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

[TizzyDongue]

Hang on the mother of the bride and the priest had sex during the ceremony?

[TizzyDongue]

Ah ha!! Doing, not during.

Slightly less awkward.

[EatsShitAndLeaves]

A family wedding where the groom's speech mentioned "hopefully" in every other sentence.

Think: "hopefully we will grow old together", "hopefully she will still love me after the honeymoon", "hopefully she thinks she's made the right choice", "hopefully we will have children".

The marriage lasted 18 months. She left him.

[TinselTwins]

ha ha no, but she kept grinning at him which was awks knowing the history!

The priest went on and on about how well he knew the family which bride thought was lovely!

[HappenedForAReisling]

Not me, but my Mum. She was at her ex-partner's ex-wife's second wedding (yeah, all were on good terms).
The wedding was being videoed and my Mum nearly pissed herself in her pew when the bride - knowing she was being filmed close-up for the vows - looked at the groom and blinked in slo-mo for the camera.

[TinselTwins]

EatsShitAndLeaves aww that's kinda tragic and desperate

[callmeadoctor]

A Jim Davidson video of one of his "adult" comedy shows put on to entertain people whilst couples photos were being taken!!!!!! Loads of kids around whilst Jim Davidson was shouting C**t throughout!!!! (We left!)

[TheGhostsOfPresidentsYetToCome]

Friend whose dad has always been a dick to her and makes it perfectly obvious he prefers her brother.

Started his father of the bride speech "I'm sure you all know my son John..." and proceeded to make a 30 minute speech about how amazing he was.

Lot of stony faces in the room. Lot of under the breath muttering about what a twat he was (and still is).

[ClockBusCanada]

I've been at two in the last couple of years where they've had a best dog instead of best man.

[Fourtwenty]

I was sat on a table with a woman who got extremely drunk and started shouting that during the speeches "this is getting boring now!"

Afterwards she walked up to me and a couple of friends (none of us had ever met her before) and started complaining that no one wanted to talk to her (she was the brides family so must have known people there) .., she then accidentally whilst talking spat on my face. It was an accident but still gross to have someone saliva on you, she then referred to me as a snotty cow, she then tried to make comments about me at the buffet table to get me to argue with her .. I just ignored her.

She ended up having a fight in the toilets with someone and ran off crying.

Seriously if you're going to behave like that when you're drunk then just for one day you could watch your sccohol intake.

[AndNoneForGretchenWieners]

Ah Christ, DH's best man had the most boring speech, at one point he was on about aeroplanes as he was trying to make some sort of point about the difference in our ages, something about how long a flight to New York took the year DH was born and the length the year I was born. It was bloody terrible and everyone still talks about how bad his speech was. Tbf he was an alcoholic but we didn't know at the time, we just thought he was a bit pissed because of nerves.

[ilovepixie]

Hang on the mother of the bride and the priest had sex during the ceremony?

I thought that too lol

[AndNoneForGretchenWieners]

Oh and DH's ex wife asked him for a shag, for old times sake. On our wedding day, at the reception. She then tried it on with two of his brothers, going home with the younger one. She had left her own husband at home (he wouldn't have been particularly comfortable if I'm honest)

[FeedTheSharkAndItWIllBite]

My MIL. At our wedding.... Unfortunately. :(

[User543210]

The groom taking off the brides garter thing on her leg. In the middle of an empty dance floor. While she sat on a chair.

[TinselTwins]

he wouldn't have been particularly comfortable if I'm honest
I'll bet!

[hoddtastic]

my dad can't make a father of the bride speech without offending the bride by comparing her/her husband to one of our other siblings/their spouse negatively.

we've got used to it (and usually heckle him) It's become a family in-joke

[OrigamiOverload]

Father of the groom singing a self penned song about the couple, a Capella during the register signing. He faltered and had to restart. I had to literally hold on to my dh to stop him leaving the room.

DSis was bridesmaid at a wedding where the groom was totally overcome during his speech, to the point that he was wracked with sobbing but refused to end his speech. Went beyond sweet and touching to awkward and uncomfortable.

[BlondeGinger]

The bride and her family were extremely devout christians, very formal and serious wedding, the groom and his family were the extreme opposite. At the end of the best mans speech he said "go easy on her tonight mate". Could have heard a pin drop. The father of the brides face was like thunder!!!

[NoncommittalToSparkleMotion]

My dad and his wife had ordered their wedding bands online and they didn't fit. They got married at a pizzeria, so when they were exchanging rings and realized they didn't fit, my dad used the butter from the table to wedge the rings on.

[VladmirsPoutine]

The soon-to-be MIL was crying, actually wailing, through the vows. She really didn't want her DS to marry the woman in question.
It was just an embarrassing evening for everyone. She even accosted us at our table to ask what we thought of proceedings and my then DP offered her a tissue.

[gettinfedduppathis]

A bride who was so thrilled to be having the wedding she'd always dreamed of, that she started to walk down the aisle forgetting something - her new husband

[Seeingadistance]

Another one here who thought the mother of the bride and the priest were actually doing the deed during the ceremony!

[WildIrishRose1]

Oh and I went to one where the mother of the bride had had sex with the RC priest doing the ceremony. Her immediate family didn't know but a fair few in the congregation did

What??!!?? Are you sure he was RC? They're not normally that blatant 🤔

Xmas you've clearly not been to many weddings😁

[illegitimateMortificadospawn]

Donkeys years ago DH and I went to a uni friend's wedding. Bride was marrying a bloke who worked for a very well known IT company. The father of the bride's speech was a painful, lengthy IT-related metaphor. When he got to the laboured jokey 'upgrading for a newer, faster model' analogy both the bride and her mother (divorced, ex wife of FOTB) developed expressions of barely contained rage. Their body language perceptibly stiffened whilst he blundered on oblivious. My arse clenched in sympathy. It was awful. We knew her well enough to know her parents' divorce had been acrimonious. Twat!