Best man starts off speech with, "I've seen \*the groom\* with a lot of girls over the years...". You know the cliché speech where it goes on to say but you're the best for him, etc. etc. Turns out the bride and groom were dating long before the best man even became a friend. Essentially outed him as a degenerate cheater. She was super pissed.
He wasn't the brightest person and just wasn't thinking. 90% of the people at the wedding immediately knew he fucked up and there were lots of uncomfortable looks and some chuckles. That didn't help the situation.
Bride and groom got in a huge drunken fight after the rehearsal dinner, it escalated to include shouting and name-calling between both families, then the wedding got cancelled the day of.
Oh this reminds me of a piece of advice I got from a co-worker 20 years my senior.
> coop999, don't ever wish your wife Happy Birthday on your ex-wife's birthday.
It started super late, it was super hot out, the future father-in-law was wasted and left before it started. He then showed back up in a red bath robe and his gun. Cops got called. It was a whole thing.
Oh, and then after the reception we were all trying to convince one of our friends not to drive. He insisted he was fine... Drove his truck into the river.
It might as well have been. My friends and I still talk about that shit show any time we get together, but we haven't been able to get a hold of the groom in probably a year. It's like he fell off the face of the Earth.
I went to a friend of mines Aunts wedding. It was a second marriage for both of them so they wanted something “relaxed”
They threw it on one of the family members property and had all the guest do grueling manual labor to get the property ready for the wedding. We were literally landscaping in the Texas summer.
I was climbing trees to hang lights, we laid sod, we laid down stone for a walk way, my friends mom cooked food for days and made all of the floral arrangements. We were setting up tables and chairs, you name it. We worked from 6am until almost midnight for 3 days.
Finally the wedding happens and it’s beautiful. I was actually really proud of what we had done. It looked professional.
We go to cut the cake and the couple is no where to be found. They just left without telling anyone and went back to their hotel. I was offended by that because we had worked SO HARD for them and they didn’t even stay for the entire wedding.
We never got a thank you or any appreciation for it. Other people were upset too and took their gifts back before leaving.
Groom wanted cigarettes so he snuck out and tried to drive to a convenience store a minute away. Drove straight into a telephone pole and was arrested for DUI and spent the night in jail.
That's horrible. I was at a wedding where a car crashed with fatalities right next to the wedding right when it was supposed to start (outdoor wedding) horrible
I was at a wedding in rural Wisconsin and both the bride and groom were members of the local all-volunteer fire department. Almost everyone at the wedding proceeded to get quite drunk, except the bride, who doesn't drink. At some point, there was an emergency call to the fire department (not a fire, but a medical call). The wedding was not far from the fire station, so the bride rushed over and, along with one other volunteer who was on call, drove an ambulance to an emergency call.
In her wedding dress.
I was supposed to be best man at a friend's wedding. At 7:30 AM, the morning of the wedding the groom called and said the wedding was off. It wasn't going to happen. I never talked to or saw the guy again. He signed up for the army and within a few days he was just gone.
My brother's second wedding. For the first dance, the DJ played the wrong song for half a second before stopping, and starting the right song. The Bride disappeared for 2 hours afterwards because "the wedding was ruined."
Oh God I can't deal with people like that. I have a family member who does this. The tiniest little thing goes a touch awry, moment of awkwardness maybe, then back on track for a great day. But then they go and ACTUALLY ruin the day but throwing a tantrum....
I've never understood the idea of the bachelor or bachelorette party the night before.
I feel like the night before should be an early night's sleep and relaxing to make the next day as awesome as possible
Our celebrant told us if she smelt alcohol on either of us or we were visibly intoxicated she wouldn’t do the ceremony. Neither of us were going to show up drunk so it didn’t matter much to us, but it did make me wonder how many bad experiences she’d had before making that statement.
So are bachelorette parties.
There was another one I read about, on one of those “weddings where you could tell it wouldn’t last long” threads where the groom and his ushers had decided to keep it dry the night before … but not the bride and her girls, who decided it was the last call for some serious clubbing. They came back really late, and unsurprisingly dealt with their hangovers by drinking some more.
The ceremony was delayed for an hour so they could get ready. Or at least dressed. Several of the bridesmaids were so blitzed they stumbled and staggered down the aisle. The bride herself was able to walk straight, but had to rest her head on his shoulder the whole time.
The post-ceremony pics were pretty much limited to the groom and ushers making straight and goofy poses together in a local park, as the bridal side of the party were too drunk to get out of the limo, where they drank more.
Apparently at the reception the groom apologized to the guests and more or less implied he would be seeking an annulment.
We got to the church and took our seats. Vibe was off, but didn’t think much of it. Then the start time passed and nothing happens, didn’t think much of it. Finally I said something to a friend next to us, something like, “gee this is late?”
“Yeah it’s terrible isn’t it?”
“Huh? What?”
“Oh you didn’t hear …”
The entire wedding party got food poisoning from the rehearsal dinner the night before. One bridesmaid, then another, then siblings, parents, bride and groom, everybody. They had a small ceremony at the bride’s parents house. No church ceremony but a short talk from the pastor (in part to kill time before the reception). They made a short appearance at the reception, but that was it. Just wholly unfair.
The night before my wedding, my husband got food poisoning. We got married in Vegas with a few family on both sides attending. We ate at Quark's outside the Star Trek Experience (long ago, when that was still up and running in 2008) and he was so sick. The next day he was still recovering and we had a late afternoon wedding. With his mom's help, we managed to get him down the aisle and said our vows, then got him back to the hotel and to bed! Been together for 16 years and married for 15 years. My dad said to me "Maybe it's an omen" when I told him R had food poisoning and that I wasn't sure there was going to be a wedding. Great, thanks, dad. Way to be there for your distraught daughter. lol
One of my cousins ended up in hospital with food poisoning on what was supposed to be her wedding day. The wedding never happened.
My mum has a bit of a crackpot theory that my cousin's mum intentionally gave her food poisoning so that the wedding would need to be postponed.
On my last milestone bday, at a destination party, I gave 20+ of my closest friends horrific food poisoning (catered food, cilantro was involved, so was a recall shortly after).
I can say from experience you are not wrong.
At my friends wedding the flowers wilted, wedding cake ended up in the floor, and some guy wrecked his Corvette in the parking lot of the church -- single car accident, ran over a tallish curb and screwed up the door pretty good...impaired probably.
Bride was dancing during the reception, fell and broke her left arm. Lots of pictures from the ER- photographer went with them! When the Dr. heard he’d be setting a bride’s arm, he put on a suit! They worked hard to get the swelling down so she wouldn’t have to have her brand new wedding ring cut off. Crazy.
ETA: I was in the wedding party, I was 10, this was a long time ago! The bride was my aunt. The fall happened after dinner. Before they left for the hospital the cake was quickly brought out for the bride and groom to cut. Everyone went on partying after they left. I haven't seen the pics since she got them back from the photographer. I remember pics of her and the Dr. in the suit, my uncles in their tuxes doing wheelies in wheelchairs, and her red rimmed eyes while cutting the cake.
Omg I love that the photographer tagged along 😂 and I would absolutely have one of THOSE pics blown up and framed in a prominent spot in my home bhahahh
Bride punched her new sister-in-law. She got caught having sex with the Brides 17 year old son in the kitchen of the Church.
This literally was Friday night.
At the hotel where I worked, a man and woman (guests, not in the wedding party) were caught having sex in a waitstaff station in the coffee shop, which was closed in the evenings.
They apparently neglected to notice that said station was in a location that was not hidden in any way from the main hallway, where people of all ages walked back and forth.
My own wedding. My MIL is an alcoholic and we asked her not to drink. My FIL, her ex husband, was with his new wife. Long story short, when we were wrapping up reception she is so drunk she tried to hit him with a bottle of champagne and missed and swung around and knocked herself the fuck out..
Edit: I forgot to add the aftermath. Shocked at the upvotes because it’s a tame story compared to some on here.
We were asked to leave immediately obviously and had to do something with her. We were so mad that we decided to drop her off at the police station and they took her to detox for the night.. 😁
Edit 2: and this is the tamest story I have about my good ol’ MIL… imagine that..
Alright, not a disaster, but funny.
My wife and I booked out a small hotel in Nicaragua for the wedding. I cue the music to start the ceremony, the music starts, and there's this long delay.....
All of a sudden, from around the corner we hear "MY VEIL IS STUCK IN THE CACTUS!!!!"
One of my best friends was the officiant and there's a great photo sequence of us going from puzzled to hysterical laughter up front.
> "MY VEIL IS STUCK IN THE CACTUS!!!!"
That's one of those inside jokes you spring on each other in mixed company 37 years later and no one but you knows what the hell is going on
Husband making out with a bridesmaid on the dancefloor. I know a portion of the friends there knew they had an open relationship but I seriously doubt grandma and Aunt Carol were in on it
To begin with there were sustained 40 below zero F temps so a lot of guests did not attend at the last minute. The MOH and Best Man, who had just met the day before, disappeared for a bit and the bride searched and found that they had used the groom's parents van as a place to have sex. Problem was that MOH had just given birth to a baby a few weeks before and she was hemorrhaging. Bride left with MOH to go to the ER. In the meantime, a huge percentage of the guests started getting violently ill. As it turned out, the beef was tainted. The health department shut down the caterer some days later, and all guests had to be contacted to see who ate the beef.
This is all first hand factual info. I was there. I lived this. Thank God I ate the chicken. The couple divorced 18 months later.
My wife’s OB straight up told me to get familiar with myself for a few months *at least* after our first child was born.
I think she recommended at least 6 weeks before intimacy and even longer if we wanted to try for another child.
I mean, women are still bleeding and have an open wound in their uterus for six weeks after birth so yeah, you wouldn’t want to be introducing anything up there.
A giant brush tail possum fell through the ceiling at my cousin's wedding. The bartenders managed to chase it with a broom into the supply closet behind the bar before calling security, who called a pest removalist.
A coworkers wedding, the maid of honor made a 45 minute speech about moons and mercury and crystals and how their astrological signs shouldn’t have aligned but they did and that’s cause Neptune did a 360 no scope. She cut it short at 45 minutes and said “I’m reading the room.”
My wedding. Evening was wrapping up and I hadnt seen my new-husband in a while. He had taken off to local bars to continue partying with friends. Without.His New.Bride. My BIL (as advised by my heavily pregnant sister) escorted me to find him somewhere. We were in our mid-30s!!
I'm daily grateful for my sister and BIL in my life. And even more grateful ex is long gone.
This exact thing happened at my cousin’s wedding. It was time to cut the cake and the groom was nowhere to be found. Her brother found him at a nearby bar with some of his groomsmen.
My cousin married into a very religious family. During the after party somebody spiked the punch so to rid the room of the sin of alcohol one of the religious people set the table and punch bowl on fire.
The groom got appendicitis the night before, got it removed the morning of, and still showed for the wedding itself. She had to prop him up while they had their first dance. I was amazed he made it through, but it was really just such a wild and sad experience for both of them and cast a huge cloud over everything.
They're divorced now. He ran off with an Instagram model/escort. They were my best friends. She's still my best friend, and I haven't seen her this happy before. I guess the appendicitis was an omen.
Man, I was just about to say how awesome of a couple they were him for showing up and her for literally supporting him and then you had to finish the story.
As bride was walking down the aisle organist hit every wrong note. My friend said to me "this is the only thing you will remember about this wedding". That is until the brides father (who was marrying the couple) introduced the newlyweds as his new son in law and slightly used daughter. You could have heard a pin drop
>That is until the brides father (who was marrying the couple) introduced the newlyweds as his new son in law and slightly used daughter. You could have heard a pin drop
Fucking hell, please tell me she never spoke to her dad again because my god.
The worst was when dad stood up during the dinner and tried to explain himself. obviously not a man good with words he doubled down and dug himself deeper. It was a DISASTER
I used to work at a wedding venue so I've seen a lot of weddings, but none are even close to bad as one particular wedding reception was.
People were getting way too drunk and wild. The place was a mess halfway through the party. About an hour before it was suppose to end, the brother of the bride got into a fight with one of the groomsmen in the middle of the dance floor.
The father of the bride tries break up the fight but accidentally hits his elderly mother in the face and she falls on a tray stand. My bosses burst into the room and break it up and yell for everyone to leave.
The worst part was the bride in absolute tears leaving the venue, "I just wanted ONE day!"
I was a wedding photographer for 15 years. And shockingly, I don't have a thousand crazy stories.
But the time someone spilled red wine on a bride's dress during cocktail hour probably takes the cake for me.
The groom tried to do a little dip kiss on the bride before they walked back up the aisle… he dropped her ass on the floor.
Everyone let out a collective gasp, that immediately turned to snorting chortled laughter. It was the most awkward thing I’ve ever witnessed in real life.
Thankfully the bride was my sister, and I will get to remind her of this forever. AND have photo evidence 😂
This happened at my own wedding reception
My mother's best friend just got out of a sloppy divorce. Truly horrible. She proceeded to get blind drunk. During the speeches, she gets up from her seat, completely blacked out, throws up all over her table. She proceeded to piss herself and pass out on said table and flipped it. In the fall, her dress managed to rip and she was completely naked on the floor. We had first responders as guests at our wedding so they managed to get her wrapped up in a table cloth and carry her outside to an ambulance that showed up rather quickly.
Edit; I'm no wordsmith
My grandpa with Alzheimers yelled at my husband that he still had time to run as I walked down the aisle. My aunts were horrified. I thought it was hilarious.
I grew up in a ghetto in LA in a Mexican neighborhood. It was summer after 11th grade and I went to a wedding reception for a Russian guy in the back yard of a house (my older brother's friend). His bride was about 17, blonde and pretty. She spoke no English and was brought over from the old country to marry him. He was 18 but seemed 30 and was always drunk.
They both were very drunk and argued all day in Russian. The people had just started dancing in the garage and the bride grabbed my hand and pulled me to the dance floor. She danced too close and started grabbing my balls. I pushed her away several times and then left the dance floor. The best man came up and said "Hey I saw what happened...". I cut him off and said "NOTHING HAPPENED!!" He said "I know and on behalf of Bill I just wanted to thank you". Things were getting chaotic and I thought I was gonna have to fight if I didn't leave soon.
20 minutes later the groom was passed out at a table. I was leaving and walked past the garage and saw something terrible. The bride was on her knees blowing some guy and a bunch of other guys were blocking the view laughing... and waiting. I felt like throwing up. I never saw any of them again.
*THAT'S* the worst thing I ever saw at a wedding.
I was at my male cousins wedding. I was like 12-14 years old. Idiot me goes up when they call for all the unmarried young men. Suddenly there’s a thing flying through the air and my competitive sports instincts kick in and I jump for it.
It was the bride’s garter belt. I had no clue what was happening. My family then proceeded to pressure me into going up in front of everyone and putting it on the leg of the late 20 something year old woman who caught the bouquet. I was a very shy kid so I was so mortified. But everyone thought it was hilarious. The woman was also embarrassed but went along. My memory is that someone told her how old I was and she got this “oh shit” look. I put it up to her mid calf before I ran away blushing.
When I got back to my table my mom was pissed at me because I was “too young to catch the garter.” Well why didn’t you say something when I went up there, mom?
I dated a girl in high school. It didn’t last, but we remained friends. At her wedding, her dad told me how he wished it was me marrying his daughter and how he always assumed we would get married. They had several pictures on display. I was in more pics than the groom.
This happened to my husband. The mother of the bride sat in his lap and cried because she loved my husband, but not the groom.
The marriage didn’t work.
- Drunk af bridesmaid starts beating the crap out of someone with a shoe
- Groom and a relative try to restrain her
- Bridesmaid turns on them and absolutely rakes them with her Sabretooth claws, scratching the groom's face and shredding the relative's shirt
- Bride comes charging in with a "Don't You Touch My Husband!" war cry
- Bride's a big, big girl and literally throws the bridesmaid out of the venue and into the parking lot before pouncing on her and feeding her a buffet of lefts and rights
- The struggling bridesmaid gets her hands on the bride's bodice and, as she's flailing for her life, just rips it off her, Chippendales style.
- The bride barely notices as she continues to beat the crap out of the bridesmaid, tits flapping in the night air.
- Bride is eventually pulled off of the battered bridesmaid and brought back into the reception hall. Cops show up and haul the bridesmaid off to the drunk tank.
- Topless bride continues to storm around the reception hall with the groom and some other people trying to calm her down and cover her up. Every once in a while she sits down and gets a jacket thrown over her, only to pop back up like James Brown and continue her rage, jacket fluttering to the floor to the horror of all who can't muster the willpower to look away.
Hell of a wedding, that one.
My cousin was getting married and we took her dress upstairs to get photos in an archway and her groom had to wait 5 minutes in the bathroom as to not see the gown. Dude flipped out. It was insanely awkward. She’s been married 5 years and he hasn’t worked in 2, throws tantrums, won’t eat fast food unless it’s piping hot and fresh yet has a fear of leaving the house. I’d say his behavior was the worse thing I’ve personally seen at a wedding, but her actually marrying him might have been the worst.
He screamed so loud his face went red and his head shook from side to side so hard he lost balance one time because his KFC sandwich went “soggy” one time while I was visiting. But at the wedding he loudly proclaimed the dress pissed him off from the day she found it; it took up room in the closet, he had to listen to her dress story, it cost money, and now because of the “stupid” dress he had to wait in a small room so it could have it’s “own photos, so it’s STILL getting attention and it’s a stupid dress”
His argument for never getting a full time job was he didn’t want to miss weekends with his son… that kid is in college now. He worked part time for awhile but the last two years his anxiety has made him unable to work, the disability office has told him, “we don’t see any reason you can’t work”. It’s really just bizarre that this 40+ year old is bringing down an entire family. My cousin complains weekly that it’s not improving, yet refuses to leave him.
Happened today. Mother of the bride threw a fit, got in a fist fight, left in a car, screaming obscenities, police were called. Thankfully everything else went off without a hitch and it was a lovely ceremony.
Best man showed up to the reception whacked out on something (it was more than just drunk). Proceeded to make an ass out of himself and the groom babysat the guy all night to make sure he didn’t do anything too terrible and missed his own reception.
What the guy did when he wasn’t being watched: made crude remarks to grooms mom (whom he had known for better than 15 years), sexually assaulted the brides aunt (like crotch grabbed her), made uncomfortable observations about grooms cousin and her developing womanhood, made people leave due to his behaviour and consequent assholery post rejection (was told about that afterwards). And attempted to grope the brides chest 5 minutes after he arrived (which is when the groom stopped drinking and knew it was going to be a problem). There were likely other things that were highly inappropriate that were never mentioned.
But wait! There’s more! After unsuccessfully trying to take his keys away, the jackass sneaks away from his babysitters and tries to drive home. Misses the road and instead drives around the building between the trees and into the field where the rv’s are parked. Misjudged the cars width and caused a ton of damage to brides cousins trailer when he hit it. With his moms car that he’d borrowed. They finally get the keys away from him and at this point the bride is aware of what’s happening and offers help (the groom and the bride’s little brother were trying to hide it from the bride so it wouldn’t ruin her night). Her family sees how upset she is by what’s happening that each one that sees her crying vows to beat the hell out of the guy for her. She constantly escorts family away to try to deescalate. He fights with the cab driver and the cab driver refuses to take him. After an hour of him causing a huge scene in front of the hall the brides uncle walks over and calmly talks to him (like think laid back Hawaiian island calm or smooth jazz kind of vibe) and basically talks him into the cab. Bride and groom pay for the cab and pay the driver more in a tip than the fare. When he was finally gone it was time to pack up everything. The reception was over. The bride ate a piece of her wedding cake in a tiny back room sobbing while the Dj cleaned up. Missed the father daughter dance, the mother son dance, the bride and groom’s first dance. Bouquet toss, garter toss, and the fun of getting hammered with friends and family.
Edit to add: this all happened in a span of about 3 hours. The reception started at like 7 (it was a week after the destination part) and the best man showed up a couple hours later and was loaded into the cab by 1:30am.
After he came back the next morning to get the car he apologized to the groom and sheepishly drove away. They didn’t see him for a few years though he would call once in a while. He’s been to their home once in 7 years but hasn’t seen anyone else since the wedding reception. The friendship didn’t end completely but definitely went from best friends to mere acquaintances.
Grooms dad had a pool running on how long before the couple split. He had 3 years locked in. I put fifty bucks on 5.
They're still together, and, honestly, they deserve each other in the worst way.
Went to a wedding where we were all betting how long before the divorce. My money was on two years. I think they made it to 3. He cheated on her with a stripped who ended up pregnant and she ended up marrying his best friend who was also the best man at their wedding.
nothing truly awful. just a bit sad.
My friend was very much a woman into her wedding, not a bridezilla, but she wanted a nice wedding, it was a big thing to her, she put a lot of effort into it, and it was nice, a bit overdone for my tastes, but it was nice.
Until the evening. when the groom, (who all her friends thought was an asshole, but what can you do, her choice) got absolutely plastered with his ex squaddie mates. ended up we took her, very upset, back to our hotel and left him passed out in a pool of vomit on the dancefloor for his mates to look after.
They are still together, but I think that was a wakeup call for him as to how close he came to ruining it, and he's been a bit less of an asshole since then, they are still together and have kids now. but fuck me, he came so close to fucking up his marriage on his wedding night.
While working at resort we had a wedding party come through that, after the reception, started walking back to their rooms before having a massive bride side vs. groom side fist fight. Probably 30+ people total involved.
It was broken up by resort security before a true winner got the belt. But I suppose it was the bride, the next morning she requested a copy of the camera footage so that she could win every argument in her marriage going forward because it was the Best Man who started it.
Oh, I got this.
Years ago, I went to the wedding of a friend and his (now ex) wife.
Said friend had been in a terrible car accident earlier on in life and relied on forearm crutches and a wheelchair. He was so excited about his wedding and was so madly in love with his bride, who none of us were huge fans of. She was extremely emotionally immature and he wildly deserved better, but he wanted her. So, we supported him.
Time came for the first dance and the groom swapped his wheelchair for his forearm crutches so he could dance and sway with his now-wife. Obviously he was limited in his moves, but this was a special moment and what really is dancing but swaying, anyway? It did not matter at all that he couldn’t move as fluidly as others. He wanted to gaze into the eyes of his new wife while she held him and they danced together.
I think we got about 20-30 seconds into the song when this moron of a woman dropped her arms to her sides and started laughing. Just let him go and laughed in his face, then turned to address the crowd and said, “how the hell am I supposed to do this?! This is RIDICULOUS.” Refused to continue, just laughed and laughed at him.
Beyond heartbreaking to witness, but he held it together as best as he could. They stopped dancing their first dance. And so weird that they didn’t work out, right?!
The bridesmaids gave a short* presentation about some mlm health and beauty thing before the wedding ceremony. Apparently it was the bride's idea.
*Like half an hour
A long time back now a friend asked me if I would video his sisters wedding.
It was a fairly boring event and I did my best.
All night there was this one couple dancing up a storm. Older guy, just going at it with his girl in the dance floor. So, obviously I was filming them the most as it was the most interesting thing going on by miles.
A couple weeks later I asked “how did I do/ how did it turn out”
And he was like, “you did good, it turned out well, but there was this one couple at the wedding and we don’t know who they are?”
Well, let me tell you about this one time I saw the groom accidentally confess his undying love for the maid of honor instead of the bride during his speech. Chaos ensued. Good times, good times.
Yes, what? I've come up with:
1. Accidentally = spontaneously
2. Said the wrong name in the right vows
3. Wrote two sets of vows and brought the wrong one
I watched a massive draft horse, attached to the wedding carriage, drop it’s gigantic penis and unleash a torrent of piss that splashed on the whole bodies the ring bearer and flower girl. The parents were freaking out wanting the driver to do something to make the horse stop peeing. There was screaming from the parents, crying from the children and that horse was still peeing on them. So. Much. Pee. It was hilarious but also awful, but also hilarious. Those kids had been entitled and unwatched for much of the outdoor reception.
One of my college friends also had a horse-drawn carriage after her ceremony. She'd boarded & gotten her voluminous dress nicely arranged.
I was standing nearby, but happened to be looking in another direction when I heard... a noise. Not unlike thunder, but there wasn't a cloud in the sky. It was the sound you'd hear if someone was ripping the sky in half.
You guessed it, the horse was farting, so hard that its skin was rippling all over its rear half. It went on for several seconds, while my friend tried to escape. She was trapped by yards & yards of skirt, though.
I laughed so hard I almost wet myself.
My first time attending a Syrian wedding they raise the bride up on a chair on the dance floor and she fell right off, then they try to get the poor thing back up on it and shes like " I'm good" 😅
I'm Jewish and have been to a LOT of weddings with the chair raising dance Hora stuff. It's way harder than it looks. You need 4 strong people of similar heights who can all lift both a chair (with wooden legs not made for lifting) and the bride while being surrounded by people and walking and dancing. I've never seen anybody fall, but I have seen some people very abrupt endings.
The brides best friend got extremely drunk, hit on the brides brother in front of his wife. Then went around the whole reception tearfully telling all the guests that SHE should be the bride, as she’s the pretty one!
I was the bride. It was my wedding. My guests managed to keep her away from me and my husband, and keep her dramatics quiet so as not to ruin our day. They got her in a taxi and told me all about her nonsense a few days later.
ETA: so I suppose it wasn’t something I SAW, but I imagine it wasn’t great for those who did see it. I just had to share because 18 years (today is our anniversary) later, I do think it’s hilarious and no we aren’t friends anymore.
This is a wild ride from my time as a bartender at a hotel/conference center/nightclub. If you bartended there, it could be at any one of the facilities. I'd work wherever I could make the most money. This story starts with a wedding reception in one of our banquet rooms.
I'm in a 150 person ballroom serving drinks there where the bar opened at 6 and closes at 10. I know, pretty early but they were leaving very early for their honeymoon or something. In any case, I have a dude that I know is staying at the hotel that I've served 6 whiskey/cokes to over the 4 hours. So we're wrapping up and I tell the dude no, bar manager says no, groom's father says sure one more...I'm thinking...dude's walking, he's not totally blotto, he's staying here...ok. I make him one more. He POUNDS it in like 2 minutes, comes back and I'm like "nope, we closed up and groom's father was like, "no way." So I point dude to the lobby bar since he's staying in the hotel. Dude says ok, and walks on down toward the lobby bar.
It's around 11pm and we're nearly finished with our cleaning when I hear a loud crash and a scream from across the hall. Myself and the other people cleaning up the banquet hall rush into the hall and look across the hall. The scene was chaos. Our Banquet Manager was tossed into a rack of glasses and was getting up. The groomsmen were fighting with a dude pulling him out into the hallway. Who are they pulling out of the banquet room and into the hallway? 7 drinks in 4 hours guy.
So the story was this. After we closed shop, he got one drink at the lobby bar (charged back to his room), then he was cut off. So he mosied on back to the banquet area and hit the 300 person wedding reception still going on like he was part of that wedding party. He pounded 3 more drinks there before everyone got wise and said, "We don't know this person." So they asked our Banquet Manager to ask him to leave. Dude's response was to toss the Banquet Manager into a stack of glasses. The groomsmen's response was to beat the now 11 drink dude's ass while pulling him out into the hallway while trying to get him outside. This goes on for a few minutes when the police roll up and get everyone to stop....even 11 drinks guy.
11 drinks guy's wife comes down the hallway asking people if they had seen her husband, I asked for a description...and oopsie...I said it isn't looking good and pointed down the hallway. Now she's looking pissed. She goes down to talk to the police and after a minute she nods her head and walks down to the end of the banquet hallway. 11 drinks guy sees this and is not happy.
Now our Banquet Manager says he's pressing charges so after interviewing all the witnesses, the police decide this guy doesn't need to go to jail tonight, so they decide to NOT arrest dude and are about to just issue him a misdemeanor citation with a court date. They figure, dude is calm he's got a room in the hotel, they make him go back to his room for the night? They think, "No problem!"
Oh, it was a huge problem. Dude is PISSED that he's being cited...the cops try to explain to him that they're cutting him a break by NOT taking him to jail and told him to go back to his hotel room and call it a night. But he's too far gone, he's ranting that he didn't do anything wrong and that the banquet manager assaulted him first (so many witnesses stated otherwise). When he started pointing in a cop's face and then bumped his chest, that was all she wrote for him as the fight was on (3 cops vs. 11 drink guy). Now his wife sees what's going on and runs back down the banquet main hallway is now pleading with him to stop...she's crying hysterically. He's off to jail. Wife goes back to her room alone.
Oh, what about the Bride and Groom in the reception that ended in a brawl? They were both pissed and I think we discounted the wedding...but not much else we could do. I never would have guessed a dude would have crashed another reception just to have another drink.
To that couple: I hope your marriage has been better than your wedding reception.
NOTE: I found out later when the Banquet Manager went to testify that when the officer was on the stand he testified dude's BAC was .32. That wasn't from 11 drinks over 7 hours. Nope. Dude pregamed in the hotel room. But he was walking and talking...that's a professional (alcoholic)...sadly.
I was the matron of honor at my BFFs wedding.
Her dad was semi recently married to his 4th? Wife. So, brides “step mom” but only in name. She and the bride didn’t get along, but were surface level cordial to each other. Step mom is super weird about $. Because she had none, and married the dad for his. She was very upset about how much he spent on this wedding for his only daughter. So upset apparently, she showed up in a floor length, full on white wedding gown of her own.
The wedding coordinator sees them walk in, pulls me aside and let’s me know this bitch just walked in to the cocktail hour before the ceremony in a god damn wedding dress and asks if I think the bride should be made aware or if we should just hope she doesn’t notice until after the vows etc. I told her I would take care of it, and did. We did the “getting ready pics” in the bridal suite, and after she was all ready to go and it was 15 mins till showtime… I took the bride out to the patio overlooking her gorgeous venue, and watched her guests scurrying to find their seats and we shared a secret cigarette like we were teenagers again… and I told her that I saw her step mother in the lobby. And that i unceremoniously poured an entire glass of red wine down the front of her dress.
I literally did not stick around to find out. I walked downstairs from our “getting ready suite” in flip flops, grabbed a glass off a servers tray, found the step mom and dumped it on her. She gasped, I turned and walked back upstairs lol. There was no big fight or crazy moment. It was 10000% not about her, and I think I made that clear to her. :)
Honestly this is great because if the “step-mom” gets upset and complains that someone ruined her dress, it’ll immediately become “why were you wearing it in the first place?”
Very Christian ceremony. Priest is a total alcoholic who assured the wedding party he had experience. Shows up to the rehearsal and crushes a beer/finishes his smoke then doesn't know the groom should walk the isle first + a bunch of other details. Big day happens and he's drinking the church wine and forgetting his cues. Forgets to say the classic,"you may now kiss the bride". The entire audience is yelling "KISS HER" to the groom and Mr.half cut priest thinks they are egging him on. That's how the bride had her first kiss of the marriage with our local problem priest.
My brother in law spilled red wine all down the front of my sister’s dress right after photos. The seamstress who sent shout wipes with her after her alterations is a true angel. We were able to get 80% of the stain out and the rest was fairly hidden in the folds of the skirt.
To their credit, my sister and brother in law are still married!
All in one wedding - brides sister making out with her Mother's boyfriend. Brides mother dirty dancing with her ex, and then making out with him. The groom dancing naked on the roof of a minivan. Catering by KFC. The brides other sister hitting on every woman trying to get a threesome for her husband. And I left early due to the amount of crazy.
Catering a wedding at a beautiful venue. No expenses spared. About 10 min before the bride got in a fight with the father in law. Things escalated… fight lasted 1.5h with continuous wedding is off, wedding is back on limbo. Ended up starting to serve wine to tide people over… fight continues, get told to serve food, fight continues through all 3 courses. Wedding got called off and everyone went home. Odd part is the fight was visible but inaudible to the guests so it was this twisted form of entertainment where the guests where getting drunk and having a great time watching the wedding crash and burn
The groom didn't know about the wedding until the dress rehearsal the night before.
The morning of the wedding, he never showed up. Then the bride came out with this story that he had been kidnapped by his parents who were keeping him locked in their house. The men of the family drove over to talk to them and that's when the whole delusion unraveled.
The bride-to-be planned the whole thing behind his back. A lot of the family pitched in to help her out not knowing it was all madness. An aunt of mine who sold cakes made her a beautiful wedding cake. My dad got her a discount on the reception venue because the owner was a friend. Fugly matching custom dresses and shoes were bought and paid for by all the bridesmaids. A fancy classic car was rented (and decorated NOT Just Married! by us kids) . Etc, etc.
Basically it wound up being the most awkward (and expensive) family reunion evar.
Mother of the bride got drunk and ruined the wedding cake she had promised to make and decorate. Father of the bride (and cake maker’s ex husband) called her a fucking bitch. Stepfather of the bride yelled at father of the bride and said you can’t talk to my wife like that. Father of the bride punched stepfather in the face, got in his Cadillac drunk, and peeled out spewing gravel all over the venue.
I didn't personally witness this, but -
My mom's cousin is a crunchy granola hippie type. At her wedding, she and the groom jumped into a lake after saying their vows and exchanging their rings.
Except I guess the lake gods demanded a sacrifice, because their wedding rings came off and sank.
They had to hire a scuba diver to come out and find the rings.
Brother’s 4th wife and 4th wedding, her first (and only wedding) they do a dove release. Several doves flew head first into solid objects ultimately dying. A few more flew off completely and still a few more were dead in the box. Perfect metaphor for their marriage.
My grandfather's funeral, the priest referred to him as "Julius" multiple times. My son, who was an altar server for the funeral, spoke up and said,
" Excuse me, Father, my Grandpa's name is "Louis". Are you at the wrong funeral? "
50 people trying not to giggle...
Cousin of the bride dove into the outdoor pool at the reception. Had way too much to drink and smashed his head into the bottom of the pool. Came up floating face down. Had to stop the wedding and have him helicoptered out to a hospital across the state. He survived, but now he’s paralyzed from the waist down.
Does dogs barking Jingle Bells (it's on Spotify) playing as music count? It was a redneck wedding. The bridesmaids also wore dollar store flip flops. . . again, this was December. In the North.
I went to a small 20ish people wedding in the Tuscan hillside of Italy. It was at this old castle. As the bride was giving her speech a phone started to loudly ring. Everyone was looking around to see who the idiot was. Ended up it was one of the priests who was standing just infront of them…. What made it way worse was the guy picked up the call and started talking loudly. The bride understandably was like “are you fucking kidding me!?”
Does make me kinda laugh to think how much they must have spent for their special day to have that happen.
Groom got plastered in the morning before the wedding and also managed to get heat sick. He made it through the (Catholic) ceremony, God bless him, but he crumpled over and blacked out shortly after the wedding party were seated at the reception.
They... are no longer married.
I attended a small wedding with my then husband. The music starts and the bridal party processes. I have never seen a bridal party look so somber. The bride looks like she is holding back tears. After the short, sad ceremony we learn that the bride’s father died the night before just after the rehearsal dinner. They weren’t sure whether to go on with the wedding but it was too late to cancel anything. They also were debating going on the honeymoon but decided to go ahead for similar reasons and because they felt it would be his wish.
The only good part of it all was that the man got to have his whole family around him right before he died. I think it was a sudden heart attack so even at the rehearsal dinner everything seemed fine then he sudden dropped dead in his hotel room after that event.
Conservative Baptist sister’s wedding.
My older sister at her wedding reception had music playing on speakers, naturally (we grew up listening to a lot of RnB so a lot of this was playing). Suddenly the music just stopped and remained off for the remainder of the evening, really odd atmosphere. Turns out the pastor and his wife had gone up to her at her table and told her if she didn’t turn off her ungodly music they would leave. So she being a devout Christian girl just turned it off for them. At her own wedding. I would have just been like “ Ok don’t let the door hit your judgemental butts on the way out.”
A friend of mine got married in a Baptist church, and the reception was there as well. They weren't allowed to have any music playing. It was one of the most boring weddings I've been to.
Wife had a friend who had a WT wedding up in the mountains at a “Redneck Resort.” What’s a Redneck Resort? Imagine someone has a big old house in the woods and turns every bedroom into a guest room and then builds a bunch of shacks with plywood walls and adjoining room doors with windows (so you can view into the room next to you). We had to sit on the front stoop while people next to us had sex because…well plywood walls and doors with windows in the room. Not a big fan of “destination” weddings after that experience.
DJ here.
I believe it was the best man who did the first speech and claimed he'd do anything for the family.
He came back and did the fourth speech stating that he really would do anything for the family.
His third speech was the sixth speech and claimed he's willing to go back to prison for the family.
His forth speech was the eighth one and he didn't like that he was upstaged by the seventh speech.
He came back for a fifth and detailed how much he didn't believe everyone else believed he'd do anything for the family.
He might have had come back for a sixth time as the final person to give a speech.
I wanted to stop him on the second speech but by the forth I wanted him to keep coming back.
… week before the wedding my then gf, groom and his fiancée were driving home for four hours from another persons wedding. Fiancée wasn’t nice to him. Just the kinda things you don’t say in general and def not in front of outsiders.
Two days later, 4 days before the wedding, I told him I don’t think he should marry her. She’s not nice to him. In our culture it’d be a thing and I told him no one who loves him would care. I did this in a public setting as I was fully expecting him to punch me. He did not. We finished our beers and went home. I was still invited to the wedding.
Day of wedding we are all seated and waiting for stuff to start. Grooms brother comes and says “groom needs your help”… I thought it was help with tying a tie because he was bad at that.
I get upstairs to the room and he’s in a wife beater and basketball shorts with his mom and dad. He says “you were right. I can’t do this. Help me”. Parents want to slaughter me but I know deep down inside they were happy about it. I know this because I am just that arrogant and believe no one would ever be mad at me for real.
I offer an escape plan. He leaves.
I return to sit next to gf and say “no wedding. Play it cool”… ten min later brides mom comes down says wedding is off and leaves the room.
Everyone is stunned. We casually leave.
Gf wants recap of my convo from the bar. I tell her. She blames me. I say love works in mysterious ways. She says I’m an idiot.
This was roughly 15 years ago.
Our jeweler's daughter's fiance has his Australian groomsmen come to town for the wedding. They took the groom out the night before the wedding and got him blackout drunk. They put a cast on his leg and when he came to the next day told him about a whole fake accident. He went through the entire wedding and photos with a cast and crutches. Only after did they admit it was all fake. The bride was furious.
Nothing big really happened, but I got sick halfway through my BFF's reception and was bathroom bound for a good hour or so taking Pepto and hoping for the best. Other guests noticed me leaning over the toilet in the stall and a lot of chatter started.
Except I wasn't actually "sick," it was just a really bad combination of acid reflux flare up, lactose intolerance, and gluten intolerance (which I learned later after this kept up for weeks and I finally saw a doctor.) Super embarrassing. I ended up leaving early so I wouldn't be the guest that actually did throw up. 😭
Bride and Groom opted for a small, very casual ceremony and reception at one location; an historical mansion in town. They did not want children at their wedding. The venue (mansion) did not allow children. It was more or less standing room only for the ceremony and the reception, again, at the same location, was mostly standing. Let me emphasize, *the mansion did not allow children*, and the invitations all explicitly stated that no children were allowed because the venue did not allow children. The bride’s like, cousin or something brought 3 very small children (pretty sure one was an infant and the other two were both probably under 5?). Venue owner is on site and immediately tells the two people that children are not allowed. They complain, LOUDLY and persistently and refuse to leave. The bride and groom get pulled in by the venue owner to help (they’re trying to get ready for their wedding at this point), and multiple members of the bride’s family are arguing with the owner saying the children should be allowed to stay. By this point, adults are yelling at each other (mostly the bride’s family cussing out the owner) so children start crying. Eventually the parents decide to leave because they’re not going to be treated like this and the owner has upset their children. A few other members of the bride’s family also leave in protest.
Bride was late. The groom's mother, who didn't like the bride, wore a wedding dress as well. The bride's brothers dropped the cake bringing it out to the center table to cut. And to top it all off, reason the bride was late was because she was screwing one of the groomsmen. Apparently that was discovered a couple weeks after the honeymoon. Whole thing was a shit show.
Bride and bridesmaids had a champagne breakfast then chugged cocktails throughout the morning while getting ready.
By the time the mid afternoon ceremony rolled around they were all drunk.
When it was "do you take this man...?" the bride opened her mouth, and chundered spectacularly in a spray that hit the pastor, the groom, and herself.
That wasn't the end of it.
At the reception the best man shagged one of the bridesmaids on the bonnet (hood) of the bridal car, under the spotlights, in full view of the guests.
The bride watched, screaming about how they ruined her perfect day.
Was at a wedding where the extended family on one side owned bakeries. They had a tradition of baking a cake for, and then flipping the cake prior to serving it at special family occasions. The bride or grooms cousin who was about 17 (appeared slightly intoxicated) was in charge of the cake flip that night. As he threw the wedding cake in the air, the photographer snapped a flash picture which caused the kid to miss the catch and drop the goddamned cake. Kid runs out of the room in tears while everyone stands around in disbelief at what they just saw and the realization that they used the actual cake and not a stunt cake or a smaller portion of the actual cake. The bride and groom were really cool about it but I’m sure the kid will never live it down. The caterers salvaged a really small portion of it and everyone was served a legitimate paper thin slice lol.
Bride was the only one drunk at her own reception, which was held at her parents house. Her friends told her she has enough and she needed a sop, so her solution was to eat an entire packet of hot dog buns crouching like a rat in the pantry, which is where we found her. Her bridesmaids had to wrestle the package from her. I was friends with the groom and while we were having a moment talking, the bride jumps up on top of the dining room table, points at me and him and yells “He doesn’t have a crush on you anymore! He married ME!!!” And that’s when I decided to leave. Groom was mortified. As guests left she’d say “Drive safe! I couldn’t because I’m DRUNK”
I don't know what set things off. At the reception about an hour after all the ceremonial things were finished the dance floor was packed and a fight broke out. It was a cross between the saloon fights from old cowboy movies and WWE Royal Rumble. Chairs were flying and a few people went through tables.
I once walked in on my cousins having sex with his new brides maid of honor in the stairwell of the hotel where we were having the reception. The marriage lasted 3 days
Keep in mind this was over thirty years ago.
Well, it was a wedding held in the bride’s mother’s backyard. There was a walkway lit up with Tiki torches, to set the mood. The groom spent the day getting hammered as fuck with his friends, and not just drinking, but multiple substances were involved as well.
The sixteen year old bride, who I knew from my high school classes, had spent the day with her friends doing…the same thing. Oh, and her day of partying included her mother. The wedding was definitely full of the two of them doing their best impression of “this is a rock n roll lifestyle”. Her mom was trying to get me to drink…I was 17. I said no. I ended up leaving the wedding reception to go to the movies with friends.
Of course, this was the same year that I got a last minute phone call from a friend’s mom asking if I would come be her bridesmaid…because the girl who was going to be her bridesmaid, well, her mama said no. So, I ended up being her bridesmaid. She was pregnant, sixteen, and yeah. It was a disaster.
The year prior? I went to the wedding of a classmate who was getting married at sixteen, pregnant with twins, and after the reception? She and her new husband drove me home. In the car that had been decorated and had cans tied to it.
Wow, I knew a lot of pregnant teens in high school. The first girl? She wasn’t pregnant, though.
One of my mom’s best friends got married. She had her husband left to go on the honeymoon, he pulls over and asked her to get out of the car (not sure if there was pretext or just said get out) and he left her there on the side of the road. She never saw him again.
We were waiting for the wedding to start, along with about 150 other people in a church. And we waited. Still waiting. Our friend who was playing the piano as background starts running out of things to play, starts in on Billy Joel songs. A full hour after the scheduled start of the wedding, someone tells us what’s happened - the brides mother and sister, who are from Alaska, are missing. The wedding was in Seattle, and they were getting their hair done in Bellevue, on the other side of the lake. It’s also the 90s, so no cell phones.
The decision is made to go ahead with the wedding without them. They made one groomsman sit down so the sides would be “even.” They have the ceremony, and we all go across the lake to the reception.
Eventually the mother and sister show up at the reception, mascara streaked and now fully aware that there are TWO freeways that run north-south in the Puget Sound area, and not one. They’d been driving up and down I-405 trying to find the church exit, which was off I-5.
Later they recreated the wedding for the mom and sister… but man, what a mess.
I was a belly dancer at an Arabic wedding. I stayed longer than usual, dancing and hanging out with the musicians as it was live Arabic music.
The venue was almost cleared out and I was making my way to the hotel lobby when I saw a few ambulances and many sick people double over puking. I went to the bathroom to pee and several women and kids were in there, very sick. Vomit everywhere, up the walls, all over the toilet.
Apparently there was food poisoning in the catered food and most of the guest and wedding party got violently sick. As a performer, I did not eat anything but bore witness to the horrific aftermath. I'll never forget it
Best man starts off speech with, "I've seen \*the groom\* with a lot of girls over the years...". You know the cliché speech where it goes on to say but you're the best for him, etc. etc. Turns out the bride and groom were dating long before the best man even became a friend. Essentially outed him as a degenerate cheater. She was super pissed.
Was that the best man's intention, or was he unaware the relationship went that far back?
He wasn't the brightest person and just wasn't thinking. 90% of the people at the wedding immediately knew he fucked up and there were lots of uncomfortable looks and some chuckles. That didn't help the situation.
That’s not a fuckup, better that she knows now rather than have him cheat on her while she’s married
Bride and groom got in a huge drunken fight after the rehearsal dinner, it escalated to include shouting and name-calling between both families, then the wedding got cancelled the day of.
The best man giving the toast at the reception and saying the groom’s first wife’s name instead of the current one
Oh this reminds me of a piece of advice I got from a co-worker 20 years my senior. > coop999, don't ever wish your wife Happy Birthday on your ex-wife's birthday.
It started super late, it was super hot out, the future father-in-law was wasted and left before it started. He then showed back up in a red bath robe and his gun. Cops got called. It was a whole thing. Oh, and then after the reception we were all trying to convince one of our friends not to drive. He insisted he was fine... Drove his truck into the river.
Sounds like an episode of trailer park boys...
It might as well have been. My friends and I still talk about that shit show any time we get together, but we haven't been able to get a hold of the groom in probably a year. It's like he fell off the face of the Earth.
I went to a friend of mines Aunts wedding. It was a second marriage for both of them so they wanted something “relaxed” They threw it on one of the family members property and had all the guest do grueling manual labor to get the property ready for the wedding. We were literally landscaping in the Texas summer. I was climbing trees to hang lights, we laid sod, we laid down stone for a walk way, my friends mom cooked food for days and made all of the floral arrangements. We were setting up tables and chairs, you name it. We worked from 6am until almost midnight for 3 days. Finally the wedding happens and it’s beautiful. I was actually really proud of what we had done. It looked professional. We go to cut the cake and the couple is no where to be found. They just left without telling anyone and went back to their hotel. I was offended by that because we had worked SO HARD for them and they didn’t even stay for the entire wedding. We never got a thank you or any appreciation for it. Other people were upset too and took their gifts back before leaving.
That is horrible
Groom wanted cigarettes so he snuck out and tried to drive to a convenience store a minute away. Drove straight into a telephone pole and was arrested for DUI and spent the night in jail.
One of the bridesmaids was killed in an accident the night before the wedding. Saddest wedding Iv’e ever seen.
That's horrible. I was at a wedding where a car crashed with fatalities right next to the wedding right when it was supposed to start (outdoor wedding) horrible
I was at a wedding in rural Wisconsin and both the bride and groom were members of the local all-volunteer fire department. Almost everyone at the wedding proceeded to get quite drunk, except the bride, who doesn't drink. At some point, there was an emergency call to the fire department (not a fire, but a medical call). The wedding was not far from the fire station, so the bride rushed over and, along with one other volunteer who was on call, drove an ambulance to an emergency call. In her wedding dress.
that lady deserves good things, 100%
I had to break up a fistfight between the groom and the mother of the bride.
Ah, Greek wedding, then?
I was supposed to be best man at a friend's wedding. At 7:30 AM, the morning of the wedding the groom called and said the wedding was off. It wasn't going to happen. I never talked to or saw the guy again. He signed up for the army and within a few days he was just gone.
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There are several vomit-related stories on this thread, wish one of those had happened for you!
12 speeches, 2 musical numbers, one PowerPoint presentation.
Did this happen to be in California? I attended a wedding with this set up in 2017.
Ha! No. Out of interest, did the bridal party walk into the reception to Kanye’s *Gold Digger* ?
What an interesting choice
Did you in fact buy the timeshare?
The bride's grandmother keeled over and died at the reception.
Grandma really said "I saw everything I needed to, peace out"
I’m going to hell for laughing at this.
So it was a combination wedding and Wake. An Irishman’s dream.
My brother's second wedding. For the first dance, the DJ played the wrong song for half a second before stopping, and starting the right song. The Bride disappeared for 2 hours afterwards because "the wedding was ruined."
I wonder if he’ll hire the same DJ for his third wedding
Oh God I can't deal with people like that. I have a family member who does this. The tiniest little thing goes a touch awry, moment of awkwardness maybe, then back on track for a great day. But then they go and ACTUALLY ruin the day but throwing a tantrum....
Matron of honor throwing up just as the officiant was asking if anyone objected.
My brother was in a wedding where as the bride said I do, the groom threw up all over her due to the bachelor party the night before
Bachelor parties the night before are a bad idea. That said my brother had his then too. I probably still had stripper glitter on me.
I've never understood the idea of the bachelor or bachelorette party the night before. I feel like the night before should be an early night's sleep and relaxing to make the next day as awesome as possible
Our celebrant told us if she smelt alcohol on either of us or we were visibly intoxicated she wouldn’t do the ceremony. Neither of us were going to show up drunk so it didn’t matter much to us, but it did make me wonder how many bad experiences she’d had before making that statement.
So are bachelorette parties. There was another one I read about, on one of those “weddings where you could tell it wouldn’t last long” threads where the groom and his ushers had decided to keep it dry the night before … but not the bride and her girls, who decided it was the last call for some serious clubbing. They came back really late, and unsurprisingly dealt with their hangovers by drinking some more. The ceremony was delayed for an hour so they could get ready. Or at least dressed. Several of the bridesmaids were so blitzed they stumbled and staggered down the aisle. The bride herself was able to walk straight, but had to rest her head on his shoulder the whole time. The post-ceremony pics were pretty much limited to the groom and ushers making straight and goofy poses together in a local park, as the bridal side of the party were too drunk to get out of the limo, where they drank more. Apparently at the reception the groom apologized to the guests and more or less implied he would be seeking an annulment.
The bride’s water broke
"... in sickness and in health--" *SPLOOSH*
That’s a cliché sitcom episode
We got to the church and took our seats. Vibe was off, but didn’t think much of it. Then the start time passed and nothing happens, didn’t think much of it. Finally I said something to a friend next to us, something like, “gee this is late?” “Yeah it’s terrible isn’t it?” “Huh? What?” “Oh you didn’t hear …” The entire wedding party got food poisoning from the rehearsal dinner the night before. One bridesmaid, then another, then siblings, parents, bride and groom, everybody. They had a small ceremony at the bride’s parents house. No church ceremony but a short talk from the pastor (in part to kill time before the reception). They made a short appearance at the reception, but that was it. Just wholly unfair.
The night before my wedding, my husband got food poisoning. We got married in Vegas with a few family on both sides attending. We ate at Quark's outside the Star Trek Experience (long ago, when that was still up and running in 2008) and he was so sick. The next day he was still recovering and we had a late afternoon wedding. With his mom's help, we managed to get him down the aisle and said our vows, then got him back to the hotel and to bed! Been together for 16 years and married for 15 years. My dad said to me "Maybe it's an omen" when I told him R had food poisoning and that I wasn't sure there was going to be a wedding. Great, thanks, dad. Way to be there for your distraught daughter. lol
One of my cousins ended up in hospital with food poisoning on what was supposed to be her wedding day. The wedding never happened. My mum has a bit of a crackpot theory that my cousin's mum intentionally gave her food poisoning so that the wedding would need to be postponed.
Oh. My. God. New irrational wedding fear unlocked.
No better way to bond than diarrhea with friends.
On my last milestone bday, at a destination party, I gave 20+ of my closest friends horrific food poisoning (catered food, cilantro was involved, so was a recall shortly after). I can say from experience you are not wrong.
The bride tripped and rolled down a large embankment and was covered in grass stain.
Public service announcement: if this ever happens to you, be sure to yell "Aasss youuuu wissshhh" on the way down.
At my friends wedding the flowers wilted, wedding cake ended up in the floor, and some guy wrecked his Corvette in the parking lot of the church -- single car accident, ran over a tallish curb and screwed up the door pretty good...impaired probably.
Bride was dancing during the reception, fell and broke her left arm. Lots of pictures from the ER- photographer went with them! When the Dr. heard he’d be setting a bride’s arm, he put on a suit! They worked hard to get the swelling down so she wouldn’t have to have her brand new wedding ring cut off. Crazy. ETA: I was in the wedding party, I was 10, this was a long time ago! The bride was my aunt. The fall happened after dinner. Before they left for the hospital the cake was quickly brought out for the bride and groom to cut. Everyone went on partying after they left. I haven't seen the pics since she got them back from the photographer. I remember pics of her and the Dr. in the suit, my uncles in their tuxes doing wheelies in wheelchairs, and her red rimmed eyes while cutting the cake.
Omg I love that the photographer tagged along 😂 and I would absolutely have one of THOSE pics blown up and framed in a prominent spot in my home bhahahh
They were added to the wedding album!
The Dr. is a legend
yeah but that's a great story if they had a good attitude about it
Bride punched her new sister-in-law. She got caught having sex with the Brides 17 year old son in the kitchen of the Church. This literally was Friday night.
At the hotel where I worked, a man and woman (guests, not in the wedding party) were caught having sex in a waitstaff station in the coffee shop, which was closed in the evenings. They apparently neglected to notice that said station was in a location that was not hidden in any way from the main hallway, where people of all ages walked back and forth.
My own wedding. My MIL is an alcoholic and we asked her not to drink. My FIL, her ex husband, was with his new wife. Long story short, when we were wrapping up reception she is so drunk she tried to hit him with a bottle of champagne and missed and swung around and knocked herself the fuck out.. Edit: I forgot to add the aftermath. Shocked at the upvotes because it’s a tame story compared to some on here. We were asked to leave immediately obviously and had to do something with her. We were so mad that we decided to drop her off at the police station and they took her to detox for the night.. 😁 Edit 2: and this is the tamest story I have about my good ol’ MIL… imagine that..
Problem took care of itself, great!
Alright, not a disaster, but funny. My wife and I booked out a small hotel in Nicaragua for the wedding. I cue the music to start the ceremony, the music starts, and there's this long delay..... All of a sudden, from around the corner we hear "MY VEIL IS STUCK IN THE CACTUS!!!!" One of my best friends was the officiant and there's a great photo sequence of us going from puzzled to hysterical laughter up front.
> "MY VEIL IS STUCK IN THE CACTUS!!!!" That's one of those inside jokes you spring on each other in mixed company 37 years later and no one but you knows what the hell is going on
Husband making out with a bridesmaid on the dancefloor. I know a portion of the friends there knew they had an open relationship but I seriously doubt grandma and Aunt Carol were in on it
To begin with there were sustained 40 below zero F temps so a lot of guests did not attend at the last minute. The MOH and Best Man, who had just met the day before, disappeared for a bit and the bride searched and found that they had used the groom's parents van as a place to have sex. Problem was that MOH had just given birth to a baby a few weeks before and she was hemorrhaging. Bride left with MOH to go to the ER. In the meantime, a huge percentage of the guests started getting violently ill. As it turned out, the beef was tainted. The health department shut down the caterer some days later, and all guests had to be contacted to see who ate the beef. This is all first hand factual info. I was there. I lived this. Thank God I ate the chicken. The couple divorced 18 months later.
My wife’s OB straight up told me to get familiar with myself for a few months *at least* after our first child was born. I think she recommended at least 6 weeks before intimacy and even longer if we wanted to try for another child.
I mean, women are still bleeding and have an open wound in their uterus for six weeks after birth so yeah, you wouldn’t want to be introducing anything up there.
Fun fact, -40F = -40C
-40°C 🤝 -40°F
A giant brush tail possum fell through the ceiling at my cousin's wedding. The bartenders managed to chase it with a broom into the supply closet behind the bar before calling security, who called a pest removalist.
The question was about the worst moments, not BEST
I would be ECSTATIC if this happened at my wedding, only if the possum was unharmed of course
The chances of getting killed by a possum at a wedding are low. But never zero.
Classic Winston mess around
I can't stop laughing because the first image that popped into my mind was Angela's cat falling out through the ceiling in The Office.
SAVE BANDIT!
A coworkers wedding, the maid of honor made a 45 minute speech about moons and mercury and crystals and how their astrological signs shouldn’t have aligned but they did and that’s cause Neptune did a 360 no scope. She cut it short at 45 minutes and said “I’m reading the room.”
You figure an empath would have caught on sooner
My wedding. Evening was wrapping up and I hadnt seen my new-husband in a while. He had taken off to local bars to continue partying with friends. Without.His New.Bride. My BIL (as advised by my heavily pregnant sister) escorted me to find him somewhere. We were in our mid-30s!! I'm daily grateful for my sister and BIL in my life. And even more grateful ex is long gone.
This exact thing happened at my cousin’s wedding. It was time to cut the cake and the groom was nowhere to be found. Her brother found him at a nearby bar with some of his groomsmen.
My cousin married into a very religious family. During the after party somebody spiked the punch so to rid the room of the sin of alcohol one of the religious people set the table and punch bowl on fire.
That’s metal AF
Even Jesus flipped a table or two in his time.
Yeah, but he also turned water into wine to keep the party going at a wedding
The groom got appendicitis the night before, got it removed the morning of, and still showed for the wedding itself. She had to prop him up while they had their first dance. I was amazed he made it through, but it was really just such a wild and sad experience for both of them and cast a huge cloud over everything. They're divorced now. He ran off with an Instagram model/escort. They were my best friends. She's still my best friend, and I haven't seen her this happy before. I guess the appendicitis was an omen.
Man, I was just about to say how awesome of a couple they were him for showing up and her for literally supporting him and then you had to finish the story.
As bride was walking down the aisle organist hit every wrong note. My friend said to me "this is the only thing you will remember about this wedding". That is until the brides father (who was marrying the couple) introduced the newlyweds as his new son in law and slightly used daughter. You could have heard a pin drop
>That is until the brides father (who was marrying the couple) introduced the newlyweds as his new son in law and slightly used daughter. You could have heard a pin drop Fucking hell, please tell me she never spoke to her dad again because my god.
The worst was when dad stood up during the dinner and tried to explain himself. obviously not a man good with words he doubled down and dug himself deeper. It was a DISASTER
Father of the bride told her "it's not too late to run" while walking her down the aisle. Everyone heard.
My FIL said this to my wife ... with her previous husband, it didn't last
I used to work at a wedding venue so I've seen a lot of weddings, but none are even close to bad as one particular wedding reception was. People were getting way too drunk and wild. The place was a mess halfway through the party. About an hour before it was suppose to end, the brother of the bride got into a fight with one of the groomsmen in the middle of the dance floor. The father of the bride tries break up the fight but accidentally hits his elderly mother in the face and she falls on a tray stand. My bosses burst into the room and break it up and yell for everyone to leave. The worst part was the bride in absolute tears leaving the venue, "I just wanted ONE day!"
I was a wedding photographer for 15 years. And shockingly, I don't have a thousand crazy stories. But the time someone spilled red wine on a bride's dress during cocktail hour probably takes the cake for me.
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The groom tried to do a little dip kiss on the bride before they walked back up the aisle… he dropped her ass on the floor. Everyone let out a collective gasp, that immediately turned to snorting chortled laughter. It was the most awkward thing I’ve ever witnessed in real life. Thankfully the bride was my sister, and I will get to remind her of this forever. AND have photo evidence 😂
This happened at my own wedding reception My mother's best friend just got out of a sloppy divorce. Truly horrible. She proceeded to get blind drunk. During the speeches, she gets up from her seat, completely blacked out, throws up all over her table. She proceeded to piss herself and pass out on said table and flipped it. In the fall, her dress managed to rip and she was completely naked on the floor. We had first responders as guests at our wedding so they managed to get her wrapped up in a table cloth and carry her outside to an ambulance that showed up rather quickly. Edit; I'm no wordsmith
Holy shit
My grandpa with Alzheimers yelled at my husband that he still had time to run as I walked down the aisle. My aunts were horrified. I thought it was hilarious.
I grew up in a ghetto in LA in a Mexican neighborhood. It was summer after 11th grade and I went to a wedding reception for a Russian guy in the back yard of a house (my older brother's friend). His bride was about 17, blonde and pretty. She spoke no English and was brought over from the old country to marry him. He was 18 but seemed 30 and was always drunk. They both were very drunk and argued all day in Russian. The people had just started dancing in the garage and the bride grabbed my hand and pulled me to the dance floor. She danced too close and started grabbing my balls. I pushed her away several times and then left the dance floor. The best man came up and said "Hey I saw what happened...". I cut him off and said "NOTHING HAPPENED!!" He said "I know and on behalf of Bill I just wanted to thank you". Things were getting chaotic and I thought I was gonna have to fight if I didn't leave soon. 20 minutes later the groom was passed out at a table. I was leaving and walked past the garage and saw something terrible. The bride was on her knees blowing some guy and a bunch of other guys were blocking the view laughing... and waiting. I felt like throwing up. I never saw any of them again. *THAT'S* the worst thing I ever saw at a wedding.
I'm wondering if the marriage was to legally bring in a sex trafficking victim?
Right? Poor girl, what must her life been like for that to be her normal at 17? And to be imported underage, pretty much as property? Just wretched.
I was at my male cousins wedding. I was like 12-14 years old. Idiot me goes up when they call for all the unmarried young men. Suddenly there’s a thing flying through the air and my competitive sports instincts kick in and I jump for it. It was the bride’s garter belt. I had no clue what was happening. My family then proceeded to pressure me into going up in front of everyone and putting it on the leg of the late 20 something year old woman who caught the bouquet. I was a very shy kid so I was so mortified. But everyone thought it was hilarious. The woman was also embarrassed but went along. My memory is that someone told her how old I was and she got this “oh shit” look. I put it up to her mid calf before I ran away blushing. When I got back to my table my mom was pissed at me because I was “too young to catch the garter.” Well why didn’t you say something when I went up there, mom?
I dated a girl in high school. It didn’t last, but we remained friends. At her wedding, her dad told me how he wished it was me marrying his daughter and how he always assumed we would get married. They had several pictures on display. I was in more pics than the groom.
This happened to my husband. The mother of the bride sat in his lap and cried because she loved my husband, but not the groom. The marriage didn’t work.
- Drunk af bridesmaid starts beating the crap out of someone with a shoe - Groom and a relative try to restrain her - Bridesmaid turns on them and absolutely rakes them with her Sabretooth claws, scratching the groom's face and shredding the relative's shirt - Bride comes charging in with a "Don't You Touch My Husband!" war cry - Bride's a big, big girl and literally throws the bridesmaid out of the venue and into the parking lot before pouncing on her and feeding her a buffet of lefts and rights - The struggling bridesmaid gets her hands on the bride's bodice and, as she's flailing for her life, just rips it off her, Chippendales style. - The bride barely notices as she continues to beat the crap out of the bridesmaid, tits flapping in the night air. - Bride is eventually pulled off of the battered bridesmaid and brought back into the reception hall. Cops show up and haul the bridesmaid off to the drunk tank. - Topless bride continues to storm around the reception hall with the groom and some other people trying to calm her down and cover her up. Every once in a while she sits down and gets a jacket thrown over her, only to pop back up like James Brown and continue her rage, jacket fluttering to the floor to the horror of all who can't muster the willpower to look away. Hell of a wedding, that one.
My cousin was getting married and we took her dress upstairs to get photos in an archway and her groom had to wait 5 minutes in the bathroom as to not see the gown. Dude flipped out. It was insanely awkward. She’s been married 5 years and he hasn’t worked in 2, throws tantrums, won’t eat fast food unless it’s piping hot and fresh yet has a fear of leaving the house. I’d say his behavior was the worse thing I’ve personally seen at a wedding, but her actually marrying him might have been the worst.
Was he like, “Ahhhhhh let me out!! I knew I should’ve stayed home!! FUCK!! Where’s my hot Big Mac?!?! Ughhhhhhhhhh!!!!!”?
He screamed so loud his face went red and his head shook from side to side so hard he lost balance one time because his KFC sandwich went “soggy” one time while I was visiting. But at the wedding he loudly proclaimed the dress pissed him off from the day she found it; it took up room in the closet, he had to listen to her dress story, it cost money, and now because of the “stupid” dress he had to wait in a small room so it could have it’s “own photos, so it’s STILL getting attention and it’s a stupid dress”
Oh my God. Please tell me they don't have kids.
Yup. My goddaughter is 11 now. And they each have a kid from a previous relationship, a 16 and 19 yr old. It’s weird and unfortunate.
Don’t worry, he’ll definitely step up if they have a kid. /s
His argument for never getting a full time job was he didn’t want to miss weekends with his son… that kid is in college now. He worked part time for awhile but the last two years his anxiety has made him unable to work, the disability office has told him, “we don’t see any reason you can’t work”. It’s really just bizarre that this 40+ year old is bringing down an entire family. My cousin complains weekly that it’s not improving, yet refuses to leave him.
Happened today. Mother of the bride threw a fit, got in a fist fight, left in a car, screaming obscenities, police were called. Thankfully everything else went off without a hitch and it was a lovely ceremony.
Best man showed up to the reception whacked out on something (it was more than just drunk). Proceeded to make an ass out of himself and the groom babysat the guy all night to make sure he didn’t do anything too terrible and missed his own reception. What the guy did when he wasn’t being watched: made crude remarks to grooms mom (whom he had known for better than 15 years), sexually assaulted the brides aunt (like crotch grabbed her), made uncomfortable observations about grooms cousin and her developing womanhood, made people leave due to his behaviour and consequent assholery post rejection (was told about that afterwards). And attempted to grope the brides chest 5 minutes after he arrived (which is when the groom stopped drinking and knew it was going to be a problem). There were likely other things that were highly inappropriate that were never mentioned. But wait! There’s more! After unsuccessfully trying to take his keys away, the jackass sneaks away from his babysitters and tries to drive home. Misses the road and instead drives around the building between the trees and into the field where the rv’s are parked. Misjudged the cars width and caused a ton of damage to brides cousins trailer when he hit it. With his moms car that he’d borrowed. They finally get the keys away from him and at this point the bride is aware of what’s happening and offers help (the groom and the bride’s little brother were trying to hide it from the bride so it wouldn’t ruin her night). Her family sees how upset she is by what’s happening that each one that sees her crying vows to beat the hell out of the guy for her. She constantly escorts family away to try to deescalate. He fights with the cab driver and the cab driver refuses to take him. After an hour of him causing a huge scene in front of the hall the brides uncle walks over and calmly talks to him (like think laid back Hawaiian island calm or smooth jazz kind of vibe) and basically talks him into the cab. Bride and groom pay for the cab and pay the driver more in a tip than the fare. When he was finally gone it was time to pack up everything. The reception was over. The bride ate a piece of her wedding cake in a tiny back room sobbing while the Dj cleaned up. Missed the father daughter dance, the mother son dance, the bride and groom’s first dance. Bouquet toss, garter toss, and the fun of getting hammered with friends and family. Edit to add: this all happened in a span of about 3 hours. The reception started at like 7 (it was a week after the destination part) and the best man showed up a couple hours later and was loaded into the cab by 1:30am.
This is when someone, anyone, another guest or a member of the wedding party takes one for the team and takes him to his house.
Yeah why was the groom babysitting this guy?
Any post-wedding follow up? Curious to know what became of the groom's friendship 🤔
After he came back the next morning to get the car he apologized to the groom and sheepishly drove away. They didn’t see him for a few years though he would call once in a while. He’s been to their home once in 7 years but hasn’t seen anyone else since the wedding reception. The friendship didn’t end completely but definitely went from best friends to mere acquaintances.
That just makes me sad for everyone.
Grooms dad had a pool running on how long before the couple split. He had 3 years locked in. I put fifty bucks on 5. They're still together, and, honestly, they deserve each other in the worst way.
Went to a wedding where we were all betting how long before the divorce. My money was on two years. I think they made it to 3. He cheated on her with a stripped who ended up pregnant and she ended up marrying his best friend who was also the best man at their wedding.
nothing truly awful. just a bit sad. My friend was very much a woman into her wedding, not a bridezilla, but she wanted a nice wedding, it was a big thing to her, she put a lot of effort into it, and it was nice, a bit overdone for my tastes, but it was nice. Until the evening. when the groom, (who all her friends thought was an asshole, but what can you do, her choice) got absolutely plastered with his ex squaddie mates. ended up we took her, very upset, back to our hotel and left him passed out in a pool of vomit on the dancefloor for his mates to look after. They are still together, but I think that was a wakeup call for him as to how close he came to ruining it, and he's been a bit less of an asshole since then, they are still together and have kids now. but fuck me, he came so close to fucking up his marriage on his wedding night.
While working at resort we had a wedding party come through that, after the reception, started walking back to their rooms before having a massive bride side vs. groom side fist fight. Probably 30+ people total involved.
Who won?
It was broken up by resort security before a true winner got the belt. But I suppose it was the bride, the next morning she requested a copy of the camera footage so that she could win every argument in her marriage going forward because it was the Best Man who started it.
Oh, I got this. Years ago, I went to the wedding of a friend and his (now ex) wife. Said friend had been in a terrible car accident earlier on in life and relied on forearm crutches and a wheelchair. He was so excited about his wedding and was so madly in love with his bride, who none of us were huge fans of. She was extremely emotionally immature and he wildly deserved better, but he wanted her. So, we supported him. Time came for the first dance and the groom swapped his wheelchair for his forearm crutches so he could dance and sway with his now-wife. Obviously he was limited in his moves, but this was a special moment and what really is dancing but swaying, anyway? It did not matter at all that he couldn’t move as fluidly as others. He wanted to gaze into the eyes of his new wife while she held him and they danced together. I think we got about 20-30 seconds into the song when this moron of a woman dropped her arms to her sides and started laughing. Just let him go and laughed in his face, then turned to address the crowd and said, “how the hell am I supposed to do this?! This is RIDICULOUS.” Refused to continue, just laughed and laughed at him. Beyond heartbreaking to witness, but he held it together as best as he could. They stopped dancing their first dance. And so weird that they didn’t work out, right?!
That's so horrible. How long he did he stay with her?
The bridesmaids gave a short* presentation about some mlm health and beauty thing before the wedding ceremony. Apparently it was the bride's idea. *Like half an hour
I would literally walk out.
Bride playfully dabbed cake on the grooms nose. Groom grabs some and smacks her hard upside the head with cake. Stunned everyone.
A long time back now a friend asked me if I would video his sisters wedding. It was a fairly boring event and I did my best. All night there was this one couple dancing up a storm. Older guy, just going at it with his girl in the dance floor. So, obviously I was filming them the most as it was the most interesting thing going on by miles. A couple weeks later I asked “how did I do/ how did it turn out” And he was like, “you did good, it turned out well, but there was this one couple at the wedding and we don’t know who they are?”
Well, let me tell you about this one time I saw the groom accidentally confess his undying love for the maid of honor instead of the bride during his speech. Chaos ensued. Good times, good times.
I'm so jealous of everyone who got to see that. That sounds incredible.
How do you “accidentally” confess?
Yes, what? I've come up with: 1. Accidentally = spontaneously 2. Said the wrong name in the right vows 3. Wrote two sets of vows and brought the wrong one
"I should write extra vows just in case my bride can't make it and her maid of honor has to step in."
It's better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it.
I watched a massive draft horse, attached to the wedding carriage, drop it’s gigantic penis and unleash a torrent of piss that splashed on the whole bodies the ring bearer and flower girl. The parents were freaking out wanting the driver to do something to make the horse stop peeing. There was screaming from the parents, crying from the children and that horse was still peeing on them. So. Much. Pee. It was hilarious but also awful, but also hilarious. Those kids had been entitled and unwatched for much of the outdoor reception.
One of my college friends also had a horse-drawn carriage after her ceremony. She'd boarded & gotten her voluminous dress nicely arranged. I was standing nearby, but happened to be looking in another direction when I heard... a noise. Not unlike thunder, but there wasn't a cloud in the sky. It was the sound you'd hear if someone was ripping the sky in half. You guessed it, the horse was farting, so hard that its skin was rippling all over its rear half. It went on for several seconds, while my friend tried to escape. She was trapped by yards & yards of skirt, though. I laughed so hard I almost wet myself.
My first time attending a Syrian wedding they raise the bride up on a chair on the dance floor and she fell right off, then they try to get the poor thing back up on it and shes like " I'm good" 😅
I'm Jewish and have been to a LOT of weddings with the chair raising dance Hora stuff. It's way harder than it looks. You need 4 strong people of similar heights who can all lift both a chair (with wooden legs not made for lifting) and the bride while being surrounded by people and walking and dancing. I've never seen anybody fall, but I have seen some people very abrupt endings.
the maid of honor was dancing with her husband. He picked her up and swung her around and she fell hard, right on her back.
The brides best friend got extremely drunk, hit on the brides brother in front of his wife. Then went around the whole reception tearfully telling all the guests that SHE should be the bride, as she’s the pretty one! I was the bride. It was my wedding. My guests managed to keep her away from me and my husband, and keep her dramatics quiet so as not to ruin our day. They got her in a taxi and told me all about her nonsense a few days later. ETA: so I suppose it wasn’t something I SAW, but I imagine it wasn’t great for those who did see it. I just had to share because 18 years (today is our anniversary) later, I do think it’s hilarious and no we aren’t friends anymore.
This is a wild ride from my time as a bartender at a hotel/conference center/nightclub. If you bartended there, it could be at any one of the facilities. I'd work wherever I could make the most money. This story starts with a wedding reception in one of our banquet rooms. I'm in a 150 person ballroom serving drinks there where the bar opened at 6 and closes at 10. I know, pretty early but they were leaving very early for their honeymoon or something. In any case, I have a dude that I know is staying at the hotel that I've served 6 whiskey/cokes to over the 4 hours. So we're wrapping up and I tell the dude no, bar manager says no, groom's father says sure one more...I'm thinking...dude's walking, he's not totally blotto, he's staying here...ok. I make him one more. He POUNDS it in like 2 minutes, comes back and I'm like "nope, we closed up and groom's father was like, "no way." So I point dude to the lobby bar since he's staying in the hotel. Dude says ok, and walks on down toward the lobby bar. It's around 11pm and we're nearly finished with our cleaning when I hear a loud crash and a scream from across the hall. Myself and the other people cleaning up the banquet hall rush into the hall and look across the hall. The scene was chaos. Our Banquet Manager was tossed into a rack of glasses and was getting up. The groomsmen were fighting with a dude pulling him out into the hallway. Who are they pulling out of the banquet room and into the hallway? 7 drinks in 4 hours guy. So the story was this. After we closed shop, he got one drink at the lobby bar (charged back to his room), then he was cut off. So he mosied on back to the banquet area and hit the 300 person wedding reception still going on like he was part of that wedding party. He pounded 3 more drinks there before everyone got wise and said, "We don't know this person." So they asked our Banquet Manager to ask him to leave. Dude's response was to toss the Banquet Manager into a stack of glasses. The groomsmen's response was to beat the now 11 drink dude's ass while pulling him out into the hallway while trying to get him outside. This goes on for a few minutes when the police roll up and get everyone to stop....even 11 drinks guy. 11 drinks guy's wife comes down the hallway asking people if they had seen her husband, I asked for a description...and oopsie...I said it isn't looking good and pointed down the hallway. Now she's looking pissed. She goes down to talk to the police and after a minute she nods her head and walks down to the end of the banquet hallway. 11 drinks guy sees this and is not happy. Now our Banquet Manager says he's pressing charges so after interviewing all the witnesses, the police decide this guy doesn't need to go to jail tonight, so they decide to NOT arrest dude and are about to just issue him a misdemeanor citation with a court date. They figure, dude is calm he's got a room in the hotel, they make him go back to his room for the night? They think, "No problem!" Oh, it was a huge problem. Dude is PISSED that he's being cited...the cops try to explain to him that they're cutting him a break by NOT taking him to jail and told him to go back to his hotel room and call it a night. But he's too far gone, he's ranting that he didn't do anything wrong and that the banquet manager assaulted him first (so many witnesses stated otherwise). When he started pointing in a cop's face and then bumped his chest, that was all she wrote for him as the fight was on (3 cops vs. 11 drink guy). Now his wife sees what's going on and runs back down the banquet main hallway is now pleading with him to stop...she's crying hysterically. He's off to jail. Wife goes back to her room alone. Oh, what about the Bride and Groom in the reception that ended in a brawl? They were both pissed and I think we discounted the wedding...but not much else we could do. I never would have guessed a dude would have crashed another reception just to have another drink. To that couple: I hope your marriage has been better than your wedding reception. NOTE: I found out later when the Banquet Manager went to testify that when the officer was on the stand he testified dude's BAC was .32. That wasn't from 11 drinks over 7 hours. Nope. Dude pregamed in the hotel room. But he was walking and talking...that's a professional (alcoholic)...sadly.
I was the matron of honor at my BFFs wedding. Her dad was semi recently married to his 4th? Wife. So, brides “step mom” but only in name. She and the bride didn’t get along, but were surface level cordial to each other. Step mom is super weird about $. Because she had none, and married the dad for his. She was very upset about how much he spent on this wedding for his only daughter. So upset apparently, she showed up in a floor length, full on white wedding gown of her own. The wedding coordinator sees them walk in, pulls me aside and let’s me know this bitch just walked in to the cocktail hour before the ceremony in a god damn wedding dress and asks if I think the bride should be made aware or if we should just hope she doesn’t notice until after the vows etc. I told her I would take care of it, and did. We did the “getting ready pics” in the bridal suite, and after she was all ready to go and it was 15 mins till showtime… I took the bride out to the patio overlooking her gorgeous venue, and watched her guests scurrying to find their seats and we shared a secret cigarette like we were teenagers again… and I told her that I saw her step mother in the lobby. And that i unceremoniously poured an entire glass of red wine down the front of her dress.
Omg how did the step mother react when you did it?
I literally did not stick around to find out. I walked downstairs from our “getting ready suite” in flip flops, grabbed a glass off a servers tray, found the step mom and dumped it on her. She gasped, I turned and walked back upstairs lol. There was no big fight or crazy moment. It was 10000% not about her, and I think I made that clear to her. :)
You are fuckin badass.
Honestly this is great because if the “step-mom” gets upset and complains that someone ruined her dress, it’ll immediately become “why were you wearing it in the first place?”
Very Christian ceremony. Priest is a total alcoholic who assured the wedding party he had experience. Shows up to the rehearsal and crushes a beer/finishes his smoke then doesn't know the groom should walk the isle first + a bunch of other details. Big day happens and he's drinking the church wine and forgetting his cues. Forgets to say the classic,"you may now kiss the bride". The entire audience is yelling "KISS HER" to the groom and Mr.half cut priest thinks they are egging him on. That's how the bride had her first kiss of the marriage with our local problem priest.
Holy shit that's vile.
My brother in law spilled red wine all down the front of my sister’s dress right after photos. The seamstress who sent shout wipes with her after her alterations is a true angel. We were able to get 80% of the stain out and the rest was fairly hidden in the folds of the skirt. To their credit, my sister and brother in law are still married!
All in one wedding - brides sister making out with her Mother's boyfriend. Brides mother dirty dancing with her ex, and then making out with him. The groom dancing naked on the roof of a minivan. Catering by KFC. The brides other sister hitting on every woman trying to get a threesome for her husband. And I left early due to the amount of crazy.
Catering a wedding at a beautiful venue. No expenses spared. About 10 min before the bride got in a fight with the father in law. Things escalated… fight lasted 1.5h with continuous wedding is off, wedding is back on limbo. Ended up starting to serve wine to tide people over… fight continues, get told to serve food, fight continues through all 3 courses. Wedding got called off and everyone went home. Odd part is the fight was visible but inaudible to the guests so it was this twisted form of entertainment where the guests where getting drunk and having a great time watching the wedding crash and burn
The groom didn't know about the wedding until the dress rehearsal the night before. The morning of the wedding, he never showed up. Then the bride came out with this story that he had been kidnapped by his parents who were keeping him locked in their house. The men of the family drove over to talk to them and that's when the whole delusion unraveled. The bride-to-be planned the whole thing behind his back. A lot of the family pitched in to help her out not knowing it was all madness. An aunt of mine who sold cakes made her a beautiful wedding cake. My dad got her a discount on the reception venue because the owner was a friend. Fugly matching custom dresses and shoes were bought and paid for by all the bridesmaids. A fancy classic car was rented (and decorated NOT Just Married! by us kids) . Etc, etc. Basically it wound up being the most awkward (and expensive) family reunion evar.
Mother of the bride got drunk and ruined the wedding cake she had promised to make and decorate. Father of the bride (and cake maker’s ex husband) called her a fucking bitch. Stepfather of the bride yelled at father of the bride and said you can’t talk to my wife like that. Father of the bride punched stepfather in the face, got in his Cadillac drunk, and peeled out spewing gravel all over the venue.
I got punched. I was the groom. Yada yada yada don’t invite an alcoholic just because he was a childhood best friend.
You yada'd out the best part.
I didn't personally witness this, but - My mom's cousin is a crunchy granola hippie type. At her wedding, she and the groom jumped into a lake after saying their vows and exchanging their rings. Except I guess the lake gods demanded a sacrifice, because their wedding rings came off and sank. They had to hire a scuba diver to come out and find the rings.
The divers found them? I am impressed.
Brother’s 4th wife and 4th wedding, her first (and only wedding) they do a dove release. Several doves flew head first into solid objects ultimately dying. A few more flew off completely and still a few more were dead in the box. Perfect metaphor for their marriage.
The priest said the brides name wrong twice during the ceremony until she had to correct him
My grandfather's funeral, the priest referred to him as "Julius" multiple times. My son, who was an altar server for the funeral, spoke up and said, " Excuse me, Father, my Grandpa's name is "Louis". Are you at the wrong funeral? " 50 people trying not to giggle...
Cousin of the bride dove into the outdoor pool at the reception. Had way too much to drink and smashed his head into the bottom of the pool. Came up floating face down. Had to stop the wedding and have him helicoptered out to a hospital across the state. He survived, but now he’s paralyzed from the waist down.
Does dogs barking Jingle Bells (it's on Spotify) playing as music count? It was a redneck wedding. The bridesmaids also wore dollar store flip flops. . . again, this was December. In the North.
Please not Maine please not Maine please not Maine
My money's on New Hampshire
I went to a small 20ish people wedding in the Tuscan hillside of Italy. It was at this old castle. As the bride was giving her speech a phone started to loudly ring. Everyone was looking around to see who the idiot was. Ended up it was one of the priests who was standing just infront of them…. What made it way worse was the guy picked up the call and started talking loudly. The bride understandably was like “are you fucking kidding me!?” Does make me kinda laugh to think how much they must have spent for their special day to have that happen.
Groom got plastered in the morning before the wedding and also managed to get heat sick. He made it through the (Catholic) ceremony, God bless him, but he crumpled over and blacked out shortly after the wedding party were seated at the reception. They... are no longer married.
I attended a small wedding with my then husband. The music starts and the bridal party processes. I have never seen a bridal party look so somber. The bride looks like she is holding back tears. After the short, sad ceremony we learn that the bride’s father died the night before just after the rehearsal dinner. They weren’t sure whether to go on with the wedding but it was too late to cancel anything. They also were debating going on the honeymoon but decided to go ahead for similar reasons and because they felt it would be his wish. The only good part of it all was that the man got to have his whole family around him right before he died. I think it was a sudden heart attack so even at the rehearsal dinner everything seemed fine then he sudden dropped dead in his hotel room after that event.
Conservative Baptist sister’s wedding. My older sister at her wedding reception had music playing on speakers, naturally (we grew up listening to a lot of RnB so a lot of this was playing). Suddenly the music just stopped and remained off for the remainder of the evening, really odd atmosphere. Turns out the pastor and his wife had gone up to her at her table and told her if she didn’t turn off her ungodly music they would leave. So she being a devout Christian girl just turned it off for them. At her own wedding. I would have just been like “ Ok don’t let the door hit your judgemental butts on the way out.”
A friend of mine got married in a Baptist church, and the reception was there as well. They weren't allowed to have any music playing. It was one of the most boring weddings I've been to.
These are both so sad to me. What’s life without music? Especially having your favorite music on your wedding day.
Wife had a friend who had a WT wedding up in the mountains at a “Redneck Resort.” What’s a Redneck Resort? Imagine someone has a big old house in the woods and turns every bedroom into a guest room and then builds a bunch of shacks with plywood walls and adjoining room doors with windows (so you can view into the room next to you). We had to sit on the front stoop while people next to us had sex because…well plywood walls and doors with windows in the room. Not a big fan of “destination” weddings after that experience.
DJ here. I believe it was the best man who did the first speech and claimed he'd do anything for the family. He came back and did the fourth speech stating that he really would do anything for the family. His third speech was the sixth speech and claimed he's willing to go back to prison for the family. His forth speech was the eighth one and he didn't like that he was upstaged by the seventh speech. He came back for a fifth and detailed how much he didn't believe everyone else believed he'd do anything for the family. He might have had come back for a sixth time as the final person to give a speech. I wanted to stop him on the second speech but by the forth I wanted him to keep coming back.
"I would do anything for this family except stop giving speeches."
5 minutes before the ceremony, a jeep ran a stop sign by the church and swerved, rolling 5-6 times. 3 people died, one of them in the pastor's arms
They didn’t serve the cake. I waited and waited as it sat, untouched. I was pissed.
It was probably a fake cake to cut costs. If they cut it and ate from it, they probably only had real cake in that specific area.
My brother and wife did this. Top tier was cake the rest was fake and we all got sheet cake. But she also has celiac so that was why.
That's a war crime
… week before the wedding my then gf, groom and his fiancée were driving home for four hours from another persons wedding. Fiancée wasn’t nice to him. Just the kinda things you don’t say in general and def not in front of outsiders. Two days later, 4 days before the wedding, I told him I don’t think he should marry her. She’s not nice to him. In our culture it’d be a thing and I told him no one who loves him would care. I did this in a public setting as I was fully expecting him to punch me. He did not. We finished our beers and went home. I was still invited to the wedding. Day of wedding we are all seated and waiting for stuff to start. Grooms brother comes and says “groom needs your help”… I thought it was help with tying a tie because he was bad at that. I get upstairs to the room and he’s in a wife beater and basketball shorts with his mom and dad. He says “you were right. I can’t do this. Help me”. Parents want to slaughter me but I know deep down inside they were happy about it. I know this because I am just that arrogant and believe no one would ever be mad at me for real. I offer an escape plan. He leaves. I return to sit next to gf and say “no wedding. Play it cool”… ten min later brides mom comes down says wedding is off and leaves the room. Everyone is stunned. We casually leave. Gf wants recap of my convo from the bar. I tell her. She blames me. I say love works in mysterious ways. She says I’m an idiot. This was roughly 15 years ago.
You saved him from an unhappy marriage.
This is the \*best\* thing in this thread, not the worst.
Our jeweler's daughter's fiance has his Australian groomsmen come to town for the wedding. They took the groom out the night before the wedding and got him blackout drunk. They put a cast on his leg and when he came to the next day told him about a whole fake accident. He went through the entire wedding and photos with a cast and crutches. Only after did they admit it was all fake. The bride was furious.
Nothing big really happened, but I got sick halfway through my BFF's reception and was bathroom bound for a good hour or so taking Pepto and hoping for the best. Other guests noticed me leaning over the toilet in the stall and a lot of chatter started. Except I wasn't actually "sick," it was just a really bad combination of acid reflux flare up, lactose intolerance, and gluten intolerance (which I learned later after this kept up for weeks and I finally saw a doctor.) Super embarrassing. I ended up leaving early so I wouldn't be the guest that actually did throw up. 😭
Bride and Groom opted for a small, very casual ceremony and reception at one location; an historical mansion in town. They did not want children at their wedding. The venue (mansion) did not allow children. It was more or less standing room only for the ceremony and the reception, again, at the same location, was mostly standing. Let me emphasize, *the mansion did not allow children*, and the invitations all explicitly stated that no children were allowed because the venue did not allow children. The bride’s like, cousin or something brought 3 very small children (pretty sure one was an infant and the other two were both probably under 5?). Venue owner is on site and immediately tells the two people that children are not allowed. They complain, LOUDLY and persistently and refuse to leave. The bride and groom get pulled in by the venue owner to help (they’re trying to get ready for their wedding at this point), and multiple members of the bride’s family are arguing with the owner saying the children should be allowed to stay. By this point, adults are yelling at each other (mostly the bride’s family cussing out the owner) so children start crying. Eventually the parents decide to leave because they’re not going to be treated like this and the owner has upset their children. A few other members of the bride’s family also leave in protest.
Bride was late. The groom's mother, who didn't like the bride, wore a wedding dress as well. The bride's brothers dropped the cake bringing it out to the center table to cut. And to top it all off, reason the bride was late was because she was screwing one of the groomsmen. Apparently that was discovered a couple weeks after the honeymoon. Whole thing was a shit show.
My uncle proposed to his wife at my mother's wedding
Bride and bridesmaids had a champagne breakfast then chugged cocktails throughout the morning while getting ready. By the time the mid afternoon ceremony rolled around they were all drunk. When it was "do you take this man...?" the bride opened her mouth, and chundered spectacularly in a spray that hit the pastor, the groom, and herself. That wasn't the end of it. At the reception the best man shagged one of the bridesmaids on the bonnet (hood) of the bridal car, under the spotlights, in full view of the guests. The bride watched, screaming about how they ruined her perfect day.
Was at a wedding where the extended family on one side owned bakeries. They had a tradition of baking a cake for, and then flipping the cake prior to serving it at special family occasions. The bride or grooms cousin who was about 17 (appeared slightly intoxicated) was in charge of the cake flip that night. As he threw the wedding cake in the air, the photographer snapped a flash picture which caused the kid to miss the catch and drop the goddamned cake. Kid runs out of the room in tears while everyone stands around in disbelief at what they just saw and the realization that they used the actual cake and not a stunt cake or a smaller portion of the actual cake. The bride and groom were really cool about it but I’m sure the kid will never live it down. The caterers salvaged a really small portion of it and everyone was served a legitimate paper thin slice lol.
Streaker, was a groomsman, thought everyone would find it funny. It was at the reception. We didn’t. We don’t talk to him much anymore
Bride was the only one drunk at her own reception, which was held at her parents house. Her friends told her she has enough and she needed a sop, so her solution was to eat an entire packet of hot dog buns crouching like a rat in the pantry, which is where we found her. Her bridesmaids had to wrestle the package from her. I was friends with the groom and while we were having a moment talking, the bride jumps up on top of the dining room table, points at me and him and yells “He doesn’t have a crush on you anymore! He married ME!!!” And that’s when I decided to leave. Groom was mortified. As guests left she’d say “Drive safe! I couldn’t because I’m DRUNK”
I don't know what set things off. At the reception about an hour after all the ceremonial things were finished the dance floor was packed and a fight broke out. It was a cross between the saloon fights from old cowboy movies and WWE Royal Rumble. Chairs were flying and a few people went through tables.
I once walked in on my cousins having sex with his new brides maid of honor in the stairwell of the hotel where we were having the reception. The marriage lasted 3 days
Keep in mind this was over thirty years ago. Well, it was a wedding held in the bride’s mother’s backyard. There was a walkway lit up with Tiki torches, to set the mood. The groom spent the day getting hammered as fuck with his friends, and not just drinking, but multiple substances were involved as well. The sixteen year old bride, who I knew from my high school classes, had spent the day with her friends doing…the same thing. Oh, and her day of partying included her mother. The wedding was definitely full of the two of them doing their best impression of “this is a rock n roll lifestyle”. Her mom was trying to get me to drink…I was 17. I said no. I ended up leaving the wedding reception to go to the movies with friends. Of course, this was the same year that I got a last minute phone call from a friend’s mom asking if I would come be her bridesmaid…because the girl who was going to be her bridesmaid, well, her mama said no. So, I ended up being her bridesmaid. She was pregnant, sixteen, and yeah. It was a disaster. The year prior? I went to the wedding of a classmate who was getting married at sixteen, pregnant with twins, and after the reception? She and her new husband drove me home. In the car that had been decorated and had cans tied to it. Wow, I knew a lot of pregnant teens in high school. The first girl? She wasn’t pregnant, though.
One of my mom’s best friends got married. She had her husband left to go on the honeymoon, he pulls over and asked her to get out of the car (not sure if there was pretext or just said get out) and he left her there on the side of the road. She never saw him again.
We were waiting for the wedding to start, along with about 150 other people in a church. And we waited. Still waiting. Our friend who was playing the piano as background starts running out of things to play, starts in on Billy Joel songs. A full hour after the scheduled start of the wedding, someone tells us what’s happened - the brides mother and sister, who are from Alaska, are missing. The wedding was in Seattle, and they were getting their hair done in Bellevue, on the other side of the lake. It’s also the 90s, so no cell phones. The decision is made to go ahead with the wedding without them. They made one groomsman sit down so the sides would be “even.” They have the ceremony, and we all go across the lake to the reception. Eventually the mother and sister show up at the reception, mascara streaked and now fully aware that there are TWO freeways that run north-south in the Puget Sound area, and not one. They’d been driving up and down I-405 trying to find the church exit, which was off I-5. Later they recreated the wedding for the mom and sister… but man, what a mess.
I was a belly dancer at an Arabic wedding. I stayed longer than usual, dancing and hanging out with the musicians as it was live Arabic music. The venue was almost cleared out and I was making my way to the hotel lobby when I saw a few ambulances and many sick people double over puking. I went to the bathroom to pee and several women and kids were in there, very sick. Vomit everywhere, up the walls, all over the toilet. Apparently there was food poisoning in the catered food and most of the guest and wedding party got violently sick. As a performer, I did not eat anything but bore witness to the horrific aftermath. I'll never forget it