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.

Oh dear.
We had similar.
Original wedding postponed because brides dad died.
New wedding 6 months later ..... but bride looked as miserable as sin all day ( and night ) long.
His cousin married few months after that.
They couldn't keep their smiled at each like teenagers ( they weren't ) all the way through.
Both couples went in to have a couple of kids or three.
The smiling couple are still happily together, the other are not ....

The page boy vomited profusely walking up the aisle before someone took him away.
It was a really hot day and the church stank as a result.

The grooms speech was lengthy and spoke about everyone important in his life, parents, siblings, grandparents, friends, this boss, his dog. Not on mention of the bride. Divorced within 5 years.

The bride went to bed at 11pm. Awkward scene when she asked groom to go with her and was told that he was catching up with friends. He stayed up drinking all night. They are both miserable and still together for reasons unknown. No idea why they got married as they clearly hate each other.

Went to one where just as the bride arrived in the car outside the heavens opened. It was a freak rain storm in the middle of summer so no one had an umbrella or even a coat. The bride and bridesmaids had to walk down the aisle like drowned rats. Only made worse by the fact that everyone else in the church was completely dry...!

Yikes! The poor bride. How long did the marriage last?

I went to a wedding of one of my dearest friends.
The hotel hosting the reception had promised to entertain the guests with a drink during the time they turned the room around. But you really need to query such claims because in reality we were packed into a tiny ante room with no chairs or windows for 90 minutes whilst we were waiting. They gave us one drink each and everyone was very hungry. Further drinks were £14 each.

The couple were oblivious as this was the time they were having their photos.

Many people just went down the pub in the end.

Bride and Grooms child (age 6), fell into a pond. They spent a while upstairs in the hotel trying to dry him out

Two years or so? Not before she'd quit her job and he'd moved them both to NY.

I'm guessing there are many more tales about said cousin...

I went to a wedding where it was actually a brilliant day and everyone had a fantastic time.

Monday morning the happy couple flew out to Mexico for their honeymoon and on the first night he confessed he’d been having an affair for over a year and shouldn’t have gone through with getting married

A colleague who's reception was held back at her house was the worst wedding I've been to. The bride and groom and his friend and girlfriend got really drunk and decided to leave the wedding and go off out round town, this was late afternoon and they'd been drinking all day. They sneaked off and left all their guests at the house (just an ordinary semi) to go on a pub crawl. We all decided to leave but the trouble was, the friend and his wife had brought their two little kids to the "reception" and they just abandoned them at the house. One toddler was found eating the contents of an ashtray and none of the guests knew them or their parents (so couldn't take them home with them), so our boss said he couldn't just ignore it (we worked in a profession connected with child protection), and he phoned Social Services and the kids were taken into emergency foster care. In the meantime, we'd managed to get hold of the newlyweds, who returned with their friends to find their kids were being taken away by a social worker and the newlyweds and their friends then went ballistic at the other guests, saying they'd just assumed "someone" would look after them.

Nothing compared to the rest of these 😂 but we went to a wedding that did sharing bowls of food on the table - great in theory but they out the bowls down at the same place each time and by the time it got round the whole table we barely had anything to eat. I was so mindful of this when planning my own wedding that we overcatered massively but I couldn’t stand the idea of people going hungry as it’s all I remember at the other wedding (that and being smashed - free bar and no food is not a good mix 😂)

Not awful in the grand scheme of things as the whole wedding was lovely but my friend’s dad made a really bad speech. It was long and compared her to her siblings a lot in quite a derogatory way. The next morning we were all like… “what was that speech?!”

Grooms brother called the brides dad's best friend the n word. Brides dad knocked him out in the middle of the dance floor. Grooms mum attacked brides dad and it all went downhill from there. Absolute shit show of a day but it is the most memorable wedding I've been to.

In the late nineties, my friend hired a DJ for her wedding evening do. The fuses went on his sound equipment and he didn't have any spares with him. No music for the reception.

I went to one that under catered. We were starving.

Twat. Having been very hurt by an experience with a man who would not admit he was gay, I have no sympathy for this sort of behaviour.

I have a family member whose marriage was never consummated. There was some amount of hubris on his part as I think he believed he could "cure" her from the effects of sexual abuse as a child.

Some of these sound awful. Haven't had anything that bad thankfully

The worst wedding I went to was in Italy, during a heatwave. It was outdoors with hardly any shade. The bride and groom spent so long having their photos taken and we were all so hot. I was really concerned about some of the elderly (irish) guests. We and a few others ended up leaving before the meal. The people who stayed on for the whole thing said they had to jump into cold baths when they got back to their hotels.

There was a fight at the evening do, and the groom's brother (irc) locked himself in his car and sat there sulking.

DJ and disco didn’t turn up. Bride’s response set the tone - she said it didn’t matter, she’d just married the love of her life and was heading on a fabulous honeymoon the next day, so there was no point getting upset. Someone went home and got a speaker, plugged in an iPod, everyone cracked on with dancing. Was a great example of it is how you respond to things that matters.

The groom didn't turn up to my sister's wedding! Personally I think she had a lucky escape

Oh I love this - that is the perfect attitude

My friend was at a wedding where the groom shagged one of the bridesmaids…

A friend’s wedding was cancelled due to Covid. They got married with six people in attendance a few months later and held a big wedding party with a couple of hundred guests once things opened back up. The groom is from overseas so his family all flew in for the party. The groom got Covid and couldn’t attend in the end. The bride had to host the reception on her own

Bride chose a posh wedding venue and stuffed everyone right into it. Chose cheap "get served at a van" catering. Lost her mind when people couldn't squeeze their way out from the tables to get their food easily. Massive food queues and tetchy guests.

(This was karma imo because she brushed off our concerns that she chose the same wedding venue as our friend who was going through an acrimonious divorce from said wedding and had to show up to grin and bear it.)

Ha ha
A friend of DH's had a large dog, which , completely out of character, decided on the morning of the wedding to run away.
It took 2 hours before Doggo was found ...... groom made it in time and they have several grandchildren now