Weddings you went to where things went wrong?

I went to my cousin's wedding, I forget which one he's had about four.
The brides father called my cousin by the name of her ex during the ceremony.
It was a partly Jewish ceremony due to his wife's faith so her dad was involved in the bit where they say vows etc. I'm not sure if that's Jewish actually or just their preference.
But everyone either sighed or laughed nervously when he got the grooms name wrong, more than once.
The marriage lasted about 6 years I think.

I've thought of another couple - bridal car to the wedding was a cheapo 'mate of a mate' job, not sure how or what had happened but they had obviously made some attempt to polish or clean the red leather seats of the classic car.

Bride emerged looking like she'd leant against a against a wall made of lipstick. It was really sad.

Idiot immatures writing offensive stuff on the shoes of the groom visible when he kneels down ("get me out of here") a cheap laugh spoiling a serious moment and upsetting to both bride and groom who hear people laughing and are confused as to why and think its them.

A friend of a friend was at a wedding and the venue run out of beer and quite a few other alcoholic drinks.

At our wedding the caterers told my DH that the evening buffet was available in the side room and could he make an announcement. He only remembered when he saw friends of his eating fish and chips.

An elderly guest had a heart attack and fell to the floor during the speeches. There was a rumble of people talking around the table growing louder as people realised what had happened. The speaker (a cocky man) couldn't see what had happened and made some quite rude 'jokes' about people shutting up to listen to him. It quickly became a call an ambulance moment and it was excruciating given what he had said.

Also red wine gravy spilled down the bridal dress. That would be my top tip - don't have any staining foods near the bride - no beetroot, bloody meats, gravy, no red wine.

Wedding is a beautiful old Scottish castle - no heating and only one toilet! Wedding was in February.

the guests didn’t take their coats off the whole time. Couldn’t leave early as it was in the middle of nowhere and the only coach left at midnight. I still get cold thinking about it.

The reception was in a squash club, but the bride and groom hadn't hired it out for their wedding, so there were loads of random people wandering around as well, that weren't part of the wedding.

It didn't feel special, I could t wait to leave.

The positive thing is nobody will ever forget that wedding 😂

But apart from all that ……. 😧

Hottest day of the year with ‘surprise’ baptism of B and G’s three kids mid-ceremony, extending the service by about 30 minutes while everyone sweated in their finery. Our very pregnant friend, despite melting, swollen ankles and no shade during the photos, made it to the meal: Brie or Pate to start, then a fish dish that one of our table companions felt wasn’t suitable during pregnancy! People were offering her their desserts.
She and her DH politely exited before the evening celebrations. This included a band. Who packed in after 30 minutes, announcing they had to dash across town to see another band and hadn’t realised the dates clashed when they took the wedding booking. ‘Helpfully’, they’d brought what looked like a reluctant dad or uncle to DJ. He spent much of his set packing up their gear.

The only weddings I've been to where things went 'wrong' are where the bride couple were so focused on it being Insta-perfect that they forgot about looking after their guests properly. Mostly with stupid catering decisions. One in particular stands out, I was pregnant (20 weeks, so everyone knew, AND it was a family wedding) and have an allergy so obviously had a few dietary restrictions, which weren't considered at all, and I couldn't eat half of the already paltry meal on offer. The evening reception food was the same. They had also, because they were bloody tight arses for some unknown reason, explicitly told the venue not to offer hot drinks, I ended up going to the kitchen in tears because I was starving and felt unwell so they snuck me into the staff room to give me a sandwich and a cuppa. I had to drive some other guests to a nearby McDonald's on the way home as everyone was starving! Moral of the story: always check for/consider individual dietary needs and ALWAYS over cater!

At a friend's wedding, in the reception area of the venue there was a big grand staircase leading up to a mezzanine area where you could hang out with a drink and look out over the dance floor. The coat rail had been placed directly below the balcony. Yes, you can see what's coming - after the reception, one of the male guests (I think he was just the plus-one of one of the bride's friends, not even a proper guest) threw up from the balcony all over the coats below. It was the middle of December and it had snowed recently, so everyone had brought their smart winter coats as well.

I think it was all a big joke to her. Lots of Facebook posts the morning after from the hospital giving it all ‘lol, what am I like?!’, that kind of thing. Tedious.

That’s all that matters!

Oh god! I’m not sure I’d ever be able to show my face again!

My Ex Best Friends wedding, Another one where there were no seating arrangements , nobody knew who was meant to be sitting where. Then at the reception the catering was rather poor. As in not much choice and not very appealing and people were making comments and going to shops or chippy. The Decorations they paid someone to do very poor, would have been better to had done ourselves.

Oh goodness, how sad. 😢

Or they thought it was better to have the ex in full view in front of them rather than spending the whole day wondering what she was up to.

It’s a lot easier for the other guests to intercept if they see her coming!

A couple of years after leaving school, but while we were still at college, I got asked to accompany a friend to the wedding of an old school friend. Imagine my surprise when we turned up at the wedding reception and I recognised the groom as the current boyfriend of a college friend of mine. Never said a word.

A member of my family arranged a woodland wedding which was basically just a ceremony in the woods.. the ‘real’ wedding happened formally before. Luckily it was a warm day but they didn’t consider parking so everyone had to trudge through the woods for ages in their finery
The grooms speech lasted well over an hour then he had an argument with his mil about who chose the cake design. Awful.

Well there’s always the route a B&G are taking on another thread (posted by a guest) - boot out most of your guests for the afternoon, only feed the ones you actually like and don’t let the others come back until the evening do.

They won’t remember the food if you don’t feed them…..

I was at a wedding where the couple had 2 large ice swans in the centre of a big flower display. It was meant to be the first thing you saw when you walked into the hall but because they arrived at the reception 2-3 hours late the swans had melted into a big puddle.

Caterer cancelled two days before the wedding! Couldn't even lend out the crockery and cutlery anymore so we could easily find alternative catering.

His wife was in hospital and it was a small (and delicious) mum and pop business.

Obviously not his fault but "next time" I would not rely on a small business for such a key element of my wedding.

The alternative food we found was pretty shit at this notice.

Oh well, at least the marriage is a happy one :-).

Instant confetti!

Amateur cake makers 🤪

I'd made wedding cakes for friends before, but always with Regalice-type icing. A friend asked me to make his cake with royal icing. I'd never used royal icing before, and I experimented at home on a small scale. I was worried about transporting the rather large cake so ended up making the icing very hard.

Oh dear.

The B&G gave up on the 'cutting the cake' photo. Instead, there's a photo somewhere of me chiselling at it with a massive knife and a meat hammer! By the time I got through the icing the cake looked as if Mary Anning had been excavating it for fossils.

First and last time I have made a royal-iced wedding cake.