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.

Are you still friends with the couple?

Yes we've been to wedding where tables were gradually called to the buffet table one by one and by the time we reached it there was almost nothing left. Fortunately there was a generous cheeseboard on the dessert table and we started early on that, despite opposition from the hopeless caterers.

I'd say that's definitely as bad! If some people had to go all day without food (other than a bit of a vegetable) that's absolutely terrible for them.

At one wedding I was at the bride got so drunk she kept stealing the microphone during the speeches to slag off her two sisters very badly. Food was stone cold when it finally came out as she had spent nearly 20 minutes slagging off her siblings.

Another wedding ran out of food, bbq style and we were last table to be served. Not enough meat to go round so I ended up with a small portion of potato salad and went round the tables stealing any bread rolls that had not been eaten. No evening buffet either so was starving.

At my very small wedding (26 in total) one guest was very drunk before the ceremony and was wandering around swigging from a prosecco bottle. Her behaviour deteriorated during the afternoon and culminated with her chasing my bridesmaid around the dinner table screaming "did u fck my husband you btch" in a very Benny Hill style. And no they hadn't!! She then blamed her behaviour on me as we had provided free booze!

Think the main things from reading all these posts is provide way too much food and don't take too long with the photos.

The wrong date was put on the table menus

My own.

Where do I start? 😀

• Had to give back the wedding dress I really wanted. Bought reduced from a department store, had been on display so slightly changed in colour. Was assured it would be fine after dry cleaning. It wasn’t. Ended up with one that was pre-loved that my mum liked more than me. but by then had enough going round hundreds of shops trying to find ‘the dress.’
• Absolutely pissed it down on the day, from the moment I left the hairdressers.(It was a bank holiday and just after a heat wave.)
• Had vintage car, chauffeur assured us it had never broken down. It broke down. We had to wait ages whilst he tried to crank it up at the front and eventually admitted defeat. They had to send the bridesmaids car back for us so we were late for our own reception and missed the big grand entrance and proper greeting of guests.
• Had this balloon arch over the top table in our wedding colours and right above where Bride & Groom sat in middle the balloon had popped and drooped forlornly downwards.
• Photographer was off sick so they sent another who was grumpy and took awful photos.
• Both the church (12/13th century) AND the venue were under scaffolding. We had not been informed of this until we arrived at the venue and saw it all up over the front of the building.

Come to think of it the cake was the only thing that worked out preparations wise. My guests spent most of the day telling me rain was lucky.
There may be some truth in that as we celebrate 30 years this summer.

Guest accidently spilt red wine on Brides wedding dress at reception, thankfully after photographs, bride burst into tears and ran out of hall.

Oh and a couple of August weddings where it's been torrential rain and the barn type venue needed to be reconfigured from ceremony layout to reception layout. Leaving guests huddled under a far too small gazebo outside after the ceremony whilst staff reconfigured the venue for dinner.

@KindnessisKey123 "We’ve been to two weddings with a mandatory (!) ceilidh after the dinner. At both of them we made our excuses & ducked out."

I'm assuming you hadn't noticed you were in Scotland?

No. Not for any specific reason, but the distance didn’t help. It just fizzled out.

But just because they were in Scotland doesn't mean they had to dance if they didn't want to. People can be a complete pain at these things not taking no for an answer and trying to drag people to their feet who've said they'd rather skip the dancing. Compulsory fun at its worst.

(Before anyone calls me miserable, I like dancing myself, but DH feels too self-conscious to do so for various reasons, and people never seem to want to accept that he'd rather not, so anything with forced dancing is never going to work for him.)

1)Thanks for that clarification!
2) Not sure if I should've asked or if I am now worse for knowing
3)I am so glad I am a lesbian.😂

Totally agree with him,There was a 1’2” difference in our heights, so you can imagine how silly we felt dancing, and avoided it like the plague unless it was a no contact one. My husband had strong wide shoulders whereas I was petite. We neither of us liked parties/dances anyway, even though we were sociable and had lots of friends. Dinner parties, picnics, buffets etc were much more our thing and we went to lots of those.
Having said that, the Ceilidh was lovely to watch, especially as most of the men wore kilts. It was real tradition and we loved the look of it. It would have been great if we’d been left alone to enjoy it!

The only times they seem to go wrong is later on after lots of drink, especially if a free bar! Still not all, just some. Xx

I was halfway down the aisle when I stopped with a panic. My DH thought I was changing my mind til I said "I forgot the bouquet!"
We all laughed about it, and I was less nervous about the rest of the ceremony.

At our wedding the DJ set the smoke alarm off using dry ice. Everyone had to wait outside in the cold, dark carpark in November. The DJ obligingly turned up the music on the way out and we continued dancing outside. It was so funny.

My best friend's wedding fell on the same evening as a big boxing match. They refused to have it shown at the venue. It visibly emptied as seemingly all the men walked down the country lane to watch it at the pub, including the bride's father and best man. BF's husband remained but looked put out.

A tip I'd advise is make sure you do eat something as the bride. We spent a long time deciding what food to serve, but by the evening do I was too busy talking to everyone and having fun. Got very drunk on an almost empty stomach then had a takeaway pizza delivered after midnight. Good times.

On and forgot to say. My cousin, husband and little boy went to the wrong church on the same street. They waited a good 45 minutes then spotted our church further up the road. They missed the service but made it in time for photos outside of church.

Three years ago when the bride was incredibly rude to most of the female plus ones. A few left, and the ones that didn’t got started on by the bride on the dance floor. A disgrace.

We once went to a wedding where a teenage boy decided it would be a good idea to propose to his girlfriend (who was the groom's daughter) by seizing the singer's microphone and proposing in front of the entire wedding party. Needless to say, it went down like a led balloon.

Ha ha
Did she say yes?

Woah! What exactly was she saying to them, @Longsight2019 ?

I know! Human attention span drops off a cliff after 20 minutes, so the best advice I can give when planning wedding speeches (if you must have them) is to say to the chosen speakers (usually three):

‘You have a total of 20 minutes max between you. Let’s call it six minutes each. You’ll get a ‘ping’ on a glass warning when you have one minute left. I’m serious.

‘Keep it clean, keep it light, be funny, and most importantly keep it short.’

I would also advise from bitter experience (DSS’s wedding) not to have someone propose a toast when no-one has been given a drink. It’s a bit … awkward.

I don’t expect the sane amongst us to be able to comprehend this wedding:

The first to leave was when they went over to the top table to wish the B&G well. The bride didn’t look at, acknowledge or thank them for coming. Despite them being in conversation with the Groom for several minutes. Blanked for no known reason.

Someone else had a glass thrust at her on the dance floor by the bride who was now dancing to some hardcore dance music. When she didn’t take it from her at first, it was offered again aggressively so she had no choice to take it. She was near a table so it was a show of dominance. Really odd.

Finally there was an insult thrown at someone’s wife on the dance floor by the bride’s best friend and Bride. It was clear tensions were rising and it was time to leave. Very hostile.

Sadly, the man marrying this person is an old friend with a heart of gold. He’s a tough person thankfully, because he’s needed to be with all the ups and downs since their big day.

I also need to know this! And why it didn't go down positively!

This reminds me of a church wedding I was at where the vicar lectured us all about our duties to god and how god was watching over us, also remonstrating with those of us who weren't religious and bemoaning that we'd only set foot in a church because it was a wedding! Well no shit sherlock. I thought it was ridiculous and was all ready to have a moan about it afterwards with other guests, but they were all "wasn't that a lovely service!!!" Turned out the vicar was the groom's brother.