Weddings you went to where things went wrong?

My younger DB wedding in April 1989. It was a Merseyside wedding on a lovely spring day .
Wedding was in a lovely church at 3pm.
We came out of the church at about 3.40 into the grounds for an hour of photographs and whilst we were hanging about waiting for our turn my older DB put the radio on in his car and joy turned into shock . Hillsboro was happening and we heard that there was several casualties.
We are a family of equal numbers of Liverpudlians and Evertonians but were all equally upset at the news .
We went to the hall that was hired for the rest of the day but it had no TV or radio so we had no idea what was happening until much later when the evening guests started arriving and told us of much higher number of dead football fans . It was so very sad but we managed to rally ourselves to make the party a happy occasion for my DB and his bride .
almost 36 years later they are still together and very happy but I don’t think anyone will forget that wedding .

I was at a wedding where the bride was 2 hours late, but it was because her mother was still sewing her wedding dress. It was eventually sewn on to her and bits of it came apart during the day.

This family are all notoriously disorganised and unpunctual. Friends of the family were becoming increasingly worried as the day approached because the dress wasn't finished and people offered to help but offers were refused. Mother was up all night working on the dress, she had no sleep and looked exhausted all day.
The dress was lovely though.

Husbands then 4 year old nephew cloned into the decorative pond.
spent the rest of the day in jeans and d t shirt.
oh and later on husbands uncle poured a glass of red wine over his (hired) white shirt.

Similar to a wedding I went to in terms of disorganisation. Bride & Groom picked an expensive venue that everyone had to travel 2 hours to. Expense of hiring venue had obviously taken up the entire budget as when we sat down at tables (which were furnished with wine glasses) there was no wine. Or any drink at all. Not even water. No fizz was brought round for the toast, so when the speeches ended with the traditional “let’s all raise a toast to the B&G” I held up an imaginary glass! 😂

Friends wedding, the groom was a police officer, as were a lot of the guests on his side. The lovely bride's family however had various members who had a difficult relationship with the law. (The bride's brother didn't make the wedding as he was in prison at the time!)

The bride had obviously given warnings of dire consequences to her family for anyone who stepped out of line. It was the most staid, prim and proper wedding I have ever been to, with barely a peep out of the bride's side of the family. The bride looked very on edge throughout the day.

It was incredibly awkward as a guest, but afterwards the bride and groom were so happy and said that it was a perfect day!

At my friends wedding their photographer got pissed and forgot to take photos - I think they got a couple from right at the beginning.

Iv never been to a ceilidh but always thought they were meant to be fun.
We're you forced to do the dancing ..? Is that why you mentioned it was mandatory ,?
Not having a go here..just genuinely interested..

Small food portions.

Everyone was unsatisfied and still hungry with the prospect of a full evening ahead on hungry bellies. Unspoken....but felt by everyone. Awkward.

Bride eats like a sparrow and obviously catered to her own appetite not realizing it's not normal.

I wasn't an attendee at this one but know the venue owner.

Guest was staying at an estate cottage the night of the wedding.

After the meal he jumped in a car to run a few friends over to see it and they crashed off the road, through a fence and over into a massive dip.

Car rolled and he was killed. Friends seriously injured.

I believe they weren't found for a while because of how far out on the estate they were.

Not me.. a friend, attending her employers wedding...

Tried very politely to deal with employers Dads wife, who was getting steadily more and more sloshed and as she did so, more and more determined to chat up and attempt to snog friend.

Thinking she'd given the letcherous Step Mother the slip, she went to the bar, where employers Dad grabs her by the back of her suit, hauled her out into the car park and thumped her for trying to get off with his missus!

Full on yelling match, people holding him (fairly big) back from trying to beat up a 5ft 3" 40 ish lesbian, accusing her of having an affair with his wife (she'd seen her in passing twice over the course of her employment, sufficient to know who she was but not what she was like at parties!), he was going to hunt her down and all sorts of ridiculous and horribly aggressive shit.

The next morning, she had five missed calls, a load of grovelling voice mail apologies, and an envelope through the door with a 'sorry' card and several hundred quid in notes. Her boss, when he finally found out about it was absolutely mortified, horrified, hugely embarrassed and deeply apologetic!

I was shocked she let it go tbh, but she does like working for him and felt reporting his Dad to the police wasn't the way to keep a lucrative job!

Only wedding I went to as a kid, friend of our family... his ex wife walked in at the 'does anyone know any reason why blah blah blah' bit in the church and screeched 'because he's a creep and she's a slag' and then crashed out through the doors chased by several people. She bricked a car she thought was his (she must have been absolutely trollied as it was some random strangers car of a similar shape/colour, they'd both arrived in taxis!) and was then arrested for that.

Nothing so unchristian as a christian bigot

Bomb scare mid ceremony. Entire venue had to be closed evacuated.

2 hours late due to make up fixes is ridiculous OP! Nothing as bad as that, insufferable for ALL the guests

Booked transport being delayed

Groomsmen not getting people seated for the ceremony before bridal party arriving

People getting drunk leading to arguments, fall outs, breakages

Photos taking too long, people getting hungry and grumpy

Being stuck by someone you don’t find attractive but they keep trying anyway (hopefully not in your case as seating by DH, but when considering seating planning attempts at match making may go horribly wrong!)

Seating planning generally, people not mixing well generally on the tables or cliques

Either a lot of food leftover or guests really hungry in the evening due to lack of catering

Bridesmaids took bridal car resulting in bride being late, forgot her flowers and had to go back for them. Vicar was about to cancelwhen she finally arrived. Cake hit the deck due to heat as melted the frosting and it went sliding off. Not a great site walking into the reception. However it was a bloody great day and the bride looked stunning. She dealt with it like a true warrior and ploughed through.

This is actually heartbreaking. I would like to give that poor lady a hug. And the people laughing were ignorant and cruel.

But at least it was the same bride, as I said earlier my dad used the same speech for me and then my sister!!!!

Not as bad as some of them on here.
Wedding breakfast, several RSVPs indicated they were vegetarian. The venue ‘forgot’. Half a raw aubergine served eventually. Couldn’t even have the vegetables from the table as they were all cooked with meat.
Evening buffet was a hog roast, again no sides nor alternative.
Wedding was in the middle of nowhere. So no food deliveries.

My DF used the same speech at my Dsis first and second marriage. My poor Dsis face.

That’s awful!! The poor bride

Oh I see. My dad had died ten years before I got married my DB gave me away and made a speech, and he just said something about how our dad would have been a very proud and happy man today.

When I got married. I got someone special to sing at my wedding who was like a grandmother to me. She sang the same song that she sang at my parents wedding. I have not seen her sing for a long time but assumed to her voice was still melodious, little did I know that her voice had changed as she was in her 70’s it was very different.

The minister suggested during the rehearsal that me and my husband sit at the front of the church facing the audience throughout the ceremony, as we faced the audience and she was singing. My husband’s relatives who have not heard her sing before were laughing their heads off and ducking under the chairs. We had to sit there in front of everyone while she sang watching other people laugh I felt sad for her because a special moment for us had become terrible because people couldn’t be respectful to an older lady fulfilling a wish to sing at her granddaughter, (by friendship at our wedding)

At my friends wedding there was a fan/ventilator/heater thing right behind the top table where people said their speeches. No one could hear a thing.

The moment my, then-toddler, brother escaped from drunk-Dad's clutches, ran on to the dance floor, and hid under the bride's meringue skirt, during the couple's first dance has gone down in family history as hilarious or terrible, depending on who's asking...

I once sort of witnessed a surprise wedding.

Me and DH stopped for a drink at a small bar one day that was attached to a different really quirky bar. Think 60’s Mod Spy theme.

We were chatting with the bartender when a different one ran in and put a song on the system we could hear ‘Going to the chapel” play in the other bar.

As it started the bride and groom walked through our bar to get to the one their family and friends were in. (They had both snuck out at different times during the ‘family lunch’). The bartender explained what was going and it was super fun to watch.

After the wedding we kept seeing wide eyed but smiling people come through and they all looked really happy!

That is a really good question! The vicar knew. It was a Church of England wedding so the bans had been read. We live in a small village so I’m surprised it stayed secret. But it did stay secret. We did it this way because we wanted a wedding with our family there but we didn’t want the pressure and stress that both of us would have struggled with in the run up to an event like that. We are both chronic people pleasers to our own detriment and we both would have struggled with trying to do what we thought other people wanted rather than what we wanted. If someone innocently expressed a preference for one thing and somebody else a preference for another thing then we would have tied ourselves up in knots. It was the only way we could do something that was authentically us - by not telling people. It was a great day and it was authentic. His brothers reaction was authentic too. It’s hard to explain. It’s probably a mumsnet post in its own right.