To ask if anything went wrong on your wedding day?

[Louisa298]

To ask if anything went wrong on your wedding day?

My grandmother told everyone I was a spoiled brat and had done nothing towards the wedding.
There was an England football match on which caused a huge row between my mum and my uncle.
The cake (made by sis in law) was a disaster and fell to pieces.
My friend stepped on my train and ripped it.
And ...my father told me on the way to the church that I didn’t have to go through with it. I wish I had listened to him.

Someone stood on the back of my dress and ripped it, this was later on in the day so I don’t think anyone noticed. One guest vomited on the dance floor because they had had too much wine, someone else slipped in it before it was cleaned up and sprained their wrist. A friend’s new girlfriend turned up to the night do and passed out in the car park because she had taken a load of drugs and was taken to hospital! I don’t even know who on earth she was, but she was okay after a couple of hours. Apart from that it all went to plan.

My sister's wedding.
It had been raining prior to her setting off for the church and the pavement was wet and muddy. She slipped on the path outside the church and walked down the aisle with muddy water all down the front of her dress.
Then the little bridesmaid threw up blackcurrant juice all down the back of it just as my sister reached the top of the aisle.
The best man got pissed at the evening reception and threw up all over my sister, who had changed into a lovely silk dress.
Her husband's grandmother whacked his step grandmother with her walking stick and shouted that she was a ' rancid old whore ' and to ' piss off out of it ', during the photos being taken.

Alcohol seems to be a common denominator in these disasters.

I don't drink, and while we had an open bar at the reception and dinner, the guests were surprisingly well mannered about it.

Before the champaign toast I had the barman discretely fill a champaign flute with ginger ale for me.

Well, I fell down the stairs in the dark, but nobody saw that!

Actually, I had a bit of supreme luck on my wedding day. The best man was a bit of a wrong un and had had a falling out with my husband before the wedding. He sent a text apologising and asking to come back and take part.

Praise the Lord for poor signal reception! The text didn't arrive until we were halfway to the airport for our honeymoon, and my husband said that it would have put him in an emotional tailspin on the morning of our wedding.

The worse thing that happened on mine was the cake went missing (it did eventually turn up) - it had been delivered to the hotel and put in the fridge the night before and had just disappeared!

I was at another wedding though that was very funny(ish) as a guest, but imagine it would have been a nightmare if you were the bride/ groom. There were plates for the 3 vegan dinners but NONE for anyone else. They were being saved for the night time buffet. So my DH and the rest of the non-vegans had to eat their beef, veg and sauce from their napkins! It was bizarre. Later on, one of the guests (who had been pregnant, then bf and hadn't drank in about 2 years) had three bottles of free wine and collapsed in the toilet cubicle of the room next door to the reception room(no idea why she went there instead of the toilets in our reception room!). The emergency services had to break down the door and those toilets were out of order so the guests from the other wedding had to use ours! She got wheeled out on a stretcher through our reception room, so everyone knew what had happened.

Not at all.

We decided to have just 2 witnesses each though, and just a buffet back at our place, so less chance for drama.

It rained, but I think that’s all about mindset. It made it funny running through the rain to get photos.

@Fungster DS needs a nurse or someone trained in his care. DSIS & DH are both trained but they were enjoying the Prosecco too much to care for him we had nurses as guests who took care of him while we visited FIL in hospital and had photos taken. Then the night nurses took over early at 10.30.
TBH I had a lovely evening in the bridal suite with my bridesmaids and DS. Guests came up to chat over the hours too. It wasn’t a typical wedding day but I’m glad DS was there with me.

It rained - very heavily!

Officient didn't include a few things we requested.

Son vomited on the dance floor in the middle of the first dance.

Father of DH had to be (forcibly) stopped from making a speech about his religion during the dancing.

It was still a great day!

Nothing really.
My flower girls bouquet turned up as a single rose. (I didn’t care, mum did - she sorted it whatever)
A couple of people didn’t show up (fine, I had deliberately sat one of these people next to a lady I knew was pregnant and hungry all the time, the rest of the table just split the food between themselves)
And my husband is still known as “the drunkest groom ever” 7 years after that fact.
It was a brilliant day tbh, everyone enjoyed themselves and there was loads of food, fun and frolics!

Arrived slightly early to church so car stopped 10mins away so we arrived on time. Sadly the vintage car decided to break down when we went to move again!
Then during meal I set fire to my bouquet with a tea light. Still married 18 years later though

Yes! We'd been at the door welcoming the evening guests. Finally made our way in and I said to my new hubby 'ohh you didn't introduce me to them' a couple sitting in the corner with a big plate of buffet food.

'There not my family, they must be your' he's say.

Nope, they weren't mine either! We stood there for a good 10 mins watching them eating, drinking and laughing and my dad walks by. We tell him that we don't recognise them, so he goes over and sits with them:

'Hello' he says, 'it's been a cracking day hasn't it'

'Yes' they reply, 'lovely'

'Who's side are you on' he's asks

'The brides' they say, 'we are related to the bride'

'Really' he says' 'I'm her dad and I don't know you' 😂

They both looked at each other and you could see them swallow really hard. By this point my husband had gathered a few friends (well about 50) and, well let's just say they were swiftly removed and kindly asked not to return.

I still crack up every time I think of this 😂

My cake fell down
A relative was obnoxiously drunk
Rain prevented lots of photos being taken.
I'd still summarise it as a perfect day

Yes loads but it didn't matter in the grand scheme of things. To name a few: 40mph winds all day (but it was October awe planned to be indoors all day), moh forgot my husband's ring which had us giggling at the front of the church (also her saying s@#t when she realised and slapping a hand to her mouth for saying it in church). Most people didn't bring reading glasses for some reason so hymns were a bit wacky, priest forgot about the final hymn and dismissed us to walk down the aisle,which confused the organist. Grandparents got lost between church and venue, which delayed photos and nana tripped on the stairs but thankfully didn't hurt herself too much. Waiters for some reason kept forgetting about the top table when serving wine, so we didnt get much and then the bar forgot to do a last call for us to use up our tab. The only things that really disappointed me was that we had planned to save the top tier of our wedding cake for our minimoon but the catering staff cut it up by accident and was half gone before someone realised and the photographer didn't do a group shot. Everything else was water off a ducks back and everyone raved about what a good time they had. Husband went back to church the next day to get his ring blessed and it was all good in the end.

I was ill, if it had been any other day I would have been at home in bed.

I'm deaf but became deafer due to my illness. I could hear the vicar. DH was mouthing the words to me so I could lip read and say my vows, he proved the sickness and health bit right there.

It was a lovely day apart from being ill!

@SierraOscar

I was ill, if it had been any other day I would have been at home in bed.

I'm deaf but became deafer due to my illness. I could hear the vicar. DH was mouthing the words to me so I could lip read and say my vows, he proved the sickness and health bit right there.

It was a lovely day apart from being ill!

Should say couldn't hear! I felt like my head was under water.

The song we were supposed to walk back out of the ceremony to didn't play, but everyone sang it instead.

My period started, so no nooky was had on our wedding night.

And my bil and sil broke into our room and put rice krispies, toothpaste and strawberries in our bed, so with the hotel reception no longer operating at that time of night we had to sleep without bedding too. To say I was unimpressed is a massive understatement.

Despite how it sounds though, we had an amazing wedding day and still reminisce fondly about it 11 years later.

Oh and my friend who is a priest has twice had someone object during ‘that’ part of the service. Once was the groom’s ex who raised concerns about the bride’s legal right to marry in this country, and once was the groom’s mother who just didn’t like the bride! Both were sorted out and the ceremonies went ahead.

stood outside hairdressers after having my French platt waitin* for lift home to slip into my wedding dress. Pidgeon plopped on my hair and I remember sat back in the hairdressers afterwards with hairdresser (stifling giggles) picking bird poo out of my platt whilst I was going into meltdown. Oh, and the barn we were using for our evening reception suddenly closed down the week before our wedding by the council due to ongoing neighbourhood noise claims, meaning last minute arrangement to hold evening reception at working man’s club with pie and peas!

One of my friends weddings. It was a fantastic day, venue was really nice and the day was pretty much perfect!

Til about 10pm when her stepdaughter was messing around and had a fall. She seemed okay but after phoning NHS 111 they recommended an ambulance, so the groom spent the night in A&E with his daughter and the poor new bride spent her wedding night in the bridal suite with her other stepchildren. She was gutted and I really felt for her, the stepdaughter was fine but the next morning it was all anyone could talk about, despite the lovely wedding!

I got sent the wrong wedding cake.

It was lovely. But not what I ordered.

I complained and they sent me a voucher. For a discount on my next wedding cake.

Minor things, the hotel didn't follow seating plan and sat all the men round one half of the tables, and the women on the other half. .. . Our younger friends just ignored and sat wherever they fancied, but the older guests didn't and it led to quite a strange dynamic, my mum is still upset about that.

Someone stole some of our presents, two lots of vouchers that people gave me in person on the day and I then popped on the 'present and card table' (I know some on MN will baulk at the concept ). My mum took everything up to her room overnight so must have been nicked during evening do. . . .

Ours was quite uneventful. I had spoken to the event host that I wanted to be no more than 5 minutes late, which had already been expected. However I was 10 minutes due to guests turning up late that weren’t even at the right place! Anyone who knows me , knows how hard it was for me to be late , so I found this extremely hard.
I didn’t want to do a first dance. We didn’t have a song or anything, then was forced to do one . I know it sounds silly but totally ruined a perfectly otherwise good day. We are still married but I look back with regret about this dance and hating the anniversary rather than it being a happy memory

My wedding was in vegas so i origanised everything from here-dh is athiest so specifeid non religious ceremony

well the registrar just went on and on about God during her speech sermon whatever u call it-im another non practising religion my dh sister couldnt stop laughing

police car pulled up outside to arrest someone as we came out that was interesting

Yes. Two big things.

I spent weeks reminding my seamstress not to take the waist in as much as usual because I have food allergies and if it was glove tight I’d be fucked on the day if I ate the wrong thing... Two weeks before the wedding she took it all the way in and had to let it out again when I went for a fitting.
She took it in again between the final fitting and the big day so on my wedding morning I discovered she’d done it 🤦‍♀️

The second thing was that the very fancy venue absolutely definitely 100% were supposed to make the entire menu free of the ingredients that I can’t eat so that there could be no mistakes...

Canapés that had been saved especially for me were thrust at me as we returned from the photos. I asked the server to check with the kitchens that they absolutely were safe as agreed. She came back and said they were.
They weren’t. I ate one and immediately knew.

So my stomach ballooned painfully in response but was cut in half by my too tight dress 🤣 I could hardly eat the wedding breakfast, I was in pain all afternoon and evening, couldn’t drink because I had wild acid reflux and felt miserable 👌