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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.

OP posts:
Cherrysoup · 30/11/2020 23:25

Bit like Romeo and Juliet minus the iambic pentameter.

🤣

Absolutely superb, @ShowOfHands! 😂

SunshineYello · 30/11/2020 23:36

I can't get over some of these!!! Maybe I've lived a sheltered life, but I can't imagine having the brass neck to act like this, no matter how drunk, at someone else's big day that they have paid for!!!

Cocolapew · 30/11/2020 23:41

I thought the poster meant the MIL wanted a photo of her 2 children, but neither was the groom.

noirchatsdeux · 30/11/2020 23:53

@Bitcherama 19 years ago exH and I were invited to a wedding in New York of a friend of his that he'd known since the first day of primary school (Bride is American) ...it was at the most expensive time of year, and also a time where due to our respective areas of work neither of us could get any time off. So we didn't go.

Wife of friend let slip last year they'd actually been married in the UK, nearly a year before the New York wedding. She was complaining that her mother had only just found out, and for some reason wasn't too happy about it...

Sarahlou63 · 30/11/2020 23:54

An engagement party, rather than a wedding. Very, very posh house in Kensington Gardens. Champagne flowing, lots and lots of it. A rather charming young man told me we could see Princess Diana's rooms from the first floor bedroom. So pissed I didn't see anything until the lights suddenly went on and he mother of the girlfriend of the charming young man stood over us and asked icily if we would like to rejoin the main party. Awkward. I often wonder if Diana was at home and witnessed our illict shag from her apartment....

pollyglot · 30/11/2020 23:55

My own. 47 years ago, in our family home's garden. Very unpleasant, very drunk ex-BIL (best man!!!) created chaos, knocked over my mother, insulted guests, vandalised and immobilised my ex-H's car, catcalled and made obscene comments as we left in my dad's car. Very, very ugly. Ex-FIL blamed ex and me - not sure how we were to blame...but then, ex BIL was always the golden child. Not surprisingly, we are now exes, and I despise the lot of them. Poor ex got caught up in the ensuing mess, and the whole scenario became unbearable.

Rosebel · 30/11/2020 23:57

My cousin and SIL nearly had a punch up at my wedding. Cousin was incredibly drunk and started trying to sexy dance with my brother who kept moving away.
SIL screamed at her and said if it wasn't my wedding she'd have smacked her in the mouth.

cameocat · 30/11/2020 23:58

I know someone who was visited by the vicar who was marrying them the day before the wedding. He then proceeded to beg the bride to not get married and run off with him instead! This was back in the late sixties ( she was gorgeous but so was the bride).

FluffySocks75 · 30/11/2020 23:59

A guest vanished.

We had an informal and slightly drunk search party.

They turned up an hour later. They had been out on a boat with some random.

kazza446 · 01/12/2020 00:00

Yep! I have!! the usher at a wedding I was at went missing during the day reception...found out years later that a woman also went missing at same said wedding.. it was an ex girlfriend of the usher. The bride confessed years that a couple had been found at it, in the woods at her wedding. One of them was married. She wouldn’t disclose who it was, but I wasn’t stupid. My husband was that usher and strangely enough he was now my ex after I found out he had cheated on me a couple of times!

Londonmummy66 · 01/12/2020 00:03

Pretty tame but the one where the best man slunk into the choir vestry before the service and shamefacedly admitted he'd forgotten the ring. Didn't want to admit it to all and sundry of the guests so did anyone in the choir have a ring he could borrow. DM handed hers over - not quite sure what was said to the bride but it was returned after the service.

popsydoodle4444 · 01/12/2020 00:09

@Leaannb

Your post wins

That's amazing;that's a storyline for a soap if I've ever seen one.

Man has affair with step sister gets her pregnant and the step sister confesses at the wedding

popsydoodle4444 · 01/12/2020 00:20

Husband's work colleagues wedding,the bosses snobby twat of a PA came with his whiney girlfriend (they were great fun).

At the same wedding the grooms old army best mate came and brought a escort as his plus one.

In the early hours of the next morning all 4 of them were asked to leave the hotel they were staying on after the two men had a punch up.

The whiney girlfriend,the army lad and the escort has a threesome whilst the PA was sleeping.The army lad snapped photos of the 2 girls with him in the photo on the girlfriends phone and sent them to her boyfriend 😂

Chimbleys · 01/12/2020 00:21

I have been to a wedding where the bride's gay best friend got her 18 year old son from a previous marriage sloshed and took him to a gay club. The bride spent her wedding night leaving increasingly threatening messages on gay bf phone.

CthulhuInDisguise · 01/12/2020 00:26

Ex wife of the groom tried it on with the groom, he told her to do one so she then went to his older brother (with whom she had already had an affair, with question marks over the parentage of her oldest child) and when he turned her down, went home with the groom's younger brother.

RollneckJumper · 01/12/2020 00:26

Many years ago, I was at a colleagues wedding reception with my now exbf. He wasn't much of a drinker usually and had had a few too many.

Egged on by equally drunk mates, he approached a female guest who they'd never met before. She had large breasts and was wearing a very low cut dress. He held his camera out in front of him and asked her "A picture of your tits?"

She was mortified and instantly told her husband who was quite rightly furious and wanted to fight my now exbf. Luckily other guests were able to diffuse the situation.. which was around the time I discovered what had happened and I wanted to punch my now exbf myself!
Needless to say, I left him quite soon after that.

popsydoodle4444 · 01/12/2020 00:58

@ElementalIllusion

Was she a single mum by any chance?,there's no chance your friends husband could be the child's father? Or could have had a fling with him pre wedding?

ImnotCarolineHirons · 01/12/2020 01:01

Groom and Best Man had been best friends since primary age childhood, always in and out of each other homes, families very close, holidayed together all their lives, all best buddies yadda yah.

Mother of Groom got absolutely shitfaced and tried to grope and kiss BM on the dance floor, 25 years her junior and for all intents and purposes who had been like a second son to her for most of his life.

He was disgusted, pushed her away, she fell, both families went ballistic, huge row at the reception, DJ had to stop, manager called to break up imminent brawl, it was mad.

End result was Groom didn't speak to his mother for about 3 years and it was only the birth of the first grandchild that started to smooth things over. BM was godfather so it was a rather awkward Christening service ...

Chimbleys · 01/12/2020 01:12

Sorry, my post seems very homophobic. I was trying to make the story vague.
There were other details including a distraught girlfriend who the bride had to console.

PirateCatQueen · 01/12/2020 01:15

As a teenager I worked in a hotel that did a lot of weddings.

The one that really stands out is the one where the bride’s and groom’s families didn’t get on, particularly the parents. Couple were really sweet snd very much in love. The top table was really uncomfortable from the off.

The parents got really drunk during the meal, and were past the point of no return by the Grand March.

One MIl bumped into the other and it turned into a full on hair pulling face taking cat fight on the dance floor. One FIL tried to break it up snd got set on by the other. Fighting spread to uncles, cousins etc.

The other drinks waitress and I spirited the bride off through the back. The bride was bawling her eyes out sitting on the out end of the conveyor dishwasher. Her dress got soaked through snd ruined she was so beside herself. The other waitress went off to try to find the groom whilst tried to console the bride with tea and tissues.

Catra · 01/12/2020 01:36

The bride (whom I had never met before) blanked the groom (my DH's friend) for most of the night, choosing instead to slag him off to anyone within earshot because apparently, he hadn't paid as much as her towards their wedding nor house deposit. She then dragged my BIL outside and had a massive go at him for coming to her wedding in 'fancy dress' - BIL tried to tell her numerous times that his eye-patch was not, in fact, a pirate costume but due to him having a recent corneal transplant, but she wouldn't believe him.

Hawkins001 · 01/12/2020 03:32

Just shows, with some people, how things look is one thing, then how things actually are, is a completely different thing.

Diddumz · 01/12/2020 05:02

The photographer turned out to be a crook. No film in his camera so no official pics of the wedding. He was paid in advance, so the money was lost.

165EatonPlace · 01/12/2020 05:27

Overheard a big arguament at the next table during the evening reception. Those sat at the table were part of a large extended family and I overheard the words "so who is my Dad then?". During the same conversation somebody also came out as being gay.

cactusisblooming · 01/12/2020 05:48

Not mine but at a colleague's wedding the MOB had an asthma attack and died during the wedding reception 😓