Weddings you went to where things went wrong?

Talking to my sister about this thread and she said "did you mention my wedding?"

Popular wedding venue. DSis wedding with 100 guests in the big room, another wedding with 50 guests in the smaller room. The venue mixed up the buffets so nowhere near enough food for their guests. They got their money back but Dsis and BIL made a point of mentioning the mix up in their thank yous because they couldnt bear people thinking that htey had undercatered.

Anymore, I have really enjoyed this thread

It's nothing to some of these but I once went to a wedding when heavily pregnant (decades ago). At the reception we were all standing around chatting. Drinks and canapes were being handed round. Lovely idea, I thought, just nicely fills the gap till the sit down meal or the buffet. Eventually I asked the people I was talking to when they thought the meal might be. 'I think this is it' came the reply. They were right. I had to go to McDonald's on the way home.

I once went to a 12pm wedding at a hotel, after the ceremony we were directed to a bar area for drinks and canapés, unfortunately there were not enough to go around.
We had to wait for an obscene amount of time, before being guided to the main hall. There was no table plan so we all took a seat, bizarrely, there was no tableware?! Waiting staff offered everyone a glass of fizz. Bride and groom were seated at the top table, after which a very long set of speeches commenced.
Once complete, we were ushered back into the small bar area whilst the tables were rearranged. Sometime later, we were allowed back into the main hall where the seating had been set up to allow the dance floor to take priority.
We are now hitting 5pm, no one had eaten. It turns out they didn’t fancy feeding the guests and thought they would just do a hot buffet in the evening to accommodate everyone!!!
No mention of this at any point in the planning (we were close friends). At this point, most of the guys had decided to go out to McDonalds to get something to eat.
Unsurprising the wedding didn’t last, the bride ended up marrying her friends husband.

Groom's family and friends all from England. Wedding in Ireland on NYE. All flights grounded due to inclement weather conditions. As a result, groom had no one there.

Just a quick mention on the under catering. If it’s catered by the family or a self serve buffet and nobody has assigned seats then yes the likelihood is they catered for 50 and invited 100. If it’s a sit down wedding with a catered meal or a serviced buffet then theB&G have paid per person so if there wasn’t enough food either the caterers under budgeted or it’s poor portioning on the servers part. Lack of courses ie no canapés/evening buffet/starters etc is definitely on the bride and groom.

Ah, this reminds me of another one when the bride announced she wanted to make a speech at the dinner too (fine, good for her) but she started off and I thought "this sounds a bit like song lyrics" and suddenly she had full on burst into singing "From this moment on" and a few seconds later all her bridesmaids stood up and joined in. The singing was really bad and not helped by the fact that the bride was also sobbing loudly between words.

Everyone was sitting there frozen in horror and embarassment for them, including the groom. I was cringing so much I had that hot and cold feeling going up my back. OMG what was she thinking.

I forgot a cringe but funny wedding incident from my childhood - the bride and groom decided to sing their views to each other. They had written the words themselves.

I was 8 but still nearly died of embarrassment. I can't imagine how the adults in the room felt.

At a friends church wedding, the ceremony went on for 2 1/2 hours. At the time my very energetic son was 3/4 and my husband and I had to take it in turns to take him outside to run around because he couldn’t sit still. I love my friend but my goodness that was dull.
At another friends wedding, his best man got up to do his speech but he was so drunk you couldn’t understand a word he was saying. He found it all very hilarious even if the rest of us spent the whole time cringing.
A friend at my wedding brought a posh camera with her and spent the whole day stood next to the photographer taking photos. I tried to stop her and apologised to the photographer as she was getting in his way but she didn’t stop until the photographer left. Very annoying and to this day I still haven’t seen any of the photos she took!

No see earlier post.

The Europa?

No. A different B city.

Brighton? I live there.

Ours nearly disappeared. The church was at the top of the road, and the church hall where we were holding the reception was halfway down the hill. The bakers tried to deliver the cake to the church-presumably as the name was the same (St W. church/St.W. Church Hall) Luckily my Dad was at the church checking things, so he re-directed them sharpish.

This reminds me of a church wedding I was at where the vicar lectured us all about our duties to god and how god was watching over us, also remonstrating with those of us who weren't religious and bemoaning that we'd only set foot in a church because it was a wedding! Well no shit sherlock. I thought it was ridiculous and was all ready to have a moan about it afterwards with other guests, but they were all "wasn't that a lovely service!!!" Turned out the vicar was the groom's brother.

I also need to know this! And why it didn't go down positively!

I don’t expect the sane amongst us to be able to comprehend this wedding:

The first to leave was when they went over to the top table to wish the B&G well. The bride didn’t look at, acknowledge or thank them for coming. Despite them being in conversation with the Groom for several minutes. Blanked for no known reason.

Someone else had a glass thrust at her on the dance floor by the bride who was now dancing to some hardcore dance music. When she didn’t take it from her at first, it was offered again aggressively so she had no choice to take it. She was near a table so it was a show of dominance. Really odd.

Finally there was an insult thrown at someone’s wife on the dance floor by the bride’s best friend and Bride. It was clear tensions were rising and it was time to leave. Very hostile.

Sadly, the man marrying this person is an old friend with a heart of gold. He’s a tough person thankfully, because he’s needed to be with all the ups and downs since their big day.

I know! Human attention span drops off a cliff after 20 minutes, so the best advice I can give when planning wedding speeches (if you must have them) is to say to the chosen speakers (usually three):

‘You have a total of 20 minutes max between you. Let’s call it six minutes each. You’ll get a ‘ping’ on a glass warning when you have one minute left. I’m serious.

‘Keep it clean, keep it light, be funny, and most importantly keep it short.’

I would also advise from bitter experience (DSS’s wedding) not to have someone propose a toast when no-one has been given a drink. It’s a bit … awkward.

Woah! What exactly was she saying to them, @Longsight2019 ?

Ha ha
Did she say yes?

We once went to a wedding where a teenage boy decided it would be a good idea to propose to his girlfriend (who was the groom's daughter) by seizing the singer's microphone and proposing in front of the entire wedding party. Needless to say, it went down like a led balloon.

Three years ago when the bride was incredibly rude to most of the female plus ones. A few left, and the ones that didn’t got started on by the bride on the dance floor. A disgrace.

On and forgot to say. My cousin, husband and little boy went to the wrong church on the same street. They waited a good 45 minutes then spotted our church further up the road. They missed the service but made it in time for photos outside of church.

At our wedding the DJ set the smoke alarm off using dry ice. Everyone had to wait outside in the cold, dark carpark in November. The DJ obligingly turned up the music on the way out and we continued dancing outside. It was so funny.

My best friend's wedding fell on the same evening as a big boxing match. They refused to have it shown at the venue. It visibly emptied as seemingly all the men walked down the country lane to watch it at the pub, including the bride's father and best man. BF's husband remained but looked put out.

A tip I'd advise is make sure you do eat something as the bride. We spent a long time deciding what food to serve, but by the evening do I was too busy talking to everyone and having fun. Got very drunk on an almost empty stomach then had a takeaway pizza delivered after midnight. Good times.

I was halfway down the aisle when I stopped with a panic. My DH thought I was changing my mind til I said "I forgot the bouquet!"
We all laughed about it, and I was less nervous about the rest of the ceremony.