Terrible wedding behaviour.

We had a quite wedding due to some family issues and couldn't invite ones side without the others and so forth so we just went off on our own and did it. Lovely day though beautiful county hall we got married in. On the way home the next day we phoned all immediate family and told them our 'fait accompli'. . We promised them a big night do with absolutely everybody invited of course which we had a few months later. They all congratulated us and were thrilled and understanding of our reasons, all except my DHs eldest son , who would never ever go for a drink or socialise with his dad which has always grieved my DH greatly as his own dad died when he was 15 and he never got chance. His response to our 'good news' was a sulky 'Oh thanks for the invite' . Really spoilt it for DH and l was like this . I was really angry at him and he lived with us at the time and he started on his dad as soon as we got home. He was 22 at the time so no excuse. I know it's not as dramatic as some stories on here but it did but a dampener on our day especially for DH. Like l say he never wanted to socialise with his dad or dad and l ever despite much cajoling pleading from his dad. Yet he saw fit to put down our whole celebration with just one sarky sentence.

I mean, my DB is nice enough looking, but still....!

'Twas very very funny though, BM sobbing and clutching on the poor bride bewailing the bride's 'betrayal'

"I'm so sorry to be the one to tell you this...etc!" It was like some Jeremy Kyle moment...luckily she got hustled off by her DH pdq.

Of course she realised it was rubbish the moment she sobered up, but I don't think she can forgive me for being the "cause" of her behaving like a loon in front of everyone!

It was a very lovely, and rather glamorous wedding actually. And great to have a few bonkers stories to come out of it.

Happy days!

I was lucky enough to be married in a cathedral, as that's where I was christened and my dad taught at the attached boys school. We used the choir stalls for the wedding so we could gate them off and keep the intimate feeling rather than just fill the first 4 rows in main part of cathedral. We were very strict to both sets of parents that we only wanted guests we BOTH knew. MIL was seen counting seats on visit to cathedral before, even though she knew it wasn't her decision. On the day, my dad walked me in through the cloisters, and just said to me "don't look left" seems MIL had asked extras to come along anyway and they were in the main part of the cathedral!!
After the service we had photos outside before myself and DH were to be driven to another spot for photos, a random woman nearly got in the car with us to take photos!!! When we spotted her in a later photo with the in laws, MIL just said "oh that's X, we worked together 20years ago!!!"

Madame, may i suggest that next time you see Miss weirdo, stick a sign on her back that says "Incest", since she seems to think about it so much.

42 Nice to you that your not married into that family now, dogging at a wedding reception, thats so Jeremy Kyle!!

At mine the BM's speech was a really crude made up story about how now I was getting married all the men who had keys to my house should now return them, followed by about 15 men standing up to hand keys in to the top table - including the (now Ex)H's best mate and brother. I wasn't amused.

During the short gap between main course and dessert, the BM went to the loo, and when he came back told the (now X)MIL that he'd shagged his girlfriend in the loo while he was there. (The girlfriend, incidentally, was wearing the sluttiest dress imaginable with clearly nothing underneath it.) XMIL then announced their little liaison to the room at large, from the top table, in the loudest voice possible. Lovely.

When we turned in for the night, BM, girlfriend and a bunch of other guests were playing pool in the hotel bar. Apparently, BM & girlfriend ended up shagging on the pool table in front of everyone about an hour later. I'm so glad my family had all called it a day when we did, I was mortified.

MadamDefarge Your SIL's BM must think you are utterly depraved - not only shagging your own DB on his wedding day, but also sleeping with a priest.

Anything else you want to get off your conscience?

Complex awww!

complex, I think that is rather lovely....well done you for dancing with her, I'm sure the B & G were more moved by your kindness to a a young guest (with Down's Syndrome or not) than worried about being upstaged!

I was at a friend's wedding when a young girl with Down's syndrome took a fancy to me (I'm a bloke).

She grabbed my arm and wanted to dance with me, no problem there, until I realised (at the centre of the dance floor) that there was no one else on the floor and this was meant to be the first dance of the evening lead by the B&G

She and BIL thought it was hilarious....

God, yes, its a family story to this day, 20 years later!

MadameD waking up next the priest is my favourite guest one to date, did you ever tell your DSis?

The Shame, The Shame!

to be fair, I was fully clothed, including shoes, on top of the bed clothes...he had somehow managed to squirrel some space under them for himself...

Loool @ priest tucking himself up next to you!

ooh, forgot some baddish behaviour of my own.

At Dsis' wedding, couple buggered off at 8 in the evening to leave all guests staying at the venue with nowt to do (we were due to have a post wedding lunch the next day). So me, two DBs and my two BFs went minibar hopping throughout the guests rooms...along with the fab Irish priest who was a real laugh, big, burly, full of great stories.We ended up in his room.

I woke up the next day thinking someone was poking my eyes out (had left contacts in). I had lost consciousness in the priests room and had crashed out on the bed. Imagine my horror to turn round to see said priest tucked up next to me. They had decided just to leave me where I fell, so to speak! Staggering back to my room I was sharing with one of my two BFs at the wedding I found one grumpy BF and one grumpy brother in my bed. Turned out Other BF was, er, occupied with other Brother in my brother' room room. Luckily the bed was the size of a football pitch so we all just went back to sleep for a few hours.

How we laughed.

Sorry, Father Brendan!

DH and me went to a wedding last year that was so weird it was funny.... Invitation arrived from lovely couple on DHs side of family (and they are a lovely couple !!) in the form of a jigsaw you had to put together (everyone knew what it was anyway........ But not the end of the trying too hard unfortunately !) You also had to bring along a piece of jigsaw to the occasion, each numbered, loads of people forgot and the replacement/back up pieces were not the same so it didn't work and we still don't know what the jigsaw was meant to be. The reception was on a petting farm, we were squeezed into a marquee but we had to go into the cow shed with livestock (cows, goats and sheep) and shit (hopefully just cows, goats and sheep shit) for photos, the children were made to eat in the cow shed, it was cold and lashing with rain. We didn't eat a main course until 8.30 at night despite it being a church wedding at 1pm, it's the only wedding that we have ever made our excuses and ran off (across a wet field) back to our hotel by 930pm.

Seeing everyone in their glad rags forcing a smile surrounded by cattle and shit will stay with me for a long time.

At my DBs wedding, on the way from the registry office, the extremely racist fOB shared a taxi to reception with the mixed race friend of bride who was a prof camera man who had kindly agreed to do the video. Bless him for not decking FOB for his racist rant all the way to venue.

During the speeches FOB proceeded to tell assembled guests how useless he thought DB was.

Then later during the evening party, there had been a bit of a family issue, and me and DB had a quick confab in the girls toilets (long, complicated story) we had gone into a cubicle and came out to find bride's very very pissed best mate glaring at us.

Brides very very pissed BM then created a massive drama crying and hugging bride as she shrieked in front of all the other guests her her new husband had been shagging someone in the toilet

New SIL was very calm and pointed out that I was new husband's sister...didn't wash! she kept on and on and on...and still sends me daggers if we happen to meet at parties...weirdo!

Went with a friend to his mother's wedding. Because it would be busy at the house we stayed in the hotel where they were having the reception but were at the house the rest of the time.

The night before the hotel phoned the bride and told her they had double booked. They did offer her another room and she had no option really but to accept.

Got to the reception after the wedding and the mulled wine that was supposed to greet guests wasn't there, bride was about to lose it (was late december).

I went in to bolshy mode and went to the bar to ask for the manager. While I was there someone ordered a drink and said to put it on the tab 'of the wedding'. I asked him which wedding, he said his friend's I asked the name of his friend and as he didn't know the name of bride or groom told the waiting staff not to put it on the wedding tab - they ignored me.

By this time the manager had turned up and I have no recollection of what I said, other than saying that they were ruining the bride's day. Apparently people appeared from nowhere with champagne and the room was miraculously ready.

But the cake was served before the sandwiches (supposed to be high tea) and the other end of the room was a works Xmas party.

The evening do was at the bride and grooms house so we went there and came back to sleep. The room had not been cleaned.

In the morning we were checking out and there was a meal charged to our room. No we didn't eat in the hotel, no we didn't eat the first night, no I know we did not eat here, we were at the wedding evening do eating there, no we are not paying the bill for a meal we did not have, and if we had eaten in the restaurant I would have ordered a better wine.

I had a thread a while ago about my crazy mil trying to wear a wedding dress to my wedding. ( which is in 7ish months time) shes utter bonkers and has made a whoke wedding book about how are wedding should be. Booked appointments for venue viewings picked out dresses suitable for my mum to wear etc etc. Anyway I have one f4om a wedding a few years ago...

Went to xp's cousins wedsing about 500 miles away. Never met them before and were to stay with the bride and groom the night before the wedding. Xp's younder sister and I shared a bed in the living room as we were not allowed to share a room due to being unmarried.

Anyeay, both of us asleep downstairs, middle of the night I wake up to xps sister shaking with uncontrolabke laughter/ half crying. I turned around to see the groom passed out on the sofa, stark bollock naked and xp spooning him wearing my dress for the next day.
Apparantley they had waaay too much to drink and this was the result. The grooms jehovas witness father and mother decide to come xownstairs at this moment ( we were laughing pretty loud by this point) and he goes nuts. Cue everyone waking up shouting ending up in 12 crazed relatives in the living room arguing.

The wedding went ahead and bride saw the funny side. But groom is still not on best terms with parents 6 years later.

Oh and the buffet was chocolate fingers and cheese puffs. We stopped off at the chippy on the way home.

My brother's 2nd wedding was quite funny. We were told family only at the registry office, so my mum, dad, me, dh, my 2 kids and my brother's daughters, arrive and there is no room for us because all their friends had turned up.

Then after the ceremony they're doing family photo's and call up my 3 nieces. But the eldest one doesn't move. So her dad shouts on her to come up. The whisperings of their friends were hilarious. One asked me who she was. Dh nearly walloped me for saying "That's his eldest daughter, we don't remember who her mother is!" Meanwhile my eldest niece's boyfriend who'd come along too was wetting himself laughing as my niece had warned him about Auntie Groovee.

Get to the reception which was in a "business centre" The bridal party, nieces included this time, have gone for photo's. They come back and my youngest 2 nieces have fallen out this time and one of their stepmother's family tries to cause more conflict with them by comforting one of them while being wide to the younger one. The younger one comes over to me and tells me that's the family member who regularly ridicules her when they all have to meet up. So me and eldest niece decide to save other niece and tell "family member" that she needs to stop picking on 9 year olds! She wasn't amused and stayed away after that.

Then the entertainment in Karaoke for the night . This pretty girl gets up and hogs the mic, but she can't sing. Everyone who knows her keeps cheering and egging her on. Except my eldest niece makes a comment and that triggers us all off again on fits of laughter.

My brother starts yelling at us all for being rude, just as our oldest sister and family walk in. They end up having a screaming match and we all leave. I end up with my nieces in my house for the night as they have refused to go to the "babysitters" their dad organised.

Was certainly a wedding to remember.