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.

I'm going to share the opposite - a Jewish wedding where they handed you a snack the instant you walked in to the reception, then did dancing, then regular feeding throughout the evening in between the speech-y and sing-y bits.

I loved it! At most weddings, you are hungry, bored and sometimes cold (barns, however picturesque, can get in the bin...)(don't get me started on marquees).

Was invited to the evening reception and duly showed up at the specified time to discover everything was running very late. Everyone invited to the day celebrations were just finishing off their main course.
We had to leave early because we had to be up early the next day with a long drive ahead . By 10.30pm the evening buffet still hadn't been put out so we had to leave unfed and really hungry.We were passing through a village on the way home and saw that the chip shop was still open.Sitting eating chips in the car with the windows steaming up never tasted so good.

Here’s a lighthearted minor one: when the bride tossed her bouquet over her shoulder it hit the ceiling fan, was sliced into a million pieces, and was strewn all over the dance floor

I went to a wedding in Italy recently and I almost needed to be rolled out. The bride’s dad led every guest around in a giant conga. Normally I would not be a fan of the conga but it was so much fun.

I was at a wedding where I witnessed the "lightning strike" moment at the reception, when the groom fell in love with one of his colleagues. They literally were talking and then looked at one another and BOOM.
Dreadful shock for the poor bride, who was lovely The couple had been together for ages (about 8 years) as well and were a charming couple.
This was in the August, by November he had moved permanently to live with the colleague and I believe the eventually married and had children.

What a horrible man. Why on earth did you do his dirty work for him?

Hired a local mini bus to take the bridegroom and his family and friends from their hotel to the registry office (getting married in bride's hometown, the bridegroom was from the other end of the country). Registrar had really impressed on us that it was really important not to be late as time slots are very tight. Bus driver thought the registry office was somewhere else, and didn't believe bridegroom when he said they were going the wrong way because he wasn't from there. Very tense moments apparently, but they did get there just a couple of minutes late. Bridegroom had blood pressure through the roof, and it does show in some of the photos!

Another horrible man. Why on earth was he looking at other women on his wedding day? I suspect they were already having an affair.

Only food served all day was a pulled pork burger and a cupcake each. No sides and no evening food. Lots of drunk people with nothing to soak up the alcohol was not a good combination

Best man and groom got wasted. Speeches were so offensive people removed kids from the room. Marriage lasted about a week

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

Don't keep people waiting while you're having hundreds of photos taken. It's rude. We were standing around for 1.5 hours at the last one.

Last 3 weddings we've been to were country barn type venues. The photography teams ran everything.
Constantly in your face - things like going on a balcony above the ceremony, "can everybody wave and cheer..."... why... it wasn't spontaneous, it wasnt natural, then having camera drones outside. No one EVER felt like letting their hair down, pretty dull wedding. Was expecting an absolutely stunning online album after all the faffing about, putting us old and uglies at the back etc...
Really was so-so , spoiled the day in more ways than one.

Mine. Mix up over the Banns meant they hadn't been read: XDH had to get a special licence on the morning of the wedding. I think God was trying to tell me something.

We had one glass of wine only because the brides father and the grooms mother were alcoholics and they didn't want to encourage them to drink . We all got a paper bag with our name on it at the reception containing a china cup and saucer and a sandwich plate and we had a cup of tea, sandwiches and a piece of cake and that was it.

Another one where the evenings entertainment was a very loud heavy metal band that no-one except the bride danced to and no-one could hear themselves speaking so we all sat around awkwardly trying to converse with each other and waiting for it to finish

The brides sister sang a beautiful solo then later on we were all shocked to hear her shouting and swearing at the top of her voice at her father and his new wife.

Hotel double booked our honeymoon suite. We were the later couple to arrive, so we got bumped down.

Bridesmaids dress strap broke, and revealed her boob in bra whilst walking down the aisle.

Woman strangely coughing during the vows. We later found out she'd been having an affair with the groom.

After the ceremony guests kept asking the bride where the groom was. She was clearly trying to put on a brave face because he kept disappearing for elongated periods of time, only spending a few minutes at a time with guests and his new wife before going off again for another long absence. He was running off to hide in the hotel car park to get drunk and stoned with his mates.

The groom had waved a lot of red flags that the bride hadn't recognised during their relationship of many years. The wedding was an eye opener for her, and after the wedding his unpleasant behaviours escalated because he thought she wouldn't be strong enough to leave him. It went quickly downhill and she divorced him soon after.

I have been to a few weddings where the father of the bride speeches were so awful. One where he droned on boringly for so long the bride had to tell him to stop! Why don’t some men realise how dull they are!!!!!???

That's quite funny.

Some of these are truly awful.

The worst I've seen is a buffet where the tables had to get up one by one to help themselves to food. I was on the last table. The food had run out.

Bride was bipolar. So heavily drugged to get through the service she pushed everything away from in front of her at the table and put her head down and slept (and snored) until the end of the meal.

Another one - no meal, only canapes. Brides family ambushed the staff coming out with canapes and most of the party didn't get any food.

Bride and groom had not prepared any of the paperwork for the wedding. The minister had been asked to officiate and lead the service but none of the legal part had been prepared. This came to light the day before the service. In the end they were married in the early morning of the wedding day by special licence and then went through with the wedding with the congregation unaware of the panic.

Last one - they ran out of food. The venue were calling specific tables to come and serve themselves but they were doing it in a very random order. When they got to the family of the groom - grandmother, aunts/uncles - there was no food left! When it came to dessert the same thing happened and there was nothing left for the last two tables. At the same time as this was going on the toilet was overflowing in the ladies. The catering staff were taking a bucket and mop from the kitchen, while the food was being prepared/served, mopping the floor and returning the bucket. 50% of the guests were ill with vomiting and diarrhoea afterwards.

An amusing family story is of my grandparents (on my fathers side) did the vows part and went separately to the venue for the evening doo

Grandad walked in,found his wedding party,got stuck into the food and champagne with gusto,chatted to the guests and didn't really give his bride a thought

After about an hour,the penny slowly started to drop that he hadn't seen her at all

Then it dropped a bit further that he'd been chatting away to total strangers

He'd got the wrong floor and wrong wedding party!

He slunk out,finally found the right floor,grovelled a bit to his new bride and started all over again

I did ask what granny thought (I couldn't ask her as she'd died before I was born) and apparently she wasn't that surprised and knew he'd surface at some point

Best part is,years later,he did exactly the same thing at my mother's 21st birthday party!

It runs in the bloody family,his son,my father is exactly the same-my mother had to keep an iron grip on him on their wedding day and I once went to the wrong funeral (was meant to go into one room at the crematorium but ended up in another and was halfway through a strangers funeral before I noticed!)

Where it wasn’t communicated that the delicious hors d'oeuvres being served in the grounds of the church was the only food being served. Being polite my group of friends only took a few each, but as the evening went on we realised that there was no more food.
we had to find a restaurant in Knightsbridge after the dancing. Nuts.

The best man gave a speech before they went up the aisle?

Oh my!!!

A work colleague's wedding springs to mind. It was in a luxury country hotel with beautiful outside areas. Unfortunately whilst using the beautiful outside areas many of the guests were attacked by a swarm of wasps.

Then later on the 6 tier cake toppled over onto the floor as it had not been set up properly.