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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.

OP posts:
eurochick · 21/08/2013 14:02

Mine is very mild compared to some of these.

My SIL got hammered and decided that she and BIL were sharing our pre-booked car back to the hotel (no problem). She gets in the front leaving me and my train bunched up in the back with my new husband and his built-like-a-brick-shithouse brother. Oh well, as long as her dress didn't get all creased...

libra's story and the penis photography are brilliant.

ThisOneThatOne · 21/08/2013 14:05

Two different couples announced their engagements at my wedding (and it was only a smallish wedding!). I didn't mind but it was a bit weird.

One group of friends travelling by car had an accident on the way and turned up in a recovery truck. Luckily they were ok.

I found out about a year later my obnoxious BIL had offended half of my family and called them 'fucking Americans' Hmm. They are Canadians for a start! They didn't mention anything at the time because they didn't want to upset me.

ThatBintAgain · 21/08/2013 14:06

My father used his speech as an opportunity to tell everyone how hard bringing kids up is, but at least he stuck around to do (unlike my mother) and the only part that was anything to do with me was the bit where he said I used to talk a lot as a teenager. Hmm

He then refused to speak to me the rest of the day and went I went to say goodbye (as I could see he was leaving) he turned his back on me and left.

He thinks he's been a fucking fantastic father and that I'm delusional and insane for disagreeing. Sad

Pawprint · 21/08/2013 14:06

OMG dubaipieeye what a stupid woman! Especially the sand OMG!

ThatBintAgain · 21/08/2013 14:08

(I personally behaved fairly badly at a wedding recently by giving the non smoking bride a cigarette and shortly afterwards throwing up under a table. It was outside and no one seemed to notice, but still...)

ninilegsintheair · 21/08/2013 14:08

A friend of mine was a bridesmaid last year where the bride actually kicked her up the arse (she was picking something up off the floor at the reception). Totally unwarranted and left a nice shoe shaped mark on her pale blue bridesmaid dress! Shock

Went to a wedding a few years back where the groom refused to dance with the bride. Her face was not a happy one Sad

m0therofdragons · 21/08/2013 14:09

Fairly mild in comparison but:

My aunt announced to the table that she thought all Americans were very thick - she was sitting next to her nephew and his wife who are American (her sister's son). we sat them together as we thought she'd like to see them as they live so far away. That was 9 years ago and she has now offended all 4 of her siblings and her own children don't even speak to her so we all laugh about her behaviour.

The worst really happened before the wedding - dh's grandmother refusing to come if his grandfathers "new" wife was there (he remarried 30 years before and she was very welcome as we'd stayed with them and she had cooked for us for a week when we visited and they were coming from abroad). Friends of ours got cross as we'd booked the wedding for Reading Festival Weekend (bank holiday and a time all family from abroad could make it). Friends chose the festival over our wedding but did apologise 3 years later!

Letticetheslug · 21/08/2013 14:10

An aunt of my (ex) husband gave me a tray of dirty plates to carry back to the Kitchen at my Reception..I was so amazed that I ended up taking them!

peppapigsmummy · 21/08/2013 14:17

this was not a thread I should have read with 5 months to go lol

Sparkletastic · 21/08/2013 14:21

I may have mentioned this before but....

SIL very obviously not wearing bra or undercrackers - very prominent nipples and minge outline in photos.
SIL forces unwilling male guest to spend wedding n

axure · 21/08/2013 14:23

Oh dear AndyMurraysBalls hope those dreadful months are now just a distant memory.
In response to OP, worst wedding behaviour I've experienced is a best man who proposed to his girlfriend during his speech, she said yes and they shamelessly hi-jacked the happy couple's day.
I was furious and told DH on no account was he to buy them a drink, lots of people did though Angry

Sparkletastic · 21/08/2013 14:24

Oops bloody phone

Wedding night shagging her loudly. Not a problem but we were too poor to stay in hotel and she'd invited herself to spend night at ours.... Poor DH couldn't perform conjugal duty until they'd finished and tbh we both struggled as were too busy smothering our hysterical laughter. Kidnapped bloke snuck out before sunrise too ashamed to face us. She acted l

Sparkletastic · 21/08/2013 14:25

I give up.

She acted like it had never happened Grin

mirry2 · 21/08/2013 14:28

I didn't even go to my DB's wedding as I'd had a miscarriage about 10 days before and my sil (bride to be) uninvited me as she said it would
'put the mockers' (her words) on the day. I was too Shock at the time to object. It was particularly hurtful as I would never have dreamed of mentioning it on the day and I've never mentioned the uninvite to anyone in rl

Ezio · 21/08/2013 14:30

Mirry, what a heartless bitch!!! Shock

Binkyridesagain · 21/08/2013 14:36

SIL invited us to her wedding via email, a save the date, 1 month before the wedding uninvited us, via email, because 'we haven't spoken much, for a while' then was pissed off because DH didn't reply to her uninvited email and slagged us off about it to anyone who would listen.

figrus · 21/08/2013 14:42

Binky, did you give them a present after that!

CuChullain · 21/08/2013 14:44

When I was a student I used to work in a bar at a large hotel in Bristol, their main trade seemed to be hiring out their function rooms to weddings, most passed off without too much incidence but about once a month you would get two families from the local shithole estate that clearly hate each other squeezed into a small room and fed copious amounts of alcohol. It was always a matter of time before someone said something, usually a disapproving father of bride bemoaning how the groom is ?not good enough for my princess? and it would rapidly escalate to shouting, pushing and ultimately punches being thrown and a scrum of men rolling around on the floor or over tables with a wailing bride in the middle screaming ?leave my Darren alone he aint done nuffing rong?. We would pull the shutters down on the bar and call hotel security who in turn called the police, it was a pathetic sight seeing everyone leave, insults still being traded, ripped shirts, bloodied faces and in some cases the groom in the back of the police van.

Binkyridesagain · 21/08/2013 14:45

Not a chance. DH did go and watch her get married, which put her in a very sticky position trying to explain why her brother had disappeared straight after the ceremony.

ButternutSquish · 21/08/2013 14:52

I fell into a ditch whilst walking back to the B&B we were staying at because my now DH didn't want to pay for a cab. It was semi rural so I couldn't actually see that there was a ditch full of mud and stinging nettles.

Oh how I cried all the way to the B&B, shouting at DH, especially as we'd had 'words' on the way back as it was.

Seems funny now, but then, oh no!

wannaBe · 21/08/2013 14:53

this is by no means as bad as some of these...

at sil's wedding (she is now ex sil so can now divulge). David Blunkett is a friend of ILs so was invited. He was sat at the same table as us and as the wine was served he said to the waitress "no thank you I've brought my own, but if I could have an ice bucket for it please." Hown wine to about two or three of the guests at our table and nobody else, and asked for some ice to put in it (even though it was in an ice bucket). Now I'm not a drinker of white wine but even I know you don't put ice in what is supposed to be expennsive wine!

Fil's speech went on for 30 minutes! the best man made a speech while absolutely smashed out of his mind and later shagged one of the bridesmaids...

They're renewing their wedding vows next month because it's been ten years, however they booked it three years ago! e then offered his

Cravey · 21/08/2013 14:54

My husband took me to a wedding where the father of the bride stated in his speech that he was delighted his daughter had married as he never thought he would be rid of the slut. The same wedding boy enough food for 30 people and there was around 100 there. Funnily enough we didn't stay long. Oh and there was another wedding he took me to where when we left there was a couple fighting in the car park. Screaming, kicking and punching. It was the newly married couple.

SmiteYouWithThunderbolts · 21/08/2013 14:59

At my wedding, my mid-50s year old father spent the whole evening sleazily hitting on my early-20s friends. One he particularly liked kept trying to hide from him because he wouldn't stop stroking her hair and trying to get her to dance with him.

I no longer speak to my father.

At my SIL's wedding, the starters were elaborate boards of cold meats, cheese, hoummous, sundried tomatoes, etc. Really gorgeous. Because other SIL & I are dairy intolerant, we had an extra smaller board on our table just with stuff we could eat. One guest decided this just wasn't on and came to our table to tell us so before taking our platter away with him! SIL was absolutely furious when she found out.

DontActuallyLikePrunes · 21/08/2013 14:59

Went to a wedding where the groom started a speech, then turned on his heel and walked right out, mid sentence. Audible gasps from the guests...The bride ran after him and her sister stepped up cover the mutterings. Then she spoke for perhaps forty minutes almost entirely about herself, though she did mention her sister, the bride, in passing.

Thumbwitch · 21/08/2013 15:00

I think Libra's story wins hands down but there are some shockers on here.

Worst behaviour I can think of was at DH's cousin's second wedding in Australia - he used to be a pro rugby league player and still had some old friends from that "scene", most of whom had been at his first wedding, including his best man/MC. Memorable bits were:
Father of the bride using his speech to basically plug his own estate agent business
One of the groom's old friends getting so drunk that he smashed the mirrors in the bathrooms and was escorted from the premises, only to try and sneak back in again in a golf cart (it was held at a golf club), when the police became involved
As the groom and bride were about to leave, the best man/MC got everyone together to bid them farewell and said into the mic "Best of luck to Groom and [ex-wife's name]". The bride was utterly mortified, unsurprisingly and ran out in tears.

I managed to avoid most problems at my wedding by not having any disruptive elements there, although DH's other cousin did get very pissed and nearly upset a few guests...