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.

Bridesmaids took bridal car resulting in bride being late, forgot her flowers and had to go back for them. Vicar was about to cancelwhen she finally arrived. Cake hit the deck due to heat as melted the frosting and it went sliding off. Not a great site walking into the reception. However it was a bloody great day and the bride looked stunning. She dealt with it like a true warrior and ploughed through.

2 hours late due to make up fixes is ridiculous OP! Nothing as bad as that, insufferable for ALL the guests

Booked transport being delayed

Groomsmen not getting people seated for the ceremony before bridal party arriving

People getting drunk leading to arguments, fall outs, breakages

Photos taking too long, people getting hungry and grumpy

Being stuck by someone you don’t find attractive but they keep trying anyway (hopefully not in your case as seating by DH, but when considering seating planning attempts at match making may go horribly wrong!)

Seating planning generally, people not mixing well generally on the tables or cliques

Either a lot of food leftover or guests really hungry in the evening due to lack of catering

Bomb scare mid ceremony. Entire venue had to be closed evacuated.

Nothing so unchristian as a christian bigot

Not me.. a friend, attending her employers wedding...

Tried very politely to deal with employers Dads wife, who was getting steadily more and more sloshed and as she did so, more and more determined to chat up and attempt to snog friend.

Thinking she'd given the letcherous Step Mother the slip, she went to the bar, where employers Dad grabs her by the back of her suit, hauled her out into the car park and thumped her for trying to get off with his missus!

Full on yelling match, people holding him (fairly big) back from trying to beat up a 5ft 3" 40 ish lesbian, accusing her of having an affair with his wife (she'd seen her in passing twice over the course of her employment, sufficient to know who she was but not what she was like at parties!), he was going to hunt her down and all sorts of ridiculous and horribly aggressive shit.

The next morning, she had five missed calls, a load of grovelling voice mail apologies, and an envelope through the door with a 'sorry' card and several hundred quid in notes. Her boss, when he finally found out about it was absolutely mortified, horrified, hugely embarrassed and deeply apologetic!

I was shocked she let it go tbh, but she does like working for him and felt reporting his Dad to the police wasn't the way to keep a lucrative job!

Only wedding I went to as a kid, friend of our family... his ex wife walked in at the 'does anyone know any reason why blah blah blah' bit in the church and screeched 'because he's a creep and she's a slag' and then crashed out through the doors chased by several people. She bricked a car she thought was his (she must have been absolutely trollied as it was some random strangers car of a similar shape/colour, they'd both arrived in taxis!) and was then arrested for that.

I wasn't an attendee at this one but know the venue owner.

Guest was staying at an estate cottage the night of the wedding.

After the meal he jumped in a car to run a few friends over to see it and they crashed off the road, through a fence and over into a massive dip.

Car rolled and he was killed. Friends seriously injured.

I believe they weren't found for a while because of how far out on the estate they were.

Small food portions.

Everyone was unsatisfied and still hungry with the prospect of a full evening ahead on hungry bellies. Unspoken....but felt by everyone. Awkward.

Bride eats like a sparrow and obviously catered to her own appetite not realizing it's not normal.

Iv never been to a ceilidh but always thought they were meant to be fun.
We're you forced to do the dancing ..? Is that why you mentioned it was mandatory ,?
Not having a go here..just genuinely interested..

At my friends wedding their photographer got pissed and forgot to take photos - I think they got a couple from right at the beginning.

Friends wedding, the groom was a police officer, as were a lot of the guests on his side. The lovely bride's family however had various members who had a difficult relationship with the law. (The bride's brother didn't make the wedding as he was in prison at the time!)

The bride had obviously given warnings of dire consequences to her family for anyone who stepped out of line. It was the most staid, prim and proper wedding I have ever been to, with barely a peep out of the bride's side of the family. The bride looked very on edge throughout the day.

It was incredibly awkward as a guest, but afterwards the bride and groom were so happy and said that it was a perfect day!

Similar to a wedding I went to in terms of disorganisation. Bride & Groom picked an expensive venue that everyone had to travel 2 hours to. Expense of hiring venue had obviously taken up the entire budget as when we sat down at tables (which were furnished with wine glasses) there was no wine. Or any drink at all. Not even water. No fizz was brought round for the toast, so when the speeches ended with the traditional “let’s all raise a toast to the B&G” I held up an imaginary glass! 😂

Husbands then 4 year old nephew cloned into the decorative pond.
spent the rest of the day in jeans and d t shirt.
oh and later on husbands uncle poured a glass of red wine over his (hired) white shirt.

I was at a wedding where the bride was 2 hours late, but it was because her mother was still sewing her wedding dress. It was eventually sewn on to her and bits of it came apart during the day.

This family are all notoriously disorganised and unpunctual. Friends of the family were becoming increasingly worried as the day approached because the dress wasn't finished and people offered to help but offers were refused. Mother was up all night working on the dress, she had no sleep and looked exhausted all day.
The dress was lovely though.

My younger DB wedding in April 1989. It was a Merseyside wedding on a lovely spring day .
Wedding was in a lovely church at 3pm.
We came out of the church at about 3.40 into the grounds for an hour of photographs and whilst we were hanging about waiting for our turn my older DB put the radio on in his car and joy turned into shock . Hillsboro was happening and we heard that there was several casualties.
We are a family of equal numbers of Liverpudlians and Evertonians but were all equally upset at the news .
We went to the hall that was hired for the rest of the day but it had no TV or radio so we had no idea what was happening until much later when the evening guests started arriving and told us of much higher number of dead football fans . It was so very sad but we managed to rally ourselves to make the party a happy occasion for my DB and his bride .
almost 36 years later they are still together and very happy but I don’t think anyone will forget that wedding .

A friend of mines dad had a stroke as he stood up to walk her up the aisle. Mum, dad and sisters all went to a&e whilst she got married.

What?

I got married on a beach in Mauritius. Just me and DH and luckily no guests. The celebrant accidentally dropped our wedding rings into the sand and we all spent a good half an hour looking for them. Eventually a security guard with a metal detector had to be called to look for them. This took a further 30 mins, in 38 degrees midday sun. This was 20 years ago and we are still married, although ive since lost that wedding ring again and have to wear a replacement!

'Recep' was a typo.

Recep Erdogan is the President of Turkey.

'No good deed goes unpunished' as they say. Poor bloke who was just being generous-bride should have fed everyone and it wouldn't have happened.

I am totally missing the point but;
1)WHY are so many grown men supposedly incapable of wiping their arse?! I've seen so much of this online on here and reddit/fb recently!
2) Okay so you've not wiped your arse-BUT unless you're putting your actual bumHOLE onto the thing you're sitting on, how is a skid going to appear? Did he have poo on his bumCHEEKS?!

Not saying I don't believe this story by the way. I unfortunately do.

1. I imagine he was nervous and may have had his stag the night before, if you get my drift 😬
2. He sat on the bride’s lap, so I imagine his legs were open
3. I have put way too much thought into this.

a lot of weddings seem to go wrong with too much alcohol and the wedding my daughter went to was no exception quite a few years ago. Very posh hotel in a small village no shop etc. Afternoon wedding and do sit down meal all going fine but then there was 3 hours break before the evening do. no where to go so sat at the bar which was open for guests. needless to say we ended up fetching her home and she did not see the evening do!

We travelled nearly 500 miles to our friends’ wedding in Scotland. They were wealthy, so had rented a huge house where all the guests would be staying. It was absolutely freezing! The bed only had one blanket - in March! Even though we put our overcoats over us, we couldn’t get to sleep. We got up and looked for someone to ask for more bedding, but couldn’t find a soul, so we froze throughout the night and got no sleep. Because of this, I felt quite off-colour the next morning, but went to breakfast. Big mistake as the only thing on offer was porridge (with salt, no sugar) and kippers. We were hauled out for a walk afterwards and nearly froze to death.
They had a ceilidh in the evening and it went on and on and on! We have never been so bored. They kept trying to persuade us to get up and dance but the dances there were nothing we recognised, so we didn’t. The venue was bitterly cold.
They had their children with them. Their 2 year old daughter was an absolute sweetie but their 8 year old son was a nightmare. He kept butting into conversations, ridiculed everyone and everything and was totally impossible. Spoilt doesn’t begin to cover it and he flew into a tantrum if he didn’t get his own way. We were due to stay there for 5 days, and we did stick it out, although, looking back, I don’t know how. The weather warmed up a little which helped, and we did manage to get an extra blanket. Just the one though! It was an absolute nightmare, but the scenery was amazing in the Glen we walked through.

Mines similar to this, but not due to excitement, it was our wedding, dh mum was so worried about her son marrying me, she didn't eat all day but drank plenty of wine, collapsed at the reception, ambulance called, was diagnosed with diabetes afterwards and had apparently gone into a diabetes coma at the reception.

I'm not that bad, honestly.
We've been married over 20 years

Oh that’s awful. I’m so sorry that’s the peak of laziness.