Did anything go wrong on your wedding day?

[TheChild]

I'm getting married in the morning 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

Large fire in the hotel kitchens, was on front page of local newspaper 2 days before the wedding, it was ok they brought in temporary portacabin kitchens. A lot of the tablecloths, napkins etc were burnt so colours were a bit different to what was expected. Another Fire in the bakery where cake was being made, so cake was slightly different. But I was of the attitude of as long as we get married the rest is just for show

I had some reservations about it on the day and told my dad on the cab, I just didn't want to do it. He just brushed it off as pre wedding nerves. I just wanted to run. Probably should not have done it. Still married though, it's been 11 and half years.

A bee went up my big hooped underskirt and stung me.

My dad went for a drink before the wedding and got lost and was almost late he arrived just in time

Yeah, didn't really like the flowers.... but that was my fault, I didn't plan it on time....

A huge accident shut the main motorway most of my guests needed to travel on. Most found out beforehand and took alternative routes but some barely made it to the ceremony in time and one of my best friends missed most of the day.

The organist rowed across the loch to the church and forgot the sheet music to one of the hymns we’d chosen

At midnight the night before, the bride and groom from the wedding that had taken place the day before mine had a huge argument outside my hotel room (so on their actual wedding night 🙈) which woke up tiny baby DS so we had hardly any sleep.

Our friends sent a bottle of champagne to our room, which never arrived despite being paid for.

DH’s auntie was taken ill and taken off in an ambulance during the photos. I hardly noticed TBH but MIL said it’s the kind of thing she does all the time and she was raging.

Everyone seemed to forget to look after SS who had behavioural issues during the evening and I ended up having to look after him so he didn’t cause himself any damage!

It was really hot the day before and I sat outside in the pub attached to the hotel for dinner with my sister the night before and I got terrible tan lines.

The makeup artist made me look really old fashioned and so I don’t really like my wedding pictures.

It was a fab day though and I’m sure yours will be too.

We travelled over 400 miles for our wedding, the day before with the cake. On the day it was opened and the icing had melted.

My new mother in law choked on a piece of chicken at the table during the reception, could not breathe and started to pass out. Sister in law did the heimlich manoeuvre and dislodged chicken whilst various people called ambulances. By the time they turned up she had recovered and stayed for the duration!

Not my wedding, but I was an adult bridesmaid. We stayed at the same hotel after the wedding but my luggage got left in the taxi so I had to come down to breakfast in my bridesmaid dress to the cheers of the room. Not what you want as a self conscious 18 year old.

My brother used to sing at weddings as part of the church choir in his early teens
I always remember him coming home and telling me the bride’s grandmother had died during the service. I don’t think they told the bride until after the reception

DH left the wedding rings in his flat! He realised about half way to the wedding - our venue was about 150 miles from where he lived. Fortunately his flat mate was still there and DH had set off early so caught flatmate before he was about to leave to head up to the wedding too.

Me and DH had planned a really simple, no frills, registry office with a handful of guests, then cocktails/food at our favourite bar, then our wedding night hotel sort of day. We didn't have lots of friends to invite and our main thing was just to be married, we didn't want all the bells and whistles. MIL wouldn't hear of it though and said we had to invite all DH's family, including aunts, uncles, cousins... I don't have any family so only had two friends to invite, and MIL insisted DH's family all sat on one side of the room so I looked like a right Billy no mates. She also insisted that we had to have a reception at her house, but we were told we could only have two friends each because there wasn't room for more. When we got there, BIL put the football on the TV with the volume on full and they all sat down to watch. When the match was over MIL put her music on which was very, very different to our taste - think, Abba and Tina Turner (her) and Sisters of Mercy/Nick Cave (us). When DH asked if he could put 'our' song on for a sort of first dance type thing she said no, she didn't want our shit music ruining her party. She also spent a lot of the afternoon crying really loudly about how awful it was we'd got married and she was glad her mother wasn't there to see it.

Things were much lovelier when me, DH and our friends got to our hotel and got on with the day we'd wanted. We regret so much letting her take over but at the time we thought we didn't have an option if we didn't want to rock the boat. We went NC years ago (lots of reasons) and it was the wisest decision we ever made.

We've been very happily married for 20 years now - MIL predicted we'd not last a year

Not my wedding but the worst thing I've ever seen at one, the groomsmen and the best man supplied the DJ with an 'alternative' first dance song - I still haven't found what I'm looking for by U2. The groom thought it was hilarious, the bride was fuming. A few years later and it proved to be an appropriate choice unfortunately.

My wedding is legendary!

Firstly my youngest woke up in the middle of the night with a raging temp and I had to call my parents at 2am to come to the hotel with medication. Secondly the weather was horrendous. Couldn't see out the windows because the fog was so thick. Next the cake was late and we had to keep phoning and phoning to find out where it was. Then the chair covers and decorations were also late. And they brought the wrong clips for the chair bows so they started ripping the sashes snd had to cheek to tell me I would be billed for new sashes if I wanted to clips. I had to point out they brought the wrong bows and they decided how to apply them not me.

Lastly and the best of them all was a random guy was left behind after a pub crawl to the bar attached to our hotel after becoming belligerent and off his face on drugs. He decided to crash our wedding. He was taken outside and tried to convince to go home by various guests and members if the wedding party but being in the middle of nowhere no taxi firm would touch him. He tried to attack the groomsmen but the staff stopped it. Next our bus arrived to take guests home and the random tried to get on. The driver locked the doors but the guy smashed the window, climbed inside and attacked the driver breaking his nose. Again guests had to intervene. Finally the police were called but while waiting the guy turned on my husband and attacked him. The police arrived just as my husband got out from under the guy and they thought they were there to arrest my husband and pinned him against the wall. Then they realised the guy on the floor was in jeans with a torn and bloody shirt and was trying to attack the other officers and the other guy was in a kilt with a woman in a wedding dress next to him and switched their attention.

Best day of my life. The guests loved it too. The ones meant to be going on the bus got lifts home in the police cars and took photos with the officers and wearing their hats, they got to put the sirens on too. The bus driver had a broken nose but chose not to press charges but the police still charged him. The random guy spent the weekend in the cells (it was a bank holiday Monday too so stayed there till courts opened on Tuesday lol) and pled not guilt to assault and various other charges including possession of class A drugs. Members of the wedding party were called as witnesses abs the night before were told he had changed his plea. He also got fired from work due to the drugs (worked in an industry where drug tests are mandatory and being arrested while in possession is instant dismissal). He also had his car repossessed, was kicked out by his parents and dumped by his girlfriend.

Only thing I would change is the bus drivers broken nose and my son being ill.

I was told I was the most relaxed bride ever. I figured by the morning if the wedding I had done my best and as long as we got to say our vows then the rest was extras and not important.

All went well until me and DH walked out and they played 'God Only Knows'. But they started it late so we walked out of the room to the words "I may not always love you".

I still laugh when I hear the song - 6 years later

I got stuck in traffic and missed my whole ceremony! Luckily the celebrant was able to still marry us, but was a rushed ceremony...I still got to marry my man though ❤️

Oh and good luck and have an amazing day

Wrong car turned up, too late to change. Flowers were shit yet cost a bloody fortune! We had two photographers/videographers ,one for wedding/afternoon reception, that was perfect. BUT! The evening reception photographer fucked up the photos and video totally. I was so upset. The DJ was a bit shit. Sister was sick on her dress, she was a bridesmaid! BUT we had an amazing day and we look back and laugh.

Walked out of parents' house to see totally flat tyre on limo.
Driver opened boot to discover no spare.
Bridesmaids car had already set off for church.

Neighbour stopped mowing his lawn and drove after Bridesmaids limo, and got it to return for me.

My guitarist was supposed to play whilst everyone was having drinks and we were having photographs, out on the terrace. Unfortunately he wasn't able to (I think a licensing issue they'd neglected to mention when I'd told them of my plan!) Thankfully guitarist was really kind and played during part of our dinner which was much later than he had been booked to stay to make up for it.

@Onebabyandamadcat

A bit outing but it was too funny to care - my DH's aunt bought us two three foot(I think) high garden gnomes - one a bride and one a groom. I have never suggested I like gnomes or have any inclination to start a collection.

They brought them to the reception and insisted they were put in front of the top table. The reception's wedding planner asked if I knew about them and was told yes but she still didn't feel that was quite right so put them next to the cake instead of infront of our seats.

While not (I hope) a bridezilla, I had spent ages painstakingly matching colour schemes and accessories for the venue, as you do. These gnomes stood out a mile from the black and white "elegant" colour scheme and the first I saw of them was when I was shown the room five mins before everyone was taken in for the meal. I remember asking "what the fuck is with the gnomes?" And seeing the wedding planner go white. After a quick explanation I said to just leave them as I didn't want to upset people (I'm not as nice these days) but I did hiss to my photographer to make them disappear before we cut the cake.

By the end of the night the gnomes were wearing other people's ties and dancing on the dance floor to bits n pieces 🙈. I was the first of my friends to get married but a few were in the following weeks/months and the gnomes were always a threat in the background.

We had a fabulous day and the gnomes were nothing but a very strange addition but now whenever we watch the wedding dvd right at the start is a montage of the room all set up and pride of place are those bloody gnomes 😂

Hilarious! I am in tears laughing (though I appreciate it would have been far from funny at the time😬😂)

@TheChild Have a lovely day! Congratulations ♥️ 🍾 🥂

The stitching of the hem of my dress got caught in my shoes just as me and my Dad got to the top of the aisle - it rucked up and tore, and I started sniggering as dad got on his knees to try and unravel it.

Then I accidentally substituted my DHs first name for my own middle name during the vows. They are close to be fair - e.g Alan / Anna - but for some reason it made the congregation absolutely piss themselves.

But otherwise we had a great wedding, everyone got drunk and there were bodies littering the hotel, but there were no fights or arguments and loads of people said it was the best wedding they'd ever attended.

I've seen a couple of horror weddings though. At one the bride's sister had a hypoglycaemic episode during the speeches and an ambulance was called; at another the bride discovered on the morning of the wedding that the groom had been cheating on her. She went ahead though...

The wring band arrived and began setting up. Our band arrived and said to go it was their gig. Band no 1 said we are unpacked, can’t you go play the other wedding half a mile away? . I was called out of our speeches to settle it!