To ask for your CF wedding tales?

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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!

Irma, my MIL did the same. Turned up 15 minutes late. I however had turned up, asked if I wanted to wait as not everyone was there. I checked that DH was there and said nope. As long as he was ready, there wasn't any reason to wait.
So she turned up after it had all started. Was quite put out when she discovered that neither DH or I had noticed she wasn't there.

My wedding was full of cheeky fuckers,

One guest went up to the room we paid for for them, and ordered himself a tray of drinks and plonked it on our tab.

I didn’t make a list of gifts I wanted, so most of the people who were invited to our wedding didn’t bring presents.

My MOH didn’t even bring me a card, MOH treated the day as if it was a day out and everyone made a huge fuss of her daughter the whole wedding whilst my daughter was ignored.

I regret making my wedding such a nice occasion for people to act like it was just a day out. Hurtful that people couldn’t even write us a few words in a card.

Funnily many of those who were there at my wedding I’m no longer in touch with.

@yorkshireyummymummy
Americans wear them on the wrist but (thankfully) that hasn’t yet spread to British shores.

It has spread. Lots of girls/women wear flowers on their wrists to weddings here.

The bride and groom asking for cash instead of presents...in multiples of £25 only 😳

My sister does this as well, she’s a 26 year old woman but hasn’t had a serious boyfriend since she was 16 (can’t find anyone willing to put up with her mood swings!) So every family do she has to bring a friend along (usually a girl we can’t stand who always gets very drunk and is extremely loud! My sister in law was fuming she asked to bring a friend to her wedding, someone she and my brother barely knew! But she’s a total brat and would refuse to come otherwise “because I’m the only one who won’t have a partner!!!! Everyone else has plus one!!!” Oh diddums, what she forgets is our partners are part of the family and actually have built up a relationship with the family! She actually argued because I have two children and a husband I’m costing them more so what difference does it make paying “for just one more person!” I had to laugh when I heard she had a bitch fit about my Grandma asking her if she was a lesbian, she’s brought the same girl as a plus one for the last four family functions of course people will start thinking you’re a couple!!!!!

The bride did the whole secret wedding, it was his birthday, so he was in a brilliant mood, food and drink first, groom still has no idea and she had been a right moody bridezilla the whole month, so she swaps her dress, and on goes the music, the vicar appears, he turned round swore and said no bloody way.
Seems she was trying to force him into having to marry her..
They broke up that night for good.

@mummy2017 did she forge his signature on the paperwork that you need to submit before the wedding?

At my mum's best friends wedding about 10 years ago. Witnessed the bride's brother getting a lap dance from his new younger girlfriend. I just stood with my mouth open!

At my wedding there were loads. We could only afford 40 people to the sit down meal and about 3 days before the day 7 people dropped out.
Photographer charged us a set figure for 10 hours photography and we paid extra to have a photo booth in addition. He then said this meant even though we paid more it he would cut the time off the normal photography we had already paid for.
Photographer didn't take any shots of the back of my dress (which had loads of beading detail) even though I asked repeatedly throughout the day if he got the shots. I had to pay a different photographer after the wedding to take some studio shots just so I could have a picture of what my dress looked like.
He stood around most of the day chatting to the man doing the video. They both insisted we fed them and ordered the most expensive items from the bar menu (£20 steak baguettes). Pictures were rubbish, video was rubbish.
Oh and my mum making me late for the church because she couldn't find her hairbrush!

Name changed as this is very outing...

DH's brother was one of his groomsmen and as such my dad paid the hire for all of the suits, six in total. On the day of the wedding the men were all supposed to meet at our house, whilst I was at my parents with the bridesmaids etc. DH's brother didn't turn up. DH and the others kept ringing and texting with no answer. DH assumed that he was just going to meet them at the venue instead, so off they all go. Still no bil. The ceremony came and went, still no bil, DH was understandably extremely pissed off as he was supposed to be giving a speech. We were just about to sit down for the wedding breakfast, when the wedding coordinator came up to us holding a large parcel, saying that it had been delivered by courier for us, so we put it with the other gifts. BIL was a no show for the entire wedding and reception. The next day we opened the parcel and found a beautiful and very expensive present from BIL, with a note apologising for not being there. At this point we got worried, but FIL urged us to go on our honeymoon and he would call to let us know when Bil turned up. Whilst we were away FIL texted to say that BIL was ok and that he would explain when we got home.

We get home to find out that the reason that Bil did not turn up was because he was in court being sentenced for burglary, which he then got sent down for. None of us had any idea that he'd been burgling houses. My dad was furious as he'd paid for the suit that needed to be urgently returned to the hire shop, although they were understanding up to a point. It turns out that he'd worn the suit to court instead and we had no way of getting it back until he was released. So my dad had to lose his deposit and pay the full cost of the very expensive suit. Obviously we offered to pay, but he was having none of it.

Two weeks after we get home from our honeymoon, the police knock on our door. The very expensive present he'd given us was one of the many, many stolen items and he'd confessed to sending it to us in an effort to reduce his sentence. Didn't work, but at least it got returned to its rightful owner.

I'm sure it will come as no surprise that we are now very much NC with him.

My cousin was marrying her BF of many years and had some fertility problems. During that time the grooms brother had met a girl and got her pregnant very quickly. They had their child and the SIL was vile to my cousin. Constantly made excuses why they couldnt see the child etc and was just generally a bitch.

Day of my cousins wedding comes and SIL is an absolute cow to my cousin. Blanks her, never spoke to her, laughed at her and whispered multiple times, wouldnt allow the nephew (who wasnt allowed to call my cousin "auntie") in the photographs etc. All while smiling and saying "oh hes so cranky" and blaming the nephew.

SIL then decided to leave after the meal as "nephew was tired", said goodbye to everyone (except the bride) and walked off. Bride followed her to say goodbye and SIL made a nasty comment that nobody else heard. Ended with the bride in floods of tears running out of the venue!

one guest at mine (girlfriend of one of dh's friends) saw it fit to wear a nude sheer top with a gold wonderbra underneath - the sum total effect being it looked like she was only wearing the bra. Tiny skirt too.

I wasn't particularly upset just baffled! How could anyone think that was wedding guest attire?

At my wedding my dh grandparents, went home after the photos and didn't bother telling anyone. So we paid for two meals that weren't needed. I felt so bad because my dad had generously paid for it all. I don't think he minded too much because they brought out the spare puddings at the end and him and my mil shared them!

CF story - when I was bridesmaid for my best friend, her uncle (and family of five) RSVPed in good time to say they couldn't make the wedding - fair enough. Fast forward the week of the wedding and they get in touch to say they CAN now make it. Obvs their invitations had been extended elsewhere. When this was explained to them, an invitation to the evening do was fine, but the ceremony room was already jam packed and a specific number of meals had been paid for. The day do was simply not possible.

They got back in touch saying:
"We're family. I trust you will ensure we are invited for the full day."

CF!!!!!!

I also don't get the problem with wearing white, as long as it's not a full length gown. I certainly don't see anything wrong with black, as some poster has said.

@pissedoffbride

Wow!!! That is more than just a CF!

I can only imagine how furious you and your dad were. And, more seriously in the long term, your poor DH.

@AmyRhodes cheeky fuckers! What happened in the end?

Oh lord, so much CFery at my wedding it's outing. As well as my previous post about the white dress (shoes, accessories, veil... ) wearing guest, and stolen centrepieces, we had;

SIL who ordered specific off-menu food for her DC, and then sent them for a nap over the meal and ate their food herself.

DH's Aunt who ordered a separate meal (having been asked about dietary requirements), and charged it to the honeymoon suite.

Someone ordered a £120 bottle of brandy (I've got my money on BIL) and also charged it to our room.

The guest who disappeared just as the meal was being served to go to another wedding, leaving an empty seat and meal...

@Ginosaji By some miracle they sourced the extra meals and accommodated them - but my mate was even more pissed off then because they'd got their own way!

I couldn't get worried about a short white dress to be honest but some of these other stories are awful. Some people have no shame.

When DH and I were in Vegas I wore a cream dress out one night, kind of floaty 3/4 length and kept getting congratulated when we were walking round so I would never wear that one to a wedding

The mob finds out about the wedding plans and demands it to be utterly changed.

I know "mob" stands for "mother of the bride" but at first I thought the Mafia had taken control of this wedding.

This is more awkward. But xsil got married. Me and xdh were either engaged or newly married. I wore a pretty skirt suit and a hat. Xsil turns up in a regular skirt, blouse and hair scraped back in a scrunchy. Registrar did a double take. Rest of family was in wedding guest clothes, suits etc.

I know "mob" stands for "mother of the bride" but at first I thought the Mafia had taken control of this wedding

😂 and there I thought "mob" was as in the "mob of family." That was after thinking mafia. My brain never went to "mother of bride." Geezy peeps!

My mil insisted that her mom local (therefore hardly known to the family) were invited to sil wedding. They arrived mid ceremony half cut and walked down to front row where we were watching the ceremony to loudly tell mil they had arrived. Later I found the woman arguing with hotel staff wanting more free wine. Guests had three glasses each so you could choose red, white or rose but they paid by the glass rather than the bottle. The woman kicked off because staff were walking around with half empty bottles that she felt were hers to drink and couldn't understand that all the paid for wine had been drunk. I found her twice kicking off about it and had to get mil to sort her friend out!

@AnnDerry I am
Crying with laughter at your MIL's knitting kitten bag!

One wedding of a friend. We were the drinking group buddies to the B&G. The B&G both had big families so we sit towards the back of church, there wasn’t enough space on the pews so our group was sat in the last 3 rows. One of the group is near blind so has a massive phone to help her- think ipad size.

The bride starts walking down the aisle, my mate (who is sat in front of the of our group) phone goes off, very loudly. She pulls it out to turn it off, and due to her poor sight and the bad light in church’s is waving the phone the air to see. The picture was only a dick pic!

To make matters worse, the organist was right behind us and saw the whole thing. Bless her she totally lost her place in the wedding walk music.