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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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expatinscotland · 21/08/2013 15:54

This thread is hilarious.

SolidGoldBrass · 21/08/2013 15:56

The one about the 'friend who's a waiter' is a popular urban legend.

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WayHarshTai · 21/08/2013 15:57

SGB you were at mine.

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Floggingmolly · 21/08/2013 16:11

Is this your life, Cravey, or are you just starring in an episode of Shameless? Hmm

ProphetOfDoom · 21/08/2013 16:16

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Cravey · 21/08/2013 16:18

How rude Molly. It's certainly not my life. I myself had a rather lovely destination wedding. My husband on the other hand has several sets of friends who are rather unsavoury. My poor pal though is devastated regarding her short marriage.

snuffykins · 21/08/2013 16:22

And here I was getting stressed about mine in two days time! Nothing compared to some of these but sure ill have a moan anyway.

One of my aunts is extremely pissed off we're not having our wedding the way she wants. So she's planning on arriving to the evening reception at 9pm with a 4 year old as her guest. Which is not too bad in itself, until I mention that this aunt is currently single and has no children.

YouTheCat · 21/08/2013 16:23

Snuffy, get all the guests to hide and switch all the lights off at about 8.50 Wink

snuffykins · 21/08/2013 16:25

Tempting!

Ezio · 21/08/2013 16:32

and very amusing to see!

YoniRanger · 21/08/2013 16:36

My waters broke on the morning of BILs wedding.

Cue us dashing 200 miles home to hospital.

BILs best friend took over DHs best mans duties but being several sizes smaller than DH the pictures are interesting!

I do feel quite bad about it still.

OrangeMochaFrappucino · 21/08/2013 16:36

WayHarsh we served wedding cake as dessert! What's wrong with that? It was a yummy squidgy chocolate cake! Hardly on a par with the punch-ups, infidelity revelations and so on in the rest of the thread!

TeamEdward · 21/08/2013 16:44

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Pilgit · 21/08/2013 17:02

This will out me if anyone knows me. But he ho! Wicked step mother (wsm) caused all the stress at my wedding. 4 weeks before I get a bullying calk from my dad trying to force me to have my half sister as a bridesmaid. She wouldn't be one yet and can't walk so wsm would have to walk with her. For some reason he actually thought I would want the cunt walking down the aisle with me (I have a whole soap opera of crap from her including her being such a bitch that I got signed off work with stress). Then at the wedding half sister is dressed as a bridesmaid. For sisters wedding we didn't tell them the colour scheme but they did try and force the then 22 month old on her as a bridesmaid anyway...

The week before -seating plan. Why can't wsm be on top table? Why is she off elsewhere (with my uncle). Especially when they found iut bestmans wife would be there - qell bm wife luterally had just had an ectopic, was touch and go whether she'd make it then making small talk with people she doesn't know. Oh and she is actually lovely and supportive? Then a disgusting message on dh's voice mail accusing him of being a money grabbing bastard as my parents had discussed and agreed to pay for our honeymoon. This when dad was paying for her son to go to a private school and built houses for her family -none if which I care about it just struck me as a tad hypocritical.

Then in car on the way to service dad will not stop talking about wsm. I ended up telling him to shut up and that they had caused untold stress in the run up and if he didn't focus on me for a bit he could fuck off to the far side of fuck. My one bridezilla moment.

Everything else was just funny - the cake getting knocked over by clumsy staff, spilling wax on my dress.

Pilgit · 21/08/2013 17:02

Sorry for typos. Bloody phone.

Preferthedogtothekids · 21/08/2013 17:17

Sorry not a wedding story, but a little funeral one...

My MIL fell out with her mother and they never spoke again but she decided to attend her funeral. The old lady had been a fan of Patsy Cline so her DIL had arranged for a song to be played as the funeral guests arrived. It was 'Who's sorry now'...

DumSpiroSpero · 21/08/2013 17:38

bridalscream

You've just reminded me - our vicar got my name wrong when doing our vows and called me the name of the bride he'd married in the morning.

Luckily DH got it right! Grin

karinmaria · 21/08/2013 17:41

This thread is madness - what is it about weddings?!

At my wedding there was nothing major just a few hurts drinking so much champagne that there wasn't any left for some of the guests arriving later in the afternoon (we'd bought an obscene amount of champagne too, it was our one extravagance. The venue were lovely though and kept a couple of bottles behind the bar for me so I didn't have to drink dark drinks in my dress!), one guest talking incessantly about how his own wedding was going to be an certainly not like this one, one guest slagging us off on Facebook and other guests during the reception so I got my huge scary cousin to get rid of him, my new DH got so drunk my sister had to hold his tie out of the toilet as he was throwing up and then he wanted to 'go out' after the reception. Luckily the BM is ace and got him to the hotel with me, where he then lost his car keys and we had to search for them the next day.

One of the bridesmaids at my friends very expensive and brilliant wedding couldn't wait to leave and moaned constantly, told her boyfriend she was bored very loudly during the speeches and then was caught taking coke in the toilets. Classy.

No fisticuffs to tell of sadly...

karinmaria · 21/08/2013 17:43

*guests not hurts! Bloody phone!

Also forgot my DH told everyone I was 'the only woman who could make him blush with her mouth closed'. Luckily my DF saw the funny side!

DevastatedD0G · 21/08/2013 17:49

Fil was a total cunt at our wedding.

Attacked the buffet before it was declared open, at all the children's food then ranted at the caterer. It's not even like everyone was left starving waiting, wedding was 230 and it was 330 when he just started tucking in

Stood on my dress, fine, it's on the floor but when I tapped him on the shoulder he turned, saw it was me and turned away, tapped him again and said you're on my dress, he just glared at me. I forcibly moved him off like you would a child.

He heckled throughout the speeches (not long).

He then was encouraging everyone to leave early to "go to the pub".

Fil, for example, is a total fucking cunt.

YouTheCat · 21/08/2013 17:52

My ex fil (at a friend's wedding) got pissed as usual and then started tucking into the wedding cake with a desert spoon, before it had even been cut.

springytoofs · 21/08/2013 17:55

Sorry, got to address the flooding issue - mooncup! Changed my life! re hideous flooding - I stopped going out the first day of my period because it was just too risky. I've just PM'd one of you to say that after I got a mooncup I went from that to wearing white trousers on the first day, and every day (if I so chose, of course lol).

I just wish I'd discovered the mooncup decades before.

My wedding story is that I went to a wedding where the bridesmaids got lost. Pre-mobile days. The groom and FIL had booked with the same car company. Same name. So the cars got mixed up and the mother of the bride got taken up the hill in a vast stretch limo, all alone. The bridesmaids were eventually rescued in a guest's brown volvo - all 7 of them squashed in. They arrived half way through the ceremony, which started 45mins late anyway, waiting for the bridesmaids. Loads of guests thought it was intentional having the bridesmaids flying in soundlessly half way through to join the b&g at the altar. They thought it was dead cool and I overheard one guest saying she'd be doing it at her wedding.

IAmNotAMindReader · 21/08/2013 17:57

My aunts wedding I was a bridesmaid (one of many and second youngest, this will be relevant later). I got told I had ruined the photographs by rolling down a grass verge with another bridesmaid and getting grass stains all over our dresses.

I was 7, the other bridesmaid was 3 Hmm No idea why they thought it was appropriate for a 7 year old to babysit a 3 year old they'd only just met while their parents got pissed on the champers and the fucking photographer had packed up and gone home 45 minutes before.

My mum had to step in and tell her to back off because she had been ranting at me that her whole day had been ruined and it was all my fault.

The marriage lasted less than 6 months and she spent the next 2 years dragging her mother around total strangers weddings, crashing them to get ideas for her next big day. She hadn't even got a potential groom on the horizon.

IAmNotAMindReader · 21/08/2013 18:01

Needless to say I was not on the guest list for her next wedding as I couldn't be trusted. Despite the fact that by the time she remarried I was well into my 20's.

Iheartcrunchiebars · 21/08/2013 18:07

Not really sure if it was bad behaviour or now. We had a wedding crasher. He totally confessed when I asked him who he was. He got completely pissed on our free bar and tried to get off with one of the guests but left a £20 contribution for the bar for a charity of our choice. Loved him! (Also loads of guests stole booze to take home under their coats apparently.) I thought it was quite funny.