Worst behaviour seen at a wedding. :)

[anyabanya]

... 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'.

[DavidBeckhamsMum]

I've been at a wedding where the bride's dad was very drunk by the time we sat down for dinner. When it was time for his speech, he pulled a bouquet of flowers from its vase, emptied a bottle of red wine into the vase, and downed it in one (although a lot went down his front). Wipes mouth with back of hand, burps, starts speech with a string of swearwords.

[shongololo]

A wedding where a drunken guest bit the bride...it later emerged that the guest "batted for the other team", and had been spurned by the bride, who was exceedingly straight....

A wedding where the father of the bride spent most of the speech praising his oldest son...

A wedding where a lady walked in early with a plastic carrier bag and asked the organist (who was just setting up_) if there was somewhere she could change. It was the bride...

We took ds2 to a wedding when he was just 5 months old. He was a breastfed baby. A lovely and well endowed lass picked him up for a cuddle....he dived straight into her cleavage. :D

[merrymonsters]

The father of the bride giving a 45 minute speech comparing his daughter to the shrew in The Taming of the Shrew. It was made worse by the fact that the speech had to be translated into English as it went along. All the parents used their children as an excuse to leave the room, but I didn't have children and had to stay and listen to this awful speech.

[omnishambles]

My dad was once in an offical capacity at a wedding where the groom was so drunk he pissed himself at the altar.

The whole thing had to be stopped and my dad had to spend half an hour drying and sobering him up round the churchyard before it could continue.

Grim.

[Fizzywinelover]

father of the bride gives a speech...... I was seated at the far end of the marquee, and could hear very little but mumble mumble.... as a baby..... mumble.... her mother and I..... mumble mumble. The speech goes on for 20 minutes... eyes glazing over.

There is a pause, and everyone sits up ready to toast or something, when the father continues 'And then when karen was 12...'

speech goes on.

Was rather sweet really, but oh my hat we needed the drink afterwards.

[DuelingFanjo]

I went to a wedding where the best man did a whole thing in his speech about the size of the grooms head at birth, then produced a melon to demonstrate said size before sympathising with the groom's mother about how difficult it must have been to get him out!

At my wedding my DH's grandmother said very loudly after the reading by my sister 'well that was different'!

[belledechocolatefluffybunny]

My cousin's chief bridesmade hadn't washed nor used deoderant, as the day progressed a lovely dark pink patch appeared to spread under each armpit, not to mention the whiff. Poor woman. My cousin has pictures of the patches in her wedding album.

[PatriciaHolm]

A best man's speech which mentioned, amongst other things, the grooms penchant for asian women and desire to sleep with sisters (the bride had 2 sisters); his many previous conquests and his love of big breasts; and his capacity to drink to excess at any opportunity. Several of the groom's friends had to restrain themselves from rugby tackling him to the ground....

The wedding then continued with randoms from the crowd making speeches (the groom is Dutch and apparently this is normal is Dutch weddings). Most of these speeches contained anecdotes of interest only to the speaker and the groom and by the end we were losing the will to live.

[ilovemydogandMrObama]

At sil's wedding in Ireland, the priest at the reception was absolutely plastered after drinking whiskey most of the night and for some reason took a shine to me, much to my horror. He chased me, Father ted style, saying loudly, 'come here and give me your confession you dirty dirty girl..'

[feedthegoat]

I completely missed it at my own wedding but apparently the partners of two colleagues squared up to each other in the car park and had to be separated by my dads friend.

One had been overheard calling the others wife a 'bloke in a dress'. Mine was the last social event partners were invited to.

[lucky1979]

My grandma got married just after WW2, no chance of getting fabric for a fancy wedding dress so she saved up for ages and got some lovely floral fabric and made herself a gorgeus smart formal dress.

Her MIL2B found out which pattern and fabric it was, bought the same, made it and wore it to the wedding. The wedding photographs are dreadful, no one looks very happy!

They never had a good relationship after that.

[coventgarden]

Everyone behaved at mine.

[piratecat]

my close relative ruined my day by telling me to fuck off becuase I hadn't done somehting i didn't know i was supposed to do.

havent spoken to her since, very sad at the time.

[piratecat]

but to even it out, apparently one teenage male guEst collapsed uder a table and shit themselves.

gross, yes, and i am very glad i didn't hear about it till days later.

[coventgarden]

what wer eyo uemant to do?

[pushmepullyou]

I have a few of these!

1 wedding of 2 friends best man toasted the bride and groom, but unfortunately called the bride by the name of the groom's ex

2 Irish catholic wedding where a very physically noticable friend, who is sadly prone to such misfortunes arrived late through the vestry and emerged triffid like into the middle of the ceremony

3 another Irish catholic wedding where the father of the bride spent his entire speech thanking the Lord for his sons for being "so good with wood"

4 my own wedding where a usually distinguished gentleman colleague of DH backed me against a wall, put his hand up my dress and explained to me at drunken length that he had always thought that we should have the sexual parts of our brains lobotomised. I could only agree!

[AnotherFineMess]

I went to a colleague's wedding where her brother dangled a friend of the groom's from a balcony because "he'd looked at me funny" (bride's brother was on steroids).

Other friends wrestled the dangling man up from the balcony and then set upon the bride's brother. The bride waded in to split up the fight and got blood on her beautiful dress

Another wedding saw a lengthy father of the bride's speech which included the sentence "[groom] is a family man, just like me, so we get on very well". Father of the bride had just left the bride's mother for another woman after 30+ years of marriage- several guests had to leave the room, I felt so sorry for bride's mum.

But the best/worst was the best man's speech that went on for almost an hour, resplendent with blurred photos that noone could see properly. We couldn't understand his commentary either because the best man was laughing so hard to himself that he was incomprehensible. Noone else was laughing, not even the groom. It was excruciating, but then followed by the bride's (mostly absent) father who concluded his short, drunken speech with "And I swear to God, you lay one finger on her [groom] and I'll kill you myself".

I've also been to some lovely weddings

[FreakoidOrganisoid]

My fil at my wedding

1. Forgot it was his son's wedding and stood there for ages saying "someone needs to make a speech, who should be making a speech?"
   
   
2. Invited lots of people who meant nothing to us to the reception, and told them it started 2 hours earlier than it did so I arrived back fom work to find a load of random people milling around. He then made me go and greet them and be sociable so I had no time to shower or change.
   
   
3. When he made a speech spent most of it complaining how his own marriage had broken down. And then (I was pregnant) announced that "The child's name is Morenike" without having ever discussed names with H or I

[smittenkitten]

my brother and his fiance had been engaged for years, but his MIL decided that a few days before the wedding was the time to say she didn't believe in marriage and they were all destined to end in divorce! Then on the day she wore a white trouser suit and huge hat.

But the best was my friend's wedding. her MIL and her friend Hazel performed "a couple of swells" dressed as tramps. the bar was closed so everyone was forced to witness this, which I did, mouth open. Her father's speech was one long complaint about how much she had cost him (NOT in a humourous/affectionate way, genuinely moaning). the one nice story he told turned out to be about her sister. It was brilliant.

Oh, and another wedding, the best man got completely pissed and his speech was a drunken slur of "i fucking love NAME and NAME. I fucking love you, man". gave a real personal insight into the groom.

[KickArseQueen]

I'm thinking about getting married and you lot are scaring me!!!!

[Iwishiwasasleep]

At my friends wedding her FIL spent half an hour telling her how lucky she was to get his son, and not in a humerous way, and then put "DS you know we will always keep a bed at home for you just in case" in the guest book.

[Iwishiwasasleep]

Oh and at another friends wedding her SIL turned up in her wedding dress which had a very long train!!

[jooseyfruit]

at my wedding reception my brother snorted lots of coke in the bogs, and called the lovely lady singer from the bluegrass band we'd hired, a cunt.

mild in comparison to a lot of these.

[dilemma456]

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