What drama have you witnessed at a wedding?

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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.

My brother's second wedding was in a registrar office and he invited only me and DM from our side of a huge family. We arrived before anyone else and were told by the registrar that the wedding was secret, asked how we'd found out about it and had strict instructions from the bride to only allow her side of the family in.

The bride's son was late for the ceremony because he'd been arrested the night before for GBH. The guests made no effort to dress for the occasion. The reception was in a Brewer's Fayre/Wetherspoons type chain, there was a mix up with the booking so it was a squeeze, chaotic with shit food. DM was a bit of a traditionalist so she was a bit taken aback by it all.

They divorced a couple of years later when he phoned her at work only to find out she didn't work there and had been taking out loans in his name.

My DP was best man at his best friend’s wedding. They’d known each other since they were little and very close. I had only been going out with DP a couple of years at this point. The bride for some reason disliked me from the moment we met. Although she never said anything to me directly she told mutual friends my relationship with DP wouldn’t last. Anyway come the big day DP performed his best man duties admirably all day and we finally got to spend a little time together during the evening reception. Next thing I know out the corner of my eye I see a blur of white come barrelling towards us. I’m pushed out of the way and the very drunk bride tells DP it’s time for him to have a dance with her. DP said ‘yes, a bit later’ and she went ballistic, started crying and called him the C word in front of everyone and then stormed off. A few minutes later I’m approached by a couple of female cousins of the bride who bundle me outside for a ‘chat’. I had never met these women before that day. They then proceed to berate me for having jealousy and control issues about my DP and that I’m making his life miserable, I just stood there mouth agape with amazement! It was deranged. Luckily a friend came out and saw what was happening and rescued me from the cousins. It’s been 15 years since that day and the bride and I are on more civil terms. But she did wear a white lace dress on my wedding day. I sucked it up and behaved with charm and grace all day.

None, all have been lovely.

@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

Woooooooooooow

@ElementalIllusion @popsydoodle4444 I was guessing more that the bridesmaid was actually secretly in love with the bride for years and basically had a bit of a mental break faced with the reality of her marrying someone else. Either way that one sounds more like something very upsetting was going on for the bridesmaid rather than attention seeking CF like most of these stories!

At a friend’s wedding, the bride’s youngest sister was hammered and wailing at being single, we delegated my (teetotal) DP to take care of her as he didn’t like dancing anyway and was a bit bored of us trying to tipsily drag him into the dancefloor. She kept trying to snog him and he kept politely declining but still sat chatting with her for ages until I was ready to go. That was one of the nights I realised he was definitely a keeper!

At a wedding I went to as a plus one the bride drank so much she vomited all down her dress

Her parents were quite prim and proper so instead of admitting it she told them that one of the bridesmaids had been sick on her dress.

The only wedding I've ever been to was an absolute boreathon, so I'm enjoying living vicariously through these dramas.

Best man’s speech revolved around the night when the groom and bride had just started dating and he had pulled her into the toilets of some bar for a shag. Horrific

I get the one about the mil wanting a photo of her kids and the bride objecting. The mil contributed nothing towards the wedding but then wanted to use the photographer, paid for by the bride's parents, to get her own personal pictures. I can see why the bride might be a bit pissed off, especially if the mil doesn't even like her.

@Growapair

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 I hope she’s not on here because she’ll batter me if she sees this 👀

Wow. Just wow!

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At DPs wedding he claims he was so drunk he passed out before the first dance. I think they were married for about 9 months.

At my first wedding my DF's partner got so drunk (and annoyed the focus wasn't on her), she tried to dance with every single man there. She picked the wrong target when she groped the husband of a friend of mine who is a female boxer and was promptly dragged away by the hair.

She also fell over on the slippy dancefloor about 17 times, with the cheer from the crowd getting louder each time.

[quote popsydoodle4444]@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?[/quote]
I very much doubt it.

The groom wasn't overly fond of her either.
Plus he is a different race to the bridesmaid and her child so it would have been pretty clear if that was the case I think, and I do believe she was still in a relationship with the father, although I didn't know her that well as I never really liked her very much.

She was always a prickly person, she was the kind of person who would fabricate a story just to have something to say and would tell stupid lies or ghost you just to get out of things rather than just admit she couldn't or didn't want to do something.
I just always found her to be really insincere, which quite a few of us did, which is why we never warmed to her or developed much of a friendship with her, we all just accepted her as part of the group when the bride wanted her there for her sake.

[quote MawkishHawk]**@ElementalIllusion* @popsydoodle4444* I was guessing more that the bridesmaid was actually secretly in love with the bride for years and basically had a bit of a mental break faced with the reality of her marrying someone else. Either way that one sounds more like something very upsetting was going on for the bridesmaid rather than attention seeking CF like most of these stories!

At a friend’s wedding, the bride’s youngest sister was hammered and wailing at being single, we delegated my (teetotal) DP to take care of her as he didn’t like dancing anyway and was a bit bored of us trying to tipsily drag him into the dancefloor. She kept trying to snog him and he kept politely declining but still sat chatting with her for ages until I was ready to go. That was one of the nights I realised he was definitely a keeper![/quote]
That's the thing if she had just said something was going on and apologised the bride would have accepted it and moved on.

tbh I think if she was just more of an honest person I and probably many others would have had much more time for her, but it was like she was always so desperate to be liked and included that she never said anything genuine, she always liked everything everyone else liked or had stories and experiences very similar to other people, it was almost as if she was scared to be her own person for fear she would be rejected.
I can see all this looking back, but at the time I just thought she was so fake and full of crap that I had no time for her at all.

I had a full-on punch-up with my best mate, at my cousin's wedding. He's 7ft, I'm 5'3", and we fight like cat and dog.

We were captured on camera, when the group photo was being taken. We were in the background, whacking the absolute shit out of each other on the grass. Neither of us remember why, I think he'd breathed too loudly 😅

Oh, we also went to a wedding where the best man got the groom so pissed through spiked drinks that he remembered nothing of the day and collapsed on the dance floor at 5pm. The bride was devastated. I suspect I can guess what happened afterwards about groom and best man because they split up within four months. It was awful. I worked with her and she had been so excited about getting married. What a nasty cunt that best man was.

A picture of him and his sister together stood by her bed. It was taken at our engagement. I wasn't on it.

If that doesn't give enough of a clue as to why the poster wasn't overjoyed at the wedding photographer being asked to take photos of the groom and his sister without the bride, I'm not sure what will.

Some of these are shocking. Free booze has a lot to answer for!

@ProudAuntie76

Groomsman pulled up the sister of the groom for a dance. She repeatedly said no and explained she didn’t know what to do as she’d never danced with anyone before and was very shy and embarrassed. Totally scarlett, shaking her head and he’s trying to drag her out her seat. Mother of the groom told her off and said she was to dance with the “nice man” and stop being so rude. He was really drunk but managed to refrain from getting handsy although the poor girl looked really uncomfortable. Midway through he exposed himself to her (intentionally but drunkenly). Like just stood in front of her and pulled up his kilt and stood there proud as punch. Says something like “what you’ve never danced with a fella before?! Come off it! Next you’re gonna tell me you’ve not seen one of THESE before either” and just sort of waves it around.

She was white as a sheet and frozen to the spot. Bridesmaids run over saying “WHAT THE FUCK MAN?!?!” and almost forming a human shield around her. Chief bridesmaid drags her out the room and sits her down outside.

Bunch of Groomsmen stood laughing their heads off, congratulating willy waving Groomsman.

Bridesmaids shouting “you should be ashamed of yourselves. You’re disgusting! You stupid fuckers etc!”

Groom comes over, not even angry just in shock and says “did you just flash my little sister?!”

Bunch of “she’s not that little”, “she may be your sister, but she’s not mine” “bro you’re sister is FIT” comments from the groomsmen etc.

And then the bombshell.

“MY SISTER IS THIRTEEN YOU DICKHEAD”

I’ve never seen a group of men lose all their colour so fast. The atmosphere just changed in a second.

To make matters worse, he then just kept trying to find her and apologise for the rest of the night and sort of “befriend her” and the poor girl kept avoiding eye contact and looked like she wanted the ground to swallow her up. She was blaming herself as it was her first time wearing makeup and an expensive dress and thought she’d encouraged it through that. The weirdest thing was that her parents didn’t really react at all to be honest. You’d think they’d have punched him! The face off between the bridesmaids and groomsmen was a sight to behold. The whole night it kept kicking back off...the men trying to say she looked older than her age and the women saying it’s no excuse, there’s no justification etc. Often think of that poor kid and hope wasn’t put off men for life!

Omg that's bloody awful.

I went to one where the Best Man didn't show up, (groom's best mate). When the groom called to ask where he was he replied that he 'didn't feel like it'.

@Sundaypolodog a friends wedding ended in a murder aswell I wonder if it's the same one

I've posted about this before.

Registry office ceremony and afterwards we all go outside to a big set of stone stairs for pictures. Majority of the party were at the top of the stairs, with the bride and groom at the bottom.

The brides nan was in a wheelchair and her carer had left her at the top of the stairs, forgetting to put the brakes on. The wheelchair rolled forward and crashed all the way down into the bride and groom at the bottom, blood all over the stairs and on her dress, ambulance called, she was taken to hospital, never came out and a few weeks later died of pneumonia. My prevailing memory of the reception was the bride at the sink trying to scrub blood out of her train. It was fucking awful.

The groom's Grandfather dropped dead in the church (literally just crashed onto the floor) It was awful.

When I was a student I worked in a hotel in Bristol that was popular on the wedding circuit. Most weddings were fairly boring but occasionally you would get some humdinger arguments and fights. The worse was a bride and groom whose respective rough looking families clearly hated each other, you could see by the body language and feel from the vibe that everyone just wanted to get it over and done with. Sadly once alcohol was added it was always going to get ugly and while I am not sure what the trigger was a mass brawl broke out. When I say brawl I mean Hollywood style wild west fight with people rolling across tables, chairs and bottles being flung across the room, torn shirts, blood everywhere, men fighting men, women fighting women, it was terrifying. The bar could only be accessed via the function room so once we had pulled the shutters down we were trapped. The phone on the counter had already been thrown at someone so we were stuck. Ended up pouring ourselves a glass of wine each and watched the chaos from our own armoured hospitality box.

I always remember the poor bride in the middle of room bawling her eyes out with her blood speckled father screaming "He aint good enough for yer, he aint good enough....." at her.

Police rolled up about 15 mins later after which time half the reception party had escaped to fight elsewhere in the hotel. We just saw off a bottle of wine waiting for the all clear.

Fuckers didnt even leave a tip.