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!

I was bridesmaid to a friend. She had a big beautiful wedding paid for by wealthy family. She had a high end designer dress supplied for free as was friends with designer. Everything was top shelf. All the wedding party stayed in a beautiful converted barn the night before (which we paid out handsomely for, £300 a couple). Her mum was making a big lasagna for everyone's dinner, all very nice.
Couple of weeks ahead I asked if I could bring anything (being polite, was obvs going to bring fizz anyway) she asked me to bring a bag of salad to go with the lasagne.

I couldn’t believe it, all this money on a huge wedding of dreams and she was making be bring a bag of salad. Salad. Couple of quid bag of salad. Seemed a really weird thing to be tight on. I went all out and brought two

At my wedding, one of my friends threw up over my dad's jacket just before the speeches he was mad. I was amazed that she rallied and danced the night away. We laugh about it now.........

Instead of a big hen night, I had a small gathering of friends at my house. The friend who was staying the night and getting me ready the next morning arrived with her baby, claimed she couldn’t leave her as she cried otherwise, spent the night getting drunk and I was left holding the baby (whilst sober).
The next morning she was so hungover she messed up my hair (was supposed to have loose curls and ended up looking about 10 with lots of ringlets), was giggling throughout the ceremony and once it was over asked if I could lend her a fiver so she could get a taxi home.
I’m hindsight I should have told her to piss off the moment she arrived with the baby.

I understand adults not wearing white to a wedding, but my 6year old granddaughter was not allowed to wear a white dress trimmed with tartan i’d made for her to the evening reception of a very Scottish themed wedding. My dil told her it wasn’t allowed. I never said anything but was quite hurt

One of our wedding guests (ex-work colleague) rang me up about a week before the wedding and asked me to uninvite another guest (long story, but there was a love triangle going on that I wasn't aware of). Needless to say I didn't, and asked her to talk to the others herself! I think all three came to the wedding in the end but there was a lot of tension...

On the run up to my wedding my cousins daughter kept trying to twist my arm and begged to be a bridesmaid (i wanted my oldest friend my sister and my best friend) i said no as no cousins were invited to the day (i have a massive family with lots of cousins so invite one you have to invite them all so just aunts and uncles on my side but invited my dh cousins as there are only 2 of them (adult twins) and his family is very small. Had messages for ages begging me to be a bridesmaid as she would never have the chance. Luckily they gave up trying and i cant remember what she wore to the party afterwards.
also had my husbands friends decide on the day to not turn up no message or anything. Apparently one was giving the others a lift and then they decided they wernt going so the others refused to use public transport or make any effort to get in touch to apologise. A few years later one of them invited us to her wedding ... i was going to do what they did to us but then it got called off as they spilt up, think they eventually got married but who cares.
Now the real cf that still riles my dh up to this day (we got married 5 years ago) during our first dance that was clearly announced and was being filmed she came over with her foster children to say bye ruining the first dance and making it that we couldnt use the video as they couldnt be in anything that might be posted on line at anytime. He has never forgiven her but its just par for the course as far as she is concerned it never entered her head that our first dance might be something we wanted to record and actually finish with being interrupted.

Still loved my day, even though little things went wrong i still enjoyed it.

Not so much a CF but a slighly 'challenging' reception at times. One of DH's aunts turned up at reception bearing a gift of towels. Due to unexpected pregnancy our wedding was a small and swiftly arranged do. DH has 13 aunts and uncles, none of whom he was close to tbh and a ridiculous number of cousins, so it was immediate family and close friends only on his side. He still had plenty of guests as he had friends, parents, grandparents, 4 siblings, plus spouces and their children. My side was smaller In number still. I felt absolutely horrible when his aunt turned up, gift in hand and not dressed for a wedding, so clearly there was no intention of pushing her way into the celebrations. I thanked her profusely, as we were trying to get through the photos taken in the garden of the reception location. I did ask if she'd like to stay but she insisted she didn't want to, she'd just wanted to see us on our special day. Could have crawled up my dress if there was room.

The embarrassment continued when DH's best man was invited to read out a few messages and cards before his speech, and he announced he couldn't read well (news to us) and would be too shy to make any kind of speech. DH was invited to step into the breach but was no keener than his best man. It was getting awkward by now, so I stood up took a deep breath and made a bride's speech, thanking everyone I could remember to thank, whilst making mental notes of who to kill!

It was topped off by husband getting pissed and announcing he was off clubbing "just for a bit" with said best man. At this point I put my foot down. How I didn't throttle him with my garter I'll never know.

We're still married 32 years later, mostly because I couldn't go through that palava for a 2nd time!

Many, many years ago my friend and I gate crashed someone's evening wedding do - helped ourselves to the buffet and had a free night out dancing to the wedding disco...

What the hell - who steals centrepieces from a wedding? I can see it happening once or twice but as standard?

My mother wore a long dress that touched the floor that was such a dark navy blue it was almost black.

She wasn't happy I was marrying my Dh

I still didn't give a shit and still don't 5 years later

MIL had married SFIL a couple of weeks before our wedding.

They turned up at our wedding in their wedding outfits and persuaded our photographer to take pictures of the 2 of them as they didn't bother with a photographer at their wedding.

We had no clue until the proofs came back.

She told everyone who would listen that she was wearing her own wedding dress as there was no point forking out for anything special for Danny's daughter's wedding. We don't speak any more.

We received lots of vouchers from a well known store and after the wedding went into the store to put them all on the one card. Once cashier had added them up she was coming up €100 short. I’m pretty meticulous so asked her to check again, still €100 short so we went through the cards one by one. The guests had written the amount in the gift card attached and one said €150 but the cashier said it was €50. I text dh friend to ask if he had a receipt as they had messed up his card only for him to say it was €50. Tbh €50 would have been a lovely gift but he blatantly lied and put €150 down thinking we wouldn’t notice as we had asked everyone for vouchers from there(if they had asked what we wanted). He was from Cavan too which doesn’t help their tight with money reputation.

4 days before my wedding my dad rang me to say they wouldn't be able to come as their dog had 'women's problems' and was having an operation. I don't know what happened because they did come in the end.

Another couple later told me they hadn't come because they had to go shopping. It was a fairly relaxed affair but even so....

At a family member's wedding at a posh country house, two of the guests turned up in jeans. Another one brought her dogs to the wedding despite the bride saying no

WTF??

It wouldn't even occur to me to say "no dogs", for the simple reason that I wouldn't expect anyone to be stupid enough to bring them in the first place ... unless they were assistance dogs, of course

I didnt go myself but heard about it.
Groom's brother has a new GF of a couple of weeks and they said she could go.
She wore a white maxi dress and tiara.
Stood at the front of all photos.
Groom's brother has the job of driving B&G to the reception after the ceremony in a fancy car - they were being photographed and filmed - she tried to get in the car in the front seat. Fuming when told no, you need to follow in car behind!

My uncle's mistress-turned-second-wife walked up to me at my brother's wedding and said:

" I hope you won't take this the wrong way, but your husband is doable."

I'm not sure there's a right way to take that! I mean, how would you take a family member with a history of stealing other people's husbands telling you your husband is fuckable?

I'm simultaneously loving and feeling outraged at this thread...
Nothing as spectacular as some of these stories but I'll chuck in my two cents anyway:
DH was best man to childhood best friend who married into a very well-to-do family. His FIL saw the wedding as a massive networking and schmoozing opportunity for his business and so invited a lot of prospective clients to the full day's events who got preferential treatment yet knew none of the other guests (including the bride and groom) nor one another. He probably wrote the wedding off as a business expense..
As the bride and groom were walking down the aisle, post vows, the FIL was heard to be theatrically whispering that the groom was "on the wrong fucking side" of his daughter. This could be clearly heard on the video.
The FIL also insisted on "vetting" DH's best man speech the night before the wedding to ensure "nobody was offended" which made DH (not a fan of public speaking anyway) incredibly nervous when his moment came. FIL, in his speech, not only mocked DH for his nerves but also made very uncomfortable, pointed remarks about the bride and groom's child (aged 2 then) being born out of wedlock.

Not CF, but awkward..at one of my best friend's wedding my DM turned up to the church to see the ceremony. Not a problem, except she was dressed in a purple shell suit, carrying a bag full of very stinky onions and leeks and sobbed loudly throughout the service!

At my own wedding DH was, very dashingly, dressed in a kilt. A guest's plus one pointedly asked if he was "traditionally dressed" (ie was he "sans pants" under the kilt?). I replied something along the lines that it was only something the bride should find out later at the wedding night. "We'll see about that" , announced the guest who then walked up to DH, who had his back turned to us and was chatting to his parents. Guest bent down, shoved her head up the kilt and flung it up with a "whoosh!" sound, revealing to all and sundry that, yes, he was traditionally dressed. DH's gut reaction was to swing round, fist clenched and it was only because I caught his hand that he didn't punch the guest's lights out. Not that I would have blamed him....

Icecream one of our so-called family/ friends decided to steal a heart shaped rose garland. Out of all the centrepieces it was the one I wanted to take home the most. It felt really hurtful. I never got much of a chance to look at it on the day. Personally I would never do such a thing but then I was taught not to steal when I was growing up.

My venue told us, after we'd booked and paid a deposit, that we couldn't wear "wedding attire" because we hadn't booked the venue exclusively. I'd already started making my wedding dress and told them to fuck off.

My table centrepieces were all taken too. I wasn't bothered, I'd gone on honeymoon, but my Mum had planned to take them to the local retirement home as a nice gift and was furious. She also managed to intercept someone who thought it was ok to nick my bouquet. Mum planned to place it on my recently deceased Dad's grave (and did), but some CF saw it & thought fair game because it was on Mum's table ready for her to take upstairs to her room. Mum never told me who that was...

Invited some family friends to mine. (Mum, dad, son1 and son2) They RSVP no for son2. Fine, except closer to the wedding the told my mum that son2 was in fact coming. They didn't tell me, so I had to text them and ask what they wanted to eat. On the actual day, neither son1 or 2 turned up, including the one that RSVP'd no and then yes. It was £80 a head and I hadn't invited some people because of numbers/money.

Wedding venue: DP had an allergy and the venue host said that he had to bring his own food to the wedding reception - to be covered by health and safety. To which we replied " we are not bringing our own food to the wedding."

DP Uncle said he would turn up either on his own or bring his wife and five children but will let us know nearer the time (1 before) just him and his sour faced wife (5 places lost).

DP's friends said they be coming with partners but about 5 of them turned up without partners one saying "my wife's pregnant" hmmm didn't you know that 6 months ago?

Work colleagues then rang up on the morning saying "can't go" then "if so and so isn't going then I'm not going- I won't know anyone" another 5 people drop out again.

DCM (dear cunty mother) said she wasn't coming because it was too far - so I paid for train ticket and B&B for her and FIL then she said she didn't want to stay in the B&B because they don't allow smoking. They came and stayed in the bed and breakfast then next day they were going to come to the house to visit so we dropped out of lunch with friends to wait in. 3pm we get a text saying they got an earlier train home and they're at home.

We stayed in a hotel for the night and let DPs friends stay at our house ( bought them all ingredients for a cooked breakfast). When we returned home the next day eggs were smashed on the worktops and damage to the house - one friend lingering on throwing up who we had to look after all day.

This folks was just the reception!

We actually went abroad to get married as we didnt want the hassle of a wedding!

We only had the reception for other people nattering for us to do so. The people who were nattering were the no shows. £15 per head x 15 no shows - and I would of felt like the CF if I was to bill them!

I was left babysitting in a side room at my own wedding reception for around an hour whilst family members argued outside. Half the guests left as they thought I'd gone. It sucked.

My friend was a groom who was practically stood up by his family. It was a smallish informal wedding but only one of the ten invited members of his family showed up. There was no feud or issues with the marriage, just a few rubbish excuses about traffic or silence. Poor bloke.

MIL expected us to organise her travel, asked me to book her a hair appt in our town two days before the wedding on the wedding morning, wore white and shagged one of our guests.