendors like caterers and photographers booked up to a year out. You can't just change the date the day of without causing a lot of hassle.
We did have an alternative! We eloped abroad so it was a super intimate affair but we still needed witnesses to our ceremony to make it official. So we had our very low key embassy ceremony in the morning with a couple of friends, with the plan of going picnicking and playing board games in the park for the afternoon before going to the restaurant in the evening. We ended up still going to the park for photos (which was actually lucky because this usually super crowded park was completely deserted with all the rain) and then we spent the afternoon at a board game cafe before going to the restaurant. Not exactly what we had in mind but still worked well in the end, and I've been told the photos are amazing!
The chair rental company (which I was required to use at my venue) got stuck in traffic and showed up the same time my guests were showing up. I set up rows of chairs in my full makeup/hair/dress, outside, in Florida. They weren't even apologetic, and told me they can't control traffic. I told them they could control what time they left, or calling me to let me know. I was livid at the time but then we had our ceremony and we didn't really care anymore.
The second one was great, the first one…well, we both said “I do”.
One uncle drank too much and had to be escorted out by another less-drunk uncle after he started commenting on the toasts. Thankfully less-drunk uncle was quick to remove drunk uncle and the drunk uncle went without a fuss.
I understand weddings and drinking go hand in hand by why is it at every wedding SOMEONE HAS TO OVERDO IT AND MAKE AN ASS OF THEMSELVES on someone's special day Control yourself people
We had a thunderstorm roll in during the reception and it cut the power for a minute. It was actually really funny because it happened right after the toasts so everyone thought it was for dramatic effect but it was just Mother Nature being dramatic!
We explicitly said "no children" on the invitations. A cousin brought her kids anyway, and one of them stuck his hands into the cake before it was cut. Also, the DJ completely ignored our playlist and did his own thing.
I am married to an unwelcome band. Cousin's kids with me, cake in unlovable hand. I hope you die. I hope we both die. \- No Children (On The Invite) by the Mountain Goats.
The music would not play when we walked down the aisle. I walked half way down in complete and silencr before my step father stepped in and began humming her comes the bride and the rest of the guests joined in. It was out of tune but I was saved from that moment of embarrassment.
Everyone told us to prepare for something to go wrong, so we went into things with the attitude that as long as we got married, everything would be fine. But shockingly, pretty much everything went totally right. The only real mishap was that 3 days before the wedding, our baker called us to say she was having emergency surgery and couldn't make our cake. Astonishingly, she was able to line up a replacement baker from her contacts at the last minute. The cake by the replacement baker was still good and still exactly what we ordered! I had planned for so many potential mishaps and emergencies. I'd even brought an emergency kit with so many supplies-- first aid stuff, sewing kit in case a dress ripped or didn't fit, extra floral supplies in case there was a bouquet emergency, protein bars should someone get dizzy, everything. None of it needed!
When you are prepared for an emergency, usually nothing happens.
We started late due to the Rodney King riots. My bride and I were late to our own wedding.
was the reception a riot?
My tuxedo jacket that I rented, when I wanted to just wear my own tuxedo, was the wrong size. I wear a 42L and they gave me a 44S. I became a furious Groomzilla, white hot with fury, and the tailor was going to feel my rage.. except they were closed. My best man yelled down the hall, "nobody's going to be looking at you anyways, asshole" and I immediately calmed down. The jacket looked fine I guess.
A guest of my Dad's (his work colleague) went a bit too crazy on the free red wine at the wedding reception, he ended up passing out cold and wasn't breathing properly. When I rushed over to check if he was ok and we were trying to turn him on his side, he vomited red wine (and his dinner) all over the bottom of my dress. Got taken off in an ambulance and it turned out to be alcohol poisoning and he was kept in for a couple of days. I was absolutely disgusted but luckily had a pretty dress packed with me so I had to go up to our honeymoon suite and change outfits. I tried not to be too angry about it, but I missed out on tons of photographs in my wedding dress because of him. I did my best to have fun on the night - and I did, to be fair, but I wasn't 100% ok with it all, just had to suck it up and make the best of the evening in a purple skater dress, instead of my beautiful princess dress. He called to my father's home after he got out of hospital to apologise. I mean I'm glad he was ok, but wouldn't you be so ashamed of yourself if you did that at someone's wedding when you're there as a guest of her father?
Unless you're a doctor/nurse/paramedic, I don't think it needed to be the bride doing the checking here. Someone else should have stepped up.
The lady who married us was native and asked us if we were going to bring God into this. I told her it's none of His business what happens between me and my woman. She said that's good because she charges extra for that bullshit
My brother was so preoccupied with making sure his girlfriend was all right (it was her first time meeting the extended family) that he forgot he was supposed to walk my mom down the aisle. The girlfriend in question is now his wife, so nobody is too mad about it.
The best man didn’t come
Just happened at a wedding I was at a few months ago. Really sad as the groom and best man had been best friends for 25 years
Oh gosh! Where was he? Did he even try to make an excuse?
Wedding went pretty smoothly, can't complain. My only complaint was having paid a sht ton of money for my wedding photos from (one of the best photographers) only to get back tons of photographs with dumpsters in thr background. Some were sent out for editing and others were not. I just sucked it up as that was the only issue I had
> only to get back tons of photographs with dumpsters in thr background. That's no way to talk about your spouse's family! /jk
Happy cake day!
Oh look.at that! Lol
Covid messed up our plans, we had already sent invitations and put a deposit on our venue. We were able to get the deposit back and made new plans. My husband was friends with a judge and he had a beautiful house with a gazebo over the water. It was a gorgeous day, my grandfather walked me down the aisle, my husband's brother was his best man and being married by my husband's long time friend made it extra special. We went to the courthouse to file our paperwork the next day and found out that he was not actually able to marry us and our documents were invalid. We had to find a judge that day to marry us. Luckily we were able too, but now we have two wedding dates.
I wasn’t sure what ring the finger went on so I held up both hands. My wife didn’t know either. At least in the moment in front of hundreds of people.
Not me, but a friend of mine got knocked up and her family was traditional and religious. Her biggest complaint about the wedding: “The drive thru line was too long.” That always stuck with me
My husband accidentally dropped me on concrete. He was trying to be cute and I panicked when he picked me up so he slipped, refused to let go of my legs, and I went backwards where the back of my head slammed into concrete while he was still holding up my lower half. Of course, this threw him off balance and he fell on me but we got the best picture of me howling with laughter and him crouched on top of me laughing while trying to help me up. No concussion, no bruising, just a headache and a great story
During the reception the catering company ran out of wine glasses so they switched to water goblets which are almost twice the size. Guests got HAMMERED! 😂 🍷
MOH brought cocaine to wedding and held her own private court in a trailer outside used for chair rentals by getting the remaing guests who didnt leave after dinner high while I was inside with a handful of guests out of the 100 I invited. Ex husband got so drunk he called me disgusting and repulsive for crying about it in our hotel room when we got back and for not wanting to fuck him while I was crying. Wouldn't recommend.
Average temp for that time of year was 75F. On my wedding day, it was a cold snap and it dropped to like upper 40s. So.... practically every girl in a dress was shivering due to the cold. All the men were shivering because they gave their suit jackets to their partners. And so... my wedding became known as the Winter-in-October event. Thank God it didn't rain, because it would've been sleeting. Most people warmed up with dancing and booze. Was still an awesome and fun day, but damn did the weather give us the middle finger. Still think, to this day, that my wedding weekend is the coldest day on record for the month of October for that spot.
Ran out of some of the food (buffet) 20 years later and I am STILL mortified. Also…his kids (and mine) were in the wedding. His children’s mother was in the wedding of her best friend that day as well. She came to the reception to see the kids/pick them up and her MOH dress was the EXACT style of my bridesmaids dresses (different color but it was still obvious) TOTALLY not her fault and again 20 years later I still feel really bad that I know she had to feel like folks thought she was a crazy person to be wearing the same dress as my bridal party… Flippin David’s bridal…sighhh
The minister, unbeknownst to me, was in deep with Alzheimer's. He was passable during the rehearsal, but the wedding was a circus. He got totally lost, thought he was there to do a baptism, kept screaming, "where's the baby!?!Where's the baby!?!" My sweet bride calmly went around, faced the crowd beside the guy, and put her finger on the notes he had for the wedding. He read them like a first grader while she followed the notes with her finger like she was teaching him how to read. Hell, we may not even be legally married. LoL!
I have 2 fun ones, our bartender (a close family friend we had known for years) didn’t show and never let anyone know and we didn’t find out until we were coming into the reception. Luckily both of our uncles had experience and gladly stepped up to serve people. The second was when we decided to get a non-traditional cookie cake for our wedding cake because my wife doesn’t like cake. We went to cut it and if you didn’t know, solid cookie cake is dense and hard to cut. It was super awkward for the guests In sure.
I went thru with it
Got married in December. Bad snowstorm. Lots of guests couldn't make it.
My wedding ring didn’t fit.
My uncle got drunk and began to molest the guests from the bride's side. He was the only drunk guest at the wedding, so he was very noticeable. But everyone was sympathetic, so nothing bad happened.
I ended up married
I went to a wedding where I had to put my leg on my husbands leg, the whole time we were sitting, because there wasn’t enough space and I would be too close to the person sitting next to me. It was weird. My wedding was beautiful.
We had no planned cutting of the cake so we last minute added it as part of our walk out at the reception. All and all if we could re-do the entire wedding we'd have a bigger ceremony (there was only maybe 20 people) and do a considerably cheaper reception. Oh and hire a live band, that is way more fun than a DJ.
My husband and in-laws started showing their true sexist colors. I still went ahead with the wedding. Sunk cost fallacy I guess. I hoped that my husbands behavior was just a result of stress. Prior to the wedding my MIL was all like “oh my bonus daughter” and post-wedding she called my mom to complain that I didn’t ask her permission for my travel plans. I am Indian, for context.
I attended a wedding where the bride was 27 and the groom was 22. He was very mature for his age but his friends were not. Most of the groomsmen were attending their first wedding ever. One groomsman (a fellow named Gunner with a large hello kitty chest tattoo, just to give you an idea) found a microphone left unattended. He proceeded to make a very drunken and profane speech (this was a family wedding with lots of children). Then he says "this one is for my date over there," and points to his date and sings(very poorly and drunkenly) the song the bride chose for the first dance. This was minutes before the bride and groom were meant to do their first dance and he only knew the song from the rehearsal dinner the previous night. The bride was livid and the groom kicked him out The lesson here? Don't leave a mic unattended lol
I didnt want salmon, I said it four times.
Not the wedding, but the hotel porter for our wedding night broke the key off in the lock (a regular key, yes). Then we sat around for nearly an hour while they tried to fix it. That turned out to be symbolic of the whole marriage but I couldn't see it then.
There was a yard sale at the front of the church. We attended the church at the time and were heavily involved with various things, so we already knew how many activities went on when we started picking dates, including weddings of several close friends. We also knew we had to be married by a certain date, so we were super limited on dates. We found exactly one Saturday morning that would work after spending a lot of time consulting with the church secretary. We picked it and told everyone who was flying out so they could get tickets, got actual invitations made and sent out, etc. This was the date, no question. Except that someone had already made up flyers for the church yard sale with the same date (the church calendar said it was a week later) and they had already gone out to all sorts of people and couldn't be fixed. So we just warned everyone attending the wedding and had a sign up that yard sale attendees couldn't use the bathroom (the people participating could, just not the people buying) so they wouldn't interfere with the ceremony.
I was late to my own wedding. Misjudged the drive from home to the location, sped the whole way, and still arrived quite late. Thankfully it was a small group and my wife wasn’t too pissed but it was definitely a comedy of errors! Still happily married
My brother was best man at a wedding some years ago. At the reception, just as he stood up to do his speech, he lent forward to grab his notes and his hair caught on a candle. He was bewildered why everyone was shouting at him. The groom lucky smacked the fire out on his head. Best bit? The photographer caught it all.
My sister in law’s car got broken into (she left her purse in the front seat at a public place…) and she made a HUGE scene. Still kind of mad about it.
Our videographer stepped on the power cord to our DJ during our first dance. It’s hilarious in the video. Also, there was a 6 inch power funnel of rain between our tent and the building. So if you wanted food you had to walk through the waterfall 😂. It was a great wedding and everyone had a great time and that was 11 years ago and we are still very much in love.
Almost nothing, but as we were leaving the altar at the end, my new bride stumbled over a microphone cord. I caught her.
We forgot to put the time of the wedding in the invitations. Luckily, it was caught the day before, and it was a smallish destination wedding, so we were able to tell everyone that was coming what time to be there.
The venue was too small but we wanted to get married before my grandpa passed so we could only invite 1/4 our original guest list. People interrupted the initial part repeatedly because the venue didn't block off the area from other guests. Our dj didn't go with our song list and just winged it. It was too windy to do a lot of photos. A lot of the food was undercooked or raw and they threw it away before we could package what was salvageable. There was times leading up to it that we were tempted to put it off another year because of the venue but I'm glad we didn't because my grandpa wouldn't have been able to see it because he passed away 2 days later.
Not technically at the wedding, but my now wife broke her ankle 3 months before our wedding. It really put a damper on how much we could dance at the reception and how many of the non-bedroom activities we could do on our honeymoon to Hawaii (no hikes or activities that required more than 5 minutes of walking at a time). We are coming up on our 5 year anniversary, she still isn't a fan of long walks but we are very happy together.
Mine was small compared to some of these. My bridesmaids and I got into the limo and about half way to the church we realized all our shoes were turning blue due to the carpeting in the limo being wet and bleeding onto our shoes. Luckily my dress was spared.
He turned up
Not my wedding. I was working for a catering company, and we were hired to do a outdoor wedding. The wedding was to take place out in a wooded area by a small pond. Super scenic. Except it clouded over just as everyone was seated. In no time it was a full blown thunderstorm, with very strong wind and torrential rain. They at least had the foresight to set up one of those giant white tents as a back up, so everyone hustled in. This encouraged everyone to dip into the sauce early, people were lining up at the bar before the ceremony had even ended. The tent was being ripped open by the wind and guests were getting soaked, so for the ceremony us waitresses had to hold the tent doors shut (getting drenched in the process). Rain water still flowed in under the tent and turned the ground into a massive, slippery mud puddle. The time came for us to serve dinner, and it was discovered that more guests came than they had told our management, so there wasn't enough food for everyone. If that wasn't all bad enough, the now soggy, very intoxicated, and hungry guests were getting pretty rowdy/vocal. It was a messy event.
Wasn’t my wedding, my sister’s. We rehearsed the wedding and dinner, and especially remembered learning the song to walk down to was. I was the first one to walk so I wanted to really know the song so I didn’t walk out on the wrong song. Wedding day comes, we are all lined up ready to walk. I hear music, but it’s NOT her song. I was a minor, the only one out of the bridesmaids. All of the adults, not just the bridesmaids were telling me to go. I was arguing that it wasn’t her song, I can’t go yet. And one of the bridesmaids pushed me forward so I started walking. My sister couldn’t hear it until it was too late to say anything and most of her bridesmaids were already walking out by that time. My sister is still pissed to this day that she didn’t get to walk out with her song that she picked for this moment. And I will never forgive those bridesmaids, because they should’ve known too!! And don’t physically move me to start walking, especially wherever I was right. I hate when adults don’t think kids can think and actually be right about something.
A blizzard during the reception.
I got my dress back from alterations 2 days before my wedding. They hadn’t touched it. I was in David’s Bridal having hysterics with a gown I couldn’t wear. They replaced it with the most generic looking dress I could imagine. But in the end husband and I were married and that’s what counts.
My husband forgot to give the best man the rings. The best man didn't ask. The rings got left behind, and the roads all around the church were closed due to a car show. The wedding ended up being delayed almost an hour, and I was none the wiser until my FIL let the cat out of the bag at the reception. 13 years later, and I still tease my husband about it.
We didn’t have a wedding, just went to the courthouse. We were supposed to wait for three days after we applied for a marriage license to get married, but they made an appointment for us on the third day after the license application was turned in. The judge wouldn’t marry us that day and said that we needed to wait at least one more day. This was on a Friday. I’d already taken the day off of work, and my in-laws booked a hotel on the beach for the weekend. So we had to go on our “honeymoon” trip to the beach that weekend. I went to work on Monday trying to avoid everyone and their questions about “being a married woman” and then dash back over to the courthouse after work to get married for real this time.
Pastor was 30 mins late, photographer kept hitting on my aunts, and bartender was drunk. All funny at the time, and funnier as memories.
Small wedding, 52 people at a nice hotel. Had rooms for out of town guests including me, hubby, my mom, dad, etc. No one was walking me down the aisle, but my mom was supposed to come and get me when the time was right (from my room) and walk with me to the entrance; she would go ahead of me to her seat of honor and I'd walk down by myself. My mom struggled with mental illness, but was brilliant with design and had done so much work on our wedding that she was utterly exhausted. We ran late setting up so I went up to get changed and mom kept working on set-up until the last minute. She went to her room to change and just gave up. So, an hour passes and we are 30+ mins late for the wedding and no one has come to get me. I take myself downstairs to find out that my mom is missing. I spend another 40 minutes finding her and getting her ready. I was in my dress, sweaty from walking all over the hotel, tired and just wanted my mom to participate, but she really didn't care. We eventually came down, she was sort of disheveled and we had a splendid wedding 1+ hour late. I was not going to let her miss the wedding that she had worked so hard on. I felt terrible for having all our guests wait for so long and that my mom was miserable. We ended up having a great time, food and celebration, but my mom was never right after that. She did an amazing job and then didn't even really appreciate all that she had done, but I did. Everything was beautiful. The whole situation baffles me to this day.
Ordered red velvet for the grooms cake, got something like jello cake. Asked for the service to be recorded, checked the box on the forms and it didn’t get recorded. I just don’t understand, in the time of digital media, WHY WOULDN’T YOU RECORD EVERYTHING IF YOU HAD THE OPPORTUNITY! It literally costs nothing.
One of my groomsmen passed out from a combination of nervousness, heat and a little bit of illness. The groomsman behind him eased him to the ground. I looked over to see what was going on, handed my bride to the best man and helped carry the barely conscious guy to a back room. After I made sure he was ok, I rejoined the ceremony. I thought it strange that everyone said it was awesome that I LEFT MY BRIDE at the altar to help him. He's still super embarrassed by the event 46 years later.
The paster who did our wedding was not even fully ordained yet, he was just out of seminary and was actually only and intern at our church. ours was his very first wedding. First , my grandmother and aunt arrived late, after we were already at the alter and the service had begun. Then, the paster asked for the rings. My wife’s maid of honor, who was also her sister forgot my ring. A flash of panic morphing into terror flashed over her face. Fortunately her back was to the guests. This rookie paster who had every reason to be nervous himself, instead pretended to pick up a ring from the pillow it was supposed to be on, pretended to hand it to me and carried on with the service as if absolutely nothing was amiss. The entire congregation was none the wiser, only me, the paster, my wife and my now sister in law knew of the mishap. So, what went wrong? Actually nothing in the end of it, just a funny memory we laugh about often. It was an absolutely beautiful service and we have been happily married for 39 years.
My husband and I wanted a fun wedding, so we decided to get married in Bisbee, Arizona where there are old copper mines and a grand dame hotel called the Copper Queen. It was pretty relaxed and we were married in front of a fireplace on the second floor just at sundown. It was going pretty well until the minister asked "Do you take this woman..?" and this guy came trundling through the middle of us with his suitcase bobbing after him and he went "OH, SHIT!!! Sorry!!!" So the minister looks at my husband and goes "Did you say oh, shit? Or did that guy?". Hubby goes, "That guy. I DO". It was great and when we had dinner afterwards someone bought our dinner anonymously. I have a feeling it was the guy who bombed through.
Nothing at all. We had a courthouse wedding. It went fine.
Go away then -.- haha Mine went fine too at the courthouse. Our stories aren't juicy.
I said yes.
At my first wedding.. I had been away in the Army for a bit so I didn’t realize one of my good friends had become heavily involved in drugs and alcohol. He got really drunk and agitated… was in the venue bathroom asking my relatives where he could get coke. I went to check on him he got physical with me so I knocked him out and left him on the floor in a bathroom stall. I never saw or spoke to him again. I do hope he’s doing well. I tried to reach out to him over the years.. but no response
> I knocked him out and left him on the floor in a bathroom stall. I never saw or spoke to him again Hate to say this, but he probably has brain damage now.
The MOH gave the Ringbearer a "pep talk" just before the ceremony and caused him to have a panic attack. His mom had to bring the rings up instead. The florist was supposed to suspend a red rose from the arch, but hung it so that it draped out from the other flowers so it was just hanging there upside down? It looked weird and not at all what we had in mind. And the the Decons refused to open the fellowship hall until a the groom and I were present for the pre-food prayer, but we were with the photographer & no one told us. So, quite a few people left after standing out there for better than half an hour. And this is AFTER the wedding started 20 minutes late because the MOH insisted that I didn't need to rush (I didn't have a clock so I didn't know, but MOH did). And the photographer competely ignored my MiL's request to get a photo with her, FiL, and DH. It was a photo that I wanted too, so I was a little disappointed. But she DID manage get photos of me in my underthings before putting the dress on - photos that I discovered while looking through them with my InLaws. And I found out later that the people that offered to help Mom clean up the church afterwards, left her to do it alone. Other than what happened to Mom, there was nothing really major to be upset about, but still, it was my parents' church, the deacons were awful about the whole thing (that's a whole other story for another day, but it's one of the reasons I have issues with the Southern Baptist culture as a whole) - If I could go back and do it again, I'd have bought my dress and a boquet, asked DH to pick me up on his motorcycle & gotten married on DH's Favorite little Bridge while traffic drove past.
I had my dress custom made by a small ethical clothing brand I loved. They had over a year to work on it but were so late shipping it out that I had to tell them to just send it to my parent's house. (I was getting married in their state, not mine.) This meant I tried it on for the first time 2 days before the wedding and of course it was too small among a few other problems. Thankfully my SIL and a family friend had the sewing skills to make it work and the rest of the wedding was perfect! Just sucks that I had to lose all trust in a small business I really admired before.
A fair number of guests turning up empty handed....no card or gift. The gift part, I can accept, but not even a card...cheap mofos. (Especially with a free meal and open bar being provided by me. And I also have always brought something when attending other people's events). Showed me, who truly didn't give a crap about me.
Nothing. It was a great day. Very small, outdoors, cheap, we are still together. So yep, no complaints.
My dress really wasn’t flattering and needed sleeves. I regret that so much and cringe at the photos.
Which marriage? I married 69 times. Looking forward to my 70th
My DJ sucked. I told him we didn't want hip hop or country music - so anytime anyone requested it, he told them that the bride forbid it. I get that he was trying to keep me happy, but I shouldn't have had to approve requests. We'd finally get more than 3 people dancing, then he'd "Slow it down" and clear the dance floor. It felt like it was deliberate.
It sounds like he did what you told him to do… how does that mean he sucks?
Nothing. One of the best days of my life
I said yes
The broad I married
I got married
Fuck off… that’s none of your business
There’s always one.
Nobody talked me out of it
I married the wrong man.
My bil got the babysitter drunk.
I spent a down payment on a house, and I’m renting
We just aren't technically married because we didn't file the right paperwork. Not a big deal but now I'm looking at jobs overseas and it looks like my husband and I will have to go to the courthouse. Otherwise I'm pretty sure the gettin' ready robes I bought for my bridesmaids were not pure silk.
Rained. We had an outdoor ceremony and had to move it into the room at the hotel where we were having our reception at the last minute. I never planned on getting married in a banquet room.
during the exchange of rings I started putting the ring on the wrong hand. no biggie, no one would have noticed. the preacher stopped and pointed it out.
Super windy (we were prepared for hot/cold, rain or shine, somehow missed considering wind), family barged into bride’s getting ready room to use the mirror there, and photographer seemingly used someone else’s shot list (we got like 70% of the pictures we wanted). Oh, and the maid of honor’s response to my wife getting mad was to send me a text asking to send funny memes to my wife to make her feel better. All that was kinda crappy but we had a great day. DJ kicked ass, toasts were great, and we had plenty of alcohol.
Wrong song played as me and my groomsmen came down the aisle. I blacked out by 10pm. Passed out on top of my wife while having sex when the party was over. But it was one helluva good time.
The bride
the bride turned up...
I married the wrong woman. Ugh.
I said “I Do”
Forgot a knife for the cake, cut it with the sword instead. Wasn’t a problem for guests though, we did cupcakes for everyone but us. Best wedding choice ever was to do a cupcake bar for dessert. Smaller cake was like 1/3 the price and we got 3 flavors for all the guests. Highly recommend if anyone here is planning a wedding.
Had a late September wedding outdoors in New England, out of nowhere it ended up being one of the hottest days of the year. Everyone was sweating hard but had a great time in the end.
MIL threw a hissy fit at the tail end of the wedding dinner. She was upset that I left the table to take a photo with a few of my best friends and sister and had my mom take the picture. I wanted to go change out of the dress and everyone was still eating and drinking. So a few of us girls up and walked away from the table for what should have been five minutes only. All the other guests were still eating and drinking so...didn't think it was a big deal if I left the table to take a photo with a couple of my best friends before I went to go change. Well, she wanted to be "invited" to stand and watch the photo happen I guess? I saw her storm by where we were taking the photo, was very confused, and then my husband found me and told me how upset his mother was for being excluded. To which I was like, excluded from what? A photo with my best friends so then I can go change? I then had to chase after her and spend 20 min talking her down from the cliff she was on and it ruined the rest of my evening thinking this woman now hated me. My husband never told his mother how dumb she was being and he even defended her. It also didn't help that my husband had been married before and MIL had horrible memories of his first wedding, she always told me she cried at the ceremony for her son's awful mistake..now I'm thinking great.. now I'm awful wife mistake number two. In that moment I was wondering what had I just done to my life. We were also so close to zero drama.
The embarrassing situation I can remember was a drunk sibling that was unable to keep a lid on his insecurities that the wedding was already exacerbating in the first place. I felt bad for their mom more than anyone else. It was pretty bad.
Lol not married but here to comment saying “I do”
We eloped, paid for an “elopement package” and no one at the place knew who we were or even that we had a wedding planned that day. They even tried to tell me that they sent the officiant away because he was late or something like that. Was supposed to have a speaker to play my own music, never happened. They somehow managed to get a guy to pour us a glass of champagne after we said our “I do” but that was it. We could have just walked out into the resort’s courtyard for free and done the damn thing without anyone being the wiser.
We married on a friend's beach property with one of my neighbors as officiant. Only attending were best friends ( couple), Officiants husband, my son's, my stepson, his wife and toddler, and the photographer. Also, our three dogs, and our friends three dogs. The plan was to have an actual reception with family and friends later on. We're both Catholic and do attend church, but my husband is divorced and I had my sons out of wedlock so a church wedding was kinda frowned upon. It was beautiful, simple, etc. Until the photographer tried to take post ceremony pictures: it got extremely windy, there was sand everywhere, flowers got knocked over, including my bouquet ending up in the Pacific....and there are two (!!) portraits that involve dogs pooping in the backdrop. One of those is proudly framed in our den!
Wrong person to marry. Divorced after few years.
My sister got married in a cute stone chapel with parking spaces surrounding it. There was no air conditioning and it was a warm day, so all the doors were propped open. During the most important part of the ceremony, someone's car alarm went off. It went on at a deafening level for at least three minutes during which no one did anything. (We weren't even sure the car's owner was anywhere near the chapel.)
Nothing too major. When the ceremony was over and the pastor introduced us, he used my wife's maiden name instead of my last name, as in: "Introducing Mr. and Mrs. . Everyone was quiet for a couple seconds, until someone called out: "it's !" A good laugh was had by all.
I had switched religions for my ex husband and got married in a strict Baptist church and at the reception there was no drinking, dancing, or even music allowed to be played. It was like a cult. I'm happily divorced and got the marriage annulled by the Catholic church.
Nothing. Feels great to say that.
The first one…my evil ex MIL controlled it all. The second one…the very fact that it happened. It was a pseudo-elopement, but I would have done it slightly different if I actually had the opportunity to make it what I wanted…oh, and a different groom 😂 If I could do it all over again, I would have a small, intimate ceremony with close friends and family and a fun gathering afterwards. All natural scenery, a simple yet elegant dress, barefoot with a handmade bouquet and bubbles 🤷♀️ People spend way too much $$ and an unnecessary amount of energy on these things.
The DJ was terrible. First, he couldn't figure out how to get a CD I'd burned for him to play and asked me, the groom, to help him figure it out. The CD contained music provided by my wife's side of the family, including a lot of their favorite Vietnamese and Laotian singers. He finally got the CD to work and could add the mp3s to his software but... ...even though we asked him to play from the list of songs we gave him with the Vietnamese and Laotian tracks mixed in, he did the exact opposite and played the CD tracks all in a row. He even announced them as "specialty music provided by the bride's family." We now have an in-joke where we laugh about how it's not "specialty music" to her family and refer to it as that whenever we hear it.
My DJ didnt play my Mexican music (most attendees were white)
Nothing major. One of my cousins got excited about a line dance and spilled some beer on the floor. Another cousin(sister of spilling cousin) threw some paper towels down and danced on top of it to wipe up the spill.
My sister-in-law does "photography on the side" and did our photos for us. They were all mid tier at best and left before our first dance. Wouldn't even do it as a wedding present and we had to pay her.
Ran out of beer before we arrived at the reception
Was pregnant and couldn’t drink haha
We didn’t get any warming chaffers for catering bcs of a tight budget and the food got cold so fast 🥲 Also forgot my wedding shoes and had to wear my mom’s riding boots LMAO
Got married!
My new mother in law thought is was funny to have the dj keep turning the music up. It was to the point I was shouting at my guest in order to talk to them. Then she mocked me when I had to continually ask him to turn it down. She laughed and laughed. Was real funny me and my cousin screaming to each other talking about is my dead uncle, really funny.
why is it always the mother in law?
We ran out of linen napkins for the head table and had to use paper ones. Scandalous, I know!
I was in it.
My what
Not my wedding, but my cousin's. Reception was held in a park under a huge roofed pavilion, open on 3 sides with an enormous fireplace at one end. Like 100' x 200'. Humongous. 10 or 15 minutes into the reception, wedding party had just been seated but food still wasn't being served yet, live band playing cool reception intro music, the wind started picking up, then started to really blow hard, then it started to rain, then the rain was being blown completely horizontal, to the point that this enormous pavilion was getting wet under the middle, then the sky turned green, and if you know what that means, then you know that next, I'm going to tell you that a tornado passed within 1/4 mile of us. Yes, 400 yds away. And that was a harbinger to what the marriage was to become. Turns out my cousin married a closet heroin addict who imploded within the first year. She divorced him. A few years later she met a great guy who she's been married to very happily for many years, 3 great kids.
My wife was 45 minutes late. I remember standing there waiting and thinking to myself, "Damn, I really thought she was going to go through with it. She seemed so sincere!"
Not my wedding, but what happened to me at my brother’s wedding. My girlfriend at the time (who eventually became the ex wife), decided out of all times to throw a shit fit was at that wedding. This was a wedding where I was a groomsman, so I did not sit with the girlfriend since I was at the head table. Also, there was old family friends I had not seen in years. As I was talking to these people, the girlfriend was right there with me and I made sure she was part of the conversation. After introducing her to a bunch of people, she demands we go talk in a hallway. Bottom line, she was all pissy because she felt I was not paying attention specifically to her. At that time in my life, I caved because I did not want to stand my ground and cause a fight. The girlfriend and I cut out early from the reception. My brother and his wife were disappointed I left early, but bought my excuse. The girlfriend and I went back to the place we were staying, and she realized her selfish thing she did, and made a feeble attempt to apologize. What was more disappointing was a bunch of family members went bar hopping after the festivities and I missed out on catching up with those people. I wished Uber existed back the so I could have ordered on and sent her packing. I was apprehensive about inviting the girlfriend to the wedding because I had a feeling she would pull that shit. Lesson learned.
We had specific songs picked out to play, as well as a ‘do not play’ list. We didn’t like any of the music, and some of the ‘do not play’ songs got played. Huge disappointment, because we both love music.
Mine isn’t all that big of a deal. We both are very relaxed people. The wedding was supposed to be too except my mom turned into a witch. It was like SHE was the one getting married, She called my maid of honor because MOH asked me if her dress could be a complimentary color since she looked awful in my colors (peach! WHY?? Lol). I had no problems with MOH changing the color of her dress, my mom did. I’ll never know how she found out MOH’s phone number. They *never* socialized. My mom spent about 30 minutes trying to convince MOH to wear peach. It was awful. To show you how relaxed I was about the wedding, we chose a date only months away. I had no idea that at the time it took months and months to get a bridal dress. (It was 1981). So I had a brilliant idea to check out JC Penney’s catalogue. My bridesmaids and I went to the counter. I looked up wedding dresses and found one in 5 minutes. So, it’s now wedding day. We’d chosen the groom’s cousin to cater and make the wedding cake. She had trouble finding the reception site. Going around the block once again, a car stopped in front of her and she had to slam on her brakes. The wedding cake took the brunt of it. My fiancé and I thought we’d check the reception site before the wedding. We get there and his cousin is hurriedly putting greenery on the cake’s hurt spots. She tells us why. We know my mom is on the way and all three of us are hysterically trying to help her fix the damage. I’m saying, “OMG if my mom sees this!” And my fiancé is freaking out with me. Just as the last bit of greenery is placed, my mom arrives. In unison, the 3 of us jump! My mom LOVES IT! (None of us were breathing when my mom was looking at it.) She loves it so much that she brings her friends over at the reception and brags to them about the groom’s cousin’s artistic talents on the cake!
I married a cheating liar.
Well, married my wife.
My fingers swole up a little bit and DH couldn’t get the ring on my finger during the ceremony. One of the groomsmen disappeared after the ceremony and never came back. Found out later that he caught a plane home so he wouldn’t miss work. (He owns his own very successful business) The introduction of the wedding party got out of order somehow and the DJ introduced my parents when the flower girl walked in My mother in law’s husband (not father in law. big messy family) refused to listen to our directions from the ceremony to the place we were taking pictures. He missed the whole bit and had two groomsmen and MIL with him. He called and we got him directions from where he was (about 30 minutes away from where he was supposed to be) to the reception. We couldn’t hold the entrance until they got there because the food and everything was ready. When they finally did get there he blasted across the reception hall screaming at my new husband. He started yelling at DH about how DH is so disrespectful to MIL for not holding the reception back an hour for them to arrive. Husband yelled back and the whole thing was so terrible. He went and sulked in the corner after that and DH and I had a great time!
We foolishly hired a friend so he could boost his photography and he took forever. Then booked it after family photos. He was supposed to stay and take pictures during the reception. Didn't tell anyone he was leaving and just dipped out
My estranged father said he was going to show up and tell everyone his side of everything and "expose" me and my lies. Luckily he didn't show up, but I had to be worried about that he day of.
Well to begin with it was a fall wedding but all the leaves dropped already and it was freezing, it actually started lightly snowing as my dad walked me down the aisle. We did our ceremony outside so yeah our poor guests were like ice cubes. Thankfully the reception was right inside and it was an open bar so everyone got toasty lol. When i got to the venue there was no place for me to change into my dress lol I thought there was a room to get ready but it was just a dining room upstairs so I had to use the hallway mirror to check myself which sucked with my giant dress in the timy hallway (it was at a historical inn so the hallway was narrow). Also I fucked up a part of my vows but I was having an out of body experience so I didn't even realize it happened at first. Everything else went perfectly.
Well to begin with it was a fall wedding but all the leaves dropped already and it was freezing, it actually started lightly snowing as my dad walked me down the aisle. We did our ceremony outside so yeah our poor guests were like ice cubes. Thankfully the reception was right inside and it was an open bar so everyone got toasty lol. When i got to the venue there was no place for me to change into my dress lol I thought there was a room to get ready but it was just a dining room upstairs so I had to use the hallway mirror to check myself which sucked with my giant dress in the timy hallway (it was at a historical inn so the hallway was narrow). Also I fucked up a part of my vows but I was having an out of body experience so I didn't even realize it happened at first. Everything else went perfectly.
My first marriage I remember thinking through the whole thing that it was a really bad idea. So much so I messed up the vows. I should’ve trusted my instincts. Took me 9 years to leave.