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To still be upset about wedding

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Arc123 · 18/07/2019 21:12

We got married 6 weeks ago and I'm still really struggling with how drunk my husband got at the wedding. It's something we discussed before as although he doesn't do it often he has a habit of getting carried away and doing something to upset me so he agreed not to get really drunk and seemed fine with this. He also knows he upsets me when he's like that and we've had multiple times of him apologising but I don't feel he truly gets it as he can never remember what he actually did!

During the night a couple of times I said he shouldn't have any more but with everything going on I didn't see him much until it was time to leave and I then realised he'd clearly continued drinking. The taxi driving nearly refused to take him and he had to stick his head out the window for the whole journey. We then got to the hotel and he couldn't remember how to get to our room (he checked in earlier so I hadn't been). I had to struggle with millions of buttons on my dress whilst he passed out on the bed. What was worse was the way he looked at me when I said I needed him to help, realistically I know it was the effort of the dress that he was thinking of but the look of disgust on his face at helping me won't leave my mind. I know usually everyones too tired after the wedding for much to happen but I was really looking forward to us having a drink in the room and talking about our day especially as we hadn't seen each other much apart from photos.

I also tried to get him away from his friends to talkn to other people but he kept going back, it was also a struggle to get him to say bye to anyone. He also vanished for ages with his friends and missed lots of people leaving.

I've spoken to him but am really struggling to forgive. My worry is that if he can't stick to something which was important for me on our wedding how likely is he to do it another time? Don't think it's helped by the fact he didn't reply to my messages whilst he was on his stag which massively triggered my anxiety which only really went back to normal a couple of days before the wedding.

I spent my wedding night in tears on the sofa in our hotel room. I know he can't change anything but I'm struggling with this being the final memories of our wedding day. Everyone commented on how relaxed I was on the day which was cos I wasn't fussed about most of it (I'd have been just as happy with an evening party), the only thing that mattered to me was us spending the day together and I feel that for him the most important thing was getting drunk with his friends.

Sorry for the long post, I think part of my just needed to get this off my chest!

OP posts:
Andromeida59 · 19/07/2019 10:07

I can understand why you're disappointed but I also think that there is so much pressure on people to have a "perfect" wedding that people set themselves up for some sort of failure.
Maybe how you're feeling is also a sort of come-down post wedding?

anothernamechange123 · 19/07/2019 10:28

OP, YANBU
It was very selfish and inconsiderate of him to behave this way.
My dh used to go overboard with drink a lot. It's horrendously embarrassing and just awful.
He has matured somewhat and doesn't do it anywhere near as much. I do feel your pain. He has tainted the memory of what should have been the best day of your life.
He needs to sort it out!

GabsAlot · 19/07/2019 11:04

A party are people on crack here-its two people making a commitment for the rest of their lives not a fucking piss up he can do that another time

He sounds awful op

SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 19/07/2019 12:58

"let him enjoy the most expensive party you both will ever throw."

It is perfectly possible to enjoy a party - even the most expensive one - without getting absolutely smashed, though, @julensaor - and the fact that he couldn't, especially after promising that he wouldn't get totally legless, is a red flag for me. As I said in my earlier post, I have experience of being with someone who has an alcohol problem, one that meant that, once they started drinking, it was very hard for them to stop, and it did affect our family.

But it can be dealt with - my dh realised he had a problem and asked for help - and hasn't had an alcoholic drink in over 11 years.

And even though he was still drinking when we got married, he managed to control his drinking and didn't spoil the wedding for me, him or anyone else.

OhJustElfOff · 19/07/2019 13:08

Ultimately it's about how you feel. My DH's behaviour at our wedding was way off the scale of unforgivable to many friends but different things make me cross and quite honestly I can hold it against him forevermore whenever I drink too much and I just found it funny. However if I had asked him not to carry on with something that would make me unhappy he would have stopped and that is the bottom line, on your wedding day at the very least you should expect from your DH/DW is that they respect your feelings.

Yabbers · 19/07/2019 13:44

let him enjoy the most expensive party you both will ever throw

By getting so blind drunk he barely know where he is?

DH and I enjoyed our wedding and neither of us had to get drunk to do that.

IsobelRae23 · 19/07/2019 13:53

When a friend of mine got married, he can hold his drink fairly well, but everyone was saying to him ‘let me buy you a drink’ and he would refuse, yet they would insist, and towards the end of the night, I was taking his drinks off him and replacing them with water- yet still people were insisting he needed ‘another drink’. So sometimes I think we can’t always blame the bride and groom, because even saying no, some friends and relatives don’t listen.

Darkstar4855 · 19/07/2019 13:57

Agree with PP: whether I’d forgive him depends on whether he is apologetic and recognises that his behaviour was wrong.

ShatnersWig · 19/07/2019 14:02

So sometimes I think we can’t always blame the bride and groom, because even saying no, some friends and relatives don’t listen

But all that means is that the friends and relatives continue to spend their money on a drink. The bride or groom don't actually have to drink it. That is THEIR choice.

thecatsthecats · 19/07/2019 14:02

I got hassled for 'not being drunk enough' on my hen do - at 10pm.

I'd been wasted the night before, and was pacing myself. Made it through very merrily to 4am!

plasterboots · 19/07/2019 14:02

When a friend of mine got married, he can hold his drink fairly well, but everyone was saying to him ‘let me buy you a drink’ and he would refuse, yet they would insist, and towards the end of the night, I was taking his drinks off him and replacing them with water- yet still people were insisting he needed ‘another drink’. So sometimes I think we can’t always blame the bride and groom, because even saying no, some friends and relatives don’t listen.

This must happen at 95% of weddings, including my own.... just didn't drink them, no one can force you to drink them. If people insisted on buying me a drink and I refused and they did it anyway, I would just put it down and accidentally forget it.

Before anyone says that's a waste, it no more of a waste than spewing it up three hours later.

To say a grown man can't limit his alcohol intake because others "made him do it" is pathetic!

Oblomov19 · 19/07/2019 14:10

I see things totally differently to you. I think you are totally overreacting.
You have to let these things go and see the bigger picture of your day. Was your wedding day nice? Did it go well?

You spent time crying on the sofa? That's not good. Your anxiety hasn't quelled with time, over the last month?

The drinking is a bit disrespectful, but I think you are focusing on that one aspect too much.
Dh and I spent a lot of time apart at our wedding, you get pulled in different directions. 5 of my closest friends said exactly the same happened to them and happens to most people.

mussolini9 · 19/07/2019 14:13

Its his wedding too and on your wedding day your trying to control him?

FFS @WomanLikeMeLM - can you not see that asking for behaviour like not being so ratarsed the taxi nearly refuses you, & not giving your bride a look of disgust when she asks for help getting out of her wedding dress, is entirely reasonable & very far from seeking to "control"?

thetimekeeper · 19/07/2019 14:21

So, does he have form for this which is why you asked him to behave differently?

And how has he behaved since?

Is it a pattern of behaviour which included him letting you down on an important day, or a one off disappointment that's out of character and for which he is remorseful for the distress he caused (whether intended or not)?

Nesssie · 19/07/2019 14:23

I also think you are over reacting.
It doesn't sound like he made a scene/threw up/chucked the cake across the room . He just enjoyed his wedding.
Getting married is stressful, nerve wracking and exciting so I'm not surprised he let himself go afterwards. He is allowed to have fun at his own wedding.

And I doubt he looked at you with 'disgust' he was drunk and you asked him to undo hundreds of fiddly buttons!

Not sure why you had to sleep crying on the sofa either.

Nesssie · 19/07/2019 14:31

sorry OP this has already made the Daily Fail Angry

ShatnersWig · 19/07/2019 14:41

Nesssie So with this He just enjoyed his wedding you're saying it's OK for him to enjoy his wedding by ruining it for her?

Getting married is stressful, nerve wracking and exciting many things are, but it doesn't mean you have to get shit faced and ruin in for your brand new wife.

He is allowed to have fun at his own wedding you can have fun without getting shit faced and, again, at someone else's expense.

Nesssie · 19/07/2019 14:49

I don't think he ruined it all. I think she 'ruined' it for herself by overreacting. People build up the 'perfect' wedding day and when it doesn't go exactly how they imagine, suddenly its ruined.
He wanted to drink and hang out with his friends. Just let him do that. He didn't do anything embarrassing or bad.

He quite clearly doesn't think she is disgusting - that was her being upset and skewing her view of the 'disgust' look her gave her.

And he didn't throw up int he taxi so that's a non-issue too.

plasterboots · 19/07/2019 14:56

I don't think he ruined it all. I think she 'ruined' it for herself by overreacting. People build up the 'perfect' wedding day and when it doesn't go exactly how they imagine, suddenly its ruined.
He wanted to drink and hang out with his friends. Just let him do that. He didn't do anything embarrassing or bad

You have to understand @Nesssie that not everyone has your very low standards of what's acceptable,

A wedding day is not the time to get shit faced and "hang out" with friends, that's what the stag do is for!

I cannot believe that anyone would have such low expectations of their husband.

plasterboots · 19/07/2019 14:59

@Nesssie also why is "having fun" getting so shit faced you pass out..... that's your idea of fun? Fun for me, is having a few, enough to remember the day, remember everything what happened, dancing like no one is watching, laughing with friends.... not hanging my head out the taxi window, not able to find my room, not forgetting half the stuff that happened, not passing out.

I'm damn sure no one wakes up the next day after that and thinks "hey that was fun"!

Nesssie · 19/07/2019 15:04

He didn't get so drunk he threw up or make a fool of himself. I bet the guests didn't even notice. Yes he may not have done exactly what the bride wanted, but its his wedding too.

Calling it unforgivable and holding a grudge 6 weeks on is a massive overreaction in my opinion.

ShatnersWig · 19/07/2019 15:07

Yes he may not have done exactly what the bride wanted, but its his wedding too

But he AGREED not to do it. He KNOWS it upsets her. But he did it anyway. He's a cock.

plasterboots · 19/07/2019 15:09

He didn't get so drunk he threw up or make a fool of himself. I bet the guests didn't even notice. Yes he may not have done exactly what the bride wanted, but its his wedding too.

@Nesssie is that the very low bar you set....you're ok as long as you don't throw up?

Didn't make a fool of himself, I bet he bloody did and of course the guests noticed, we've all been to weddings that have bride or groom pissed, we all see it, we just choose to not say anything.

thecatsthecats · 19/07/2019 15:10

I do think there's room for something inbetween here to be fair.

Being reminded a few times not to drink too much, being told who to talk to at the wedding, being annoyed he didn't personally say goodbye to everyone... these things together do incline me slightly to Nesssie's point of view.

OP YANBU to have wanted him to be less drunk, but you were a bit U to hassle him about the other things.

Yes, the stag do is for socialising with the lads, but your guests were perfectly capable of collaring your husband for a chat if they wanted to. Ditto for goodbyes - people came to us when they were leaving to thank us for the day and say bye.