To ask if anything went wrong on your wedding day?

[Louisa298]

To ask if anything went wrong on your wedding day?

My hairdresser was more interested in doing her hair than mine, mine wasn't how I wanted it at all.

My mother insisted on travelling in the car with me and my dad so I ended up squished in the back with sister and my son in baby seat.

My mil turned up with niece and nephew as her son was having root canal and she was babysitting.

My son had a major strop mid service and ran out, Mil went to find him then moaned she missed the service.

My DH told his mates to take the taxis I had booked (and paid!) for relatives and my children to use to get to reception so we had to call around taxi companies.

Mil and the grandchildren she was looking after all sat at top table so we couldn't and they wouldn't move.

Friend stood on my dress and ripped it.

Food was vile.

Dh's friends got drunk and stoned so I had to look after their kids.

No one would babysit for me so we had a family room at the hotel, DH, me and 3 kids.

The next morning I had a miscarriage and had to face new Inlaws for breakfast as they had stayed at hotel too.

Surprised we're still married

My Dh has fallen out with his dsis a couple years prior to our wedding and he refused to invite her despite his mother’s demamds. I told his mum several times that I had also asked his to invite just for sake of peace on the day but Dh absolutely adamant that he didn’t want her there (more than fair actually given his sisters behaviour).
Anyway mil blamed me entirely refused to talk to me on wedding day, tried to cause an argument with my Dmother and the card and gift money were for Dh only.
I don’t see her now and Dh doesn’t like seeing her often either.

Yes, both to do with DM. First, she locked the wedding flowers (bouquets, corsages, hair flowers, the lot) in the car and lost the keys. Had to get the AA out to get into them. Then in the evening she (still completely sober) slipped on the dance floor and broke her wrist. Had to go to hospital, and ended up needing surgery. 🙈🙈🙈

The registrar called my fiance the wrong name, at the crucial part "Do you take David..." And I had to correct her quickly haha. People still call DH Dave

One of my bridesmaids hadn't made the rehearsal the day before for various reasons and went to the wrong church. We waited for about half an hour for her to turn up but in the end had to do it without her. She turned up for the pictures at the end of the service.

Apart from turning up at the church, no

My sister’s wedding photographer’s mother died the day before. He still came to the wedding and brought another photographer with him, who he introduced as his apprentice. Turns out he was anything but, and had come along as back up in case the first photographer had to leave for anything.

The night before my wedding we had a house fire, the fireman had to go in and get my husbands kilt. We still got married but were technically homeless when we went on honeymoon. Id also found out I was pregnant with our 2nd DC a few days before!! I was incredibly stressed the morning of the wedding but when i got to the ceremony I was so calm, think seeing everyone made me realise we hadnt been hurt or injured in the fire and the important thing was we had each other! We've only just got back into our house 10 months later!

@Onebabyandamadcat

Some of my husband's family brought two huge wedding gnomes and had the venue put them next to the cake as a surprise. I had done my venue up in black and white and "elegant" and slap bang in the middle were these huge gnomes. They were our wedding gift from that couple - I still have no idea what they were thinking!

I know you hated them but I'm so getting wedding gnomes for when I get married in August! Anyone know where you can get two brides? Had a quick Google but lots of 'traditional' couples

@JacobReesMogadishu

At my brothers wedding afterwards en route to the reception me and best man realised we’d forgotten to get the actual wedding certificate which had been signed.

Traffic was awful so we dumped the car and sprinted across the town centre, me in full bridesmaid dress, back to the church. Never told my brother.

That's great, a story you can tell forever! Did you tell them after?!

I got married on the beach, on a pergoda platform thing.

My husband took the wedding ring out of the box at the crucial point and promptly dropped it right between the gaps of the decking! We had to carry on the ceremony using my old Tiffany ring from my other hand.

While the photos were being taken a gang of maintenance men were taking up the boards to find it.

Earlier that day we were debating wether to pay £500 to video it - so pleased we didn't bother

My mil is a bit of a drip as she tried to book into her hotel room before they were ready and she didnt want her granddaughters getting ready in the ladies loo nevermind that I hadn't wanted them in the first place as sil caused a major cock up with her ex who had booked their kids into see Barney at the same time as the wedding, that was a shitshow, with them being in and out of the wedding party. I just wanted my nieces as they are lovely girls and well behaved compared to the others so 6 bridesmaids in total when I wanted 2. She then threw a strop as I had ordered one car to do several trips and she wasnt in the car rota,it was a 5 min walk to the venue and she hadnt even asked for a bloody car!!!
Apart from that headache,it was all ok and I put up with her drippy behaviour.

@Outfoxed

My shoe broke walking down the aisle, my brother in law had a massive allergic reaction to mislabeled food and had to go to the hospital, and my dog was very vocal during the ceremony despite not being a barker usually!

Could have done without the allergic reaction, but other than that, loud dogs and broken shoe...wouldnt change a thing!

Why was your dog at the wedding?

We got married quickly as my dad was dying from cancer. On my wedding day his back went (non cancer related) and he was thinking of skipping the ceremony. I blubbed all morning until I got a text saying he was better and they were on the way! Oh and to a much much lesser extent my dress stifled me and so I didnt eat the meal!!!

The flowers were not what I ordered and very small arrangements despite paying through the nose for a very reputable florist and specifying the size and exact flowers I wanted. Sent them straight back when they came. Florist didn't have what I wanted so had to add more of some other flowers and I got a refund after the event.
Also I made the mistake of using the same company for photos and video. photos were good but the video was awful. Out of sync, shaky, restricted view... it's a shame because I've used videographers for other events and I should have just used one of those.

One of our ushers was hammered and my dad was Ill!

It poured rain at ours (early Feb so not unexpected).

DH was ill in bed when the florist delivered to his house and very kindly (not!) told me when she then delivered to mine. So I wasn’t sure was he able to make it ( we both have a habit of working too hard and then getting sick as soon as our bodies think there’s a chance for respite - which I know now but didn’t then!!).

And a DAunt of DH gave out to my DF about there being too many of my family and not enough of DH’s (DF had paid for reception, a very good one!). Turned out that there were not enough of DMILs family and too many of DFILs side (as DF had actually counted and there were more DH than my family at it)....DAunt was on DMIL side....DMIL didn’t talk to her for a decade....

DH and I celebrated our 20th anniversary this year!! 😁🎉🥂 so it wasn’t all bad!

Bridesmaids taxi turned up late then got lost the venue was big on a main road. My "taxi" ended up ringing them and guiding them in. Commenting how they were doing their line of work a shit advert; none of the day staff knew the night staff had stashed the flowers in the basement to keep cool (It was going hot) so they kept everyone waiting when we arrived at the hotel to ask me where they were and hastily decorate whilst we dragged out welcome drinks. I fainted but only one person knew about it. Nearly went again in church it was bloody hot, my children hadn't let me sleep and my dress wasn't the best for the weather. I forgot my pants. . It was all fun though.

Yes, the heavens absolutely opened just before the ceremony (thank God I had convinced DH to have a marquee in the clearing where we were having the ceremony), though that wasn't really a biggy. I was wearing a short dress so it wasn't a worry, but I did worry it might mean rain all day (it stopped as soon as I went in and stayed dry the rest of the day, despite it being the wettest summer for sime time).

One of my best mates got the week wrong, so didn't turn up, the dozy bugger! I still take the piss out of him about it.

DH totally forgot to talk about ... uhm, me, in his wedding speech - I told him not to do it without notes! I was a bit disappointed, but I hadn't thought about it that much and everyone commented how happy he looked so I don't think anyone thought this indicated a lack of regard for me. Still married 13 years later (anniversary next week)

Many things...

It poured down with rain all day (end of November, so hardly surprising but still disappointing).

Didn't like the way the hairdresser did my hair.

Arrived at the registry office to find my older brother and his then girlfriend (now married) talking to my mother in law...both dressed in sweatshirts and jeans! (it was not a casual wedding). I was absolutely horrified. I hadn't wanted to invite my brother in the first place, we were not close and he'd made no effort to keep in touch with me after our mother had moved back to Australia 4 years previously. I was the one who did all the running. My mother insisted he was invited as she couldn't attend - neither me or then husband could afford to pay for her to travel back to the UK. My mother to this day still thinks my inlaws should have offered to pay for her...

My brother then proceeds to tell me that they won't be able to stay long as they've bought their dog with them and left him in the car....
His girlfriend - and this is the very first time I'd met her - the proceeds to have a go at me about how can she get my brother to marry her...all this in front of my soon to be mother in law...they leave less than 20 minutes after the ceremony and I've not seen my brother since.

Our reception venue was diagonally directly across the road from the register office, about 100 yards away. When new husband and I are outside talking to guests as we all leave, I notice that my new husband has walked off with some of his friends...look up again and he's walking down the other side of the road with them towards the venue...keep standing there thinking 'he's bound to realise he's left me behind'...nope. I have to walk down the road myself in the pissing rain and enter my wedding reception on my own.

The hotel has buggered up the tables in our reception room (because MIL interfered) and my new husband is so pissed off he spends the first half of our wedding reception quite obviously sulking and with a filthy look on his face. He's getting looks from all the guests, and I'm muttering under my breath 'ffs stop being such a child and try and look happy you are fucking embarrassing me!'

Marriage should never have happened in the first place - we should have split up instead, ex H only got married to ''shut me up' about it. We were married for 9 years in total and he was a crap husband.

@namesnames an actual wedding dress?

Did you say anything? I'd have made a show of her.

@Caoilainn. Why don’t you buy 2 x traditional couple, keep brides and then sell 2 bridegrooms on eBay.

My best friends wedding. My sister heard the grooms work colleague say, she could have the groom, if she wanted. The groom spent the whole evening networking. My friend got fed up by the end of the night and she went looking for him. Found him outside with a group of women from work, he then told her to fuck off in front of them.

We eloped with a small group of family and friends. MIL had specifically told me she didn't want her make up or her mum's done only their hair, they both said they didn't like professional make up and would do their own. I clarified this 3 times before I booked it "You want just your hair not your make-up?". So I booked all my bridesmaids and my mum in for hair and make up and MIL and GMIL just for hair, I paid for everyone's myself so no cost was incurred for anyone. On the day, the hair and makeup people turned up, and she said "oh I can't wait to have my make-up done". I then had to explain because they'd asked to only have their hair done that's all I'd booked, and there wasn't time for two extra people to have their make-up done. She got really funny with me and claimed she didn't know if she had bought her make up with her I'd also asked for no speeches at the meal and she tried to make one when I asked her not to. I did put my foot down, made a quick toast myself and we moved on. It was an amazing day other than that and I wouldn't let it spoil it but it does still irritate me when I look back.

My folks told the car driver that there was a local fete on with street procession and to go the back way

She thought she knew better and ended getting stuck in the float procession and made me late

The vicar ended up having to rush the ceremony as there was another wedding on and we didn't get the blessing

Meantime the best man thought he only had one ring ( not mine) and there was uproar in the church everyone try's to get their rings off

He found it tucked inside the grooms