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AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

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Aibu to start a wedding thread?...

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Sallzanne · 24/02/2015 20:58

General concensus on here is that we all love a bridezilla/awful wedding story. Guilty as charged myself.

Aibu to want a friend devoted to cringeworthy or awful wedding stories where anything goes?

I am happy to start. Was at a wedding once where Mother of the bride (very straightlaced) drank too much an vomited under the table during grooms speech. We all knew it was happening. Kudos to the wedding party for pretending it wasnt happening though.

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Sallzanne · 24/02/2015 21:00

Thread not friend!!!

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CrapBag · 24/02/2015 21:04

I'll be interested to read but unfortunately have nothing to add. I'd like to go to a wedding with some drama.

eosmum · 24/02/2015 21:08

Was at a wedding once where the Mother of the bride had a dress made in the same fabric as brides dress, and a wedding dress style. She looked better than the bride and the quartet at the reception played the wedding march for the mother going into the breakfast mistaking her for the bride.

Was also at a wedding once where the brides father passed away during the reception.

grumpasaur · 24/02/2015 21:15

My dad was best man at a wedding where the groom fainted and wet himself at the alter... Someone had to give the groom (who is very nearly 7 feet tall) their spare black trousers for the day, which were about six inches too short!!!

grumpasaur · 24/02/2015 21:18

Also my husband went to a wedding for a school friend. He went with another school friend as his "date". His date got really drunk and spilled red wine all over the bride's dress.

I went to a wedding where the maid of honour got so drunk she hooked up with this guy and was basically riding him (clothes on) making out at a table (with a long bench if that make sense), right next to the bride's mother.

They woke up together in the marquee the next morning... Which was on the lawn of the bride's parents.

Same wedding I got really drunk and got too into the bandaoke... I was GREAT.

ClashCityRocker · 24/02/2015 21:20

At my uncles second wedding, his new wife's ex husband turned up at the wmc where the reception was held and lamped him one.

It was a bit of an odd do all round, that one...the bride to be held a seance the night before to check with his deceased first wife that it was ok to marry him.

Me, my parents and siblings were stopping at the house with them, there were about eighteen people staying in a three bed house the night before, and the night of the wedding. This was the first time me and my siblings had seen my uncle for years as he disappeared off the face of the earth following his first wife's death. twas the strangest atmosphere ever.

CrapBag · 24/02/2015 21:20

Oh I do have a sort of bridezilla story.

Won't say who but someone I know, kept throwing it in her fiances face that her family was paying more than him so she should get to invite more guests. There was a fall out with BZ and some of the fiances family so she sacked a (child) BM closely related to the family she fell out with and down graded all that part of the family to evening only even though they were travelling over 300 miles a day were all close to the groom.

That wedding didn't happen! Groom saw- sense-- called it off.

Groom said this all had nothing to do with it and he didn't love her but I think it must have contributed.

itsnotmeitsyou1 · 24/02/2015 21:22

The father of the bride passed away at the wedding?? Just dropped or had he been ill? Either way, how awful!

ClashCityRocker · 24/02/2015 21:24

Also went to one a few years ago where the page boy was running around outside the marquee when he tripped and bashed his head on a step. Ambulance had to be called, obviously, and it later transpired the poor little mite had fractured his skull.

Felt awful for the parents, and for the bride, too. Noones fault, and fortunately he's fine now, but not what you want to remember your wedding day for.

McFox · 24/02/2015 21:26

My mum went to a wedding where the groom tried to break up a fight between some of his relatives and ended up being arrested along with them when the police arrived moments later. The groom spent the night in the cells and my mum stayed with the weeping bride in the bridal suite!

BauerTime · 24/02/2015 21:29

Went to a wedding where the bride cut the best man off mid speech because she had 'had enough'. They did mention the groom's ex wife but only in reference to thier son not in a bad way. She then stormed out and sat in a side room for about 2 hours, refused the first dance, wouldn't cut the cake etc. then when she emerged she sat at the bar on her own and got smashed. I had to leave early as I had to work early the next morning and as I said goodbye to her she said 'I hope your wedding is better than this'. Eeeek!!

GreatBigJabberwock · 24/02/2015 21:29

Went to one wedding (on groom's side) where the bride I hardly knew had VERY firm ideas of how the day should go and spent hours (luckily she eased off during the dessert, think she'd had enough relaxing prosecco by then) directing proceedings, everything from loudly telling the groom at the altar that he looked too scruffy and needed to move over so they were standing properly centred, to ordering groups at the reception where to be and what to be doing ( some of us were allowed to drink, some had to be playing lawn games etc) so that we'd look 'right' for the 'relaxed, reportage style' photos. Was a surreal day to say the least. Seemed to run in the family as her younger sister managed to wait a whole 10 mins after they cut the cake before dissolving into a loud teary rant about how everyone was ignoring her and how she felt she should be special too (despite not being part of the actual WEDDING COUPLE!) Bonkers!

eosmum · 24/02/2015 21:36

Her dad was very ill, wedding had been moved forward a few weeks so he would be there.

GoodSouls · 24/02/2015 21:38

For my own wedding I had only one adult bridesmaid as I didn't want little ones, MIL wasn't too pleased I hadn't asked DN but was ok about it.
The night before the wedding she asked me to make a floral headdress for DN (I'm a florist), she said she would like it and I was too excited to mind too much.

Got to the church and there is DN in a bridesmaids dress, with flowers in her hair, again I was too happy to mind, anyway, got married signed the register with new little bridesmaid in all the photos, went to walk down the aisle and caught MIL putting my dress in DN's hands ready to walk behind me!!!

I just let it all happen and have never said anything to her, several guests mentioned it though, still can't quite believe she got away with it.

itsnotmeitsyou1 · 24/02/2015 21:46

eosmum, the poor bride. I can't imagine how she must have been feeling.

I haven't been to many weddings, I think my drunkness has been the worst thing at most . Did go to one a couple of years back, the mother was dressed exactly like the bridesmaids. I mean, you couldn't really pick the dresses apart. I can understand going for a colour scheme, but it was quite strange to look at. I don't really know the 'norm' for family attire in a wedding though so it may well be normal.

motherofmonster · 24/02/2015 21:49

I once went to a wedding where the bride threw a almighty strop as a guest was talking to her new sister in law ( 8 months pregnant at the time) when her baby was due. And demanded that she stopped drawing attention away from her, that it was her day and she was sick of her sil baby bump. That it wasn't on that people were looking at sil, they should be looking at her,the bride. She had dreamed about this day and it just wasn't fair

florentina1 · 24/02/2015 21:49

Seated at the church, the chief bridesmaid sent a message for the brides parents to move one row back. Front row being reserved for the bridesmaids!

GoodSouls · 24/02/2015 22:19

There is another thread on AIBU about second hand wedding drama...the most outrageous bridezilla behaviour ever and the wedding hasn't even happend yet!

Moanranger · 24/02/2015 22:44

I don't think I will ever be able to top this - groom was son of a v good friend, his family well-educated, genteel types ; marrying quite young - he 22, bride 20, her family a bit more down to earth shall we say... Nonetheless wedding reasonably tasteful; couple wrote own vows, based on her parents wedding. We had certain reservations due to relative youth of couple. After the wedding, I was leaving town, taking one of the aunties (an academic) to the airport & we met up with my friend & the now married young couple. As we were about to leave, bride pulled up her T shirt to reveal her wedding vows tattooed around her torso, in Gothic script, entirely covering mid - driff. We were speechless.
Needless to say, she walked out on groom two weeks later & now lives with a meth head in a trailer in the desert.
I told my friend ( mother of groom) that she dodged a bullet!

Barbadosgirl · 24/02/2015 23:00

I knew someone who was bridesmaid for her SIL and SIL made one of her (brunette) bridesmaids dye her hair blonde so her bridesmaids all matched.

grumpasaur · 25/02/2015 00:47

Just thought of another one...

My friend's dad said in his father of the bride speech, and I quote "if you want a successful marriage make sure you don't turn out like your mother..." And later, "if you want to be happy, don't make the same mistakes your mum did".

Her dad had in fact cheated on her mum and his girlfriend and the mum's new husband were there. Luckily all in sundry knew he was a big socially awkward (to say the least) and just laughed it off.

grumpasaur · 25/02/2015 00:48

Moan ranger I really don't know why it goes without saying that someone who is not middle class, has tattoos, and is 20 is going to run off with a meth addict?!?!

fluffymouse · 25/02/2015 00:55

My mil left a bucket of water behind my seat at my wedding 'by accident'. Of course my big dress knocked it over before I saw it much to her glee

She also wore a cats bug face the whole day, which everyone noticed.

RobbStarksBitch · 25/02/2015 01:45

Barbadosgirl I know a girl who was asked (well told) to be bridesmaid for her sister. She was made to dye her hair brown from blonde for the wedding as all her sister (the bride) was blonde and the other bridesmaids were brunette so had to match. As far as I know she's still a spoilt brat now. I really pity her husband!

I don't really have any hilarious tales of my own to offer up but I'm getting married myself in July and I'm pretty sure I won't be the source of any bridezilla type stories! I think I'm actually too laid back

CarlaVeloso · 25/02/2015 01:53

I never seen any shenanigans at a wedding either. Apart from the one where the groom was having such a good time he didn't want to leave at midnight as planned, so his new bride went off up to their room (in hotel) without him after they'd done the last dance. He stayed up till 2am (apparently, we were long gone) and by the time he got to their room she'd fallen asleep and he didn't have key to get in the room so slept on the floor in....wait for it.....his parents' room.

What a start to married life. Spending your wedding night bunked up with your folks.

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