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'.

Fernie - that is truly SHOCKING

Not exactly worst behaviour 'at' a wedding, but our best man failed to turn up to ours.

In hindsight, it was probably just as well, as he'd been running a rave the other end of the country the night before and had been planning to drive down early in the morning - I can't imagine he would have managed to stay awake for the drive without some sort of chemical assistance, which might have been interesting at the actual wedding. Oh, and he was also my ex-boyfriend as well as DH's best friend (not after that though - we didn't see him for a year or two) so who knows what he would have come out with in the best man's speech.

At my wedding (to my ex) the best man said in his speech something along the lines of... "why Bob [not his real name} would want to get married so young is beyond me"

Then a table full of ex's step sisters and their friends started to cheer.

It was crap

Went to one recently where the bride got totally pissed, kept lifting her dress up and flashing her knickers at everyone!

My friend was at a wedding where the bride came from a troubled family, but apparently it was all in the past.
The bride's brother had just started counselling and had troubles of his own, took the mic from the best man and spent 20 mins telling all about his mother's failings when she had a mental illness when they were children.

I'm mainly marking my place because I've only read half the thread but have to go to bed

DH was at a wedding where the Best Man (who was the groom's brother) spent his entire speech recounting how the groom had lost his virginity to their mum's Shih Tzu, the punchline being: "..and Johnnie fucked Brandy!" (names changed to protect the not so innocent) A hush fell about the room, broken only by the sound of their mother's sobbing

Should have gone to bed ages ago but this was too funny!

My Uncle & Aunt got married to the tune of "Incy Wincy Spider" sung loudly and repeatedly by one two year old guest who refused to be silenced. Parents were witnesses so unable to remove said child!

At another family wedding my stepdad got incredibly pissed (which none of us had seen before), proposed to my mum, then to me, then punched my uncle!

And best of all, my mum told me about one wedding where the couple wanted Bryan Adams' "Everything I Do..." as they left the church. What they got was "Robin Hood, Robin Hood, riding through the glen..."

A water fight erupted at one I went to. During the sit-down dinner reception one guy thought it would be funny to pour a jug of iced water down another boke's back. Bloke retaliated with a jug of water back - others joined in - including my dh - resulting in us sitting in the car ready to go, him throwing water at the worst offender, jumping in the car and off we went, tyres squealing....the poor couple getting married lost their limelight in the furore somehow...it was mad...

Oh and at another one, it was a Jamaican couple getting married who had the requisite goat curry for the reception dinner. Curry was delicious...until a few hours after when everyone who had eaten it started feeling a bit odd...turned out the goat had been slaughtered by some uncle of the bride who hadn't hung it properly or something - everyone who had eaten it (thankfully not me) got sick. At Sunday church the next morning it was hilarious as people kept dashing in and out of the service running to the loo...we never forgot that wedding!

Oh and at another one, it was a Jamaican couple getting married who had the requisite goat curry for the reception dinner. Curry was delicious...until a few hours after when everyone who had eaten it started feeling a bit odd...turned out the goat had been slaughtered by some uncle of the bride who hadn't hung it properly or something - everyone who had eaten it (thankfully not me) got sick. At Sunday church the next morning it was hilarious as people kept dashing in and out of the service running to the loo...we never forgot that wedding!

At my cousin' wedding, one of the groom's bother jumped to his feet and started waving his arms in the air when the (weird) priest asked "does anybody know of any lawful impediment...?".

Hecwas truing to extinguish a large candelabra which had caught fire, but we all gasped in horror, as youbcan imagine. So many other things happened at that wedding, 'tWas incredible.

At my cousin's wedding, one of the groom's brothers jumped to his feet and started waving his arms in the air when the (weird) priest asked "does anybody know of any lawful impediment...?".

He was trying to extinguish a large candelabra which had caught fire, but we all gasped in horror, as you can imagine. So many other things happened at that wedding, it was incredible.

I'm scared. Getting married next month and almost-Dh's mother is far from sane. I've met her three times in our two-year relationship and I know she doesn't approve. Knew I shouldn't have read this thread...but I am a glutton for punishmen

Much laughing, but sorry to those (you know who you are) who had not so great experiences because of some "friend" or relative who managed to do something incredibly embarrassing.

Have only read a fraction of the posts, but truly glad to not have been in situations like any of those.

Not the wedding itself, but before my wedding:
At my work, Girl A had been spurned by boy B who was now going out with girl C. All A, B and C had been invited. Girl A asked me if I could "uninvite" girl C as she didn't want to see her at my wedding! Needless to say I didn't, and just asked them to sort it all out. They all came in the end..

At my best friend's wedding the groom got very drunk and got off with the bridesmaid, but that seems tame compared to some of the stories on here!

What is it with the Groom's mother turning up in White/a wedding dress/all black? Even if I detested soon to be DIL, I would never stoop as low as some MILs. They are clearly a few crayons short of a set, if they think it appropriate to act like this.

Our wedding was pretty uneventful, but during the first dance, our bridesmaid had a fit of nerves about going onto the dancefloor "in front of everybody". Cue lots of tears, the best man trying to coax her into it, while we went round in small concentric circles looking over our shoulders to see what was going on . . .
As bridesmaid was only seven, it was totally forgiveable and she did join in once a few more people were up dancing .

Just place marking really.

Nothing scandalous to add but as a way of marking my place - all video related so not exactly bad wedding behaviour.

In the 80s when wedding videos were all the rage and everyone watched them, a groom I knew was clearly heard to say about his new MIL "She'll be arriving on her broomstick in a minute."

Another wedding I heard of, in the early days of video, the amateur cameraman thought the video camera was like a normal camera, so if you wanted a portrait shot instead of landscape you turned the camera sideways. This meant that people had to watch the wedding video constantly turning their heads 90 degrees like a load of parrots.

My sister got married in Australia and we were not able to be there. The video was thus awaited with frantic expectation. The service was recorded OK but during the reception the drunken arse friend they had asked to record the speeches got the On and Off buttons muddled up. So he picked up the camera, switched it off and "filmed" all the speeches. Then carefully turned it on, left it on a table and carried on drinking. And we actually watched the three hours footage of a brick wall with "rhubarb rhubarb" in the background as we were so desperate to see or hear anything of the day that we had missed.

Well this was lastnigth! Friends wedding reception on the bonnie banks of the beaqutiful loch lomond - another friends boyfriend disapeared. We all started to look for him, checked whole place inside - no sign. Checked decking, car park, down at the shore, even on the private jetty - nothing. 2 other friends then set up the long unlit road at 11pm to loook for him incase he had left the place. When suddenly we found him - he had found a boat at the jetty and randomly been riding around the loch on it The then went in to the toilets and refused to come out.

He has form for this - at a previous party he went in to toilets for 45 min and had to be coaxed out by friends.

At my wedding to now ex I get back to the venue having been to the hairdressers to find the florist putting the flower arrangements on the tables. They weren't what I ordered so obviously I ask him why. Turns out my ex MIL had gone to the florist to have a look at what we'd ordered didn't like them so changed them. She went to school with the florist so he did exactly what she said. I should have taken it as a sign and left then! Fortunately now happily married with a lovely MIL.

Ours was really miserable . Three weeks before we got married, dh had a steaming row with his boss and walked out of this job - this was a bugger as he was the manager of a gorgeous pub which was where our reception was booked and his boss plus wife were our witnesses....we managed to get a venue as we knew people who owned a hotel and they let us have it free, then four days before the wedding, ds, who was 1 at the time was rushed into hospital with pneumonia - he was seriously unwell and I, of course, slept with him on the floor there for the duration. Luckily he perked up amazingly and we were allowed to bring him out for the wedding, but dh spent the whole day carrying him around! The people collecting me to take to the registry office were coming from Wales and thought the time was half an hour later than it really was, so, having heard from them that they were still 40 miles away 5 minutes after I should have been there. I had to get a taxi for me and dd1 - the tattiest taxi in the world turned up, sped there and screeched to a halt just in time. At the recption, I, having not touched a drop of drink for over a week, got ratarsed and had to go to bed at 4pm so dh cut the cake with my sister (I made a 'hilarious' speech though ) To top it all off, my mum was supposed to take ds and dd for the night so we could get one nght together, but we didn't want to let ds out of our sight so spent our wedding night with a still coughing 1 year old inbetween us. That was 10 years ago and we're still waiting for our honeymoon!!!

Another early 80's video one. A friend was getting married and me and another friend were at the reception in the evening. We were stunned to see the new bride dancing rather suggestedly with a bloke she'd had a fling with. We didn't over think it until we saw the wedding video when the bride is recorded asking the bloke if he fancies a shag sometime?

The marriage didn't last long!

SOme of these may be urban legends - the 'Robin Hood, Robin Hood' one probably is as I have heard it so many times. The 'Bride is shagging best man' announced in the groom's speech seems to be, as well.

I thought that too SGB, they are both listed on Snopes as of "unclassifiable veracity"

Wow.