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.

The nightmare started in the hen do when my friend got steaming drunk on her hen do and admitted she didn’t love her fiancé as much as her ex but was marrying him as he was a high earner and she valued financial security. The wedding still went ahead as she pretended afterwards it was just the drink talking and it was silly wedding nerves. If you’ve ever seen that video of Melania Trump smiling at Donald and then her face falling into glumness the second he looks away, then that’s what she was like whenever she thought nobody was watching her. Even the photographer complained he couldn’t get pics of her smiling. The whole wedding day was horrendous as it was all just an utter sham. They are still married and now have children.

My mate went to an insanely expensive London wedding where the best man announced the couple had got married two years before; not even their parents had known (and had just paid for this one). Many fucked off guests. Lots of early exits. Apparently the bride was weeping with joy in her huge dress with her six bridesmaids...after two years of marriage.

I was invited to one that told me "money is attractive" in the invitation. You had to buy your own burger when there and drinks too, guests found out on arrival. Some of my friends went and were quite upset, saying they felt totally used. Couple not poor.

@Hailtomyteeth please come back and explain why there was any issue with what your mil wanted. At every single wedding I have ever been to the bride and groom will get a pic alone with siblings then parents too and then parents with them and their new spouse.

Ps not Jane Eyre. Vicars in my family.

Massive fight started by a young lad off his head on coke. Police were called and it took four big, burly officers to get him in the police van. Half the guests doing the macarena on the dance floor, oblivious, and the other half brawling and yelling "It's not worth it!" at each other.

@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.

Jesus I'm embarrassed for you. That'd be quite normal at weddings I've been to, you get photos done of different sides of the family. How pathetic to refuse one standard photo.

The father of the bride turned out to be holding a major grudge against the groom's nephew for jilting one of his other daughters and slaughtered everyone on the groom's side except for his new son-in-law. Worst reception ever!

Nowhere near as dramatic as that, but we did spend some time on our table at one wedding trying to work out the very interleaved relationships between the bride's family with the aid of sweetie papers from the tub of Roses chocolates provided.

Also to add to the thread: a friend of mine DJ'd at a Russian-Irish wedding. Fairly standard to take requests. The issue was whenever he'd put on a request from the Irish side, all the Russians would come storming up demanding that traditional Russian music was played. When the Russian music played the Irish were giving out that they wanted 90s boyband tracks. Absolutely impossible to please either crew and trying to alternate between demands wasn't working.

In the end I think he said feck it and played what he thought should be played.

Just waiting for someone to come on and say “mother of the groom was having a nice photo taken of groom and his sister - bride turned up and went mental.”

I have been to many, many weddings in my 30 years of attending weddings and never have I witnessed any drama. The weddings I’ve attended have always been supremely classy affairs. I feel cheated.

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.

You know this post says a lot more about you than your MIL ??

@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.

Four days? I’d give it 3 max. If lockdown wasn’t “ending” on Wednesday I’d give it 48 hours but the pseudo end to lockdown will give them plenty of news fodder for Wednesday.

Used to work at a hotel wedding venue.
The worst wedding I ever worked on... supposed to be a maximum of 90 guests (that was what we were legally allowed due to fire safety), over 200 showed up, cars and caravans all down the street it was chaos. The bar staff were spat at and threatened with being beaten up it they refused to serve drinks, bottles stolen from behind, fake notes, underage drinkers etc. police eventually showed up... 8 car loads of them! But not before the bride's relative had shat on the baby change unit and smeared it all over the disabled wash room. I had to help with cleaning it up

It's traditional to have at least one fight at a wedding, surely?

Sad post-wedding drama...

Happy wedding where Best man tells story about Groom flashing to strangers on road infamous for crazy nightlife.

I am only one at wedding who understands the story because I am only who who lives near the crazy nightlife road, in same country as groom.

3 yrs later: Groom is denied permission to live in same country as Bride. No one in family talks about why. I suspect Groom got on SOR for drunk & disorderly flashing in public.

I have an aunt and uncle and that turned out to be pretty awful people and I am now estranged from them.

My aunt's friend of several decades fell out with her and never spoke to her again after she got into a massive bust up with her then fiancee at the wedding reception - the police were called. At her own wedding years later her husband tried it on with my mum 2 hours after the ceremony.

I cried through the ceremony and not for a good reason. Really had to hold my tongue at that 'if you know of any reason why they should not be married' bit!

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

Another who feels you need to come back and tell us what happened next

Ah, in the absence of an OP whose post leaves no room for attack, the sharks have sniffed the blood of @Hailtomyteeth and have initiated a pile-on!

That poster doesn't have to 'come back and explain' one single thing. Her message hinted very strongly that she has the type of MiL who favours the grand, passive-aggressive gesture of ensuring none of the pictures displayed in her home contain her.

Fair play: her house. Fair play, too, though, that it was that PP's wedding, and if her new MiL was so desperate for a Bride-Free picture of the groom and his sister then nothing was preventing her taking one herself. It's no big issue.

PA gestures are fairly clearly discernible from P-Aggressor's reactions whenever someone rises to their little digs. Their behaviour is calculated to make themselves the innocent, wronged party and the target of their PA the aggressor. From the denial that they meant anything unkind, to 'it's YOU who are being oversensitive!', you can predict it from a mile off. Right on cue she storms off, and BINGO!, you have a full house.

PP - I wish you luck with this one.

Family traveller wedding. Pick up trucks for wedding cars, kids stood up on seats during ceremony, groom was drunk, fight at reception, another fight after reception & groom got a black eye.

I was at a double wedding years ago, seen one of the brides (the one I didn't know) was sitting on the grooms knee and having a lovely romantic looking chat except it wasn't the groom, it was his brother. All night long she was constantly dancing with, talking to, looking at her now bil as if they'd just made their vows to each other, a few of us noticed and it was pretty uncomfortable. Roll on a few years and she gives birth to her first child with bil by her side, he made it to the hospital before her husband (nothing to do with the fact that she didn't call the husband until the child was born) and stayed with her during the delivery, the child was the image if the bil but that was but down to family resemblance until finally they admitted they'd been carrying on since before the wedding. She's now married to her ex bil and happy as can be. Her ex husband has a new wife but afaik the brothers don't have much contact.

I've been to my fair share of weddings over the years, and they have all been pretty uneventful. Some were mind-numbingly boring.

not at all drama but hilarious. Indian family on one side, my GF giving a speech. Bear in mind the bride has all her friends there (my sister) and me and my other sister have mates there too. My wonderful (now sadly deceased) GF starts giving a speech about God...so far, all normal for my family. Then he starts talking about how we wants my sister to have kids through 'sexual union' - they shouldn't enjoy it, but it will give him great grandkids. This went on FOR A WHILE with details. My BILs parents - not Indian or used to our batshittery - were nonplussed, my friends were trying not to laugh (as was I) and my mum was threatening blue murder. Never had more fun at a wedding.

[quote Leaannb]@Merryoldgoat...Stepsister and the Groom were embroiled in a years long relationship. Started when they were teens and were forced to break up. They started hooking up.and entered a relationship and Groom started seeing Bride and Proposed while still seeing stepsister. Stepsister got knocked up and decided to keep it. Stepsister made her little announcement after her Stepfather (groom's father) mentioned how excited they were for the eventual grandchildren....It got ugly very quickly. It was broken up by military police. Great fun.....[/quote]
I'm posting this for all the posters who've posted AFTER this update because they're desperate for one - and have somehow missed it!

and to jangle keys to distract the pile-on posters

The best man was shagging the maid of honour in the ladies toilets. His pregnant wife was at the reception and the MOHs fiancée had arranged to come home a few days early from deployment. Mainly so he could come to the wedding, but also to surprise his future wife.

It was absolute carnage.

If you want to know the craziest part. The pregnant wife and the fiancé ended up together. They are now married, was a marvellous wedding (no toilet shags), and they have their own children.