To ask for examples of the worst behaviour you've seen from an adult at a wedding?

[HappyHappyHawaii]

Attended one yesterday as a bridesmaid. The brides cousin was also a bridesmaid, spent the whole morning clearly aggrieved that the day wasn't about her... smoked in the getting ready suite and had to be told to put it out, then lit up again and claimed she had forgotten when the bride told her and made a snarky comment..then presented her silver converse she had customised to wear with her dress as she "doesn't really do heels"... the bride ignored her and sweetly said "at this point I don't think I can stop you" as she knows what she's like then what do you know, she wears the heels! There were loads of instances like this all day and she is 28 but seemed to want to just be am inconvenience all day which I assume was jealousy...even little things like being late for photos and pretending not to hear when called over, pushing the food round her plate, really ungracious behaviour. The wedding was fantastic! She could have really enjoyed it much more. Not really an aibu but whats the worst behaviour youve seen like this?

We, 75+, need a good laugh though!

That's a fabulous book to read, The Moon's a Balloon.

This is a good point actually. Someone needs to start a thread on this subject.

My Mum often speaks of the local 'flasher' when she was young. She said her and her friends used to follow him about pulling faces and laughing at him then they'd scream and run off when he got his willy out, then repeat the process. She said she wasn't afraid of him at all, just thought he was a silly man who got his willy out.

Of course this tale shocked me who is 37 years younger.

I will add wedding-related posts anyway because I am part of the derailing now.

I went to one wedding where the bride told me she was only marrying to give her daughter security, they didn't love each other and she knew their relationship would be over soon.

I was also invited to a wedding recently as a plus one to my partner. We had discussed 'us being next' although that was fast, we'd been together less than a year. Lovely wedding itself, but relatives including several alcoholics (or at least problem drinkers) were helping themselves to booze from a car boot from the moment the reception opened. I was sitting on the loo and a woman fell off the loo seat in the next cubicle and crashed half into mine having broken the partition wall which then sort of pinged back and I heard a huge groan/scream/thud as she fell onto the floor, knickers still around ankles.

Bride's Dad propositioned me all night.

And following the wedding I was dumped. Turns out partner had only wanted me because of not having a 'plus one' for the wedding, and wanting to 'look good' in front of family.

Another wedding, I cried all the way through the reception and had a stony-face all through the wedding procession because the basket of flowers I had to carry was too heavy for me.

I was seven, but still...

Are the initials SF?

I’m very intrigued.

The answer is within the thread...but you have to read through 850 posts to find it!

Oh OK...it was David Starkey apparently. The 'Sir' was a red herring.

Yes but we now know from evidence based research that that ‘low level’ sex crimes - voyerism, flashing, upskirting etc is also associated with much more brutal sexual assaults and murder of women - so this is not inert and harmless and needs to be reported and investigated to intercept any potential tragedy.

Most well known recent example is the brute who kidnapped, tortured, raped and murdered Sarah Everard in broad daylight. He had exposed himself at the McDonald’s drive through weeks before.

There are hundreds more examples.

Yes, I don’t think it’s funny either. Shame really as the rest of the thread is brilliant.

“He had exposed himself at the McDonald’s drive through weeks before.”

Was a hamburger roll involved?

Maybe because her turning into a complete Bridezilla changed OP’s opinion of her? Friendships can change you know.

I bet the old ladies loved it. Something to tell their mates at bingo 🤣🤣

Sorry to have derailed the thread, but I simply cannot believe that mumsnetters are so blasé about indecent exposure and I think it has to be called out.

I'm now reading that older women are fair game, now 20 somethings....is there any demographic it's not ok to flash? Maybe you would draw the line at school kids, or maybe they too are supposed to come up with a witty double entendre as they coolly walk off, unpertutbed?

I'm completely astonished. And I guess this is why we have guys still doing it - their female family members think it's hilarious!

I think that a lot of the behaviour described on this thread is pretty appalling, to be honest - but that’s is what the thread is asking for. I also think it is easier to be a bit more blasé about things when you aren’t in that situation, but are just reading about it, which may explain some of the less shocked or more amused responses to the penis-in-the-buttered-bun incident. I suspect most of us would be much more angry if this happened in front of us.

The thread didn’t ask for funniest thing that happened at a wedding, it asked for worst behaviour. And the bread roll incident fits that.

And most have not said they think it’s fine, just that it’s believable. I was responding to a PP saying they didn’t believe it happened. I do, I’ve witnessed similar.

I went to a 70th for my DH's friends mother and Starkie was a distant relative, he turned up full of pomp n ignored most of us common northerners, but the birthday girl acted like she'd been graced by God, snotty git, funnily enough he wasn't invited to friends wedding the year after.

*JudgeJ *
OMG! That rough cider is lethal stuff!
Many years ago, before we got married, me and my ex husband went to Cornwall on holiday. Recognising our accents, the bloke in the campsite bar announced "You Geordies think you can drink..... last week a lad from up your way had eleven pints of scrumpy. The next morning we found him face down in the stream!"
Only paralytic, fortunately. Not dead.

Doireallywanttodothis
I have a wonderful mental image of this Full Monty at the wedding.... 😂

*Hubertus *
I remember my mate and l being 'flashed' in the street by a drunken lad (l think ; was about 19 at the ttime, so when Adam was a lad).
His mates were telling him to "Put it away, man, Davy..."
I gave him a scathing look and said "Look, if that's the best you can do, pet, go home and get a note from your mam!" whereupon his mates all cracked up and he scuttled off in embarrassment.
I'd only ever seen one before (my boyfriends) but this one paled into insignificance by comparison. Why he was so pleased with himself, l have no idea.

DH myself and two DS’s lets call them Tom then 18 and Jerry 13 went to a seaside resort for a long weekend. After breakfast at the hotel we decided to have a later lunch. We chose an Italian restaurant part of a chain and a good size building near the seafront. A couple of long tables at one end had reserved signs and the waiter seated us and a few other customers on the tables immediately after the reserved ones. We had just been served our food when the customers for the reservation arrived. It was a wedding party and many more people arrived than seemingly had been expected. The restaurant staff weren’t too happy and the wedding party wanted to all be seated together and were quite vocal about their displeasure to the manager and blaming whoever took the booking for the error. The arguing and grumbling continued as wedding guests took over tables around us even moving some. It was all very awkward. Jerry leaned in and whispered “I knew I’d ruin someone’s wedding one day, but I expected it to be Tom’s”

@KittyTinker that's so funny. Is he still witty? I bet he's a clever lad.

Used to work in a wedding venue - granny, 82 i think, DIED on the dancefloor circa 9pm. Everything shut down. Eerily quiet after that. Granny just stayed under a cover on the dance floor until collection early doors.

Thank you, yes he is 17 now and still hilarious.

Good old Granny, going out in style on the dance floor. ❤️ I can think of worse ways to go.

I have one like that. Really dry humour. He's late 20s now. But he's been like it since about 5 🤣

Not exactly “worst behaviour by an adult at a wedding” though is it? I’m sure she didn’t mean it - just took it too far…

Well, she could have vacated the dance floor after she passed ....