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

[MissTerry2r]

I have plenty Ill try keep it a short as I can but the best ones are :
The best man in his speech made a joke about the bridesmaids. There were 3 of them but 4 originally. The line/ joke he used was "Girls you look lovely tonight. Can everyone please applaud to the bridesmaids to appreciate their beauty" *guests clap. Best man resumes speech quickly..."No seriously folks, you'd give a bigger round of applause if you'd seen them outside the kebab shop on a Saturday night"
The 4th bridesmaid had been fatally hurt in an accident with a taxi while they were standing outside the takeaway after the hen night a couple months earlier. AND her parents were at the wedding. MAJOR CRINGE.

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.

One more is my dad said my mums name when taking his vows with my stepmum.

[MitzyLeFrouf]

Couples need to let go of the choreographed first dance shit in the hope it will go viral on YouTube.

[KenAdams]

Mrs Terry you win with the second one.

What do you mean by fatally hurt in the first? Did the bridesmaid die on the hen night?!

[MitzyLeFrouf]

MissTerry you know some crazy people 😱😀

[MitzyLeFrouf]

got tongue-tied and accidently called his new MIL a 'cracking bitch'

😂😂😂

[Sylvannas]

Not really at the wedding but my sisters bride zilla best friend got pissed off with her for not being able to fly to dubai to be at her wedding. Her newborn son who was 4 months premature was in a care unit at the time and she didn't want to leave him (understandably)
Talk about self absorbed. They are no longer friends.

[ladybird69]

The taxi driver took one look at my groom and offered to take me straight home to get away from him? And Nobody wanted to be a witness for my wedding! I should have listened to them it was an abusive relationship that took me years to get away from.

[SenecaFalls]

I've been to several weddings where people have fainted. One was a bride, another the groom, another a wedding guest in full military garb (bride was a doctor so rushed down from the altar to provide first aid), and another the priest. Why people in the Deep South of the US think it is a good idea to have a wedding outside in the summer is beyond me.

[MissTerry2r]

kenAdams I probably should have said fatally injured or died. She died in hospital from her injuries 3 days after.
They did postpone the wedding until the late bridesmaids parents insisted not to delay it any longer.

mitzy Id never met the people of the wedding in America before. My partner at the time got a contract in the USA and the groom was his contract partner at work.

[EBearhug]

I think the best-man's looong speech which was mostly about the time the groom had really bad, painful constipation, to the point an ambulance had been called, and then he related the sounds which happened as the constipation ceased to be so stuck... To be fair, it's about the only wedding speech I remember, though I have tried to forget.

Also, the father of the bride who never normally did any public speaking and was clearly terrified and stumbled and stuttered his way through the speech. I am sure he was doing his best, but it was awful, poor bloke.

[MitzyLeFrouf]

MissTerry so was the best man making an actual joke about the death of one of the bridesmaids?!?

[Liiinoo]

A long time ago (35 years? ) I went with my parents to to a wedding that was videoed, a novelty back then. In the lull between the day and the evening they showed the uncut video on a big screen in the bar and we all watched awestruck at this modern day development. At the point where the video zoomed in on the bride standing at the church doors ready to walk down the aisle, my mum (who was standing behind the camera man) is heard to say, very clearly and slowly " What does she think she looks like?"

Funnily enough her and the bride (who looked beautiful btw) are no longer friends.

[Bearfrills]

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.

Sounds like my wedding! MIL announced two days before that she was going to use the wedding as a chance to "say her piece", then said that she wasn't going, then on the day itself did go. She had a face on her all the way through the service, not sure if she cried but I know SIL cried "because I'm losing my brother!". She then refused to have any photos taken with me, literally said no and walked away when asked, and the 'groom and his mother' photo we have is very stiff and awkward because DH was pissed off at her for her behaviour. At the reception she we think table to table canvassing opinions on the marriage and then offering her own opinion which wasn't favourable, moaned about the placement of the buffet table and the types of food on it, told everyone I was spoiled (because my parents paid for the food), got SILs to change out of their bridesmaid dresses as soon as we arrived at the venue before all the photos were done and before everyone had seen them (I had elderly relatives where looking at the dresses was a 'thing'), told everyone it wasn't going to last and so on. Eventually my mum offered to take her out into the car park to 'discuss it' and she sharp shut up after that

[AGnu]

My own wedding. My dad's speech: "I don't look at today as gaining a son, I look at it as getting rid of AGnu!" Hilarious.

[NoncommittalToSparkleMotion]

Good God Terry!

[mehimthem]

a long time ago for me too, my 1st wedding was at a country home about 20 mins drive from my parents house & about 2 hrs away from where I was living with then DF. Much of the ceremony went in a blur (maybe nerves, lol) but apparently the Minister referred to me & my about to me DH as fornicators (living together in sin, whoa !! ) & as it was 1979 was prob a big thing way back then. Parents & other oldies absolutely shocked, as many hadnt been told about the living situation etc. Fast forward to dancing after reception & nutter host had promised us amazing range of music (stereo only, no band) but hes had a major fight with his partner & so no music at all - its all her tapedeck library (those were the days with tapes). So one of my friends has the Saturday Night Fever & Grease tapes in her car glovebox - that we listen to & dance to all night. On repeat. Best man picks a fight with my bridemaids partner as he tries to encourage her to go home with him instead - DH & me have already gone by then. Not knowing the back story in the morning to what led to the fight saw me being a bit non-committal to her version unfortunately & we fell out. Oh & the florist forgot to order the flowers we wanted, picked them from her garden that same morning & they were pretty much done by 4pm - photos hilarious ... long stemmed roses, all limp & closed up x 3. Should have been a sign of what was to come.

[usernoidea]

Groom followed through , he was so drunk

[Heathen4Hire]

Seeing the brides arse. She had a hoo-MUNGUS meringue on. I went to the loo and saw her sister lifting up the hoop to help the bride have a wee.

[TeamEponine]

Best man's speech was all advice based on his disastrous three month marriage. Slightly cringeworthy, but his long term partner had no idea he had ever been married! They split up at the wedding and best man spent most of the reception off shagging someone new.

[kmmr]

Best man speech which centered around herpes ie coldsores. How he knew this was right for the groom as he didn't have a 'herpie' and he always got one when he was stressed. Speech went on for about 20 slurring drunken minutes and it took most of that to try to work out what he was on about.

[CesareBorgiasUnicornMask]

All the weddings I've attended as a guest have been relatively cringe-free. Ours though was a cringe-fest. At the bit in the vows where he had to say 'Cesare, take this ring....' DH misunderstood and thought the priest was telling me to pick up the ring. He was hissing 'take it!' at me and I was hissing back at him to 'say it!' We then dropped it and DH had to chase it across the church. I blame the priest for that one as when we turned up for the rehearsal he decided we probably didn't need one and took us to the pub instead...

Later on DH was in such a state (not alcohol- just excitement!) he couldn't read his speech, and kept repeating himself and saying sentences that literally made no sense. I got the giggles really badly which made him worse, and he eventually just gave up and sat down.

Also during our first dance/shuffle I realised my strapless dress was coming adrift. When I'd bought it I'd not thought about the fact I was breastfeeding DS1, and consequently had spent the day shimmying in and out of the entire top half. I'd clearly forgotten to do up the internal scaffolding properly after the last feed and suddenly realised I was barely decent. Flung myself on DH and hauled him off the dance floor muttering 'we need to find somewhere private'. Which one of our guests managed to catch on their video of the first dance and has been played and replayed to much hilarity ever since .

[MitzyLeFrouf]

Key theme for wedding faux pas seems to be: TERRIBLE BEST MEN

'I've had this great idea, I'll tell them all about the time Gavin had knob rot...'

[Booboostwo]

Best man hinting strongly during his speech that he had had a threesome with the groom and a woman who was not even his new wife.

[PreemptiveSalvageEngineer]

A cake topper with the oh-so-hilarious "bride clutching the groom as he tries to scarper" figurines. And this wasn't even the 60s, 70s, etc, but this current decade.

The rest of the wedding was a chavfest from start to finish, but the cake topper just stuck with me.

[Supermog01]

best man using purple anal beads as a microphone during his sexual innuendo littered speech. A blow up man doll with an erection was brought out during said speech and given to my sister, the bride.
I had to sit next to him and he was a right twat, then again so is my now BIL.