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.

My Dc had a few no shows it's so rude , 17 though!

At my friend's wedding, her sil did all she could to spoil the day and break the couple up. She shouted at the bride, "borrowed her makeup" & didn't return it so bride couldn't do touch ups. Prevented the bride and groom from sitting together or anything together.

Them to top it all off, opened the presents to the happy couple and took the nice stuff for her flat. Absolutely unbelievable!

Friends very on the cheap DIY wedding reception- venue was a smelly sports hall where Groom worked so got it very cheap/free. Food buffet was all home made by close to the family guests and had no theme it was utterly random. Not enough seats so was sat on boyfriends lap at the buffet dinner. The dinner was policed and the immediate family helped themselves first, then it went in tiers of importance. We were last as casual friends. Time I got to the buffet there was pretty much nothing left I had two spoonfuls of Irish stew and a Bakewell tart. Started to feel unwell after a few of the complimentary wines which was on a wooden table just help yourself. Took a closer look at the bottles and they were all out of date I think they got them for free. No food and out of date plonk resulted in throwing up on the M25 on the way home.

DP and I turned up at the registry office. We were all waiting in the area outside the ceremony room. The Groom (who was a bit of a bad lad and Bride's parents disapproved of relationship and refused to go to wedding) appeared and made a little speech to say that there would be no wedding today. He said I've told Bride and everyone but noone is listening to me and I've decided it's not going to happen. He then walked out. Someone went to the pub over the road for a brandy for the Bride. An awkward ten minutes later, the Groom reappeared and said that there would now be a wedding but he would not be going to the reception so the rest of us can do what we like.
They actually did get married.
DP and I stayed for the ceremony as it was just so awkward to walk out and the Bride was a friend of mine and then DP and I went home. Didn't fancy a very awkward buffet with no Groom and a sobbing Bride!

Obviously the marriage did not last!

Different weddings:

Flowers delivered to the wrong hotel and used for someone else’s wedding.

Someone shaved off the groom’s eyebrows on the stag do.

Hotel directed out of town guests to the wrong church so they missed the ceremony and photos.

A wedding where there had been a rehearsal dinner the night before so some guests were too hungover to make breakfast at the lovely hotel the bride and groom had paid for 🙄 There was a champagne and canapés reception after the service while the bride and groom had photos so they didn’t have a starter at the wedding breakfast (an hour later) but some guests thought the main course was a starter and didn’t eat much of it. Then the caterers didn’t announce the evening buffet was served (in a separate room) so no one touched it and it was all thrown away. To add insult to injury, they told the bride what had happened after the food had already gone in the bin.

You're saying the parents and teenagers wouldn't have at least an inkling that copious sex might be on a honeymoon agenda?

No one wants an x rated wedding for heavens sake!

So many where things have gone wrong. Bridesmaid forgetting her dress, fire alarm going off just as meal served so all cold by the time we returned, fathers of the bride making terrible inappropriate speeches, best men making terrible inappropriate speeches, best man dropping his flash cards and fluffing his entire speech, hotel putting place names all in the wrong place. Everyone just had to get on with it!

I always eat a sandwich lunch before a wedding and keep a picnic in the car. I generally find that Asian weddings are very well catered for but English weddings aren't. So I always ensure I eat before I attend a British wedding because there is always a food shortage.

My story is nothing to do with the B&G. Best mates wedding I was MOH and a month before the wedding i found out long term boyfriend was cheating on me so the relationship ended. I stopped eating due to the break up and lost so much weight the dress couldn't be altered in time and didn't fit. I ended up wearing it with pins in the back so it didn't sag. Bride was a touch late nothing major but said ex boyfriend turned up and sat outside the church in his car with OW to watch.

It's not x-rated to joke about a couple having sex on their honeymoon. Having sex on your honeymoon, or indeed, at any point in your marriage, is a perfectly normal and healthy thing to do.

I think this is the biggest fail ever, so many people cut on the catering and yet that's what guests will really care about

I was at an wedding where the ceremony took place outside on a garden. Lovely setting, but it was a very hot day and no real shade available. The couple provided pre-ceremony Pimms, and people were mingling and chatting when the bride's mother suddenly collapsed.

She apparently hadn't eaten much all day since she was helping her daughter get ready and had slept poorly due to excitement the night before. That, combined with the heat and the alcohol, made her faint.

Fuck

I remember hearing during planning that when wedding food is really good or really bad, that's what people remember about the event. I think that's absolutely true.

Everyone abandoned the bride and groom in the marquee to squash into the hotel playroom and watch the FA cup.

But no one wants to think or talk about it at a family wedding my friend, especially ones with children present. It’s a private matter.

At least in civilised society.

Oh I don't know, the Lightning Strike happened to me once - was chatting to acquaintance, we made eye contact and.......Boom! Most peculiar thing I've ever experienced. We dated for nearly a year then it just fizzled out.

The band we had booked got a last minute offer of a season on a cruise ship and didn't tell us till the day before the wedding. They found an alternative but they were a completely different style. It was still fun though.

The baker making the cake couldn't work out how to do the design we'd asked for, so just did some random squiggly lines. Fortunately the reception venue managed to re-ice it for us on the morning of our wedding!

DBs future MIL had a hissy fit in the church because I was doing a reading but wouldn't wear a hat! She was utterly batshit.

Fortunately all the weddings I've been a guest at have been fabulous!

urgh that is so pathetic.

Yep. Despite his cheating. She is very much "any man is better than no man".

I totally agree, @ouipamplemousse

DH's cousin married a lovely woman. She couldn't handle drink but she loved her wine. By the evening reception she was completely blotto, glassy eyed, no idea who anyone was, etc.
We were staying in the hotel where the reception was held and we were woken at 3am by loud banging. Cousin had gone to bed in a huff before his new wife, because she didn't want to stop drinking and partying. She was banging on the door trying to break it down (all 5ft of her). The best man and others were trying to calm her down but she was making such a commotion that the hotel staff called the police. Nobody was arrested but the bride did calm down, groom let her in the room and all was quiet.
We went down to breakfast about 9am and bride and groom were there eating breakfast and looking not bad considering.
The marriage lasted 6 months, a casualty of his sulky temper and her drinking.

Wedding up a mountain in Lake District. Bride was 2 hours late. The seafood buffet was binned because it was left out too long (as she was late) we got 1 cake each during the day. No other food was given because the seafood buffet was meant to be served as a main event.

We had favours of an ikea mug with sharpie names on. As it was so cold everyone was cuddling their mugs and the sharpie came off so everyone had sharpie marks all over their faces.

Brides family went for a steak dinner because they had kids to feed. Everyone got annihilated on the keg of beer.

2nd dance as husband and wife was no woman no cry by Bob Marley

We all poured into the only restaurant open at 11pm and we asked the Indian restaurant who were closing to out all their left over curries into takeaway containers and we ate it with the brides mother in their cottage

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Two family weddings where fights broke out and in both the police were called. In one the bride was held overnight in the cell and in the other the bride spent the night in A & E getting staples in a head wound. First couple split that night and second are still together.

There was another - also family - where all the guests were gathered in the dining room awaiting the arrival of the bride and groom. The MC announced "Please be upstanding to welcome the new Mr and Mrs Smith - David and Jane!". A gasp went out as David was actually Brian... David was the name of an ex fiancee of the bride with whom she had reignited a relationship and many of the guests were aware/suspicious. She subsequently left the new husband for him.

(names changed to protect the guilty!)