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To ask what's the worst wedding you've ever been to?

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WashingMatilda · 21/08/2017 01:25

I've just come back from a really gorgeous wedding. It was one of those joyous, real life affirming ones IYKWIM.

However, during the speeches I randomly remembered a wedding I went to years and years ago where the grandmas wheelchair was left without its brakes on at the top of a big flight of steps outside the registry office. She rolled forward, all the way down, cracked her head open on the slabs, ambulance took her off on blue lights, and the bride spent the reception scrubbing blood out of her train poor bloody woman. It was horrific. Sad (Nan fine in the end)

What's yours?

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Huppopapa · 22/08/2017 20:58

See background to the picture.

Alternatively, in Wales, 1974 - when handbags were big - my gran approached my aunt. "Open your handbag!" she demanded. Then threw up into it.

Another Welsh wedding had the bride's father reminiscing fondly about the bride having 'played the field'.

Primrose06 · 22/08/2017 20:59

The way things are , probably my own.
I am beginning to think it was a huge mistake.

Purplealienpuke · 22/08/2017 21:15

A female relative got married.... her husband spent the reception dancing with and groping another woman 😝

2beesornot2beesthatisthehoney · 22/08/2017 21:18

Own wedding was crap for a number of reasons - organised by DM who is not malicious just not good in that department.

However I would rather have a crap wedding than crap marriage, which has been good so far.

We celebrate a significant anniversary this weekend and reading these posts has made me decide to over order food by a few extra guests for buffet in case we go short .
Probably worrying unnecessarily but don't want to read about it on here after!

CoughLaughFart · 22/08/2017 21:20

Nowhere near as bad as these, but I was at a wedding where the vicar did the whole 'If anyone objects...' bit and the somewhat unreliable (i.e. over-fond of the sauce) father of the bride said 'I do'. Cue massive intake of breath all round - before the bride twigged he was drunk and had thought it was the 'Who giveth this woman?' bit Grin

Batteriesallgone · 22/08/2017 21:41

Went to a wedding where the bride threw the bouquet and the mother of groom and a bridesmaid fought over it, on the ground, pulling hair etc. MIL was single and bridesmaids very long term but commitment phobe boyfriend told everyone 'she'll have to leave me if she wants to get married'.

Another wedding the father of the bride spent his speech talking about himself then admitted he didn't have anything to say about his daughter as he could never tell which daughter was which, and it's so disappointing having five daughters waiting for the son that never came. No one else seemed bothered!

Both weddings were good and both couples still happily married, just bad moments Confused

SuburbanCrofter · 22/08/2017 21:48

Huppo that is the classiest thing I have ever seen Grin

(It looks like a lovely wedding though & you look beautiful)

Munchingmummy · 22/08/2017 21:50

Car didn't turn up to take bride or bridesmaids to church. Vicar repeatedly got b& g names wrong. B&G came down with D&V.
Was like a carry on film, and I was the bride 😭

BakedBeans47 · 22/08/2017 21:56

I have been to 2 weddings on my birthday. One was meh because no one even wished me a happy birthday even though loads of people knew it was but the other was fine as it was my own family and at least I got wished a happy birthday. Meh.

Other than that minor huff on my part I don't think I have been to any that were disastrous

Yowser · 22/08/2017 22:01

The worst wedding I went to was the wedding of two university friends. The reasons why it was the worst wedding are nothing to do with them and their planning etc.

All through university I had a boyfriend who always tried to get out of things by pretending he was unwell. That was all in the past and I was going to my friends' wedding with my new husband who they didn't know very well.

We lived about 100 miles from the wedding and H said that he would drive so I could drink. The wedding was in a church by the Thames and the reception was on a boat that took everyone off up the Thames while we ate etc. When we arrived at the church H said he wasn't feeling well. I felt quite irritated with him because it brought back memories of the old boyfriend who consistently let me down by 'being ill' and here I was with those old friends and a new husband that was ill. I know, this story does not cover me in glory.

We got through the ceremony and photographs and on to the boat and H felt so unwell he sat with the bride's grandmother for the whole journey and swapped ailments with her. There was no way off the boat no matter how ill he felt.

By the time the reception ended and the boat was moored I was really quite drunk and H was saying he thought we should find somewhere to stay for the night because he really didn't feel well. I insisted that he was fine and so he drove us the 100 miles back home. Shock

The next two days he was still ill and eventually had to be rushed to hospital. He had a burst appendix which had turned into a nasty case of peritonitis. It took him months to recover properly.

I will never be able to apologise to him enough over how I treated him at that wedding. I also never drink now.

TuiMitcham · 22/08/2017 22:10

Huppo that's definitely one for the album Grin

As a pp said though, you do look beautiful and happy.

StrangeLookingParasite · 22/08/2017 22:43

Really, you can think of nothing which irritates you more than a church collecting money for a local food bank charity?

They weren't collecting for a food bank charity.

KeepServingTheDrinks · 23/08/2017 00:03

Hi All

I think I was first poster in on page 1, and said it met my criteria as 'worst wedding I'd been to' because it was my birthday.

There have been several people since who've said the same, and also several posters expressing disbelief that this should make this our 'worst'. Obviously, compared to most people on this thread I've been to a lot of lovely weddings!

For me, it was a bit sad that the wedding was on my birthday.

When you're mum to little one (as I was at the time), very little in your life is about 'you'. And mine was an early riser, so I was constantly tired at the time. Normally, on my birthday I'd have got a lie-in (not the only one I'd have got all year by any means, but I would have certainly had one that day and didn't) and lots of nice treats and a day geared to me instead of to my lovely DD. On this birthday I didn't. I can't remember now, and I'm sure I did get all my cards and presents and stuff, just not on the day. It wasn't terrible. Of course I wasn't going to not go to my friend's wedding (as has been suggested by PPs, incredulous that anyone would be disappointed by this). I was pleased to be there. There was just a part of me that was sad that the day which I can normally expect to be more focussed on me wasn't. And I wasn't mentioned in the speeches or sneaked a card. My birthday just wasn't acknowledged.
That doesn't matter in the scheme of things, but it's the only day a year which I definitely get, and on this year it didn't happen.

PurpleClintAngels · 23/08/2017 00:06

The wedding of a work colleague, who we'd all tried to persuade not to go through with it but he was adamant...
Get to the evening reception and the bride is swanning round, clutching the hand of one of our other colleagues who she was having an affair with!
Very awkward. Groom was a nice enough chap and the colleague was half the age of the b&g!

cowshindtail · 23/08/2017 00:07

Not a wedding I went to but finding the photo album from what must have been a horrific wedding judging from the photos.The album had been left behind in the house I lived in for my first job (house came with the job).The wife looked really miserable and the husband very smug.This was 1975 and ,as you can tell,those photos left a lasting impression,no doubt a lot longer than their marriage.

GetOutOfMYGarden · 23/08/2017 00:13

They dressed like Princess Leia and Darth Vader and she walked down the aisle to star wars music. I've never cringed so hard in my life. However, there was an open bar so that sorted me out!

RaqsMax · 23/08/2017 00:43

2 come to mind:

My BF got pregnant at 17 by one of the most physically and personally repulsive men I have ever met. They had a small register office do with a wedding breakfast back at her parents house. She kept telling everyone how happy she was and how much she loved this guy, but you could see her rictus grin and crazy eyes.

During the breakfast, she disappeared for about half an hour. She eventually reappeared with her hair all mussed up followed shortly by a very good looking and red-faced son of one of her parents friends. Oh yes she did.....

Number 2:
A good friend of mine had been dating her childhood sweetheart from 15yrs-20yrs, but broke it off as ahe realised they had grown apart. I had met this guy only a handful of times.

Roll forward a couple of years and I had mived to London. Out of the blue, I get a phone call from my friend's ex inviting me to his wedding. I turn up at a South London register office to discover that there is the groom, the bride (dressed in mufti), me (in full wedding rig) and a middle-aged guy who turned out to be a work colleague of the groom. He was as bewildered as I was to have been invited along. Turned out they needed 2 witnesses.

The bride and groom seemed half cut and kept indulging in inappropriate PDAs including breast and bum groping.

After a 10 min ceremony, we went into a nearby pub and ordered a bar meal and drinks. It was all so surreal and uncomfortable. They did pay for the meal and the groom did kindly pay for a taxi for me home. Turned out they didn't know each other long and thought it would be 'romantic' to elope and get married on their own. I think the only reason I was invited was to tell his ex that he had got married and was soooo in love ('cos he kept telling me this). Bizarre.

PyongyangKipperbang · 23/08/2017 02:28

They dressed like Princess Leia and Darth Vader and she walked down the aisle to star wars music

Whatever floats your boat! As a SW fan I love a bit of getting your geek on. However.......surely they would know that Leia is Vader's daughter which is fucked up whichever way you slice it! She as Leia and him as Han (who is the coolest character in the whole franchise) would have made more sense for the wedding?!

Toadinthehole · 23/08/2017 05:31

All those handsome church buildings we all take for granted cost money. Donate with good grace!

Toadinthehole · 23/08/2017 05:35

At the only wedding at which I got to do anything important (other than my own) the caterers downed tools half way through the reception. I went from being an usher to waiting on tables and washing dishes. There was, I understand, a dispute about payment.

RainbowAura · 23/08/2017 06:16

The worst I have been to was one where I was invited by my new bf and his Mum was there. In the buffet line someone turned to his Mum and said 'Aw, it will be your son's next.' She turned to me, looked witheringly and said 'No, I don't think so.'

Purplealienpuke · 23/08/2017 07:18

Huppo that picture must be legendary 😎 what a photobomb
You look beautiful 😇

NoPressureNoDiamonds · 23/08/2017 07:25

Huppo that picture is hilarious!
Bride looked beautiful though.

TuiMitcham · 23/08/2017 10:04

Rainbow Shock did you stay together/get married?

nannytanny · 23/08/2017 11:18

Shock A registry office and broom cupboard ceremony with NO guests and/or reception is beginning to feel like the right thing to do for myself and H2B!