Active discussions

Meet the Other Phone. Protection built in.

Meet the Other Phone.
Protection built in.

Buy now

Please or to access all these features

Talk
AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

Original poster

To ask for your cringey wedding stories?

393 replies

thedysontree · 25/08/2019 19:10

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?

OP posts:
dollydaydream114 · 25/08/2019 21:31

Full striptease by the groomsmen at the night do.

I’ve seen this happen too, at an afternoon wedding reception I was working at when I was a teenager. The guests all seemed to think it was fine until one of the completely naked ushers danced behind the top table and tapped his dick against the face of one of the bridesmaids, who looked to me to be about 14. She cried (understandably, given that this was literally a sexual assault) and then a fight broke out. Looking back I can’t believe the police weren’t called by the venue staff.

LegallyBrunet · 25/08/2019 21:36

The vicar scarcely mentioned the existence of the bride during the service and instead heaped praise upon the groom. Who it transpired was the vicar’s son...

BeingATwatItsABingThing · 25/08/2019 21:40

Oh I’ve remembered another one.

Wedding where the bride sang her entrance song. Awful! Completely tone deaf! And the evening band were friends of the bride and groom. Musicians were great but the singer was dreadful. I had held it together all evening, resisting the urge to comment on it. They started singing one song though and I couldn’t help myself. The loudest laugh just burst out of me. A fair few people looked at me for that. Blush

BlockedAndDeleted · 25/08/2019 21:44

How long was the fucking aisle?!

What part was she at when she reached him?

“Every now and then I fall apart!”

Did the congregation join in, because it is the ultimate singalong.

Any excuse to watch this again though (not wedding related)

Isthebigwomanhere · 25/08/2019 21:49

A wedding last year , the groomsmen and best man had to be given a lift by the grooms neighbours as the cars never turned up.
They made it by a minute before the bride.
At the reception the best man was to pissed to give his speech and had to be taken home and put to bed.😀

Intheupsidedown · 25/08/2019 21:52

Whole load of commotion going on with the bride, groom, bridesmaids etc.

Turned out the boyfriend of the main bridesmaid had just been found in bed with the best man.... hotel was at the venue.... girl thought she was clever having the room keys hadnt banked on the hotel staff having a spare which the guy borrowed when he was worried that he hadnt seen his gf for a while and couldn't get in the room....

AnneElliott · 25/08/2019 21:56

The brides sister (bridesmaid) was found in the ladies loos with a bloke that wasn't her husband. The man and husband had a fight on the dance floor.

Booboostwo · 25/08/2019 22:00

Conservative crowd, the groom’s parents were Christian missionaries and quite uncomfortable with the fact that this was a second wedding for their son. The best man gave a speech telling us all about the threesome he’d had with the groom and a woman who was not the bride!

Span1elsRock · 25/08/2019 22:01

When my cousin got married, she recorded a song on her hen night with all the other squawking hens on the backing track. So as a surprise for her new DH she got the DJ to play it for them to dance to at their reception Shock. His mother's face was the highlight of the day tbh Grin and we all learned during that painful 5 minutes that my cousin really can't sing and her DH really can't dance ..............

tinkerbellla · 25/08/2019 22:05

God I wish I'd witnessed Total Eclipse Bride 😂. Utterly amazing!!

sailorcherries · 25/08/2019 22:13

My own toddler cried through our, non religious, service wanting juice. It was a hot day and they were knackered. Every other adult was too terrified to move and sort it so the DJ saved the day.
We do have a lovely part of our video that has him screaming.

Clawdy · 25/08/2019 22:26

The best man's speech at a wedding I went to last year. He said to the bride's parents " I bet you feel sore about losing your daughter - but not as sore as Emma will feel after a night with our Matt! " Cue a dreadful silence then a few uneasy chuckles. Bride, groom and parents looked horrified.

Anniecott · 25/08/2019 22:31

My 80 yr old priest was pissed, forgot half the service, didn't pronounce us man and wife and fell asleep during 5 mins quite reflection and prayer, he had to woken up the 90 yr old alter server who tripped over and couldn't get back up. 😱

GabsAlot · 25/08/2019 22:40

Sorry annie but i spat my drink out at the server who couldnt get up

Honeyroar · 25/08/2019 22:48

Best man's speech going on and on about how the catholic priest had "touched him" with his ceremony. How he was obviously quite talented at "touching people" (the priest was at the meal and good friends with the bride's parents). Also went on about how hot the brides mother looked in her white trouser suit (that was rather tight) and how she was a milf! Apparently the groom and best man nearly came to blows over the speech later on and didn't speak for weeks.

Weston14 · 25/08/2019 22:49

A family member is the licensee of quite a big social club and every now and again asks me to open/lock up/keep an eye on the bar if he's busy elsewhere as I live nearby. A few years back we held an evening do which was absolutely empty. I felt terrible for the poor couple, they seemed lovely as well. They'd not done a plated meal type thing but had instead laid on a buffet and had catered for about 150, maybe more. I'd say there were less than 30 people there, and it was a massive elephant in the room that no one was acknowledging. It was a weekday and during the school term time, and from about 5 o'clock onwards or so a few people trickled down, clearly having just left work, to have one drink and carry on home. I lingered round for a bit out of ghoulish fascination to see if anybody else turned up to supervise the bar but I left myself at about 6.30 and let one of the bar staff lock up. I often think of the couple and wonder why, even if the choice of date was a bit strange, nobody came.

HarryRug · 25/08/2019 22:51

Wedding where the groom sang “Sweet Caroline” to a bride called Claire.

Persea · 25/08/2019 23:01

A wedding where the father of the bride made barely any reference to the bride (his daughter), but instead spent most of the speech going on about his wife (her mother). Just odd.

lololove · 25/08/2019 23:02

Not quite as much fun as Total Eclipse bride or some of the others -b ut we had a choreographed dance routine between bride and groom - so so awkwardly done - and the bride and hens breaking out into the Thriller dance routine that they'd learnt at the hen do.

GabsAlot · 25/08/2019 23:05

What is it with best men and their crap misogynist speeches-no its not funny to say how many women the groom has been with

GrimSisters · 25/08/2019 23:13

I went to a posh wedding in France. There was a cheesy piano man who, together with the bride, sang a saccharine ode to 'dear Papa'. At one point allthe women were ushered behind a curtain and made to practice a dance routine to perform to the men. Fuck this shit I thought, as I winked at the barman, grabbed a drink and disappeared under his long tableclothed table until it was all over think he thought his luck was inBlush
Other highlights included a clearly drunk and rambling mayor who performed the civil ceremony and food so raw it was almost moving!

AlexaAmbidextra · 25/08/2019 23:31

Wedding on a very hot day over the other side of London so a coach had been hired to get us there. We, the groom’s family sat back while the bride’s mob, who quite frankly were a bit rough, had the first go at the buffet. They demolished the lot and we waited for it to be replenished. Well it wasn’t. That was it. So we starved.

The entertainment was provided by an aunt of the bride who obviously had a drink problem. She would drink until she passed out then her family members would drag her to the venue’s kitchen and put her head under the tap to bring her round. She then emerged, like a drowned rat to drink herself senseless again. So she was put under the tap again. This repeated several times. She must have been under that tap six times by the time the ordeal ended. Our side couldn’t wait for our coach to come back to take us home, starving and pissed off. We still talk about it forty years later. 😂

takemebacktoLondon2012 · 25/08/2019 23:40

Persea were you at my wedding? Was 30 years ago - we do laugh about it but I love my Dad to bits and would love to have heard him talk about me particularly as I have 2 louder sisters who tended to take the attention

Patroclus · 25/08/2019 23:59

bloooooooody hell the ladz bantz at army weddings is the cringiest thing in the world. They all seem to think everybody is really charmed and jealous of thir 1970s forced 'forces humour'. I dont even want to recall the ones I've witnessed

dinodiva · 26/08/2019 00:02

Went to a wedding where during the speech one of the best men pointed out the similarities between the groom and Rolf Harris. Always a good idea to compare someone to a convicted paedophile in front of their parents. You could feel everyone in the room cringing. I felt so sorry for the groom who was (and still is) a lovely chap, just sadly has some idiot friends with an inappropriate idea of what constitutes humour.

Swipe left for the next trending thread