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

Ginger, I have been to many weddings but I have never seen the bouquet being thrown.

Third wedding: an orthodox Jewish one. The bride was following the custom which said she should fast (no food or water) until after the wedding. Another traditional custom is that the bride walks 7 times round the groom under the wedding canopy (chuppah).

The wedding was a 3.30pm so she hadn't eaten or drunk anything since the previous night. Whilst she was doing this she fainted, and they had to fetch her a chair and given her a glass of water to bring her round.

If you are fasting for goodness sake have a morning wedding!

I have nothing to add but I love this thread

People are bonkers aren't they

During a Catholic ceremony the priest saying that the bride and groom were about to embark on a 'threesome with God'. I kid you not. I thought I was going to laugh a lung up!

The father and mother of the bride, post acrimonious divorce, refusing go walk down the aisle together. Then in his speech the FOTB going on and on about how stressed the bride had been in planning her wedding, how it'd taken 2 years to plan... The bride just stared at her drink the whole time.

The (very wealthy) FOTB talking about how he really liked his daughter's choice of husband because he 'understood the value of money'. He talked more about the groom than his own daughter.

Wedding just last Thursday. Bride running around shouting 'nanananananananana BATMAN!' whilst flashing her batman knickers at everyone. Was quite funny though tbf

The FOB desperately needed a haircut, lovely suit but scruffy hair, looked awful, we had the starters, then had to wait over an hour for the main course, the officiating guy was a right tosser kept going on about the wife respecting the husband, no mention of him respecting her, and lots of crap in the same vein.

I was a bridesmaid a few years ago for a friend. Always remember the hours of posed photos we had taken, and the photographer at one point telling us to look 'sassy' HOW DO YOU LOOK SASSY? We all stood there a bit expressionless and he had to physically place my friend into a position to get the shot he wanted.
The pictures were awful haha!

Cake cutting with a massive sword at another, accompanied by his and hers thrones..... really?

A first dance where he was groping her arse the whole time really bad and apart from that moment never saw them together at all.... ended 6 months later!

A DJ blasting RnB tunes across the room while we were having our meal, he had to be told to turn it down.

The sister of a bride (maid of honour) dancing to some old new monkey shite music in her floor length dress (which was now tucked into shorts at the front- yes, shorts) which was topped off nicely by the flashing Nike air max trainers she was now wearing...... I asked my husband to book a taxi at this point!

And not a cringey thing, but we are going to TWO wedding this year on WEDNESDAYS!? Which has really got my back up - I've used over 6 days holidays to go to them, and one is the day after Boxing Day, because apparently everyone is off work at Christmas - yeah, because hospitals close at Christmas mate!!!!

My mum and dad once sat opposite an elderly couple who shared pair of teeth, one would have a sandwich then take the teeth out and the other would then pop them in their mouth and have something to eat. The constant teeth swapping apparently lasted an hour, needless to say it put mum off her food!

I went to a wedding as the +1 of a good friend, it was her sisters wedding.

The groom mentioned all of the brides family in his speech, he cried, told them each how much he loved them, how they were like his family...... all except my friend and her DD, he didn't mention them at all. Her DD was actually a bridesmaid in the wedding but he didn't even mention her, he said nothing about them at all in his speech.
Everyone at our table (non of whom DFriend or I had met before the meal) picked up on it and made a huge fuss about mentioning it repeatedly throughout the meal.
It was very awkward.

Than to make it worse DF, who has several food and intolerances and had ordered a specific meal which the venue forgot to provide, they brought out three random meals each after the other was sent back, none of which DF could eat due to one ingredient or another and the staff all behaved as though she was just being awkward for the fun of it.

In the end DF ended up having nothing to eat other than a bit of melon and again everyone at the table made a huge fuss, the kept calling back the waiters and saying "she's the brides sister, you can't just not give her anything to eat!"
Despite DF just telling them to leave it they continued to do it for most of the meal.
It was awful.

Well THAT was a joyous evening, OP, thank you for the thread, I have giggled like a loon.

When arranging my sister's wedding, either there was a cockup with the wedding cars or my DF had failed to think about how the bridesmaids (inc me, another sister and our young children) would be getting to the wedding venue. The car took Mum, him and the sister getting married and left. We didn't think anything of it, but then realised that a) they weren't coming back for us, b) that Mum and Dad had locked up and left us standing on their garden with the young children and that c) all other relatives had gone on ahead to the venue and we didn't have a key to get back in etc.

Luckily I had my mobile and was able to ring a family friend who was able to have a quick word in my Dad's ear and he sent the one car back for us. I never did ask whether it was supposed to take us first, or whether we were supposed to know to get our own way there, he certainly didn't mention it.

It must have looked weird for all involved for the bride to turn up in the car with her mother and father, then to stand waiting until the car went back for the rest of us! Luckily it wasn't far away.

Later in the reception, my sister decided to go ahead with the dance that she'd been taught at her dance/zumba hen do - which was danced to 'Britney bitch' and involved her flinging herself across the floor while pointing her leg at the ceiling!

In my own wedding, the vicar got my name wrong - repeatedly. DH wants to know if it's actually a binding contract.

At another, the venue ran out of food well before half of the guests had chosen their food from the buffet. And at yet another, the evening guests were arriving before the wedding lunch and speeches had finished because they were running so late.

When arranging my sister's wedding, either there was a cockup with the wedding cars or my DF had failed to think about how the bridesmaids (inc me, another sister and our young children) would be getting to the wedding venue. The car took Mum, him and the sister getting married and left. We didn't think anything of it, but then realised that a) they weren't coming back for us, b) that Mum and Dad had locked up and left us standing on their garden with the young children and that c) all other relatives had gone on ahead to the venue and we didn't have a key to get back in etc.

Luckily I had my mobile and was able to ring a family friend who was able to have a quick word in my Dad's ear and he sent the one car back for us. I never did ask whether it was supposed to take us first, or whether we were supposed to know to get our own way there, he certainly didn't mention it.

It must have looked weird for all involved for the bride to turn up in the car with her mother and father, then to stand waiting until the car went back for the rest of us! Luckily it wasn't far away.

Later in the reception, my sister decided to go ahead with the dance that she'd been taught at her dance/zumba hen do - which was danced to 'Britney bitch' and involved her flinging herself across the floor while pointing her leg at the ceiling!

In my own wedding, the vicar got my name wrong - repeatedly. DH wants to know if it's actually a binding contract.

At another, the venue ran out of food well before half of the guests had chosen their food from the buffet. And at yet another, the evening guests were arriving before the wedding lunch and speeches had finished because they were running so late.

Mainly terrible best man speeches. One mentioned dogging.

Another when there were about half a dozen best men and ALL have lengthy speeches, some with powerpoint. They were full of in joke and very few actual references to the bride. It was pretty bad.

Oh yes, and the wedding of a friend. At the reception, there was a lull in the music being played in the wedding part of the venue and you could suddenly hear the music from the bar playing quite clearly - 'Love don't live here anymore'.

Friend's one where the photographer took everyone to the national park across the road to get some photos with a lovely backdrop rather than just ones in front of the boring hotel. Fine until a park official came to mention that professional photographers needed to pay for permits to do so, and he hadn't. And refused to pay the £200 or so. He got pretty stroppy and relatives of the couple started looking for money in their pockets but of course almost everyone had left their handbags and wallets in the hotel. The problem was then solved by the photog getting abusive and trying violence, and police then being called to chuck him out.

Turned out he'd also tried to get the bride's sister (age 18) to do some 'glamour' shots and she was hugely relieved when he was kicked out. Thanks to all the guests contributing photos, they got a good bunch in the end.

When my best friend married, her parents had had a very acrimonious divorce. Her dad wanted to pay for an extravagant do but mum wasn't allowed anywhere near (she was OK with this and was a right hoot on the hen night!). Fine until FoB spent about 10 minutes of his speech going on about how his OW now stepmother had been a wonderful mother to her for so many years, in a way that implied she'd had no mother before that.

I watched that episode of Grey's Anatomy where April was getting married but halfway through the ceremony she ran off with another guy. Obviously I know it's fiction but I could feel the embarrassment and pain from all the guests in that ep! I still cringe (yes, I know I'm soft).

In real life, my uncle is a) obsessed with a particular rugby team, b) a touch homophobic, c) fairly racist and d) an extreme atheist. My cousin married a Catholic man from a different country who, shock horror, supported a different rugby team to my uncle. The groom's best man was his brother, who happens to be gay. In my uncle's eyes she could not have chosen a worse man. My uncle's father of the bride speech lasted rather longer than the 5 minutes my cousin had given him, so that he could squeeze in upwards of 47 comments about how his rugby team was better than the groom's, around 12 extremely unsubtle slights on Catholicism directed entirely towards the groom's family, a few obviously prejudiced jokes about religion in general, 12 or 14 very racist jokes that left everyone in stunned silence (around half were directed at the groom's family while the other half were just generally racist towards anyone not white British born), and 5 extremely homophobic comments directed towards the best man and his husband of many years. There was also an entire paragraph in his speech dedicated to outing me as bisexual to the entire room (including my parents and gran) after he unfortunately saw me in a club in female company the night before the wedding. So that was fun. There was absolutely no mention of the bride and groom, their love for each other, how beautiful the day or their relationship is or their happy future together. None whatsoever. And yes I did keep track of how many awful comments/jokes were made, I kept a tally chart on my napkin. I think I still have it somewhere. My uncle unsurprisingly got kicked out of the reception after the speech. Not sure why they didn't kick him out sooner (actually not sure why they let him have a speech, the subject matter couldn't have come as a total surprise to my cousin or her family).

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TheEternalForever - Saw your msg just after I posted my 'this is the best thread ever' - Christ, that sounds beyond awful, how grim. Nothing funny about your msg at all, xx

fullofhope03 nah it surprisingly picked up after that. Not for my cousin, who spent close to the entire night bawling in the toilets (not helped by her tipsy mother "sympathetically" saying things like "you'll be lucky if he doesn't divorce you now sweetie!" while passing loo roll under the cubicle wall). But the rest of us got blotto and danced the night away. There was a lovely buffet. And I did quite well in the end because there wasn't an open bar (which is awful at the best weddings but truly soul destroying at this one) but people kept coming up to me all night and being encouraging/hugging me/making sympathetic noises and pressing glasses of wine/voddy and orange into my hand. I didn't buy a drink all night!

Just remembered my sisters wedding. Another guest knew people at the other wedding being held in the venue (large specialist place with several function rooms). If Trip Advisor had existed then the reviews would have been.....

"Lovely venue, helpful staff, shame that the amount of food we paid for wasnt put out and so many of our guests went hungry"

"Lovely venue, helpful staff, great value as so much food for our buffet that we sent guests home with doggy bags!"

Yep, they got the rooms mixed up and the wedding of 50 guests got the food for my sisters 100 guest wedding and vice versa. Not cringeworthy for the guests as most didnt really notice, given that the day guests didnt want the buffet and the evening guest filled up first, but DSis is massively pissed off about it 18 years later, and I dont blame her!

My mum and dad once sat opposite an elderly couple who shared pair of teeth, one would have a sandwich then take the teeth out and the other would then pop them in their mouth and have something to eat. The constant teeth swapping apparently lasted an hour, needless to say it put mum off her food!

Jésus wept.

I must be going to the wrong weddings.
I've never seen an owl, doves or a dog at a wedding.
I've never seen a big dance routine.
But I have sat through far too many crap speeches.
One FOB implied that now she'd bagged a wealthy man that she didn't need to work anymore the BM also told a cringey story.
Some of these stories are very sad.

I went to a wedding reception years ago, at a very nice venue - stately home sort of affair. The groom's best friend was so wasted during some of the dancing that he unzipped..and pissed on the corner of the dance floor his girlfriend was we were all just

redshoeblueshoe I've sat through quite a few "well she's done alright for herself hasn't she HAHAHAHA she won't have to work now will she HAHAHAHA" speeches too. Crap speeches seem par for the course in weddings it seems!

Yes Eternal - it just seemed so mean, he boasted how she'd worked hard to get a degree, get a good job, then get a wealthy husband. He then also bought up her sisters wedding, luckily I was from the Grooms side, so I didn't have the misfortune of hearing him at the sisters wedding