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.

We remembered everything except the printed out copies of our vows! This is pre digital era so we couldn't access them in a phone like you would now. They were on my PC at home and unreachable. The fact I wrote PC says how long ago this was right?!

Good grief. He didn't have the decency to tell her himself??

So rude! My wedding was on the day of an England - Germany match but nobody missed the wedding or reception because of it. My sport mad friend did have a radio and earphones with him (pre-mobile phone days) surreptitiously listening in every now and then during the reception and when one of the speeches said thanks for coming despite the match, he called out England are winning 1-0 and everyone cheered! Didn't spoil the day at all.

@Poppymeldrum
That's horrendous

Not really something went wrong more a personal issue

At a wedding on a friend in France there was a 5 course meal
I am vegetarian
Of the five courses
Entre….which was pate
Fish course
Sorbet
main course
Dessert

The caterers gave me fish for the entre, fish course, and main course and the dessert was gelatine based
They told me, a vegetarian at the time for over 20 years, that vegetarians eat fish and gelatine!
I ate a lot of bread to soak up all the wine instead 🤣

Crikey- all these elderly rellies karking it at the reception- bit of a dampener on the day!

And as for people neglecting the wedding breakfast to watch football- disgraceful behaviour. I would have been absolutely fuming.

OMG are they still married??

This wasn't as bad as some but I went to a terrible wedding about 17 or 18 years ago that was just very poorly organised.

The bride was an old school friend of mine and was never known for her consideration of other people and this carried through on her wedding day. The reception was miles away from the church they got married in and it was on the hottest day of the year. From the time we got to the reception to when the sit down meal started it was about 3-4 hours. There were a couple of jugs of pimms available but no other drinks or any food in all that time. No one was allowed inside and the bride and groom were faffing around taking photos with not a thought for the guests which included several elderly relatives. People were passing out from the heat left right and centre.

The food when it was finally served was not good and the seating plan was hideously mismanaged and no thought was given to the guests that were being put together, resulting in some interesting scenes. The bride also invited a relative who she knew to be a sex offender.

The couple were divorced within a few years (she shagged a colleague and buggered off). The bride is now married to the OM and the groom has also remarried.

Someone dying at a wedding must be more common than people think- I know someone who ended up doing CPR on the groom’s 99 year old grandad who had peacefully passed away during the dancing. However, he was very very old, and once the ambulance had been I think the reception carried on, albeit in a more muted state.
I used to work with the most lovely, if slightly accident prone, reverend, who accidentally set the marriage certificate alight and had to quietly ask the wedding party to sign a new one during the reception 😬😂. He really was such a sweetheart though, like a character from Thursday Murder Club, you could barely be annoyed at him.

So would i.

There was a wonderful one on here not long ago, from a poster whose wedding reception was the day of Princess Diana’s funeral not far from Althorp, at a hotel that was serving as the local base for the media covering it, and who thought that the carefully laid-out buffet in an adjacent room had been provided for them and ate it!

I had to do all the phoning around to cancel when a friend cancelled her wedding a couple of weeks before I was due to happen — this was before text messages, social media, email etc, so it was literally a matter sitting by a landline with a list of phone numbers. There were 150 guests, some overseas, so it took forever…

Venue ran out of wine by 5pm mainly because the ceremony was at 1pm and the guests were left with a couple of tiny canapés and no other form of entertainment for nearly 5 hours as the b&g went to town on their photo opps.

B&G who were determined to have a garden party style summer wedding and ignored all advice to have a contingency plan. Cue worst rainstorms for a decade, a wedding of 80+ people, and no shelter apart from a small open sided gazebo serving as a bar.

Also see December wedding in the Lake District where we all had to go on a steamer boat around a lake for 3 hours after the ceremony. Driving sleet, freezing temperatures, the bridesmaids started crying because of the cold, and the only indoor space was, again, a tiny bar downstairs which had understandably been taken over by the older family & guests less able to stand.

DD had a massive nosebleed in the lift - we’d agreed she go via the staircase as she had had one similar the day before but they forgot! Bridesmaid was quick into action and caught the bleed quickly so only a few spots on the dress that we managed to sponge off. Took us well over an hour to stop it but everyone was amazing - hotel delayed the food and the photographer stayed on. Hotel got one of their ladies from the spa to touch up the make up and put towels under the celebrants table in case it started again. Luckily no major repeats and a great day was had by all.

I think the couple had tried to be “hipster” and hired a big tent on a campsite overlooking a small lake, except the weather was awful. The meal was a hog roast and a table at a time were called up to queue and get their food from it. We were one of the last tables and were starving by that point, but the top table had finished their hog roast ages ago so as we finally sat down with ours they started their speeches etc, but we were eating our food. Was just very naff!

Oh my, how horrific for all involved 😢

Tbf if you want to be married you do need to have a wedding🙈

This isn’t about the wedding per se. But on the honeymoon the bride (early twenties) choked to death on a chip in a horrible freak accident. I know this because many years ago I was chatted up in a club by a man wearing a wedding ring. I asked him what a married man was doing in a club chatting up girls and he told me he was a widower and his wife had died on honeymoon. And how. I was young and drunk and ripped him to shreds for what I thought was the worst line ever. The next day dissecting the evening with friends one asked me how I’d got on with “John” and wasn’t it awful about his wife. It was all true and I was apparently the only person who didn’t already know about it. I was utterly mortified and still sometimes wonder what I’d say to this poor man to apologise for my callow drunken scorn of him should I ever meet him again. I’d probably hide behind a pot plant really though.

Went to a wedding where the bride was 1hr 45 minutes late the groom was 2hrs 10 late. The bride thought she had been tilted Guests for the next wedding were turning up.

The sermon was about how patience and being prompt is important in relationships

Got to the reception in a community centre and the booze had been stolen. So mad dash to the local off license to restock.

Could go on tbh. Very memorable wedding

Jilted not tilted

I know someone who’s exH left his own wedding reception and went clubbing in town with his mates! She was at her own reception alone.

Went to a wedding where guests had only been allocated one glass of wine with their meal. When waiters were asked to top up glasses they kept on disappearing but not saying there were no top ups. Eventually someone went up and asked the groom, then proceeded to the bar to order a bottle for their table. No money put behind the bar either.

Another wedding, we were evening guests. We arrived but the meal and speeches had over run. We waited and waited, couldn’t get any drinks as the bar was inside the reception room. after 90 minutes we could go into the room. Found a table, sat down and realised that people were coming in with plates of food. Went to the buffet table and there was virtually no food left. Most of it had been taken by the day guests who were still hungry!

Son used to be a manager at a local wedding venue. Wedding cake was delivered the day before the wedding. It had been made by groom’s Nanna. It arrived already assembled in its 3 tiers and put into a walk in refrigerator. A few hours later a member of staff told DS that the cake looked wonky. By the time my son got there the cake had collapsed. Turned out that Nanna hadn’t used supporting rods and made the bottom tier out of sponge with the other two tiers made of fruit and marzipan.

The bride’s father in law? Do you mean the groom’s dad? Or was the bride a polygamist who invited her current in-laws to her new wedding?

At my wedding, my sister forgot the tape recorder to record the service for two elderly aunts who couldn't attend . My Dad and i were in the carriage heading to the church when sister went thundering back the other way to get the recorder. Also the burglar alarm for my grandma's house (next door to the church) went off all through the service. Thankfully we couldn't hear it but my friend who was was the girl groom had a terrible time calming the horses down.

sadly at my daughters wedding I had my hair done at a local salon and they said they had a new beauty salon open so I decided to have a professional make up done.
By time we got to the Registry Office my eyes were burning really sore. I struggled on with photos but in the end my sister took me to local a and e just a small hospital. they tried to wash my eyes out as I had in the loos at the venue but it was still beyond painful.
In the end I was taken to the larger hospital as they were worried about my eye sight which is not brilliant anyway. I had lots of washing out and various drops my ex refused to come and get me I had no money but thankfully someone at the hospital gave me a lift. Next day I had to go back I booked a taxi and my ex who was not my ex then had to pay! no buses where I lived then.
sadly I missed my daughters first dance and cake cutting. Things are a bit delicate between us and she was not happy thought I was making a fuss over nothing but believe me it was 10 x worse then any eye infection. I had to go to the hospital for a fortnight and they told me it was actually chemical burns.
I know now she should have done a patch test but thought she would just do it I suppose. Went back to complain a few weeks later but she had gone

Not me but my brother and his wife went to a wedding where the bride fancied herself as a singer and provided an entertainment slot in the evening of her singing accompanied by an elderly man on a piano who looked like his dentures didn't fit his mouth properly and he kept chomping with his mouth open. Couldn't fault his piano playing though.

The bride may have sounded ok in a studio with auto tune but singing live in a venue was not a good idea. The video showed many of the guests looking pained and wishing imminent death whilst the bride screeched in an out of tune reedy voice.