Weddings you went to where things went wrong?

@Bupo
My cousin's future wife was quite late. The starter went on the limo. Then the bar at the venue wasn't open. Lots of people "popped" to an off sales. Eventually, the bar did open and of course everyone was drinking their own booze. He'd to blackmail us with no music unless we bought drinks. Apart from that, it was a fantastic wedding.

My poor cousin's wedding. The actual ceremony went off without a hitch but when they went to cut their cake, the entire thing keeled over onto the floor (it looked a bit like the leaning tower of piza before they began). Luckily the bride and groom saw the funny side. Then the fire alarm went off during the speeches and we had to evacuate. Then again as the main meal was served then again when the buffet was served in the evening! Something about the kitchens seemed to be the reason!

My husband forgot the CD with the music to walk down the wedding isle so I sadly walked down the aisle to a panpipe version of a take that song… which would have literally been my last choice! Apparently it was all they had to hand at the time!

It’s been 20 years and I am still cross about it!

I also agree under catered weddings are dreadful especially when they are in a barn in the middle of nowhere!

That’s awful. What a shame.

We had the lunch and party anyway, he was found and brought back that night and they got married in a registry office a few weeks later instead…

The one that was called off because the groom didn’t make it to the ceremony. His mates took him out the night before and hilariously put him on an overnight train… with no money.
cue frantic searching for him the next morning when the parents realised he wasn’t where he should be getting ready…

Bride and groom had a massive Barney, bride was a bit worse for drink. I tried to smooth things over & distract with cutting the wedding cake, bad move, the bride threw the knife like something out of a circus act at the groom, knife missed him by inches and stuck in a wooden bar support post with a doy-oynnnnng...Marriage didn't last very long needless to say.

My father, (very traditional) organised the reception, it was a sit down meal for everyone. Unfortunately, he forgot to mention that the bar should be open, he just assumed it would be.

The venue staff phoned the bar staff at home and they all agreed to come in on their day off. It cost dad a fortune in cash bribes and we didn’t know until we came back from our honeymoon.

I went back afterwards to thank them all, it was so good of them.

Well cant speak for her but I would do this because in every family there is someone who will stick their oar in and insist you do things their way. Sounds like the BIL was one of them. Its like all the benefits of eloping while having a good party too.

Different weddings.

Horrendously, the Father of the bride died during his speech.

Vicar was so drunk he forgot to read the vows. We realised after he pronounced them man and wife. Best man had a quiet world. So we started again.

Bride started to cry during vows and had to have half an hour to herself standing in a field..

Bride stepped in to halt the best man’s speech.

People “tent bopping” caused the centre part of the marquee structure to collapse nsrrowly crushing a number of people.

What happened? Did they get married?

So the only people that knew were you and your DH? Why did you think of doing that?

mine. It was a surprise wedding. A real surprise. No family or friends knew. DH brother didn’t like the surprise and left the ceremony with his family. We haven’t had a good relationship with them since despite many olive branches from our part.

Another one. Well over 20 years ago me and 4 friends gatecrashed a wedding evening doo at a local (rough) pub. It was last orders in the normal pub, and the Landlord, famous for his lock-ins, assured us it would be fine, and pointed us upstairs to the Wedding. There were no guests left. Even the Groom had gone home. There was just his Mother, both of the Bride's parents looking stony faced, The Bride (COMPLETELY wasted) and the Best Man doing some X-rated dancing in the middle of an empty dancefloor and snogging the face off each other. The Grooms Mum was frantically encouraging us to take plates of buffet food home with us, and the 5 of us were hilariously wide eyed at the "dancing" but chowing down on cheap nuggets and pork pie quarters. By the end of the night the Bride was even more shit faced, mascara all down her face, hugging us goodbye as we left, clinging to us and sobbing "Thank You so much for coming, I'm so glad you made the effort to come, it wouldn't have been the same with you" completely oblivious to the fact she'd never even clapped eyes on us until 2 hours earlier.

That’s one way to make the point 🤣

But yes, it’s pretty typical for ‘unmarried’ people to take part in the ‘single’ events. Think bouquet toss/garter toss and other ‘who is next’ type things.

Has he continued to be violent?

A wedding where the groom was north American. There was some kind of activity for 'single women' and 'single men'. An unmarried woman took part because that's how she defined 'single' except that her partner was there sulking at the whole thing. I can't remember what the activity was now...

I see what you did there🤣

The day we got married it absolutely pee’d down by it was really muggy. By the time we got married at 2 the sun had come out so yay. Photo time at the church the photographer wanted us all in front of the church and alll the women’s heels sank in the grass and mud. A friend of my husband went flying and had to go home to change, luckily the sister in law had a pair of cream flip flops in her car I could put on. When we got to where we was having the wedding breakfast I was met with being told that my cake had melted a bit and sank. Bless them the were so worried to tell us but I burst out laughing. What was the point in getting angry at something that was out of all our hands. The best man and his wife got lost going from the church to the hotel but we have no clue how considering he grew up in the area, I think they stopped off for a quickie as they were trying to get pregnant at the time 😂 Again that didn’t bother me because I was rooting for them to get pregnant and if that was the perfect time to try then so be it. We all had a fab day and one I won’t ever be repeating so it is what it is.

I’ll share mine…

We had a small (under 40 people) wedding. Small hotel ballroom at a cute art-deco boutique hotel. Most of our budget went to food and drink and some things we just didn’t really care about. So we ordered our cake(s) from the bakery in our grocery store. It was good cake and I wasn’t really fussed about a traditional wedding cake. I called the week before to confirm our order and all was good. DH and his BM stopped to pick it up on our wedding day and they had forgotten to make it. After a bit of fuss they managed to figure out alternative cakes and the bakery manager delivered them to the hotel.

Our flowers went missing for a bit, Apparently our florist was a Ninja and delivered the flowers so stealthily that nobody knew he had been. I had totally forgotten about them until someone asked me where my bouquet was and that cued a small scramble from the hotel staff to find them. Then there was a scramble to track everyone down to distribute them before the ceremony.

Both of those were pretty minor and nobody really knew there was a problem. I was responsible for the biggest ’oops’

I did not know that my DH had tipped our judge extra to keep the ceremony short (I was fully onboard with this after I found out). So we’re in the ceremony and my mind was starting to wander because I figured he’d be talking awhile. Suddenly I realized that it was really quiet. Turns out he had just started in on the vows bit and I had totally missed what I was supposed to repeat.

I started to ad lib something and then decided I couldn’t do that with my wedding vows(!) and was forced to ask the judge to repeat them.

My family just snickered at me while my DH rolled his eyes. Oops!

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I was a waitress at a wedding where the egg white in the royal icing on the cake hadn’t set somehow, or was fondant or something. Anyway each pillar had started to sink into the cake below - presumably there were no dowels underneath and it was eventually saved from collapse by persuading the bride to cut the cake BEFORE the main meal, rather than after.

It happened after I left but I used to be distantly related to a guy who'd get violent when he was drunk.
He got in a fight at a wedding and a bouncer had to drag him out of a fire escape as a load 😭 f people on the other side of the family were looking to beat the shit out of him.
The guy gave up drinking because found out that the groom and the groomsmen spent the wedding night driving around looking for him.

One where there were 2 weddings going on at the same venue, and half the staff had called in sick in protest of new managers. It ended up with ONE member of bar staff running between the 2 separate events to run the bars all by himself with people getting more and more frustrated. One of the Brides's brothers was being very demanding and an absolute arse to the poor lone shared barman, and didn't like being told he couldn't smoke indoors. So he hid in the loos, triggered the smoke alarm and the whole venue, BOTH weddings, had to be evacuated onto the car park. It was about 3 days before Christmas, sheet ice on the car park and the adjoining spa also emptied out, with several elderly folk wrapped in towels and bathrobes, just bare foot on the carpark. I felt so sorry for them. It was about 10 at night, pitch black and so so cold. Brides family demanding they should get the whole wedding for free, shouting and bullying the poor remaining staff, until they were told it was THEM who had caused the evacuation.

At my cousins wedding, the bride had the faint mark of a shiner that the groom had give her. They didn’t book an organist or choir so we all had to hum the wedding march 😂 The church hall caught fire a few weeks before the wedding so the reception stunk of smoke. The buffet ran out really quickly. They’re celebrating their fiftieth wedding anniversary this year 💕