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'.

I feel the need to defend the Scottish here! We do wipe our bums!!
It's a tradition for the groom to be hoisted up on the shoulders of brothers/best man/random pissed up guests in the North of Scotland, so when it came to the end of my (fantastic!) wedding reception (after copious amounts of cog - if you know then you'll understand!) best man and brother duly hoisted DH up on said shoulders! Not a skid mark in sight I hasten to add!! However, as is traditional in Scottish weddings, all the men wore kilts. Nothing is worn under the kilt (it's all in good working order, wearing pants makes it a skirt etc etc) so every guest was treated to the sight of my new husband's bits and bobs! tame compared to some of the stories on here!
Oh, and the waiter dropped the cake, my dancing loop that help up my train was ripped off at the ceilidh (strip the willow, need I say more?) and DD insisted daddy held her while we did our vows - it was the BEST day! No bridezilla crap, just chilled out people getting sozzled and dancing around with friends. I may also have done tequila shots with my new MIL! Classy me!
Still married 14 years on!

Top table. Father of the bride's speech includes a very pointed statement about how the groom's parents reneged on the five grand they were supposed to contribute, and that the bride and groom had to take out a loan to cover the additional costs. The "controversial" speech culminated in the groom's parents trying to leave and refusing to pay their hotel bill into the bargain. The marriage didn't last long and they both declared themselves bankrupt.

I was friends with the groom, got warned by him that the speeches may be a bit long. We put bets on, £1 in each, closest guess of time taken takes it all. First speech was a one liner from the FOB about how lovely she looked. The only other speech was the best man. It was more suitable for a rugby club dinner speech, not a wedding speech. And the bride wasn't mentioned once.

Winner of the bet had put down 48 minutes of speeches. He won because he had the longest time out of the bets, the speeches totalled 55 minutes. With no open bar and one glass of wine at the beginning.

I have a feeling I'll be back here in the autumn, but I'm already dreading this one:

• Wedding in remote location. Starts at 11am. No one can stay closer than 30m away.
• No food until 4pm. Bride has just announced that there will be no puddings.
• Groom's family already kicking off about not attending the wedding. Have agreed to show for a small part of it. Expecting fireworks.

Thecats that sounds awful.
Why do people organise weddings that leave the guests hanging around bored for hours and venues in middle of nowhere that people can't get to unless they drive? It's rubbish hospitality.

At a backyard garden wedding for a work colleague we had to walk through the house to get to the yard. It looked like a bomb had gone off inside. Cupboards left open with everything spilling out, clothes strewn around, empty packets of food lying around.

For the ceremony the bride and groom wore full Indian wedding finery. Neither of them are Indian or have any connection to there. They wrote their own vows and the groom complained he hadn’t been able to find any paper and pulled out a pile of toilet paper and started reading from that. His vows were more like a saucy best mans speech and included anecdotes about his future wife driving home naked after a spray tan. During her vows she turned to her teenage children from a previous relationship and told them she was starting a new life now and they would have to just look after each other because she was finished with looking after other people.

Bride drunkenly abused almost everyone at the reception.

I went with a group of work friends and we ended up leaving early and going to a bar to debrief because we couldn’t believe what we’d just seen.

We were invited to DHs exes wedding. She hadn't gotten over him breaking up with her two and a half years earlier and we'd been together almost 2 years at that point. He wasn't bothered about going, I insisted because I'm a little bit evil.

We sat in the penultimate row of the church. When the bride walked in, she clocked my DH and proceeded to walk the rest of the way down the (long!) aisle looking back over her shoulder at him.

The groom's father was the vicar. It was the longest ceremony I have ever been to. He just went on and on in a real droning voice. It was August. It was boiling. We all zoned out.

Sat in the row behind us were two of the bride's uncles. We glanced round during the drone and they'd disappeared. After the ceremony, a few of us that weren't due to be in any photos popped to the pub over the road. Found the uncles in there. They'd left mid way through and decided to go for a pint instead Bride found us shortly after we left the pub and chastised my DH for disappearing as she had wanted him in the family photos

Later on we went to the evening do which was in the shittiest hotel I've ever been in. Ugly high rise one in the middle of a ring road roundabout and the inside was no better. The bride kept coming over and sitting with our group. Just ignored everyone else there. At one point, she was at the bar with her new husband and one of our friends was waiting behind them to be served. Apparently the groom hissed at her 'are you actually going to spend any time with me, or are you just going to be with HIM all night'.

In fairness to my DH, he did nothing to lead her on and tried to distance himself from her when it became clear she was still obsessing. In hindsight, no we shouldn't have gone, but in my defence, I was 20 and her obsession with him after their break up was legendary in our group so I was curious to meet her. Plus, I bloody love a wedding and an excuse to dress up.

At my own wedding.

My mother missed my first dance and the first hour of our reception. She had stayed in the restaurant and cried to other family members that I was all grown up now. I'd left home and moved to a city 100 miles away 7 years earlier. It's not like anything was changing (but as I have since learned, EVERYTHING is about her)

She then took her drunk DP back to their hotel because he needed to pass out.

We got married on a Friday, so decided to make it a wedding weekend and had an informal BBQ on the Saturday. During the planning of my wedding, my mother told me that I should pay for my grandmother's hotel room because if would be a nice thing to do for her (despite us buying dinner and drinks for 50 people, plus evening buffet). I had spoken to my GM and offered to do it and my GM hadd very sensibly told me that she could pay for her own room, I was paying for enough. End of story. Except neither of us told my mother because of it being nothing to do with her.
Anyway, day after the wedding, mother and GM have been at the BBQ for a bit, but then leave to check out of their hotel. GM goes to pay for her room, mother waves her away from reception telling her that 'it's covered'. GM assumes that my mother has paid for both rooms and they go to leave the hotel. They are stopped naturally and informed that they have an outstanding payment. GM pays, my mother leaves the hotel, returns to the BBQ where there are still a few guests including close friends and my PIL and begins a screaming tirade at me about how selfish and awful I am because I didn't pay for my GM room. She is encouraged to leave by my DH.

I didn't speak to her for six months after that. Said I'd speak to her again once she got professional help. She eventually wormed her way back in and it took another 8 years of similar incidents before I went NC with her. Been almost two years now. The relief is immense.

@thecatsthecats I went to one like that. Although we did all stay at the venue. Wedding was 12pm, no food served until 5pm and champagne reception for the time in between.

A bridesmaid and her DP ended up going back to their room to have sex to relieve the boredom and many of the guests got blind drunk. One was on our table (very good friend) and we spent the whole meal pouring black coffee down his throat. Managed to bring him back to a reasonable state by the end of the meal. Bride had a playlist that she wouldn't allow the DJ to deviate from, despite the fact that no-one was dancing. When he did do that in response to a request that got everyone up on the floor, she went over and told him off. We were told no to all further requests.

My DH ended up leaving the reception to watch MOTD in our room as he was so bored.

Why do people organise weddings that leave the guests hanging around bored for hours and venues in middle of nowhere that people can't get to unless they drive? It's rubbish hospitality.

Well, in fairness, we're from the rural area originally, so it is 30m to get ANYWHERE.

I have another pre-wedding update. Bride has just announced that she thinks her wedding is 'jinxed'. Why? Because one of her friends can no longer attend as they've been made redundant. Obviously that's HER tragedy, not her friend's! She's also 'concerned' the groom's family are going to 'make themselves look silly' by not adhering to the dress code.

To top this off - she's an ex-DM journalist! I think I may hit MN bingo with my follow up.

(What is especially amusing to me is that my wedding had two genuinely serious crises, but is also very fondly remembered by many guests and ourselves - principally because we focused so strongly on getting people sloshed and well fed!)

It was in a family members wedding. One of the bridesmaids walked in on a 2 of the guests (Male and female) having sex in the ladies lavatories. Bridesmaid walked straight out and told another bridesmaid and the bride what she witnessed. Next thing we knew the female guest that was caught having sex was chasing after the bridesmaid that caught her to 'teach her a lesson for squealing' That poor bridesmaid was absolutely terrified. She ended up leaving the evening party early and called the police

Our wedding over 40 years ago. Priest called us by the wrong names. Go to sign the register and it was all wrong, I was marrying dhs father.

Get to the reception and a couple turned up who no one knew, they had come to the wrong hotel. They had seen a wedding car near to where they had parked
so followed as they had left the invitation at home. (2 churches near each other one RC and the other was a Methodist)
They ended up staying at our reception as they didn't know where to go. They had traveled over 100 miles and were staying in a b&b so didn't know the area.

Df stood up to give his speech and as he was nervous he called us by the same names as the priest.

Before the evening reception me and Dh went upstairs to our room to freshen up, he put his wallet on a unit. Went back to the party and he realised he forgot to pick
the wallet up. Goes back to the room and someone had broken in, stole the wallet with a lot of money in and my very expensive perfume. Our overnight bag and shoes.

A few weeks later we got the photos back and everyone who saw them think my df was either blind or a 1970's gangster. He had the new style of glasses which went dark in the sun(Polaroid).

A guest wearing a kilt sat on the brides lap and left a skid mark on her dress

Bride and groom off their face on cocaine, PIL walked out

This kilt/skidmark story has been repeated so many times on this thread over nearly ten years, surely an urban myth? Fascinating!

I've loved this thread though so happy to bump randomly for someone else to discover and enjoy

Someone got so drunk/high at my wedding they left in an ambulance. Never got a sorry.

@thecatsthecats
Has the wedding happened yet???

I was told about a wedding in Scotland the men all in kilts.
The best man thought it would be funny to hitch up his kilt and sit on the brides knee, only to stand up leaving a skid mark on her dress.

My husband's best man spoke at length about my husband's family dog that had passed away. She was referred to as the love of his life. I was briefly mentioned.

A ten year old thread - wow! God knows why we had to have the Scottish kilt skid story a dozen times.

Most expensive wedding I’ve been to was also one of the worst. Enormous room in massively expensive hotel has a stack of speakers set up just for the wedding. The resultant acoustics were so awful (a friend who is a concert violinist explained why later) that you could barely if at all hear the speakers, so no one other than the front table or two paid any attention, as must have been obvious for the hour it seemed they went on for.

Another wedding, lovely venue, problem was it was in administration just before the wedding and they tried to do the food on the excruciatingly cheap having charged for a gormet meal. After the rage of the FOB they gave it for free but it was still a rip off, it was that bad.

Bump.........

Anymore stories, anyone?

DM had a "heart attack' on my hen night then another the night before the wedding at the hotel. Didn't stop her dancing at each. Went to doctors and came out saying heart attack. Df said doctor had never even said that . She's massively attention seeking health-wise and because attention wasn't on her both times she had to come up with something. Every time my wedding is mentioned now first thing she tells everyone is she had a "massive heart attack but pushed through". I keep her at arms length now.