Weddings you went to where things went wrong?

The quiche at our wedding buffet was still frozen, I didn't know whether to laugh or to cry, so I laughed 🤣

Have a friend who is involved in wedding planning and she has had some stories over the years. One vintage car, collecting bride and her father, was late and rear window was stuck - open. It was very cold so they stopped again and father and driver tried to close it. The window broke and showered the bride in glass. Arrived at the venue and she had to pick glass out of her feathered skirt!
Another wedding the groom had forgotten to collect the wedding licence. Fortunately, the celebrant realised at the rehearsal the evening before and the registrar's office delivered the licence to the venue on the wedding morning. (Neither the bride nor groom seemed to appreciate what a huge favour had been done.)

I was 8 when I went to my cousin’s wedding. We were the only family (on his side there)

I think my parents disapproved - not of cousin or his bride but that it was in a registry office not a church. I also sensed some friction between brides parents and my Dad + the groom. Possibly because they were jetting off to South Africa and a new life the next day?

The registry office was extremely hot and stuffy. The bride kept fainting, coming round, bit more of the ceremony, another faint etc.

As an 8 year old, under pain of death to behave, it was all quite interesting - I suspect I was shooshed quite a lot.

Family wedding at country hotel, where croquet equipment was provided for the guests' entertainment. The groom's young niece and nephew set about each other with the mallets and ended up being shipped off to hospital to have their bruised heads checked ...

Glad to hear it, but what a chance the bride was taking!

OMFG!!

I think it’s the word mandatory that’s the issue with a mandatory ceilidh, @MorrisZapp. Nothing wrong with a ceilidh, or any dance, but making it mandatory would be a bit of a worry for me.

Open bar, not enough food, guests mostly professional under 30 ...

MOB walked in on two people at it in the (unlocked) disabled loo. They were not a couple. The male shagger's partner was in the next room. Female shagger brazenly walked out with a cheery "hello, thanks for a lovely day!" to MOB (what else could she say, I guess!?)

MOB again. Bending over talking to her grand child on the dance floor, inebriated male thought it hilarious to do pelvic thrusts behind her whilst mugging to his mates. Spotted by brides brother who deftly scruffed the thruster and ejected him from the venue with a slap. MOB thankfully unaware.

Slimy venue owner (known to groom) propositioning good looking couples for a threesome at the end of the night.

All in very stark contrast to the beautiful and moving church ceremony earlier that day!!!

Moral of the story OP; serve lots of food and manage the bar.

My highlighting cap split at the hairdresser, my husband's brother used a bowl to cut his hair.

Married thirty plus years so no worries.

No. He was in active alcoholism. He went into recovery very soon after.

Not a singing Vicar…

They already got married during Covid but just a few of them there so still wanted the ceremony.

the best man did a bit of a fumbled speech and the bride threw her arms up and went ‘that’s that then’ and off they went up the aisle.

it was great otherwise

We weee invited to a family friend’s wedding where the groom had discovered religion at college and was devoutly Christian. He was the only one in his family to be religious and he and his bride had a two hour wedding ceremony (not catholic so it was literally all bible passages fire and brimstone). They chose to have read the sections of the Bible that talked of not having premarital relations and that your grapes would wither on the vine etc. it was very much the theme of the whole ceremony that people born out of wedlock were bastards.

was quite uncomfortable sitting there with my 18 month old bastard daughter :)

Years ago I humiliated myself as a very poor best man.The father of the groom -or was it the bride - after my pathetic speech said "since the best man hasn't made a proper speech, I will.

This humiliation lived with me for years, until I had to make a speech in business. I determined to do it right, and did.make many more all over the world. Apparently only meeting a poisonous snake is more terrifying than having to make a speech. My advice if you have to is study the room where you must speak, make friends with whoever will introduce you, rehearse, rehearse and rehearse.

My sister received an anonymous letter the morning of her wedding saying the groom was cheating. She had received 2 similar letters in run up to the wedding but he (the groom) insisted it wasn’t true & was a prank. She married him anyway and then about 10 months later he admitted it was true and he left her for the women he was cheating with (and she left her husband as she was also married).

Bride & Groom just got married in town hall in Cyprus, and returned to hotel for champagne reception waiting for them. As the couple stepped out of limo into the foyer, family and friends were waiting to greet them whilst a harpist played. The bride suddenly dropped to the floor and no pulse was found. It was so hot August temps and she had a really tight bodice on. She died a bride infront of 100’s of people aged 26 of natural causes no pre-existing conditions.

I was one of 7 bridesmaids for my cousins wedding. She got married in a church and the reception was being held at a venue in the next town over. After the ceremony, the bridal party stayed behind to have photos taken and the guests went ahead to the venue. It was at this point we realised that myself and my other cousin who was also a bridesmaid were left without transport. They’d arranged the transport from the house to the church, but didn’t arrange it from the church to the venue. We were counting money we had between us to get a taxi, when luckily the grooms parents drove past and asked us if we needed a lift.

Groom did a speech and used his ex wife’s name rather than the woman he had just married. They had a huge row!

I went to one with this - I was heavily pregnant and really wanted to dance with DH but obviously couldn't get involved. The bride's father played the fiddle.

Lovely wedding, but next day we ALL came down with some kind of noro / vomiting bug.

At my own wedding , the elderly priest started "We're here to unite William and"... He forgot my name. We told him my name in aloud whisper and the ceremony went on. We'll always remember Father Forgetful!!

At a friends wedding the vicar told this joke :

Back in the old day, there was a married couple that were going on their honeymoon on a horse carriage. After they were riding, the horse would kick back. The Husband would say "thats once". After a while, the horse would kick back up again and the husband would say "thats twice". Again, the horse kicks up. The husband pulls out a shotgun and shoots the horse dead. The wife, who was disgusted by the act shouts out "WHY YOU KILLED THAT HORSE!! HE WAS SO BEAUTIFUL AND INNOCENT!"
the husband sat there quietly and said "thats once...."

So not exactly something going wrong (we all just thought it was hilariously inappropriate, it was the '90's so par for the course). But maybe check the vicariously isn't planning a comedy routine about domestic violence.

One wedding I was bridesmaid at was definitely a bit short of guests on the groom's side. Half way through the service they slowly tried to slip in unnoticed! The reason being that the groom's mother had decided to write the invitations for their side of the family and had written the wrong name of the church on them, hence them missing half of the service. Date of the wedding was April 1st!

Another wedding didn't take place because the night before the best man took the groom out for a few drinks and persuaded him not to get married. So he didn't show up. I believe that the bride and groom got married six months later with a different best man.

The morning of our wedding my husband's grandad died after being in bad health for a good few years. Half way through the evening reception my in laws along with aunts and uncles disappeared to a quieter part of the venue and were discussing plans for the funeral later in the week!

Make up artist never turned up for my daughter in law.All ok in the end.

Went to a work colleague’s wedding. Arrived to realise we were the only friends there and the rest were bride and grooms immediate family. I already knew that their mums had fallen out but both sets of family literally stood on either side of the church yard refusing to mingle whilst me and my husband tried to politely make conversation with both sides. Afterwards we all went to the reception at a local pub (they were on a tight budget I believe) again families sat on separate tables and it all felt very awkward, first and last time I’ve ever wanted to leave a wedding early. I really felt for bride and groom, it was like something out of a Shakespeare play.