What not to do at a wedding

[Irishdays]

Getting married later on in 2019 and fairly typically want to avoid any faux pas.....but with the best will in the world you can't control everything :)
What has been the most ridiculous/outrageous/funny thing to have happened during a wedding? (your own or others)

A friend (the bride) got married about 5 years ago. I went to the wedding with 2 other friends of the bride. We all worked together. Towards the end of the wedding my friends now mother in law came over to us very drunk. She didn't realise we were friends of the bride and exclaimed very clearly to us how my friend is totally wrong for her son and she wishes this day never happened! My other friends and I just stood there in shock
Same wedding - the groom's brother swung a couple of punches at the waiting staff after being refused more alcohol - he ended up getting chucked out of his own brothers wedding by the venue
Needless to say this marriage ended in divorce 14 months later

I went to a gay wedding at the start of the year. It was in a school's chapel followed by the wedding breakfast in the ajoining school hall. A 7 year old relative of one of the groom's family waited until possibly the quietest moment in the chapel before saying in a very loud voice ''are gays allowed to get married in church? Mum you said the wedding isn't going to be a normal wedding cos its two men getting married'' - said mum (sat next too child) very quickly turned beetroot red

If anything goes wrong at my wedding I really hope we can laugh about it but who knows

Please tell me your stories

maimainomai My parents knelt, and mum had left the price tag on the bottom of the shoe.......

Shows in the video (which was in the 1960s).

Not threaten to get engaged at your sisters wedding.

I don't know why but it really upset me that for one day my sister couldn't just let me have a teeny bit more attention than her.

Luckily her DP didn't propose (wise man). But the constant, "don't worry I'll be subtle about showing people my engagement ring and I won't make a big deal of it and it would be a shame not to at such a nice venue" really did confuse me!

She's a dick though so I guess my advice would be...just don't be a dick full stop.

@billynofriends - Thank goodness your brother in law (?) had sense!

Indeed!

He's my brother in law now and didn't propose for quite some time after....but I did laugh when the next morning I heard that they'd had a big row on the day

Don't order the bridesmaids dresses in the sizes you think they should slim down to.
I'm going to a wedding at the weekend and the bride has done this!

The vicar marrying us has known me since I was born so has the potential to tell some right stories but I trust that he won't!
My fiance is also from a completely different culture and race to me so I'm sure there is more potential there....for example. I am wearing my traditional wedding dress for most of the day but will wear traditional clothing from his culture at the reception. My mum has already nearly cried in front of me (def cried behind my back) about the thought of me not having my first dance in a traditional white wedding dress

Are there potentially different cultural norms the vicar should be made aware of? Things that may seem fine in one cultural context and not the other....?

@vampirethriller - Genuinely really shocked at that!!

@maimainomai - We are both meeting up with him for a coffee to discuss exactly that

Don't marry him if you aren't 100% sure he isn't a twat..
May send you temperarily off the rails to the point of shagging the best man 5 days later...

2 of my (younger and way more attractive) relatives turned up at my wedding wearing white lace dresses. I assume they thought that they would compliment my white lace wedding dress I never said anything but I’ve never quite forgotten it.

I went to a wedding that ran out of food for the last 2 tables. There was literally nothing left. We figured it was fine - at least there was still pudding but it turns out that had run out too. 2 of the women on the table were quite drunk and very vocal with no food to soak up the booze. We left early and went to the chippy.

Never had any real dramas at a wedding, but two stand out for a very mundane reason; temperature. One was late afternoon on what had been a lovely September day, but about 5pm it went off very cold, and anybody wearing thin summer stuff was freezing. It was one of those barn like places. They eventually lit a fire in the great hall and everybody was huddled round it. Why the heating wasn't turned on I don't know.
The other was too bloody hot. An airless crowded room, with far less seating than guests, a huge queue for the rather small bar and everyone getting a bit annoyed. Coupled with insufficient food after the early gannets had swooped on the buffet and left barely nothing, it was awful. We left because I actually felt sick and faint after a while.