Weddings you went to where things went wrong?

Massive floods, wedding in middle of now where and reception at church hall. We were evacuated in a tractor trailer early evening.

Fucking hell..

Groom got brides name wrong in the vows

Who would give men and women a different meal?

I also went to a wedding where they under budgeted for food so we got half a burger each for the evening and the sober groom did a strip tease for the bride at the reception in front of us all. He dm'd me the next day to ask if I enjoyed it 🤮 needless to say they were divorcing 9 months later ... She'd been having an affair

Whilst getting the wedding breakfast tables set in the morning, one of the waitresses bumped into the table with our wedding cake on knocked it off!

Luckily my lovely friend who had made it was in the room too and managed to salvage it enough for us to have something to cut.

I think I would have left and gone to the chippy or got some pub food.

A friend got married, massive posh wedding, Paris for the dresses, Country Club venue.
Groom announced on the honeymoon he was gay and came home.
No-one had even a clue, he's still with the man he left her for 35 years later.

My sil was over had late, she was so late most of the guests left. When she got to the church dh and his uncles rushed out to try and re gather the guests who has left. It was just me and two aunties left in the church from her side. Grooms side still mostly there but not looking happy. We then had to convince the priest to marry them still as he said there wasn't enough time until his next duty.
DH family have always been terrible with time keeping but I honestly thought she'd changed her mind as she was so late and not answering the phone.

Years back and far away friends of mine were getting married. He was English and she was from a English Ukrainian family. He wasn't religious so it wasn't an issue to him to be married in the local Eastern Orthodox church favoured by the local Ukrainian community.

An hour before the wedding the young and understanding priest expected to do the ceremony was called off to give some elderly person last rites and so wasn't available. An older and less understanding priest was pressed into service.

First thing he wanted to do was to ensure that the groom was "acceptable" in the eyes of the church. This meant a lot of grilling and questioning his motives and his religious attitudes getting to the point where it was agreed that he would be baptised and confirmed in the Eastern Orthodox church as soon as they returned from their honeymoon.

Then the priest insisted that the marriage wouldn't be official unless a full mass was held. In Latin and Ukrainian. Which the groom, the groom's family and the vast majority of guest didn't understand. And the wedding ceremony too.

The whole thing should have taken about 30 minutes but ended up being nearly 3 hours.

I was working on the bar at a wedding where the bride knocked a glass of red wine over herself at the meal. I didn't see it happen, just saw her leaving the room in tears with a big dark red splodge on her dress.

No food. Invited to the afternoon/evening reception at a lovely but very remote location. Invite said arrive at 5pm- by 7pm it became obvious that there was going to be no food at all, there was one bar and they didn’t even have crisps or nuts. Ended up traipsing two miles over fields in wedding finery to find a pub that served food. Returned to the venue to find many people absolutely blind drunk due to lots of alcohol but nothing to eat.

Was at a friend of husbands wedding about 15 years ago. Groom and some of his pals were bouncers.
After the reception meal there waa a huge punch up between about 15 guys Police and ambulances on scene. Manager kicked every body out, and rightly so.
We spend the evening in a local pub with other friends as we're staying in a hotel in the town.
Groom spent the night in a cell. We still see him (divorced after a year as he cheated). It's still talked about to this day.
Truly awful day tbh. Felt so sorry for his wife and her family.

Years ago when I was still in secondary school I was invited to my best friends older sisters wedding. Everything seemed to be going fine until the bridegroom didn't turn up. Eventually the Brides Dad said sadly no wedding took place but please all move on to reception. It was all a bit surreal. The bride went on the booked honeymoon trip with her best friend. About a month later the bride and groom got married quietly with 2 random witnesses off the streets and no photographs or even flowers. Not even any of the parents were invited. It was a case of the groom just couldn't face all eyes on him. They are still married over 40 years later.

My friend went to one where it was outside, in the UK, in April. It was about 6C! No inside accommodation. Only a a marquee (unheated) for the reception. She told me that people kept going out to their cars to run the heater for a bit to try to warm up.

This was pre sat nav and mobiles.

Might be a bit outing but it was years ago + couple aren't married anymore so....

Child no.1 (7) was supposed to be bridesmaid. The Tuesday before she diagnosed with appendicitis. We'd lived, one or the other or both, at the hospital with her. Definitely not well enough to be a bridesmaid.

MIL came to look after her, visit her in hospital etc on the day.

Went to wedding with our other 2 children. As we'd spent so much time in hospital we thought.....no food in house..... there's a Tesco next to the Church, we can go in there, have a quick shop, and still get back in time for the reception.

As we drove round the car park I thought I'd seen the best man + his partner behind us - but as we'd never met and had other things on my mind we parked and shopped.

Got to reception to join greeting line and sat down for the meal.

A couple of hours, way after the meal etc, later the best man + partner turned up complaining about getting lost and following a car they'd thought was at the wedding.

We sat quietly.

Child no.1 fine. Now late 30s. She was admirably philosophical about missing being a bridesmaid. 'At least I'm not dead"

No food. It was really random. We all went to an event room in a pub for the evening. went out for food. It was a bit awkward.

66babe

So it was on purpose then, not an accident?

Surely you win the prize for most bonkers story?! 👏 😂

Why???

Oh Dolly ... what do you want to know lol

Too much alcohol , country people, family dynamics..

It was awful , I'd not lived with parents since I was about 13 , had to spend the night with them , they didn't even know I was a veggie lol tried to give me a bacon sarnie in the morning

New husband and brother best pals again by following week

Someone had written the words "oh shit" on the soles of my cousins (the groom) shoes in tip ex, so when they kneeled down to pray this was revealed to the congregation, who all broke into giggles. The vicar ordaining them, who was a bit stuffy and uptight got very cross and roared that church was no place for mirth. It was all a bit subdued after that.

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Our photographer forgot to turn up.

Life lesson: follow up with all suppliers in the days leading up to the big day.

This. The only time I’ve known inviting the ex GF to the wedding to go well:

1. It was a school romance and they were better friends than a romantic couple (see point 3).
2. It was an amicable break-up where they both realised they were trying to turn a really good friendship into something more and the feelings just weren’t there (again, see point 3).
3. The ex GF had since come out as a lesbian and brought her GF to the wedding as her plus 1.

If there is the slightest hint the ex or the person getting married still have feeling for each other, it’s a much better idea for the ex to stay away.

Having said that, I wonder how much pressure the ex was under to attend to show ‘we’re all good friends now’. I’ve known that as well, particularly when the groom is still feeling guilty about something around the break up.

Jewish weddings are wild. They have dancing before during and after the meal.