To ask your ultimate wedding guest scandal?

I'm afraid I was an unwitting party in a wedding scandal. DP and I went to the wedding of a uni friend. His bride - Irish Catholic - had her five sisters as bridesmaids. At the reception the groom came over to talk to us, and at one point, looking DP in the eye, he said 'I'd have married 'Gym' if you hadn't got there first'. He didn't realise two of the bridesmaids were in earshot.

Gentle reader, the marriage didn't last.

Oh dear
There's always one isn't there 🙄🙄🙄

My cousin being driven by my parents.to wedding in countryside with best man
Claims he needs to be sick. Gets out of car climbs wall and runs off across field.
Gets pursued and caught by best man and frog marched back to car.
Wedding goes ahead. Separated in 6 months

At my wedding the exH mother walked off as her other DIL ignored her and his brother started a fight with everyone at the end. It was quite memorable.

Best man made a very very racy and extremely explicit speech and the brides dad lamped him mid way through. I was about 7/8, so I didn’t really understand most of it, and my dad put his hands over my ears after the first few jokes - but looking back 29 years later… best man deserved it. Rest of the night carried on though which was weird, the rest of it was a pretty standard (if a bit chavy) wedding. Also no hate to chavy weddings - I had one myself and from what I recall it was a hoot.

Oh and someone got headbutted at my wedding but it was after we left and it was a fight between two plus ones… don’t have plus ones I guess.

Bride and Groom disappeared during the dancing. We thought bloody hell can they not wait???? But no, they had a huge row and went home!

They resolved things soon after for a couple of years then finally split up for good.

That’s so sweet (though annoying for you!)! Did you let them stay?

That’s really cute!

Indian wedding where the bride’s sister was not just wearing red, but really elaborate, loads of jewellery, really ornate sculptural hair, while the bride was much more toned down, less jewellery etc. Sister was older and had been jilted, so was obviously bitter.

Another wedding, loads of guests got robbed. Someone’s wages, someone’s watch, someone’s phone. That was awful.

Another - best man’s speech included details of a family affair that had lead everyone to question the parentage of the groom (which was true, and both the groom’s dad who had raised him and the man that was possibly his real dad were in the room), along with other highly inappropriate sexual jokes that didn’t look to be well received by the bride’s family.

Most recently, a member of the bar staff was giving all the guests a hard time and being rude and insulting and offering the best man outside - she was only about 18 and she was rude to everyone including the groom and the bride’s parents who had paid for everything. The manager said she was new. She was the talk of the evening.

Our 12 year old bridesmaid also invited several of her school friends to our wedding and they turned up, beautifully dressed, in a taxi, half way through the wedding breakfast.

I was the bridesmaid. Best man was so drunk, I had to do an (improvised) speech because he couldn’t speak.

Same wedding - groom was so drunk, he missed the photos and felt me up at the reception (I honestly think he was so drunk, he thought I was his new wife).

The marriage lasted three years. Longer than I’d expected!

I’m not Indian but my closest friend is. She has definitely told me brides rewear their wedding lenghas at other weddings. That the amount of make up, hair and jewellery the bride has means there’s no confusion over the bride, but it’s definitely a thing. She got married last year and was looking forward to wearing it again to a wedding later this year but is now pregnant.

Could it be a thing depending on culture?

ETA that I just googled and this came up:

https://www.reddit.com/r/DesiWeddings/s/ASVKehPEtd

Really don’t want to come across like I know more about your own culture than you, just trying to ease your feelings that it may not have been a deliberate slight!

Geraldine vibes!

My wedding got invaded by the Arsenal team who were all staying at the hotel. Everyone was like......what bride and groom.

I worked at a wedding of a bride who had five bridesmaids. They arrived by car to the venue, wearing very sexy, shot velvet dresses, unusual for a summer wedding, and they were kind of surly on arrival. A few minutes later, another limo pulled up with five smiling bridesmaids in pastel dresses. The bride had asked none of her five sisters to be bridesmaids, so they had showed up as a disgruntled (sexy, velvet-clad) faction, and proceeded to be extremely disagreeable all evening, including starting a scrap in the toilets. The groom was a very nice chap, and I felt sorry for him marrying into such a horrible family.

My exH’s friend’s girlfriend wore a white lace, off the shoulder midi dress to my wedding. No other colours on it- just white- with a white flower in her hair.

It was only the second time I’d met her.

Someone I used to casually shag years ago called me on the morning of his wedding and asked me to come and rescue him... He had been sort of pressed into marrying a girl he'd had an 'accidental' (to be fair to him, she pretended to be using contraception but lied) baby with and wanted out. I didn't go obviously and he went through with it. He ended up drunk with her mother in the disabled toilet... He wasn't fucking her, but he was going down on her (much more his thing) with her sat on the sink. Lots of people at the wedding found out about it in real time. Two people called me to gossip about it on the day and there were fist fights between men in either family (he too told me himself years later).Absurdly, the wife forgave him and they went on for a while, about 18 months, but then he left her. Bizarrely there was never a huge rift with her own mother. That poor girl, how bloody dysfunctional. I will add he has no contact or relationship with the baby now adult. Just an awful mess. His ex wife went on to happily remarry and have two more children, thank goodness and that baby graduated from her Masters degree, not something she'd have achieved if he'd have raised her.

Posted about this before but I was at a wedding where a guest stood on a table and stripped completely naked!

I love Susan!

This kills me. One of the funniest things I’ve read on here.

We had a gatecrasher! I was dancing (on a chair!) at the evening reception and a guy came up to me and said, Who's the bride?! I replied that it was me and he swiftly disiappeared!

Oh my god

Nothing off hand that I can think of, except that at one of my friend;s weddings her sister pretended to faint during the speeches then announced her pregnancy. We all knew she would try some stunt. Pretty tame really!

At ours, one of DH's cousins got hilariously drunk and was escorted away by another cousin. He said 'We are going. Susan is quite tired'. She drew herself up with utter indignation and announced grandly; 'I am NOT tired. I am DRUNK'.

She's fab. I am lucky... all his family are lovely.

Groom and his best man (also his brother) doing coke in the loos. Groom drags him by his feet onto the dance floor at 9pm. He's in full cardiac arrest screaming for help. Bride is doing cpr. Us bridesmaids try to get all the little kids outside. Ambulance arrives. Blue lights him to hospital. He died. All grooms family leaves the wedding. Police arrive. Shut off the music and place themselves outside the loos. Groom at a table crying. Bride still trying to save her wedding and dance in silence....