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Did anything go wrong on your wedding day?

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TheChild · 27/07/2021 18:11

I'm getting married in the morning Gin and, like you do, I'm having a pre-wedding "what might go wrong" thoughts.

So just to make me EVEN MORE nervous, did anything go wrong at your wedding, or anyone else's wedding that you attended? I have never been to a wrdding with any fuck ups (that I know of!), so I'm hoping mine won't be the first one I experience Grin

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MrsSchadenfreude · 27/07/2021 18:30

The wedding car broke down in the church car park, so we hoofed the bridesmaids out of theirs snd they had to squash in with family.

The photos didn’t come out.

My ex’s girlfriend cried all the way through the ceremony and reception because she said he would never marry her.

Several people told me (my mother being one) that I should have married my ex as he was nicer.

We’re still married 28 years on.

PixieDreams · 27/07/2021 18:31

My hairdresser didn't turn up so I did my own hair - it made for moody photos that actually look great.

A traffic warden tried to give our wedding car a parking ticket Hmm

Vallmo47 · 27/07/2021 18:32

Never been married so just wanted to say congratulations for tomorrow and I wish you a long, happy marriage! Lovely thread :)

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TheChild · 27/07/2021 18:33

@SpacePug

I wish I had more photos taken by the photographer , such as I really really wish I had a photo with my grandparents. And one with my DH and son. DS wasn't well on the day (11 months old) but I wish we had managed one photo of the 3 of us. That's my main regret. Not much went actually wrong, one person's name was missed off the seating plan I had made but we just apologised and told them which table (it was my dad's auntie)
We aren't having a professional photographer but this is one thing I would really like to have is a picture of us with my grandparents. I can't remember the last photo of us all together, probably when I was a child. My soon to be sister in law is our casual photographer and I know she will get some wonderful candid pictures of everyone 😊
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Angel2702 · 27/07/2021 18:33

Only small things. Cake arrived lopsided and had to have a replacement last min. Suits didn’t fit day before. Flowers at reception had to be replaced, make up artist got delayed on the motorway so make up was rushed and not quite how I wanted it. DJ was shit.

Biggest issue was fall out just before so entire DH side of family didn’t attend.

ShadowInVain · 27/07/2021 18:33

Nothing major. My husband's taxi didn't turn up and had to be reordered. I'd arrived in a limo that my lovely sister hired for the 'bridal party' as a surprise, so I was blissfully ignorant of his panic, and he got there in time for the ceremony so no harm done.

OneToThree · 27/07/2021 18:33

My wedding dress had a blue splodge on the front. God knows what it was or where it had come from. Got some tipex from the hotel reception and painted over it Grin
CD player didn’t work as we walked out.

needsomesleeppls · 27/07/2021 18:34

My mum slept in and was super late getting to my house to get ready. As a result me, mum and bridesmaids got to registry office 45 mins late, thankfully we were still able to go ahead.

daphnedoo12 · 27/07/2021 18:34

DH FIL and DB got arrested and missed the actual wedding. FIL made it to the party, DB didn't bother coming.

DH's cousin and auntie started a screaming match and had to be removed.

My family were actually well behaved for a change, everything still went great.

DicklessWonder · 27/07/2021 18:35

Loads.

*Best man fucked up the timings and only just got himself and DH to the venue before I arrived (20 mins late)
*Best man wrote his speech on a laptop whose battery died and he didn’t bring a charger for.
*BILs were all hung over and forgot what ushers do. Let people with babies/small children (14 in total) sit near walls/middle of rows so when they screamed through our vows the parents felt it better to stay than leave the room.
*one BIL was given a camera to take photos. He only took pics of his side of the family and none of mine
*nobody told us that DH’s grandparents don’t eat chicken when discussing menus. Cue a big fuss when dinner is served because “how dare they put that muck down in front of them”. Chef had to rustle something else up.
*DH fell asleep on a sofa after the meal. Had to be woken for the first dance.
*nearly speared one of the feral children who crawled across the dance floor during their first dance with my heel. Parents were too busy drinking to notice where he was.
*DH refused to leave until everyone else had. Got to our hotel at 2am. Also didn’t tell me his parents were coming to pick him up early the following morning to visit a relative who was invited to the wedding but declined.

Not a surprise it didn’t last long, eh?

jackstini · 27/07/2021 18:36

The reception venue lost the flowers that were supposed to be in the centerpieces - those 3 candles looked a bit lonely floating on their own in their massive bowls!

Don't have chocolate covered strawberries and 1 year olds. If you do, don't go and say hi to them mid-consumption. Cue handprints on front of dress, & 1 year old's Mum in a mad panic. It was fine - popped back to the room, washed it out and 3 bridesmaids with hairdryers had me back out in 15 mins

Our safari honeymoon got cancelled 3 days before our wedding due to terrorist activity in Tanzania. Very quick re-booking to the Maldives (which was probably wiser as a more chilled out option). Now planning to safari with the kids when we can instead

One of the staff took my bouquet from the card table which MIL had wanted for her parents grave Sad Angry
That was the only one that bothered me

We had a great time, so did the guests
Hope you have a wonderful wedding Smile

jenthelibrarian · 27/07/2021 18:36

The hotel lost my wedding cake between lunchtime, when we cut at it a formal sit-down meal, and the evening informal party.

Paddingtonsmarmlade · 27/07/2021 18:36

My grandmother was exceptionally rude to the groom when he had the cheek to say hello to her before the service. (She had no idea that he was the groom as I hadn't see said grandparent since I was 13)

Thankfully dh didn't tell me about it until after the honeymoon or I'd of made a scene getting her thrown out. I only invited her because my mother thought it was rude not too so she asked me too. As I love my mother and there was enough guests to mean that I wouldn't need to speak to them I was happy to oblige. She stood next to me for a photo and didn't even try and speak to me then or for the rest of the day. I haven't seen spoken to her since. Her loss my gain!

bloodywhitecat · 27/07/2021 18:37

The photographer was a no-show.

Tealwarrior · 27/07/2021 18:37

The taxi for my husband to be and his best man didn’t turn up and rather than wait for another one to come they went downstairs and got on a bus that stopped 20 yards from the registry office. I’d already arrived by the time they did and I’ll never forget a bus stopping and the pair of them getting off to the cheers of everyone on the bus.

cookiecreampie · 27/07/2021 18:39

So much went wrong, I felt like the universe was against us. Our first planned date was cancelled due to covid, them the date we eventually had was heavily restricted. In fact if we had rebooked just a week later it would have been cancelled again. And lots of little things went wrong, but I'm married to my gorgeous husband so all that is forgotten.

Smartiepants79 · 27/07/2021 18:40

My parents forgot to check in at the hotel they were supposed to stay in that night so when they tried to get in at midnight to go to bed they couldn’t as it was essentially closed! They had to go home, luckily just down the road…

Hen2018 · 27/07/2021 18:42

Yes. I got married.

Youmeanyouvelostyourkey · 27/07/2021 18:43

Our florist died two days before the wedding -it was a horrible shock.

A relative got extremely drunk and was dancing on the tables with lit candles in her hands.

I ended up in A&E at 1am with a torn / lost contact lens. Had to finish the party first. I was having too much fun.

MrsMoastyToasty · 27/07/2021 18:43

I sent the invitations out and then a couple of weeks later got a call from the vicar to say the church had concrete cancer (60's building) and the place had to be condemned, with our wedding relocated to the neighbouring parish.

tbtf · 27/07/2021 18:43

"The Beast From the East" ... no, not the MIL... It snowed, guests couldn't get there safely, the registrar phoned the day before and asked if we were still going ahead given the weather. We did, our Wedding Train broke down, and we were late for our own reception.

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TheChild · 27/07/2021 18:44

@Vallmo47

Never been married so just wanted to say congratulations for tomorrow and I wish you a long, happy marriage! Lovely thread :)
Thank you so much 😊 It will just be a small wedding with our closest family and our girls, perfect for us!

All of these replies are brilliant, I'm not going to sweat the small stuff (DP has been doing that, he made the wedding cake and was constantly changing the plans for decoration and panicking because our cake box wasn't big enough! The cake is decorated, looks fantastic, fits in the new box we panic bought at Hobbycraft today AND he has made the most amazing cream cheese frosting that I keep wanting to take a spoonful of everytime I open the fridge!)

😁

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Idontlikepeas · 27/07/2021 18:44

Well, our wedding was a sea of disasters but to be honest it was hilarious and I look back on it really fondly. Went abroad to keep it less formal.
The morning of my wedding I fell down a flight of steps outside the hotel and really badly sprained my ankle so couldn’t weight bear properly on it.
Then went to have my hair done and the hairdresser decided to go for what I can only describe as an 80s porn star look - she took so long that I actually cried in the chair as I hated it so much and didn’t think I’d have time to rectify it. Because of that I had to hurry to get ready until everything stalled - the registrar had gone to the wrong hotel across the island. Next thing we hear, she’s been in a car accident on the way. We were concerned we wouldn’t be able to be married as the rules in the country we married were that you had to do before sunset.
Anyway, registrar finally turned up but as she was so late our steel pan band had already packed up as they had done their time and my husband had to persuade them to stay.
Limped down the aisle bare foot. Lovely ceremony but by the time we had got married the sun had gone down and so our photos were rubbish.
Next day, my FIL dislocated his shoulder on the beach.
All in all, it was hilarious and just typical of my luck but the lovely thing was that when everything went wrong the one person I could rely on to make me feel better was my now husband. 20 years together, 10 years married and 2 kids later it’s just a fond and very memorable event!

user1471428785 · 27/07/2021 18:46

1st wedding the waitress was very nervous at the wedding breakfast and dropped profiteroles on my wedding dress.
2nd wedding - DH’s family were in such a flap about being late for the wedding that they forgot the bridesmaids’s shoes! ( she was going to change in my room at the hotel). Half way to the venue sister in law realised, screeched at the driver to stop the car and ran into a bridal shop she had happened to spot & bought another pair - sadly a size too small!!!

Jaxhog · 27/07/2021 18:48

@Clawdy

Wrong tune played on organ as I walked down the aisle! Future DH had rung the church organist to tell him the music I wanted, but some mix up meant I walked down the aisle to the dreaded " Here Comes The Bride" tune! I met him at the altar and hissed " Wrong tune!!" He whispered "I know!" with an agonised face!
Me too. Especially annoying as I'd briefed the organist the night before at the rehearsal.