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

I got married in February, church was a short way from my parents house so we hired one car to get the bridesmaids to the church and come back for me. Huge hill between my parents house (at the bottom) and church (at the top), it was lightly snowing. Had an old vintage car, it broke down at the bottom of the hill, mum was in the car with 2 little bridesmaids and one teenage bridesmaid. She got them out, and matched them up the hill in the snow and their delicate shoes and dresses. She then flagged down a mark 1 red Ford escort and asked them to come get me, this was the 80s. The driver had just picked his daughter up from horse riding lessons so she was offloaded at my parents house while he took me and my dad to the church. So I have a lovely wedding photo of me climbing out of a red Ford escort with a very bemused driver.

Meant to add, I was quite chilled but my poor mum was a wreck, looking back it just adds to the day. Congratulations and enjoy your day

My wedding was pretty straightforward, but quite a lot went wrong at my parents’. They planned a spring wedding but then my dad got posted (navy) so they had to do it at short notice in November.
My great aunt, who’d been tasked with ordering the cars, didn’t order wedding cars, just normal mini cabs. So my mum arrived in a horrible, smoky, filthy car, and her dad had sat on top of her dress and train and crushed them both beyond repair. When she got out at the church, another aunt helpfully rearranged her hair and tiara, totally messing it up into a bizarre wiggy mullet, which is how it looks in all their wedding pictures. And it poured with rained.
But they still enjoyed the day, laughed about everything that went wrong, and were blissfully happily married for almost 60 years by the time my mum died last year.

Didn’t sleep at all the night before due to pouring rain. Bridesmaids shoes were wrong. Flowers were not what I asked for. Organist struggled with the music. Ushers put guests in all the wrong places. Photographer did random shots but missed out lots of family ones from our list. My going away outfit was left at home; someone insisted on going to get it but they made us late leaving the reception and hotel we were going to threatened to lock us out! But I married the love of my life and a quarter of a century later we’re still very much in love 😍.

So much!

My MUA fell badly ill the day before but thankfully had a MUA friend who was able to step in last minute.

The car broke down that morning but thankfully the company had a spare one. It was much slower though so I ended up pretty late to the ceremony.

I tripped trying to get into the car and damaged the boning on the corset part of my dress so spent the whole day attempting to stop my boobs making a bid for freedom.

The hotel mixed up our first dance and walking up the aisle songs.

My flowers fell apart as I walked up the aisle.

One family member was a no-show on the day and we later found out they had tripped that morning and broken their leg, and were stuck in hospital instead of getting to celebrate with us.

We still had an amazing day though and you can only tell my dress is damaged in a few of the photos if you really look for it. The rest really didn't matter in the long run as everything worked out ok and the most important thing to us was getting married and having as many friends and family there as possible.

I hope you have a perfect day tomorrow, enjoy it and congratulations for tomorrow.

Our wedding cake was in a car accident on the way to our wedding, it was 3 hours late because of this and I hadn't even noticed! By that time we were too pissed to care and had a wonky cake. Worse things happen and no one cared!

Basically I think whatever happens you will be on cloud nine and things won't seem so important on the day. Congratulations!

The caterers shut our dog in our house as she was being a nuisance and running around the marquee and no one had a key so my stepsons had to break in!

Oh, and my dad’s mum was convinced my mum was pregnant and had ‘trapped’ my dad into marriage (she hadn’t at all and I didn’t arrive until 4 years later!), so she dressed in black and purple funeral clothes, wailed so loudly that nobody could hear the vows and absolutely refused to smile in any of the photos. So funny, given what a sweet and kind little old lady she eventually turned into once she’d got a grip

I was getting ready in a suite at my reception hotel. A few hours before my wedding, someone from Housekeeping took my white silk wedding dress to be steamed (small wrinkles). They brought it back.... with massive oil marks and wheel tracks all over the train!!!! They'd wheeled it back to my room using one of those tall luggage trolleys and the train must have dropped on the floor and got stuck in the oil/dirty wheels!!!

I nearly fell over when I saw the damage. Thankfully we were in central London and the Head of Events rushed to the dress shop. Somehow it came back 2 hours later looking perfect. It was made to measure, so definitely not a new replacement dress, someone performed some magic.

Good luck for your wedding 🥂

@TheWashingMachine

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.

Are you glad now that you did get married?

The only thing that springs to mind was the catering. It was bizarre. We'd ordered a buffet, nice stuff not sandwiches, and plenty of it. The caterer brought out the tiniest trays with hardly any food on them, and told the queuing guests that they were only allowed one item, as in one prawn in filo etc . Same thing with the wine, just one bottle on the buffet table. We'd bought crates of the stuff.

I asked the best man to have a word, but he didn't want to make a fuss, so my mum marched into the kitchen and started bringing out trays and trays of food. There was a lot. FIL did the same with the wine. Another guest walked round with a bottle in each pocket topping up glasses. It was very odd. I can only assume the caterer had another function next day and wanted to keep food and wine back for that.

This was pre-internet reviews so I didn't do anything about it.

The photographer noticed the bridesmaids and I all had the same type of phone so wanted to do some stupid selfie poses - I then dropped my phone and cracked my screen beyond repair.

Also the music wasn't working when I arrived, and the poor bell ringer had to keep going while they sorted it out.

I had the best day ever, I really hope you do too.
Top tip - eat breakfast (even yoghurt or something if you’re feeling ‘sick with nerves’ and don’t drink too early or on an empty stomach tomorrow.
Make sure you have some headache pills and if you can find 5/10 minutes at some point later in the day for some peace/quiet, a cuppa and maybe take your shoes off too.
You’ll be knackered.

My dress wasn't tight enough and my boobs are very ample. I spent the whole day pulling up my top to try to hide them. No issues at my dress fitting but on the day I was mortified. Took me years to be able to laugh at the memories (mammaries)

Had an electrical fire outside our church so we all had to get out of the car park ASAP. My sister in law fell ill during the reception so my brother had to take her to hospital. They missed the rest of the wedding. I didn't get all the photos I should have done of my girlfriends. Forgot to touch up make up for the evening do so I look a mess in all the photos. But I had a ball and loved it. All weddings im sure have small hiccoughs. Just enjoy it whatever happens!

The entire wedding was rearranged at short notice to move it forward as my father was terminally ill. The reception venue ended up being nearly an hour away.

I was up at 6am stitching sequins on my veil and ruined my nail varnish. I had a huge argument with my sister when I asked her to help. The hairdresser didn't do my hair in the way I wanted it. I arrived at the church and realised the bouquets were at home. My brother wheeled my terminally ill father's wheelchair over my train leaving tyre tracks. The best man dropped the rings.

The best man left the reception to look for his laptop with his speech on it. He was away for several hours, which we spent looking for him.

The best man made a joke about the Queen Mother who had recently died. There were a lot of elderly guests who were offended.

The DJ didn't have the track I wanted for the first dance, even though we'd told him in advance so I didn't have a first dance.

BUT... nearly 20 years later we're still happily married.

Name change as outing.

Night before my wedding DH realised the suit hire people had sent him some of his suit in the wrong size (hired kilts), including shoes.

Hire company were saying there was nothing they could do as they were closing for holidays (we got married near to
Christmas). So while I was drinking champagne and having my nails painted with my bridesmaids, FIL, DH and his cousin were all madly trying to source replacements.
I had no idea until DH told me after the ceremony (suit company turned up with shoes, tie and a few bits that were missing for the ushers and FIL bought the shirt that was needed).

It rained non stop all day and night which wasn't great.

After the ceremony, BILs trousers ripped when he bent down to pick up my nephew. He had to pop home and borrow some from his brother.

The music skipped then froze about 20 seconds into our first dance 😂

And lastly, the day after the wedding I realised I'd completely forgotten to pack shoes so had to go for breakfast in the hotel in my lovely day after dress, tights and bare feet.

It didn't go perfectly BUT I'm not sure I noticed most of it and I absolutely didn't care either way. The day was so happy (and I'm generally quite a chilled person anyway), either way I ended up married.

No matter what, you'll have an amazing day tomorrow OP 👰‍♀️ 🥂

A few minor things...
I didn't like the flowers when they came, they had some weird buds poking out of them so the photographer went off to find some scissors to snip them off...
The dessert was this chocolate mousse thing and it hadn't set properly so it was like a bowl of angel delight
Probably the main one was that they misunderstood our table plan so all my family and friends were put at the front of the room and all DHs family and friends were put at the back.

On the day I didn't care about any of it!

My sister's wedding.
First she tripped up while walking down the aisle. My dad couldn't seem to catch her as she staggered forward then went flat on her face, scraping her nose and crushing her bouquet, which in turn ruined her dress.
Then the evening reception D.J turned up in scruffy jeans and an iron maiden t.shirt before blasting everyone's eardrums out with heavy metal music.
Definitely not the music my sister or her husband wanted. After an hour he was shown the door.

At my sisters wedding in Italy, there were two mini buses driving back from the church to the reception. There was a long, straight driveway with a ditch either side. One of the guests managed to crash the mini bus, with 10 guests on board info the ditch. Thankfully there were just a few bruises. We did wonder why he was running down the road with out the mini bus!

I forgot to say ‘I do’! I was lost in the moment looking into the eyes of my soon to be DH — a long silence on my end and concerned look on the groom’s face prompted me to realise what I had missed. Everyone laughed.

I threw the bouquet… hit the ceiling, and it dropped about 3 inches from my feet.

I did leave the huge A1 order of the day and seating chart boards at home (about 400 miles away) but wasn’t missed.

Congratulations and enjoy your day!

I'm sure you will have an amazing day whatever little thing goes wrong (if anything)

I married my husband nearly a month ago in hospital as he was terminally ill and the day was perfect for us, although heartbreaking. The only thing that went wrong was my husband really struggled to say his vows and the vicar had to help him and we had to have our masks on. Plus I tripped over my wedding dress as I didn't have enough time to pin it up.
I had no bridesmaid, noone was able to walk me down the aisle, no best man..only 5 people allowed in the hosp Chapel.

We were supposed to marry in church on the 15th of july and had all of this arranged but he was so poorly so we had to bring it forward much earlier

But apart from that..the day...for us..was perfect. I got to marry my best friend, my cariad.

He passed away 8 days after

Sorry I didn't mean.to depress the thread. I'm just trying to say it doesn't matter if the day isn't perfect, there's only 2 people that matter you and the person you are marrying

Good lucktomorrow, everything will be fine!

There was a fight between the drunk best man and his drunker wife, which drew in ransoms from the pub across the road and ended up with the best man spending the night in a police cell. Not at all what I'm used to!

Venue burst a hot water pipe and 3/4 ovens stopped working. Caterer made it work and we didnt even realise dinner was late