Terrible wedding behaviour.

My mother carried a plastic carrier bag around with her at my wedding god knows what was in it.
When she was taken back to my house after the day she tried to persuade everyone that they should all surprise me and my new husband at our honeymoon venue (she got very told off by our 14 year old son)

I feel I should add my example (but fear outing!). It wasn't my wedding but my father's 3rd. He had bought a dress for his wife - this was just another example of how controlling he was. He had bought it 2 sizes too small for her. I have no idea if this was deliberate or not.

But come the night before the wedding he demands that as a bridesmaid I wear this dress. I refused but he kicked off. In an attempt to appease him my step-mother to be agreed that I should wear it. Being a nervous teen and used to my father's behaviour I ended up agreeing. It led to some of the most awkward conversations and photos with people from my (now-ex) step-mother's side that I didn't know.

He has since proposed to another 3 women.....reader's he is now single again!

Found this through a link someone posted on another thread. Whiled away a couple of evenings reading this, it's worth the time.
Can't quiet believe some of the things that go on.
My most memorable wedding experience as a guest was in a small old fashioned church. It wasn't pews, it was little "family" seating areas each with a little gate onto the aisle.
I couldn't see very well in this configuration and as they were taking their vows stood near the little gate so I could see down the aisle. Queue strange smell and a tap on my shoulder from a guest behind telling me my hair was on fire, as I'd got too close to a candle, small scream from me and everyone turned round to look just as B&G saying I do.
Luckily the bride's rugby team doing a pyramid at the reception with her on top and a few of them falling out of their tops gave everyone something else to talk about.

My XH was asked to be Best Man back in 2002. After the ceremony, and just before his speech in the restaurant, he was given a piece of paper by the Bride to add to his speech:

"The bride and groom would like to thank you for all attending their special day. A collection will go around the tables shortly for meals...if you could just note what you are eating and add that to the plate so we can calculate properly we'd appreciate it, thank you."

Everyone had to pay for their meals. I was sat on a side table with the groom's teenage sister who was upset as she only had £20 with her for the day, the meals were £28 a head.
This was on top of the couple's wedding 'gift', which was cash as requested towards a honeymoon as they'd never been abroad.

He got to keep them as friends in the divorce

The worst behaviour I know about happened in the run up to DH's cousin's wedding.
The wedding was taking place in a castle somewhere and there were 10 bedrooms in the castle plus a hotel on the grounds for everyone else to stay in. The 10 castle bedrooms were allocated to the bridal party, parents etc.
2 sets of aunts and uncles weren't at all happy about this and felt they should get rooms in the castle too. The uncles in question were MOG's brothers. One brother had a very close relationship with MOG the other not so much.
Anyway a few weeks before the wedding it all kicked off. Phone calls insisting that they get rooms in the castle. "We're family, We're more important than bridesmaid X and grooms man Y. We'll want to stay up late with you all and have breakfast next day together" one aunt actually said "this wedding should be all about me, I'm a priority Aunts are more important than friends.
There were many phone calls to the MOG, FOG, and Groom The best man heard about all this and actually offered his room in the castle to one of the couples but that wasn't good enough. They wanted both couples to be accommodated.
Eventually one uncle, (the not so close uncle) rang the bride and made her cry.
The groom rang both couples and told them they were uninvited. This was 3 years ago and they haven't spoken since.
The grooms brother got married last year and they weren't invited to that wedding at all.

My dh has 2 best friends (known each other over 20years) and was delighted to be asked to be bm along with the other friend. We had to drive for over 6 hours to get to the wedding (bride grew up in a tiny place in the highlands and wanted it there). We arrived the day before to help set up as requested and spent a couple of hours blowing up balloons, tying up cutlery sets with raffia etc. I happened to spy the seating chart for the meal. I couldn't see our names on it. I checked with dh in case this was an oversight. He checked with the groom who had to sheepishly tell him that neither of his best men could actually come to the wedding ceremony or the meal (because bride had decided her friends were more important) but that we were welcome to come along in the evening. We sucked it up because it wasn't our day and not our place to argue. It was pretty galling tho when we arrived in the evening to find the place on full swing and that there were people who had been invited that the b&g knew only vaguely.

At another wedding I was dancing with my fil when he stood on the bride's £8000 dress and tore it. (My whole wedding didn't cost £8000, so I was a bit when she started shouting at him).

Thank goodness!

After that he realised he needed to grow up a lot and he hardly sees these "friends" now.

You're a more determined woman than me, then. My DH can be pretty insensitive, but he'd know better than that!

Yes @picklemepopcorn we're still married, it's been six years and I'm still annoyed with it all.

I didn't realise so much annoyed me that day until I wrote it all down.

That's awful, Nowhere! Really awful! Are you still married? I'm not sure I would be, tbh.

Mine isn't as bad as some of these but still annoys me..

Before invites were sent out I let everyone know the date as it was a Friday so if they wanted to come they may have had to get a day off, no one had a problem everyone excited. A week before the wedding family a few family cancelled. I wouldn't have minded if they hadn't spent the past 6 months texting how excited they were and laughing about the date (April fools day!)

DH didn't want to invite his Nan (long story), MIL didn't mind until the day before and started crying to DH. Nan wasn't invited.

Morning of the wedding my hair dresser spent more time doing her own hair (bridesmaid), we were running late and I didn't get to see what I looked like in a mirror until we got to the reception and I looked terrible

Got to the registry office and my MIL had Dnephew and Dniece, BIL had a dentist appointment so didn't bother coming. During the service DS ran out and tried to escape so MIL went after him and stayed in the waiting room the whole time.

Leaving the registry office I had booked two taxis one for DH's other Nan who was disabled and DH's aunt. And another for SIL and two of my DS's but DH let his friends take that one instead with him in it! So we had to then call another taxi for my SIL and I took my sons with me. ( I'm still pissed DH went to the wedding reception with his mates!!)

Reception was ok, food wasn't good and best man didn't have a speech. DH's friends wife stood on my dress and ripped it.

Evening party was ok, except DH's friends (yes the same ones each time) got roaring drunk and I ended up looking after their kids. I had one drink and half a sandwich all evening and went to my room at 11 with my three sons. DH turned up at 12.

The next day I found a video on Facebook of my children dancing at my wedding put on by an old school friend of DH's and went mad and he took it off.

My disposable cameras went missing and DH's friends (again) took a few home

Oh and I woke up at 5am the day after my wedding covered in blood, I had miscarried during the night. I then had to go and have breakfast with my new inlaws that morning when I just wanted to go home and hide..

A nice one without vomitting from a long time ago: It was a friend/colleagues wedding at a picturesque country church early in on a hot summer afternoon.

The ceremony went well and then photos in the churchyard: An hour just doing the family! Half an hour rounding up all the bride's friends. Then probably another half hour rounding up the groom's friends.
At which point, being a smoker then and the ugly single bloke, I wandered off for a crafty smoke and met the nice lady from the caterers at the church hall next door with a huge plate of sandwiches for the bridal party who had been "up since god-awful-o'clock" and would "get pissed out of their heads" according to the caterer if they didn't get something to eat.

I think she must have seen it all before. I'm sure they thanked her for it.

Trying not to out myself here....
Went to friend's wedding. Big on FAMILY. Was delighted to have her FAMILY around her on her special day. Had reserved seating for her FAMILY at the front so that each little unit could sit together. DB1 and DB2 gave her away.

DB2's wife was keeping her DC (toddler) occupied as the guests arrived. When most of them were seated, she pushed her DC to the front of the room, only to discover there was no seat reserved for her or DC, only DB2. She started to return down the aisle looking for a suitable seat. Halfway down was a reserved card on an aisle seat. The chap next to it grabbed the card so she could sit down. Just as she was folding up the pushchair the chap's girlfriend (bride's BFF) returned from her fag and demanded that she get out of her seat. Cue hissed exchanges between BFF and her DP about her unreasonable behaviour. Eventually she says "This is my seat, the bride reserved it for me so you will need to sit elsewhere". By this stage SIL was looking mortified as everyone was looking. So we all shifted up so we had a bum cheek on each chair, leaving her a perch at the end (we were in the row behind), balancing the folded pushchair, her DC and the nappy bag. Just as vows were starting, DC starts crying for his Daddy who is right up on the front row. It gets louder and louder so she grabs her stuff and leaves the room missing most of the wedding.
Everyone knew that the FAMILY photos were being taken 1/2 a mile away at the local beauty spot......except DB2 and his family. It started drizzling with rain as they all left and they had no umbrella, no cover for the pushchair or anything because they thought they would be in one place all day (venue for wedding and reception). When they got back, they were somewhat soggy and really pissed off. In that hour, she had been included in two pictures right at the end.
Then at the reception, the Bride got up and did this long speech about the importance of FAMILY and how wonderful having FAMILY around her was and then named and thanks every member of her FAMILY, husbands/wives. kids before shoving DB2 in at the end. No mention of DW or DC.
I knew the Bride and she had no mentioned hassle between them (we shared). It was not long after, she did something similar to me for no reason which is why we are XF!

One additional memory which made for a less than delightful experience as a wedding guest. I was 12/13 at a family wedding and while legally I was a "child", I was given a child-sized meal (possibly even more patronisingly, kids food instead of a proper dinner). I started puberty early, so was well into C-cup bras, and was wearing size 12-14 clothes. I know nobody cares about kids at weddings, but I was a bit grumpy for the rest of the afternoon, which ruined it for my mum. Dad was sympathetic though.

I had a low-key wedding reception. Just afternoon tea with 38 guests. No evening do. Just a laid back few hours. Now this isn't at the level of bad behaviour others have posted.

I believe that there is a time and a place for confetti at weddings. The time being as the bride and groom leave the ceremony or when photos are being taken outside. We had a thunderstorm as those things were happening, so we "missed" our big confetti moment.

So during afternoon tea, I went to talk to my grandmother (DH was elsewhere) who proceeded to shower me, alone with confetti. It got in my hair and everywhere. It was just embarrassing. Made for lots more cleaning up at the venue and I snapped. What was I supposed to do? Laugh, and say "oh I'm so married, grandma!"

She was always going to be the riskiest guest. She is the kind of person who stops and talks to EVERYONE she sees. She spoke to my unsuspecting friend in the toilets and told her the story of how she ended up giving birth to my uncle (40+ years ago) on the beach. How the hell they got onto that topic I have no idea!

I went to a wedding where the best man's speech was unbelievably sexually explicit - along the lines of B&G shagging on their first date and how G was struggling to get his dick in etc. Just awful. Silenced a room full of children, family, grandparents etc and killed the atmosphere.

Bride looked mortified and was sat with her head in her hands repeating "I can't believe he's telling this story in front of my parents". Why somebody didn't tackle him to the ground I'll never know.

I've spent the best part of the Easter Weekend reading and howling at this thread. Although it has made me very nervous about my own wedding next year. I am certainly nervous about some of my party animal booze loving family meeting conservative OH's family

Some of my wedding experiences, nothing compared to others:

A groom who did the full monty. Bride ran to toilets crying her eyes out and they had a full on row

A sleazy male (married) guest who proceeded to say inappropriate things to most people and actually made a female guest cry. Although she made the whole thing a bigger drama by flouncing off with half the bridal party consoling her. Bride was gutted and still talks about how it spoilt things (it didn't as this was afterparty in the bar and we all had a great time regardless)

A wedding where the venue was shared and the other wedding party totally trashed the shared toilets and were doing drugs in there without even trying to hide it. Cue lots of upset guests.

A bride that got so wasted she missed her evening reception. The groom and BMs found her passed out naked in the bathroom of the bridal suite.

A guest that totally depressed everyone at her table by telling everyone about her marriage woes and miscarriage (years earlier) and then when people tried to cheer her up and change subject, she barricaded herself in the toilets and created a complete scene saying no-one cared about her. This meant lots of the brides friends were holed up in the toilets for most of the reception consoling said guest

I went to a wedding where the bride's parents were divorced. The bride's father gave a very long and boring speech all about his daughter's achievements in life and the the things she had done throughout her childhood.

Then the bride's mother stood up to make a speech. She had an extremely refined speaking voice and she began with, "what a wonderfully long speech Richard, and what a great Imagination you must have, since you fucked off when the kids were 5". TheN without missing a beat she went on with her speech.

Went to a wedding of a relative(not a close one)my Dickhead brother(I'm NC with him)gets into a fight on the way to the reception,we arrive at the reception and the brother of the bride turns up with a massive black eye,his wife has assaulted him just before they left for the reception(they're still together many years later and he's been her carer for quite a while now)everyone looked shocked but nobody said anything and his wife acted as though nothing had happened.

One of my cousins got to bring a school friend of his(I was 13 they were 17)his friend asks to dance with me I say sure he gets so nervous within a couple of minutes of dancing with him he has a massive nose bleed all over the dance floor.

The marriage didn't last but she did go onto marry a really nice guy a few years later and they're still together and very happy.

My uncle got married years ago and they'd hired a coach for all the family to go down south for it- there was loads of us!

Anyway, uncle ended up coming back home with us on coach as he'd gone to find his bride, and found her in bed with her chief bridesmaid

I went to a wedding of a good friend. His bride's mother got so plastered at the reception that she pee'd herself and had to be carted off to her room by the bride's brothers.

Placemarking to read later

OMG Libra! You win!

A drunken 'friend' used a whole table worth of disposable cameras (given to guests) to photograph his penis. Yep his penis. At the table. 8 sets of 24 photos. He must have really been proud of it.

That's like something my partner would do!