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'.

At dp's brothers wedding their other brother had to be flanked by two policemen as he was doing a stretch for armed robbery.

At my parents wedding my dad had to leave the reception to buy me a new dummy as I was whiny and my mum ended up doing the washing up during the reception wearing her wedding dress and a pinny as my nan (her mil) refused incase she ruined her dress

DH's mum's partner's daughter (do keep up) was horrendously drunk even before the wedding started... heckled all the way through the speeches and several times after beckoning me to talk to her (I had to lean down as she is in a wheelchair) grabbed me in a headlock and wouldn't let go

Later on she was ejected from the pub after sitting in the middle of it shouting "You're all a bunch of fucking cunts" at the top of her voice

Well, when my best friend married my ex-fiance, my entire family were invited to the wedding (we are all friends together in a jolly japes way )

And I did happen to point out to some of ex's truly ghastly public school friends (who always hated me) that DB and I were the only brother and sister team there to have slept with both the bride and the groom!

It's true...

Very tame in comparison with most of these (and reall I'm just marking my place) but at my mate's wedding last year I had just sat down with DS when I noticed an unpleasant smell... I thought for one awful moment he had shat himself (he was 4) but he had somehow managed to tread in a big dogshit and get it all over his new shoes. The wedding was minutes from starting so I had to kind of pin him to his seat and set about his foot with wetwipes, which I then bundled into a plastic bag and had to hang onto all through the ceremony before I could run to the loo and deposit the lot in a bin.

My MIL wore black, complete with black hat and black veil at my wedding! Made my family laugh because we'd actually joked about it - she refused to tell me what she was wearing prior to the wedding because I wouldn't tell her what colour the bridesmaids were going to be.

At my sister's wedding BIL's family all buggered off to the pub as soon as they got out of the church so none of them are in the photos (including his mum and dad!)

Oh and the DJ was arrested at my sister's reception for dealing drugs outside the hall!

No Colleen Rooney here I'm afraid.

And yes, I am a caterer, so have plenty of horror stories to share, weddings, funerals, christenings, conferences, you name it, something always goes Pete Tong!

How about the one during a very posh wedding?

Drunk Father puked up all over Bridezilla and Groom's table at the beginning of dinner. We moved everyone to a smaller room, and kept going with dinner (despite Bridezilla's hysterical sobs).

A while later, Mother came to see us in the kitchen to ask whether we had seen Father's brand new expensive dentures.

As per Bridezilla's orders, we had got rid of pretty much everything into a big skip outside. Mother ordered us to go and retrieve said dentures, we refused.

Drunk Brother, Drunk Cousins and Drunk Friends turned up, climbed into skip, and proceeded to have a major rubbish fight in and out of full skip, while Dj was playing lonely tunes to an empty dance floor. Bin liners got split, crap was flying everywhere, unsuspecting guests who were at the back for a ciggie got wallopped too.

This was years ago and people still talk about this Scene of Apocalypse, and the fact that Bridezilla looked like Alice Cooper on a 3-day bender.

Oh and apparently, I don't really recall who or how, but someone realised that Father did have his dentures in after all.

Heheh- tomate- is this you?

Meg yours is the one that has me pmsl for some strange reason...I think its just so vivid

YES! How did you know?

In fact I can only look sideways due to a misplaced Botox injection.

Must make it difficult when you're stuffing one of those fiddly canapes!

some of these are PRICELESS I do so wish I was going to a few more weddings this year, you never know what might happen

A few years ago we went to a wedding of some friends. At the end of the speeches, a little old man stood up and started reading a very long and badly rhyming self-penned poem about his tips for successful marriage - it started out quite sweet but in about the second verse it became apparent that his 'advice' basically consisted of 'if your wife misbehaves, then knock her about a bit til she toes the line'. The whole thing went on for waaaay longer than seemed humanly possible with most of us sitting there aghast, jaws on the floor. He clearly thought he was being deeply amusing, kept cackling at his own advice about domestic violence, it was truly one of the most uncomfortable situations I've ever been in. If I'd have known the couple better I would have rugby tackled him to ground myself but I was in fear (as I think we all were) that perhaps he was a dear old family friend and they had sanctioned this speech in some way.

A few weeks later when they were back from honeymoon we got the courage to ask them about it - turns out the bloke was some complete random from the bride's family's local pub who'd just decided to turn up and share his horrible views on their big day . Still to this day don't know how the bride and groom tolerated it with such politeness.

I think geordieminx's one about the heroin shocked me the most

I love dh's 2 half-sisters' weddings (5 between them so far)

The last one:

• first hb turned up drunk at the house in the morning and declared his love for SIL - despite having been happily divorced 4yrs and her new hb working with him - claimed later to be a 'joke'
• SIL's mother and her step-mother (my MIL) sat at the front of the church wearing the same "exclusive" ans "uniquely patterned" boutique dress
• the reception venue ran out of food (ok if you were on table 1-15 though)

Hackney Town Hall. The groom sweated profusely and taking the vows said (cockney accent) "My awful wedded wife". We all held our breath and bride gave him a big smile & a pat on the bum & everyone had a lovely laugh. Brilliant!

A friend and her husband flew to a wedding in a random south american country - they dont have much money so this was a big deal for them. The wedding was in Quecha indian so neither understood a word and the friend whose wedding it was ignored them. They had to sit through hours of incomprehensible celebrations. They were in bed after the wedding and a huge sewer rat fell out of the ceiling and onto their bed. CAN YOU IMAGINE!! Am rat phobic so for me this is the worst wedding story ever.

Nothing to compare to the stories so far!

But.. all in one wedding

• the ceremony started late as the groom's parents refused (at the last minute) to take him to the ceremony, so the father of the bride had to rush to get him then go back and get the bride. All the while, the groom's family were sat at the venue.

• after the ceremony me and DP went to congratulate the bride and groom, only for the registrar to tell me (while I was stood next to the bride) I was the most beautiful girl at the wedding - and when DP pointed out he should be complimenting the bride (who did look absolutely wonderful btw) the registrar said no!

• most of the female guests were in miniskirts belts, or tops that were open to the navel

• most of the male guests wore jeans

• one of the grooms sisters turned up in a hoodie

• after the ceremony the grooms family fucked off to the reception without checking that anyone else could get there, including the newlyweds

• at the reception venue the young men on both sides spent ages trying to outdo each other with their car stereos and revving the car engines.. while drinking lager out of the boot of the cars

• we left around then for some reason

At my best friends wedding by the DJ. DJ was a relative of groom. Grooms mam hates my friend and DJ knew this. So DJ wouldn't play any songs requested by the brides family, kept telling the children they weren't allowed on the dance floor without an adult (all children from brides family) and "lost" the chosen first dance song. truely shoking behaviour!

My OH's dad got married (3rd time) 3 years ago. It was a very small wedding (about 10 of us in total, they don't have very many friends as they aren't really very nice people!) & the reception was at their house. All seemed to be going ok, until the heavy drinking started (I was the only sober one as had just found out I was pregnant) the bride insulted their landlords wife by basically calling her a whore, and then passed out in a garden chair so OH carried her into the house & put her to bed. Later on when everyone had gone we were sat talking to his dad who was pissed off about her behaviour & announced that he should have never married her... just as she walked into the room. Cue the biggest argument with OH trying to calm it down & me desperately wanting to go home. OH had to lock us in the house & hide the keys to stop his dad driving off somewhere, his dad threw their wedding rings into the fireplace & when we went to bed we ended up having to sit up for 2 hours while the bride drunkenly cried in our room about it all. We left as early as we could the following day.

My nan was once at a wedding where a huge fight broke out between the two families, she had to sit on her friends husband to stop him joining in.

The best was one that my mum's friend went to. All seemed to be going well, until the reception when the bride slunk into the room looking sheepish, followed by the best man who had a black eye - the groom had caught them shagging outside!

Fortunately most weddings I've gone to have been fine (and I hope mine will be!)

At BIL's wedding, his mum (my MIL) sat next to the bride's boss on a bench in the venue's gardens.

She said 'isn't DIL a bright spark?'
He said 'Well, not intellectually, but its nice to have someone attractive around the office.'

Why would you call an employee a bimbo in front of her new mother in law?

She (the bride) still works for the chap.

My sister and her fiancee recently went out for a meal with his mother and tehre was a wedding reception in the same place (the wedding hadnt booked in out). No one is entirely sure why but fiancees mother stood up weed on the floor and left at the end of the meal. I have no further details on this and she is not known to have any bladder problems all I knwo is that my sister now refuses to go out with her fiancees mother.

so not their wedding but some poor couples wedding.

My cousin was marrying her DP/DH to be, who was from a high church family, hence the high church wedding. They'd been living together a few years and she was pregnant, both aged almost 40. She had two children from a previous marriage, and had been divorced several years.
The vicar made a speech, mid-ceremony, about how disgusting it was that people got divorced, how the children would turn out to be prostitutes or drug addicts, and that sex before marriage was a sin punishable by death.
My brother and I broke the deathly silence by giggling

I got puked on at my wedding by a drunken guest.