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.

@Bitcherama

One where someone shouted out in the "just cause and impediment" bit that the groom was married already. The vicar took them and couple off into the vestry then returned to announce everyone should go home. Woooooah, fallout!

Was the bride jane Eyre?

Not drama as such, but walked into the bathroom to see the recently married groom shagging a bridesmaid up against the wall.
I turned around and closed the door.

A friend’s cousin’s wedding. Their grandfather sat down in a chair and died. Stopped the party very abruptly.
I used to work in a wedding venue that was surprisingly expensive but also a bit rough. There were a lot of fights. I remember a really drunk bride screaming at us to call an ambulance “he’s killing him, he’s killing him”.
At another small, posh venue I worked at, they had hired an amazing local band. The lead singer wasn’t available so the band had brought in a replacement from the next city. She decided to mingle during their break and got (and enjoyed) a lot of attention from the single male guests. Every single one gave her a glass of champagne. She was absolutely wasted when they played their next set and it was incoherent rambling into the mic. Out of tune and staggering around. It was such a small venue that there was really nowhere to hide.

@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.

Huh? I don’t get this? As in your DH and his sister? Why is that inappropriate?

I attended one where the bride's brother was walking around the guests, introducing himself as her brother, then proceeding to tell them that she was an utter slag, and he couldn't understand why the groom was marrying such damaged goods.

Another where the groom disappears right before the ceremony (they went on and married 2 years later).

The best one was where the bride and groom had what can only be described as s sort of DIY country wedding. The guests turned up and were all instructed to arrange hay bales, put up bunting, help arrange the buffet...all of it. Then the ceremony itself took place in some building that was way too small, and could only accommodate about 6 guests, so they had a mad dash to pick who should actually watch the ceremony, everyone else was sent off to continue putting together the reception.

My DH thought it was so rude, we had just driven down (six hour drive), he wanted to leave immediately. Others did leave. The bride and groom were oblivious and still go on what a great day it was.

I was bridesmaid at a wedding where the bride and groom shouldn’t have got married but did as they wanted to live together and brides family were super religious.

Groom got so drunk and the next day my (now ex) friend called to ask if they were actually married as they didn’t have sex as he was so drunk he passed out, crapped himself on the floor and she had to clear it up. They had a baby soon after and he disappeared when the baby was a few weeks old never to see his baby again.

The brother of the groom walked into the reception with his fists clenched, made straight for the top table and tried to fight the groom, the bride, and his own parents. Because he didn't agree with his brothers choice of bride.

A nearby Social Club was hosting the reception, but ran out of a particular drink.
About 20 guests left to go to 1 of the 2 pubs in the village, drank that one dry of that drink, then left & went on the rampage.
All the shops & the other pub closed, police were called but didn't do much.

BTW, the guests were all female.

Obvious question I know, Georgyporky, but what was the drink and why couldn't they just have had something else?

I'm struggling to think of anythoing so special that it had to be that

@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.

So a mother has a photo of her son and daughter together on her bedside table, and that is an issue because?? And wants a photo taken of her son and daughter taken on her son’s wedding day, and that is an issue because?? Did your photographer charge per photo then, or did you not pay a day rate?

Just love this thread!!!!!
I usually avoid weddings as they are so boring, not these😂😂😂

I went to an armed forces wedding once held at an artificial ski slope. The reception was in a ski lodge. The groomsmen got so bladdered they stole a dining table, upturned it and rode it down the ski slope. The wedding reception was stopped and everyone kicked out.

This goes back to the 1960's and told to me second hand by the villagers. Local young woman marries local young farmworker. Lovely midsummer wedding in the local church and all the village and guests walk up to the farm for a sumptious beef roast, barn dance, local music, cut flowers, games and copious cider. At sunset the bride alone takes a stroll down the lane to the edge of the village, where the main A Road passes, and where the only old-red telephone box was located. This is where everyone went when they needed to phone the outside world - way before landlines were installed in village homes and mobiles were not even in science fiction. All well and good, except she never returned to the party after going to make her call.

The next morning the bride was seen emerging from the cabin of a truck, saying goodbye for the last time to the driver she had met and been shagging in that same layby next to the telephone box for the last year or so. The groom until his death always believed it was a wind up.

I went to a wedding where one of the grooms brothers had to do a reading. The usual Corinthians bit about the gifts of the spirit and love being the greatest. The bible was already open on the lecturn so he assumed it was what he was supposed to be reading. So he read that. It was a bit from the old testament about how evil the sins of the flesh were. He sounded like a fire and brimstone preacher. Everyone was trying and failing not to laugh, including the priest.

@Hailtomyteeth I don't get why you think it's inappropriate?

@FatCatThinCat that’s really made me chuckle.

My weird moment was when the groom, a friend of mine, kissed me and told me he should have married me. This was at the reception!

Used to work at a wedding venue so have seen lot.

Four separate weddings either me or my team caught the best man shagging one if the bridesmaids. One particularly memorable time my colleague was trying to get them to go back down to the rooms that the reception was in, when the Best Man's wife came storming up the stairs looking for him and got an eyeful of her husband getting a blow job. They left pretty quickly.

Another one that sticks in my memory was the wedding where the pregnant bride sat on her own the whole evening (no family or friends) and the new groom got incredibly drunk before shouting at her calling her a miserable bitch. Then got everyone except the bride to leave to go the pub across the road, leaving her completely on her own. Us staff felt so sorry for her we ended up sitting and chatting with her for the rest of the evening. I often think about her and hope she got out of that marriage.

My cousin married a very spoiled man. After my uncle's speech (10mins) , and the best man speech (15 mins), the groom's mother stood up to speak. She spoke for 50 minutes (we timed it) about how amazing her son was. Her concluding sentence was "and the accusations of racism were wrong"...

growapair I'm sitting here mouth wide open. She set her sisters dress on fire?? What the ACTUAL fuck!!! Who does that. And then brags about it. Twat.

None. Everyone we know - friends and family know how to behave, even if they are outside several beers/glasses of wine etc.

Once went to the wedding of a very wealthy friend who was IIRC 46 at the time, marrying a 23 year old gold digger woman. He was a widow and stupid lonely I imagine.

The bride had this HUGE dress on and custom made Jimmy Choo shoes - she looked amazing. She was wearing her MIL's tiara and a hand stitched veil flown in from Italy.

She got absolutely hammered, and had apparently been drinking non stop since 8am. Grabbed the mic off the best man during the speeches and said "I know what you're all thinking, I'm only after him for his money, well you're WRONG! This is true love " (definitely don't look like a gold digger now love). Anyway, she vomited all down her dress after the wedding breakfast, big orange gloops all over her puffy dress, designer shoes and veil. The tiara fell in the sick. Poor MIL nearly had a coronary. The evening guests arrived to no bride as she had to be taken home.

The groom wasn't much better. He kept kneeling down to stick his head under her dress pre-vomiting that is. hadn't seen that side to him before, silly old fool.

There was drama the next day too as one bridesmaid got so pissed at the wedding she slept with the new husband of another bridesmaid

These are wealthy upper middle class folk acting like something out of Shameless. It was glorious

They're divorced now. The bridesmaids are still friends and the cheated on bridesmaid is still with her husband, they went on to have kids. Takes all sorts I guess.

*widower

I know that type of wedding, there is a pub in a town near me that caters for the weddings others won't have, theres a huge nissan hut (I think that's what its called) at the rear of the premises, they put barrels of ice with cans of beer in it, the glasses are plastic, the tables and chairs are screwed to the floor, the bridal party pay a certain amount which determines the amount of beer provided and when that's gone they can pay more for it to be topped up,no food is served, they often nip to the chinese takeaway next door. Next day its hosed out and ready for the next wedding. Each bridal party provided their own decorations and DJ.