Page 16 | What drama have you witnessed at a wedding?

mamastillnotgotit · 2020-11-30T17:38:28+00:00

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.

ikltownofboothlehem · 06/12/2020 11:47

All this being said, I've been to more wedding with no drama. Most of which were great, including ours.

Best we've been two was DH's male cousin. They put people together they thought would get on and they got it spot on. We were sat with the groomsmen and their partners and it was brilliant. The food was veggie and gorgeous, the band they had for the reception was amazing and the floor was never empty. Fabulous.

Worst - his other cousin's wedding. Middle of nowhere. After the ceremony (12pm) they disappeared to their room for FIVE HOURS leaving everyone with no idea what was going on or what the timings were supposed to be. There were some canapés but they'd undercatered and the waiters were being taken down like wounded gazelles as soon as they set foot out of the kitchen - so most of us were starving, the drinks were £££, we'd been brought to the venue by coach so couldn't go out anywhere for food. They'd sat families rigidly together so there was no mixing, the meal was tiny portions, the speeches went on for aaaaaages. The bride & groom sat together all night and didn't mingle with anyone. The DJ would only play their chosen playlist. We ended up spending a fortune on a taxi home fairly early citing DS was tired and getting a takeaway.

Susanwouldntlikeit · 06/12/2020 16:17

waiters were being taken down like wounded gazelles 😂

MNHQ

HebeMumsnet · 07/12/2020 11:44

Morning, everyone!

We've had several nominations for this thread to go into Mumsnet Classics. We're going to clear up the profiterole missiles, round up the sobbing bridesmaids and herd them all over to Classics now.

ThePinkGuitar · 07/12/2020 14:44

👍👍

ikltownofboothlehem · 07/12/2020 16:13

Yay. Brilliant. Thank you.

SeasonallySnowyPeasant · 07/12/2020 21:43

ExSIL's wedding. For some reason, her aunt took over the planning and changed everything to what she, the aunt, wanted. She was exFIL's sister and as he was paying for everything he said that she was to be allowed to have her way She even went to the bridal shop after SIL and her bridesmaids had had their fittings and changed our lovely bridesmaid dresses for hideous Shrek-green ones. It was extremely odd and exSIL was quite upset. She then tried to bill exFIL about 5 grand for her wedding planning services a few months later.

I haven't been to a wedding where there's been a fight but there was a gatecrasher at my friend's wedding. She threw him out and most of the guests were none the wiser.

At this same friend's wedding, we were standing around outside the church waiting for her and getting a bit worried as she'd left her parents' house before us but was really late. She turned up eventually - it turned out that the wedding car had taken her to a church in a completely different village! She and her dad hadn't noticed anything was amiss until the car pulled up to the wrong church.

ThePinkGuitar · 08/12/2020 09:49

Someone called it upthread but it’s made the daily fail now 😂

user1471565182 · 08/12/2020 10:36

ohhh marvelous then we can look forward to more of their lovely broadminded readers migrating over here to start endless Harry and Megan 'just asking questions' threads

LeaveMyDamnJam · 08/12/2020 12:18

@DagenhamRoundhouse

You couldn't make these up. Some of them are like the plot of a Mike Leigh film!

Some are more Tarrentino!

NorfolkHousewife · 08/12/2020 15:41

Went to the wedding of my best friend’s brother, on whom I had a major crush ... on the brother, not on my best friend. He married in this unbelievably pretty country church. All the guests were seated, the bride and her father were on their way, but the groom was nowhere to be found. For some reason I can’t remember, the groom’s mother asked me to go and look for him. I walked around the outside of the church and for no particular reason opened a door to a sort of storage room. There was the groom, on his knees giving oral sex to the vicar. I remember saying something stupid like “Oh, so sorry ... didn’t mean to disturb you.” and ran off. As you can imagine my crush on the brother was instantly gone!!

SunshineCake · 08/12/2020 17:03

@DianaT1969

This thread is good fodder for the Daily Fail. I expect to see some of these stories picked up by a lazy journo in about 4 days.

Saw it today.....

SunshineCake · 08/12/2020 17:51

@elfycat

FIL demanded I drink a more lady-like drink at my reception. I'd bought all the polypins of ale and that's what I wanted to drink so I ignored him.

Later on he absolutely dressed me down, ranting and swearing, and ordering me to do as I was told or I wasn't welcome into his family. He thought no one else could hear; he was wrong. The witnesses made sure everyone knew what he'd just done, and commented on my restraint at not throwing my drink in his face and instead walking away It was good beer; I wasn't going to waste it

MIL got so drunk she went around drinking everyone's leftovers. I mean she hates waste, but still.

16 years later FIL still calls me and the witnesses liars. I'm NC (5 years) and it's bliss. But a month or so ago MIL got DD2 (9) alone and told her she was a rude little girl and a troublemaker; just like her mother... I guess my 2 DDs are NC too. Poor DH, the apple has rolled as far from that tree as it can, thank goodness.

What a bitch your MIL is.

Is your dd okay ?

Doowninthedumps · 08/12/2020 18:40

Oh I forgot the one where the band heckled the crowd for not dancing!

We left pretty soon after the first comment but it was a little weird, only 2 or 3 couples got up to dance that we saw. The band was good and it was a large wedding, maybe no one had enough to drink and everyone was shy?

DdraigGoch · 08/12/2020 18:58

@NorfolkHousewife

Went to the wedding of my best friend’s brother, on whom I had a major crush ... on the brother, not on my best friend. He married in this unbelievably pretty country church. All the guests were seated, the bride and her father were on their way, but the groom was nowhere to be found. For some reason I can’t remember, the groom’s mother asked me to go and look for him. I walked around the outside of the church and for no particular reason opened a door to a sort of storage room. There was the groom, on his knees giving oral sex to the vicar. I remember saying something stupid like “Oh, so sorry ... didn’t mean to disturb you.” and ran off. As you can imagine my crush on the brother was instantly gone!!

I'm suddenly reminded of this sketch:

The other two parts probably chime with some on this thread too:

tatasa · 10/12/2020 07:16

Just listening to this thread being discussed on Irish breakfast radio!

SeasonallySnowyPeasant · 10/12/2020 13:22

@tatasa what were they saying?

CityCommuter · 11/12/2020 15:33

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