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!

It was the bridesmaid who gave you the incorrect measurements, not coming for a fitting so she has to pay for a dress she can't wear. But you can't be expected to be out of pocket for her mistake.

Our venue were actually CFs, who "forgot" to order in our pate starter and instead served up smoked salmon to our horrified guests.

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Tellmeitsnottrue Another in fact make it two

My MIL changed the seating arrangement half an hour before our wedding meal so the place cards didn't match the seating plan on the door outside. She had wanted her mother (not an easy lady) to sit with my parents friends (who she doesn't know), rather than her own sister (which would have been a slight to them). My mother had refused and she had appeared to accept it.

She also planned an evening reception (which we weren't having) and invited different guests to it. Our guests were leaving as others were arriving, thinking they hadn't been invited to the whole day for some reason. Apparently our 'wedding' ended with some very tipsy strangers belting our christian worship karaoke.

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My wedding to exH, 28 years ago. He had a friend who had a batshit crazy girlfriend. On my hen night she went off with a random bloke and shagged him somewhere. I had to go back to my house where she and exH's friend were staying and tell him I didn't know where she was. She banged on the door at 3am and told him some lies about where she'd been. (He later told exH that she'd come back without any knickers on!)

She wore a skin tight, backless white dress to my wedding, white stockings and suspenders (clearly visible through the dress) and white shoes, and tried to get off with any male guest who looked at her. ExH's friend went on to marry this woman the following year. She copied my bridesmaid's dresses, my flowers, my hairstyle, everything was exactly the same. It was so wierd comparing the photos.

Another one, my wedding to exH again. I only wanted my two sisters as bridesmaids. SIL ( a woman in her late twenties) had a tantrum and went crying to MIL who bullied exH who bullied me into having her as bridesmaid. She was a fucking nightmare (his whole family were, tbh.) and refused to come on the hen night, but went on the stag with her brother. On the day, she was as late as possible arriving at my parents to get ready and made us all late. At the evening reception she was still flouncing about in her bridesmaids dress and getting pissed with random people who MIL had told to come.I had no idea who some of the people there were. No introduced themselves, just piled into the food and drink. Much later, when H was asleep beside me, I cried because I had married him and now I was stuck with his horrible family.

aNutAboveTheBreast, with friends like yours, who needs enemies?!

saynotocarrots I have no idea... I still call him out on it... I think he left at 11 to get to a nightclub

@CanIhavedessertfirst Why were your guests "horrified"?
I mean, it was very crappy of the venue not to serve what you ordered, but smoked salmon is hardly known as the most disgusting of foodstuffs, is it? It's not like it was surströmming!

Yes, I wondered that too - unless it was a vegetarian paté and the guests were all veggie, maybe?

My younger sister was fuming that she wasn't a bridesmaid. We're not close and her daughter was my bridesmaid. She makes everything about her & is very unreliable. She didn't turn up to my hen party and then decided she was taking my DN on holiday when our wedding was on so she would miss it. When I sent invites we had no plus 1s as we were limited with numbers. Sister has no boyfriend but sent a raging text asking who she would sit with - her entire family was there including mother, daughter, sister, nephews, cousins!!! She didn't even give us a card never mind a present after demanding another guest.
My mother is quite a princess. She wanted to bring all her friends to the wedding when I said she could invite everyone to evening party but only one meal guest she was furious. We paid for the wedding in full ourselves (even though she promised 5k as a gift & gave a cutlery set instead) Demanded I asked the hotel to provide bacon sandwiches for her friends in the evening and this would be our wedding present we already had a large evening buffet organised. But she wanted a bacon sambo apparently! I organised & paid - she never offered to reimburse me. She insisted that I have food & drinks in our house for all of the neighbours to send me off to the church - her friends! I refused as I had a very medically fragile baby who at the time was not allowed around large groups. This went on for months & I eventually agreed that she could invite her friends to my house for 2 hours before we left ... she never turned up & was actually late for the church ceremony after all the drama!
I was dealing with a sick baby & organising a wedding alone that year. I wish I'd told them both to fuck off from the start instead of entertaining their demands. They both got pissed and didn't even talk to me at the wedding never mind offer to help with the baby after his nurse got sick & cancelled. I missed my own meal - but had lovely stress free snuggles in the bridal suite!

My friend had her DH's ex at their wedding. Really long story but my friend was not happy about it. My friend is very insecure about DH's ex for all sorts of reasons (not least because she is absolutely stunning with an incredible body from years of professional dancing).

Anyway, DH's best man agreed to keep the ex away from my friend.

All was peaceful until the ex got pissed and started doing a pole dancing show. I mean she was absolutely amazing at it but it was totally inappropriate. My friend gritted her teeth and tried not to look too upset about it. Seeing she was really perturbed, I took her to the bar where she downed nearly a whole bottle of vodka and later threw up all over the hotel reception area.

My son also had an ex from a long time ago (when they were teens) I was surprised, but my Dil seemed ok with it. She came to the evening bringing her mother, who followed me around all evening telling me how sad she was that it was not Her DD marrying my son.

My DIL is amazing and she just laughed about it.

madja that just reminded me of another cf bride.

One of dh’s friends got engaged and Dh was to be best man. Dh’s parents and his parents had been friends for years so by extension I was close to the family too. I had met the bride to be a few times.

At their engagement party there was a queue outside the ladies and a couple of her friends who I didn’t know were discussing how the bride to be was ‘so right about the best man being gorgeous’ and they were trying to decide who would make a play for him first !
I turned round and told them that the best man was married. They said bride to be had told them he was single . I asked them to point him out. They did and I told them that yes he was married, to me ! They apologised to me and said that the bride had told them that he was single and was looking for meet someone at the wedding .

I got married in the town where I’d grown up, in the church my parents had been married. It’s about an hour and half drive from where I actually lived. The reception was at a hotel and lots of guests booked rooms there. One of my friends from work told me she didn’t have a credit card, and asked me to book a room for her and her boyfriend and she’d give me the cash. Not only did she never give me the money back for her room (it’s been 10 years), she stole cards with money in them from the ‘gift table’. A whip-round had been done at work (200ish staff, so was quite a few quid), which I never even knew existed untill months later when another colleague asked me what I’d done with the money. I felt shit about that because I’d not been able to thank the staff, having not been aware of it because friend hadn’t given it to me! I’ve no idea how much was taken, a couple of guests mentioned their gifts of cash in the week or so after, and I hadn’t received any. I could hardly go round all the guests asking if they’d given me any cash! Again, they must think I was a right cf not bothering to thank them for generously gifts! I was also told that she’d stolen money from work to buy new shoes for the wedding. She left work not long after and needless to say, she’s no longer a friend.

At my hen do one of my bridesmaids ended up in A&E after breaking their foot - got some hilarious photos of the A&E trip with me and her in sashes and tiaras, Drs were brilliant and had us in and out! Now ex-DSIL and other bridesmaid had massive falling out after drunk BM told ex-DSIL’s teenage daughter some stuff she shouldn’t have about her Mum......
At the actual wedding my other DSIL wore white (I actually helped her choose the dress so didn’t care one bit, it was lovely!) and another guest wore a little black dress which I found strange but not offensive!

On another note I was present at a Wedding at the local 5* hotel where the Brides DB had his own room bar and ended up getting arrested for trashing some stuff in the hotel, assaulting a member of staff and fighting with the cops when they turned up. Poor bride was distraught but supported her brother at court!

Cousin had a friend turn up in jeans and a t-shirt, as he couldn't afford to get a suit!

She laughs about it now, but then again said friend is now a semi-famous singer and can afford one now.

My husband's (very drunk) uncle and aunt took some of the bands equipment and insisted it was theirs (his uncle had played the keyboard for us during dinner).
They loaded it into their car and refused to give it back and then shouted and swore at anyone who suggested that they might have made a mistake (including me and my husband!).
The next morning it was sheepishly dropped off at the venue very early.
I finally got an apology for their abysmal behaviour two months later in a Christmas card. We haven't seen them since.

At a friends wedding they went around taking a very on how long the best man's speech would be. Turned out to be over 50mins and utterly tedious. So glad for those speeches to end!!

*bet not a very!

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They apologised to me and said that the bride had told them that he was single and was looking to meet someone at the wedding
The cheek of some people!

We invited DH's friend and his girlfriend to our wedding. Friend broke up with her a couple of weeks before and bought a different woman as a date. He didn't ask or tell us. The place settings still had the old girlfriend's name on them. I had only met the girlfriend once before previously so I thought this new woman was the old girlfriend and welcomed her using the old girlfriend's name. I got a pretty shitty look which I thought was odd considering it was my wedding day! Only found out later.

Also, said friend is fucking loaded and made a big point about how he thought our wedding list was shit and wanted to get us a proper present. He never got us anything. Plenty of people didn't get us anything and I don't care, it was just because he made such a fuss about it!

Dh was asked to be best man to his oldest friend, destination wedding. The wife to be hated me, she had tried to set dh up with her sister years before and it hadnt worked she had then hated any woman hr5was with , but i was never nasty to her. We travel to the wedding and on the night before the service they had arranged a drink in the pub for the men and a cocktail thing for the women separately. I wasnt impreased at having to spend the eve with a bunch of women i didnt know but went along with it, i knew the bride and one other lady. Were all staying in a hotel. Hubby gets told that the men are leaving at 7 and women at 7.30. He goes off to hotel reception at 7. I finish getting ready and head down for 7.20. I wait. And wait. At 7.45 i ask at the desk if they are in a room somewhere....nope. all the women had met at 6.45 in receiption and had gone without me. So im in a hotel in the arse end of no where with absolutely no one left. Luckily the staff were a right laugh and i gad dinner wity them and got merrily pissed. The men come back earlier than thr women and find me having a great time woyh the staff. Dh was fuming. Thr groom went mental. Bith asked why i hadnt called dh. I said i didnt want ti spoil their night. Got me massive brownie points with the men. The ladies came back and thr bride wemt mad that i had got involvrd in thr mens night. Screaming and crying that i shouldmt have come at all amd she hated me. Made hrrself look like a loon. The wedding lasted 4 months