Weddings you went to where things went wrong?

Fuck

I was at an wedding where the ceremony took place outside on a garden. Lovely setting, but it was a very hot day and no real shade available. The couple provided pre-ceremony Pimms, and people were mingling and chatting when the bride's mother suddenly collapsed.

She apparently hadn't eaten much all day since she was helping her daughter get ready and had slept poorly due to excitement the night before. That, combined with the heat and the alcohol, made her faint.

I think this is the biggest fail ever, so many people cut on the catering and yet that's what guests will really care about

It's not x-rated to joke about a couple having sex on their honeymoon. Having sex on your honeymoon, or indeed, at any point in your marriage, is a perfectly normal and healthy thing to do.

My story is nothing to do with the B&G. Best mates wedding I was MOH and a month before the wedding i found out long term boyfriend was cheating on me so the relationship ended. I stopped eating due to the break up and lost so much weight the dress couldn't be altered in time and didn't fit. I ended up wearing it with pins in the back so it didn't sag. Bride was a touch late nothing major but said ex boyfriend turned up and sat outside the church in his car with OW to watch.

I always eat a sandwich lunch before a wedding and keep a picnic in the car. I generally find that Asian weddings are very well catered for but English weddings aren't. So I always ensure I eat before I attend a British wedding because there is always a food shortage.

So many where things have gone wrong. Bridesmaid forgetting her dress, fire alarm going off just as meal served so all cold by the time we returned, fathers of the bride making terrible inappropriate speeches, best men making terrible inappropriate speeches, best man dropping his flash cards and fluffing his entire speech, hotel putting place names all in the wrong place. Everyone just had to get on with it!

No one wants an x rated wedding for heavens sake!

You're saying the parents and teenagers wouldn't have at least an inkling that copious sex might be on a honeymoon agenda?

Different weddings:

Flowers delivered to the wrong hotel and used for someone else’s wedding.

Someone shaved off the groom’s eyebrows on the stag do.

Hotel directed out of town guests to the wrong church so they missed the ceremony and photos.

A wedding where there had been a rehearsal dinner the night before so some guests were too hungover to make breakfast at the lovely hotel the bride and groom had paid for 🙄 There was a champagne and canapés reception after the service while the bride and groom had photos so they didn’t have a starter at the wedding breakfast (an hour later) but some guests thought the main course was a starter and didn’t eat much of it. Then the caterers didn’t announce the evening buffet was served (in a separate room) so no one touched it and it was all thrown away. To add insult to injury, they told the bride what had happened after the food had already gone in the bin.

DP and I turned up at the registry office. We were all waiting in the area outside the ceremony room. The Groom (who was a bit of a bad lad and Bride's parents disapproved of relationship and refused to go to wedding) appeared and made a little speech to say that there would be no wedding today. He said I've told Bride and everyone but noone is listening to me and I've decided it's not going to happen. He then walked out. Someone went to the pub over the road for a brandy for the Bride. An awkward ten minutes later, the Groom reappeared and said that there would now be a wedding but he would not be going to the reception so the rest of us can do what we like.
They actually did get married.
DP and I stayed for the ceremony as it was just so awkward to walk out and the Bride was a friend of mine and then DP and I went home. Didn't fancy a very awkward buffet with no Groom and a sobbing Bride!

Obviously the marriage did not last!

Friends very on the cheap DIY wedding reception- venue was a smelly sports hall where Groom worked so got it very cheap/free. Food buffet was all home made by close to the family guests and had no theme it was utterly random. Not enough seats so was sat on boyfriends lap at the buffet dinner. The dinner was policed and the immediate family helped themselves first, then it went in tiers of importance. We were last as casual friends. Time I got to the buffet there was pretty much nothing left I had two spoonfuls of Irish stew and a Bakewell tart. Started to feel unwell after a few of the complimentary wines which was on a wooden table just help yourself. Took a closer look at the bottles and they were all out of date I think they got them for free. No food and out of date plonk resulted in throwing up on the M25 on the way home.

At my friend's wedding, her sil did all she could to spoil the day and break the couple up. She shouted at the bride, "borrowed her makeup" & didn't return it so bride couldn't do touch ups. Prevented the bride and groom from sitting together or anything together.

Them to top it all off, opened the presents to the happy couple and took the nice stuff for her flat. Absolutely unbelievable!

My Dc had a few no shows it's so rude , 17 though!

Not in front of parents and the newlywed's teenage daughters.

I knew of a similar thing to that. Absolutely fantastic wedding, winter, castle, TWELVE bridesmaids, huge expensive do-bridal party all in ice-themed but warm dress and red velvet. Fabulous.

They'd been married a month or so and were TTC, and groom's mobile phone broke. Bride was going into town and offered to take it to the repair shop for him. Got there and the repair shop's assistant said he thought the phone was okay but it was a battery problem so to test it he put a new battery in it. Straight away it worked and up popped a few days' worth of messages from OW. Unmistakably an affair that had obviously been going on for a long time, a lot of 'you were so amazing last night' s and the like.

Lucky escape in a sense and to the bride's credit, she kicked him straight out.

Eh? Surely the place was filled with people she knew?

He even ended the speech by saying that he thought the newlyweds were going to Wales for their honeymoon...cos the groom said he was 'going to bang her for a fortnight'.

Oh, come on, that's quite funny, and not inappropriate given the widely known association of honeymoons with lots of sex 😃

One of the many reasons i love a Jewish 'do'.

I have a lot of Jewish friends and i get to tag along to all their families celebrations.
I fondly remember the first Bar Mitzvah i went to.
It was excellent!

Oh and the wedding last summer had 17 no show day guests!! Bride was distraught and rearranging tables all morning. That was pretty awful tbh as she spoke about it all day and was very embarrassed.

Extended relative of my OH was getting married. She’s a teacher, as were many of the guests. When the ceilidh started the teachers all danced with stony faces and scowled at anyone who joked about or got the steps wrong as if they were naughty primary school kids. You’d have thought the self-important sods were marching to war.

At another more recent wedding some of the guests were complaining because not everyone was getting up to dance.

I love watching a ceilidh but they do bring out the despot in some people in my experience.

Did they ever get married?

Went to a friend's sisters wedding when I was a teen years ago. Wedding was on St Stephens day and the band turned up absolutely hammered drunk. One of them couldn't actually stand up not to mind to say sing! A guest saved the day by borrowing a guitar and singing.
My teenage self thought it was hilarious but now as an adult not much so

Good god 😳

I am enjoying this thread sorry op!

I have been to lots of weddings over the years.

1. Groom got very drunk at this own reception and was busy flirting with the male bartender and anyone other man in the vicinity. It made a total mockery of their vows, and I felt horribly sorry for the bride dancing on her own with her friends trying not to notice. Lots of people making so many excuses for him!

2. No food laid on beyond a bowl of crisps and sweets for a 10.30am wedding service until the evening (6pm). The guests were absolutely shit faced by 4pm and starving. Going out to petrol stations and convenience stores for sandwiches. It meant everyone left straight after the dinner, so the disco was tumbleweed. Not great to save money at the expense of your guests comfort, and ruined the last part of the wedding when a buffet was wheeled out at 10pm with no one there to eat it! Bad planning.

3. My own hairdresser didn’t turn up. Sickness bug. Always good to have a plan B you can do yourself! I didn’t mind but plenty of brides would be so upset.