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

Mine!

DH booked the ceilidh/folk band but neglected to tell them they were playing at a wedding. We had a fairly casual venue so they all turned up in their usual scruffy gear.

Even when it was obvious it was a wedding they stuck to their playlist which meant our first dance as a couple was to 'The Fields of Athenry". My Irish relations were

It's a lovely song but not appropriate for a first dance song at all!

Groom singing Crowded House's Fall at Your Feet to bride with a video full on cheese fest montage behind him.

trumpstinycock You've made my day.

Oh and reading the owl ones, I had a vague recolection of being a wedding with an owl delivering the rings and dh has just confirmed that indeed we were.
DS was just 3 weeks old at the time and pretty much all my memories from then are hazy!

The bride and groom had chosen a U2 number for their first dance. The dj put on the wrong song, out of all the tracks he played 'I still haven't found what I'm looking for' !

Bride and groom exchanged their views then sat down in the church next to one another. Suddenly bride starts shouting at her husband of less than two minutes "I hate you, I hate you." Then there was an almighty crack as someone (probably the groom) slapped the bride to snap her out of her hysteria. Then she sat quietly sobbing for a few minutes before carrying on as though nothing had happened.

When we left the church nobody mentioned it. To this day DP and I wonder if we imagined it!

The couple are still together

Kenadams - great name😁

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

I thought that too, but the part I couldn't get my head around was how only half the family knew about it if it was going on right in front of them

I've never been to a cringeworthy wedding but I worked at a few!
One of the waitresses dropped soup on the MOB. She was mortified, crying at the top table while I tried to get her out of the room to calm down and sort the mess out. MOB thankfully was lovely and bought the waitress a drink to calm her nerves. I was in charge that day and I swear it took me an hour to stop clenching at the memory of the elderly lady covered in minestrone! (It took me weeks to persuade the waitress to do another wedding!)
Bride picked a fight with her new MIL in the toilets then all the bridesmaids piled in. Groom was heard to say 'let them sort it' while we were picking bits of dress out of the toilet bowl...
Best Man went through potted history of the grooms love life, called his exes sluts, told the bride to be a 'good girl'

Father of the bride sat listening to a cd Walkman and drinking lager in a tracksuit during the ceremony.

Not anyone I know but my photographer friend photographed a wedding where the bride got walked down the isle by her dog

The guests that had sex in a public space at the wedding and bragged about it (not my wedding )😳

I've been to a wedding where the best man (who was a great guy, but not the brightest and didn't do this on purpose) started telling anecdotes about the groom and stunts he'd pulled whilst with his first wife. I didn't know where to look, and the new wife had a face like thunder!

Not a wedding, but I have been to an engagement party that ended in the future MIL screaming you're not good enough for my son, and trying to punch the bride to be. The couple split up after that...

The bride's sister and her boyfriend got engaged at the wedding, and they came back in and told everyone just after the first dance. You could tell the bride was upset as her sister really took the limelight for the rest of the night. We joked when it came to the sister's wedding that the sister who had her thunder stolen at her own wedding would announce she was pregnant but it didn't happen.

Oh God. I had blanked this out. My friend got pregnant off a fling with someone in the military of another country while she was travelling. She didn't tell him until she was 4 months along and then when he told his parents they insisted he marry her. He managed to visit once while she was pregnant and then didn't see her until the wedding when the baby was 2 months old. They had the wedding in her parents living room and used a cassette tape for music which I was asked to work for them at the last minute. He looked completely shell shocked and she was pissed off at him for not being more affectionate and enthusiastic . Afterwards we all stood around her house with nothing to do and the groom basically went and hid somewhere. They lasted a year and she's barely heard from him since.

The bride was very very drunk and ended up being sick all over herself and her beautiful dress.

Couple are in the arts - she's a singer/dancer he's a musician
Both absolute attention whores

Bridal dance was actually a choreographed song and dance routine for the whole bridal party that lasted 8 songs...

Then followed up with a round of bridal couple trivia.... like at a trivia night, tables had to answer about 30 questions about the bride and groom... to win... autographed pictures of the bride and groom

You're reminding me now.

My aunts wedding when I was 11. Her work colleague got utterly pissed tried to do a striptease using my straw hat as a prop then stood on my foot with her stiilleto. Agony. A cousin who wasn't invited turned up spoiling for a fight and an uncle had to be carried home early spewing, either the buffet or the 12 pints he had drunk.

Ten years later at a cousins wedding. Same uncle is splitting with his wife, their now adult son gets plastered and tries to bottle him. This is the first time dh has met any of my family 😂 And pretty much the last time.

Dhs friends wedding. Bride has a meringue of a million layers of tulle. Dh steps in to kiss her cheek, landing his size 12 firmly on the skirt. She moves away to hug me and riiiippp... it wasn't too bad thankfully.

Another dh friends wedding. Best man was so nervous about his speech he locked himself in the disabled toilet and me and another guest had to talk him out.

Funny and sweet. He did a grand job once we eventually got him out too!

I remember a drunken 50-something aunt of the bride suddenly leaping onto the dance floor in bare feet & wildly prancing round & round in a big circle, skirt held up above her knee & shouting singing, "Dinah, Dinah, show us your legs" at top volume.

Her name was Dinah, but I don't think that was a good enough excuse

From my own wedding- our first dance was so shuffly, the DJ was meant to say that people were to join us after a few seconds but forgot so it was just us for 3 minutes

A wedding I went to (this may be slightly outing but too good not to share)-- one of the guests was a stripper, he got the mother of the bride and groom up on chairs in the middle of the dancefloor and half stripped for them gyrating on them and humping included, the DJ put a stop to it before he could take his trousers off but not before the father of the bride dragged his wife away much to her protestations.

That should say mother of the bride and mother of the groom, the bride and groom weren't brother and sister.

The groom's parents were divorced and not on good terms. During the meal the groom's dad spilled some red wine down his shirt, the groom's mother then threw a whole glass of wine over him and said, 'that should help!'

iamamy oh I am sure my wedding wasn't perfect. Haven't spotted anything that sounds like it was from mine (yet) though.

That should say, white wine - to help with the stain!

2 weddings come to mind both from years ago

1st one (26 years ago) to provide background music while we had the meal the radio/stereo system was put on but given that it was a Saturday afternoon all we ended up with was the football results - Manchester United 2 - Chelsea 1 etc etc

The thing that made it even worse/funnier was watching the new husband, father of bride, BIL of bride, nephew of bride all arguing/trying to work out how to change channel rather than just turn it off

They weren't a sporty family so nobody wanted to listen to football results

The bride now would not be amused to be reminded of it cos she has now turned into a really posh woman who must have everything perfect, I don't see much of her anymore but my DH still sees the DH as they were childhood friends

2nd wedding (14 years ago) was the fact that there were 2 best men who had a sort of PowerPoint presentation/slide show on a screen with loads of photos all about the groom that was 45 - 50 mins long!!!!!! There were lots of very young children including the couple's 14 month old toddler who all ended up outside playing in the gardens cos they wouldn't sit still and quiet thru it - crumbs it was soooooooo boring - not even funny