Aibu to start a wedding thread?...

[Sallzanne]

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.

Best/worst one was where after the meal the groom's (extremely spoilt) sister told her parents that her daughter (groom's niece who was a flowergirl after stomped and huffed about their 'no attendants' plan) was tired and because they always babysat on a Saturday they'd have to take her home. B&G were naturally pissed off and suggested since the child was happily running around the dancefloor she didn't need to suggest the parents of the groom leave before the first dance or evening guests arrived. Sister huffed and said the child had to go home, bride snapped and rather bluntly told her she could always look after own child for a change. A row broke out, the sister had to be physically restrained from going for the bride, the parents demanded the groom 'control' his wife and since the parents, sister and niece walked out the groom and his wife haven't spoken to them for about 9 years (and I don't think they ever will).

The most awful wedding I've been too wasn't a terrible bridezilla, but a power cut. The electric went off just as we all arrived at the reception venue. They had to shove everyone into seats before the food got cold, some of the veg was hastily swapped for salad (which didn't go and it was January). The first dance had to be done by candlelight and with the guy from the band singing with everyone 'helping'. The evening buffet couldn't be made as they'd planned hot rolls and the likes as it was winter. Candles had to be lit as it got dark and by 9.30pm when there was still no sign of the electricity coming back on it was so, so cold and dark that the Groom called the bus company and got them to pick everyone up early. It was such a shame for them, they were gutted.

One wedding I went to, they hired to hall and used students from the local university that he taught at for their waiters/staff. We all got the most basic of vegetarian dishes (basically salad) as our meal. No entree, main was this horrible salad, and there was no dessert except the slice of wedding cake. Meanwhile the bride and groom sat on the top table in front of everyone eating a big seafood platter. We also got one glass of the cheapest wine you could every buy (literally $2.00 per bottle) and had to buy extra glasses of wine (@ $5 per glass), while the b & g had a cooler behind them where they kept opening to get bottles of Moet out to top up their glasses. The wedding invitation included the note that presents were not wanted, cash was accepted and a 'suggested' value of $80 per person to cover the cost of the meal and hall hire was 'recommended'. Tack-o-rama. This couple make extremely good money, so it wasn't a shortage of cash issue, just a total cheapskate issue.

Grump Touchy! Have I hit a nerve? The needless to say refers to the walking out bit! Behind the nightmare "reveal" of the tattoos is a very sad, messed up young woman. Also, heartbroken young man.

Reading these makes me glad I've decided elope!
Otherwise I'm sure I would have stories to rival these, what with all the inter family drama.

I was at a wedding where the mother of the bride took an almighty strop and went home because the bride told her on the sly during pictures that she smelt of BO and could she put deodrant on. MOB took offence and missed the whole of her daughters wedding day on purpose!

Don't have any particularly interesting 'zilla' stories but funnily enough everyone I know who was a bit zilla-ish is now divorced or split up! DH and I calculated a few weeks ago that, including hen/stag dos, going abroad for the weddings, outfits, travel, hotel stays and presents, we reckon we've spent a total of £4k on weddings for couples that barely lasted a year

Best friends wedding 2 years ago. Me and her sister were bridesmaids. Another of her friends was furious that she wasn't a bridesmaid and caused all sorts of commotion about it (especially because she dislikes me a lot) and couldn't wrap her head around the fact that bride and I had been very close for almost a decade and saw each other every week whereas she barely saw her.

She turned up at the wedding in a dress very similar to our dresses and her hair done the same. Brides sister was 14 at the time and was in tears, very upset. I found it hilarious. Brides family thought it was very strange and bordering on creepy.

Once wedding to a summer wedding in a marquee. The rain was so torrential that we all got wet feet, the bottom of the brides dress was wet.
We couldn't hear a thing as the rain was so loud.
And to top it off, there was a gas leak as when banging in the tent posts someone fractured a gas pipe!
Oh how we laughed not

Wasn't the bride or groom but the last wedding I went to had the worst best man speech ever.

It lasted about 25 minutes and consisted entirely of his best mate just insulting him on and on and not even in an entertaining way. He started with his appearance in great detail talking about he had wonky eyes (his eyes are wonky and he's apparently always been insecure about it), then talking about how he was really boring as a person, how all his mates were always discussing how dull it was to cut to him on the phone.

He also threw in some inappropriate drunken holiday stories (involving skinny dipping and insulting the size of his manhood). It was soooo awkward. In the end people started booing and the groom's mum started interjecting, best man was talking about how the groom was rubbish at tennis....and his mum stood up to defend his serve).

I still cringe whenever I think about it.

Not bridezilla behaviour but at my wedding my DFs youngest sister decided to kick off!
Background: DF has three sisters and although not particularly close his youngest is his favourite. I decided to invite his family to the evening do apart from this sister who I invited all day. HOWEVER- I refused to invite her children as I don't like them (they don't even say hello when we are in the same room, unlike my other cousins who I see just as little) and I can't abide her eldest who was stealing money from my grandad in the last years of his life when he was suffering from dementia (more power to you, I didn't want his money, just wonder how you sleep at night.)

Anyway, go to the reception and after a mingle decide to do speeches (we didn't have a 'traditional' wedding, no sit down meal etc, a day buffet and evening BBQ) I ask where aunty X was- to be told she's in McDonald's (she's vegan!!!!)
Evening guest turn up a bit later and she realises most of the family are invited but not her children and she goes nuclear, starts screaming at my DF and has to dragged off by him to the gents toilets.
DF misses my first dance as he's dealing with her and it turns into a whole world of resentment regarding their childhood and how my DF had everything (he didn't, crap childhood) and how their mother hated her (my DA is not a nice woman, pregnant at 12 etc)
I finally get wind of all this and have to drag my dad out of the toilet (which everyone is talking about) for the father/daughter dance just as he's saying "you're right, mum didn't like you cos you're a cunt!!" Whoops.

Ok, I understand she's pissed off but there's a time and a place but what I don't understand is she proceeds to sit and drink at the bar all night as if nothing happened!! Oh, and come time to leave she starts screaming at us, drunkenly, again because we hadn't booked her a taxi home! I walked out and left! She could still be there for all I know........ :)

Well, it hasn't happened yet, but there's already been so much drama around this one!

Wedding is the end of May. My friend and his lovely fiancée have had nearly nothing but grief from her parents over the last few months. This includes:

-- having to move the wedding reception venue because MIL2B insisted that it wasn't close enough to where she and FIL2B live (although my friend and his DF had got a good price and a lovely venue and it wasn't much further than the new venue)

-- the new reception venue is more expensive, and as PIL2B are paying for it, they wanted to have a "tea party" theme i.e. no alcohol and lots of little cakes. This nearly caused a total bust-up between my friend's parents and PIL2B because...

-- my friend's parents (once they stopped laughing at the idea of a wedding in their family involving ZERO BOOZE) have paid for a free bar so we can all have a knees-up in the evening, which is what both bride and groom and all their friends want. This has obviously put PIL2B noses out of joint (they're now barely on speaking terms with my friend's parents) because THEY wanted a tea party (and don't give a toss what their daughter, the bride, wants)

-- because the venue is more expensive, us guests must now all pay £4 transport to get to the reception from the venue, and we had to include this with our RSVP

-- when my friend's mother said DF's ideas for her dress were lovely, poor DF said "well, I guess it's not going to be my decision in the end"

-- PIL2B insisted on writing and sending all the invitations out and they spelt my name wrong [clutches pearls] AND used the full, formal version of it, which I loathe and detest

I'm sure there's more that I've forgotten about!!!