What drama have you witnessed at a wedding?

[mamastillnotgotit]

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.

@OfTheNight

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.

OMG

Indian weddings are full of drama! I mean girls grow up keeping Bollywood movies in mind so planning for marriage starts a year ago. On top of it, someone or the other will surely sulk on the wedding. 1 Relative you will find for sure who is not happy

2 different Scouse weddings where there was a fight

Bride drama because she wanted a particular song playing and the band didn't know it.

Aunt of the bride "fainting" during the wedding reception and staging a miraculous recovery when she got the attention she wanted. Uncle and grandmother didn't turn up because they disapproved of the groom.

Bride was 45 minutes late because she hated the in laws.

Vicar berating the attendees at the church wedding for never coming to church normally

Groom inviting an ex-girlfriend but not her partner because "he didn't need reminding she was with someone else" (!)

Father of the bridge being too pissed to read his speech and spent half of it asleep, as it was read out by the groom !

Pissed bride having a complete meltdown when no-one would dance to her favourite song (Cotton Eye Joe, if memory serves)

Not me but my Dad said in the 60s he was at an Indian wedding in Kenya and some argument started and was getting out of hand
The grandfather of the bride took out a gun and shot it on the air
It went very quiet after that

My cousins wedding - brother was best man, around 9pm there was a brawl outside, best man tried to bottle the groom, their father stepped in to break it up, father ended up in hospital with over 30 stitches and groom and best man spent the night in the cells. I don’t think they speak any more!

Best man at a cousin's wedding did the full monty on the dance floor!
At my wedding, the sermon from a stand in vicar was all about the sinking of the Belgrano, we were all rather bemused.

This is just top thread and as kept me LoL through a tough few days. I so impressed at how elegantly phrased and paragraph he they are too 😀😀

At one wedding I was at, a gate-crasher was refused entry and threatened to come back with a gun and shoot people! The bride and groom were totally unaware but two or three of the guests (including an off-duty police officer) “sorted it out” and the intruder was punched and laid out cold. He ended up in hospital and when he came round, he asked to speak to the police to complain about his assault. The attending officer, who was fully informed of the situation at the wedding, advised him of the charges he would be facing. Funnily enough, he dropped all charges.

I've only been to a handful of weddings;

1. Cousins wedding - my db age 17 got drunk after stealing drinks and was so sick that he vommed all over the dance floor and had be removed. Waiters dragged him outside via the kitchen.
2. Sisters wedding - she and bil had a massive fight in the evening about their respective affairs. They limped on for a few months but not long enough to collect the wedding photos.
3. Friends wedding - the db of the groom wore jeans and a t-shirt and answered his mobile during the ceremony. Later at the reception the venue owner let the punters from his pub next door eat the left over buffet food and one of them cut the cake.
4. Friends wedding (different one) - a nephew of the bride smashed (on purpose) 3 very nice and very big expensive vases. FOB had to pay for them. The evening do was gatecrashed by some guests of the wedding from the next function room as friends wedding had a free bar but their do didn't.
5. Brothers wedding - df trying desperately to talk him out of it 30 minutes before kick off within ear shot of his brides relatives. Really put a dampener on proceedings.
6. Dh's sisters never wedding - was cancelled 2 months before the day after the couple gave into pressure not to marry from both sets of parents.

Dh and I eloped!

Not without incident as I left his suit behind and we had to do a last minute m&s dash.
The previous couple (gretna green) were late so pushed ours back by 45 minutes as they'd had a row according to the apologetic mother of the groom.

Agreed, @MarieIVanArkleStinks it was obvious @Hailtomyteeth was....fed up to the back teeth and it's clear her MIL has form for this type of behaviour, and I think those attacking her didn't pick up that point. And I have never had or been to a wedding where there is a photo of MIL and brother and sister taken, it's simply not done in my experience so Hailtomyteeth isn't odd at all, imo.

@LyingWitchInTheWardrobe Yeah but that update still didn't really explain anything. Like, did the couple stay together or did he get back with his step-sister? Where are they all at now? Etc. I'm so intrigued to know.

Brothers wedding - df trying desperately to talk him out of it 30 minutes before kick off within ear shot of his brides relatives. Really put a dampener on proceedings.

@cjpark

I went to an armed forces wedding once held at an artificial ski slope. The reception was in a ski lodge. The groomsmen got so bladdered they stole a dining table, upturned it and rode it down the ski slope. The wedding reception was stopped and everyone kicked out.

😂😂😂😂

A wedding I went to one of the groomsmen slipped and broke his wrist. He amazingly managed to get seen in A & E and made it back for the night do.
My sister was at a wedding where the photographer had a heart attack in the church and sadly died.
And my brothers ill fated wedding included an hour long speech from the mother of the bride which had nothing to do with the couple but only stories of the bride being a small baby 🥱 weird.

I went to a wedding in the US where the bride' didn't have a good relationship with her dad, who was divorced from her mum, but she invited him and his new wife to the wedding. She decided that she didn't want her dad to give her away and would walk down the aisle on her own with her maids of honor. Her dad and his new wife arrived as everyone else had taken their places and the bride was about to start walking down the church. His wife was on his arm and was wearing a full length white meringue dress. They walked slowly down the aisle, with everyone watching, to take their places in the front pew. Later in the service there was unseemly jostling at the alter because the mothers of the bride and groom were meant to light a candle together and her dad and new wife wanted to join in.

I went to my cousin's wedding. It was the biggest wedding that I have every been to - people having to stand in the church and the reception held in a sports hall laid out with long tables. There must have been several hundred people there. It took ages to get everyone seated and we were all given menu cards telling us what food we were going to be served, which sounded delicious. Unfortunately there was some kind of cock-up on the catering front and all DH & myself got served were two roast potatoes which were still frozen in the middle. We had traveled for hours to get to the wedding and were starving. Politely we sat there until after the speeches had finished and then left asap to find the nearest pub.

I've never been to a wedding where there has been a fight but I have been at a Christening where people started throwing punches.

I got too drunk and ended up arguing with DH (about him being too drunk) at my wedding. I ended up crying outside with my friends whilst people gave me pitiful looks. It makes me so sad and I cringe about it every time I think of it. I just don’t know what happened! I think the stress and emotion of the day and pressure for it to be perfect got the better of me. Oh and plus the champagne glass that just seemed to be constantly topped up
The church service and majority of reception went fine. We were both bundled off to bed by our parents around 9pm and I fell asleep crying into my wedding dress. Oh the shame!!!

I'm now so pleased my wedding was a bit boring, looking back on it.

So many as I worked in a social club as a teenager, this was the main place locally for wedding receptions,birthdays etc that envitably ended in tears and tantrums. The one that stays with me was the when everyone was meant to be gone, just after midnight. Only person still in the club (or so I thought) other than the staff was the brides dad settling the bar bill. I walked in the loos looking for glasses (it was a classy place) to find two men having sex. One was the groom. Was about to retreat sharpish when the father of the bride appeared behind me. The fight that broke out involved half the estate. The groom still had his trousers around his ankles when the police turned up. The bride never found out until the next day as she was so pissed she'd been taken home hours before.

I went to a wedding with slight MIL/photographer issues.

The wedding was being completely paid for by the bride and groom but the MIL was trying to get multiple unknown relatives and her friends and latest man invited and all their costs covered. The groom told her it wasn't happening and that the invitation was for her and a plus one. They were not paying for her accommodation and they would kick her out and send her home in a taxi or in best man's car if she had too much to drink again. The best man had his duties made clear.

The bride and groom had a series of traditional groupings chosen and the photographer was scheduled for the wedding ceremony itself and the traditional groupings plus a few of everyone. Other guests were recording the rest of the day themselves.

The MIL was told that her current BF was not going to be in any of the traditional groupings but would be in the last few. She objected but was over ruled. She kept trying to commandeer the photos and then exclude the bride or stand in front of her. The unknown BF had no expectation of being in all the photos, he was great and managed to distract her, they weren't together for long afterwards but he really helped on the day.

The photographer said he was used to that kind of behaviour but that he preferred to hand out his cards so that guests could arrange and pay for their own professional sessions at a better time. He has done other weddings where he's stayed for much longer and been announced to the guests and they were told to see him if they wanted more photos of themselves with other guests at the wedding. This has been an additional service to the actual wedding and bridal photos and guests pay for their photos themselves.

My friend George went to his sisters wedding, she was marrying a George. George's dad is also called George, as was the father of the groom.

The minister who married them and the piper were both called George.

Not very dramatic but it was just a room full of men called George.

The ceremony where the priest started pontificating about how most couples don't wait until marriage these days, heavily insinuating that he had privileged knowledge that B&G had ahem fornicated. It's likely true that they had, but both B&G came from very traditional families, and had been so impeccably respectful towards them throughout the engagement. Not fair of the priest.

My cousin's wedding. I was 17 and her bridesmaid. Very drunk uncle (her dad, my mum's brother) tried to cop off with ME and with my auntie - his own sister.

The only 'raised eyebrows' moment I've witnessed at a wedding was my eldest brother getting STEAMING drunk and vomiting all over the table in the marquee. I was sitting next to him and narrowly avoided the malodorous splash. Fortunately, our Mum's sixth sense had already booted up and she got to him before he made an even bigger idiot of himself. I was 15 and disgusted, he was 21 and showing off. That's all I can offer on this thread.

I was invited to a workmate's wedding about twenty years ago. As it happens, I declined and I'm glad I did, on account of the fighting that went on at the reception. It wasn't the groom himself, I'm happy to say. He was about the only decent member of his family and was trying to stop it all.

Bloody weddings. Never again.

@iklboogeymum

My cousin's wedding. I was 17 and her bridesmaid. Very drunk uncle (her dad, my mum's brother) tried to cop off with ME and with my auntie - his own sister.

Just no.

@iklboogeymum

My cousin's wedding. I was 17 and her bridesmaid. Very drunk uncle (her dad, my mum's brother) tried to cop off with ME and with my auntie - his own sister.

I have never seen it actually happen but I have seen a bloke (birthday girls uncle) so pissed we were all expecting him to try it on with one of his neices, who was also only 14....lovely. He was clearly not looking at her face, just her tits and legs. My friends father (uncles brother) clearly copped on to him too, as he was like his shadow all evening, until they managed to get him off home.

There was a fight then too, although thankfully far enough outside that the birthday girl didnt find out until later. She did get billed for the stolen decorations that the venue had provided and she had trusted, foolishly as it turned out, none of her guests would pinch. It included one of those massive oversized martini glasses with a huge floral display in. To this day no one can work out a) who took it and b) how the hell they managed it without being spotted!

It was a friends big birthday party and she said then "never again" and went away for the next "0" birthday!