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.

The one where the maid of honour and two bridesmaids made a speech on how many men the bride had previously slept with - including her parents bed and their shed! It went on and on....

No-one laughed. Bride looked like she was about to cry.

1. Church burned down week before wedding but replacement church was found and was so idyllic the B and G were suspected of burning the first one down.
2. Wedding venue went into receivership and the couple only found out the night before and managed to persuade everyone to get it opened for them. The meal was fine but not the feast that had been planned (tinned carrots etc)
3. The Band G spent a fortune, 3 photographers, harpist, band and everything had to be done to an exacting standard......I was bored shitless and one of the photographers kept making us repeat things so that they could get the perfect picture, no spontaneous pictures for them!

Obviously it shouldn’t be mandatory (I’m thinking of people with disabilities/injuries etc) but the two weddings I’ve been to with ceilidhs have been incredibly fun because almost everyone gets up and dances, and it’s all the more fun because the majority don’t really know what they’re doing.

Indeed. Ceremony at 12. Endless photos. Food at 5.
It was at a Hello wedding, hence the photos. Didn't last. She married a much more famous person very quietly a couple of years later.

Exactly this, we were the last table up to the buffet & there was nothing left. Turns out parents of bride thought there was too much waste at weddings to paid caterers for 40 with 70 guests. 🙄 I had 3 young children & had to head to the supermarket to get something to eat.
Not only was it bad that they ran out but sending the only table with children up last was also thoughtless

Staff dropping the cake, family disagreement, neither incident really took from the day, IMO, I'm sure the bride felt different.

Oh no I'm dying for her! THIS is why i want speeches banned a mandatory toast and a thank you for coming should be sufficient 😀

I attended a big wedding where during the brides father's speech he produced a little box from his pocket. The box contained the brides baby teeth. He turned to the groom & said they are yours now 😳😂

My friend’s husband had a bad asthma attack at my wedding doing Cossack dancing to Ra Ra Rasputin and had to be taken to hospital!

I didn’t even know about it until after my honeymoon.

During my catholic ceremony in a beautiful old church a massive candle on a stone windowsill exploded onto flames. My friends all highly trained ICU nurses well used to reacting quickly in emergencies were so dumbstruck they just sat watching. Luckily my husbands friend had his usual emergency can of craft ale in his coat pocket doused the holy flame with his precious beer lol
I'm still reminded of this sign of eternal damnation 30 years later but hey! We are still together ❤️

A fire alarm is completely different to an explosion in a nearby building. The reception in the venue wouldn't be able to go ahead. I'm sure that bride though would have been greatful they weren't there at the time of the explosion.

I have attended multiple outdoor weddings in the blazing summer heat, not in the uk. Guests have ended up sunburned and at one someone fainted. If you want to have a wedding in a hot climate, provide shade and much more water than you possibly think your guests could ever drink.

I went to a wedding where the Bride got so drunk she had to leave an hour into the Reception. Her Mum put her to bed and looked after her while everyone (including the Groom) else carried on partying.

I also went to one where everything ran so late the evening guests sat around in the hotel lobby waiting for the day guests to finish the meal, speeches etc. Took so long some of them actually left. Same wedding, they started the music way too soon for the Bride walking down the aisle. It was a looooong aisle (big venue) so the song finished when she was half way and she just walked the rest in silence. Bit awkward.

I've been to a couple of weddings where there wasn't enough food, people were complaining of being hungry (to each other, not the B&G), at one of them a few people went off to find food nearby then came back. The other one was very remote so not an option.

Not sure if this counts as something going wrong, but I've been to mid-week weddings where lots of people left early because they had work the next day, and no one was drinking for the same reason, so things fizzled out very early and there wasn't much of a party atmosphere.

My sister in law got married a couple of weeks ago, so the best man's speech is (unfortunately) still fresh in my mind.

The bride and groom didn't have a hen/stag do, so it felt like the BM shoe horned in things that are best suited to the stag do.
He even ended the speech by saying that he thought the newlyweds were going to Wales for their honeymoon...cos the groom said he was 'going to bang her for a fortnight'.

Off the chart inappropriate.

I am enjoying this thread sorry op!

I have been to lots of weddings over the years.

1. Groom got very drunk at this own reception and was busy flirting with the male bartender and anyone other man in the vicinity. It made a total mockery of their vows, and I felt horribly sorry for the bride dancing on her own with her friends trying not to notice. Lots of people making so many excuses for him!

2. No food laid on beyond a bowl of crisps and sweets for a 10.30am wedding service until the evening (6pm). The guests were absolutely shit faced by 4pm and starving. Going out to petrol stations and convenience stores for sandwiches. It meant everyone left straight after the dinner, so the disco was tumbleweed. Not great to save money at the expense of your guests comfort, and ruined the last part of the wedding when a buffet was wheeled out at 10pm with no one there to eat it! Bad planning.

3. My own hairdresser didn’t turn up. Sickness bug. Always good to have a plan B you can do yourself! I didn’t mind but plenty of brides would be so upset.

Good god 😳

Went to a friend's sisters wedding when I was a teen years ago. Wedding was on St Stephens day and the band turned up absolutely hammered drunk. One of them couldn't actually stand up not to mind to say sing! A guest saved the day by borrowing a guitar and singing.
My teenage self thought it was hilarious but now as an adult not much so

Did they ever get married?

Extended relative of my OH was getting married. She’s a teacher, as were many of the guests. When the ceilidh started the teachers all danced with stony faces and scowled at anyone who joked about or got the steps wrong as if they were naughty primary school kids. You’d have thought the self-important sods were marching to war.

At another more recent wedding some of the guests were complaining because not everyone was getting up to dance.

I love watching a ceilidh but they do bring out the despot in some people in my experience.

Oh and the wedding last summer had 17 no show day guests!! Bride was distraught and rearranging tables all morning. That was pretty awful tbh as she spoke about it all day and was very embarrassed.

One of the many reasons i love a Jewish 'do'.

I have a lot of Jewish friends and i get to tag along to all their families celebrations.
I fondly remember the first Bar Mitzvah i went to.
It was excellent!

He even ended the speech by saying that he thought the newlyweds were going to Wales for their honeymoon...cos the groom said he was 'going to bang her for a fortnight'.

Oh, come on, that's quite funny, and not inappropriate given the widely known association of honeymoons with lots of sex 😃

Eh? Surely the place was filled with people she knew?

I knew of a similar thing to that. Absolutely fantastic wedding, winter, castle, TWELVE bridesmaids, huge expensive do-bridal party all in ice-themed but warm dress and red velvet. Fabulous.

They'd been married a month or so and were TTC, and groom's mobile phone broke. Bride was going into town and offered to take it to the repair shop for him. Got there and the repair shop's assistant said he thought the phone was okay but it was a battery problem so to test it he put a new battery in it. Straight away it worked and up popped a few days' worth of messages from OW. Unmistakably an affair that had obviously been going on for a long time, a lot of 'you were so amazing last night' s and the like.

Lucky escape in a sense and to the bride's credit, she kicked him straight out.

Not in front of parents and the newlywed's teenage daughters.