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What drama have you witnessed at a wedding?

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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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DrMaryMalone · 01/12/2020 23:46

2 nights before my wedding my Dad got hammered with some of the guests who had traveled to be there. In the process of throwing up he lost the bridge with one of his top front teeth down the loo and my mum
flushed it! There wasn’t enough time for the dentist to make an emergency replacement so he has a big toothy gap in all the photos!

I also went to my cousins wedding which ended up being quite somber. The day before a large proportion of the guests had attended a funeral in the same church by the same minister, to say goodbye to a 21 year old girl who died in a car crash. She had been the maid of honours best friend and my BF and plus 1 (now DH) ex girlfriend.

Charmatt · 02/12/2020 00:50

At my brother's wedding his MIL insisted only the bride's family should appear in the photos. They had one photo of all the guests - the only one any of the groom's family were in. My daughter was a bridesmaid (4 at the time) and wasn't allowed to be in any others.

At the reception the best man have a speech that was full of swearing - really bad and offensive. At the end of tge speech there was an uncomfortable coyple of seconds silence which my son, who has a learning disability, decided to fill by saying, 'What does f*ck mean Mum?' My brother's MIL in law told me, very loudly, that my son's language was disgusting for his age!Confused

If I'd been warned that the BM speech was going to be like that I'd have happily taken the children outside.

My wedding was without drama, except for my MIL crying and telling everyone she felt bereaved! She said we were too young (DH 23, me 22) but we had been together for 5 and a half years at that point and are still together 25 years on! I have fabulous memories of my Dad who died 6 months later but was the perfect Father of the Bride.

CunnyLingus · 02/12/2020 01:57

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aidelmaidel · 02/12/2020 02:30

Ex was Religious, and wouldn't see me the entire week before the wedding. The night before, he was at an all-night copy shop getting the programmes finished (yes programmes--it's a cultural thing). He took so long over it, his host had gone to bed by the time he got back, so he ended up sleeping in a garage and taking a shit in the bag from the copy shop.

At the wedding, the officiant pulled me (why me?) out of the reception, saying "I think you need to go to your mother-in-law." Ex-MIL did not like me, but had decided not to boycott the wedding. Well, I find her in the sanctuary weeping copiously, with Ex's ex, the Golden Girlfriend whom I had usurped. Quite what I was supposed to say to them I was never quite sure, nor why Officiant had got me instead of Ex. High drama: I fetched Ex and told him to deal.

Ex and I had an excited shag in a cloakroom during the reception (he was Religious, and he'd been Saving It For Marriage). Later consumed with guilt, he accused me of having raped him.

Reader, I divorced him.

midnightstar66 · 02/12/2020 04:55

I used to drive a horse and carriage for weddings in a holiday resort - one day as we were getting set up I got a panicked call from the rep saying there's been a bit of a problem but could I come anyway. On arrival she rushes out and explains that the bride has just found out that her husband to be has been having an affair with her bridesmaid (could have also been her sister, can't quite remember) and was deciding what to do. Half an hour later she comes out having decided it was too late to cancel and would go ahead. (Destination wedding, large guest list all housed in expensive villas and hotels) the journey to the ceremony was rather awkward. None of the usual small talk was appropriate and obviously bride was seething. Even more awkward was the ride from the ceremony to reception venue with 'd'h. Thank god they didn't have us booked for photo shoot 😬. Either at least one poster on here was at that wedding or this is a fairly common scenario.

Minxmumma · 02/12/2020 06:24

Massive running brawl amongst the brides family.

At our wedding my MIL got so drunk she threw up everywhere repeatedly and then attempted to drive herself home - she wasn't grateful for the police arrival.

Love a good wedding Hmm

Ddot · 02/12/2020 08:45

At a wedding Maid of honor, best man, married but separated. Kept apart as much as possible. Maid of honor, bumped into young football team that were having a do next door, ( she went outside for breather ) the photographer took pictures of team and beautiful maid outside, best man was furious. No drama but made me feel fuc*ing brill 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😱 yep it was meeeeee

Ddot · 02/12/2020 08:50

CunnyLingus
I want some if what your having 🤣

Ddot · 02/12/2020 09:14

At my wedding, bridesmaid (grooms sister) maid of honor(my sister) oh and of cause me, all getting ready. Hair done, makeup done. Dresses! Mine on, maid of honor on, bridesmaid well her dress wouldn't zip up and i do mean three inch gap. Poor girl was mortified I explained it was far too small. She almost burst into tears but said just fasten the God damn thing. She sucked in, we pulled that dress together and zipped her up. TURNED OUT SHE WAS 4 MONTHS PREGNANT nobody knew including her stuck up mother. (Hyacinth bucket)

contrary13 · 02/12/2020 09:16

At my oldest brother's wedding, my mother spent the entire service sniping (and not so quietly) to my grandfather about how the bride wasn't "good enough" to marry her son - because of who her father is!

I was 18 at the time and quietly horrified, could see my brother getting more and more flustered and angry as he stood in front of us waiting for his - actually very lovely - bride to make an appearance, and could not convince my mother to shut the fuck up! My father couldn't shut her up, either, and my grandfather was just sat there; not encouraging her in any way, but not doing anything to stop her, either.

Turns out, when they were growing up, my mother and the bride's father were involved together for a while when they were mid-teens. Until he threw my mother over for the girl he eventually married - the mother of the bride. And my mother never forgave him for it. So when my oldest brother announced he was getting married to "THAT girl" (said with disparaging expression and sneer of contempt every time), my mother was distinctly unhappy about it. She spent the morning of the wedding trailing my brother and his best man around the small town he grew up in - from barbers to cafe for one last fry up as a single man - haranguing him into not turning up at the altar, jilting the woman he loved, doing as Mummy told him to... (he was 32 and his bride was 23 at the time, mind). She and my father had travelled up the day before the wedding, and I didn't arrive until mid-morning, the day of, because I had an 'A'-level exam the day before - I remember walking into their home, and seeing my father and grandfather polishing shoes and asking where my mother was. "Oh, she's with [brother] in town," says my grandfather. "We told her not to go, but... you know what she's like!"

Well, if I didn't beforehand, I certainly did that day!

Luckily, she didn't leap to her feet when the priest asked if anyone had any objections... but it was a close-cut thing. My grandfather and I both turned and glared at her, at that point, and I think she thought better of any dramatic actions (thank God, because I suspect my brother might actually have done her harm, if she'd objected!). However, at the reception, she refused to sit at the top table, forbade my father from doing so (my grandparents - who actually raised my brothers - sat there, instead), dominated all of our elderly great aunts and uncles so that my brother and sister-in-law barely got to see them (and it was the last time all 10 siblings of that generation were together in the same place Sad ), interrogated my then-boyfriend about our sex life as we were trying to eat the wedding breakfast (the youngest of my great-uncles - who was around 75 at this point - was sat next to me and he just leaned over and said "everyone does it, it's not like she invented it and doesn't like to share now, is it, lovely?"), flirted non-stop with my brother's best man (whom she's known since they were toddlers), and just generally riled my brother up to the point where every photo we have of him and his bride (first dance, etc), he looks absolutely furious.

He and my sister-in-law went NC with my mother after that.

No one blamed them one little bit.

DillonPanthersTexas · 02/12/2020 09:24

An excruciating best man speech that basically consisted of reliving in all its gory detail the visit the stag party made to a strip club and in particular the grooms interactions with one of the strippers. The table with all the grooms mates were pissing themselves laughing, the rest of the room was a mix of jaw dropping silence and nervous laughs. The bestman was not trying to stitch up the groom, he honestly though it was appropriate material for the audience. What made it worse was that he was so lacking in self awareness he just did not read the room, he just saw his mates laughing and thought he was being a hero and ploughed on.

"....so Dave is there with a can of whipped cream drawing a cream bra on this strippers tits....the end result looked good enough to eat....which he did......"

FreddieMercurysCat · 02/12/2020 09:24

Ah my wedding. . such fun. My groom got drunk, wandered off to find the loos for a pee, got lost, found the hotel kitchens by accident, didn't realise it was the kitchens and just saw some guys with knives in their hands, thought they were going to attack him so grabbed the fire extinguisher and discharged it at them. (To be fair, the extinguisher didn't have a pin in it, so more fool them really - he wasn't in a state to piss around with a pin) and then ran off. We found him after a bit of a hunt, he'd bashed his head quite badly (old hotel - very low beams) so me and my new brother in law put him to bed, whereupon him and my daughter had a text row and now she doesn't speak to me any longer. Great day!

Aragog · 02/12/2020 09:42

I didn't go to said when though had been invited, despite being more distant family.

Turns out the groom was absconding from day release from the prison to attend the wedding. Not sure how it all went - it's not really talked about at family gatherings since - but it involved the groom being escorted back to prison and him losing his right to day release.

KatherineJaneway · 02/12/2020 10:04

Went to one where the FOB was not there and his family kept saying he was working in America. The table talk was he was actually in jail.

ZarkingBell · 02/12/2020 10:15

@CunnyLingus if you'd had one of these Tardis you would have been fine. Moral of the story. Never forget your sonic screwdriver.

CuriousaboutSamphire · 02/12/2020 10:18

@Rosebel

My cousin and SIL nearly had a punch up at my wedding. Cousin was incredibly drunk and started trying to sexy dance with my brother who kept moving away. SIL screamed at her and said if it wasn't my wedding she'd have smacked her in the mouth.
Oh god! That could be me!

An uncle used to 'sexy dance' with me at all family occasions. Sounds odd but he is gay and neither his husband nor mine can dance worth a fig. So somehow Uncle G and I just started being daft buggers, it started when the Lambada was the dance so you can imagine how long ago it started! At female cousin Ls wedding Uncle G left early and male cousin J came across and said, jokingly, that we couldn't let the family tradition end just because Uncle G wasn't there. So we started to dance - cousin not being as wiggly of hip as Uncle G it took a lot of laughing to get him to relax enough to get the knee bend, hip swivel right. Just as he cottoned on and began to get it right his wife - who had been to plenty of family does before and shouldn't really have been surprised - came over and started shouting!

Sorry cousin L.. if that is you Smile

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LaLaLandIsNoFun · 02/12/2020 11:16

@contrary13

If I wasn’t an only child I’d think we had the same mother

Bananalanacake · 02/12/2020 16:12

My life is so dull, I've been to 4 weddings in my 44 years alive, nothing happened at them. I almost want to get a job in hotel catering so I see some fun weddings.

user1471565182 · 02/12/2020 16:38

I bet 80% of these are army weddings.

TriflePudding · 02/12/2020 16:48

Why? I’ve been to 16 army weddings and they have never had bad behaviour at any of them, maybe because army people know not to show up their mates at special events.

DumpedByText · 02/12/2020 17:01

The best man let his bridesmaid twin daughters take their stunning dresses off and take their elaborate hair up do out before they'd had photos taken.

He put them in a t-shirt and leggings, they weren't tiny either, they were 7 so could have stood for a few photos! My friend spent £40k on this wedding and she was so upset.

funinthesun19 · 02/12/2020 17:17

Stepsister of the Groom decided that her reception speech was the perfect time to disclose the groom was the father of her 8 week old baby...Chaos ensued

Oh my fucking god Shock

Stepsister and the Groom were embroiled in a years long relationship. Started when they were teens and were forced to break up. They started hooking up.and entered a relationship and Groom started seeing Bride and Proposed while still seeing stepsister. Stepsister got knocked up and decided to keep it. Stepsister made her little announcement after her Stepfather (groom's father) mentioned how excited they were for the eventual grandchildren....It got ugly very quickly. It was broken up by military police. Great fun.....

And again ShockShock

TartanBiscuit · 02/12/2020 18:15

At my mum's wedding my Auntie punched my Uncle in the face in the middle of the dance floor because he was dancing with their 13 year old daughter. It was their daughters birthday too. She (Auntie) went and sat in the car for the rest of the night, and my mum ended up sitting in the kitchen with my Uncle consoling him and having an in depth discussion about the state of his marriage.

At my own wedding my Dad had to pick me up by my dress and shake me back into it. I am rather large chested and had refused to listen to my mum when she suggested a dress with straps might be better...it was fine when I first put the dress on, but I hadn't realised that sitting in the wedding car on the way to the church would mean the wires in the corset part of the dress would bend due to the sheer weight of my boobs and the length of time I was sat down.

I was late to the church as my cousin, who was a bridesmaid, had decided at the very last minute that actually, she did want her hair and make up done professionally (she had tried to do it herself) so I was stood around waiting for her before I could leave. This meant when I finally arrived at the church I was ushered straight down the aisle by the vicar with no time to sort my dress out. It was touch and go as to whether my guests got an eyeful or not!! When we signed the register, which was in a side section of the church, my dad took matters into his own hands and picked me up by my dress and began shaking me Blush several guests saw this happening! I later found out there had been a bet going about whether a boob was going to escape or not! Luckily all my family are fabulous and we laughed about it, and so did my lovely DH. Especially after I managed to take myself off somewhere quiet and bend the metal bits back into position!! Always listen to your mum Grin

I have some very funny photos as a result including one of my wedding car driver patiently holding a section of my cousin's hair while my poor step mum (hairdresser) desperately tried to fix my cousins hair.

Oh, and while waiting for me at the church, the vicar and my dad were stood outside having a very amusing conversation, much to the delight of the guests in the church as the vicar had turned his microphone on without realising. He was a modern vicar shall we say and he had a few opinions he was only too happy to share with my Dad!!!