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.

Bride & Groom got drunk and broke up at the church after everybody was sat in the church. I wasn't there my parents were there, they were standing for them.

Oh no I mean I know it was "her day" but that's just too much 😀

I don't understand sorry.
Do you mean the toilets were blocked at the Hall before the reception?

Also from personal experience- don’t encourage your bridesmaids to drinks a lot of champagne while getting ready together. Save it till the evening

I know. And I would have happily taken care of that if only she outsourced more things!

The worst was a wedding where they'd been in a relationship for years and the bride spent the whole evening by herself while the groom stood at the bar with his friends getting hammered.

One of my Dds were asked to be a flower girl because there was no other little girls in the b&g family, I was a friend of a friend I declined because i thought it would be too much for a toddler then got our invites revoked !

This was 30 odd years ago I had totally forgot about it a pp reminded me of Bride madness!

The only one I can think of is where the bride was two hours late.

Jesus, I think I'd have left 🤣
How selfish do you have to be to leave your guests sitting in a church for hours.

I think as long as you remember that guests are just that - guests, and that you are hosts, you'll be fine. Consider how it will be for guests, so don't leave them for hours between the ceremony and whatever comes next. I think some couples forget they're hosts, and so the guests day isn't viewed as that important.

I went to the wedding of a friend whose father had died a couple of years previously, so her BIL gave her away and made the speech. However, his speech spoke of the late father and him missing the day and seeing his daughter wed. This set the bride and her mother off, they couldn't stop crying. It was awful.

Some don't do they it's the control thing, I was a similar MOH thankfully it was in a hotel so we were already there but I didn't have much clue what was going on.

I went to one with a "cream tea style buffet" as the one and only meal for the whole day. It was tea and cake and finger sandwiches on a little cakestand thing in the middle of the table, not enough to go round and people were absolutely starving. To the point that some left to go to a chippy

The groom went home after the registry office, so the bride hosted the reception herself.

The most comical was when the female vicar decided to sing, extremely badly. Bride and Groom combined their wedding with their son’s christening. They were standing at the front of the church with the godparents when this god awful sound came out of the Vicar’s mouth.

I had to look down and concentrate on the floor, all the while my shoulders were vibrating from the stifled laughter. With tears in my eyes I dared to glance up and all those around me (thankfully we were quite near to the back of the church) were in similar stifled laughter postures.

I’m sure DH said that the B&G weren’t aware the Vicar was going to do this?!

So not a singing Vicar would be my advice, OP! 🤣

Haha mine. It was cancelled twice thanks to Covid to start, but thankfully you won’t have to worry about that!

Then my hair and makeup artist cancelled on the morning of, had to get a taxi to my DHs cousins who gave up hers! So missed getting ready in the hotel etc, the registrar called my husband the wrong name (the name of his best man, lol), oh and the fire alarm went off during the meal…and our cake knife snapped when cutting the cake 😂

Still the best day ever ❤️

Oh my god, that happened to me! It was awful. I think we got a cup of tea, a finger sandwich and a small cake.
We went out for a kebab later!

*no to a singing Vicar!

Oh I've been to a wedding like this I don't really cope well with speeches but maudlin ones like this just made me cringe.

One where the bride’s gran collapsed at the reception then sadly later that evening died in hospital and one where the groom got absolutely shitfaced and tried fighting several of his groomsmen / friends… the latter was absolutely bizarre as it was so completely out of character for him, even when he was drunk. He’s normally the nicest guy in the world.
Anywho! I don’t think general little bumps in the road matter. People don’t notice half so much as you think you do!

During his speech, the brides father quoted chapter and verse on the brides three young children and who their errant fathers' were............we really didn't need to know all that did we?!

😂😂😂

Family member had heart attack and died at hospital. This is a quite old (but true) anecdote

bomb threat. 2 receptions at venue had to evacuate venue for about 30 min in hot August weather

bride unwell day before and day of wedding. Went to A&E and they gave her intravenous fluids and pain relief. She made it thru the ceremony and part of reception. Had pancreatitis. Came out very quickly she was alcoholic went to rehab and now leads AA group in our town so it had all worked out and still married! It was a lesson tho…. Her wealthy mother (dad deceased) planned a fabulous perfect wedding $$$ but somehow manages to overlook her daughters health

Groom called off wedding day of. In the house with female family members and bridal party. Catholic priest seen arriving out the window and all the older catholic aunts went into overdrive because they immediately knew this was not good. Bride medicated and asleep at home with some family but the rest of us ate and drank the reception. No refunds so parents said… just come anyways. Even some of grooms side. She happily married now with dc so all
well. But man seeing the priest coming up the walk to the front door will never be forgotten
I was present at all these weddings.

Fisty cuffs!

A friend of DHs got married mid week- the venue was lovely but I was driving as had work the next day and the food was awful. You queued to get it (no problem) but were given the tiniest school size portion of horrible lasagna, one triangle of rock hard garlic bread and a ramekin of cut up ‘salad’- lettuce cucumber and tomatoe. That was it, no more left of you were hungry, no pudding- the evening food was tiny brownies and cut up wedding cake hours later. It was a venue so not even a pub with crisps behind the bar. Everyone was embarrassingly starving hungry all evening and the guests got bladdered as we’re drinking on a empty stomach. I hated it.

Oh no..... think that's tops the list.
The poor bride ( and family)

Mother of the bride was a Hyacinth Bucket character with less salubrious relatives on her OH side (very Keeping Up Appearances) anyway that side of the family got very drunk and beat up the videographer! Police were called.

At a wedding reception ( different to the one above) bride’s father in law got really drunk and mooned everyone in the dance floor 😂😂😂

Another wedding reception- the best man described the bride as having a huge arse in his speech - bride was well pissed off.

how do I end up at these things?!

ETA another wedding started and ran very late and the food was so awful we had to get a McDonald’s on our way home!