Cringiest thing you've witnessed at a wedding?

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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

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 grin

Nooo! What was the song? (Sorry if you already said, not read the whole thread.)

Marryoke

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I'd forgotten about this one but DH has just reminded me.

The marriages of MOB, FOB, MOG and FOG had all ended fairly early in the b&g's lives and they had all remarried. B&G consequently each had very loving but very large and complex blended families of parents, step-parents, siblings, half-siblings and step-siblings. In order to include and honour everyone they ended up having an enormous top table to accommodate all twenty-six of them (I counted).

More sweet than cringeworthy but still quite eccentric!

Thank you missanony

Father of the bride, who'd been married a few times before, (the bride, that is) piped up during his speech "the other marriages were just practise for this one"
Cringe.

Otherwise lovely wedding where the FOB explained that even though the bride hadn't got into Oxbridge like he and the groom had, nobody could possibly now be disappointed with the non-Oxbridge university she had actually gone to, as she had got a first. Absolutely gobsmacking to me, especially as the wedding was full of university friends of the bride and the MOB had also gone to the same university that he obviously considered substandard.

One of DH's best friends' first dance was to "My Heart Will Go On" from Titanic. You know, the one where he dies when the boat sinks and she lives another 60 or so years without him?

@HeyRoly I think I was at that wedding!!!

A friend's wedding where one of their hippy friends performed a solo dance with 'healing crystals' before the First Dance. Was really hard not to howl with laughter.
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This thread is gold. I second it should be moved to classics.

A friend from a hobby group we were both in got married. Near the end of the night the bride was sat on a chair on the dancefloor while the very drunk groom and a few of his army mates done a half hearted strip tease and then he crawled under her dress to take her garter off with his teeth.

And that was still less cringy than the hen night. We met up in a busy local pub to start the night. The bride had her SIL as her MOH who organised a stripper. But she failed to remember that the pub she picked didn't have music playing. So the bride had a stripper dancing around to absolute silence.

Another time it was a wedding in America. At the reception I can only describe what was like a mini ceremony on the dance floor after they were already married. The bride, Groom, her mum and her dad all linked arms and walked into the reception like walking the aisle again. Slow music playing, the mother clearly loving the attention as if she were the bride. Then they all did this weird slow dance type of thing while all holding each other in a foursome in the same way a couple would.Then suddenly the daughter breaks free and did this awful stretched out hand with her parents as if they were out of reach. That was meant to be the parents handing their daughter over to the groom. The groom actually untied a massive ribbon they'd put around her waist as if opening a parcel while they stood like animated clowns in a panto with clasped hands and sheer joy on their faces. This led right into their first dance. Super cringe like nothing I have seen before.

Oh god, I squeaked 'nooo', 'noooo' all the way through reading that. And actually curled my toes.

My first wedding the worst thing (other than marrying the idiot) was that the celebrant's dog wandered around dragging its lead through dog shit, (wedding in a park) which was quite the distraction during the ceremony.
Heh, that one only lasted 15 months, which is what happens when your husband decides you can't leave and embarks fully into alcoholism. It was horrible.

My second wedding, though...the worst thing was groom's parents nicking off home to pick up the camera they had forgotten, without mentioning to anyone where they were going. I walked into the room to two empty chairs, right up the front.
Still, very, very minor. We did photographs before, fed everyone well from a really good buffet, and had very low key recorded music. 36 people on one long table, it was lovely. Been almost 14 years now.

I forgot my best one: the bride's veil caught fire from a lighted taper on one of the pews. A man jumped up, pulled it off her head and stomped on it to put out the fire. She jerked back for a moment and then calmly continued down the aisle to the altar. Not cringy, but certainly memorable.

MOG crying and loudly telling me what a terrible mistake her son was making. Everyone could hear. It was awful.

Bride is totally lovely by the way, so not a justified reaction!

I was asked to sing in a choir for one wedding, didn't know the B&G but a family member. Anyway, the vicar presiding was quite new and I think it might even have been her first wedding - when it came to the last bit she said
"And those whom God has put asunder... errrr... let no man, umm, divide"

I felt sorry for the B&G - no idea if they were particularly religious or not, but that's not an auspicious start if they were!

Mine. It was horrendous. I had a 2yo and a 6mth old ebf baby so was oblivious to most of it and the horror only hit later.

Grooms speech went on forever and he was alternately crying and crude. Also mentioned his first wedding and my boobs. Made the whole reception sing Wonderwall along with him. No one knew why least of all me. Friend proposed to his dreadful girlfriend, she said yes, lots of celebrating they then had a mahoosive row and he ended up sleeping in the corridor outside their room. One of the ushers got the grooms 13yo absolutely hammered on champagne and thought it was hilarious. My babysitter also got very very drunk. Husband spent our wedding night holding his daughters hair back while she vommed while I was in the wedding suite alone with toddler and baby. And that's without mentioning that in my ONE glass of champagne all day my bell end of an ex husband had dropped a viagra tablet so I couldn't drink it.

Oh god, it's all coming back. He also had a grooms woman who fancied him yet managed to sleep with my brother that night, despite him arriving with his girlfriend.

I'm so happily divorced you wouldn't believe it

My wedding should be on here really.
The bridesmaid dresses showed up and my best friends one didn't fit. At all. I ended up raiding pins from the corsages in an attempt to make it look acceptable.
It didn't.
My car didn't show up and my dad and I ended up being driven in the back of a van to the church.
BM made a speech about how much he didn't like me.
Our starter was so disgusting it was inedible.
And MIL made a gaff with an Asian friend whom I'd gone travelling with. She assumed she was from one of the countries we'd been to when in fact she's from Essex. Friend was so drunk she was cross-eyed and decided to play along although she played along with the wrong accent. Her parents were Chinese but she put on the worst pseudo indian accent ALL NIGHT.
MIL also decided all of her friends were our friends and shoved them to the front of EVERY PHOTO and later on cried that dh didn't marry her friend's daughter (who was 15 at the time)

Amazingly 15 years later we're still very happily married.

Most of the cringey moments I've witnessed have been thanks to idiot guests:

• The one where the main stag do was kept a secret from the groom's cousin (who was well known for taking things too far and getting in to trouble) until the best man decided to base his speech on it. Cue screaming and yelling.
• The one where the father of the bride heckled the vicar about his pronounciation during the ceremony (vicar was not English).
• The one where the mother of the groom went around the room during the meal, sitting at each table for a few minutes and criticising the bride, groom and all wedding arrangements. She then went round again at about 9pm basically asking why people were still there and trying to get guests to leave. Apparently she had wanted the party to be afternoon only as she doesn't like late nights but didn't want to leave early.

The one where the groom's BM and brother broke into the bridal suite to leave some tricks behind but instead fell asleep and wet the bed. He then couldn't be roused so he slept there while the bride and groom camped out on the small sofa and floor of their own suite.

The uncomfortable faces of everyone as the groom removed the bride's garter with his teeth, then a sort of hushed, appalled silence followed by the crowd simultaneously parting like the red sea when it came sailing through the air moments later, to land in a sad little heap on the floor by itself.

Awful.

Mentioned it before but my not so 'D'M wore a dress almost identical to the bridesmaids and in exactly the same shade to my DBro's wedding. She also tried to shag the terrified 30 year old cousin of the bride. She insisted on going to the stag do a few nights before the wedding and not the hen night that she was invited to.

With this and many other incidents I'm surprised my DSIL, who is fab, has anything to do with her monster in law.

I was at a wedding once where the MOB and her very large hat kept standing in front of MoG in photographs the photographer was getting huffy about it, me and my friends were giggiling like teenagers at the hoga

Hoha* one of my friends dd is getting married we both said ooo hat

i have two..

the first was watching a very good friend of mine getting married. The small party afterwards was very clear her groom completely regretted it. I sat back with DH and watched, the grooms face just said it all. I cringed watching my poor friend asking him to kiss her, respond to her parents speeches, cut the cake, first dance and so on. It was a disaster but for some reason nobody else commented or saw. Yes, they are divorced now and it lasted 2 yrs. She admits now she should never have gone through with it as she did doubt him.

second is the good old professional dancing lessons and couple doing the waltz, but it looked ridiculous and totally cringe.

Any first dance where it's obvious the couple have been having lessons for months. The worst was s recrcreatiin of the dirty dancing dance. Oh and we had to learn a dance at the hen do and do it in front of everyone at the wedding. We were all pissed at this stage so mainly consisted of lots of stumbling and arm waving wtf thought that was a good idea? We even paid for a dance teacher to come in!