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What drama have you witnessed at a wedding?

402 replies

mamastillnotgotit · 30/11/2020 17:38

I've been watching a lot of tv in recent months and there is always a lot of drama at weddings. Fights, declarations of love, speaking now instead of forever holding peace, has anyone ever seen any drama unfold at a wedding?

Name changed for this. I've seen a man at a wedding get very drunk and touch up one woman, get punched by the partner and then do something similar to another woman and get punched again. He was a groomsman.

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Puzzledandpissedoff · 01/12/2020 15:49

Not a drama as such, but I've just been reminded of when my exH's college friend married a guy whose entire family shared about five brain cells between them

The drunken speeches mostly consisted of "Y'awlright lad, I said Y'AWLRIGHT!!" and the spilling of beer, but worst of all was my ex - a complete empathy free zone - picking that moment to ask the bride's rather posh mum "are you happy?"

Her reply after a long pause was a classic: "I'm ..... glad"

Sundaypolodog · 01/12/2020 16:35

@MinnieJackson it was off the old Kent road in London

LanaLily11 · 01/12/2020 17:27

Groom selling cocaine at his own wedding, people singing Tottenham chants as the bride walked down the aisle.

Was vile

Mydietstartstomorrow · 01/12/2020 17:34

Found out the night before the wedding that the bride and groom had become involved in the "adult film business" and had their own little website business going! The speeches made for lots of childish sniggering and innuendo from guests who had also heard. Bride had a very short "wedding dress" (white 😂) on and it became apparent throughout the reception to most of the guests that she was knickerless! 😂

Solange1973 · 01/12/2020 17:37

Ex-DH’s nephew’s wedding. The groom (nephew in question) turns up half an hour late, unwashed, unshaven, still in last night’s clothes and hammered as can be. To this day he can’t remember the ceremony. They divorced 2 years later. Not a surprise...

lockitdown · 01/12/2020 17:41

My brother had most of his wedding presents stolen during his wedding reception.

DagenhamRoundhouse · 01/12/2020 17:45

You couldn't make these up. Some of them are like the plot of a Mike Leigh film!

mdh2020 · 01/12/2020 17:50

The groom snogging the chief bridesmaid on the stairs.
One of the guests went to the loo and didn’t know how to return to her seat when she got back to the reception because the speeches had started. So she crawled across the dance floor.
My favourite was the groom who announced that the best man had been sleeping with the bride and he was going to divorce her.

MaelyssQ · 01/12/2020 17:54

Most of these dreadful wedding incidents and accidents can be put down to far too much alcohol. Gin Wine Gin Wine

The worst wedding I attended was a workmate's. She and her new husband had a massive row on the dance floor at the evening reception, he picked up her shoes (designer) and threw them out of the second floor window, she ran down into the street to reclaim them and never came back. She never came back to work either.

BuggerBognor · 01/12/2020 18:00

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Bib1234 · 01/12/2020 18:02

We had a dramama at our wedding - my husbands ‘friend’ started sobbing loudly during the speeches and didn’t stop until we had left for our honeymoon - she then started texting him whilst we were in the taxi to the airport about how it should have been her and when it didn’t work out between us she would be there for him... the texts continued for days...

DontThinkSoBro · 01/12/2020 18:03

At a cousins wedding another cousins husband randomly walked over & knocked out my brother in law as he was stood chatting to my parents minding his own business. Ended up causing a huge punch up & our family having to flee the wedding early.

As a teenager my cousin had got pregnant by a guy in college, her parents forced her to marry the guy. She had a long term boyfriend who threatened to turn up and stop the wedding - so us bridesmaids had to secretly barricade the door of the registry office to stop him coming in unbeknown to the rest of the guests. Needless to say the forced marriage didn’t work out - absolute shit show

LaBrujaPiruja · 01/12/2020 18:04

Friend’s wedding at a posh hotel, the father of the groom had a stroke during the reception. We were told the elderly gentleman was not feeling well and had been taken to his room. The bride, my friend, and the groom were great and did not stop the party. Although you could see they were very worried. In fact he had been taken to hospital and passed away a few days later.

My cousin’s wedding, a couple of years back. She had not been acting Bridezilla but was hysterical during the day ceremony and reception and night party, crying all the time because of little details and having a continuous go at the poor wedding planners. Examples: She cried hysterically for nearly 30 minutes because she said the DJ had played a song 1 minute early. She had a tantrum because the mini macaroons and doughnuts for the resopon dessert (posh Spanish wedding, the resopon is a post midnight ‘meal’ in order to eat something and not just drink yourself to death) were bigger than she had imagined. They were minuscule by the way. There were many more “issues” like these. I wouldn’t say she enjoyed her wedding and was so out of character that I found it all very odd.

LaLaLandIsNoFun · 01/12/2020 18:04

Mother of bride kick off in the week running up over various things, mainly about having to run around after her daughters demands and thoughtlessness which were in actual fact all self inflicted acts and daughter had begged and pleaded for her mother to STOP. Then at actual wedding, daughter had to hold it all in and mother flounces off to the bar with all of her friends (so most of the guests) leaving daughter, groom, daughters small collection of friends and grooms family to try to carry on. Mother later stated she didn’t feel welcome.

I was the bride.

DontThinkSoBro · 01/12/2020 18:08

Also at my cousins destination wedding the father of the groom got so shitfaced that he wondered off in the hotel grounds & passed out in the flowerbeds, he woke up the next day having missed most of the wedding.

Sundaypolodog · 01/12/2020 18:10

At a Scottish wedding the somewhat drunk lady at the reception going up to all the lads in kilts and putting her hands up their kilts

Brides sister turns up in a long white dress as she'd wanted to be the first to get married and wasn't.

DontThinkSoBro · 01/12/2020 18:14

Gosh I didn’t realise I had so many.

When I was bridesmaid at my cousins wedding the bide abs groom did a big grand entrance into the hotel together, groom accidents stepped onto her flamboyant dress train but she hadn’t realised & kept walking, huge rip sound...half her skirt had ripped off the corset part of the dress leaving a huge hole, they had a massive argument about it before they had even got married yet Confused

DontThinkSoBro · 01/12/2020 18:15

My god my typos! Trying to type with a baby on the boob Grin

wellerhugs5 · 01/12/2020 18:16

@Bearfrills

Anyone else just checking the thread to see if their wedding has been mentioned..? Grin
Yes! 🤣
elfycat · 01/12/2020 18:19

FIL demanded I drink a more lady-like drink at my reception. I'd bought all the polypins of ale and that's what I wanted to drink so I ignored him.

Later on he absolutely dressed me down, ranting and swearing, and ordering me to do as I was told or I wasn't welcome into his family. He thought no one else could hear; he was wrong. The witnesses made sure everyone knew what he'd just done, and commented on my restraint at not throwing my drink in his face and instead walking away It was good beer; I wasn't going to waste it

MIL got so drunk she went around drinking everyone's leftovers. I mean she hates waste, but still.

16 years later FIL still calls me and the witnesses liars. I'm NC (5 years) and it's bliss. But a month or so ago MIL got DD2 (9) alone and told her she was a rude little girl and a troublemaker; just like her mother... I guess my 2 DDs are NC too. Poor DH, the apple has rolled as far from that tree as it can, thank goodness.

OfTheNight · 01/12/2020 18:20

Friends of exH’s wedding. Both bride and groom were completely pissed. Staggered over to cut the cake. The cake had a cute model of the bride and groom and their dog. The cake was on a trolley with wheels and as they lent into it it rolled away. Bride lost it - grabbed the tray, grabbed the knife and then set about stabbing (and utterly destroying) the cake while shouting ‘I hate the fucking dog’.

Later the, equally drunk, groom was play fighting with his friends. One of them picked him up and dropped him face first. Knocked him out and broke his nose.

Besswess88 · 01/12/2020 18:25

My MIL snogging and groping my sisters BF ex husband at the bar in full few, took him back to her hotel room and shagged him and phoned DH the next morning to tell him all about it 🤢

Purplealienpuke · 01/12/2020 18:33

A relatives wedding.....
Groom groping another woman on the dance floor leaving the bride (my relative) in tears 😢
As far as I know they're still married. He was always a sleazy walker.
I have nothing to do with them anymore.

Dilovescake21 · 01/12/2020 18:33

During the service someone collapsed. Paramedics came and had to do CPR. The priest carried on as if nothing had happened. It was surreal.

MissPinkCakeyBun · 01/12/2020 18:34

At my wedding one of the guests brought her new partner as her plus 1.
A couple of weeks later we had the police at our door asking if said person had been at our wedding and did we have photos etc. my step son was a Police Officer and managed to find out the guy had popped out of the reception had done and Armed Robbery of a local petrol station and then come back to the reception using it as his alibi 🤯
We didn't provide photos but said we couldn't say he had been there all evening as we just didn't know.

He was found guilty and sent down.

The marriage wasn't much better TBH, if I hadn't married a lying cheating slap happy twat I would have been far better off.