Worst behaviour seen at a wedding. :)

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... Inspired by a thread in AIBU. (But not a thread about a thread. )

what is the worst behaviour you have seen/witnessed/heard of at a wedding?

A couple I have heard of.... Groom's mother turns up dressed in her own wedding dress and carrying a bouquet.

Another one.... during wedding speeches, Grooms mother gets up and welcomes her DIL into the family by stating 'Remeber. He will never love you as much as he loves me'.

Before I met dh he had a fling with a girl he quickly realised was a bit, ahem, unhinged

anyway he had stopped seeing her and she started seeing some other guy, (he didn't know who). One afternoon she appeared at his door, acting rather bizarrely, and whilst chatting he told her of an acquaintance's wedding that was happening that day (dh wasn't going but a few of his friends were)

loon girl made a swift exit, and the next day dh was horrified to learn that he had inadvertantly caused uproar at the wedding;

loon had evidently been SHAGGING THE GROOM, and did not know he was getting married until she wangled it out of dh - she went to the hotel where it was happening, and BURST into the middle of the ceremony, shouting 'what the FUCK do you think you're doing?!' to the groom, 'he's been SCREWING ME for the last year!' to the bride....cue utter mayhem at the altar and total horror from the guests

loon was manhandled out of the hotel

groom somehow managed to persuade the bride to continue with the service and they went ahead and still got married

dh's friends said the reception was the most awkward and awful day ever, the bride was (understandably) furious; it was the opposite of a happy day

more happened with groom and loon after this but that's another story

the worst thing for dh was that he got roundly blamed for telling loon about the wedding, but he hadn't known it was the groom that she had been seeing. She had obviously had an inkling and knew that dh would know....

at my wedding the organist had just discovered some 'money problems' and got our wedding mixed up with the next one. for one bizarre moment we were trying to sing 'my song is love unknown' to the tune of 'all things bright & beautiful' before the vicar BELLOWED the length of the church to correct the organist.

friends of the family, the groom was still so pissed after the stag night, he got the words wrong, then said loudly 'who gives a fuck anyway', missed the photos as he was too busy throwing up. later, the he was asleep in the hotel room booked for them, while she sat by his side sobbing - they were found there when the speeches started & people were looking for them.

another wedding, friends of ours were at, the best man's wife got so pissed she threw up right over the top table just as the speeches started.

and at our wedding, dh's great aunt could be heard loudly criticising all sorts of things, including what other people were wearing, throughout the ceremony. it was alright, though. no-one else in the family had liked her, and we'd been taking bets on what would upset her.

Love that I'm not the only one awake this early. the one with looney and groom. Cant believe your dh got blame surely was bloody grooms fault! also can't believe she still married him. id have cut his balls off with cheese wire before shagging the best man.

A family wedding I was at the groom's father insulted the bride during his speech by saying her flowers looked like they'd been plucked from a hedge. He was trying to be funny, but bride's face was crushed. Her flowers were a beautiful bouquet of roses.

At my wedding dinner my aunt (a lovely woman, but a bit attention-seeking) set fire to her napkin on the candle centrepiece! We had a set meal of chicken for 100 guests, this had been stated on the invites and my aunt had no issue with that until the wedding day. From the top table I could see her argue with the waiter, saying she wanted a different meal, beef rather than chicken. She got a bit annoyed and was flapping her napkin around and it caught the flame. My sister, brother and I looked at each other like

serin I expect the explanation in your case is that your SIL had to think of an explanation as to why she had you and your DD as bridesmaids instead of her bitch of a best friend. It's the excuse anyone would make "Well I was hers, so I had to have her as mine . . . sorry!" The picture thing sounds like the BF's invention.

So your SIL in the clear

< gavel >

Oh and is anyone hoping Reality's SIL isn't reading this?

At my uncle's (first) wedding my GM was crying as she didn't like the bride. She wasn't the nicest person ever and my uncle is married to a lovely woman now. Also my grandparents wouldn't be in the same photos as they had got divorced and hated each other.

Best Man delivered a speech telling how my uncle had nicked his girlfriend when at Uni - but that was mild in comparison to my grandparents (who bizarrely did make up when my GM got Alzheimer's).

my wedding.

bil and sil turned up with a bag of mouldy fruit and veg as a gift.. then sil got very drunk, got me in a headlock and told me I was mad to have married into that family as they were all crazy and that's why she was an alcoholic and I'd end up the same way.. she then got even drunker and pissed herself - cue me running round in my wedding dress looking for a mop and spare outfit for her to change into and I really really wish I'd listened about marrying into that family - she was right!

oh and later on.. xh and some of his friends left the reception and fucked off to the pub!

At our wedding our best man buggered off to the pub with 2 other guests in the early evening, then came back and had a blazing screaming row with his girlfriend, and never came back to the reception. This had all happened by 7:30pm. He apologised profusely but we never forgot it, and he and his gf still bring it up apologetically/ embarrassed now. Twats.

At a friend's wedding, the father of the bride's speech was horrific, mainly because he did nothing but slag off the groom and the fact that he was suspected of cheating on the bride for years (yes, he had).

At my sisters wedding the best man's long, drunken speech ended with him saying he was 'wondering which of the bridesmaids to have a go on later'...his wife sat glowering at the next table.

Towards the end of the evening the best man picked up his 2 year old DD to dance and then fell over on the dance floor dropping her. He then turned to the horrified faces with a huge grin and shouted 'dont worry I saved my pint'. He continued to laugh hysterically while other guests sorted out his daughter's bloody nose.

A bunch of us let ourselves into the couple's hotel room to lay wedding-night booby-traps. Hearing the door open we dived inside fitted wardrobes and hid. (If it had been 'Four Weddings and a Funeral' the next part of this story would be ... 'and they shagged away on the bed in front of us'.) No such bloody luck. IRL, still in their wedding outfits they proceeded to have the most furious knock-down fight, fists and swear-words flying. A little later we had to sit and listen to the miserable pair talking about their 'undying love'... but then they were both arses.

remember reading about a rumpus at a wedding in Berkshire; a fight broke out and 10 people were arrested. I would like to have observed that but not as a guest. Any advance on 10?

Loving this thread but feel bad for those of you who have had real nightmares Few stories of innapropiateness from mine but let me qualify this by saying that I had a wonderful wedding day and none of the following had any impact on mine or 99% of the other guests enjoyment, who tell me it was a lovely day (hope they are not just being polite!) :-

Black sheep SIL (who my DH didnt really get on with) was invited with her 3 children and the father of her youngest daughter. She replied she had just finished with him so could she bring 'a mate' To which both myself and DH replied no, (we didn't want some random at our wedding and as you can imagine that place was wanted for someone we actually knew and cared about!) On the day, she just didn't show up! MIL hadn't heard from her for a few days so didn't know anything. 3 days later we heard via MIL that she 'forgot' then she said even later that her Ex had been trying to take the older boys into care and it was all she could deal with. I still don't know to this day what the actual story is and if its true then I sympathize but I do feel that she could have called or even asked someone else to let us know. Unfortunately she has recently gone totally off the rails, but thats another story.

So that left half an empty table, the other guests on that table were DHs v elderly nan, MIL's BF, plus her daughter and MIL's younger half sister, who turned up in a rather inappropriate short and skin tight leopard print lycra dress. BF and daughter were tee total, so AIL proceed to drink the lions share of the 4 bottles of wine allocated to the table, make a bit of a tit of herself trying to chat up our male friends and told us 'it was the best wedding she'd ever been to' I bet it was Pretty harmless really, it didn't really bother me but poor DH was a bit embarrassed (now i know why he refused to invite any of his cousins)

At the end of the night, apparently MIL and FIL had a punch up in the car park, as MIL's BF had been shit stirring between them, Again don't know the whole story as wonderful Best man and his wife, my Best girl, sorted them out and kept them away from myself and DH and calmed the whole situation down.

After the reception, we went back to the hotel where we were staying with my family. We sat in the bar having a quiet night cap with my folks and my Sis and BIL. Quite a few of the other guests where staying there and the very drunk (and i am sure coked up) brother of my best friend spotted us and came over to buy us a drink. Unfortunately, he was being very obnoxious to my lovely BIL, saying he didnt deserve my sis and she should come up to his hotel room instead. He then proceeded to order 2 bottles of very expensive champagne just to piss off the snooty waiter (which we didnt complain about ) but it was all a bit embarrassing and uncomfortable so we soon called it a night. He THEN proceeded to follow us up to the honeymoon suite and try to get in the room saying we should keep on partying. I kind of lost my SOH at this point and slammed the door in his face. I found out later that the hotel then refused to let him check into his room as he was so obviously hammered and my BF had to get a cab all the way across town where she was staying with friends to collect him

This pales in comparison, but anyway...

Sending out invites for my own wedding and asked people to indicate any dietary requirements (by which I meant allergies/being veggie/vegan etc)

Cousin and her family RSVP to say they're coming....and enclose 2 sides of A4 with a list of things they do and don't like - edited highlights included 'gravy' and 'strong tasting things'.

At my best friends £40,000 very posh wedding, I was chief bridesmaid, sat next to Grooms father and we were knocking back the wine!! He got so pissed he had a massive fight with his wife and everyone could hear it cringeworthy!!

At my wedding my mother decided at just after midnight when everyone else had gone home, to have a go at me because 'I' hadn't introduced her nephew to my new in laws! WTF! She only wanted to gloat because he had just be awarded an MBE! We had been at the venue for nearly 10 hours why she didn't do it earlier I don't know??

Oh and she told me on the morning of my wedding day 'my dress was a bit plain'! It was covered in frigging sequins, crystals etc, hardly plain!

Not read whole thread but would love to add mine!

Brides family go swimming after the meal so bride, groom & all guests have to wait an hour before doing their first dance!

Needless to say that bride is no longer in touch with her family...

When we got married I wanted DH to be the first person to see me in my dress, my mum was the only other person to see it as she had been to fittings and was giving me away and MIL had already made it clear that she wasn't happy about this.

Even though she knew my wishes as soon as we arrived at the registry office MIL came storming out toward the car and mum had to tell her to go inside and wait like everyone else.

Me and DH arrived at our reception to find that MIL had invited 6 of her work colleagues and one of DH's ex's.

I was 16wks PG when we got married and MIL spent the entire reception telling everyone that our baby was going to be christened roman catholic and go to a roman catholic school even though we had no intention of doing this. And she had her hand permanently glued to my bump through the reception telling anyone that would listen that it was her baby.

Hi love this thread! I worked at a celebrities wedding serving nibbles before the dinner.
One was a salmon blini thing- the bride took me to one aide and asked me to 'pick all the fat out' of the slithers of salmon LOL!!

My MIL looked me up and down after the service, squinted at the comb thingie in my hair (not a fascinator as this was 24 years ago but don't know what you'd call it), and said in a faux-genuinely-curious voice: 'is that a bird?'

No comment about my dress, how I looked, anything - and I thought it was the law you had to tell the bride she looked lovely on her wedding day even if she's -minging--.

This is the same person who will ask me if I've had my hair cut, and when I say yes, gives me the same quizzical 'innocent' look, and says, 'mmm...'

Ever heard the expression, if you can't say something nice, say nothing, MIL?

Build up to my sisters wedding....

Invites turn up for the wrong wedding and have to be sent back, order is then lost and it takes weeks to sort out

She ask my FIL to give her away, he said yes then died 12 weeks before the wedding

As FIL had seen her dress sis could not bring herself to ware it so dress had to go back and new dress had to be found.

Reception venue shut down and the bloke who owned it did a runner with her money

Gifts for best man and so on were all glasses, they were delivered while we were out and got thrown over the back gate so had to be re ordered

DJ split up with his girlfriend and she would not give him his decks so we had to find a new DJ with 2 weeks to go

Groom, ushers and best mans waistcoats came and were all the wrong design

Grooms uncle gave a speech and did not even know DSis name.

Grooms gran got so drunk she fell ooff the chair

All the wine the grooms parents brought (the only think they contributed to the wedding) was off and stank like bad eggs

She married him and he ran off a few years later when she got cancer [angey]

Mine wasn't the wedding day itself, but when I took MIL with me for one of my dress fittings, her comment when I asked her what she thought was "it's all right - but MY dress . . .". That was over 8 years now and I will never forget (or forgive).

At our wedding DHs cousin got absolutely hammered really early on & and tried to start a fight with my brother. DH asked the cousin to leave and an usher took him outside and flagged a black cab. The cousin was so drunk he couldnt give his address so the cabbie refused to take hi,m. So MIL booked the cousin a hotel room at the venue and put him upstairs to sleep it off. This was a 6pm, before dinner was even served! When MIL went to wake him up the next day, he'd done a runner, leaving her with the hotel bill

But the worst story I've heard was a bride sitting down and a jovial Scottish relative in a kilt insisted on sitting on her lap for a photo. When he got up he'd left a skid mark on the front of her ivory dress!

Scottish skid mark has been told 3 times so far - urban legend or are Scots notriously bad bottom-wipers?