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.

My pal was the most relaxed bride ever, everyone was saying how easy going she was. She got married abroad. On the wedding day a bus took us from the hotel to the church but she never thought to inform us that it was a gated city so we had to walk 20 mins to so on cobblestone. Everyone had high heels and shawls or cardigans and it was particularly cold that day despite being in a hot country. It was freezing and my feet were in agony as I thought we were stepping out into a church, as did everyone else. The bridal party and grooms family arrived in winter coats, runners and bags and changed on arrival, so it wasn't unexpected. The music at the reception was just whatever the hotel normally had for dinner so a guy with a guitar singing local music, so no one danced. They hadn't bothered with a seat plan and it was chaotic with everyone tried to organise themselves. My friend got stuck with the crazy Great aunt whose own family tried to avoid her. A colleague of the bride ended up with the grooms nieces and nephews and spent the time cutting up meat and pouring drinks.

Brides can so easily be labelled bridezillas for fussing but honestly being laid back is worse. We spent a fortune to be there and she didn't seem to give a shit.

Why on earth was the ex invited ?!

@PyongyangKipperbang I did wonder why she was invited. The bride though is a very generous hearted, open minded person. That's all I can think.

Making a pun about Bangor is hardly x-rated.

My own 🙈

Owner of the venue for wedding and reception disappeared two weeks before and had double-booked. Managed to sort with the other couple, organise food etc.

Car broke down a day before we had to leave (had two weddings, one in my home country).

On wedding day, 50km drive and big crash on motorway and my mother and myself got stuck. I was three hours late and as DH doesn’t speak the language was busy re-arranging everything from the car (and was lucky nobody had another wedding booked and could wait for me!)

In all that we then forgot to take off our wedding bands (which we were wearing since the civil ceremony) and realised half-way through the ceremony. Oh, and my veil fell out half-way through, too.

Civil ceremony in the UK. I left the house and my skirt (tiny train) got stuck in the door. Nobody has keys and DH climbed over the fence and managed to get in from the back to free me 😂
Oh and then the receptionist at the registry office welcomed me with “oh, here’s the bride with her father”. Only that it was the groom and not my father!

Big fight between a few of the wedding party. Probably because the wedding was 11.30am and dinner wasn’t until 5…..no food in between but an open bar! Recipe for disaster. Another where wedding was 3pm but no food (other than crisps from behind bar) came out till 9pm (caterers were 2 hours late prepping food), bride was fuming and everyone was famished! So advice is make sure there is plenty of food 😂

I was at one wedding where a female friend of the groom got howling drunk and managed to break her leg dancing, which obviously necessitated an ambulance and all sorts. She’d been determined to make it all about her all day, though. Chronic main character syndrome. I don’t think the couple were arsed and I think they’ve distanced themselves from her a bit now.

We got married abroad. I bought the wrong kind of licence. Suffice to say, I was very glad I read the very small print and that we had time to rush out and get the right type of licence. I’d have been very embarrassed in front of our officiant, husband to be and guests otherwise!

Or perhaps she was the type t0 turn up anyway and make a fuss and at least that way they knew where she was and what she was up to?

I was a plus one at a wedding in Italy. The bride's mother was only just out of rehab, very posh and wasted by about 11.30. Everyone seemed to know the groom had slept with and was probably still sleeping with one of the bridesmaids. The marriage lasted 6 months. God knows why they went through with it.

A week before her wedding a colleague told me she was a lesbian but wanted to give her future children the childhood she'd had so was willing to marry a man she liked but couldn't love.
At the wedding the colleague introduced us to a couple who'd moved out of our city to live very rurally (wedding was on her parents estate in the middle of nowhere). She thought we'd have something in common but he was a proud 'white flighter' who'd left our city because there were too many 'ethnics'. DP is a much more tactful person than me so he dragged me away before things turned nasty.
DP was then pursued relentlessly by colleagues strange Austrian aunt. She'd decided he was one of the more cultured and cool people there because he was wearing DM's and a leather jacket. Everywhere he went there she was!
Then when we went to eat we'd been put on the same table as the racists. Which was a bit awkward.
The food though was lovely.

one where everyone including the bride knew the groom was gay.but she was sure it would be OK. Think that lasted 3 years,he's now married to a bloke.

A colleague's wedding where the double decker bus taking the guests from church to reception overturned. Fortunately no one was seriously hurt but a lot of their guests had to be checked over and some were admitted to hospital!

No non-alcoholic drink options all day other than tap water , not even sparkling water. Felt like such weird place to cut cost when there’s loads of alcoholic options. Just quite rubbish if you’re driving / pregnant / don’t drink to not have something fun to drink - even just some jugs of fizzy elderflower would have been so nice

Amateur cake makers 🤪

I'd made wedding cakes for friends before, but always with Regalice-type icing. A friend asked me to make his cake with royal icing. I'd never used royal icing before, and I experimented at home on a small scale. I was worried about transporting the rather large cake so ended up making the icing very hard.

Oh dear.

The B&G gave up on the 'cutting the cake' photo. Instead, there's a photo somewhere of me chiselling at it with a massive knife and a meat hammer! By the time I got through the icing the cake looked as if Mary Anning had been excavating it for fossils.

First and last time I have made a royal-iced wedding cake.

Instant confetti!

Caterer cancelled two days before the wedding! Couldn't even lend out the crockery and cutlery anymore so we could easily find alternative catering.

His wife was in hospital and it was a small (and delicious) mum and pop business.

Obviously not his fault but "next time" I would not rely on a small business for such a key element of my wedding.

The alternative food we found was pretty shit at this notice.

Oh well, at least the marriage is a happy one :-).

I was at a wedding where the couple had 2 large ice swans in the centre of a big flower display. It was meant to be the first thing you saw when you walked into the hall but because they arrived at the reception 2-3 hours late the swans had melted into a big puddle.

Well there’s always the route a B&G are taking on another thread (posted by a guest) - boot out most of your guests for the afternoon, only feed the ones you actually like and don’t let the others come back until the evening do.

They won’t remember the food if you don’t feed them…..

A member of my family arranged a woodland wedding which was basically just a ceremony in the woods.. the ‘real’ wedding happened formally before. Luckily it was a warm day but they didn’t consider parking so everyone had to trudge through the woods for ages in their finery
The grooms speech lasted well over an hour then he had an argument with his mil about who chose the cake design. Awful.

A couple of years after leaving school, but while we were still at college, I got asked to accompany a friend to the wedding of an old school friend. Imagine my surprise when we turned up at the wedding reception and I recognised the groom as the current boyfriend of a college friend of mine. Never said a word.

Or they thought it was better to have the ex in full view in front of them rather than spending the whole day wondering what she was up to.

It’s a lot easier for the other guests to intercept if they see her coming!

Oh goodness, how sad. 😢

My Ex Best Friends wedding, Another one where there were no seating arrangements , nobody knew who was meant to be sitting where. Then at the reception the catering was rather poor. As in not much choice and not very appealing and people were making comments and going to shops or chippy. The Decorations they paid someone to do very poor, would have been better to had done ourselves.

Oh god! I’m not sure I’d ever be able to show my face again!