To ask for your cringey wedding stories?

[thedysontree]

Was at the wedding of my sister's best friend yesterday. The bride sang "Total Eclipse Of The Heart", as she was walking down the aisle. She's a lovely woman but christ she cannot sing (though I think it would have been cringe even if she was Adele). The husband didn't know she was going to sing and seemed very taken aback by her it.

There was also a wedding a few years ago where the couple had their 4 year old stand next to the vicar and try and read out their vows for them. Being 4, he struggled and everybody was waiting awkwardly while the vicar was trying to help him pronounce words.

So, am I being unreasonable to ask for your cringe wedding stories?

[Spidey66]

@LeatherBottle it was called Smugglers Cove. I understand it's since been demolished. Says a lot really.

[Weathergirl1]

@VeryLittleOwl that's a different one to the one I mentioned as I saw it on a forum in 2006/7! Must be quite the hazard with so many men in kilts 🤣

[WaterOffaDucksCrack]

poor catering gets mentioned repeatedly here on MN whenever weddings come up That's probably because nobody will post about how good the food was on a worst/most cringeworthy weddings thread. People remember not being fed becasue it stands out. All the wedding planning threads usually say how important the catering is because you want happy guests and people remember inadequate catering. I'd imagine that's the same across many countries and cultures.

[beela]

We went to a wedding where the vicar was an old uni friend of the groom. The sermon was more like a best man's speech, all about the crazy times they had had, and didn't mention the bride at all. The vicar's toddler ds wandered around at the front of the church for most of the service. Later on, the vicar nearly took several people out with his energetic dancing... Certainly cleared a space on the dance floor anyway!

[itchyfinger]

@RainbowKnickers oh no it must be a repeated joke then, this wedding was abroad. Very very funny, but ours was the only table laughing, the family didn't like it.

[namechange911]

Good friend of mine had a shotgun wedding, no one had told the minister (presumably because he would not marry them had he known) & the poor man referred to them starting a family in the future & how special it was that they had saved themselves several times throughout the ceremony. Extremely cringe, especially as the bride was very obviously 6 months pregnant
Same wedding had an open floor for speeches, a mutual friend stood up, congratulated the newly weds & told an in depth story of how they broke up & got back together again repeatedly over the years

[motortroll]

A friend of mines wedding, I went to the evening do. Her son was a fab dancer and at some fancy dance school but he favoured the kind of interpretative dance I cant get my head round.

She and her son "performed" for the guests. Her new husband had to sit in a chair in the middle. She sung (not very well) while he threw himself round the floor in a leotard.

My boss was there and I couldn't look at him or my husband cos I knew I'd lose it!

We left early!

[LeatherBottle]

@Spidey66 - it wasn’t at Club St Lucia was it? I went to a very similar wedding there

[Rainbowknickers]

@itchyfingers I hope so!lol at my brothers it was just stony silence
All the old rellies just looked confused and the rest of us where cringing
This wedding was in York

[itchyfinger]

@Rainbowknickers I was also at a wedding where that was the best man's opening 'line. I had a good laugh! Maybe it was the same wedding?!

[VeryLittleOwl]

The skidmark on the wedding dress isn't an urban legend - picture of the newspaper cutting here:

www.huffpost.com/entry/scottish-wedding-fight_n_870389

[spanieleyes]

The vicar's speech at my wedding ( so some time ago!) was all about the Falklands War!

[imalrightjack]

*blow up sex doll. God damn it!

[imalrightjack]

Best man did a speech and mentioned the stag do. Said that the groom had made a special friend at the stag do and this friend was here today to say hello.

Best man briefly leaves room and returns with a blow upset doll, who he then proceeded to sit at the top table in between bride and groom.

Bride was not happy at all. The rest of us were 😮

[MissConductUS]

Good to know MulticolourMophead and that certainly makes sense, but poor catering gets mentioned repeatedly here on MN whenever weddings come up. I've been to many weddings in the US and can't recall one where the food wasn't abundant and nicely done, even if it was just BBQ.

[MulticolourMophead]

MissConductUS Despite some people in the UK going for style over substance, in general people will also talk for decades about a wedding that wasn't properly hosted here, too.

[saj90]

@thesoftblueone Oh my god that's awful, especially the bit about the groom boasting...

[Firstworddinosaur]

Open mic for the speeches. Anyone could get up and say their piece. And they did. It went on for hours.

[Nimmykins]

My sister’s wedding ran out of food. Her now ex in-laws did the catering. I asked her to ensure there would be something I could eat as I’m vegetarian. Bread and lettuce and not much of it. We’re a family who over cater so it was embarrassing. I went for a curry with my date in the evening.

She paid my back by walking over and standing on my wedding dress when she signed the register. She then turned to me and said “I didn’t know where I was supposed to sit”. It turned out the ushers has returned her to the second row three times as she kept wandering around the church. She also went to the pub and missed the bus to the reception venue and the family photos.

We also had to evacuate after the fire alarm went off due to flambé steaks.

My cousin and his wife renewed their vows after ten years of marriage during his wife’a 40th. His mother walked out. It’s 20 years next year so I hope she’s calmed down.

[Kannet]

#weathergirl11. That story is an urban legend. It's always doing the rounds :)

[VenusClapTrap]

Your going to be videoing the wedding yes?” I had no idea this was happening

I feel for you. I turned up as a guest at a destination wedding to find out I was doing the flowers. I had no idea either. And I’m not a florist.

[Weathergirl1]

Just remembered a similar thread on a wedding forum when we were wedding planning, so this story isn't one I personally saw. However someone on that posted about a wedding she went to in Scotland where the male members of the wedding party were all kilted up and later on during the evening reception one of the ushers (I think, though may have been the best man) sat on the bride's knee. When he got up, he'd left a large skid mark on the front of her white dress... 😱

[SymphonyofShadows]

@DareDevil223 I’ve been to a wedding with a best man/brother telling a story about the groom shitting himself. Was the wedding in Chester?

[EllaEllaE]

Father of the bride gave a long speech that was more in the tone of a best man's speech. It included several stories about her getting drunk and passing out in various places.

But the worst was when he said "Living with three daughters and my wife, I was the only man in the house. So you could say I was pussy whipped."

Cue an audible gasp from every guest under 40.

I don't think that means what you think it means....

The wedding was otherwise lovely; the marriage proved long lasting and loving. But the groom tries to avoid visiting the in-laws as much as possible...

[HearMeSnore]

'And then the doors of the church will open and you'll see a vision of loveliness in white. That'll be me'.

I have to say, I do like a vicar with a sense of humour. The ceremony is pretty nerve wracking for the bride & groom so if any tension can be dispelled with laughter it can make things a lot easier and more fun.