To ask for your CF wedding tales?

[DuggeeRulz]

A guest’s plus one (someone I’d never met before) wore a white mini dress to my wedding. I laughed it off at the time (more focused on getting married!) but lots of people were a bit outraged on my behalf that she wore white.

Anyone got some more lovely tales of CFs trying to steal wedding thunder? I do love a good CF story!

Someone at my wedding stole my wedding bouquet at the reception!!

Oh no. Just realised I might be a CF too.
I told my friends that I was pregnant at our mutual friend's wedding.
To be fair I was knackered and bilious, it was a blistering hot day and I just wanted somewhere to sit. It got around by Chinese whispers rather than an announcement but at least after that I got a seat at the drinks reception. Still bad form though.

Ugh reading this reminds me of so many.
Close friend wouldn't accept or decline invite until really pushed... used day as "free outing" five of them and not even a card.
I offered some flowers to a friend to find out mil gave them away.
Dh got shit faced with his mates on the tab we were using for ourselves and children.
Close family asking to take home table decorations... no problem... but she wanted six so some friend she knew could have some. I only had nine tables and had them all hand made and wanted to give them to certain people.
I was so fed up at one point I took my youngest for a lie down... h didn't even notice

Oh yea and the person offering to pay me to have their dd as a bridesmaid
I didn't want any

My dad - who no one had seen since he acrimoniously divorced my mother 30 odd years ago - ran up the aisle just as we were about to do the ‘I do’ moment, shouting, ‘I’m the biological father!’
#prouddaughtermoment

haha i love this. what happened then? what on earth comes after that big entrance?!

How about (ex) husband's family taking full advantage / piss take of free bar paid by my parents and then fighting amongst themselves (his uncles / cousins). Booked transport refused to take his side back to hotel because literally kicking off - attacking (kicking) parked cars on street (police called) - taxis Sent out all points bulletin to avoid location and ended up with my side ferrying them back to hotel with their own cars in a quite a number of journeys. No apologies from his side. . Ex husband turned out to be a complete and utter (alcoholic / druggie) twat too - my 20 year old self obviously was too stupid to read writing on the wall and persisted with marriage vows for 17 more years!

Was I a CF when I wore a white linen trouser suit with baby pink top to my aunt's wedding? My DGM didn't like it but I thought it was because it was a trouser suit. Maybe it was bad manners of me?

I met my df's friend's new girlfriend for the first time at my wedding. She shook my hand and said "I bet you think I don't have a top on". I looked down and she had a trouser suit on but no top, only a black diamonte bra.
I found out later on she was an alcoholic who had been dry for months but had lapsed at our wedding. She was drunk and the jacket came off, she was doing seductive dancing and grinding with dh's uncles and my dad's boss, as well as going up to men sitting down and boob slamming them on the head.
I thought she was a CF at the time but looking back, she made the night very interesting and I don't mind. Plus the poor soul was sectioned a couple of days later.

The real CF was the person who stole my purse from the top of my mum's bag, took it to the toilet, removed all the stuff from it that made it clear it was mine and took the £60 out of it that I had for drinks. The cleaning staff found the empty purse the next day.

I've been to a few weddings where some old friends (I'm talking childhood best friends or those friends they think of as family here) of the bride and groom's parents have been invited but want to bring extra people, which adds on to the bride and groom's budget and when told no, never speak to the parents again.

At my sister's wedding, she was having to chase guests the day before the date she was supposed to give the final numbers to the caterers as they hadn't bothered to respond, despite being sent a keep the date card a year in advance and an invitation with an RSVP on it - six months before the date.

Some of these stories are truly and I don't get why people behave so badly at other people's weddings.

Meant to add to my post, that usually the bride and groom have never met the extra guests before, although the very old friends have been part of their childhood.

At my wedding, my mum gave a speech (Dad died when I was young) declaring that I ran the organisation I work for. My boss was at the wedding as were some senior colleagues. I’ve never lived that dowb.

Down.

For my brother and SIL's wedding my SIL's cousin showed up at the wedding in a full on floor length white lace gown, the cousin had also been given 'speaking' duties during the ceremony so I couldn't help but laugh inside at how much my SIL would have been absolutely seething at the sight of her cousin standing up front and centre in the middle of her wedding ceremony looking very 'bridal' herself.

For my first wedding my SIL called up the night before to cry down the phone at my mother that she didn't feel we'd made it enough about 'her' despite the fact that I'd invited (and paid for) her to stay with us in a 7-person villa the night before the wedding as a makeshift low-key "hens" so she could be part of the morning excitement and get her hair and make up done with us (and by 'us' I mean myself, my mum, my god mother and my best friend) I didn't have a bridal party so thought it was a thoughtful invitation on my behalf. She didn't come after having her tanty, and just rocked up mid-way through the morning of the wedding to still take advantage of getting her hair and make up done though. Her and my brother also made a big point about telling every guest who would listen that they'd re-gifted us an electric wok from their own recent engagement party.

Best friends of mine met each other when they were in their late teens, and through them getting together so did their single parents. Despite the younger couple getting engaged first and planning their wedding, the parents decided to jump in first and they got married two months beforehand so by the time the 'kids' got married they were actually step-siblings.

I'm sure there's more I haven't quite remembered yet..

A schoolfriend of mine got married straight after university - her M&D threw her an engagement party to which she was allowed 10 guests.
At her actual wedding, she was only allowed to invite 6 guests.
The engagement party and wedding were quite large - but the vast majority of the guests were friends and business associates of her parents.

Just thought of a few more. I know a lady who, whenever she goes to a wedding, always finds out what the corsage/buttonholes are and who orders them, then demands herself and her husband are added to the order.
I know this has really pissed off some brides (myself included) because the etiquette is that the bride orders them for her immediate set. (Ie: mob, mog, moh, bm, gm, fob, fog) not for random aunties.
It annoyed me at my wedding because I had stated I didn’t want ANY button holes or corsages. So instead she went to my mum and got her to amend the florists order (one brides boquet of 10 avalanche roses, two bridesmaid same thing but slightly smaller and a flower girl bouquet of the same thing) And because my mum has no backbone she agreed!
This bloody woman is in all our wedding pictures proudly wearing an avalanche rose, with baby’s breath (which I can’t stand) behind it!
Then went to my aunts wedding the other day and some girl looked like she was just in her underwear. I mean literally in a corset-slip in a nude colour that exactly matched her skin tone. Nearly everyone was talking about how outright rude she was and not how stunningly gorgeous my Aunty and her bridesmaid daughter are!

Mil behaved badly at all her ds's weddings. At mine, she turned up at the church after me. We had to lurk round the back by the bins until mil had swanned in. The vicar was furious.

At bil's wedding, mil (supported by fil) threw an absolute strop because bil committed the terrible sin of saying he had to leave for the church. Mil was crying and saying he should wait for her (in other words, he would have been late for his own wedding) and for the rest of the day she had a complete face on. In all the photographs the pil are absolutely glowering. At the reception they sat with folded arms and refused to participate.

@toffiepenny
I find it hard to understand why you would not want any button holes or corsages.
Yes, if you don’t want to pay for them that’s your prerogative but I fail to see how you could stop anybody else from wearing one.
I don’t think I have ever attended a wedding without DH having a buttonhole and myself a corsage, which I always order and pay for myself.

The rule with button holes is that men wear them on the left facing upwards.
Women wear them on the right facing down. It’s also acceptable for women to place their corsage on a small clutch bag too. Americans wear them on the wrist but (thankfully) that hasn’t yet spread to British shores.

Eurgh for a friends wedding all the guests had to wear white as it was part of the colour scheme, and she had a white party for her reception as she hates being centre of attention. It's fairly obvious who the bride is anyway. It's also traditional to only wear white, if you are a virgin but nobody bothers about that one. It's no big deal mehn.

Sheer cost! I didn’t even want ANY flowers due to the price, but my mum and Nan persuaded me that it would be weird for me to not have any flowers at all. So I ordered 4 bouquets. Imagine my surprise when on my wedding day I see two additional orders for corsages/buttonholes at a steep cost (for what is essentially a bit of foliage and a few twigs) to us. Because of the way they were made up by my florist, they actually cost as much as my flower girl bouquet. Which was a big problem as the lady knew we were desperately trying to keep within a budget as every penny over the budget would mean we were in debt to someone.
She refused to pay and laughed it off like it was nbd when I asked her about it. I no longer like to speak to her as I feel she was just rude about the whole thing.

Genuinely this interests me. Why do people act like this at weddings? Are there any psychologists out there? Most people would be upset to be left out of parties but most rationalise it away whereas being rational goes out of the window at weddings. Perfectly decent people who have a healthy life away from their spouses go batshit if they’re not invited and what shocked me was someone actually pulling up a chair to sit at the Top Table.
DH’s gran was still alive when we got married so she wanted all of the cousins invited with their partners and children AND all of her siblings and their descendants making a grand total of 63!

I went to a friend's wedding where two of the guests stood up at the end of the reception and announced their engagement. The hotel quickly issued everyone with more of the excellent real champagne that the bride and groom were paying the earth for. It was a horrible moment for all concerned, there were several sharp intakes of breath from guests. The bride and groom cleared off after the first dance. I can't say I blame them, the whole evening was ruined for them.

Just before the speeches brides sisters makes a general announcement, she’s pregnant with twins

I should mention that the bride was also pregnant but had decided not to tell anyone yet.....except her sister

Best man at our wedding gave a good account of his friendship with my DH including a witty anecdote.

Then he said “I can’t say anything nice about lamere as I don’t know her at all” which I thought was mean spirited as he and his family had two nice holidays (including a long stay just before the wedding) at our house, being wined and dined with me skivvying for them and driving them to and fro to the nearest pub.

Duggeerulz🤦🏻‍♀️ I did the same as the cheekyfucker In your story. When I tried the dress on the ladies in the shop told me it was lovely for a wedding as did my partners mum- 7 years on ice grown up and am horrified. I think your guest will feel the same!