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To ask if anything went wrong on your wedding day?

281 replies

Louisa298 · 25/06/2020 19:15

To ask if anything went wrong on your wedding day?

OP posts:
Frazzled2207 · 27/06/2020 19:28

My hairdresser was late, nearly 2 hours! Was ok in the end she sorted me but not the bridesmaids who did their own. Looking back I’m not sure why I hired her. My mum was about to drive me to the nearest town and I was going to go into different hairdressers begging someone to my hair.

While all of this was going on it was the most biblical rain I’d ever seen in the Uk. Absolutely horrendous. It just about dried up for the ceremony and the sun came out later. It was cold though (In July!).
Also we had a couple of uninvited guests. Perfectly nice ones, friends of my mother’s who seemed to think they were invited! Played havoc with the table plan but someone else sorted that out.

FairfaxAikman · 27/06/2020 20:41

I've just remembered my dads speech!

He started with "I was told to keep it clean so cling film seemed the best way..." as he produced his folded speech notes wrapped in cling film.

He then spent a couple of awkward minutes trying to get the speech out of the cling film as he'd used so many layers and couldn't find the end.

NameChange657 · 27/06/2020 20:41

My neighbour was walking to the vintage car to go to her wedding ceremony, we were all out and clapping for her, she turned round to smile and wave, fell really awkwardly down the tiny curb, open fracture to the leg. Didn't even make it to the 2pm ceremony, ended up in an operating theatre instead! They got married 7 month later when the metal frame was finally removed from her leg.

Pugworld · 28/06/2020 13:48

Hmm where to start?

We set a date and a few weeks later were told we'd have to choose another by MIL, because BIL (who got engaged after us) had decided on a wedding date that she considered to be too close to ours.

My mother interfered in every single aspect of the wedding planning, bitching and whining until we finally caved in to some of her demands. Invited lots of her friends who I'd never even met.

Twenty minutes into the 40 minute drive to the ceremony, I realised my flowers were still on the dining room table at my parents' house. We went back for them but I was only about 10 minutes late in the end.

My exit from the bridal car was a little undignified, as my sister was supposed to help me with my dress but instead stood there pissing about with her camera.

Forty nine of my husband's 'friends' failed to turn up leaving us with many empty seats and a lot of buffet food waste.

The best man popped home after the ceremony to check on his partner (who didn't want to come to the wedding for whatever reason) and never returned. BIL had to stand in and make an impromptu speech.

My cousin was late to the reception because she and her DH went to the wrong venue where there was another wedding in full swing. They'd helped themselves to champagne and a selection from the buffet when the bride approached them and they realised it wasn't me.

Husband turned out to be a knob and I divorced him.

totallyyesno · 28/06/2020 14:27

@NameChange657 That's awful!

totallyyesno · 28/06/2020 14:32

I also had another guest turn up in a long white dress and she asked to have her photo taken with her boyfriend, just the two of them coming out of the church. Grin Not sure what was going on there but they split up shortly afterwards.

SpeedofaSloth · 28/06/2020 14:36

I have been at someone else's wedding when another guest turned up in her own wedding dress. The bride, Mum, was on 2nd time around, her adult DD was the guest who turned up in her own wedding dress. The DD then proceeded to take the first dance spot at the reception. There had been a family rift beforehand and not many people had gone to the DD's wedding so she said that she wanted a 2nd go Confused

Fungster · 28/06/2020 14:45

Nurse I had booked to mind DS cancelled with the flu. So I missed my reception meal and didn’t get down to the party until night nurse took over at 10.30.

@Carravaggio Were you the bride here? You missed your own wedding reception? Couldn't someone else have cared for your son?

Fungster · 28/06/2020 14:59

Forty nine of my husband's 'friends' failed to turn up leaving us with many empty seats and a lot of buffet food waste.

The best man popped home after the ceremony to check on his partner (who didn't want to come to the wedding for whatever reason) and never returned. BIL had to stand in and make an impromptu speech.

That is absolutely terrible @Pugworld! What reasons did the no-shows and the best man give? That almost seems orchestrated; 49 people independently deciding not to show doesn't sound right, does it?

randomchap · 28/06/2020 15:01

I was so nervous I forgot to turn the paper over while delivering my speech. Only did half the speech and didn't mention my wife once.

Pugworld · 28/06/2020 15:36

@Fungster

They (including the best man) were all members of a social club he belonged to which was a fair distance from where we lived at the time. He initially suggested we hire a coach to transport them to the venue but our budget was tight, so I said if they were as good a friends as he said they were, they'd make it under their own steam.

A few sent RSVP cards but he insisted the others had all said they were definitely coming, so we catered for them. Like I said, he was a knob.

AllNaturalIngredients · 28/06/2020 15:50

I’m a makeup artist so I be with a bridal parties all morning... don’t think I’ve ever done a wedding where something hasn’t went wrong (varying in severity).

Cars breaking down, people getting sacked because they didn’t tell their boss they wouldn’t be in, bride getting rouge-noir lipstick all over her white dress, bride having a complete & utter melt down, bride who got her lashes permed the day before - went horribly wrong, cakes getting smashed when transported, bride getting accidentally pulling her veil & then hair out after hair dresser had left, dresses not fitting, hair dropping out of style, dodgy tans etc. You name it, I’ve seen it.

Buggedandconfused · 28/06/2020 15:51

My narcissistic mother left the reception at 6pm and went awol till 9.30pm, missing my and DH’s first dance. She’d gone to have cocktails with friends at Trader Vic’s in Park Lane. Lovely.

Concestor · 28/06/2020 15:52

It rained, one of DH's friends fell over the band's speakers, the hotel forgot the knife to cut the cake so we all had to wait while they went to get one, no one saved me a slice so I never got to taste my own wedding cake, and the music for our first dance glitched and we had to restart. Also the photographer didn't get pictures of all our guests and done key family members are missing from our photos.

Quite a lot when I see it written down!

Concestor · 28/06/2020 15:53

Oh and I also had to mediate between the band and hotel staff who were arguing over where the tables should go for the evening reception!

keepingbees · 28/06/2020 16:06

Pretty much everything. It wasn't the day I wanted at all anyway but it turned out worse than I could've imagined.

I had a stressful morning with no help getting ready with two DC including a small baby.
My hairdresser turned up way too early, didn't do my hair as we'd planned in the trial and used cheap hairspray that turned my hair greasy and crispy.
Torrential rain started just before the ceremony that turned the beautiful grounds into a quagmire and ballsed up any chance of nice photos outside. My dress and shoes got ruined. Guests complained and walked off.
Reception venue didn't make enough food and dished it all out to the first people to the table leaving hardly anything for anyone else including me.
Photographer messed up our photos and and we never got them.

devilishlygood · 28/06/2020 16:12

My husband’s ex turned up and screamed at him that he was a cunt! In front of their kids. And his son left before the vows and now doesn’t speak to him. Pretty excruciating. We didn’t even have guests, just my sister and ger husband as witnesses so that we could focus all our attention on the children. Ho hum.

DdraigGoch · 28/06/2020 17:46

You learn something new every day. Today I have learnt that there is such a thing as "Weddng Gnomes".

God help us all.

Turin · 28/06/2020 17:52

@FairfaxAikman Grin belly laughed!

wildthingsinthenight · 28/06/2020 17:58

Lots! My necklace broke before the service, there was a pin left in my dress (I know that's good luck but it pricked my boob and I bled on my dress)
The photos took too long and delayed the wedding breakfast. The evening reception was badly delayed by the band taking so long to set up. It was DH's band by the way! So everything was late.
Nothing mattered by that time and it didn't make a difference to the day which was lovely

ElizabethAlexandraMary · 28/06/2020 17:59

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ThePants999 · 28/06/2020 18:04

I got lost attempting to follow my own directions to the venue.

KickAssAngel · 28/06/2020 18:11

The organist got our wedding mixed up with the next one and played the wrong music. The vicar had to bellow the full length and height of the church to be heard over the music to tell her she should be playing My song is love unknown, not All things bright and beautiful.

Rubbleonthedouble1 · 28/06/2020 18:12

Oh and the bride who got so drunk before her ceremony that she slurred through the I dos and then went to lay down for hours! (Not me!!)

My2catsarefab · 28/06/2020 18:16

I forgot to put my veil on.

Then I went and said "I do" instead of bolting for the door....
Spent the night of the reception being ignored by my new husband while he got pissed with his mates.
I got woke up in the night by him having a wank in the hotel bed then he went and threw up. I went down to breakfast next morning on my own. Spent the morning crying. Marriage lasted less than 2 years.