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DuggeeRulz · 2018-08-04T12:56:23+00:00

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!

madja · 04/08/2018 18:52

My cousin wore a floor length champagne coloured gown to my wedding.
From the Phase 8 bridal section

JFC it gets worse!

JellySlice · 04/08/2018 19:13

She was a Very Odd woman, SDTG.

Now I recognise that she was a total narcissist. Sadly, her dd turned out to be the same. The marriage did not last.

cinnabarmoth · 04/08/2018 19:16

My best mate's wedding, she had 3 bridesmaids including her sister's best mate who asked to be a bridesmaid a couple of weeks before the wedding as 'her wedding day was so wonderful she just wanted to be a bridesmaid to experience it all again'. I was not asked to be bridesmaid, I wasn't bothered really but my partner, who was best mates with the groom and was the best man, was furious.

The groom got roaring drunk and spent the whole evening trying to feel up the female guests, before trying to start a fight with the best man.

8misskitty8 · 04/08/2018 19:41

At my friends wedding her new bil punched a guest so hard that it broke the chair they were sitting on. Police were called and my friends got a bill for a new chair. The bil is a cf of the highest order and after years of other crap they are now NC.

At my own wedding one of my friends was furious she wasn’t a bridesmaid, ( I only had my oldest friend and my cousin.). She asked several times what colour my bridesmaids would be in. I even stupidly showed her a photo of the dresses.
What colour did she wear at my wedding ? Yeah, the same as the bridesmaids, and a similar style. She came all day and I didn’t even get a card.

iheartjaffas · 04/08/2018 19:48

At sisters wedding her DHs bitch of a sister tried to cause row by constantly asking where our parents were (snowed in with 7ft snow drifts) and saying how they obviously weren't good parents because they couldn't be arsed showing up. With sister getting upset I end up raging at bitch and forcibly dragging her out of the ceremony.

Funny thing was at the time the photographer was there taking random photos so decided to take a photo of the action, and sister now has lovely photo of me dragging woman out of the church!

8misskitty8 · 04/08/2018 19:49

A friend of a friend got married. In the wedding invitations they had put a note of their honeymoon holiday account and asked people to pay money into it to pay for the holiday.
That in itself in my opinion was cheeky. But about a week before the wedding the bride got a list of people who had contributed to it from the travel agent. Anyone invited who wasn’t on the list got a text or an email telling them they had the sent money to it and to make sure they did before the wedding. 😮

8misskitty8 · 04/08/2018 19:51

*hadnt sent money

plominoagain · 04/08/2018 20:06

One of my aunts was caught going through our wedding gifts ( mainly envelopes with gift vouchers and the odd bit of cash ) , apparently she was ‘ looking after it ‘ . Yeah in your particularly capacious tote bag Auntie Jean .

When we checked her bag just in case there was anything else in there , we found two glass vases from the table arrangements and an entire round of Brie from the not yet open buffet .

One of her sisters had to be forcibly stopped from knocking her block off . At least it made for a memorable day !

HunterofStars · 04/08/2018 20:15

At a family member's wedding, all the guests ate the wedding cake which meant the bride and groom had none at all. Someone also stole the bride's bouquet between reception and the evening do, as well as eat the sugar bride and groom they had on top of the cake.

beavertown · 04/08/2018 20:17

A wedding ceremony a public event, you can’t stop anyone from attending. I think it is great that evening guests turned up for the ceremony and certainly not Cfery. We had loads of people I didn’t know at the church, basically half the village. It was great. We did drinks in church hall straight after, tied gates etc etc. Weddings should be a public celebration.

Mehaveit · 04/08/2018 20:24

One of my guests charged a bottle of champagne to my room I refused to pay for it at reception the next day. The signature was neither mine nor DHs.

TheMadGardener · 04/08/2018 20:49

Not really a CF, but my BIL is known for being "away with the fairies". He is a professor of film theory at an American university and if you see him staring raptly into space he is probably thinking deeply about the use of some sort of imagery in French films of the 1960s or some such thing.

He was DH's best man at our wedding. He started making a best man's speech at the reception. The speech was about me and DH for about ten seconds and then he went off at a tangent and started musing about how the wedding had reminded him about some aspect of a film by Eric Rohmer and he then rambled on about film theory for about 15 minutes until DH managed to shut him up and get him to propose a toast. Those wedding guests who know BIL thought it was funny but the rest of the guests were obviously thinking "WTF is this bloke talking about??!!"

I was terrified about both my parents attending my wedding as they hate each other (well, DM hates DF, DF is less irrational than she is) and hadn't been in the same room for about 25 years, I was worried DM would cause a fight or storm out, but they both behaved and didn't say a word to each other all day, which was
preferable. They are in some of the photos with very cold body language maintaining a distance at all times.

HellenaHandbasket · 04/08/2018 21:04

My best friend who was doing a reading at our ceremony casually dropped into conversation a couple of days before that she wasn't sure if she'd be there as work was really hectic.

For her wedding I'd organised and bought all the bridesmaids' shoes etc on the promise of being paid back, which never happened. I asked her to speak to a couple of them and she said that 'it was her big day and she didn't want anything tainting it so wasn't getting involved'. This was weeks after btw, not on the day. 😂 I still love her dearly but I did feel a little sold down the river as I really couldn't afford it. Never did get the cash. Also did all the make up for her and the BMs, organised the hen do, etc etc. And after all that she didn't think it that important that she came to my wedding. She did in the end, but it was the casual nature of the 'I might not be able to make it, but we'll see' that really hurt.

lillighters85 · 04/08/2018 21:27

A girl at my wedding was very complimentary about my unusual dress (Was a London designer who makes each one by hand so although other girls also have the same dress it's not common by any stretch) and asked me who the designer was. 2 years later she walked down the aisle in my dress, the exact dress. As I congratulated them she even laughed and said "recognise the dress?!" Errr yes! And so did about 25 of the guests who had also been at our wedding, lots of people commented to me about it! I still feel equally pissed off and flattered 7 years later.

Echobelly · 04/08/2018 21:31

It was a bit CF that a friend asked for a plus-one at the last minute (he had, briefly as it turned out in the end, made it up with an ex), BUT:

By then we already had had 2 or 3 cancellations due to ill health and it would mean one less place wasted, and the table reorganisation was minimal
I appreciated he probably wasn't someone who had been to many weddings and might not realise that bringing someone extra to a wedding is potentially a big and expensive deal.

In fact generally my belief is that a lot of what seems to CF-ery around weddings need to be put in context. Just because one has been lost in the land of wedding planning for the last 12 months doesn't mean everyone else knows the 'rules', especially if they've not been to many weddings.

eg, People might not know it could be an issue to ask for a +1, for expense and/or planning reasons
People don't necessarily know some people don't like female guests wearing white
And my favourite, seeing brides complain that their bridesmaids don't seem to want to join them for wedding dress and shoe and flower and favour shopping and colour-scheme planning, and aren't answering their planning anxiety messages sent at 2 in the morning. Uhm unless you told them to expect that at the beginning, there's every chance they thought that being a BM just involved turning up and wearing the bridesmaid dresses. That's what I always assumed it was until I joined wedding forums (I didn't have bridesmaids).

KM99 · 04/08/2018 21:40

BIL proposed to his then GF the week before our wedding. Chose our wedding day to announce it to all the family.

shockedandsurprised · 04/08/2018 21:44

We only gave +1's to single people if they wouldn't know many other people, so they'd have someone to talk to. One of our very close friends, who knew about 50% of the guests incredibly well TOLD us (not asked) that he was bringing a friend as his +1. I had to explain that as the invite only had his name, it was just for him

We'd also decided to buy all drinks for our parents for the day, but not siblings as I have 4 siblings who are all married and we didn't want the bar tab to get out of control. Mil gave her tab card to dh's brother for the 2 brothers to use, leaving my 4 siblings and 4 in-laws put out that they had to buy their own drinks and dh's brothers didn't

shockedandsurprised · 04/08/2018 21:44

We only gave +1's to single people if they wouldn't know many other people, so they'd have someone to talk to. One of our very close friends, who knew about 50% of the guests incredibly well TOLD us (not asked) that he was bringing a friend as his +1. I had to explain that as the invite only had his name, it was just for him

We'd also decided to buy all drinks for our parents for the day, but not siblings as I have 4 siblings who are all married and we didn't want the bar tab to get out of control. Mil gave her tab card to dh's brother for the 2 brothers to use, leaving my 4 siblings and 4 in-laws put out that they had to buy their own drinks and dh's brothers didn't

shockedandsurprised · 04/08/2018 21:45

Sorry, don't know why that posted twice!

UpstartCrow · 04/08/2018 21:46

Some of these are beyond CF and closer to bunny boiler

sockunicorn · 04/08/2018 21:48

@aNutAboveTheBreast oh my god. .

i love these CF threads!!!!

Aprilshowersinaugust · 04/08/2018 21:58

We had a tiny wedding, less than 20, no dc except ours.
Until my cf friend posted pics on Instagram of her dd's trying on the fuschia pink dresses bought especially for the wedding!
Could hardly burst their bubble.
The youngest appears in the corner of every photo like Where's fucking Wally!!

Walkerbean16 · 04/08/2018 21:59

My uncle (who I cannot stand) had his ipad on watching football through the church ceremony and the entire reception, he even had it in his hand in the receiving line as we were welcoming people into the reception room, didn't look up just walked straight past us!

beavertown · 04/08/2018 22:05

Isn’t it the ultimate cfery to invite guests and expect them to buy their own drinks? I have never been to a wedding where all drinks were not included? Is it a thing not to provide all the food and drink? Surely you invite as many people as you can afford to cater for?

Tunnocks34 · 04/08/2018 22:10

I’m getting married next year. My MIL informed us last month that she has photocopied her invite, and forwarded it, along with the menu, to 4 people we have never met. Apparently they are ‘family friends who always ask after us’ OH and I have been together 7 years nearly and have never once heard their names mentioned.

She got a bit of a shock when we told her she either gave us the £300 to cover their attendance or she told them the truth...she ended up telling them we’d cancelled the wedding 🙄 not sure how she’s going to explain the wedding taking place to her ‘good family friends’.