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!

When dh and I booked our wedding the vicar gave us a date and then we told our guest. We hadn't actually realised it was my dh late mother's birthday. We thought that's lovely. What a way to remember her.
On the day of the wedding some over sensitive souls decided that they weren't going to attend as it was disrespectful. (She'd died 5yrs previous). And decided not attend. After they'd rsvp'd and we paid for them.

I inadvertently did a "terrible" wedding thing - we were told bil and his rather prim wife were having a child free wedding. Fine. A week or so before bil rang to say our 2 could come after all. We found out later sil insisted some family friends of her parents were allowed to bring their children so bil bless him then insisted his only brothers children had to be included too. I suspect sil wasn't pleased. My faux pas was that the pretty dresses they already had turned out to be the exact colour of the adult bridesmaids dresses so everyone assumed our little dds were bridesmaids...

my Own wedding. We kept the ceremony to close friends and family only, to have my great aunt and uncle (my dead grandads sister) show up and make a kerfuffle getting seats (there weren’t any so demanding them from the restaurant) etc just before I walked in. This was after the bridesmaids and groomsmen had already walked down the aisle!
Then my sil husband (can’t call him brother in law) took several digs at “gays” “Blacks” and “those bloody army blokes who don’t do a thing”. My brother is gay, some of my best friends are black and my dad and quite a lot of my relatives have all served in the armed forces. When he realised my dad wasn’t going to cause a scene, he instead switched his attentions to my new husband who ended up so drunk he actually can’t remember anything past 7pm. He’s known to the hotel as “the drunkest groom ever” 5 years after our wedding! All because his bil couldn’t get a rise out of my family any other way (they’re not big drinkers so seeing someone that drunk was a shock)
My so called friend actually said very loudly to her boyfriend “he’s had to get that drunk in order to marry her” which was a) not nice and b) overheard by everyone in the room. Including me. I had to pretend to not hear it.
One of my dads friends accidentally set a table alight - whilst performing his “magic” tricks that we never asked for.
And to top it all off next morning, my new mil orders kippers (off menu so premium price) and offers them to my hungover but coping husband who promptly throws up in the flowerbeds because the smell was nauseating. She actually managed to get the stench of fish embedded into my gorgeous brand new honey moon dress, which took three trips to the dry cleaner to get smelling decent (which obviously meant it didn’t go on our honeymoon!)

These are outstanding! Mine seem a little boring in comparison but I think two springs to mind;
I was MoH at a wedding where the bride didn't really get on with her new SIL but felt pressured by groom and family into asking her to be bridesmaid. Not the end of the world but she was a nightmare the whole way through;
Came on the weekend away hen do but went off with different men both nights
Refused to try on her dress as she 'knew her size' despite everyone else having to size up by at least one size
Didn't attend a single dress fitting
Crying the morning of the wedding as her boyfriend of 2 months wasn't going to be there to see 'her big day'
Got really drunk and was, rather aggressively imo, trying it on with the best man... who was there with his fiancée... who'd had their first baby two weeks before... despite SIL still being with the aforementioned boyfriend

The other was my dms wedding. Her new SIL was wearing a coral colour maxi dress for the wedding, fine, if a little completely see through she had nice pants on at least but decided to change into jeans and a hoody for the reception, saw fit to bring two jean clad, uninvited friends with her (picked up en route from the church?) and decided to move the seating plan because she didn't like my sister. It was bizarre.

I've just remembered another one from my wedding! I'd bought little ring boxes that said his and hers for our wedding rings. At the reception I noticed them in the handbag of a friend who was getting married a few months after me. She'd actually tried to steal them!!! Turned out she'd told our best man, who had been going to leave them in our room, that I'd said she could have them!

The worst part is they weren't particularly precious to me and if she'd asked I'd have let her have them for her wedding, but after lying and stealing I wasn't going to give them to her!

Love these!

Two of my friends from high school, both from very rich families... were the only guests not to even get us a card!

They also were sneaking back into the meal venue, drinking dregs of bottles of wine off tables and stealing other guests' alcoholic favours. I know that they are both extremely well off so it was just CF.

My friend got married years ago and decided not to have bridesmaids.
Another friend obs put out by this turned up in long dress (mid 90s these were not a thing) with an updo with flowers in it...

We just had dh's relatives all turn up in black and looking morose the whole day "out of respect" to dh's father who'd sadly passed away 8 months before. This was the dad they hadn't been added to see for ages up until he was hospitalised and even then not very often. I got to know dh's dad quite well and I'm pretty sure he'd have been quite cross with them being miseries. They shoved off early though.
I had two friends just not turn up. They came to the service and then vanished so we had a half empty table at the reception. Apparently they'd been invited somewhere else. Ex friends now.

I used to run a dressmaking business. My last big order was a wedding dress and three bridesmaid dresses. One bm never turned up for a single fitting, but I got sent her measurements. They were wrong. She said she was a size 10 with a 34" chest.
When I finally met her on the day she was easily a 14 with quite an ample chest. Of course the dress didn't fit and this was my fault. The bride had asked for open v back corsets, the MoB had tried to lace them up totally tight, claimed they didn't fit and then spent ££££ on new dresses the night before.
This again was my fault?! I'd offered to help dress the bridal party, but was rebuffed. The numpty who dressed the bride tried to lift the dress up by 2" so all the shaping was wrong!
The bride is now very much an ex friend, still owes me £500 and I've folded my business as it was too darn stressful.

My MIL had a second cake made as a surprise for my DH... it was presented to 'us' but really him, at the top table during our speeches. It was bright orange with a footballer on it, like a child's birthday cake.

It was so random but over the last 14 years, I've come to realise that she'll just take the chance to butt in wherever she can, just so we all know she's there. 🙄

On a personal note.. I did once wear a short cream and black dress to a wedding... did NOT know that was an etiquette thing... I'm a CF too!! Inadvertently!! 😳

A work colleague evening do: the office manager was caught doing lines of coke and chucked out.

BF from university's wedding, DH and I ordered veggie meals. When the meat was brought out, some CF guests on the tables nearest the top table decided to change their minds. When they eventually got to our table there were no vegetarian meals left. The chef offered to make something different for us but I have a specific food allergy (which is why the bride kindly ordered something she knew I could eat) and there was NOTHING I could have apart from some green veg. I was so hungry on the way home that we stopped for crisps from a garage.

My wedding. MIL said was it ok to wear a trouser suit. I said of course - fairly low key wedding due to religious denomination (I didn't have a wedding dress.) In fact she turned up in beige polyester slacks and an argyle cardigan and looked as though she were about to go and play a round of golf. This was absolutely fine with me, I'm not precious about it (although she attracted a few puzzled comments from other people.) However what did both irritate and amuse me was discovering afterwards that she had her large pvc shopping bag (decorated with pictures of a kitten) with her throughout the day, including in all the photos. Inside was her knitting. She obviously thought she might get bored.

One of my SILs was not asked to be a bridesmaid at my wedding. Nothing personal, we just thought that as she was quite a bit older than the other bms she might feel weird about it. We thought we would ask her to play a part in the wedding in some other way e.g. do a reading or be a witness. But no. She went to MIL and told her how hurt she was and MIL then told her that she was 'sure it would be ok' if SIL was also a bridesmaid. Without asking me or DH how we felt about it. I was really young and there had already been wedding dramas caused by my ILs and I didn't have the confidence to tell SIL to get lost tbh. So she was a bridesmaid and proceeded to be really difficult about things (fitting times having to be changed because she claimed she couldn't be there, complaining about the shoes...)

These days DH and I regret not just telling her where to stick her 'hurt' about not being asked to be a bm as soon as she and MIL decided to overrule us.

Cigarettes, that sounds horrendous! Mind you, my friend and I took our BM dresses to a local dressmaker, and picked them up en route to that London - here was supposed to have been taken up, and mine in. You’ve guessed it. She was busting out of hers and it dragged on the floor; mine kept slipping down - which were the only points at which it wasn’t hitting me mid-calf.

The church we got married in has a small fenced off garden.
A couple of old dears came in and plonked themselves on the bench in there.
We had planned to take photos there and didn't feel able to ask them to move. It also meant my 83-year-old grandfather had nowhere to sit when he got tired, as he's too much of a gentleman to ask.
The CFs are even in some of my wedding photos (informal shots like the confetti toss)

Wouldn't mind but there's about ten benches on the town square which borders the garden and if you want to view he bride etc the fence is waist-high railings so the view is unobstructed.

Oh i just remembered a friend of late mil kindly offered to make our cake as a gifyshe asked what we wanted just sponge please i hate fruitcake.
Anyhoo she made a fruit cake .layer at the request of Mil then dismantled cake after cutting put fruit layer in box and gave it to MIl

My friend married a man from Wales. She is English and his parents were not happy about this. Just as the main course was served, they waited until their plates were put in front of them, then stood up, announced they had to go and feed their cows (they owned a dairy farm) and then left. Just went. To this day, I cannot believe the cheek.

Loving this thread!

My friends sister was getting married and had asked a mutual friend to DJ their wedding. He was also invited to the full day as an extra thank you.

The day before the wedding he said he could no longer do the DJing as he had to go to work to DJ in a nightclub! But he didn't tell anyone, someone else found out. He was planning on just not turning up to the evening bit!

Friends sister was fuming and had for fork out to get a last minute replacement.

Anyway I did the bridesmaids hair and whilst getting ready the DJ posted on his Facebook how excited he was to be going to the wedding! Bride text saying given the circumstances he was no longer invited!

He only bloody turned up to church! Didn't go to the meal.so assumed he got the hint... until he turned up to the evening Do, got pissed and paraded himself around everyone without an ounce of shame!

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
Oh Jeez, you aren't married yet, and mil is starting!
I do love these threads though

Also her sister stole the bridesmaids flowers (4 bouquets) and left with them. I only know it was her because she put a photo on fb saying how she had made a window display in her cafe with them?!!!!
That's just batshit crazy!

mammy but . . . but . . .if he could make it to the evening do why didn't he DJ????

Lots to think of , your story was enough without the second bit at your own wedding. Just wow.

Lots

Vampire if you don't feel comfortable with your weight try an underbust corset/weight trainer or spanx. They shouldn't affect your bust. Or celebrate that your body is different because you have just performed a miracle and given birth. (I really do consider birth amazing - not being sarcastic!)

@vampirethriller "But I'm not french" brilliant!!

Lots
What is it with friendship groups! I went to a friend of DH wedding years ago. We had been together around 9 months, and v happy!
Friend (whose wedding it was)had the idea however that dh would be much happier with her friend. He had known her since uni, and wasn't remotely interested in her past the drunken hook up they'd had about ten years previously.
They proceeded to bump me off my table, so they could seat him next to her. She flirted with him all night, and then followed me into the toilets every time I went, to tell me how much happier he'd be with her and how i was completely unsuitable for him.
This continued for months until we got engaged, and she had to admit defeat.
I see her occasionally (she's now married to a DH lookalike) and it still makes me seethe ( inwardly of course!)

Long one, sorry!

Mine is more of a bridezilla, grooms parents were friends with my parents so we had kind of grown up together, he was very laid back and easy going

Before the wedding the bride was flooding social media with annoying posts about how amazing this was and wait until you see that, but no photographs as she wanted everyone to be wowed when they saw it so everything was a total secret. Fine if you don't want people seeing stuff beforehand, but why all the posts about it if that's the case? She was that bad that she wouldn't let the bridesmaids see their dresses or try them on, and her mum wasn't allowed to go dress shopping with her (felt really bad for her because her mum was lovely and was really disappointed about this)

It comes to the day of the wedding not a moment too soon, one more post and everyone was going to crack! and 3 bridesmaids became 2 as one dress didn't fit (bride apparently freaked out at her for spoiling her big day to the extent that she didn't even go to the wedding as a guest) she made her big entrance with her 2 bridesmaids in pretty ordinary maxi dresses couldn't have them upstaging her now could we unfortunately a guest was also wearing this maxi dress

Said "I do" went out for 2 hours of photographs and spotted the guest - shit totally hit the fan! She was persuaded to leave things because the photographer was waiting, so she agreed to getting the photos done but the guest wasn't allowed on any of them. All guests were required to stay standing outside for the full 2 hours in case they were needed for a photograph which in reality most were only on 2 or 3 taken at same time Photographs were basically bride with X, bride with y, bride here, bride there. I think the groom was on less than half, about 20% were bride on her own (he wasn't aware just how bad the numbers were until he saw them after the wedding)

Then the photographs were finished so it was time to go in to the venue, the bride stopped guest and was kicking off insisting she goes home to change, she's done this on purpose, she must have known the dresses she had chosen, shes trying to make the bride look stupid, she wants everyone to think she's important so pretending to be a bridesmaid etc and the guest was in tears. Groom went to see where she was and found this happening, told guest to go inside and shouted someone to come and make sure she was ok. Bride kicked off at groom saying he probably planned it with her, why is he sticking up for her when she is his wife so he should be on her side etc. He walked off and in to venue

Bride went inside and was seething, groom looked miserable and most guests were none the wiser. After the meal, spent with bride giving guest evils and guest having to be forced persuaded to stay, dancing starts and bride goes over to guest again and starts it all up. Groom steered guest away and spent the night by her side so bride couldn't say anything and went out to reception and booked an extra room and told them that bride was not to be allowed in the bridal suite under any circumstances. He went to the room about 9pm and ignored her banging on the door at 1am

The marriage was annulled as soon as he could and he was left with a large amount of £ to pay off for a marriage that didn't really happen. He said he considered it a small price to pay for being rid of her. He is now happy with a girlfriend he has been with for about 4 years who matches his personality well and treats him the way he should be treated our parents always thought/hoped he would end up with me or one of my sister's, but he is more like a brother to us