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

[C0RAL]

Indeed Stealth , you can be runner up

[TinselTwins]

This is so small time compared to some on here but... a wedding where the bride changed into trainers for the evening and spent most of the time on the dance floor hitching her wedding dress up in a way as to display them in a kind of 'I'm quirky me, look, trainers! Mad!' way

I've been to one of those except it was crocs. Bride spent whole evening hitching up her dress to show them while telling us how down to earth she was because she changed into her crocs as soon as the service was over "you know me! I'm such a tom boy ha ha" (yawn)

[RockyBird]

The wedding shop I worked in years ago sold "wedding trainers". They were normal looking trainers but in the satin colour of your choice. They had a block heel version too. They were very popular.

My friend DJed in his younger days. Plenty of weddings turned into mass brawls. He'd simply pack up and leave.

[BikeRunSki]

I just took my shoes off. Nobody noticed (long dress) and I did not tell anyone. No big deal.

[MumBod]

My relative works in hospitality. She's seen many a wedding guest so drunk they've shit themselves.

[Flyinggeese]

TinselTwins yep that was the kind of vibe!

[WankingMonkey]

My friend DJed in his younger days. Plenty of weddings turned into mass brawls. He'd simply pack up and leave.

Yup I used to be a DJ and for the night do especially this is soo common. One guy put another guy right through the buffet table once. One got shut down because the groom and his mates were snorting coke in the loos. Loads ending in fights. A few where literally only the bride and groom and like 3 friends turned up..I always felt so bad at those ones.

Worst one from a personal perspective was a couple who clearly were not well off at all. About 10 friends turned up. They had booked a huge room, decorated it themselves (badly). They came over and asked me if they could pay me in installments of a tenner a week! I mean, the cheek of it. They had had the date booked for 3 months. If they wanted to pay in installments they could have done so in advance. No way am I working all night with a chance of not even getting bloody paid...

[piglover]

Excellent thread. I went to a wedding of a college friend. I'd slept with her as had a mutual friend (we are all women), and the mutual friend was still a bit in love with her, but she was doing the ultra-respectable virgin bride thing with her husband. There was only a cash bar which we hadn't been told about so had no money to get smashed and cheer ourselves up so I and mutual friend stood in a corner muttering about how we could make serious trouble for her. (We were too nice to do that, obvs.)

[Catra]

A friend of the bride downed everyone's champagne before we even got to the toast and got so drunk she proceeded to wedge sugar lumps in my cleavage during the speeches. She then proceeded to gatecrash the wedding singer's performance of Ave Maria by grabbing the mic and then burst into tears and cried for hours because she hadn't been asked to be bridesmaid at another of our friend's forthcoming weddings. Then I tripped on the staircase in my high heels causing me to land legs akimbo, the poppers in the crotch of the shapewear under my dress bursting undone right in front of an unsuspecting old man who got an eyeful of more than he bargained for. When drunk friend heard about the escapade, she shouted loudly, "oh, I wish I'd been there - I've always wanted to see your fanny!"

[BeyondStrongAndStable]

Outing if my family are reading...

My BIL was definitely cringing at mine. He'd had 'one glass of red wine' (it had been topped up a fair few times but as he never reached the bottom it only counted as one) and was talking to my mum, who had my bouquet at the time.
He knocked his red wine over my flowers 😬

[drsholmes]

The bride and groom (and friends) danced to thriller (with the masks). They even spent time rehearsing on the big day whilst all the guests drunk lots of alcohol waiting for dinner.

[normastits5]

Brother got married in early 80s and a friend kindly recorded the day on good old fashioned VHS. We all sat down as a family to watch it, very excited as you could imagine. When it gets to the happy couple walking back down the isle having made their vows we can suddenly hear some sound distortion followed by the unmistakable trumpet solo of a popular chart topper of the time ' papas got a brand new pig bag ' by Paul hard castle!! To this day we have no idea how this happened, can only presume he used an old tape and recorded over a top of the pops 😂.

[FuckYouLinda]

Aunt1 was recording the wedding in the church.
Aunt2 was nearby and bitching in a stage whisper about literally every single person walking up the aisle - how fat they were, what an awful outfit, ridiculous shoes, stupid hair, etc. She even slagged off the bride.

The next day at a big buffet party in Aunt3's house with pretty much everyone bitched about attending, Aunt1 connected the video recorder to the telly and streamed it there and then. Not knowing the sound was excellent and picked up every nearby remark.

Oops!

[ladasha]

Wedding of a Muslim bride and recent convert to Islam groom. Best man was groom's 20 year old brother. He'd obviously googled best man jokes from decades ago and was totally oblivious to religious sensitivities. He kept banging on about the groom's drinking and made such jokes as "they're honeymooning in Wales - groom says he's going to Bangor". Stony faces and silence all round, especially from the bride's side and the groom himself.

[Okurrrrrrrr]

I know this is a zombie thread but think it's a pretty timeless topic

My BILS best men speech was awful. He had two and it basically consisted of them standing in front of an over head projector of all their gross WhatsApp/snapchats and how embarassed the groom was going to be. They didn't even say anything. Just literally stood there in front of the screen as stills of the groom's penis and funny faces filled the screen. Horrendous.

[GertieBassett]

That's the funniest thing I've read in a long time!!!

[GertieBassett]

@expatinscotland

The bride and groom sang Endless Love to each other, badly.

I'm cracking up!!

[3468jackie]

The brides sisters singing to her really badly at after the grooms speech 5 sisters all with a verse each. I got second hand embarrassment for them.

[shewhomustbeEbayed]

Best man’s speech in which he started by saying groom used to be hung like a pony but was now hung like a horse. We were standing next to an elderly aunt and couldn’t quite believe what we were hearing.

[HouseOfRunners]

Packed into a small room for the service. Literally sweating all over our naice wedding clobber for AGES!! Then the owl with the rings appeared and flew down to the bride....it was sooooo cringe 😬 Said owl point blank refused to go back to the handler so she did an awkward shuffle down the aisle to get him....heat of room + cringe heat of owl shame = get me the FUCK out of here!!

[Yesyoudoknowme]

One I attended was also attended by a famous celeb. Poor woman was there as the '+1' of another guest, and the amount of guests that tried to get selfies (brazenly and not-so-subtly) was embarrassing. I, of course, was way too embarrassed well bred to do anything like that...

[MacduffsMuff]

A wedding in a barn - it was all decked out beautifully - after the ceremony, the bride and groom released two white doves to 'On The Wings of Love' and one of the doves promptly shat on the bride. It's an image that will live with me forever.

[MacduffsMuff]

@shewhomustbeEbayed

Best man’s speech in which he started by saying groom used to be hung like a pony but was now hung like a horse. We were standing next to an elderly aunt and couldn’t quite believe what we were hearing.

Snigger

[Dexysmidnightstroller]

Went to one in France. Groom’s family were from a different country, about 30-40 of them attended, aged from teens up to grandparents. Refused to interact with any other guests or even acknowledge they existed. I was sat on a table with a couple and they waved me off when I went to say hello as we were all sitting down (everyone else interacting on friendly terms even though many didn’t know each other, it being a wedding and all that). Meal was sublime - wine from the region (it was in Burgundy) carefully matched to each course. Visiting family didn’t touch a drop. Picked at their food. As soon as the meal had finished they brought out the stash of their own country’s national drink and got ratarsed on that. Just seemed incredibly narrow minded and rude, but hey ho, they enjoyed themselves. But the effect was that there were basically 2 weddings that day that didn’t interact at all.

[boredinthouse]

A wedding where the bride walked down the aisle holding a cat