Weddings you went to where things went wrong?

[Bupo]

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.

Another one. Well over 20 years ago me and 4 friends gatecrashed a wedding evening doo at a local (rough) pub. It was last orders in the normal pub, and the Landlord, famous for his lock-ins, assured us it would be fine, and pointed us upstairs to the Wedding. There were no guests left. Even the Groom had gone home. There was just his Mother, both of the Bride's parents looking stony faced, The Bride (COMPLETELY wasted) and the Best Man doing some X-rated dancing in the middle of an empty dancefloor and snogging the face off each other. The Grooms Mum was frantically encouraging us to take plates of buffet food home with us, and the 5 of us were hilariously wide eyed at the "dancing" but chowing down on cheap nuggets and pork pie quarters. By the end of the night the Bride was even more shit faced, mascara all down her face, hugging us goodbye as we left, clinging to us and sobbing "Thank You so much for coming, I'm so glad you made the effort to come, it wouldn't have been the same with you" completely oblivious to the fact she'd never even clapped eyes on us until 2 hours earlier.

mine. It was a surprise wedding. A real surprise. No family or friends knew. DH brother didn’t like the surprise and left the ceremony with his family. We haven’t had a good relationship with them since despite many olive branches from our part.

So the only people that knew were you and your DH? Why did you think of doing that?

What happened? Did they get married?

Different weddings.

Horrendously, the Father of the bride died during his speech.

Vicar was so drunk he forgot to read the vows. We realised after he pronounced them man and wife. Best man had a quiet world. So we started again.

Bride started to cry during vows and had to have half an hour to herself standing in a field..

Bride stepped in to halt the best man’s speech.

People “tent bopping” caused the centre part of the marquee structure to collapse nsrrowly crushing a number of people.

Well cant speak for her but I would do this because in every family there is someone who will stick their oar in and insist you do things their way. Sounds like the BIL was one of them. Its like all the benefits of eloping while having a good party too.

My father, (very traditional) organised the reception, it was a sit down meal for everyone. Unfortunately, he forgot to mention that the bar should be open, he just assumed it would be.

The venue staff phoned the bar staff at home and they all agreed to come in on their day off. It cost dad a fortune in cash bribes and we didn’t know until we came back from our honeymoon.

I went back afterwards to thank them all, it was so good of them.

Bride and groom had a massive Barney, bride was a bit worse for drink. I tried to smooth things over & distract with cutting the wedding cake, bad move, the bride threw the knife like something out of a circus act at the groom, knife missed him by inches and stuck in a wooden bar support post with a doy-oynnnnng...Marriage didn't last very long needless to say.

The one that was called off because the groom didn’t make it to the ceremony. His mates took him out the night before and hilariously put him on an overnight train… with no money.
cue frantic searching for him the next morning when the parents realised he wasn’t where he should be getting ready…

We had the lunch and party anyway, he was found and brought back that night and they got married in a registry office a few weeks later instead…

That’s awful. What a shame.

My husband forgot the CD with the music to walk down the wedding isle so I sadly walked down the aisle to a panpipe version of a take that song… which would have literally been my last choice! Apparently it was all they had to hand at the time!

It’s been 20 years and I am still cross about it!

I also agree under catered weddings are dreadful especially when they are in a barn in the middle of nowhere!

My poor cousin's wedding. The actual ceremony went off without a hitch but when they went to cut their cake, the entire thing keeled over onto the floor (it looked a bit like the leaning tower of piza before they began). Luckily the bride and groom saw the funny side. Then the fire alarm went off during the speeches and we had to evacuate. Then again as the main meal was served then again when the buffet was served in the evening! Something about the kitchens seemed to be the reason!

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My cousin's future wife was quite late. The starter went on the limo. Then the bar at the venue wasn't open. Lots of people "popped" to an off sales. Eventually, the bar did open and of course everyone was drinking their own booze. He'd to blackmail us with no music unless we bought drinks. Apart from that, it was a fantastic wedding.

Went to a work colleague’s wedding. Arrived to realise we were the only friends there and the rest were bride and grooms immediate family. I already knew that their mums had fallen out but both sets of family literally stood on either side of the church yard refusing to mingle whilst me and my husband tried to politely make conversation with both sides. Afterwards we all went to the reception at a local pub (they were on a tight budget I believe) again families sat on separate tables and it all felt very awkward, first and last time I’ve ever wanted to leave a wedding early. I really felt for bride and groom, it was like something out of a Shakespeare play.

Make up artist never turned up for my daughter in law.All ok in the end.

One wedding I was bridesmaid at was definitely a bit short of guests on the groom's side. Half way through the service they slowly tried to slip in unnoticed! The reason being that the groom's mother had decided to write the invitations for their side of the family and had written the wrong name of the church on them, hence them missing half of the service. Date of the wedding was April 1st!

Another wedding didn't take place because the night before the best man took the groom out for a few drinks and persuaded him not to get married. So he didn't show up. I believe that the bride and groom got married six months later with a different best man.

The morning of our wedding my husband's grandad died after being in bad health for a good few years. Half way through the evening reception my in laws along with aunts and uncles disappeared to a quieter part of the venue and were discussing plans for the funeral later in the week!

At a friends wedding the vicar told this joke :

Back in the old day, there was a married couple that were going on their honeymoon on a horse carriage. After they were riding, the horse would kick back. The Husband would say "thats once". After a while, the horse would kick back up again and the husband would say "thats twice". Again, the horse kicks up. The husband pulls out a shotgun and shoots the horse dead. The wife, who was disgusted by the act shouts out "WHY YOU KILLED THAT HORSE!! HE WAS SO BEAUTIFUL AND INNOCENT!"
the husband sat there quietly and said "thats once...."

So not exactly something going wrong (we all just thought it was hilariously inappropriate, it was the '90's so par for the course). But maybe check the vicariously isn't planning a comedy routine about domestic violence.

At my own wedding , the elderly priest started "We're here to unite William and"... He forgot my name. We told him my name in aloud whisper and the ceremony went on. We'll always remember Father Forgetful!!

Lovely wedding, but next day we ALL came down with some kind of noro / vomiting bug.

I went to one with this - I was heavily pregnant and really wanted to dance with DH but obviously couldn't get involved. The bride's father played the fiddle.

Groom did a speech and used his ex wife’s name rather than the woman he had just married. They had a huge row!

I was one of 7 bridesmaids for my cousins wedding. She got married in a church and the reception was being held at a venue in the next town over. After the ceremony, the bridal party stayed behind to have photos taken and the guests went ahead to the venue. It was at this point we realised that myself and my other cousin who was also a bridesmaid were left without transport. They’d arranged the transport from the house to the church, but didn’t arrange it from the church to the venue. We were counting money we had between us to get a taxi, when luckily the grooms parents drove past and asked us if we needed a lift.

Bride & Groom just got married in town hall in Cyprus, and returned to hotel for champagne reception waiting for them. As the couple stepped out of limo into the foyer, family and friends were waiting to greet them whilst a harpist played. The bride suddenly dropped to the floor and no pulse was found. It was so hot August temps and she had a really tight bodice on. She died a bride infront of 100’s of people aged 26 of natural causes no pre-existing conditions.

My sister received an anonymous letter the morning of her wedding saying the groom was cheating. She had received 2 similar letters in run up to the wedding but he (the groom) insisted it wasn’t true & was a prank. She married him anyway and then about 10 months later he admitted it was true and he left her for the women he was cheating with (and she left her husband as she was also married).