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Terrible wedding behaviour.

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WayHarshTai · 21/08/2013 11:44

In light of the recent rash of threads about it, I thought we could have a compilation thread to keep them all in one place.

I'll start with my wedding, and my SIL.

We wanted her DS (who was about two and a half) to be a sort of page boy and wear the same style suit as his dad (best man) and the rest of the 'wedding party' including my DS. SIL said no as he woudn't want to wear a suit. And then promptly went out and bought him, that's right, a suit to wear.

She then asked if we could arrange a vegetarian meal for her despite the fact she is not a vegetarian. Which of course we did, although it smacked of 'making life difficult'. And she then managed to take both veggie meals on the day leaving my actual veggie cousin without a meal (still not sure how this happened).

At the ceremony she brought her DS in eating the World's Biggest Icecream? which he then sat and slurped in his non matching suit all through the vows.

When we got to the venue she moved all the place settings around because she didn't like where she was sitting.

She then got very drunk very quickly, became very loud, heckled the speeches, announced her recent (six months ago) miscarriage to the room and then coralled me for nearly an on the balcony while she cried and told me how awful her life was.

I just found the whole thing quite funny (well, not the crying) and it makes for an interesting story, so if she was trying to ruin things it didn't work.

Anyway, that's my Terrible Wedding Behaviour story, I know you lot have some corkers, so spill.

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hanette · 23/08/2013 20:54

Great thread. Been lurking this afternoon whilst looking busy! I particularly enjoyed David Blunkett BYO one.

Which made me wonder, does anyone have a badly behaved celebrity guest at wedding tale? I'd love that. They must get invited to weddings like anyone else.

LoopThePoop · 23/08/2013 22:17

My wedding was fab, I had a great day. It was only after I kinda thought Hmm

MIL wore white and a huge white hat.
My sister announced her engagement.
My SIL invited her neighbours who approached me and thanked me for the invite and I had no idea what they were talking about, SIL had taken one of our invites from MIL'S house and didn't think we'd mind...
My friend invited her cousins to the evening.
My mother invited a young cousin and lied about it saying it was my uncle who brought her and she knew nothing about it.

The friend who invited her cousins got married the year after.
I had a miscarriage 10 days before her elaborate hen weekend. I still paid in full as didn't want anyone to be out of pocket but went down late on the first night and left the next morn and tried hard to enjoy it for her.
Que me getting cornered and berated for not being there for her, being selfish, not going out because I had now had a child etc, etc.

I ended up holding her hair while she puked and putting her to bed and staying with her until she fell asleep. No mention of that ever of course.

hanette · 23/08/2013 22:31

Ha ha that's awful and white outfit on guests is a no no. Am horrified how many people do this.

Just remembered a good one - my sister got so pissed at our brother's wedding she did erotic dancing on the dance floor TO OUR DAD!

hanette · 23/08/2013 22:32

Ps our Dad is tee total...

GoneOnHolidayByMistake · 24/08/2013 09:00

At mine the BM's speech was a really crude made up story about how now I was getting married all the men who had keys to my house should now return them, followed by about 15 men standing up to hand keys in to the top table - including the (now Ex)H's best mate and brother. I wasn't amused.

The BM did this at my brother's wedding, and for some unknown reason gave a key to our mad old aunty, who totally milked it and did a sexy dance on her way up to the top table. I still can't think about it without feeling queasy.

And yes, Corrinne I am watching nervously. I have form for falling over and worse at weddings.

LillyGoLightly · 24/08/2013 11:18

Loving this thread!!

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ChoosandChipsandSealingWax · 24/08/2013 14:37

Yes had forgotten mindyourown 's story.

My DH didn't speak to his DF for 8 years after getting remarried without telling him, so you got off lightly. Mind you it was last straw in a catalogue of fatherly incompetence (including saying he would have the kids for Christmas aged 9 and 7, and failing to turn up to get them, failing to ring to say/explain, failing to apologise...they just sat on their little suitcases and waited in vain).

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AnnaBegins · 24/08/2013 18:21

Nothing I can add can come close to these, but:

At my SIL's wedding, her cousin announced her engagement in the middle of the reception. SIL is the least bridezilla-ish person but it really upset her.

Before my wedding (I was told this later), one of my friends cornered DH and stood chatting to him for half an hour or so. His BM had organised a search party by this point as no one had any idea where he'd gone! And then when we went to our hotel room after the reception DH spent the night throwing up...

And the day before my wedding, we all (me, mum, bridesmaids, MIL, SIL) went to the reception venue to set up at around 2pm. Mum hadn't allowed us to have anything to eat all day but luckily MIL and SIL had brought sandwiches which bridesmaids and I fell on ravenously. Mum was apparently embarassed by this so went and bought posh bread, cheese, pate etc. which we were then forced to eat having just bolted down a mountain of MIL's sandwiches! Such weird one-up-man-ship! Mum then proceeded to go off in a huff because we weren't paying her enough attention - strangely enough, we were more focussed on getting the venue ready! Still what to expect from the woman who uttered the immortal words "It's my day not yours"!!

The night before a friend's wedding where DH was BM, we stayed at the groom's parents' house. It was covered in dog hair and dust, the whole house, the bed, the sheets, the floor, the curtains, every surface - you couldn't move without getting covered in hair. Had to brush down groom and DH before the ceremony!

comedycentral · 24/08/2013 20:28

I wore a white dress to a wedding Blush But I was 15 and I had no idea it was bad. I had a few tuts from people too. I still feel bad now!

This thread is brilliant though. Keep them coming.

eatriskier · 24/08/2013 20:29

My first wedding:
I called xH by the wrong name (his names reversed), which was actually his dad's name

Stripedmum · 24/08/2013 21:12

Not sure if this is that bad but MIL (who I love dearly but went absolutely BONKERS when my DH and I got married) decided that she'd like her brother to be a groomsman and simply bought him the same suit as the others to wear on the day. We had no idea it was going to happen. I still can't believe it actually happened. DH not close to him at all, all of the other groomsmen were young and then there is this bloke we hardly knew handing out the order if service and in all the 'main wedding party' pics grinning with a big toothy grin. Really funny now but it was the cherry on the cake at the time. I can't tell you all the other stuff as it'd out me and, like I say, I adore MIL now - she was just clearly temporarily mental.

ajandjjmum · 24/08/2013 21:28

Congratulations eatriskier!

baggyb · 24/08/2013 22:07

My 50-something uncle brought his 25-year-old, heavily pregnant GF to our wedding. Despite none of my family ever having met her, he insisted on her being in all the family photos (inc the one of me with just my aunts and uncles). She then spent the reception scowling at me...don't know why, as to this day I've never spoken to her.

celestialbows · 25/08/2013 08:06

I just have to add to the perimenopausal flooding / wedding discussion : whilst my good friend was being fitted for her wedding dress I had an unexpected flooding incident all over the seamstress' cream silk chaise longue.
Cue: absolute mortification, humiliation, depression, distress and I truly can't express how embarrassing it was for all concerned .
I could only nervously giggle as I tried to explain my plight.
I do carry around industrial protection but it can come completely by surprise or flood through the protection in no time, I have been embarrassed like this on numerous occasions .
Perhaps we need our own thread for perimenopausal mishaps?

PoisonedApple · 25/08/2013 08:12

Mixy your Mum is priceless!

AQuarkTooFar · 25/08/2013 08:30

This thread is great.

A week before wedding Dh has an accident at work and rips open the skin around his eye. Thankfully his eye was ok and the nurse did a really good job and you can hardly see it in our pics.

4 days before my dcousin who is Bn gets her hand stuck in a door and rips the skin to shreds on her fingers. Again thankfully her hand is completely mended now but she was all bandaged up and I a lot of pain, poor love.

1 day before table plan is not done as dm and dmil have very different opinions but my Dm won't meet Dmil to sort it out!

Night before wedding chief bridesmaids phones to tell me she has the sniffles so can't come over to help me/stay the night before with me as promised. She then proceeds to off load all of her work problems on me while I am trying manoeuvre 3 car loads of stuff to the wedding reception including the now very late table plan.

Wedding day was going ok until 16 year old DBil got wasted. Dpil completely ignored his behaviour as he wound up guests, damaged hotel stuff by pouring drink over it and almost got thrown out! It's all anyone ever seems to remember about our wedding!

SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 25/08/2013 12:13

I think the issue with the period flooding bloodstain left on the hotel chair is not that it happened, or that the guest should, somehow, have prevented it - in the absence of a crystal ball, I am not sure how practical that would be, in reality.

My assumption is that the problem is that the guest did not tell anyone what had happened, so it could be cleaned up promptly and easily - instead she just left it. Accidents happen, but just wandering off so some other poor bugger has to find it and deal with it is just manky behaviour, imo.

Ezio · 25/08/2013 12:42

SDTG Im with you on that, even if you dont say it was you.

insummeritrains · 25/08/2013 12:52

Our extended family is quite close, see each other quite a bit and holiday together on occasion etc. one relative who is known for being an absolute tight wad, after being invited to everyone else in the family's wedding, invited most family to his own daughter's wedding. It was a perfectly lovely wedding and everyone was enjoying themselves. Then came the speeches: father of the bride thanked everyone including 'hangers on' whilst looking pointedly at one table in particular. He then moved on to talk about his daughter..his first comment being about her tits Confused

DropYourSword · 25/08/2013 13:03

My sister pretty much made me change my wedding date to suit her boyfriend at the time, because on my original date his favorite team were playing an important game!

They are now engaged and due to wed next year... knowing what she is like I expect she will provide bridezilla gold!!

insummeritrains · 25/08/2013 13:05

Forgot one from my own day...
Employed a photographer, hadn't met him before but had spoken to him over the phone and had seen examples of his work. On the day, he turned up, I'm ready in my full wedding regalia for my special day. Making small talk I ask photographer how he is? ' not so good, really. Been married 20 years and we've just decided to get a divorce. Been quite depressed'

Yay, happy wedding day..!!!!

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stillenacht · 25/08/2013 17:18

My SIL ordered a stripper (female) who turned up to our wedding. My dad and best man had to sort it out. Not impressed. Still not impressed 17 yrs later.