To ask if anything went wrong on your wedding day?

[Louisa298]

To ask if anything went wrong on your wedding day?

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My dh started his speech with "Thank you all for coming" then promptly burst into tears and couldn't carry on. As he's normally so stoic it was a bit of a shock!

My husbands best man drove him in our (2 month old) car to the venue and it broke down on the way 😂🙈 might of been an omen as it was a brand new car you would never expect to fail! He went ahead with it anyway and seems to be going well so far 😆

Our best man crashed his car on the way to DH house, he was ok thankfully and made the service but his car was written off!

My absolute cow of a MIL decided that I had done something to offend her the night before our wedding and was really awkward on the day. I still have not idea what I was supposed to have done.

She refused to answer her hotel room door for 2 hours to let the hair and makeup artists in to sort her out.
When I eventually shouted theough the door that it was too late now anyway she completely changed her tune.
It really was too late and I told her so. She stormed into my room and tried to take my dress, saying "you'll have to wait for me. Let's see you get married without this."

My wonderful and usually mild mannered DM physically rugby tackled her to get it back.

She spent the rest of the time with a face like a slapped arse, bitching about me, my family and how shit the wedding was. Her stupid, enabling husband joined in!

They then had the cheek to complain that there were too few pictures of them and that they didn't look happy on any of them.

The wrong vows were read out! But we just went along with it! And laughed about it!!! It was the best day of my life (along with births of both my children) and I will always remember it as a wonderful wonderful day ...

@D4rwin I forgot my pants

Sure you did

Minor had a bow made for dds hair she was 13 months. My mother accidentally threw it out in the morning rush of hair makeup etc in fairness it seemed major at the time

Oh, heaps of things! My bridesmaid flooded the bathroom so water was pouring through the kitchen ceiling while we got ready, the vicar had forgotten to leave the key for the organist so we very nearly had no music in the church, I forgot to take my bouquet to the reception so couldn't throw it, lots of little things that really didn't matter.

However, it could have been a disaster. It rained the entire day, but as we were in a marquee it was fine. However, when we went back to clear up the next day the entire tent had flooded and was ankle deep in water, fusing all the electrics. We would have no lighting, hot food, music, anything!

Mil insisted we invited all her family from Ireland, which didn't go down well as we only wanted 40 in the room. More than that would come over. The cousin that did sat on face book the whole time even eating dinner. Mil then complained to photographer he wasn't taking any of her family, so I told him not to. Then we hired a speaker we could play our own songs on (instead of a dj) flipping nephew almost broke it and nearly gave himself an electric shock

Yes, it was baking hot (34degrees) and the kitchen was apparently roasting and staff couldn't handle the heat in there - understandably!! But it did mean our meal was delayed and not everyone served at once.

Also they did not provide enough staff to serve at the bar and serve the pre-paid for drinks on trays. It was really annoying and I don't think we got served all that we had ordered and paid.

At my brothers wedding the bride's veil flew away and it rained all day. My bil wedding, mil was going to rent our houses out to family to save them on hotel fees

Got married at 29 weeks pregnant but bought the dress (knee length) at about 18 weeks pregnant. Forgot to factor in how much the growing bump would pull the dress out and up and it was far too short. Because I didn't really put on weight during pregnancy except for the bump I hadn't bothered trying the dress on between buying it and the wedding day so discovered the super short dress about two hours before the ceremony.

It rained so heavily that some guests struggled to get there and our lovely outdoor ceremony was moved indoors... into a boiling hot room because of course it then turned into the most sunny day ever.
During the photos my dress was covered in bugs (in every layer of my gigantic tulle skirt) and during the wedding breakfast a load of bugs descended on us through the double doors 😂

It was amazing though and none of those things really mattered.

At my cousins wedding her parents and 2 sis (bridesmaids) travelling from London took the wrong turning off the motorway and were in South Devon before they realised - the wedding was in Birmingham. They turned up 1/2 way through the reception.
At my wedding we had 5 extra guests. An aunt wrote 'her and girls' (she has 2) on the RSVP. She turned up with the 2 girls, both their partners and her 3 grandchildren. Their table was a bit squashed but luckily a buffet so ok.
At another wedding the bride, groom, bridesmaids, best man and both sets of parents went from the church to a local landmark to have photos taken leaving all the guests at the reception venue waiting for 2 1/2 hours before they arrived. The planned pre dinner speeches had to be put off till afterwards as the roast dinner had been ready for nearly an hour.

My DH decided to “pop” out for some cigarettes on our wedding night, re-appeared the following morning with love bites all over his neck, not caused by me!!! 🤮
I think the writing was obviously on the wall from the initial wedding day, and he continued in the same vein for the next few years. We were living away from family members who were totally unaware of what a bastard he was as he appeared so charming to them, and I was such a nag.
I decided one day that enough was enough, waited until he got paid and until he went to work, grabbed what I could and got the first available flight home.
Never saw him again or ever received any maintenance off him As he remained abroad, that was 23 years ago, and I still wished I had left him on my wedding night.
My divorce was a day of celebration, not my wedding day.
Met my second husband a year later and have never been happier, he adopted my DS and we’ve never looked back.

Well our first dance was kind of ruined as the DJ decided to play the music from YouTube and it had adverts. Our wedding photographs were bad, my stupid mil was standing right behind us the whole time during the first dance and cake cutting. I had to arrange a reshoot a couple of months later but I was pregnant with severe morning sickness. That photoshoot was much better but 3 hour shoot was horrendous as I kept on throwing up and ruining my makeup.

The wrong flowers for my bouquet and DH button hole were delivered. The florist sent pink flowers, they were supposed to be purple/lilac and white. I don't like pink!
DH went to wait in the wrong area before the ceremony (he didn't listen to the instructions given to him), the hotel wedding coordinator couldn't find him and the ceremony was late to start.
We arrived at the reception venue only to be told they didn't have a booking for us! They sorted it out sharpish and threw in a few freebies.
A sand storm!! Thankfully it was at the end of the evening and quite a unique thing to happen on our wedding day.

We had to cancel it first time round due to my pathetic, bickering parents who were dragging their acrimonious divorce through the courts and made it all unbearable - it was a marquee on father’s farm so he was very controlling .

We tried again a few years later - but father insisted his girlfriend (who is five years younger than me 🤮) was to sit on the top table, their feral children be bridesmaids / Page boy AND demanded that my mother’s new husband wasn’t allowed to come - we thought fuck this and binned wedding number two.

We finally - 12 years after wedding number one! - got married this year and the day was perfect - because I didn’t invite a single member of my family. We had a fabulous day full of fun and laughter and completely stress free as we knew my family wouldn’t be able to spoil it (they didn’t know we were getting married). Ironically we got married a couple of weeks before lockdown so it nearly did get scuppered again due to Covid!!

Yes! Unbeknownst to us, the head chef at our venue (a hotel) had to rush to hospital as his wife had gone into early labour, leaving the sous-chef in charge. First we knew of it was when the food started coming out and it was NOT what we had ordered, taste tested etc and frankly was a bit shit We had no idea what had happened but after the meal, the wedding planner took us aside and burst into tears as she was explaining it, saying that they had let us down etc. They gave us some money off and a free stay at the hotel on our wedding anniversary (which we couldn't take up, as we were abroad at the time!) so they were very good about it, and it obviously wasn't anyone's fault, but it was a bit stressful and difficult at the time wondering wtf was going to come out of the kitchen next!

Not the wedding, but we missed our honeymoon flight because one of us got the times wrong. It was a connection for a cruise and they said we wouldn't be able to board unless we were there. We scamed onto another flight that was fully booked but got on standby for two no shows and made our own way to Venice port and persuaded them to let us on the ship even though we had missed check-in, 24 years and 3 children later (first born 9 months after the cruise) we can still not agree who read it wrong, but who cares.

I got my period unexpectedly. Had no sanitary items whatsoever & wound up asking guests if they had anything I could use!

Alcoholic vicar fell over the night before and had a massive shiner, slurred his way through the service.
We were late for the meal due to photographer having an arty moment yet photos were still rubbish. Florist forgot our flowers on our table so it was very bare

Nothing went wrong on the day, except that I didn't like the photographer and it became apparent a few days later it became clear that he wasn't any good.

I had warned him about two things in advance: 1) my parents were divorced so needed to be separated during photos. He kept trying to put them back together; 2) both my husband and I were very unphotogenic, so he'd need to take quite a few pictures to guarantee getting some good ones. He didn't. Fortunately there was one (but only one) of the two of us together where we both looked ok and had our eyes open! He also kept referring to people as 'sweetheart'. Not unreasonable, perhaps, for the 4 year old bridesmaid. Not so reasonable for my adult bridesmaid and my 13 year old stepson!

He also wasn't very competent. This was many years ago, pre-digital, when photographers would take a limited number of photos. He took two of each of my bridesmaids and both photos he took of one of them were out of focus. Similarly, he took two of the main bridal group (husband and me, best man and 3 bridesmaids) and both of those were also out of focus.

Fortunately a number of friends took photos and had ordered a second set of prints to send me, but it was very annoying.

@BuggerOffAndGoodDayToYou

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.

How lovely. Congratulations!