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Worst behaviour seen at a wedding. :)

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anyabanya · 23/07/2010 17:32

... 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'.

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FellatioNelson · 24/07/2010 12:29

I'm really starting to think that if you have a difficult highly-strung family with a few obnoxious selfish 'characters' and a bit of political in-fighting, it's really best to go away quietly and do it, with just a handful of the people who can be trusted....Some of these stories are horrendous

ComeWhineWithMe · 24/07/2010 12:31

I have told this on MN before and it didn't happen to anyone I know I read it on a wedding forum.

Traditional Scottish wedding all groomsmen in kilts ..the Bestmen decided to pose for a pic sat on the Bride's knee when he stood up she had a lovely skidmark down the front of her wedding gown!

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ToastedFox · 24/07/2010 13:14

Nothing as outrageous as some of these but friends' DH was at a wedding where the bride did voluntary work for the local cats' home.

During her father's speech he presented the groom with a gift bag that contained 'funny' items that would help their marriage. He pulled out a brush and announced it as a 'pussy brush'

Cue very embarasssed and awkward silence...

Babieseverywhere · 24/07/2010 13:15

WARNING. Link on last post has triggered a viral warning on my PC.

chaostrulyreigns · 24/07/2010 13:17

And mine.

ledkr · 24/07/2010 13:33

At my first wedding i was very young and towards the end of the reception noticed my new husband was p'd out of his face(nothing unusual) thinking he could have at least made an effort on our day and realising my wedding night would be spent watching him puke or stagger about looking for the toilet i decided to opt out.Got a cab home with mates got changed and went up town clubbing.Stayed at mates house and then came back in the morning and opened the presents. Haha.Should have known then the marriage was doomed.When i married my now dh he joked about keeping an eye on me but we only went for a curry after and it was xmas eve so couldnt escape as easily.

CreepyFunbags · 24/07/2010 13:33

We went to a wedding where a nice lady was sat at our table from the bride's work. She spotted her best friend's husband as a guest, with another woman! She'd been at her best friend's house that morning to help her out with something as her husband was "away with work for the weekend".

She went to talk to him and said he had to tell his wife or she would. He said he would, but instead of leaving in shame, he stayed for the party first with his OW! Other guests thought he'd been with this woman at the wedding for the past 3 years.

The nice lady from our table was so upset she left. I felt so bad for her.

CreepyFunbags · 24/07/2010 13:44

And the last wedding we went to, we were sat at a table with a man who seemed to be suffering some sort of psychosis. He just shouted at us through the dinner about how the government was trying to feed us all mind control medicine through adverts, and something to do with swine flu and the moon.
Poor chap. And poor everyone else at the table!

azazello · 24/07/2010 13:56

DH's best friend married a very sweet girl who has real self esteem issues. The reason for this became very clear during the speeches when her dad announced that it was good of the guests to come to the wedding, but not as good as him because he was paying for the wedding of a daughter who wasn't really his because she was adopted as a baby and how much better his biological child was...

At another wedding, the bride turned up and the church was empty - there were 4 of us there. Everyone else was supposed to be arriving by bus but the driver had got lost. 170 people turned up for the signing of the register.

lazarusb · 24/07/2010 14:09

At a wedding we went to, the bride's father was very gropey with a 16 year old bridesmaid, then after the row that caused, a food fight was started... by the groom. Bride ended up in tears (for the second time). They divorced about 3 years later.
My wedding went smoothly (thankfully)

WhatsWrongWithYou · 24/07/2010 14:19

At my wedding, my family (my mum and several uncles and aunts) conspired to relieve the lovely 'teller' from the ceiligh band of his mic, to treat us to a drunken, tuneless rendition of 'In My Liverpool Home' and some other hideous inverted-snob Scouse 'song.'

Then, when we were about to leave, my Irish aunt was the ring-leader in grabbing me from behind so all the women of the family could lift my legs and give me the bumps - an Irish tradition apparently .

Apart from the sheer disbelief and shock that my own family were doing this to me on my wedding day, I was in extremes of mortification that everyone would see my stockings and suspenders. All I remember is saying 'please let me go.'

The other guests were frozen and , but MIL told DH quietly to 'take her away', at which he grabbed my hand and we shot out and drove away. A lovely end to a perfect day!

That's actually the nicest thing my MIL has ever done for me, as she disliked me on sight and never tried to hide it.

WhatsWrongWithYou · 24/07/2010 14:23

Oh, and at my brother's wedding 15 years later, the rabble-rousing from my family's section of the reception was embarassingly noticeable - then the noisiest uncle stood up and started a chorus of 'Why are we Waiting?'

I was mortified for my SIL but she was v. dignified - she quietly got up and left the room and didn't return until he'd shut up.

JaneS · 24/07/2010 14:24

These are terrifying. I'm getting married in two weeks - eek!

My two boy cousins married two sisters, weddings less than a year apart. At the first, the father of the bride gave a wonderful, touching, personal speech about his dear youngest daughter. At the second, he gave the same speech ... about the same daughter.

He even said her name in place of her elder sister, the bride!

Nothing like as bad as some of these stories but still pretty sad and incredibly awkward - since virtually all the guests had attended both weddings and recongized the repetition! He also mentioned several times how much money it had cost him to marry off his last single daughter.

I have a fair chance of a home office raid on my wedding, so here's hoping for a story out of that.

willowk · 24/07/2010 14:51

At BIL's wedding he got incredibly drunk and started making a complete prat of himself - when we tried to wrestle him up to bed, he was clinging to the back of the DJ's van saying it was his party and he would stay up if he wanted. We finally got him up to the bridal suite and left them to it and went to bed ourselves.

The next morning, the bride told us BIL had declared he was going to throw up - she'd pushed him out the door in the general direction of the bathroom - when he hadn't returned 10 minutes later she went looking for him, only to find him outside in his boxer shorts waving all the guests off.

CuntMeYouCat · 24/07/2010 15:36

sad one - i went to a wedding held at a stately house at a zoo. the wedding was lovely then all the guests got to wander round the zoo then back to the stately house for dancing.

the dancing was a barn dance and during it a young girl (teeneager) collapsed and died. An ambulance came and they worked on her for ages but it was no good, apparently she'd had a huge asthma attack. Obviously we all left and the bride and groom cancelled their honeymoon.

felt very sorry for the girl of course, but also for the bride and groom

samstown · 24/07/2010 15:45

Im ot sure if this one is an urban legend but I read it on the 'You and Your Wedding' forum a while back.

The best man was wearing a kilt with nothing underneath and must have gone to the toilet and ahem, not wiped properly. He then sat on the bride's lap and left a brown skid mark down the front of her dress!

RunawayWife · 24/07/2010 15:46

My cousins wedding
Best man speech....
I am glad to see George did the decent thing and married Mildred today as I know he was very unsure if he wanted to or not....
You could have heard a pin drop

UnholyMoley · 24/07/2010 16:13

At my cousin's wedding. Her father (my uncle) was doing his speech and he thought it might be a good idea to explain who the people at the top table were, so he gestured towards one woman, explaining that she was the mother of the bride and his first wife, gestured to another woman and said that she was his very lovely second wife, then gestured to the seated masses and said 'and perhaps wife number three is amongst you lot out there'

Fnarr.

He's a very funny man, but I'm not sure either of his wives would agree.

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NetworkGuy · 24/07/2010 16:23

Crumbs, some really bleak situations. I missed a wedding of a fairly close relative (he and his fiancee were living in northern Europe, she was from a southern European country, and wedding took place in her home town).

Wedding was late morning, not sure about the temperature, but she felt unwell, spent an hour at the reception which was in the latter half of the afternoon. She was in hospital by the time the dance in the evening was starting, so guest had to make do without her, her husband, or her parents.

Fortunately she had recovered during the course of the week for them to return to their apartment (husband had spent the time with her parents, honeymoon cancelled, air tickets all changed, etc). She went back to work healthy but a bit tired, having had half a wedding, wedding night in hospital, and no honeymoon. But at least it wasn't as terribly sad as some in this thread.

fifitot · 24/07/2010 16:30

Not that horrific in comparison to some but I was maid of honour to a 'friend' who was a real bridezilla. She was too mean to hire more than 1 wedding car though so it was used in relays to take us to the church. Unfortunately when all the photos eventually finished, the 3 little bridesmaid safely onto reception with their parents and bride and groom in the only wedding car - I was left at the church - alone with no transport!

She hadn't even given a thought as to how I would get to the reception and the photos took so long everyone had buggered off by then. I remember knocking on the window of the Rolls and asking how to get to the reception! She was really really uninterested....

Ended up going with the photographer.

maristella · 24/07/2010 16:54

at my Dad's first wedding my uncle brought a homebrew concocted of a selection of fruit and veg
he later managed to pull TWO of the bridesmaids, brought them back to my Dad's spare room where he was staying, and pissed the bed at some point during the night

Psammead · 24/07/2010 16:59

Our wedding went perfectly - really a dream wedding that everyone still talks about. Was a fabulous day until it came to us taking the rest of the cake home and realising that my new uncle-in-law had stolen it.

He's never said anything, we've never said anything and apparently it's not the first time it's happened :P I guess he really likes wedding cake!

ledkr · 24/07/2010 17:13

These are really shocking! The mother in law ''wore her wedding dress and carried a bouquet'' what? i thought my mil was bit odd. Wtf would a person make themselves look so stupid? more details please. What did people say etc