Terrible wedding behaviour.

[WayHarshTai]

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.

Thank goodness!

My dh has 2 best friends (known each other over 20years) and was delighted to be asked to be bm along with the other friend. We had to drive for over 6 hours to get to the wedding (bride grew up in a tiny place in the highlands and wanted it there). We arrived the day before to help set up as requested and spent a couple of hours blowing up balloons, tying up cutlery sets with raffia etc. I happened to spy the seating chart for the meal. I couldn't see our names on it. I checked with dh in case this was an oversight. He checked with the groom who had to sheepishly tell him that neither of his best men could actually come to the wedding ceremony or the meal (because bride had decided her friends were more important) but that we were welcome to come along in the evening. We sucked it up because it wasn't our day and not our place to argue. It was pretty galling tho when we arrived in the evening to find the place on full swing and that there were people who had been invited that the b&g knew only vaguely.

At another wedding I was dancing with my fil when he stood on the bride's £8000 dress and tore it. (My whole wedding didn't cost £8000, so I was a bit when she started shouting at him).

The worst behaviour I know about happened in the run up to DH's cousin's wedding.
The wedding was taking place in a castle somewhere and there were 10 bedrooms in the castle plus a hotel on the grounds for everyone else to stay in. The 10 castle bedrooms were allocated to the bridal party, parents etc.
2 sets of aunts and uncles weren't at all happy about this and felt they should get rooms in the castle too. The uncles in question were MOG's brothers. One brother had a very close relationship with MOG the other not so much.
Anyway a few weeks before the wedding it all kicked off. Phone calls insisting that they get rooms in the castle. "We're family, We're more important than bridesmaid X and grooms man Y. We'll want to stay up late with you all and have breakfast next day together" one aunt actually said "this wedding should be all about me, I'm a priority Aunts are more important than friends.
There were many phone calls to the MOG, FOG, and Groom The best man heard about all this and actually offered his room in the castle to one of the couples but that wasn't good enough. They wanted both couples to be accommodated.
Eventually one uncle, (the not so close uncle) rang the bride and made her cry.
The groom rang both couples and told them they were uninvited. This was 3 years ago and they haven't spoken since.
The grooms brother got married last year and they weren't invited to that wedding at all.

My XH was asked to be Best Man back in 2002. After the ceremony, and just before his speech in the restaurant, he was given a piece of paper by the Bride to add to his speech:

"The bride and groom would like to thank you for all attending their special day. A collection will go around the tables shortly for meals...if you could just note what you are eating and add that to the plate so we can calculate properly we'd appreciate it, thank you."

Everyone had to pay for their meals. I was sat on a side table with the groom's teenage sister who was upset as she only had £20 with her for the day, the meals were £28 a head.
This was on top of the couple's wedding 'gift', which was cash as requested towards a honeymoon as they'd never been abroad.

He got to keep them as friends in the divorce

Found this through a link someone posted on another thread. Whiled away a couple of evenings reading this, it's worth the time.
Can't quiet believe some of the things that go on.
My most memorable wedding experience as a guest was in a small old fashioned church. It wasn't pews, it was little "family" seating areas each with a little gate onto the aisle.
I couldn't see very well in this configuration and as they were taking their vows stood near the little gate so I could see down the aisle. Queue strange smell and a tap on my shoulder from a guest behind telling me my hair was on fire, as I'd got too close to a candle, small scream from me and everyone turned round to look just as B&G saying I do.
Luckily the bride's rugby team doing a pyramid at the reception with her on top and a few of them falling out of their tops gave everyone something else to talk about.

I feel I should add my example (but fear outing!). It wasn't my wedding but my father's 3rd. He had bought a dress for his wife - this was just another example of how controlling he was. He had bought it 2 sizes too small for her. I have no idea if this was deliberate or not.

But come the night before the wedding he demands that as a bridesmaid I wear this dress. I refused but he kicked off. In an attempt to appease him my step-mother to be agreed that I should wear it. Being a nervous teen and used to my father's behaviour I ended up agreeing. It led to some of the most awkward conversations and photos with people from my (now-ex) step-mother's side that I didn't know.

He has since proposed to another 3 women.....reader's he is now single again!

My mother carried a plastic carrier bag around with her at my wedding god knows what was in it.
When she was taken back to my house after the day she tried to persuade everyone that they should all surprise me and my new husband at our honeymoon venue (she got very told off by our 14 year old son)