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To ask for examples of the worst behaviour you've seen from an adult at a wedding?

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HappyHappyHawaii · 08/02/2026 20:36

Attended one yesterday as a bridesmaid. The brides cousin was also a bridesmaid, spent the whole morning clearly aggrieved that the day wasn't about her... smoked in the getting ready suite and had to be told to put it out, then lit up again and claimed she had forgotten when the bride told her and made a snarky comment..then presented her silver converse she had customised to wear with her dress as she "doesn't really do heels"... the bride ignored her and sweetly said "at this point I don't think I can stop you" as she knows what she's like then what do you know, she wears the heels! There were loads of instances like this all day and she is 28 but seemed to want to just be am inconvenience all day which I assume was jealousy...even little things like being late for photos and pretending not to hear when called over, pushing the food round her plate, really ungracious behaviour. The wedding was fantastic! She could have really enjoyed it much more. Not really an aibu but whats the worst behaviour youve seen like this?

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ghostyslovesheets · 08/02/2026 21:40

Brides glass! I was sat next to her

ghostyslovesheets · 08/02/2026 21:39

Bridesmaid at my aunt and uncle’s wedding- I drank repeatedly from the bridesmaid glass by mistake all through dinner, sang a song about a bird spinning round and round my plate at full pelt, fell off my chair and had to be put to bed.

1973, I was 3 and had been necking blue nun

GrumpyButOk · 08/02/2026 21:38

Went to our friends' wedding which went remarkably well. During the evening celebrations several of us from the friendship circle were chatting about it. One friend noted that this was the first wedding out of about half a dozen or so recent ones where there hadn't been a family fight. Then the men were called outside to rescue the groom from a fight with a neighbour. The groom, normally a very quiet and non-confrontational type was roaring, swearing and waving a half-empty whisky bottle about. There's just something about weddings that brings the worst out of some people 🙄

Spaghettion · 08/02/2026 21:37

At my sister in laws wedding my mother and father in law argued with each other during the ceremony. The ceremony was on a beach in Ireland and the argument was over who should have picked up the umbrella.

OnlyFrench · 08/02/2026 21:37

One of the guests got aggressively drunk and punched his wife in the face. No one seemed particularly concerned.

at my wedding, DH’s uncle decided he didn’t like my carefully arranged seating plan and swapped all the cards around, so he got to sit with who he wanted and my elderly relatives were left stranded.

Middlemarch123 · 08/02/2026 21:36

B1anche · 08/02/2026 21:35

I'd have said 'thanks' and stuck my fork in it.

😂

SomeoneCalled · 08/02/2026 21:36

CurlyhairedAssassin · 08/02/2026 20:52

Did that bridesmaid have bad social anxiety, OP? The behaviour does make me wonder. Weddings, particularly being part of the main bridal party, are the worst for bringing that out.

i agree - it is not for everyone

B1anche · 08/02/2026 21:35

Middlemarch123 · 08/02/2026 21:30

If I’d have been one of the old ladies, I’d have said “Oh, my dear boy, let me just find my glasses. Hmmm, sorry, no thank you. I prefer an actual sausage to a chipolata.” Then ignored him whilst sipping my sweet sherry.

I'd have said 'thanks' and stuck my fork in it.

CatamaranViper · 08/02/2026 21:35

Father of bride insisted that the woman he cheated with and left his wife for be seated again the top table next to him and his ex (the brides mother) be put on the family table.
He actually went in to swap the place settings when I caught him (I was working) and he threatened me when I told him to stop.
I had to step out and speak to the best man and MOH about the situation, bride found out and went mental. Refused to attend her own wedding breakfast. Her and the groom sat in another room drinking heavily while the immediate family all argued.
Mother of bride was incredibly dignified which was pissing him off more. He eventually stormed off with his new woman, demanding I book him a taxi which he expected the hotel to pay for as a "good will gesture". When I refused that, he tried to get me to stick it on the bill for the actual wedding.
After he left, bride and groom came out, clearly pissed but determined to have fun and we finally started the breakfast. Skipped the speeches though.

Happytaytos · 08/02/2026 21:35

I forgot the one where the grooms parents left because of the best man's speech (it was close to the wire but not that bad).

Or the lesbian one where an uncle did a speech and said "you both look so good, I'd shag you both". Awkward.

youalright · 08/02/2026 21:34

Two come to mind one was a physical fight between a group of guests. The other was the best man's ex turned up with there children as she was mad she wasn't invited and he was with someone else she started yelling about he will never see his kids again all in front of the kids and crying and the kids where crying it was just a very loud dramatic scene.

Happytaytos · 08/02/2026 21:33

The best worst one was a full punch up in the car park between warring cousins.

Second best was the bride finding out her husband had been shagging a bridesmaid. Carnage.

HollyGolightly4 · 08/02/2026 21:33

FlappyThing · 08/02/2026 21:05

Friend of the groom whipped his penis out, put it in a bread roll, buttered it and went round the tables offering it to old ladies.

I'm sorry, what?!??!?!

Wow! This might win the strangest thing on the thread.

TheChosenTwo · 08/02/2026 21:33

Mother of the bride in a fist fight just after the first dance. Mortifying.

Figcherry · 08/02/2026 21:33

A work colleague invited 2 of our other colleagues to her very classy wedding.
On the Monday I asked one colleague how was the wedding.
Apparently other work colleague drank too much before the reception and when the main course arrived she vomited over her plate putting all other guests at her table off their meal.
Bride was furious.

IWantToHibernate · 08/02/2026 21:32

A woman getting so drunk and lifted her whole dress up around the dance floor to flash her thong.

Lillers · 08/02/2026 21:32

Similar bridesmaid story here - I was the MOH, and one of the other bridesmaids seemed pretty annoyed by it. Firstly she refused to have anything to do with planning the hen do, then only came to a part of it and left within half an hour because there was apparently nothing she could eat (no dietary restrictions and it was a very broad menu). Then on the day she wouldn’t get ready with the rest of us, met us at the venue and got upset that she wasn’t walking down the aisle with the bride (because the bride was walking down with her dad, not with any of us!).

During the ceremony she kept getting up to go and “sort out the bride’s dress” during key moments. The third time she did it, the bride’s mum said loudly and firmly, “SIT down.” MOB then moved to sit next to her to stop her from getting up again.

She then wore her coat for the whole of the reception despite it being a blazing hot day in summer.

Kendodd · 08/02/2026 21:30

FlappyThing · 08/02/2026 21:05

Friend of the groom whipped his penis out, put it in a bread roll, buttered it and went round the tables offering it to old ladies.

Why can't I go to weddings like this ! GrinGrinGrin

Middlemarch123 · 08/02/2026 21:30

FlappyThing · 08/02/2026 21:05

Friend of the groom whipped his penis out, put it in a bread roll, buttered it and went round the tables offering it to old ladies.

If I’d have been one of the old ladies, I’d have said “Oh, my dear boy, let me just find my glasses. Hmmm, sorry, no thank you. I prefer an actual sausage to a chipolata.” Then ignored him whilst sipping my sweet sherry.

SalmonOnFinnCrisp · 08/02/2026 21:29

ChimpOnMyShoulder · 08/02/2026 21:27

Victoria beckham?

No no.
It really happened.
It was in Ireland.

whatisgoingonandwhy · 08/02/2026 21:29

Family wedding and bride and sister in law had some bad blood between them. Bride was sat chatting to me when the SIL raced over and dragged the bride to the floor my her hair. Later the brides sister chinned the SIL. One hell of a wedding!

AllJoyAndNoFun · 08/02/2026 21:29

Context: most guest were staying at the hotel where the reception was:

Broke into another guest's room (unclear how) and took a dump in their bathroom and then refused to leave and had to be dragged out by security.

BrunchBarBandit · 08/02/2026 21:28

MOG heckled her son during his speech and was taken outside for fresh air by a bridesmaid. She fell on the grass then pissed herself. Someone managed to get her back to her hotel but she projectile vomited so much in reception that an ambulance was called.

ChimpOnMyShoulder · 08/02/2026 21:27

SalmonOnFinnCrisp · 08/02/2026 21:10

My cousins wedding.

The MOGs dress "broke" on the day so she wore a pure white dress that was so short you could see her arse to the church for the wedding then changed into a equally short black dress.

She was shitfaced by 3pm and was doing slut drops the random blokes by 6pm... then she got caught by hotel staff doing coke and giving some fella a blowie in the toilets after dinner.

5yrs on She actually seems to be an okay MIL according to my cousin and the groom is THE nicest man you'd ever meet. 🤷🏻‍♀️
My husband who wasy boyfriend at the time was like 🤯 the whole day... and I had to keep explaining they werent my family.

Edited

Victoria beckham?

MummyJ36 · 08/02/2026 21:27

At my wedding I was alerted to the fact that one of my mums neighbours was going around at the end of the night necking any leftover wine on every single table (we had 12 tables!) - be it from a bottle or a half drunk glass.