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.

Was a guest at a wedding once in the ‘80s. Very wealthy families. Maybe 6 bridesmaids & as many groomsmen. Beautiful bride & her father walk up the aisle to the front of the church where handsome groom was waiting.
But when father hands bride to to groom, she instead turns around and addresses the assembled guests: “Last night I caught my fiancé and my maid of honor in flagrante delicto, so it would be inappropriate for me to marry the groom this afternoon. But since my father has paid for all the food and the alcohol and the hall and the band, let’s have a party anyway.”
You could’ve heard a pin drop. The maid of honor ran out and the bride & groom spoke in hushed tones for a moment, then the groom left.
We did enjoy a lovely party, but never saw the groom - or the maid of honor. Quite a scandal.

A ‘friend’ of my best friend started drinking whisky from a hip flask the morning of the wedding and got so incredibly drunk. She gave pretty much every guest abuse or offended them somehow, tried to snog to groom and lifted her dress and pissed in the middle of the dance floor. Noones ever spoke to her since. I still cringe whenever I think of how mortified she must have felt the next day/ when she was told what she had done.

I wasn’t there but a friend of mine spilled a glass of red wine all over the brides white dress

Not drama, but I tended bar at a wedding - v young couple; adorable - where the bride's dad at obviously deserted her and mum very early on (he wasn't at the wedding) and her stepdad had brought her up. MotB did a very impassioned reading which went on about how biology does not a father make. It was a bit 'crikey' honestly. The v young best man, with whom I'd had minimum interaction at that point, caught my eye behind the bar, did a sort of face and mouthed 'Bit intense'. Which I found incredibly funny and gave a mad bark of laughter. Then immediately threw myself on the floor behind the bar in horror, and gave myself a black eye and bloody nose. Told everyone I'd had a funny turn.

Some of these really are dramatic!!

not as bad as some but my dsis first wedding they had invited a couple theyhd met a year before infitnely had just broke up but still decided to come anyway

bloke ends up drunk declaring his love for ex shouting he cant live without her my dh has to herd hm off thought hed got a taxi home

turns out he slept in is car then slashed his exes tyres and went round the venue during the night shouting at her through her door

During the service, the priest went into great detail about the personal failings of the bride and of the groom. I guess he was trying to keep them humble and focused on the challenges of marriage?

"...and you, Jennifer, are a terrible spendthrift who rarely has any money left by the end of the month. You once spent half your monthly salary on a beauty treatment and had to borrow from your mother...

He went on and on and on. It was unbelievable. I was writhing in embarrassment for them.

@Soundbyte

A ‘friend’ of my best friend started drinking whisky from a hip flask the morning of the wedding and got so incredibly drunk. She gave pretty much every guest abuse or offended them somehow, tried to snog to groom and lifted her dress and pissed in the middle of the dance floor. Noones ever spoke to her since. I still cringe whenever I think of how mortified she must have felt the next day/ when she was told what she had done.

God almighty... the mortification must have been appalling!

@AnaisNun

I wasn’t there but a friend of mine spilled a glass of red wine all over the brides white dress

This could be me! Guest stumbled into me after ceremony and pre pictures throwing a glass of mulled wine all over my dress (Christmas wedding). Apparently my own fault for being there, at my own wedding 😂 lots of other dramas including PIL leaving after the meal because I didn't effuse over them as much as they expected in my speech. One of now ex's relatives stealing the MP3 player (family all well dodgy but my ex and his parents had 'made good' so pretended they didn't come from a family of dubious scrap metal merchants and criminals. The only other family member that 'did well for themselves' was a very famous footballer. His dad has served many a prison sentence for violent offences. Ex PIL always tried to look down their nose at me 🙄). I sat on my wedding night in a red and white dress waiting for the police. I could tell more tails of woe but would be so much more outing than this!

@AnaisNun

I wasn’t there but a friend of mine spilled a glass of red wine all over the brides white dress

I had a full pint of Guinness spilt down mine

these are amazing!

Mine is one where the groom walked out the wedding, just slipped out without anyone noticing, just before the speeches and NEVER CAME BACK.

I wasn’t there but a friend of mine spilled a glass of red wine all over the brides white dress @AnaisNun

To be fair that happened to me by my nephew on the dancefloor, I found it hilarious, wedding dresses really should only look pristine for the ceremony, otherwise you've not had a good enough time!

Neither of which I witnessed first- hand but have been recounted to me as 'you should have been there'...

Wedding 1 - at a rural location on a farm, where the barn was hired out for wedding receptions. Wedding party arrive, photos are taken, and then they sit down to food. During the course of the afternoon, FOB gets plastered. One of the groomsmen takes him outside to sober up, and they do a bit of a tour around the farmyard. The exact details are unclear but FOB ended up falling into the pig-pen and getting covered in "pig emissions from both ends". Apparently there was a bit of a row about it all through gritted teeth and fake smiles.

Wedding 2 - small bijou reception venue best suited to good weather, with dance floor upstairs and wedding breakfast to be taken downstairs. But it poured with rain. And continued to do so. So venue ushered everyone out to a large garden marquee whilst they relocated everything so that dance floor would be downstairs (more space). This meant that the tables other than the top table were slightly re-positioned (not the seating of the guests, but the proximity of tables to the top table).
Groom had recently lost his father, so top table was mothers of bride & groom + best man + MOH. All other attendants were at tables close by.
One relative got extremely drunk and was bumping and grinding on the dance floor with anyone who walked past, which was rather embarrassing but worst behaviour came from groom's aunt, who decided that she and her husband should have been at the top table, or the table next to it. She complained loudly to my friend (who had the misfortune of sitting next to her) about their not being acknowledged properly, the venue being poky, and bridesmaids being made to sit at the 'normal tables'. Once the speeches were finished she and her husband upped and left without saying goodbye to anyone. Nobody realised until groom's grandfather, who they'd brought with them, started wandering around asking other relatives if they would be able to take him home. Bride & groom ended up paying for him to stay overnight at their hotel, and best man drove 100 or so miles out of his way the next day to get him back.

Father of the Bride stands up to deliver his speech, and proceeds to tell everybody that the groom's parents welched on their promise to contribute £5000 to the wedding, which meant that we were now all sitting down to a wedding breakfast in a venue that nobody could afford.

They wouldn't have booked it, you see, but the groom's parents were adamant that they wanted to contribute 5k towards the wedding, then they didn't.

The groom's mother went mental and stormed out, then tried to leave the hotel without paying for their room. Apparently she has form for talking the big talk and not having a pot to piss in.

The FoB looked very pleased with himself by the time he'd finished. I gave him a massive thumbs up and everybody broke into a huge round of applause.

The marriage lasted about 5 minutes. Absolute shit show. Fantastic!

AmandaHoldensLips
Who ended up paying for the venue?
Which happened first the wedding being paid for or the marriage ending?

Oh no the thread is over! Come on people, there must be more!

I was a plus one at a wedding where a male guest dropped a load of acid, tried to spike the bride’s drink with it, felt up a female guest, made her cry, failed to cease and desist and got absolutely laid out by the woman’s boyfriend, who it turned out was coked up to his eyeballs. It was a lovely relaxed wedding (or so we thought!), but expensive, with a generous free bar and the couple thankfully knew nothing of it. Until the next day when they found another kindly guest sitting with the punched guest, having wrapped him in a blanket, to make sure he was ok.

Same wedding, an old church warden got absolutely hammered and shat himself and passed out on the dance floor. He’d been invited by remote family members and had no idea who the bride and groom were. The poor groom had to carry him and out him in bed, to the absolute mortification of the church warden’s wife.

I’ve worked in a few hotels that did weddings, back in my younger days.

One wedding unfortunately fell on the same day as the FA Cup final - cue one bride in tears at her wedding breakfast as every man in the room had disappeared to watch the game.

Another one the groom was still drinking in the bar hours after everyone else had either left or gone to bed, including his new wife, and he kept trying to get the night porters to go to a strip club with him.

Other hotel, Irish wedding in one conference room, Scottish wedding in another. Ended up in a massive brawl in the car park!

The cremated remains of the bride’s recently deceased relative were occupying a prime seat, and an altercation ensued when someone who did not realised what was in the box removed it in order to sit down.

Tame compared to the others but:

The best man needed a trip to A&E on the morning of the wedding - luckily only for a small injury and they did make it in time for the wedding.

Best man's +1 was drunk as a skunk before she even turned up. She was lovely and no trouble but guests kept mentioning her drunken-ness to the bride in a very looking down on her way. I mean, it's a party right? She just had a head start on everyone she wasn't loud or inappropriate, just a bit stumbly and slurry but very good natured and polite. I was impressed she managed to stay upright the entire time especially in heels!

Other groomsman's partner took serious offense to him sitting at top table next to MOH, caused a bit of a ruction and he was not allowed to be anywhere near MOH after wedding breakfast. She also made him leave early. Bride and groom both pretty pissed off with her but separately decided just to ignore her. MOH was not interested in groomsman, she was just chatting to the person sitting next to her!

One of the bridesmaids had put on weight suddenly (not pregnancy related) and it was touch and go whether the dress would close - bless her she breathed in and soldiered on!

The brides mum used her newly bought for the wedding perfume to wear without asking. She had her own, just wanted the brides - coz every H to be wants his bride and MOB smelling exactly the same, olfactory sense is a massive memory trigger and bride had thought any time in future she wore it, it would bring back memories of the wedding... not the MOB

At the wedding breakfast the bride felt very ill suddenly and dashed off twice to be sick, the groom knew and didn't bother to check on her or ask if she was ok when she reappeared.

Then at the reception the groom kept disappearing and all the guest kept asking the bride where he was when she was going round trying to talk to everyone. Was quite sad, she put the best face on she could but groom spent most of the night in the car park with his groomsmen clearly avoiding everything else

During the first dance the groom stood stock still and resisted all efforts by the bride to even move his feet a little bit - he could dance, just refused to even sway.

The guests noticed the grooms odd behaviour all night and were a bit no one said anything to bride till a long time afterwards.

Groom later grumped at bride because she didn't want to have sex in their ground floor bridal suite because the curtains hadn't been pulled shut properly and she didn't want to be seen by anyone who walked past.

As an added extra bonus on the honeymoon the groom persisted in telling people that asked that they were just on holiday.

Yes I was the bride. Yes I left him about a year later because it just got worse from there. He clearly hadn't wanted to get married but waited until after it was done to show his displeasure because he was a passive aggressive twat

@Hailtomyteeth I think her issue is that it appears from her post the MIL contributed no money to the wedding like her parents maybe?

This is more cringe than drama, but I was at a wedding where the bride and groom had been housemates and she clearly fancied the pants off him the whole time. We'd often suggest he ask her out as she was really nice but he'd say no. Eventually they did get together and got married. Both the best man's speech and the groom's speech went on and on and on about how "Liz had played the long game /waited him out/finally got her claws into him" etc. It was so painful and she looked so sad! They are still together and seem happy but it was a masterclass on how to humiliate someone on what should have been a happy day.

More of a nice one than drama but at my uncles wedding, during the vows at the 'speak now or forever hold your peace' someone had shouted loudly "Yes" - disrupting everyone (Imagine everyone shuffling and turning around to see the commotion)

I had turned out that the brides nephew (7YO) who had recently had cochlear implants fitted was so used to responding to '"speak" during the process of them being tested that he thought that was what was happening!

Everyone had a good laugh and it is still spoken about at family gatherings to this day

@GingerBun

More of a nice one than drama but at my uncles wedding, during the vows at the 'speak now or forever hold your peace' someone had shouted loudly "Yes" - disrupting everyone (Imagine everyone shuffling and turning around to see the commotion)

I had turned out that the brides nephew (7YO) who had recently had cochlear implants fitted was so used to responding to '"speak" during the process of them being tested that he thought that was what was happening!

Everyone had a good laugh and it is still spoken about at family gatherings to this day

Aww thats rather sweet 😊 but i bet the bride and groom were panicking for a moment at the beginning 😂

Gingerbun, that was a cute one. Nice to hear a dramatic story that didn't end in a punch up.

I've remembered an unfortunate rather than dramatic incident. I went to an outdoor, festival style wedding. The plan was a laid back day with everyone chilling in a field and a posh food van for catering.

It was a howling storm on the day so we were crammed into the building where the ceremony was held, all day and evening. The catering van was 5 hours late so we were all ravenous. Thankfully the booze was there in advance though.

Some guests drove to a garage and bought all the crisps so we had something to line our stomachs.

By the time the food van arrived we had to prioritise who got fed first, so elderly and children, then wedding party, then whoever had the sharpest elbows. Everyone got drenched and wind blown to get the food so we all took it in turn to eat our burgers with hair askew and makeup running down our faces.

But it was a great party and the bride and groom took it all in good humour. I think it showed that they were more interested in the marriage than the big day.

My own wedding

Lockdown wedding, restricted to us plus 4 guests so obviously both sets of parents. Our own kids couldn't even come because we have 3 and none are over witness age. We agreed all or none and as it was only the ceremony (10 minute 'do you... do you....' job) we asked SIL to have the kids.

Went to pick up the kids; not even a 'you both look nice, congrats' nothing! She told hubby that her and her kids had spent the day in tears because they couldn't go. She still doesn't talk to me and barely talks to DH.

We tried to explain it was only the legal bit because of various reasons and we are doing it all again "properly" with everybody doing their bit but nope. Christmas will be interesting.

I also worked at a wedding venue and saw various family fights, entire wedding parties snorting their weight in coke, and illicit toilet activities with people they were not in relationships with