To ask if anything went wrong on your wedding day?

[Louisa298]

To ask if anything went wrong on your wedding day?

We missed the drinks reception because our photographer didn't scout the venue for where to take pictures so we traipsed around for a long time. Rubbish photographer also didn't take enough pictures of close family members despite being shown who they were!

Our vintage wedding car broke down. Luckily at the reception venue. So there was a reason it was cheap!

After the ceremony the groom walked back down the aisle alone and had to come back for me. We wanted a first song the band couldn’t play so the venue said they’d pipe a recording through their sound system, but it didn’t work so the band hastily started playing Boyzone’s ‘You say it best when you say nothing at all’, my Uber religious aunt refused to come to the registry office service but came to the reception and told everyone how we weren’t really married in the eyes of God. The meal was overcooked. I’d undercatered for the evening reception and had to hastily double everything. Still, we were very relaxed about it and nobody cared. The people there want you to be happy and to have a great time. I think people get so bogged down in the minutiae of weddings - silly things like party favours and bows on chairs - that they forget that they are there to celebrate with the people who love them the most. Spend the money on great music, nice food, and booze. The rest takes care of itself.

Quite a lot “didn’t go to plan” but we will be celebrating 30 years next year. The wedding may not have been perfect but the marriage has been pretty damn close.

One of my bridesmaids had chicken pox and couldn't come.

The pianist was late so every time we pulled up at the church the vicar kept sending us back round again.

It was a very warm day and my fingers swelled up so when my husband put my wedding ring on, it got stuck part way down and the vicar had to take us out to the vestry to try and prize it off!!

Still an amazing day - been married 14 years now

The evening before my wedding our 9 month old was diagnosed with a chest infection and they were considering admitting him into hospital. Thankfully they gave us some steroids and sent us home. I spent the night on the floor sleeping next to his cot.
Sister in law who was a bridesmaid turned up at my house late due to her false tan running off and staining her mums shower.
Because we were in a rush to get to the hairdresser we left without our hair pieces. We only realised after we arrived at the hairdressers which was half hour away.
The hairdresser was late opening the shop as she had forgotten her keys and couldn’t open up!
I ended up arriving at our wedding venue 45 minutes late. My bridesmaids were stood waiting for me looking really worried. The registrar had told them if I hadn’t arrived within 5 minutes she would have to leave as she had another wedding.
We had a lovely day after all the chaos, however I ended up spending a night in the bridal suite with a drunk husband and a poorly child.
We’ve been married 14 years this week 😍

Yes,the fact that I actually married him.

Both BIL (also groomsmen) came down with a raging case of the flu two days before my wedding 17 years ago. We thought they had too much to drink the night before they fell sick and at first, my DH was furious. However, after the vomiting came the fever and diarrhea....

They barely made it to the wedding (stone cold sober and about five lbs. lighter each) and the day after, my MOH (who had flown out from another state) came down with it and had to be nursed by my DM. Then my brother caught it, passed out on the airplane and had to be carted off in a wheelchair.

For years (17!) they called it the "Motaba Virus," (except they pronounced it "Montaba,"?) and was the only thing they seemed to remember about the event. Just last summer, I finally complained.

Now my JYFIL makes sure to say every so often, "It was a lovely wedding" and winks at me.

I had two wardrobe malfunctions. My headdress kept sliding down over my eyes, and the metal hoop in my petticoat bent so the skirt of my dress was a bit out of shape in the photos.

Been happily married for 30 years though.

We got married in America 2 weeks before my wedding my kids got chicken pox, then on our wedding day my daughter who was 4 had the runs during our meal and I was left alone while my husband went to bath her. My photographer didn't work well with my videographer who were both from different companies and so I wasn't entirely happy with my photos, we had to physically keep asking our photographer to take photos, she missed so many photo opportunities. (thankfully we have them recorded) However, everyone always comments how nice our photos are but I've never loved them.

There were no major problems at mine, I just wanted to express my admiration for all of you who carried on through all of these disasters.

DH got a bit merry and forgot the steps to our first dance, so we improvised (worked out surprisingly well)

That's why we stuck to The Salford Shuffle (arms round each other, step to side, close, repeat, move in circle)

Mum ripped the corset back of my wedding dress, as she was trying to strap me in (clearly didn't realise her own strength)! Fortunately my bridesmaid brought tons of safety pins so was able to salvage the corset back and guests were none the wiser.

DJ booked for the reception failed to turn up so BIL had to go get his DJ decks etc from his loft (fortunately his house was just round the corner) and basically fill in for absent DJ. We got our money back and some compensation.

Still had a wonderful day.

Oh, and we got married on a beach; my husband had managed to get sand on his lips and I am heard saying during the ceremony "wipe you mouth" on our wedding video. It always makes me cringe whenever I've watched the video...all of once.

MIL refused to speak to me, made a very public show of being far to distressed by the whole thing to even acknowledge me when I spoke directly to her. That was nice.

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Yes.

My friend arrived in a wedding dress.

It's been the talk of our group for years.

She looked more bridal the I did.

WTAF?

We uninvited mil so the day actually went very well!!
She buggared up our honeymoon though..
So we didn't really have one.

Some of these really made me chuckle 😂 Great idea for a thread, so many movies could be made of this 😂 MN classic in the making!

Only a minor mix up in the order of service at mine, and some friends missed the ceremony because they had a car crash.

Know of some horror stories though. One relative had all the food stolen by the manager of the venue. She’d paid thousands for a four-course meal and none of it appeared. A local chip shop came to the rescue, and my relative successfully sued the venue.

One friend’s wedding was conducted by her fiancé’s uncle. It was horrible as clearly the family thought their precious son was ‘marrying down’. The uncle lectured my friend on being a good wife. Groom’s father gave a speech all about how wonderful his son was and was pretty cutting about my friend. My poor friend was nearly in tears. The joke was on them though as the groom was a waster, druggie and womaniser who couldn’t hold a job. My friend had a good career, which went stratospheric after she left him.

Also went to an outdoor wedding where the groom got crapped on by a passing bird!

One of my other BM's wore my SIL's BM dress.

DH's immediate family went to the pub and turned up to the reception 1.5hrs late then threw a fit about not enough photos of their family.

DH spent most of the afternoon worried where his mum was.

MIL ignored me the whole day.

There's more but so won't bore you - resulted in us being asked to leave MIL/FIL's house the next day and not come back - there are days I wish to high heaven we'd taken them up on that!

I still cringe that I had ordered a minibus to take my abroad guests from the church to the reception and had arranged to pay the bill myself. They decided instead to send several taxis and, my surprised guest had to pay for themselves, I didn’t know for several months. 20 years on I’m still embarrassed.

Child screamed and cried at the if anyone objects moment and the parents let him scream the rest of the service rather than take him out.

Another child spent the whole of the meal running up and yanking my veil meaning, when I did remove it, my hair was wrecked.

The torrential rain I woke up to that day was the least bothersome thing to happen that day.

2 people said who had said to me they were coming if they could (medical issues) then said to MIL they Deffo weren't coming, so I took them off the table plan.
I walked into church and who do I see?
Apparently they had never said they weren't coming and MIL had just assumed that they weren't. So we had to squeeze them in.
There was nearly a fight. When someone wanted to cop off with DPs married boss 🤣 but when she found out he was married she kicked off, his lovely wife was with him the whole day.

I was in the main hotel foyer checking that person above had left the premises and a lovely bloke asked if I was OK and needed a drink (it was after midnight and the main bar was shut) he went and found me a drink, and i chatted to him and his son for ages, new DH found me, and we all chatted until about 2.30am, when I demanded to DH run me a bath so I could use the Jacuzzi button 🤣(Not a bad point, but not how I expected to end the day)

We had a thunderstorm, and the guests got caught in it between the church and reception-only about 10minutes walk. We were in a car though.

A few things: there was supposed to be a full length mirror in the room I was getting ready in - there was no mirror at all!
The printed seating plan went awry as due to heart attack and broken bones there was a last minute shuffle, which of course I was stressed about as the people involved had to be told in person and I couldn't delegate that chore as no one person knew what the guests who were being moved looked like (the heart attack was mild).
The caterers lost my sheet showing where all the vegetarians were sitting. So servers just stood and asked at the table, and of course some non vegetarians took the dishes which meant some vegetarians were given meat dishes as they ran out, including my husband's boss. All that careful planning 🙄.
We used a central London location but we, as well as the venue, forgot there was a annual parade going right past their door that day. OMG! It didnt affect any guests but the florist and musicians had a hell of a time accessing the venue and the photographer said she had to break down in tears before the police would let her cross the road- why the heck the venue didn't have that day marked out in bold red I have no idea.
The venue did print out lovely personalised menus with the history of the building. I never saved one and despite repeated requests they never gave me one afterwards. Designate a family member to collect things like that!

My parent’s car caught fire on the A12 , causing it to be shut , and them eventually being dropped off at the venue in a fire engine .

Dh to be got caught in said traffic closure on way to venue together with his 3 best men (DS’s ) and one of the ushers , and rang me who was already at the venue , raging about “ some stupid fucking idiots whose car fire’s shit the whole fucking road “ - and while passing it failed to recognise his PIL’s ......

Carphone Warehouse rang him in the middle of the ceremony to offer him an upgrade ..

The DJ double booked us ... which was only discovered when he didn’t turn up and was called when he was halfway up the M6 , fortunately the wedding photographer knew someone who threw his stuff into a van and we ended up dancing to 60’s music all night .

Oh and one of my aunt’s drank 4 bottles of red , which she stole off other tables , then decided to liberate 3 of the table arrangements and an entire round of Brie off the buffet .

Apart from that it went like a dream !