Cringiest thing you've witnessed at a wedding?

[Fourtwenty]

We were secretly sent the lyrics to the first dance and as a surprise we all had to stand up and sing it to the couple.

My toes were curling

I was so stressed I accidentally shagged the best man.

Oh faintly, I hear you, we've all been there

This has brought back memories of one of my first weddings. A family one where my direct family were all invited together. The B&G hadn't seen us in years and had clearly forgotten how old my brother and I were. I was 19 and in my second year of university, he was 15 but we had been seated on the children's table!!

BM observed me being IDd at the bar and my indignantly waving driving licence, and took it upon himself to soothe my woes

(I may also have provided beer for my equally indignant baby brother who was later observed snogging someone else's 15 year old daughter outside. Happy times)

Bride did a speech thanking everbody blah blah she also indicated the B&G had been having an affair and she was glad she got her man there was stone silence probably because people were dying of the cringe thd MC stepped in and did a toast was totes awk

RTKanga you've reminded me that England were playing Germany on the day of our wedding so all the men, DH and my dad included, trooped off watch the match in the other function room halfway through my reception

I couldn't complain really because the theme of my wedding was the colours of my local team - we are all football fans! (It was blue and white not football strips by the way, we aren't tacky or anything)

Friends wedding friends mum and step mum were arguing in the toilets about the top table and how the bride just put SM there to be polite i was stuck in a cubicle listening trying not to be noticed went in for meal and the step mum sat at another table hotel had to jig seats to set her a place.

Best man: "We've always been best mates, ain't we, Dean? Remember when we found your dad's porn stash and that time we accidentally burnt down your kitchen?"

This is why I love weddings

One where we had to wait 3 and a half hours from the service ending to eating.

Everyone was stuck in the bar area getting more and more drunk and there wasn't a seat in the whole room.

I had on heels and my feet were in agony. By the time we ate I had sobered up And was bored shitless.

Homophobic "jokes" by the best man in front of a largely gay audience.

Tangible atmosphere of Arctic disapproval from both sets of parents. There was no food at the reception.

Mother of Bride storming out because groom didn't thank her for making the fugly bridesmaid dresses.

At my wedding, a couple has blazing row during the service as to who would take their screaming baby out of the church.

Also, we had uninvited guests turn up.

One of my (married) aunts got pissed and had full on snog with her husband's nephew.

I went to one wedding where an aunt of the bride lurched over to our table and asked; 'So how long do you think it's going to last then? W have a sweep'.

Did not last more than a couple of months - the bride to be going away for a last dirty weekend with her boss the weekend before probably did not help matters. (That was quite well known on the wedding day itself).

A few years ago I went to a wedding at a very evangelical church. The couple hadn't even kissed prior to their wedding. In his sermon the pastor started going on about how the bride was a gift for the groom that he could unwrap that night, and all sorts of stuff about wives serving their husbands, in all aspects of life, but especially sexually. It was so sexist and gross. I was horrified and expected the family to be looking embarrassed. But they were all sitting there smiling and nodding along

Oh- and just one that I loved- very serious religious ceremony. One of the guests had a little baby who started to cry - and the priest paused and said to the congregation; 'The most beautiful sound we will hear in any church is the sound of small children'.

It was lovely. :)

I got my DH's name wrong when doing the vows. Not in a "mixed him up with an ex" type way! We didn't have a rehearsal and I rarely used his middle name so when it was the whole "I xyz take you abc" bit I was so nervous I transposed the first letters of his first and middle names. Ended up like "I Mary Jean take you Jeter Pames" instead of Peter James. Obviously corrected myself but the damage was done!

Step father of the bride's speech. He basically said how they thought she'd never get married, how she failed all her exams at school, made bad choices with friends... it was awful. Bride was in tears & everyone was cringing and giving each other WTF looks.

It was years ago and still make me now.

One where we had to wait 3 and a half hours from the service ending to eating.

Everyone was stuck in the bar area getting more and more drunk and there wasn't a seat in the whole room.

I had on heels and my feet were in agony. By the time we ate I had sobered up And was bored shitless.

I've been to one of those, the "plan" was that guests would "enjoy" browsing/admiring/oo & ahhing the grounds/outside of the venue for three hours, but it was freezing so we were all stuck in the cash bar with no seats. There were a lot of elderly & disabled guests stood there too. We went out to the carpark to feed our toddler some snacks we had lying about and one of the other guests was going around the cars taking orders for a petrol station snack run and came back with bags full of sandwiches to hand out.

We weren't allowed into the main reception room until much later for the meal, by which time everyone was well and truely "done" and the bride and MOB didn't understand why nobody was up for fun/dancing etc

Cousins wedding where the groom's father made speech comparing the bride to Saddam Hussein

I'm sorry but you have got to expand on that!

Ooh and another one... bride standing up and walking out before the best men did their speech. She was somewhere by herself for the whole twenty odd minute PowerPoint presentation... she didn't want to hear what her husband had been up to before they got together or some other rubbish excuse.

Tinsel

I think we might have been at the same wedding. I had awful awful period pains as well. It was in the middle of nowhere

Haven't been to a wedding for years but this has brought back memories ....

friends wedding reception was invaded by some of the travellers from the field next door. They burnt down the village hall and lots of guests jumped over the bar to hide from the all out fight that broke out.
When the lone police car arrived the police refused to go in because it was too out of hand.
My friend laughed about it for years ( far more years than the marriage lasted )

At another friends reception it was obvious to everyone that bride and best man had been hit by " love at first sight ". Very awkward .
He worked abroad and she only met him at the wedding rehearsal. She ran off with him the day she got back from her honeymoon.

It's not THAT unusual to have slept with someone who then became a Catholic priest the poster didn't specify he was a priest when the sex took place (though obviously that's perfectly possible!). I've slept with two guys who were ordained later one was a seminarian when we had a brief fling -- and at least another one who dropped out of the seminary

Nope he was well and truely ordained at the time and was also a colleague of the father of the bride (worked at the same catholic school) . TBF he wasn't the only friend of the family that she had had an affair with. Other guests at the daughters wedding had been used/asked to cover for her at times with the priest.

Oh @user I've been to a lavish wedding where on returning from exotic honeymoon, the bride left her new husband to live with a man she met on her gen weekend.
Such a coward she let her parents tell everyone

They burnt down the village hall

And I thought I wouldn't any harder than the singing stripper in the church. (Although Dinah, Dinah, show me your legs made me laugh out loud.)

I think we might have been at the same wedding. I had awful awful period pains as well. It was in the middle of nowhere

may well be, it was in the middle of nowhere, the rooms at the venue were crazy expensive so only very few guests were lucky enough to be able to sneak off to their rooms for a cup of tea and complimentary room biscuit. The rest of us were stuck there as it was quite far from any affordable accommodation.

One where we had to wait 3 and a half hours from the service ending to eating.

Everyone was stuck in the bar area getting more and more drunk and there wasn't a seat in the whole room.

Ugh, my BIL's wedding was like this. The happy couple spent HOURS gadding around all sorts of different locations for picturesque photos, whereas the guests were at the hotel with no idea what time the reception was going to start and where the bride and groom actually were.

We got married a few months later and made sure our guests at least had canapés and drinks on tap when we went off for photos.

Arose for emily that is really shocking!

My brother's first wedding: too many speeches (I counted 8), bro went missing when the cake cutting was supposed to take place and they eventually found him in the pub down the road, worst of all, he delivered his speech in a Borat voice. Ugh. They are divorced now