Weddings you went to where things went wrong?

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Please can you share any times you attended a wedding where things went awry. I’m just keen to avoid any possible issue.

The only one I can think of is where the bride was two hours late. Apparently her family were just really exacting with the make up artist and had a lot of the make up redone/touched up.

We were sat in the Church for aaaaages. It meant that the drinks reception/evening meal was really rushed as the bride and groom really prioritised the dancing.

I find that a strangely puritan attitude; it's a lighthearted quip, not a reading from 'The Joy of Sex'. As for children, either they'll understand it or they won't, as with anything else they'll encounter in life.

Bloody hell!

Swan, you weren't there.

The 'joke' seriously fell flat. My sil looked very uncomfortable.
Apart from the BM, of course, no one in that room thought it was a bit of fun.

Totally agree - sex is normal and healthy.

A grown man bragging about how much he's going to "bang" a woman old enough to have teenaged kids is embarrassing, puerile and I'm sure made his (new, step?)-kids recoil in horror. Gross. I'm glad I don't hang around with people who think that's funny, normal and healthy. It's definitely not any of those things. It's tacky at best

Yeah grooms dad. Not sure why I wore it the way I did! 🫣

Sorry I should have been clearer. Her husband ignored her all night in order to drink with his friends.

The reception venue changed hands a week before the wedding. The new owners didn’t know about the wedding till the mother of the bride called round two days before. New owners hastily put together a wedding breakfast of chicken and chips for 100 people and conjured up a DJ. It was nice but not quite the elegant affair the couple were hoping for.

Exactly, @UpTheLaganInABubble1

The couple are in their 50s, and this is their second marriage.
Those kinds of nudge-nudge, wink-wink 'jokes' just didn't hit the mark.

The bride had a fading black eye from where he had punched her.

Marriage didn’t last.

At my uncles wedding 40 odd years ago, the best man got hammered and decided to dance completely naked around the disco. My rather prim grandmother was not impressed! I was a kid so dont know what happened but I suspect some of his mates got him out of there!

We were guests at a blessing after which there were drinks and canapes and nothing else so we, and a few other guests retreated to our hotel in the middle of nowhere planning to have dinner. Unfortunately, the kitchen was closed as they had a big wedding on and this was long before one could send out for food. Luckily one of the waiters brought us a big tray of barbecue food that hadn't been needed.

As someone who takes weddings, this thread reminds me why they are the best and most stressful part of my job!

This is going back a bit. A really rough club that would have made the one in Phoenix Nights look classy.
The couple already had five kids, not a single adult in the place bar me and my boyfriend had ever had a job. It was an old schoolmate of his. The boyfriend wasn’t the best at intel so I turned up in an expensive fuschia pink cocktail dress - very 80’s.
On the way in there was somebody ‘on the door’ and we had to pay an entrance fee of £2 each.
About an hour in and the newlyweds had an almighty row. Lots of effing and jeffing.
The bridegroom got on the mic and enlisted to the lads to decamp to the nearest pub, which was even rougher.
I was left sitting there solo until some kind soul told me there was a bingo caller after the buffet and, after all, it’s always better when the men have fucked off who wants them about anyway?
I can honestly say I had a lovely time. I was treated as if I were Princess Diana, but welcomed to the fold.
I have never met a single attendee since. But I have fond memories of the soundtrack of 1987, getting a house at bingo, and ripping my new tights on a chair leg.

'D'B asked our DS to be a page boy. Lovely. Got him trussed up like a miniature silver Liberace, as per the request. Kept waiting for him to be called in to be part of the procession.
Turns out, he hadn't asked his bride and as she started to walk down the aisle, she hissed at DS (4 at the time) 'go back to your mum'!😱
We were confused, then reaaally pissed off at 'D'B (and his mean wife!)
DS was unbothered and cheerfully de-Liberace'd out of his little shiny waistcoat 🤷
Another wedding, felt so, so sorry for the bride. Her 'D'F had too much to drink and during his speech, recalled 'what a goer' she'd been in her younger years. Absolutely shocking. The poor bride ran out in tears and the groom stood up and apologised on behalf of the 'D'F. In front of him. We all clapped hard. Just awful.

Sounds like they didn't have much money.

At my cousin's wedding (my cousin was the bride), the groom got hideously drunk at the reception and tried it on with at least 3 guests, told the bride's uncles he'd made a huge mistake, and snogged the bridesmaid on the dancefloor. The marriage was over before the photos came back.

My mother went to a wedding where the groom turned out to be a different person to the one everyone thought she was marrying. Most people didnt know until they turned up at the church.

I have no idea what happened to the original groom, nor how she came to find someone else to marry at such short notice.

Jesus what is it with these blokes and these rubbish jokes about sex? Dullards. I don’t think I’ve ever been to a wedding where that sort of thing would even get a titter, and I’m hardly a bloody duchess.

I was a guest at a wedding where the dog was meant to be ring bearer. I think the idea was that the groom was meant to call the dog, who was at the end of the aisle being held by another guest, and then the dog was meant to trot down the aisle with the ring in a pouch on his collar.
However, the ceremony was being held by the side of a lake,and that was too much of a temptation for a Golden Retriever in the middle of summer. So doggo decided to go for a dip instead. The groom managed to call the dog back, but by now the dog was covered in mud. The only silver lining was that doggo was nowhere near the bridal party when the inevitable big shake happened.

We attended one where the grandmother had a seizure.

I was at a wedding where one of the bridesmaids sneaked off and had sex with the other bridesmaids fiancé in a car in the venue’s car park. Unfortunately they were seen getting out and strategically rearranging their clothes by someone who told his mates and subsequently the gossip went round all the other guests. It was late in the evening everyone was a bit drunk and some lads were squaring up to the fiancé and calling him out. It ended up with his fiancé dragging him home and calling the other bridesmaid a fucking slag. B and G oblivious to it as they left about 30 mins before it all kicked off!

I haven't witnessed anything really bad - the worst I remember was an uncle passing out and paramedics being called (he was fine, it was a hot day) and being served the driest apple crumble ever with absolutely nothing to go with it - we all sat waiting for cream/custard and there was nothing! Cue everyone trying to choke down dry apple crumble on a very hot day.

I was at a wedding where the insane ex-gf of the groom had been invited and after she'd tanked a load of champagne over dinner, she was seen approaching the bride on the other side of the dance floor.

But about 6 of the bride and groom's friends also noticed this and joined them both so the conversation whatever it might have been, was cut short and then everyone started dancing.

Given how insane and drunk the ex-gf was, everyone knew it was going to go major tits-up. Everyone pretty much sprung into action.

At a separate wedding, the food was buffet style, the parents of small children were encouraged to get the first round and by the time they were done, ALL the food was gone. I was heavily pregnant and starving and the only thing left to eat were wedding cupcakes.

I dont understand this excuse.

If they didnt have much money then they shouldnt try and have a big wedding. I have seen weddings like this and it is never fun for anyone, least of all the couple.

Good going of the friends but why on earth was she invited if everyone knew what she would do?!