Tell me a crazy wedding story!

[PoppingPineapples]

I watched a romcom tonight with a ridiculous wedding interruption (won’t say which so I don’t spoil anything!)… and it got me thinking, what’s the most ridiculous thing you’ve seen happen at a wedding?

Surely some bonkers things must have happened over the years, it can’t just be the films!!

True stories only please 😆

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someone once told me about a wedding where everyone did loads of coke (including the bride and groom), and then the bride ended up shagging the best man outside the venue, not very subtley.
im assuming they got the wedding annulled but I can’t remember !!

out of curiosity, what was the film you watched?

Bloody hell!!!!

“Irish Wish” with Lindsay Lohan 🤣🤣🤣

I watched that, I actually enjoyed it 🙈

The vicar, during his sermon, in his pulpit said "the groom is not a gentleman and the bride is no spring chicken."

The silence could have been cut with a knife.

Just a couple weddings where the Bride and MIL beefed big time - Monster inlaw. Arguing and shouting in front of guests and they had a very miserable wedding with photos to show. And then a divorce within a year.

Me too 🙈😂 despite the ridiculous!

Oh my goodness 😂

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A couple. Religious ceremony with devout couple who had been to pre-wedding religious counselling / wedding prep (I forget the correct term). Minister proceeded to tell the congregation about what the couple had brought up in these sessions, including disagreements about her house / his money. I felt mortified for them. Can still remember the exact words 15 years later but I don't want any of the other people there to recognise this!

One where it was a buffet and the bride was in a complete strop from start to finish (I was working at the venue). No idea what happened before getting to the venue, but she refused to get up and walk to the buffet and insisted her mum did it for her (groom got up fine, seemed embarrassed by the whole thing). They'd ordered cold beef and other cold meats and salad etc. She sent her plate back 3 times because the beef wasn't bloody enough for her tastes, even though the caterers had explained they couldn't serve rare cold beef due to H+S, plus the strong chance most of it would go to waste because most people won't eat cold raw beef. She tried to send it back a 4th time, at which point her mum refused to cooperate and told her off like a child. Because the B+G were served first she was holding everyone else up whilst they watched her. Groom looked like he was seriously considering his options.

Went to two consecutive weddings when I was a teen (1980's) which ended up in fisticuffs! We kids thought it was hilarious! Not sure of the reason for the first, but the second time it turned out that the bride had had an affair with the best man a few weeks before the ceremony

I went to one which had a lot of bizarre stuff going on but the weirdest bit was probably the father of the groom giving a very long speech during which he praised the quality of his own DNA and urged his son and new daughter in law - in quite pornographic terms - to go forth and multiply that very night so that his excellent genes would be passed on to a new generation.

A week later we heard that the couple had split up the very next day.

A couple of months after that we heard that the bride's father was trying to sue the groom for the cost of the wedding.

A year or so later we heard that they had got back together and were having a baby.

Not my story, but that of a former work colleague who used to sing in a church choir and was present at a lot of hatches, matches and dispatches.

At one wedding, the vicar got to the bit where they ask if anyone has any just cause or impediment why they bride and groom shouldn't marry, and the bride spoke up. She announced to the congregation that the groom and her bridesmaid had slept together the previous night, turned and thrust her bouquet into the chief bridesmaid's hand, marched down the aisle and out of the church.

@PoppingPineapples - I watched that too....my god, it was shit, but I still watched it!! 🤣🤣🤣

😆😆😆 I’m so for Lindsay Logan’s comeback 😂

Oh god, so many! All MIL’s extended family, who are awful.

Highlights include the father of the bride speech which focused on her teenage criminal record, then moved onto her eating disorder, and finished by thanking the groom for taking her off his hands “because he didn’t imagine anyone ever would”.

Different wedding: Mother of the groom was so desperate to get the bouquet (despite being married) that she launched herself airborne into the crowd of bridesmaids and landed fully on top of a cousin, who happens to have dwarfism (MOG is big, cousin was completely flattened).

Uncle turning up with his much younger Russian bride, and his three estranged adult children stropping off in disgust (she was actually very nice, and he’s been divorced from his first wife for about a decade. The issue was the age gap).

Lots of drunken fights. Lots of plus ones going off with a different guest than the one they arrived with.

A young trans woman guest, who unfortunately didn’t pass in any way shape or form, announcing she was going to “fuck all the married men to make the fish jealous of a REAL woman” (she was very drunk, and coked up). She then tried to undo the flies of with random unwilling male guests on the dance floor, and ended up keeling over drunk and left in an ambulance.

I LOVE DH’s family weddings, we get entertainment for months. Obviously we didn’t invite them to ours.

My side of the family, and our friends, have pretty dull weddings in comparison. We did have one friend whose best man didn’t turn up “because he was too busy shagging his new girlfriend”, but that wasn’t drama as much as scandal/gossip.

Ours - a guest's waters broke during our vows. We wondered what the kerfuffle was and only found out when the service ended...

A friend's - the organist messed up their diary so no music for the bride to enter to / we ended up singing all the hymns unaccompanied / no music for the happy couple to depart to. Bride and groom had to borrow money from the reception venue to pay for a key element of the day, because neither of them had money with them.

Op look up Charlotte dobre on Facebook or you tube. The stories are amazing. Weddings turn people into assholes.
Op I shall return later with my story

Invited to a work colleague's wedding we only knew the groom and had met the bride at a couple of after work events, she was quiet but very nice. On the day about 5 couples from work went. Half the church (bride side) was empty, apart from MOB and husband, 2 neat kids, and 2 older couples and then sat 1/4 way back, what appeared to be 2 very young teenage girls and a teenage boy.

Well it transpired one of the 2 young girls was the FOB partner, she looked younger than the bride by about 10 years, barely out of her teens. And then MOB and FOB kept having rows, the 2 older couples kept pulling them apart and steering them away from each other. FOB in his speech kept making comments how he hoped they'd have a happier marriage than his and alluding to MOB in less than complimentary terms eg '... the very pretty bride, who clearly gets her looks from my side of the family...' (nobody laughed). Was so embarrassing.
Don't know what happened to the couple, he changed job and they moved abroad to Australia we presumed to get away from her parents..!

Several years ago I went to the wedding of one of my best friend's sisters. The couple were young and... how can I put it a politely, a bit questionable. The local police station knew them by name.
Anyway, they got married (groom was pissed throughout) and we all moved on to the local bowling club for the reception. The bride was wearing the most massive impractical dress (think Big Fat Gypsy Weddings) and she genuinely resembled a giant meringue crossed with a glitter ball. She got drunk pretty quickly and proceeded to knock about 50 glasses off various tables and split snakebites all the way down the meringue.
Come midnight and the newly married couple were having a massive screaming match in the car park. Her sister and her boyfriend were also having an argument, and it erupted into this massive rammy between about a dozen guests. Police were called, arrests made (including the groom) and the bride stormed off with her drunk dad and got driven home in a horse trailer.
It ended up in the local paper.

Invited to a long lost friend's ds's wedding.. She took us aside and whispered the bride was pregnant but her family didn't know so don't mention anything.. Cue bride enters the church at least 6 months pregnant and looking it. The best man didn't show. The groom's df stood in complete with a leather jacket The Fonz would have died for.....
Marriage lasted until soon after the birth..

Friend had too much to drink, went to the loo and when she came back she was embarrassed to walk across the dance floor so she crawled!
DS was a band leader at a wedding and he had to compliment the bride on how she looked because she was ignored in all the speeches.
I saw the groom at a wedding snogging a bridesmaid (like The Godfather).
Finally, (I wasn’t there) the groom stood up to make his speech and said something along the lines of ‘thanks to my best man and I know he’s the best man as he’s been sleeping with my wife and I want a divorce’!!!!!

Name changed so not linked to other posts. This fucker is outing!!!! A little long sorry

Got married mid 2000 s. His family appeared normal and nice helpful even.

Wedding in church and reception in hall linked to it. The reception was a celebration of marriage no pomp and ceremony. A massive party with buffet. I put on cava for the toasts and provided wine and tea etc before the bar opened. Soft drinks for kids. The actual bar was buy your own.

My friend and I did the catering. Did the hall decorations along with her daughter and another girl. The other young lady helping offered to do the photography. I did a little party food table aimed specifically for the kids attending as well. I was informed people were really pleased with the buffet variety.

My wonderful mum (who had terminal cancer) was insisting to help, she made her tandoori chicken drumstick’s which I have never been able to replicate !! Organised the DJ for me and paid. Also just automatically assumed she would be having my two eldest stay with her on the wedding night. My youngest was staying with my lovely friend who helped me.

Everything organised I put hotel details for those who didn’t live here. I did not want to force people to stay in hotels it’s just an option no one was putting a gun to their head. This comment is important.

Some in-laws offered their “skills” as wedding presents.
One offered to make the cake! when I was asked I said well I was going to get them at a supermarket that sold wedding cakes made of sponge either Victoria and try and get chocolate and buy those pillars. Just something generic. I accepted the kind offer and said yes and that a chocolate cake would be cool. Well kids love chocolate cake and children were invited. Well a couple of days til wedding get a call is anyone allergic to nuts as there is a lot of different ones in it and we will have to warn people!! . The cake was a chocolate torte filled with nuts. I hate the taste of nuts and obviously the first time I had a bit was on the wedding day (as baker lived far away) it tasted like a brownie with a nutty taste . Disaster number one, however I had bought gateaux’s as a substitute if needed.

One offered to video the entire proceedings (well her bf) I was really pleased having a video made hadn’t even crossed my mind. My other friend thought that was good as she could take stills from it and create photographs from it so I’d have lots even though another was doing photography. I saw a little of the video and it looked lovely said don’t worry about editing we will have it as is they had done enough by videoing it. Well the entire video was lost by them. I was devastated as I knew that in the future all I would have were my memories of seeing my mum living the best life surrounded by friends and family not a video which would have been awesome. My family said what a brilliant time they all had, it would also be the last time all together as my mum passed away four years later. The response was so blasé.
Save the best til last his fam member we shall call CF they were not happy about the mention of a hotel (they lived 40 mins away and drive)assumed they could stay at my house with us on our wedding night with their children. Well they made crap arrangements another member was taking 1 child with them, but forgot. They were getting a lift but couldn’t all fit in the car. CF then left one kid with a friend of mine who they had never met overnight not leaving a phone number etc. I got a panicked call from my friend my then husband was going to collect them but friend said no I’ll drop them round tomorrow. I went straight to bed and sleep. There is more but let’s just add I was extremely angry. It really put the dampener on a really good day until the video issue.

The following day we were descended upon MIL and CF all laughing about how funny that was no apology nothing. I felt that CF had done it on purpose because they couldn’t stay at my house. I knew for certain after lots of similar behaviour sly digs disrespectful towards my hospitality etc.

I obviously had to get my children home, but OMG it took me hours to do that! Can’t imagine why it took soo long, unfortunately they had gone by time I got back. 😉

Anyway happy ending my divorce should be final by September. Haven’t seen any of his family in many many years nor my stbexh in a year. So win win .

Ha!! Yes, so did I

You lot certainly delivered on the stories 😂🫣