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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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HollaHolla · 04/12/2020 16:21

At a cousin’s wedding, her sisters husbands (x2) thought it would be ‘funny’ to grab her new husband and beat him up. 🤨
My dad got wind of it, and he and another uncle intervened. There was no beating up, and the cousins husbands left early, through a back exit.

Also, at another wedding, the hotel that most of the guests (including us) were staying in, had a fire alarm go off. We were all in the carpal in dressing gowns/hair half done, etc. We all only JUST made it to the wedding. I did my makeup in the car, whilst my then boyfriend drove like a maniac!

HollaHolla · 04/12/2020 16:27

Oh, and another one, where we played a team sport with the groom. All of the rest of the team (mixed gender) were invited to the reception. It was quite a posh wedding, as the bride was from money. We’d only met her half a dozen times before. The atmosphere was dreadful when we arrived; no-one was mixing, etc. The first dance was so awkward (somewhat in part to the large, incredibly unflattering, designer wedding gown), and she scowled at all of his friends. It’s one of the very few weddings I’ve been to where I genuinely didn’t give it long. Sadly, I was right. They had a baby just about a year later, and then separated before the baby was 6 months old. Really so sad - and she then moved 500 miles away with the baby, so my friend sees him only half a dozen times a year. They should really have never gotten married. 😕

Lorddenning1 · 04/12/2020 20:52

I'm sad this thread had ended

ememem84 · 04/12/2020 20:59

@Leaannb

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
Woah
Bitcherama · 04/12/2020 21:00

A relative of mine stripped to the waist for his first dance. Bride oohed and aahed in admiration.

My cousin's wedding had a bit where the priest did "the power of Christ compels you!" and there was speaking in tongues. Yeah. Not the norm for either family. Their churchgoing parents all looked really shocked.

blissfulllife · 04/12/2020 21:03

Caught my mother smoking crack in the toilets at my wedding. Beat that 😂😂

DonaldTrumpsChopper · 04/12/2020 21:11

The divorced first wife turned up to the registry office in full funeral gear - black dress, coat, hat with veil etc. She stood outside weeping and wailing throughout the whole service. Family had to smuggle the Groom's fairly elderly mother past heron the way out.

WildRosie · 04/12/2020 21:16

@DonaldTrumpsChopper

The divorced first wife turned up to the registry office in full funeral gear - black dress, coat, hat with veil etc. She stood outside weeping and wailing throughout the whole service. Family had to smuggle the Groom's fairly elderly mother past heron the way out.
There was a heron at the wedding ? That beats everything!
SexyGiraffe · 04/12/2020 21:33

At my wedding one of my friends flirted with another friend's husband and there was a stand up row. I missed it fortunately and only found out later. At another friend's wedding the best man tried to persuade me to cheat on my fiancé with him. In front of my fiancé. Oh, and the best man's wife had just gone to bed!

CatbearAmo · 04/12/2020 21:33

My db was insistent on me being a bridesmaid at his wedding and I didn't want to let him down although I had recently given birth and looked a right mess. My sil is dark skinned along with all her sisters and friends who were bridesmaids too, but I am pasty white and ginger. The dress was pale pink and backless so I couldn't even a bra or wear shape wear underneath. The itinerary was super demanding and I was breastfeeding so my dm was passing me dd at regular intervals for a feed, one which was just before we were due to walk with sil down the aisle. It was such a rush that I trailed down late behind everyone else and didn't even realize I still had a Muslin cloth hanging out the side of my right tit. All the photos of us stood at the alter and I look like a half cooked slab of salmon with the wrapper dangling in the wind. I didn't even realize until the ceremony was over.

I got married in my dhs home country, and a friend of dh is also from the same country and decided that since all of our friends would be traveling there for our wedding anyway, he would book his wedding a week before. I was pretty pissed off at them stealing our thunder but it was clear the groom was a selfish dick. It was a big football final and he hired a massive outdoor screen to show the game (his wife was not impressed) and then he took a load of lsd and spent the whole evening wondering around in a confused stupor. Don't know what I was worried about.

SnowyJungle · 04/12/2020 21:40

Brides family were slagging off groom in the toilet when grooms aunt was also in there.
Saying it would never work etc....

They are still together 30 years later

(Nothing compared to these stories)

DoubleHelix79 · 04/12/2020 22:08

I'm almost jealous of some of these. The worst thing I've experienced at a wedding was mild bored and mediocre food.

DoubleHelix79 · 04/12/2020 22:09

*mild boredom

Sarahlou63 · 04/12/2020 22:11

Good work friend of mine got married to his long term girlfriend of 10 years. On the way to the wedding with his best man he saw a car pulled up/in a ditch - thought it was an accident and jumped out to help. Turns out it was another colleague having a 'moment' with her boyfriend en route to the wedding. At that moment my friend realised he was in love with the colleague. Nice timing, mate. Wedding went ahead but the marriage lasted just weeks. The other colleague had no idea!

Codswallopcurry · 05/12/2020 02:51

I was at a wedding where a drunken female friend of the bride and groom, having flirted wildly with a married male friend, was dragged across the dancefloor by the hair by his furious, swearing wife. She gave her a few vicious slaps and kicks, before turning to the stunned crowd and dusting off her hands, saying, "I fucking warned her, but she carried on - so she asked for it."
Nobody said a word.

Squirrelsmum · 05/12/2020 02:53

The groom arrived 2 hours late, drunk as a skunk. She'd left him by the end of the weekend. It was embarrassing all round.

user1471565182 · 05/12/2020 10:45

I dont understand why people decide to fuck in toilets at weddings? is it an attention thing? who even wants to do that? Its like me deciding to just pop to the bogs for a wank at a funeral

Europilgrim · 05/12/2020 12:17

It's the alcohol!

KatherineJaneway · 05/12/2020 14:25

They think it makes them interesting

Cheeseycheeseycheesecheese · 05/12/2020 18:03

At my ex's friends wedding, someone got so drunk they were sick on the dance floor, the groom stood in it, before anyone could grab him he went arse over tit and knocked himself out, this was only about 9pm, everyone was sent home and the bride and groom spent the night in A&E. Not the wedding night they imagined I'm sure.

I've also got a couple of couples that had sex in the toilets. One of them was the maid of honor, the bride had use of the disabled toilet because of the size of her gown, she gave the key to the MOH so her and her husband could get it on...

PyongyangKipperbang · 05/12/2020 18:13

Why do people shag in the loos?

Ususally because they are so pissed that they have forgotten they are in a building that is literally all bedrooms!

ThePinkGuitar · 05/12/2020 18:49

At my cousins wedding. Another cousin of ours got completely bladdered, tried it on with me 😮 and then started offering our uncle out. Knob
Luckily uncle managed to get his drunken arse in a taxi and send him home before too many people saw. This was all by 8pm 😂

user1471565182 · 06/12/2020 08:44

I've got a theory that its people who dont like the romantic focus to be taken of them so they do some sort of big gesture like fucking in the toilets to reaffirm to themselves that they can get the interest

MawkishHawk · 06/12/2020 09:41

I think it’s not always so much about trying to steal attention or detract from the focus being elsewhere (I don’t think anyone intends to get caught shagging in the lavs), more that the reality of a couple getting married makes everyone around them face issues they may have been ignoring/in denial about - their own relationship issues/commitment phobia/non-conformity to social ideals & expectations, and the result of that acute mental/emotional stress + alcohol = people be crazy.

Sometimes it is just toxic narcissists being narcissistic though.

user1471565182 · 06/12/2020 09:44

Yeah you're onto something there. Often emotionally repressed people being forced into an event where there is emotion openly shown more than normal, mixed with alcohol and family history. Its something of a bad recipe.