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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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PamDenick · 01/12/2020 21:45

This thread makes me feel that something positive has come out of cover; small weddings!

PamDenick · 01/12/2020 21:46

Covid.

RandomGirl · 01/12/2020 21:46

@Bearfrills hahah!! Yes, me! Almost thought one was about mine until the end of the post!!! 🙈😂🙈

WildRosie · 01/12/2020 21:52

I'd love to know if any of the higher profile Royal Weddings have ever hosted scenes of debauchery, violence, drunkenness, theft and drug-taking. Stuff that the public never got to hear about. All those ruined tiaras.

LoverOfAllThingsPurple · 01/12/2020 22:04

@Lucyccfc68 the bride sounds like me, I’d have done the same!!!!

ZarkingBell · 01/12/2020 22:08

I was once staying in a hotel where a wedding reception was taking place. Not related to the wedding at all.

Came back with DH at about 11pm to find fists flying, blood everywhere and realised we were being followed in by the police. Nice.

The hotel staff noticed us come back in and formed a shield around us so we could get to the lift uninjured. We left them a hefty tip in the morning.

Still1nLove · 01/12/2020 22:09

A work colleague, that I had known a couple of years, invited me and my dh to her evening do. About 6 others from our office, and their plus 1’s, were also invited to the evening do. The day guests were her family (mum, dad, sister, brother and sister’s bf) the rest were his family, friends and a lot of his work colleagues. Apart from her immediate family, she had no one at her actual wedding and only a few colleagues and friends in the evening. Her family were lovely and we really enjoyed ourselves. It was weird though

SongRiver · 01/12/2020 22:09

The groom decided to spend most of the evening do out on the balcony with his girlfriend - we had our suspicions (he invited a lot of us work colleagues) but his now wife was oblivious. She found them snogging on the balcony, a huge row ensued. Groom's father was shouting 'I told you not to get married, you can't behave like this', groom retorted with 'you've had enough bits on the side since you and mum have been married'. This was the first the groom's mum had heard of it, a huge fight ensued and they all ended up in the local casualty. The party carried on, both marriages ended soon after. And the groom went off with yet another girl.......we still talk about it many years later!

AngelDelightUK · 01/12/2020 22:11

Two spring to mind

First one - Grooms 2nd marriage and his two DD were bridesmaids. His exwife was very bitter with how well the bride got on with the girls and she gatecrashed the reception so she could “see HER girls in their dresses”, telling everyone and anyone who would listen how hard done by she was and how she still loved the groom but he’d treated her appallingly. She missed out the bit that she cheated on him with his best friend, and decided to move 200miles away to be with him, leaving her ex with two girls of 7 and 4 to explain things too...

Then my cousins wedding, eldest cousin getting married and her younger sister was bridesmaid. Younger cousin is a bit of an attention seeking so and so, and her and the other bridesmaids started doing dares with each other. She had one that involved trying to pull the DJ, all hell let loose because his mind was no on working after that, and that’s not taking into account the 15/20 minutes he was missing for.

The sisters still aren’t talking

Melm22 · 01/12/2020 22:24

I had been on a school trip and my Aunty was getting married the day I was returning. Super excited to get back to be at the wedding. On the way back from Wales our coach set on fire and we had to all get off and hang around little chef on the side of a road until another one arrived (making me super late to be at the registry office - gutted was an understatement).
Coach came we all got delivered safely.

Eventually got to the wedding reception to find my aunt and uncle having a HUUUUUUUGGGGGEEEEEE bust up and saying some really horrible things to one another. Obviously too much alcohol involved 🙄. I was devastated, I'd missed the whole wedding and practically the reception and then turn up to see that!
Groom claimed he had been spiked when everything calmed down.
Can't remember what happened in the end I think everyone went home.

The next day it turned out he had been spiking his own drinks as everyone was buying him drinks 🤦‍♀️
Thankfully they're still happily married and going strong!

Lucyccfc68 · 01/12/2020 22:38

[quote LoverOfAllThingsPurple]@Lucyccfc68 the bride sounds like me, I’d have done the same!!!![/quote]
Ha ha, I was the bride. The whole night was a hoot. I didn’t even know the drunken woman I chucked out and neither did my DH.

SingingSands · 01/12/2020 22:38

DH's younger cousin chose our wedding reception to come out to his family as being gay. They were all so upset they immediately left. Not just left the party and went back to their rooms - no, they left the venue (which was in way out in the middle of nowhere) and went home!

PurpleFrames · 01/12/2020 22:44

@Still1nLove I went to a similar wedding, it was segregated as transitional weddings often are in my area. The bride sat alone at the top table as her family didn't attend. I was nominated as the closest friend to keep going up and keep her spirits up- I'd only know her for 6 months... very sad. But they're still happily married with kids. Her family are still not on speaking terms over the match.

onaroll · 01/12/2020 22:45

Lovely hotel reception for my cousins wedding. Pretty much most of the wedding guests booked into the hotel overnight ( in the middle of nowhere). All going great . My (adult) brother comes rushing out of the gents in a very weird , fraught mood. Turns out the matron of honours husband tried to ‘accost’ my brother in the loo. Yup, that’s how she found out her husband preferred men. The start of one marriage spelt the end of another.?

Facelikearustytractor · 01/12/2020 22:49

Have I accidentally stumbled across the Eastenders spoilers thread here? 😁

Thund3rMumma · 01/12/2020 22:49

Not really drama but a couple weeks before my MIL and her husbands wedding I told them I was pregnant. The only ones I had told at that point and they immediately said not to tell anyone else who would be at the wedding because it would take the spotlight away from them. I didnt even wore a dress that was slightly too big for me to hide my already showing bump. The next morning the husband came up to me and was like thanks for ruining my wedding had multiple come up to ask if you were pregnant couldn't you of hid it more

GalaxyCookieCrumble · 01/12/2020 23:04

@Bib1234

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...
So was your DH having an affair with her?
DazedWifelet · 01/12/2020 23:04

@Leannnb I've read that many many times and I'm just so shocked! Every single time! Just. Wow!😂😂😂

Notemyname · 01/12/2020 23:10

At a friend's very expensive, posh wedding, the bride's brother got very drunk and threw up over the table, his wife and the floor during the wedding breakfast and had to go to bed.

Very sadly, when we went to visit a prospective wedding venue, there was a very strange, sombre mood the day after a wedding with a big group of wedding guests all still in the hotel lounge together. The wedding consultant told us that tragically the groom's brother had died in a road traffic accident on his way home from the wedding the night before. I often think about them and how that couple and family must have felt Sad

Cauterize · 01/12/2020 23:16

I attended a friends wedding in my early 20's, got absolutely smashed, pulled my trousers down and started dancing on the table top.

I am utterly horrified even thinking about it!

DazedWifelet · 01/12/2020 23:26

@Bearfrills 😂😂😂Brilliant!

MillieVanilla · 01/12/2020 23:33

My DSiL wedding
Photographer charged a bloody fortune but venue said he was the one they would pick so they did. He was a prat.
Firstly, he was exceptionally rude to my DD who was only about 3 at the time, he was taking some shots of the bridesmaids and because they were all little and excited they wouldn't stand still, so he shouts at DD specifically to stand still or you won't be a bridesmaid anymore. Queue massive tears from DD and 3 others (her cousins). I don't think this Bellend knew myself and my other DSil were behind him but he was told in no uncertain terms you talk to anyone else like that you're going in the lake.
He asked for females in the family to come line up for a pic first with DSil then her new husband, I lined up and he asks me "and you are?" and I said, "oh I'm her brother's partner". He then gets really rude and barks at me he wants "actual family" not "flash in the pan shags who will need cropping out"- we had been together for ten years and had two DC's. So I walked away and one of the DSils says, no you come here and he gets told off again.
Later on, we found said photographer pissed in a chair. Like it was 5pm!
The couple only have photos of them cutting the cake and their first dance because I hastily ran to my room in the hotel and grabbed my digital camera.
When the photos came back, I'm in 2- a huge shot taken from the roof where you can't see anyone properly, and another one where someone taller is in front of me. DH is also in about 3 and he was miffed, you'd hardly know me, DH or DS were there Confused
I'm getting married as soon as Rona naffs off and it's a very quiet, church and pub wedding with no free bar and a help yourself buffet. I couldn't be doing paying the amount of a house deposit for what amounts to a party.

Mamanyt · 01/12/2020 23:37

Went to a friend's wedding, and had the unspeakable (although I'm speaking about it) "honor" of walking in on the bride's mama and the groom in flagrante-delicto, yes, actually in the act. I screamed so loud that the entire wedding party was in the doorway before the (no longer) groom could, erm, dismount. No wedding, but there was a divorce. Yes, MOB was still married to FOB, just to add to the ickiness of it all!

KitchenDancefloor · 01/12/2020 23:43

The only wedding drama I know of didn't actually happen. A friend of the family was due to get married to a very nice guy. She is a highly strung attention seeker and it seemed an odd match as he was very placid.

Her mum (who is ace) kept asking questions in the run up to the big day, letting her know that it was okay not to get married if it wasn't right, even though the parents had paid £££££ for the lavish ceremony and reception.

A few days before the wedding her sister found out that the bride to be didn't want to get married and intended to jilt the groom at the alter. She had a soap opera style speech prepared about how it would serve her parents right for pressuring her to be the golden child and expecting her to conform, or some such BS. It was nothing to do with the groom who was just a prop for her vengeful victim fantasy.

Thankfully the groom was tipped off and the wedding cancelled. The full reason why the couple split leaked out to the guests a few weeks later.

What a cow!

BikeRunSki · 01/12/2020 23:45

I “attended” my DBs wedding by webcam because I was 8 months pregnant and it was 8 hours drive away. I was the first person to see SiL and nearly SiL (the bride) have a massive row.