"Oh, my wedding!My wife was going to walk out to "Here Comes the Bride". I'm standing there in front of a huge crowd, the organist starts playing it, and...my Mom who I hadn't spoken to in over a decade starts walking down the isle in a white dress. She was invited, but I didn't expect her to come. She showed up at the very last minute and my wife kinda panicked and said, "just go find a seat" when she walked in.It was perfectly bad timing. I had about 30 seconds of thinking, "am I in a Freudian nightmare?"."
"Funniest one I ever heard of was when the Bride, for a laugh, when asked the "do you take" question.She said no, just for a giggle.The vicar stopped the ceremony dead. Said "ok" and refused to marry them.They had to go through all the pre-marriage stuff again and get married some 6 weeks later."
"The wedding Venue was left open and someone stole ALL of the booze behind the bar, the morning on the day of the wedding.Without tipping off the bride of the mishap, the groom gave the go ahead to open all of the cards with money, and send someone with a costco card to buy all of the missing booze AGAIN!Bride obviously found out after the ceremony but everything turned out great afterwards, but man, the stress we all went through."
"I was a kid, bit into a bitterball fresh from the deep fryer, the thing being hot enough to burn skin made me throw it in a reflex, on the brides wedding dress. Now I had a burnt mouth and saw the stain on her dress and started crying. The bride being an absolute champion that she is comforted me, grabbed a dress fold, and folded it over the stain like nothing ever happened. She's the kind of person I'm striving to be"
"The bride was pregnant and she had a miscarriage at the wedding reception. To even type this still feels insane to me and it was 30 years ago."
"Grooms Aunt got drunk and spilled all the details about the groom actually being in love with his friend who coincidentally was also attending the wedding.Awkward to the extreme."
"The brides family didn’t turn up. Not one. They didn’t agree with her marrying a white man.EDIT:- he was white and Welsh, she was Indian and I think Muslim though I could be wrong on her faith.After the wedding she got death threats from her dad and brothers for dishonouring the family so her and her hubby moved to newzeland where they are now living their best lives."
"Bride didn't show up. Everyone waiting in a huge church, including the groom waiting at the altar for 30 minutes. Then bride's father came in and announced that she had decided she didn't want to get married.But as he'd already paid for the reception all the guests should go ahead with the party."
"Nothing crazy. But I was at a wedding where you were supposed to open these little envelopes and release a butterfly at the end of the ceremony. When we opened the envelopes all the butterflies were either dead or almost dead. Super awkward.If you watch bobs burgers there's a similar scene in an episode. The first time I saw it I immediately thought of that wedding lol."
"I was at a wedding where the bride and groom had a Rottweiler that they really loved, and they’d had him in some pretty intense training. The dog was even part of the ceremony as the ring bearer, which y’know, very cute.But then at the reception, in the middle of their first dance, a guy kicks open the door of the ballroom and charges in shouting, “Babe! I miss you! Don’t do this!” And the bride goes, “What are you doing? This is over! I don’t want to see you!” And the guy lunges at her, and suddenly the f*****g dog attacks him. It bites down on his arm and wrestles him to the ground.People started screaming and kids were crying and the whole thing was just chaos. And then suddenly the guy stands up like nothing happened, and the bride announces that he’s their f*****g dog trainer, and this was a demonstration of the dog’s "defensive abilities". He takes a bow and shows the little padded thing he had on his arm under his shirt, and then he has the dog do a couple of normal tricks. We all kind of politely applaud, he walks out of the room, and then they finished their first dance like this was not an absolutely traumatic experience for everyone else."
"It was a destination beach wedding and the bride and groom allegedly spent over $100k on the entire thing, which was completely outdoors, with no contingency plan for some reason, all for it to not only rain, but POUR.It actually wouldn’t have been so bad had they started on time but the bride had everyone waiting for her for like 30 minutes. We just watched the sky get darker and darker in that time, then it just opened up & it came down cats & dogs right as the wedding party came out.It was already a bit awkward because in the water behind the alter was an ugly rusty cargo ship getting close to shore and there were folks off to the sides of the wedding area just enjoying the beach. At least the reception was fun once folks let go of caring about how they looked (and smelled) after getting drenched."
"Friends wedding during Covid. The bride and grooms 2 daughters had norovirus a few days before the wedding. After the ceremony was over, I approached the brides mother to congratulate her, and she’s green and sweaty. She tells me that she’s been vomiting since the night before.Everyone got sick. The groom was leaving the reception intermittently to vomit. Two days later, I feel like I’m on my deathbed. My partner and I had to take turns puking, it was a nightmare.The bride lost a lot of friends because of it, because she didn’t tell anybody. I still think about the poor staff to this day. One guest confronted her post-vomit explaining to her that it was her duty to inform the guests, and her response was to “suck a d**k”. That same guest had to delay starting chemotherapy because she was incapacitated for days."
"I went to a wedding a few years ago where the caterer of the wedding had a heart attack right after the buffet had been set up for dinner ???? the bride and groom stayed with him and made sure he was breathing while waiting for the ambulance."
"The cake collapsed in the middle of the cerimony. It was a sign!"
"The wedding was at a barn in the middle of nowhere. The food was brought in from the city, about 45 minutes away..Fried chicken, mac and cheese, I don't remember what else. But fun enough wedding. We get back to the hotel which was maybe a ten minute drive. The bride is throwing up in the parking lot. Okay, maybe she had too much to drink. A couple other people throwing up in the parking lot. Well, they are young, that happens at weddings. Then I get upstairs and it hits me.I swear I threw up for three days. If I had died that would have been fine with me. Worst food poisoning of my life.I found out after the fact that pretty much everyone was sick in some capacity. Good times."
"My cousin hired her friend who was supposedly a DJ and he was literally playing music from Pandora ... There were Ads playing literally in between songs .... Eventually after some time someone else went on the aux who actually had a subscription to a streaming service lol. Overall it was a fun wedding though."
"- 2x waiters full on karate fight IN the reception hall. The rest of the wait staff quickly shoved them into a back room, but after one of them got flipped over a table.- 2 weeks later, best man and another guest almost fought. Then the best mans wife/guests GF did fight. It was crazy.I wasn't at this one, but my friend told me during a reception he was at, the brides uncle parasailed over the reception towing a banner. A short time later the power went out. Sometime later, a couple police officers showed up, and explained the uncle accidently hit some power lines and didn't survive."
"Certainly not the worst, but at my own wedding it stormed so violently as the guests walked from their cars into the church that no umbrella could keep them from getting absolutely soaked. I’m talking drenched.A lightning strike took out the power, so the mics/audio system didn’t work. You couldn’t hear a thing that the pastor or anyone said.Also the church had no AC and it was the middle of summer in 100% humidity. My sister, the maid of honor, fainted at the altar both from the heat and locking her knees (don’t lock your knees!!!). Luckily my uncle caught her and she made a quick recovery.Alas, the show went on, the sun eventually came out for the reception (still insane humidity), everyone drank the venue out of booze and my husband and I are still happily married 15 years later ????."
"So I went to a wedding held at a family run go cart track. Vows were nice held by a big pond. The reception started and hamburgers were being served out of the go kart snack bar. I knew the MOB had worked all summer for free as a waitress at a local restuarant in exchange for them catering the event so I was very surprised to see all the family hucking burgers out the window. I went to mcdonalds down the road becase I've never liked their burgers and they were struggling to keep up came back about an hour later. When I got back there was a weird vibe in the air. I thought it was because the MOB had got scammed on the dinner agreement and everyone was reeling from it. People were still partying but there was something going on in the main group and 'something in the air.' I didnt see the bride and groom around too much in the the main party area no mingling. If I did see them they were'nt togetther and they were sticking close to their respective parties.Well turns out the groom caught the bride with the best man. It had been going on for months. I felt so bad for the MOB it was the second wedding shes paid for for her daughter. she got scammed. then to find out that her daughter was ho'ing it up and the marriage didnt even last as long as 1 of the MANY unpaid shifts she did to pay for it."
"I almost died on my way to my own d**n wedding with my father in the car. We were driving to the church in a limo that my dad knew the owner from the bar. (That should’ve been a red flag) Well everything was nice except the old man driver was S**T FACED at 11am. We didn’t know he was so drunk until he blew through a stop sign on a tight turn on a two lane country road. I was at that moment I was telling my dad he was going too fast to stop around the bend. ????Straight ahead was a farmers field. Miraculously no one was driving on the other road when we blew thru the intersection or that no one was sitting at the stop sign. I would guess he was probably doing 40-45 mph.Don’t ask me how he managed to get out of the field but he did. I clearly remember my father ripping him a new one bc he had been so drunk and that he nearly k**led us. This happened in 1988."
"Well there was the fight between the groom's familly and some cousins that showed up. But there was a far more interesting wedding I went to where the father of the bride gave a long preachy speech that focused almost 90% on how his daughter was "an obedient child". I mean, you might mention that point in the context of showering praise on someone, but this was specifically a speech about obiedience...to him...to her soon-to-be spouse, and obiedience to God. It was over the top. And to put the cherry on top, when the preacher presented the new bride and groom, somebody lit off fire crackers ON THE ALTAR INSIDE THE CHURCH! There was smoke everywhere."
"My brother and I got seated at a table full of newlyweds — we were the token single guys, basically the garnish on the marriage salad. Conversation was dead, so I threw out a little icebreaker: “Is it true the first year of marriage is the hardest?”The men said yes.The women said no.Then we sat back and watched World War Wed break out."
"The wedding officiant forgot... Someone tracked her down finally, she showed up 45 minutes late drunk off of her a*s. She barely made it through the ceremony, starting and restarting several times at certain parts. It was super awkward for everyone and the bride was pissed. ."
"Wedding photographer - I’ve seen a lot of weddings. The most awkward one though was when the bride was 4 hours late to her own wedding. She kept telling him “she was just finishing getting ready.” And they had a car service for the wedding so she couldn’t blame a broken down car.She waltz into the venue like she s**t didn’t stink, didn’t apologize to the guests still left over and the venue and venders. It opened her grooms eyes I think because he called it off right then and there. She threw a tantrum and as a contracted vender I didn’t want to leave in case they “worked it out” but I got to watch him say stuff that was obviously built up over time. When he left with his parents is when I was like “I’m out…bye.”."
"The drunk uncle of the bride was hitting on all the bridesmaids. And said one of the most hilarious things I’ve ever heard: “Look at the s***ter on that critter.” (Talking about a bridesmaid’s a*s. He had to get removed and ended up wandering around in his underwear in the parking lot."
"Bride broke her two front teeth at reception dancing.Hi, I’m bride ????."
"My mom's wedding was held at the same small venue, with the same s****y menu AND decor, as my father's funeral had been held a year prior.It was a great reminder to my 13 year old self that my dad was dead and that she was 90% of the reason he drank himself to death!"
"It wasn't at the wedding but at the after party her brother proposed and the girl he proposed to said yes cause she was put on the spot then afterwards called him out for it and they broke up."
"I was a plus one at a wedding where I barely knew the groom and had only met the bride once before. During the reception, I stopped at the bathroom and found the bride sitting alone in the big stall crying. She didn’t want to get married but did because she and the groom had had s*x. She wasn’t pregnant but as a Mormon she felt she had to marry him. She was only 19 and felt she was too young to get married but didn’t feel like she’d had a choice.I stayed with her for about half an hour comforting her until her grandma came in and took over. I went back to the party, and her groom was oblivious to the fact that his new wife was missing, let alone that she was devastated.My (now)husband lost track of that friend after he got married. We ran into him years later and asked how he was doing. The two of them had 4 kids under the age of 5 and he was thrilled to be a dad. I wonder how she felt and if he had any idea how she felt."
"Wedding was for the daughter of a very religious conservative family who had found out that the daughter and her boyfriend were having premarital s*x and basically pressured them into getting married to “fix” the sin they’d committed.The mother, father, and priest took every opportunity during the ceremony and reception speeches to remind everyone that the bride and groom had premarital s*x and say how disappointed they all were that the marriage was starting in sin."
"Father of the groom speech went a little something like this ‘ bride we never thought he’d marry you , you wasn’t his first love , Que 20 minute monologue of the groom’s love for cars and his love of his son and granddaughter then end speech. Nothing about the bride , nothing nice about the bride or welcoming her to the family just ‘we didn’t think he’d marry you’. I was absolutely floored."
"Best man professed his love during his speech and not so subtlety said it should’ve been him instead. Best man also volunteered to be the DJ for the bride and groom to save them money before the wedding. After the ceremony he went to the DJ booth and played two edm songs before flicking the entire wedding off and leaving. Oh and the groom’s mom had a massive center of attention problem and dragged her husband onto the dance floor in the middle of the first dance."
"At our wedding there were some torches/braziers that were lit. My wife's uncle was leaning around trying to take a picture and his head caught on fire (he was okay but lost some hair)."
"An older family member was asked to be in the wedding party. Really sweet, but also, this person is probably about 80 years old and standing through a ceremony that had all sorts of extra readings and songs to include different people. Right about the time I was thinking “man, this is a long ceremony”, they passed out, 911 was called and they were taken to receive medical attention. It was very upsetting, people were crying. The ceremony paused until medical help arrived, but the ambulance was still out front when we left the church and they still made us stand there blowing bubbles as they exited the church for the photos, so that was weird lol. They’re okay now, but didn’t made it back for family photos or the reception, so that’s a shame.Side note, the officiant said a wedding party member passing out has happened in about 10% of the weddings he’s officiated. Let your favorite people sit down if you want a long ceremony lol."
"Oh boy where do I start…The grandmother of the groom died.She died at the hotel in her sleep, right after the wedding. Nobody saw it coming either, she was on her feet the entire evening. Most solemn continental breakfast I’ve ever been to.The vows were also quite awkward. To sum it up, the bride’s vows basically were: “I’ll always remember to not bother you on Mondays and Wednesdays, those are your designated gaming days.”Also some of the most awkward speeches I’ve ever heard in my life. Sister of the bride obviously did not like her sister’s choice of husband, and said as much during her speech."
"Civil War reenactment across the street from the church. Literal cannons going off the entire time during the ceremony."
"The very pregnant sister of the groom started going into labor and had to go give birth that night. Not a terrible thing, but very unexpected."
"The best man gave his speech about how no one liked the bride. Later, another guy got drunk, stole the caterers golf cart to do burnouts, then did the worm and split his chin on the dance floor, bleeding everywhere! The photographer loved it, but the bride was less than impressed.I remembered another one! Went to a friend's wedding and at the reception they had tea lights going on high top tables. Some woman with big 80's hair was drunk, cackling, and through her head back. Boom, her hair went up in a ball of fire! Thrown drinks and a jacket got it under control, but she left quickly, and the whole venue smelled of burnt hair."
"Guest got s**tgoosed and decided throwing up on the floor was tasteless…threw up in another guests baby carrier instead. Fought with venue staff while being escorted out to the point her dress was hiked up and her c****ie was on display. 10/10."
"The bride who was my aunt specifically told that the design she wanted are floral pastel pink and sky blue. The designer was agreeing, taking notes, and gave her the assurance that he would make it the way she wants. After the vows and all, we went to the after-party venue and it was CHRISTMAS THEMED. Happy Marry Christmas to them I guess?"
"Bride got into a fist fight in her dress."
"The maid of honor (bride's sister) gave a BLISTERING speech. one of the meanest things i've ever sat through. called the bride a b***h. no minced words. wanted to crawl in a hole after that one..."
"A guest died on the way there. Their parents were also in attendance and had to be told at the end of the ceremony."
"Groom told the bride right before the wedding that he didn't want to get married. You could hear them arguing. Twenty minutes later, they decided to go ahead with the wedding. It lasted two weeks...."
"The groom was on his phone the entire time. I flew Mexico for the destination wedding with my kids, and he chose one of the most expensive hotels, and he looked bored at his own wedding. Leading up to the wedding, he claimed he was sick and had the hotel staff getting him cold towels and checking on him. Drama king. Up until the ceremony , I and the rest of the bride friends were hoping she was gonna back out. I was her MOH."
"The parents let the Bride sing a song about love she'd written herselfWe were at a satellite table with some other unimportant people but the old couple at our table whispered to the rest of us at the table, "you know, they paid for a lot of those voice lessons."In retrospect it was hilarious, like at the end of Dirty Dancing where the mom says, "I think she gets it from me" even though there's no evidence even to the end that the mom knows anything about dancing."When you were in the room, I was in bloom""When you told me you were in love, I knew it was what you were made of""In love ... In LOOOOOOVE"It was so bad. 1990s."
"My own wedding.Married in Hawaii on the beach near the north shore.Signs on the beach for dangerous currents.Invited all to throw flowers in the surf to remember those they've lost.Then my groomsmen decided to go for a swim. 3 men entered, 2 men made it out, 3rd almost didn't.Luckily, a guy on a surfboard rushed in to pull the third out.Then Baywatch, yes, yellow pickups, red shorts and all show up.All three ended up in the hospital as they drank a lot of ocean water.So the after wedding luau was awkward.And my wedding pictures didn't have any of my groomsmen in them.Luckily, the husbands of the bridesmaids thought it would be funny if they got matching hawaiian shirts. And they kinda matched mine and the wedding colors.So my wedding pictures that hung in the house weren't the actual wedding party.Now I'm divorced and only speak to one of the groomsmen."
"This one is kind of sad, and the wedding wasn’t ruined because of it. It was just a bit of an awkward distraction. One of the bride’s friends had recently lost her father and was bawling during the father/daughter dance. She ended up excusing herself, and was crying in the bathroom with another friend trying to comfort her. I know she was embarrassed, and the bride was understanding about it."
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Every interview after this is like 'how did you deal with this'. Even now, decades later.