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.

Our best man 'forgot' to accompany my mother to her seat, and left her waiting outside the side door of the church. She came in as I was walking down the aisle.

Mainly her whole life story. Don’t forget we also had the groom and best mans speech as well 🤦🏼‍♀️

I was 2 hours late due to make up and the car taking ages to take the bridal party only had the one car due 2 funds. Ex husband was unwell with noro virus. I was stressed before so I drank lots of alcohol after the ceremony and was absolutely hammered I was 21 though 35 now lol. I also don't drink ever so I'm a light weight. My dd was poorly as well she was 18 months.

Tbh a wedding is a family day out and not about the actual ceremony. If i was to get married again which I'm not but I'd go and do it with out anyone knowing and then go on a honeymoon. Why pay 0000 for family to have a nice meal and a dance honestly

Drove for 3 hours to the evening reception of a friend (in a barn / cowshed sort of place). Arrived at 7 and had nowhere to sit; all chairs were occupied by daytime guests and no more chairs brought for the evening.

At 8pm the ‘food’ was brought out, and consisted of children’s party food: cocktail sausages, scotch eggs, crisps that were going soft, all presented on paper plates with cling film over the top, and nowhere near enough food for everyone.

The bride and groom left at 9pm. I wondered why I had made the effort to attend at all.

Evening dos are mostly awful. Usually just for the gift grab.

hotel was an L not an E. But I wish I’d paid heed to the omen :-)

I heard about one that was having a pub reception when someone crashed into the side of the pub! Most people made it out alive apart from the greengrocer who worked on the local market. What made it extra sad was that he had just declared his love for a woman named Stacey…..oh wait, that was just an episode of Eastenders…..

Wow this has got to be up there with the worst. How awfully sad!

Bride's car broke down on the way to the church, on the motorway. She and her father (in December) had to get out of the car and climb the embankment to wait for repair service. Guests thought she was just a bit late, until we came out of the church after the ceremony to see an AA van and a police car! AA had fixed the car, then followed to church and onto reception, to make sure no more problems. Police had turned up because they were causing a distraction on the motorway and then escorted them the rest of the way. (I think both AA mechanic and police were ending a shift and stayed on in their own time.) Great wedding.

Parents and inlaws fighting in front of guests. Was like something from gypsy brides 😂

At mone my DH cousins turned up all in black (5 of then) and no effort in appearance like they were at a funeral. I was mortified.

We complained then and just got 'deer in the headlight' looks, but then later, my Dsis (not bride) called them to complain and asked for compensation. They refused, but then later, I called and my DF called and the owner eventually did refund an amount but not before telling us that her servers would never do that (LOL!). Their servers were so rude, too. Half of my family has worked in service at some point, so we're empathetic to the role, but that was outrageous and we told them so. We gave poor reviews online too.

I've been reading extracts from this thread to DH all day. He mentioned that we had had a problem with gatecrashers at our wedding. Our evening reception was in the function room at a pub and we could absorb a few extras . They were all people we knew, but who hadn't been invited because they were too distant, and in the end some of them contributed to the entertainment. All good.

DH does not seem to remember that his DD and her friends were messing about and one of them fell off a wall and finished up in hospital, or that the following day his XW made a serious attempt on her life, leaving us responsible for his DD and delaying our honeymoon.

DD's own wedding wasn't much better. The hotel was just awful. The food was awful, they could not accommodate any dietary requirements, in our room there were fist sized holes in the net curtains and no bath plug. There was also no lift, which was major issue for several members of the wedding party, including her own DM, who could not manage the steps and therefore had to keep walking round the outside of the building ( in December).

Bride had a face like a slapped arse throughout, had a major go at her husband in front of several guests, he forgot to bring a copy of his speech and instead of laughing about it had another go at him, they argued on the way home to the hotel and the the get together at her parents house the next day was just really awkward due to all the above. They are miraculously still married...she posts an anniversary picture each year that makes everyone else laugh as it just looks like she has him by the balls

I went to a beautiful wedding a few years ago in a central Edinburgh hotel. No expense spared. Trouble was the ceremony, meal and evening party were all in the same room and the decor was so elaborate that it took an age to turn the room around each time. So by the time the happy couple appeared back for their first dance, I’d say roughly half their guests had gone. Some to get the train home, others in search of food and a good night out.
It was a very long day and I was stuck to the bitter, bitter end as designated driver for several of DHs friends. As beautiful and expensive as it no doubt was, it was the least fun wedding I’ve ever attended.
Not in the same league as some of the other stories though 😔

Not a wedding I, nor anyone I know was at but... a few years back I was on one of our increasingly regular A+E visits with my now late MIL. She was on a trolley in a corridor and I was just standing there, trying not to get in anyone's way.

Some people who were obviously from a wedding party appeared and after a while we could hear a man wailing somewhere. Eventually he appeared walking down the corridor, being propped up by another man. It was the groom. There had been some kind of accident and the bride had been killed.

It was utterly, indescribably awful, I felt like an absolute intruder on what was, clearly, the worst moment of someone's life but there was nothing I could do and nowhere to go.

I was at a wedding on a beautiful sunny summers day. The bride was happily chatting with guests unknowingly standing over an ant's nest. The ants crawled up all over the skirt of the dress between the material and mesh overlay. Hundreds of them. She had to change. Still makes me itch thinking about it.

Brides Dad had a heart attack and died in front of her while it was just them waiting for the car to take them to church. She had to go and knock on neighbours doors as she didn't have her phone with her. Was utterly devastating when we all found out why she hadn't arrived

Oh no, that is absolutely awful, that poor poor family.

Only really bad one was when the father of the bride stood up to do his speech and opened with (more or less) ‘I’d like to share lovely stories about my daughter with you, but all those opportunities were stolen from me’ (he was not the current husband). He carried on with several comments of this nature for 15 minutes. Absolutely excruciating.

funnier at one wedding halfway through the ceremony a lady fell asleep and feel off her pew into the aisle (not hurt!). What was amusing was that she turned out not to be an invitee but just turned up to local weddings and had done the same thing at the previous one!

My florist got lost. My DH spent hours trying to find her. My car didn't turn up because the driver went to the pub! So I was very late. My mother told the makeup artist the wrong time so I ended up doing the bridal party makeup. Which caused me to not be at all ready when the photographer came to take the bridal party photos. So the photos are of me not ready. My step mother rang me having a meltdown over my little brother's suit while this was all happening. A funny bit was they parked my DH nan in her wheelchair right in the middle of the aisle so we all had to all stop and navigate our way around her when walking down.

Bride had some kind of terrible stomach bug and managed to get through the ceremony then ran off back to hotel room to throw up, and didn't reappear for the rest of the night, poor thing :(

Wedding with the most bizarre meal ever, there were caterers and serving staff, but they kept just bringing out salad. Not even interesting salad, just leaves. Everyone got a bowl of leaves, ate it, waited, and then the same thing happened again. Eventually we got leaves with some nuts mixed in. No one really wanted to make a fuss or ask what was going on, and there was plenty of alcohol, so eventually we all just gave up on the food and got pissed and danced. Very odd though.

And the one where the couple were both really late, then the best man's speech was a very thinly veiled warning that their relationship was terrible, and finally towards the end of the night the bride's drunk sister started screaming and yelling at her and they had a fight.

This is fascinating. What do you mean when you say you witnessed it? Had they never met before? But they were colleagues? I need the gossip on this one.

My own wedding.

I turn up at the registry office and my brother and his girlfriend (only family there, my mother - lives in Oz, couldn't afford to attend - insisted I invite him, I haven't actually seen him in 5 years. We are not a close family) are there by the entrance, first guests I see...both dressed in dirty jeans and sweatshirts, and my soon-to-be mother in law is plainly horrified. Wedding invite had said formal...my brother then tells me that they won't be able to stay long as they'd left their dog in the car (I have since realised that they weren't actually going to attend, and that the girlfriend basically forced my brother to go while they were out walking the dog, hence the attire).

Wedding ceremony over, I'm stood outside the registry office as guests are coming out, saying hello, posing for pictures, etc. Reception venue is at a hotel about 100 yards down the over side of the road, so guests start walking over. I suddenly notice that my brand new groom is on the other side of the road with a group of his friends, walking down to the hotel...I'm watching in disbelief as they disappear into the hotel. 5 minutes later, I'm still stood there, all the other guests gone, thinking like a fool 'he's going to realise he's left me behind and come back'...nope. I end up walking into my own wedding reception on my own. Groom still hasn't noticed I'm not there, he's too busy getting drunk with his friends...

My brother pisses off 15 minutes later. Good fucking riddance. That was 24 years ago, haven't seen him since.

Groom then throws a major sulk because he doesn't like the way his mother got the hotel to arrange the tables (she paid for the reception). Sulking to the point that other guests are giving him the side eye, and I'm hissing to him 'ffs, it's your wedding, you are supposed to look happy!'

The weather was vile, it rained all day - but that's to be expected in late November in the UK! I can still remember walking down to the hotel, thinking 'this was a mistake'...it was, we lasted a total of 9 years married. Ex husband hadn't really wanted to get married in the first place, he did it to 'shut me up' about it, as he charmingly used to tell his friends!

Two couples sneaked off from the evening do and were spotted shagging under a tree in the nearby grounds by the MOB when she nipped out for a ciggie, who then came back into the reception and told everyone

FOB speech included fake foreign accent impersonations

Groom was coked up before the ceremony even started. Best man too. Speeches were rapid fire desperately inappropriate jokes. First dance he pretended to be a gorilla and wouldn’t dance with the bride. They had an awful divorce and still fighting over child custody years later.

Yes! Wtf. How??