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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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GiraffeNecked · 30/11/2020 18:42

Groom had slept with bridesmaid and bride had found out but wanted the wedding to happen anyway as it was a massive destination expensive wedding.

Those who didn’t know before the day found out on the day through gossip...massively awkward and marriage lasted about 2 months.

Her mum has also just come out of rehab but it obviously hadn’t worked...

Growapair · 30/11/2020 18:42

Went to a wedding where the families were lovely, all apart from one of the brides sisters. She was literally about as Jeremy Kyle as you could get. She spent the ceremony ignoring her 5 year old daughter who was constantly interrupting and being a total brat. During the 3 course meal (50 guests at £75 a head) she made a total show of herself, attempted to rearrange the seating plan to suit her bratty daughter, helped herself to glasses of wine off the other guests tables (they came with the meals so she was literally stealing people’s drinks). Heckled the best mans speech thinking she was being funny, when she was actually being a total tit. And to top it off (she was absolutely bladdered by that time), during the cake cutting she snuck behind the bride with a lighter and set her wedding dress on fire. She ended up fighting with security as they attempted to wrestle her out. To prove what such a nasty cunt she is, after the wedding she told everyone who would listen what she did at the wedding like it was a hilarious story for her to tell and people were going to find it funny Hmm I hope she’s not on here because she’ll batter me if she sees this 👀

FairfaxAikman · 30/11/2020 18:43

In my student days I helped out at a wedding at a hotel where my friend was manager. Nice enough small country house hotel but more of the budget end of the market.

At the time my "day job" was in room service at a world-renowned (and very expensive) hotel.
I thought the wedding would be relaxing by comparison- how wrong was I?!

Bar staff handed a bottle of alcohol with a foreign label and no further instructions except to pour it and bride kicked off when it was poured into hiball glasses rather than shot glasses (to this day i still have no idea what it was), bride asked me to put some items in their honeymoon suite but mother of the groom kicked off and wouldn't let me as I would "steal stuff" (which was laughable as in my own job I had unsupervised access to rooms packed with designer clothes and expensive jewellery) and finally a full out brawl in which the best man ended up in the fountain in the courtyard.

ancientgran · 30/11/2020 18:44

Not actually at the wedding but 2 weeks later when couple got back from exotic honeymoon, they went out for a meal with the bestman and his girl friend. Groom went to the loo and came back to find bestman's girlfriend crying as she told them they (bride and bestman) had run off together. When he tracked his bride down she said she found married life dull.

Few weeks go by and bride finds out she'd pregnant but doesn't know who the father is.

Mrsjayy · 30/11/2020 18:46

Brides boyfriend was at the wedding
I was In the toilet and over heard 😲marriage didn't last long

CactusKate · 30/11/2020 18:46

@Highfivemum Had he been drinking, or just accidentially fell out Sad

thecatsthecats · 30/11/2020 18:49

@JaniceSopranoJr

I'd love to have been at these weddings.
I was at a wedding like this.

Unfortunately my friends and I got blackout drunk by about 4pm. My next memory was being picked up by my rather amused parents.

I woke up with bruised ribs and a massive bruise on my foot. We found out after a few weeks that there was an actual fight on the dance floor that I either a) missed and fell over separately or b) misguidedly tried to intervene in or c) started? Who knows.

Cherrypudding · 30/11/2020 18:50

Bride got unbelievably drunk, decided to wade into the lake, and had to be pulled out by the groomsmen. The groom's family got offended and left because they thought she regretted the wedding and was trying to kill herself. The bride pooed in her dress and her dad then sent everyone else home at 8pm.

Rhine · 30/11/2020 18:52

The wedding where a guest attacked the Maid of Honour because she sat in her seat when she went to the loo, she then punched the mother of the groom when she tried to intervene. Funnily enough none of them speak anymore.

Another wedding some Liverpool and Man United fans, one of who was the best man, had a fight over football after one them had said United are shit.

Serin · 30/11/2020 18:52

Friends wedding in posh country house.
All very elegant and a gorgeous summer day. The guests were all outside on the lawn sipping champagne when up rolled 2 massive campervans that parked right beside the wedding party. On the bloody lawn.
We all watched as they got out their deckchairs and a table and sat watching, occassionally shouting over their congratulations in German. Grin

SylvieSangFroid · 30/11/2020 18:53

A couple fell out at my wedding, but I barely noticed. They broke up officially, not long afterwards.

Rhine · 30/11/2020 18:53

I forgot the wedding where everyone was off their faces on cocaine and they were openly snorting it in the loos, even in front of little kids. Horrible atmosphere and we all left early.

Ansjovis · 30/11/2020 18:53

The worst thing I've witnessed is the groom losing his wedding ring before arriving at the reception. The bride was absolutely furious at him for the rest of the day, don't think they got many decent pictures for the album.

Twinkie01 · 30/11/2020 18:56

FOTB did speech and said but you never know who you're actually marrying and slagged off MOTB who had run off with his cousin.

Bridesmaid then went on to change into a pale blue jersey halter neck catsuit which was see through (pubic hair, nipples and all on display) I think to get at the bride who had made her wear a pink satin monstrosity of a bridesmaid dress.

SylvieSangFroid · 30/11/2020 18:57

Oh I remember hearing a story about a friend of a friend, who was getting married in a really beautiful local hotel. She arrived for the ceremony and half her guests had disappeared, because some shitty pop band were in reception and they wanted to rubber neck! Then the bride was informed that she couldn't have the bridal suite either, as shitty pop band wanted it Shock. Needless to say, she wasn't very happy. I remember my friend saying how she should have laughed it off, but I can see why she didn't!

Lovemusic33 · 30/11/2020 18:58

I used to work at a wedding reception venue (as a chef) so have seen a lot of weddings, seen a few fights, many drunk idiots and some weird themed weddings but I was always surprised that we never had a bride or groom decide not to go through with it at the last minute (like you see on soaps) 🤣.

MarieIVanArkleStinks · 30/11/2020 18:59

Brother of the bride spends entire day pointing out the tackier aspects of his sister's wedding and taking the piss extremely vocally. Father of the bride gives impassioned speech excoriating mother of the bride for pissing off about two decades earlier with another bloke. FoB had his mic drop moment, having obviously planned it well in advance, and thought he'd been incredibly clever. MoB in tears, MoB's relatives all think FoB is a scumbag, bride herself had no inkling that expecting her father, still bitter about the split, to travel with her in her mother's entourage might not have been the best idea. Everyone in the room is deeply uncomfortable and no one knows quite where to look.

By mid evening everyone is paralytic (perhaps unsurprisingly) and I temporarily even take up smoking again to prevent myself from gouging my eyes out with the nearest fork, and so I could hide outside without having to talk to anyone.

On a later occasion we attended the brother of that particular bride's wedding. He bored all his guests to tears with his speech which was almost an hour long. Mother of the groom, as she now was, got so drunk on that occasion she wound up in tears during the evening over having walked out on her marriage about 20 years ago. Yours Truly got the unenviable duty of having to listen to her.

The entire family is batshit.

Hailtomyteeth · 30/11/2020 19:03

My MIL stormed off from the church because she wanted the photographer (paid by my parents like everything else) to take a photo of her son and daughter together, and I thought that inappropriate. She had form. A picture of him and his sister together stood by her bed. It was taken at our engagement. I wasn't on it. I thought she could pay her own photographer for a picture of that lovely couple.

Bikingbear · 30/11/2020 19:05

@iklboogeymum

A massive brawl. The bride's dad had laid on a free bar and some people were taking the absolute piss buying bottles of expensive champagne, spirits etc and putting them in bags under their table. The best man found out and it kicked off.
No way! That's in effect stealing from a friend.Shock
Metabigot · 30/11/2020 19:06

@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
Nooooooooo
Kissthepastrychef · 30/11/2020 19:07

I had to call the police (was working) as they were fighting. The brides dad and 3 others went off in the riot van. And the victim went to hospital
They seemed surprised when I refused to reopen the bar. I pointed out that as 4 had been arrested for fighting there was no chance of me opening the bar as was at my discretion as duty manager.

Mrsjayy · 30/11/2020 19:09

I got blind drunk.at a wedding reception I had been invited to keep my friend company I was 17. Snogged some guy for most of the might fell Ib the toilets and my friends dad took me back to their house Blush.

BlackAmericanoNoSugar · 30/11/2020 19:15

My parents went to a wedding that had Crepes Suzette for dessert. The head waiter set his toupee on fire while flambe-ing the crepes.

We had our wedding reception in the same place a few months later, we chose a dessert that did not require naked flames.

ManxiousCat · 30/11/2020 19:15

Many years ago I attended a wedding where the bride hated her future sister -in law... they had words as the couple were coming out of the church after the service and then they descended into a full on brawl in front of everyone. Tensions simmered until the reception and Sister in law then changed her baby's shitty nappy on the top table during the speeches...i've never seen anything like it and doubt I ever will

ProudAuntie76 · 30/11/2020 19:19

@Hailtomyteeth

My MIL stormed off from the church because she wanted the photographer (paid by my parents like everything else) to take a photo of her son and daughter together, and I thought that inappropriate. She had form. A picture of him and his sister together stood by her bed. It was taken at our engagement. I wasn't on it. I thought she could pay her own photographer for a picture of that lovely couple.
Sorry I’m not really getting this one!

Am I right in thinking that your MIL wanted a picture of her children together? So siblings?

I think that’s quite normal. It’s also fair enough to have a picture of your own children in a special place in your home.

I’m used to huge Irish weddings where everyone gets various pictures with the family staged by the photographer of their request. So the bride and groom and bridal party get all the pictures they want and then there’s a bit of a lull where the main family members might get a picture of say, all the cousins with great gran or In laws with just their immediate family, bride with just her Dad or whatever they fancy. It never occurred to me that this was an unacceptable thing to do. They would purchase the prints they wanted themselves, mind but the photographer was paid for the day. Every family album I’ve seen from all my relatives weddings includes pictures of just adult siblings with their parents or on their own (so bride and her sister, groom with his parents and siblings etc). In my world it’s really not cause for a fight at all!