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'.

I'm not sure dying during the vows counts as bad behaviour does it???

Stealth, I am torn between Catering Horror Stories and Mil Horror Stories, as I have quite a few of these too.

Maybe this could pave the way for Volume Un and Volume Deux?

One definite thing is my sleeve shot.

Yay!

I worked for a food and bevarage manager and he had witnessed the chef cutting the wedding breakfast pudding with the same knife that had been used to cut garlic - the wedding breakast wasn't paid for and the hotel had to lump it....

At my wedding 3 years ago my sister was sitting at a table with half people she knew and half friends of ours she didn't but proceeded to tell the table that Madeline McCann was definitely dead because she had spoken to her from the other side (she's a spiritualist). some of my friends were very shocked, particularly my friend with a five month old baby. None of them knew what to say to her.

My wedding was great, apart from B and SIL. They were invited to a pre-wedding meal the night before, as it was the first time our families would meet properly (parents had met, but not siblings, BM etc) We were slightly taken aback when they said they wouldn't be coming as their B & B had a sauna and they wanted to get their monies worth At the wedding the next day, she had a face like a smacked arse (her default mode) and was making snide comments about us having a big wedding and she would 'rather have a new kitchen than show off' She also kept my B hidden away during eve reception, so we didn't even get a dance together.

Their wedding which took place before ours was even better. We were only invited to the ceremony and evening do and had to fuck off and amuse ourselves for 6 hours during their wedding meal. They expected all their guests bar a few chosen ones to do the same, even those travelling from hundreds of miles away. It wasn't lack of funds, as my DF had offered to pay for everything. They then made a big thing about all the relllies who 'didn't make the effort to come to our wedding but came to yours' I was sooooo tempted to give them both a packed lunch at our wedding do and say 'now fuck off, we'll see you at the reception tonight' but I would like to think I have more manners.

This was at a wedding that a woman I used to work with went to (she was best friend of mother of the bride)

Picture the scene, evening do in a working men's club. Father of the bride is mad on the National Lottery, which is always shown behind the bar (He's there every Saturday night of course). MotB thinks it would be a jolly jap tp arrange with the barman to play a trick on FotB & show a recorded version of the lottery draw & buy a ticket to match, so that FotB will think he has a winning ticket.

Virtually everyone is in on the secret & are watching him sweat as number by number comes out. When he realises he's "won", FotB jumps up shouting "I've only f...ing won, MotB-name you ugly fat b..tch, you've made my life so miserable I've been sh..ging your sister for years, here's the keys, you can keep the house, I'm off with sister-name and you're not seeing another penny from me..." and makes his way to grab MotB-sister & leave...until someone quitely points out to him that it was a joke, he hadn't really won...

MotB & FotB apparently got divorced a few months later & MotB hasn't spoken to to her sister since either...can't think why

I don't know if it's "bad" behaviour but at my wedding to ex- dh a bunch of exmil and fil's friends arrived at the reception "for the line-dancing"(in full garb)...this was the mid 90s...given we'd hired a musical bunch of friends to cover Wonderstuff,Pixies PWEI etc and I was at the front of the mosh pit with a pint...they spent a very subdued evening looking confused..We had agreed to posh suits and dresses in the day provided we could have our kind of evening, funded by us. Seemingly they thought we could be persuaded otherwise!

At my SIL's wedding, where I and DD were the bridesmaids her 'best friend' told me that SIL only asked me to be bridesmaid because she felt she had no choice, (She had been mine a couple of years previously).

BF said she had been asked to make sure I did not appear on any photos as SIL only wanted people she really liked in the album.

11 years on I have still not had the courage to discuss this with SIL, either SIL is a total cow (Which I find difficult to believe as we have always got on so well) or her BF is unbelievably manipulative.

my MIL also wore black

she put a bucket of water behind my chair at the reception which was of course knocked over and went everywhere when i went to sit down in my big dress - such a set up

also went round telling people that there wasnt enough food when everyone stuffed themselves silly.

and made out with random people, that doesn't bother me, but was a bit inappropriate in front of her teenage sons

bleedin bitch!

at my best friend's wedding reception the groom's manager spat on him. i was disgusted but apparently that is mild for her. she once shat in one of the bins in their work (and they work in retail with the general public, not an office.)

At a friends wedding I held her 3 month old baby, she was 2 months pregnant at the time and the groom was so stoned he couldn't remember his own name.

At another wedding, the local football team were having their first match of the season, I took a radio off the best man. He was listening to the match and being an arse.

My wedding was great we eloped! I really recomend it.

For some long and involved reason I dont care to remember, FILs family all refused to come to our wedding (something to do with FIL pissing them off and their inability to leave Staffordshire for more than an hour at a time it seems ) but we did get one of DH's uncles and a cousin, uncles son. They were actually very lovely and it was very touching that they made the effort especially having never met me and were very kind and polite. It was just a shame that at a late point in the evening we happend upon them, the uncle having reduced his son to tears by demeaning his career choice and ability to be a good father

MILs phone went off right as my father began his speech (saying "Hello Moto") but that was quite funny.

Everyone I've spoken to who was at the wedding remembers a cousin of mine, who got very drunk and had very loud conversations with random strangers in which she declared her undying love for them. She also got my husband in a headlock and told him: "I fucking love LWW...if you fucking hurt her, ever, I'll fucking, fucking kill you."
Bless her.

A few little stories...

At a bit of a pikey wedding, the groom's family was heard to say about the meal, "What's all this green stuff?" (It was broccoli)

At a v posh London wedding, the lovely bride was driving to the church and found herself desperate for the loo. So stopped the car and knocked on a random door. Apparently, the owner was very sweet to let in a gorgeous bride in her designer dress to their tiny downstairs loo.

At one of those all-stay-over-at-the-hotel weddings, a drunken teenager let off the fire alarm, hence whole wedding party had to evacuate at 3 in the morning, including granny in her wheelchair, babes in arms etc etc.

And (don't read if you just want the funny ones) I heard recently of a sixty grand wedding (yes, sixty grand) where the bride and groom separated within a week, as the previously-respectable groom got so drunk he resorted to DV on his lovely bride. Bastard.

nonno that last one is a very common thing from some of the stories i have heard. the first beating MIL ever had was from her husband on their wedding night, she was 17 and pregnant.

This isn't funny but today on the news they reported a wedding celebration where the father ot B/G(?) was asked to pose for photos with a shotgun, and accidentally killed the videographer!!!! this was before they were supposed to have the ceremony, god would you get married after that? how horrible!

Blimey - and people wonder why some people want small weddings or elope!!!

Sorry but I am laughing at the shot videographer.

It does seem rather unfortunate...

Well we had a lovely wedding everybody was beautifully behaved we had a marquee in PIL garden and a jazz band playing til 11pm we left just after 10:30 and at 10:45 the whole place was plunged into darkness, someone (we are 98% certain it was a neighbour) had smashed the generator controls
fortunately my very practical father managed to fix it but atmosphere was rather ruined!
Also the next day my parents, aunts and uncles, best man and bridesmaids spent all afternoon clearing up the marquee and garden whilst my dear sil lay and sunbathed by the pool 20 yds away! in actual fact she didn't lift a finger with any of the preparations but the following year when she got married - on the same wkend as us, at the same church, and also with reception in PIL's garden I had to take a week off work to help with preparations!

My BIL was a pain in the arse for our wedding. He arrived and promptly tried to dump his 7yo DD on me to babysit the night before so he could take my DH out to get him properly drunk (DH had planned a quiet night round at his Dad's having done the stag weekend the weekend) before, while I was rushing round with my bridesmaids trying to do table plans and last minute preperations. He took the piss out of one of my bridesmaids, really upsetting her, right up until her bodybuilder boyfriend turned up.

Then at the wedding itself he was doing a reading, he hadn't looked at it beforehand and hadn't brought a copy with him so had to borrow a copy off the minister then read it cold (badly). He then got absolutely hammered on coke, tried to get off with my other bridesmaid repeatedly (his cousin's fiancee) and tried to get the best man (same cousin) to take coke before his speech as it would be funny.

About a month later he was talking about the wedding, and with a big grin on his face said to me "You won't believe this but did you know I hadn't even seen the reading before I went up there to read it!" when I told him that yes, I really had realised he got stroppy and said "Well EVERYONE ELSE tld me I'd got away with it" and huffed for the rest of the day.

He's nearly 50 as well, not some silly teenager!

SILs and MILs are coming off very badly in this....