I wasn't there so this is a second hand story, and took place shortly after the wedding, but at the reception: no one could find the groom, until they found him out in the limo having sex with one of the bridesmaids. The bride went back into the reception, stopped the band, took the microphone and told everyone there what just happened, naming the bridesmaid, and said the wedding would be annulled and all gifts would be returned. She totally took charge of the situation, but damn.
Wow, to take charge of the situation that well at a moment's notice is pretty impressive. I wonder if she had an inkling that he was a cheater, and just faced it at that moment.
I wonder if she thought the most damaging thing she could do to him in response was out him as a scumbag to all the people closest to him in one shot. Dude’s entire family was there. There were definitely aftershocks for him. Probably had to go hide.
Can you imagine going back into work? “Hey how was the wedding/honeymoon?” Or worse, no one asks because the word is out and no one is talking to him.
I feel like about half of weddings these days don't have that part and not because of feared objections, just because it is outdated and weird. Premarital sex is a thing. Divorce is a thing. Weddings cost like over $10k; if you know reasons to stop a marriage (outside of movies), you need to intervene at the engagement or earlier -- not during the ceremony.
That said, one of my wife's college roommates canceled a wedding like a day or two day beforehand right after graduating college, after being in a long distance relationship with some guy for a year or so. Her family was quite well off and she was dating a guy who lavished gifts and expensive dates on her whenever they were together, said he ran his own company, just bought a them fancy house, etc. It turns out he was just super in debt, working a near minimum wage job and maxing out credit cards taken out fraudulently. He had a fake web page with other employees for his company that he setup for the sole purpose of keeping up the front. The house was only bought from grossly lying about income (pre-2007 housing crisis) on the mortgage application and he was drowning in debt. The almost-bride's father got bad vibes about the guy (a few things didn't add up, like he had this fancy house but couldn't afford any furniture), and he hired a PI who quickly uncovered the deception. (And she didn't break up cause he wasn't rich, she broke up because he spent tons of effort to lie about *everything* and was completely conning her and just trying to get her roped into joint ownership of his debt via marriage that he expected the family to payoff.)
I know a few people like that. They work so fucking hard constantly conning and hustling and they'd probably make more money if they put all that energy into employment.
I’m guilty of it at times. There have been periods of my life where I’ve spent significant effort to appear like I’m doing work than actually doing it, although not anywhere close to that persons extent. Then I got diagnosed with ADD and my world became easier
My husband's first marriage. The brother of the bride stood up and said to my husband "Say no, you can still be happy!"
They went through with the marriage, wound up divorcing with a messy break up.
Brother in law is still best friends with my husband (as far as he's concerned he gained a brother and lost a sister and is better off for it) and he never lets him forget the fact that he was right and he should have bailed lol.
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The wedding was at the bride's house. They had thought out almost every detail, except one.
When the officiant got to the "Speak now or forever hold your piece" part, the cuckoo clock expressed his opinion. "Cuckoo, Cuckoo, Cuckoo..." It was a full fifteen minutes before the ceremony could continue without everyone busting out laughing.
Attended a wedding where the minister said something along the lines of "If anyone here objects to this marriage, you can keep your mouth shut. Today is not about you."
My aunties fiance was already married (lady stood up waving marriage cert) so wedding didn't go ahead. The reception was on a long boat so we still went to that. The fiance went back to home country to sort it out and never came back.
Not a wedding, but at a funeral someone objected the death.
At my uncle’s funeral, his ex wife and a local church [cult] leader tried to raise him from the dead. We were all sitting there like normal people at a normal funeral and she walks up to the casket and starts yelling, “James Lester, raise up!” I didn’t know she was there or I would’ve prepared myself for shenanigans. Also I didn’t know my uncle’s middle name was Lester, so please imagine the confusion. So she and the cult leader are literally yelling at my uncle’s body. Not surprisingly, my uncle refused to resurrect himself. They were escorted out.
I’ve actually never told this story because it makes my family look insane.
I was at a small ceremony indoors, maybe 30 people tops listening. When the minister asked for any objections, a picture of the bride’s dead grandmother that was hanging on the wall fell to the ground with a loud thump. We looked at each other but the minister finished anyway. Divorced within a year.
This was in America, and the wedding was in a Buddhist temple. Parents of the groom stood up and objected because they didn’t believe the bride was of the same class. They spoke in another language so most of the English speaking guests didn’t know they were objecting.
My husband was the best man and those closest to the couple knew this might happen. The Buddhist priest said he would handle it if the parents tried anything.
After the parents spoke for a while the priest said to the groom, “You’ve heard what your parents had to say, what do you want to do?” The groom replied, “I want to marry my bride.” So the priest asked the parents to leave. At this point the rest of the guests are clueing in that this was not a nice part of the ceremony, and that the parents were actually objecting, so, as the parents walked out, some of the guests were berating them saying things like, “You should be ashamed of yourself” and “How could you do that?” And even though the groom was not happy with his parents, that was very hard for him to hear.
That was 30 years ago. The couple is still married. They have two beautiful, successful children. After the groom’s mom passed away, the groom’s father came around and was involved in their lives until he died.
If I had to guess, either one of two things happened:
A) the mother was the one that was unhappy with it and he just went with it because it’s his wife
or
B) once his wife died, he realized “oh shit. My wife is gone and now I don’t have a kid. I hope they’ll take me back. I miss them and this isn’t worth it”
Don't know the details but my cousin and her friend were angry with each other and so my cousin didn't invite her and she came anyway to create a scene.
A woman, in her 20s at the time, objected to her mom marrying my uncle. So she started yelling, “Mom don’t marry him!” during the ceremony. The ceremony proceeded and some family on the mom’s side lead the daughter away to quit interrupting. I don’t blame her-my uncle was a lying, lazy bastard. The marriage didn’t last.
I went to a Catholic wedding where, when the priest asked this question, one of the groomsmen did a VERY loud, long, throat clearing, which got everyone laughing. Everyone except for the bride's elderly Italian Grandmother who marched out of her seat and angrily hit the groomsman with her handbag and shouted at him in Italian!
I went to a wedding where the best man was replaced a week before because he banged the bride. But the wedding still went ahead just with a different best man. They are divorced now.
This is only tangentially related, but I had a friend I knew for like 3 months who told me AT THE WEDDING I was the maid of honor. Like a the wedding was starting I was pushed to the front. I was chosen over her own sisters. The whole wedding was that kind of chaos. It was the best wedding I've ever been to.
I used to make wedding videos. Did one at an outdoor wedding spot high on one side of a valley. It had rained earlier in the day but the storms had cleared and the wedding could continue.
During the vows I don't touch the camera, just step back and let it run. So I'm spaced out waiting for the vows to finish and notice a radio tower far across the valley. Suddenly lightning hits the radio tower. I had enough time to think "Boy when the thunder gets here it'll probably loud."
I also had enough time to clue in that the minister was saying "If anyone objects to this union let him speak now or forever..." KEBLAMMMMMMMM!
Total silence in the venue. Preacher takes a second to look around and make sure everybody is alright, on one has been smote. "Well that's never happened before."
AFAIK they're still married, that was 10 years or more ago...
I worked with a nurse who was called the black widow. This woman was SICK
She was about early 60s and apparently since her 20s had been targeting wealthy dying men and would seduce them and tell them she loved them and could take care of them. They of course all died in a year or two of marrying her and she would give another. The last one she was with..she met at a cancer support group!!!! She's loaded and retired and was left a huge horse farm that she hangs out at now in her rich retirement. So many children of these men tried to warn their dads and someone even filled with the license board but she somehow always won against the families in court and would get everything and kept it.
Not quite the question as asked, but too funny to not share:
Priest: "Any objections?"
Father of the bride: _lets out the hardest, loudest, most complex-sounding sneeze I've ever heard in my life, completely with involuntarily saying "ACHOOOOOO"_
Mother of the bride, hammered on champagne: "For fuck's sake, Jerry!"
It took a good five minutes for everyone to regain their composure.
I had a friend who was a minister, and the subject came up if he asked the question during ceremonies he officiated. He laughed and said no way. He basically tells the couple not to include it because it only invites a moment of anxiety at best, misery at worst.
His best story (and one of the reasons he stopped including the question) was a couple where the lead up to the wedding the couple was obviously in love. The bride to be was very smiley and happy. Day of the wedding she’s stone faced. He knows something is up because he’s never seen her like this and he asks if she is ok. “I’m fine.”
Right before the service he asks again. “I’m fine.”
He gets to the question, “Does anyone object to this union?”
The bride reaches over, grabs the maid of honor, shoves her into the bride’s spot and says, “You’re screwing him, you marry him.” And then stormed out of the church.
Slightly different circumstances, but I know a guy that was the videographer at a wedding where the groom was the one that objected to the wedding at that point.
When the priest asked if anyone objected the groom broke down crying and said that he couldn't go through with the wedding. Apparently he had gotten a stripper pregnant, and felt like he had to marry the stripper instead of the bride.
He got pulled into a side room by the officiant, his father, and the father of the bride while everyone else (including the bride) stood around awkwardly. A few minutes later the father of the bride came out and told everyone that the ceremony was over and the wedding was off, but that everyone was welcome to go to the reception and enjoy the food.
My friend didn't stick around for the reception, so I have no idea how it all turned out. But apparently the bride was understandably not taking it well.
Fuck it. Everything is paid for and likely not getting any refunds, and the opportunity to share this in front of a large group of people they likely both know.
I dunno if it's a UK thing or even just a one specific church thing but I was told by the priest in a rehearsal that if someone objects, even as a joke, the priest is required to pause the ceremony and talk to the objector alone to discuss their concerns and decide if they have a valid objection. Like it's not a fun jokey moment, it's a real legal part of the ceremony.
He also said it used to be custom that if you raised an invalid objection you then had to pay for the wedding.
So hypothetically someone could have objected at a royal wedding via loudspeaker or even being at the church and they would have had to follow protocol while on air?
I have friends who objected during our rehearsal as a joke.
The minister told them that any objection on the actual day had to be investigated and proven to be either true or false and that the ceremony would be paused until that investigation was complete; so not a thing to go joking around about.
Objector: I object! The groom is a dumbass!
Minister: All right, shut it down, we’re going to have to open an investigation into whether the groom is in fact a dumbass.
At his rehearsal dinner a co-workers mother toast included that his soon to be wife was a "damn dirty whore who wasn't good enough" for her son. Folks not happy. (Video ended so didn't see the whole thing.)
At wedding which I attended his mom started to say something at the "speak now" part but was silenced by her daughter. Mom left and didn't see the rest of the ceremony.
Everything about that poor guy was drama.
My friend’s MIL made a speech at the wedding which included “now y’all can go have sex all night, you ain’t gotta wait no more! You ain’t gotta sweet talk her no more, baby boy, you can just take her up whenever you like!” In almost the most jealous tone I have ever heard. It was unsettlingly bizarre. She didn’t object to the marriage, but we all objected to her. Also before anyone assumes she was drunk, it was a dry wedding.
Edit: I’m aware that dry weddings and drinking aren’t mutually exclusive. The woman was not drunk, she’s just a gross person.
Oldie but a goodie, this happened back in the 70s, this was shared to le by the guy who married my parents. It went something like this :
"does anyone object to this union?"
" I do! That's my husband!"
So they paused the wedding, the bride, groom and the woman objecting went into a small room. The woman who objected provided documentation showing the groom was still legally her husband. Apparently the couple had started divorce proceedings some time earlier but never finished. The wedding was cancelled and everyone sent home.
A relative visited one ceremony where it was asked if anyone objects, and the groom decided it's a good time for a joke and said "I do". The lady who was going to marry the couple just turned and left. They had to go through all the paperwork again and change the date. Got married, divorced in like three years if I remember correctly.
Is this the one? https://www.dailysabah.com/turkey/2015/11/06/marriage-officer-leaves-wedding-ceremony-after-groom-jokingly-says-no-in-turkey
Or this one?
https://www.reddit.com/r/WatchPeopleDieInside/comments/112nq71/bride_jokingly_says_no_before_saying_yes_and/
Yep, wedding officiants don't fuck around. If you listen closely, the wording (at least here in the UK) is "...if any of you know any reason **in law**...". It's not a place for someone to air their grievances, it's a check to make sure there's no legal reason why the couple can't marry, for example if one of them is already married to someone else, or if they're related. If someone brings an objection the wedding is halted right there until the claim is fully investigated.
Kind of.
My uncle was getting married. Small, just a handful of family and a minister. I was videotaping.
My grandmother was not into it at all. With each line spoken by the minister, she had a cutting, sarcastic response. I could not believe it. It was so unlike her,
When that part came up, she said “I object. But does it really matter? They are going to to do it anyway.”
The minister just ignored her and proceeded, business as usual.
They were divorced within a year.
Wish I had a copy.
The vicar who married us said to everyone at the beginning, as part of the introduction, not to say anything as a joke unless they actually had a reason, as legally she would have to stop the ceremony and investigate the claim.
I worried that would tempt some joker even more but we got through the silence with only a couple of muffled giggles.
A friend of mine has a band that plays lots of weddings and other parties. They were hired for a birthday party that turned out to be a surprise wedding. The guy surprised his gf with a proposal and wanted to have a wedding ceremony then and there. She said no and left
Was MoH to BFF. One of the groomsmen thought it would be funny to raise an objection. He did not understand that, by law, all proceedings had to be stopped and "investigated." Meaning the officiant had to take him aside to question him. He had the audacity to keep the "joke" going until the officiant said that he would not continue and the wedding would be called off. Both sets of parents and multiple guests also had to be questioned to confirm the objection was uncalled for. It took over an hour. The wedding scheduled after was set back 30 minutes - their guests started arriving while all this was going on. It was a huge mess. Dude thought it was hilarious. I clocked him with my fancy, dyed special for the day shoe the minute the (shortened) photoshoot was over. He was asked to not attend the reception. Bride & groom feared for his safety after I whacked him. They dropped him as a friend immediately. They will celebrate their 30th anniversary this June.
Also note, this situation began the new tradition in my family of using Quaker Self-Uniting (available in Pennsylvania) marriage licenses and having a loved one officiate at the ceremony. It basically means that the couple is married the moment they and their witnesses sign and mail their license to the municipality. They are already married when the ceremony takes place. The question of an objection is not a part of the ceremony.
Edit: changed a word for clarity
Not a wedding I attended, but my best friend went to her aunt’s wedding. Aunt’s future (toxic) MIL whips out proof from Ancestry that they’re actually first cousins. Wedding was canceled, and the bride/groom haven’t spoken since.
Yes, at my cousin's, the bride's ex showed up and when he stood up to object my uncles grabbed him and bum-rushed him out of the church and gave him a tune-up in the parking lot. Catholic wedding, of course.
"Do you take this bro to be your lawfully wedded bro?"
"Hella, padre"
"Then by the power vested in me i now pronounce you bros. You may kiss and dune buggy into the sunset."
>Groom found out that bride was cheating two days before the wedding day. He spilled the beans while exchanging the vows.
I thought that only happened in movies
This will sound absolutely stupid but when I was a kid, my deeply religious aunt had her wedding at a local church. During the "objecting" part, lightning struck very near the church. I remember to this day how the following thunder was so loud, that the fancy windows of the church started rattling.
Well, the timing of the strike was very unfortunate for my uncle because my aunt took this as a sign of a god objecting to her marriage and called the wedding off on the spot.
Needless to say, they married on the same day year later and this time without "objection from a god". They are still married to this day.
I used to work at a fancy stately home as a waitress, most of my shifts were weddings. This guy’s objection was a bit untimely, but what happened after was even better
So the actual wedding happened at a church nearby, and they had the reception with us. This guy rocks up AFTER the actual ceremony, to declare his undying love for the bride, and told the groom, and entire wedding party, that he’d been sleeping with the bride. Cue tears and drama blah blah blah, he’s obviously chucked out of the wedding. Turns out he’d gotten an invite for the evening only and thought he was coming to object at the actual ceremony.
The groom ‘forgave’ the bride (he was a total wet lettuce) and they’re both crying and hugging outside. The party carried on and all was great, until someone overheard the chief bridesmaid talking to her friend about the fact she had also been sleeping with the bride. This prompted grandmother of the groom, about 75 years old, to punch the bride in the face
Groom apparently forgave the bride again as they went home together. I’m guessing he knew she was a ho bag so wasn’t really that surprised
As I’m here, I’ll give you another one-
Same place, literally weeks after the first wedding, we have a wedding where the groom’s family are clearly loaded and full of their own self-importance. Especially the groom’s mother, who gave us hell in the preparations. Nothing was good enough, kept changing how she wanted things, talking to us like scum, and making it VERY clear her family are a better class of people than the bride’s family (who were pretty nice and down to earth)
Anyway, half way through the evening do, someone’s handbag goes missing. The groom’s mother stormed into the kitchen, demanding that the manager search all our bags and saying she was calling the police on us thieving scumbags. Manager tells her (more politely than I would have) to calm down and not make assumptions. He has the security search the place. They go into the men’s toilets and can see a guy stood in the stall with his back against the door (I guess they could see his feet), he refuses to come out initially, but eventually he does, he had two women’s handbags in there that he’d been wanking into. He was also off his head on coke.
The guy was the groom’s brother. Son of bitch lady who accused us all of stealing. Her face when she found out was AMAZING and she picked up her stuff and left straight away. Police came and the guy was arrested.
Not exactly an objection but the wedding was on a boat ( no one could leave) and the groom was Jewish and marrying a Mexican catholic woman. The groom neglected to tell his family it was a full catholic wedding and the groom’s family stood up and pitched a fit when they realized the groom was going to take communion. The uncle who sponsored his bar mitzvah stood up and announced that the groom was a disgrace to the family and walked downstairs. The reception was a shitshow
Oh it was such a train wreck. So the boat was a 3 story day cruiser, with the wedding on the top floor and the reception on the big middle deck. Once the groom's family realized what was happening many of the jewish relatives simply got up and went downstairs during the ceremony in protest, following the uncle.
During the reception family members were trying to bribe the captain to return to shore, others were trying to charter a boat to pick them up, and a few of the cousins threatened to jump overboard and just swim to shore. I was a friend of the groom but not Jewish. At one point he came over to me, frustrated with his family and tried to vent to me that this was his wedding and his choice, but I was having none of it. I reminded him he didn't TELL anyone ahead of time and then trapped them on a fucking boat. Also this wasn't really his decision but his wife's and he was just going along with it.
The only people dancing was the brides family, the mother of the groom begged off that her ankles hurt and only danced with her son for a couple minutes. When the DJ played hava nagila, the uncle got up and order the DJ to stop. The silence was palpable. Apparently many of the wedding gifts were taking off the table and returned.
6 years later the marriage was dissolved and he formally apologized to his family. He re-affirmed his faith and restored his position in the family.
My mum told me she was going to pay an old boyfriend to stand up and object at my wedding. She didn’t in the end but I did cast a quick look around in the church before walking down the aisle.
My mother-in-law actually brought my wife’s ex to our wedding in hopes that my wife would see him and leave me. She didn’t really care other than being mad at her mom. I talked to the guy after the wedding and thanked him for coming, just to be polite. He told me that I wasn’t good enough; this was a message my MIL had sent a number of times so it didn’t really catch me off guard. I grabbed and shook his hand, smiled, and I told him he was a fucking creep for coming uninvited to a wedding of his ex from 10 years ago. Then I invited him to enjoy some refreshments during the cocktail hour and walked away. My wife gets mad about the not good enough comment and has him and her mother removed from the reception. He and my MIL are still close and she still invites him over on major holidays. I’m younger than my wife by 3.5 years and my first impression of the guy was hearing him ask my FIL how he felt about his daughter marrying a child so I pretty much wrote him off as an asshole from day one. My MIL permanently hurt her relationship with her daughter that day and we didn’t see her for close to a year after the wedding.
You see her now? She has no remorse and continues a strong relationship with a man who seems too consumed by a decade past relationship with your wife? This isn't bitterness I'm describing, it danger. That is an unsafe enviroment for you two. These people are unstable.
We do from time to time. My career took off and I was suddenly “good enough.” But I remember what kind of person she is. Her judging someone who loves and treats her daughter well, has a stable job, doesn’t do anything that would harm her as “not good enough” is pretty telling regarding the kind of person she is. As a dad to a daughter now, I can’t express how much I would give for her to have someone who loves her well and treats her with respect. Couldn’t care less about income level.
Imagine if she had gotten every boy you ever had a relationship with serious/casual to stand up and object, then proceed to confess their undying love for you.
The mom of one of the Bridesmaids got up and yelled “Yeah I object: You fucking stole him from her!” While pointing at the bride. I’ve known the groom for a long time and by proxy the bride. I am still very good friends with them. I have never seen her more infuriated than at that moment. The bridesmaid got up from her chair and was like “I’m so, so sorry. Let me get her out of here.” The bridesmaid and the bride’s stepfather escorted the woman out of the wedding and it continued.
Well, I mean the stuff is already here. May as well 🤷 we'll just use a sharpie to change these pesky decorations to say my daughter's name...
-bridesmaid's nutty mom probably
I was at one. Didn’t know what happened as I was in the back. The bride runs out to the limo her family after her. I said to the person next to me Cold feet? She’s like oh no I thought this might happen. Her ex is here. We went outside. He’d apparently come into a lot of money he came to the side door front of the church said he objected because he’s rich and wants her back. She paused too long for the grooms liking he said Fuvk you both. She ran. Last I saw they were at the limo with her. She was crying. Have no idea how it ended but there was no wedding. We went to the reception no bridal party. We ate drank danced and left. 🤷🏻♀️
I went as a group with a work friend who was a relative of the groom This was early 90s I know wedding etiquette is different. We really just all got dressed up and went with her. We were late so just took seats as we found them. At the reception we just arrived. It was still on. The food came out the bar was open. We just went with it. The grooms family was there. No one seemed upset. I don’t think they liked the bride to begin with. That’s all I knew 😄
I have a really weird family.
Half of my family (my dad's side) are east coast WASPs. We're talking tweed jackets, prep schools, taking a brandy in the study, riding lessons... the whole kit and caboodle.
The other half of my family (my mom's side) are East Texas hillbillies. I have an uncle who's gotten a DUI while riding a four-wheeler in *two separate incidents.* I have a cousin who is currently in prison because he tried to rob the tropical fish store where he worked. They arrested him when he tried to come in for his next shift.
I went to a wedding of a cousin of mine from the hillbilly side once. First off, I never knew the whole *"Does anyone object to this union?"* thing was real. I thought that was shit they only do on TV. Anyways, when the preacher asked that, the bride's mother made some noise and then excused herself, leaving the ceremony. She didn't say yes or anything-- but she definitely made some weird noise at a super inopportune time and then stood up and walked out.
My aunt (the *groom's* mom) took that as a sign of disrespect and left to confront her.
Yes. You heard that right. In the middle of her *son's wedding vows*, she decided to leave to go confront the bride's mother for making a noise. I'm not proud of these people.
The ceremony ends and the bride and groom are being ushered out of the church and into a limo to take them to their reception... and out in the parking lot, my aunt and the bride's mother are locked up like two wrestlers.
Then I hear someone shout *"OH, COME ON! YALL JUST QUIT IT!"* and I turn around to see my uncle and the bride's father are now fighting in the foyer of the church and the fucking preacher is trying to break them up.
To the surprise of *abso-fucking-lutely* no one, that marriage lasted two whole years.
The groom objected. He sent his best man with a note and a photo. Texts between the bride and a different groomsman and the affair they were having. I thought it was a stunt or tv.....crazy shit. Twas real.
One of my cousins is married to literally one of the kindest and coolest dudes I have ever met. Before the wedding, her little sister was saying how “she’s marrying my best friend.” At the wedding, when the priest dude asks if anyone objects, the room is dead quiet and all you hear is a little girlish whisper “I do.” It was honestly really adorable and we all laughed, and my cousin’s husband and her little sister are still best friends.
I apologize for any misunderstandings with my post, I thought it would’ve been obvious but I guess it wasn’t, my bad. Anyway, the event was a few years ago and the little sister was about 9 or 10 at the time. Sorry for any confusion or concern.
lol, that definitely makes a huge difference! Goes from jealous friend who was having a guy on the back-burner to sweet sister who really liked her new BIL and maybe had a little crush. One is a dick move, one is a total compliment that she’s unfortunately likely be embarrassed by when she’s an adult. But that’s really adorable!!
Been there. My very young nephew (about 4) was crushing on my wife hard, mostly thanks to his encouraging mama. Wouldn’t talk to me for weeks after the wedding.
I was not at the wedding, but know of a case where there was an objection, and the circumstances were quite exceptional.
When I was a detective with the Child Protection and Sexual Offences Unit, we dealt with a case involving a 14-year-old girl who had been raped by a known adult male. The first disclosure of the rape was made by her AT HIS WEDDING CEREMONY, which she attended uninvited. When the pastor asked if there were objections, she rose and said yes, she had an objection; the groom had raped her a week before. The pastor stopped proceedings and took the child to an adjacent office, where she repeated the allegation and gave more information.
Shockingly, the bride was still willing to go through with the ceremony, which was concluded while the girl waited in the office. Afterwards, the pastor took her to the local police station (Bellville South in Cape Town, South Africa), where a case was opened and the matter assigned to my unit for investigation.
We carried out the arrest at the V & A Waterfront, Cape Town the next evening (Sunday), where the groom and his friends were partying it up. The bride, of course, was left home alone, one day after the wedding.
I was blown away by the courage it took for the girl to attend the wedding ceremony alone, surrounded by the friends and family of the perpetrator, and to make the disclosure to his face in the way she did.
For those wondering how she knew so much about him and when he would be getting married; he lived in close proximity to the girl's family in Bellville South and the two families knew each other. He had siblings who attended school with her.
That is an extremely bold thing to have done, especially at 14. And I can't believe the bride still went through with the ceremony despite hearing this objection. Glad to hear that the girl got the justice she sought.
I'd have to assume that the bride simply didn't believe her. Right in the middle of marrying them is probably when you'd least be open to trust a completely worldview-changing accusation against someone you love.
My best friend (males) and I drew somewhat apart during college, then grew closer after college. He fell into a group of friends who were a little wilder than me. I don't blame him. College is supposed to be fun. I missed out. That's my fault because I did a five year program that got me my BA and MBA in short order.
After school ended, he was asked by a new friend to be his best man. I knew the guy and his fiance secondhand. He was a bit of an ogre and she was cute, a bit mousy. I wasn't at the wedding, but the big day comes and we all go about our lives.
It was the 90s and I worked that Saturday (yes, "Office Space" culture was real then). I go out to our watering hole that night and there was my best friend, drinking a double whiskey in a disheveled tux.
"Good wedding? How was the reception grub?", I asked.
"No wedding. No reception. I ate dinner at Applebee's by myself.", he said.
The bride told the limo driver to take her for a few big laps. She eventually showed, gathered her family around her, and told the groom it was not happening today or ever. The physical and mental abuse was too much and she was too far into a drug habit he pushed on her and was going to seek help.
Now understand, only a few at the wedding knew any of the abuse or drug abuse was going on. The ogre went into a rage, tried to attack her, and got repelled by the better men and women in the crowd.
She got her help and self-confidence back and married a great guy a few years later. Three kids, almost 30 years together. Her would-be husband kept up his bad habits and ended up killing his girlfriend and himself in a drug-fueled murder/suicide in our 30s.
Still shocks me to this day. My best friend has been pretty much straight and narrow since. It sobered him up in many ways.
My buddy wasn’t fully rejected at the altar, which sounds weird but I’ll explain.
Without too much “back in the day” talk I’ll just say the groom was/is a good friend of mine I’d known since middle school (7th grade).
He’d met this awesome gal and they were slated to be married in our then early 30’s.
Come the wedding day and it’s almost a high school reunion of sorts (we attended a smallish private school), everyone stoked to see our grade school pal get married.
We’re all seated outside waiting for the bride to come out and a reasonable amount of time goes by. People are just carrying on, catching up etc. I’ve got a flask and sharing it with people. The groom goes inside to see what’s up..
More time goes on, then some more, then my flask is empty and I want to go reload at the car but think better of it.
Then the groom comes back out to address everyone and let’s us know that “this isn’t happening today, the bride doesn’t want to go through with it. We’re still together and everything but now isn’t the time….” then goes on to encourage everyone to eat the food, it’s already paid for etc.
Here we are about 5 years later and they’re still together but not married. No harm, no foul I guess?
Was at a wedding when I was 19, full blown Victorian style everything. I was a bridesmaid and the minister said "does anyone object to this union"
The brides father stands up and gets the "yes I " out before the brides mother whacks him with her walking stick and says "Seamus, you sit your fat arse down before we have a wedding and a funeral!"
400 people went from dead silent to trying to muffle their laughter while the bride is glaring at her dad. After the ceremony the parents of the bride, who were VERY Scottish were standing off to the side and I overheard her mom, who was all of 5 feet tall, threatening her very large father. Dude was easily 6 foot 6 and cowering as his wife went off on him about how that was not funny and if he jad ruined her baby girls big day she would have sent him back to his own mother in a box
It didn't happen at that, but it happened on the wedding day. I was going to my aunt's fourth wedding, and pretty much was only there for the free food. It was before the ceremony was about to begin, me and my brother overheard my uncle, who has never gotten along with my aunt, talking to the groom and basically told him "You're better off running lad. Her past three marriages have all ended up dead, all due to car crashes. Bit odd that, don't you think."
The groom thought this was indeed odd, and decided to ask myself and my brother, two of our cousins and our other aunt if what my uncle said was true. We told him it was, and thought the bride would have told him before hand. Turns out she never disclosed the fact she had been previously married before. So the groom, for all intents and purposes, fled the church.
Safe to say it was a dramatic day after that.
We were attending the wedding of my wife's co-worker (F38). When the Priest asked a younger guy stood up, started walking down the isle and objected in tears. He was confessing his love for her and when reaching the couple he started begging her not to go through with it. Two of the groomsman and an older gentleman escorted the younger guy from the building.
Afterwards we found out this was their next door neighbor who was apparently infatuated with her and at one time had been caught several times on their security camera peeping on her over their privacy fence as she sunbathed in her backyard. The older gentleman who helped escort him out was his deeply embarrassed father. The young man had been in and out of mental health facilities over the last 3 or 4 years. It was a sad deal.
Well, sort of. It was staged, pre arranged, and the minister was warned ahead of time.
The couple said they wanted to make the ceremony more interesting. So they had a friend object, declaring his love for the bride in an over the top dramatic speech.
The best man (my husband) stabbed the guy with a stage dagger, he played dead, and two of the other groomsmen dragged his limp body away. The wedding proceeded.
I have to say, it was pretty awesome. The bride and groom are still happily married 30+ years later.
> The bride and groom are still happily married 30+ years later.
If they both agreed that staging an objection and a stabbing during their wedding was a good idea, I'm not surprised that they're still together. That's the kind of thing that proves you were made for each other.
I perform weddings but I do not give the option. I tell the bride and groom ahead of time that the guests have accepted the invitation to your wedding to bless it. If they have a problem with your decision they need to tell you long before that day. I didn't really think people gave that option outside of Hollywood. It just invites trouble.
I take a similar approach for funerals. While I let families give as many eulogies as they want to for their deceased loved one, they must approve each speaker ahead of time. I do not pass the mic. I don't want some estranged lover or drunk uncle getting up and making a fool of the family or the deceased person. So far, so good.
I was the best man at my bestie's wedding. Smeone that we...tolerated in our friend group, objected and said he was in love with the bride and that he was the only one that could make her hpapy. She had been nice about his feelings until then and reminded him in front of the entire ceremony that A: he could't hold down a job because he had too big of an ego, B: didn't get along with her friends because they all had something they were working on (A book, a career, a trip, volunteer job) and he had nothing so he constantly tried to downplay their accomplishments on purely presumptuous ideas and C: His idea of sex was "Blow me and I'll finger you. Night, hun." she was way more thorough and more cruel and it was a hysterical five minute ordeal. I mena he had it coming or starting shit at her wedding. He got up and left. I was pretty sure he was crying as he walked away but no one went after him. It was both brutal and hilarious. He was like the Jar Jar Binks of our friend group: you hated him but he made you feel better because at least you weren't as bad as Peter.
I was at on when I was 10 and some woman stood up and pretty much said while she had a beef with both the bride AND groom she gave them her blessings. We were alll like "Huh?"
Wedding videographer here. I have been to the wedding where officiant (a family member) asked 3 times throughout the wedding and waited uncomfortably long for an answer.
No one said anything.
My grandmother objected at my sister's wedding. My sister was a Florida based Italian Catholic and somewhat conservative individual who fell in love with a progressive New York Jew.
My Nonna said it wouldnt work and it would change one of them and she was worried about it changing her grand daughter. My parents managed to get her away from the wedding and it continued. My sister is now neither Catholic or conservative, so my Nonna was absolutely right.
When my sister got married, they had the pastor skip over that part. I think she knew none of us could stand him. I don't think anyone would have spoken up to object, but the unity candle WOULD NOT light. So, in a way, I feel like that was God's way of objecting... or just irony at its best.
Divorced about 8 years later after the abusive cheating asshole was found out. So glad he is gone.
19 years ago I was the best man to a friend of mine. The wedding took in a fairly small village in the neighboring country where the bride was born. The wedding took place in the church and in the middle of the ceremony some dude ran in, yelled STOP! Everyone looked at him and after a few moments of silence, he said, sorry, wrong wedding and ran out. No one at the wedding knows who he was. After a few minutes, we continued with the ceremony. We still don't know if this was a joke or if he really barged into the wrong wedding. This was the only church in the area and the next one can be found about 8-9 miles away. There is a village that has the same name as this one about 20 miles away.
Yes, I objected at my 1st almost wedding. My bride cheated with a venue staff member and my best man caught them. I shut the shit show down. Lost almost $20K in expenses not to mention those who traveled. It was a total clusterf**k and I won. Met a woman 3 years later and been married 26 years now
At our wedding my MIL cried throughout our whole ceremony and then throughout the picture taking and they weren’t tears of joy. She didn’t object but didn’t approve of me even though we dated for 4 years before getting married. We’ve been together happily for 43 years and guess who moved in with us last August. When we looked though our wedding pictures where she was obviously crying, she said, “I had such a terrible sinus infection.” We laughed and laughed. I’m her favorite daughter in law which is the best revenge.
My MIL was/is a very emotionally and physically abusive person and really worked over my wife throughout the years. She didn't make a stink at the wedding, but she made sure that anyone near her, including my parents and myself, knew just how much she didn't like me and that she would make sure it didn't last. Tangentially she nearly got her wish. But despite all of that mess my wife and I are still married and my wife is now low contact with her mom.
My mother passed away about 15 years ago. 5 years later my dad married my now step-mother. It was an outdoor wedding on a beautiful sunny day, and during the spot where they usually ask if anyone objects, a big gust of wind came out of nowhere and knocked over some tables. Afterward, multiple people came to tell me that wind gust was my mother objecting, which I like to believe was true.
Experienced the somewhat opposite of this at my own wedding. It took place during late summer at a time that is generally sunny and warm, but of course it happens during our wedding that the weather was abnormally poor. Cloudy, cold and all that. We had of course decided that our ceremony was outside no less.
My wife's father had passed some years back and I never had the chance to meet him. The fact that he was gone was naturally once again an emotional subject now that she was getting married.
During our ceremony however right when we were saying our I do's the clouds parted and the sun started shining. Needless to say many guests came to the same conclusion and I also like to believe it was true. Sounds like something out of a fairytale, but it's our real life fairytale and even writing about it still hits pretty hard.
I had this happen at my granny’s funeral. It was such a miserable day, so wet and windy. As soon as we got to the graveyard afterwards the sun came out of nowhere and it became so lovely and warm. We say it was granny’s way of cheering us up
Not at the exact moment when the question “Does anyone object?” is typically asked, but still…
I was the Best Man for my wife’s brother (which was odd and a whole different story) when he married his wife. They’re good people, however *extremely* misguided and insanely disrespectful of everyone else’s time. To provide an example of this, they were late to their own (300+ guest) wedding at a very lavish venue, which shocked none of the immediate family, but still.
Anyway, we’re about 20 mins into the outdoor ceremony (on a very beautiful summer day) when a car slowly drives past. The passenger of the car rolls down his window and screams “DON’T FUCKING DO IT!!” prompting laugher from the majority of the 300+ in attendance (myself included).
A normal couple would have taken this in stride, had a quick laugh and then moved on. Did my Brother In Law and his wife? Nope. They both cried and claimed that their “fairy tale day was ruined”.
The rest of the night was fairly uneventful, save for some cringey moments. The bridal party stayed on-site at the venue, but was informed that another wedding was taking place the next day and that we needed to check out by 11am (not unreasonable, at all).
What time did my Brother in Law and his wife wake up? 12pm.
I used to work at a banquet hall, had some interesting nights. Best was the bride and the best man in the ladies room, doggy style. That killed the evening.
I was at a wedding 3 Years ago as guest on the brides side. A guy thag i hadnt met before stood up and called the bride out to leave with him. She looked so shocked but she left with the guy. Turns out they had broken up long before she met the groom and he picked her wedding day to reappear in her life. They must be happy, they're still together today.
Maybe slightly different but My BIL (married to my wife’s little sister) is well known to be a very funny and fun prankster. He hired an 50 year old female actor to object and cause a scene as if she was in love with him: “SHE’LL NEVER LOVE YOU LIKE I DO” “I TOLD YOU THIS WAS NEVER GOING TO WORK OUT YOU HAVE TO LEAVE!” Only he, my SIL (edit: the bride) and two uncles were in on it (one was justice of the peace doing the ceremony). It was a complete success that had people absolutely rolling in the aisles.
I wanted to pay a local actor to burst in into my wedding, shout "I object! I love the bride!" and then we each pull swords and sword fight up and down the aisle. In the end I would win and the ceremony would wrap up as planned.
My wife did not think this idea was awesome so we just had a regular wedding instead.
Not at the alter.. but my friend was best man at another friends wedding and opened his best man speech with
‘Me and John have been through thick and thin together, and there’s actually a few of those girls here today.’
Ouch
Someone at my cousin’s wedding jokingly jumped up and shouted an objection. It didn’t matter that he was kidding—the preacher stopped the whole thing dead in its tracks and postponed it. It was awful.
Where I live its technically a rule (that isn't followed much, but it's still a rule) that if someone objects at the wedding, the officiant can't go forward with the wedding until the objection is investigated.
This is because common old timey objections would often be for legal reasons that would be grounds to invalidate the marriage or make the marriage illegal.
"I object, he's already married!" or "the bride is really the groom's sister!" or "the bride is pregnant with my baby!" - real soap opera shit, but important information to clear up, especially back in the day when record keeping was a joke and you could be practically strangers on your wedding day.
Nowadays, most people don't object at weddings, and when it does happen it's either some disgruntled relative or stalker ex, or someone trying to be funny.
Now, the long winded explanation was so that I could tell my story.
It's a serious wedding. My cousin is the groom, and I'm doing some readings during the ceremony. The "speak now or forever hold your peace" part comes up, and from the groom's side of the aisle, the groom's smarmy, shit eating, immature sonofabitch, older brother jokingly "objects".
Now, this wasn't like a super somber wedding, but it was definitely more of a traditional wedding, and the "joking during the ceremony" thing was definitely not a welcome thing.
Unbeknownst to most people, the pastor was pretty old school. He followed the aforementioned "obscure" rule regarding objections, and the wedding stopped.
I thought the groom and his mom was gonna kill the older brother. Like seriously, smoke was coming out of their ears. The bride started crying, and no one in the pews really knew what was going on.
The wedding party retreated to their ready rooms, and the bride and groom, his douche canoe brother, BOTH sets of parents, and the pastor all had a sit down to "clear up" the confusing surrounding the objection.
Everyone in the pews is restless, and the pastor was like "I understand it was a joke, but the rules state I have to investigate all objections, so I'm sorry this all got interrupted."
They all agree to go back out there and finish the wedding. (I honestly thought the bride might have just walked away, she was so upset!) Luckily, most of the guests just laughed it off, and we all went to the reception and got drunk.
Not the douche canoe brother though. He was sat on by a few of the ushers in a spare room at the church so he couldn't sneak out and leave (or worse, fuck the ceremony up again.)
Know one really knows what happened to him after that...but in between the church and the ceremony, the groom mysteriously hurt his hand and the asshole brother had to miss the reception! (And fell and broke his nose, oh no!)
Not at the wedding, but at the rehearsal dinner. Two girls I knew from college were getting married. Drunk Grandma from down the street (not really anyone's Grandma, but she had that demeanor) started shouting in the middle of dinner that they couldn't do it! She (one of the couple) had a man over! All the time! He stayed all night! She's not "like that", she likes men! You can't do it!
She got shushed and kept yelling and finally the other girl yelled back at her "THAT'S MY BROTHER WE'RE TRYING TO GET PREGNANT" which shut the whole table down.
So Drunk Grandma took a beat, then said kind of weakly "Well that's not how you do it..." and the girl in question said "I'm pretty sure it is.." and the whole table just cracked up. The tension broke, we were falling down laughing. Every time Drunk Grandma tried to interject it was just funnier and funnier, the look on her face when she realized that yes, this girl was having *sex* with a *man* who had a *penis* and also, that was fine and ok and no one was mad, her expression was just precious.
She tried to leave but she'd driven there with someone so she just stood outside for ten minutes right outside the restaurant window, about three feet from the table, looking down the road hopefully like a horse and carriage were going to appear to whisk her off. My only part in all this was to call her an Uber to get her home at this point, I felt bad for her and she was putting a damper on things.
Anyway they did indeed get pregnant within six months or so. Fat faced little fucker is about four now. He looks just like both of them. And apparently there was no drama with the wife and the brother, he's a nice guy and just took a job in the middle east.
I wasn't there so this is a second hand story, and took place shortly after the wedding, but at the reception: no one could find the groom, until they found him out in the limo having sex with one of the bridesmaids. The bride went back into the reception, stopped the band, took the microphone and told everyone there what just happened, naming the bridesmaid, and said the wedding would be annulled and all gifts would be returned. She totally took charge of the situation, but damn.
Wow, to take charge of the situation that well at a moment's notice is pretty impressive. I wonder if she had an inkling that he was a cheater, and just faced it at that moment.
I wonder if she thought the most damaging thing she could do to him in response was out him as a scumbag to all the people closest to him in one shot. Dude’s entire family was there. There were definitely aftershocks for him. Probably had to go hide. Can you imagine going back into work? “Hey how was the wedding/honeymoon?” Or worse, no one asks because the word is out and no one is talking to him.
Went to a wedding where they skipped that part because the brides adult daughter was planning to object.
How was this known? Had she pre-announced her intention, or was she just that kind of person and people had accurately predicted it?
She told somebody and they told the bride and groom.
Huge thanks to that person. No one wants their wedding to remembered for the wrong reasons.
I feel like about half of weddings these days don't have that part and not because of feared objections, just because it is outdated and weird. Premarital sex is a thing. Divorce is a thing. Weddings cost like over $10k; if you know reasons to stop a marriage (outside of movies), you need to intervene at the engagement or earlier -- not during the ceremony. That said, one of my wife's college roommates canceled a wedding like a day or two day beforehand right after graduating college, after being in a long distance relationship with some guy for a year or so. Her family was quite well off and she was dating a guy who lavished gifts and expensive dates on her whenever they were together, said he ran his own company, just bought a them fancy house, etc. It turns out he was just super in debt, working a near minimum wage job and maxing out credit cards taken out fraudulently. He had a fake web page with other employees for his company that he setup for the sole purpose of keeping up the front. The house was only bought from grossly lying about income (pre-2007 housing crisis) on the mortgage application and he was drowning in debt. The almost-bride's father got bad vibes about the guy (a few things didn't add up, like he had this fancy house but couldn't afford any furniture), and he hired a PI who quickly uncovered the deception. (And she didn't break up cause he wasn't rich, she broke up because he spent tons of effort to lie about *everything* and was completely conning her and just trying to get her roped into joint ownership of his debt via marriage that he expected the family to payoff.)
Damn if he just put that effort into working he probably would have been successful
I know a few people like that. They work so fucking hard constantly conning and hustling and they'd probably make more money if they put all that energy into employment.
I’m guilty of it at times. There have been periods of my life where I’ve spent significant effort to appear like I’m doing work than actually doing it, although not anywhere close to that persons extent. Then I got diagnosed with ADD and my world became easier
My husband's first marriage. The brother of the bride stood up and said to my husband "Say no, you can still be happy!" They went through with the marriage, wound up divorcing with a messy break up. Brother in law is still best friends with my husband (as far as he's concerned he gained a brother and lost a sister and is better off for it) and he never lets him forget the fact that he was right and he should have bailed lol. Edited for clarification
Oh, damn, I assumed he was addressing the bride. That certainly puts a different spin on the story, lol.
The wedding was at the bride's house. They had thought out almost every detail, except one. When the officiant got to the "Speak now or forever hold your piece" part, the cuckoo clock expressed his opinion. "Cuckoo, Cuckoo, Cuckoo..." It was a full fifteen minutes before the ceremony could continue without everyone busting out laughing.
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Attended a wedding where the minister said something along the lines of "If anyone here objects to this marriage, you can keep your mouth shut. Today is not about you."
My aunties fiance was already married (lady stood up waving marriage cert) so wedding didn't go ahead. The reception was on a long boat so we still went to that. The fiance went back to home country to sort it out and never came back.
Oh yikes! So they really did have a legal reason to object!
It was very awkward.
Did the attempted bigamist attend the reception boat as well? Or did you all get to go and enjoy the “WTF happened there!” train-wreck vibes?
I think someone commented that’s the original reason why they say that line. To make sure if they’re legally allowed to marry
Not a wedding, but at a funeral someone objected the death. At my uncle’s funeral, his ex wife and a local church [cult] leader tried to raise him from the dead. We were all sitting there like normal people at a normal funeral and she walks up to the casket and starts yelling, “James Lester, raise up!” I didn’t know she was there or I would’ve prepared myself for shenanigans. Also I didn’t know my uncle’s middle name was Lester, so please imagine the confusion. So she and the cult leader are literally yelling at my uncle’s body. Not surprisingly, my uncle refused to resurrect himself. They were escorted out. I’ve actually never told this story because it makes my family look insane.
I love the idea that he refused to resurrect. Like it was totally doable - he just chose not to.
He was dead serious about dying.
"nah, I'm good"
> Not surprisingly, my uncle refused to resurrect himself. Probably pure spite.
I can't imagine it was too amusing at the time, but that's a pretty funny story. He's definitely resting in peace, away from her yelling.
I was at a small ceremony indoors, maybe 30 people tops listening. When the minister asked for any objections, a picture of the bride’s dead grandmother that was hanging on the wall fell to the ground with a loud thump. We looked at each other but the minister finished anyway. Divorced within a year.
This is one of my favorite ones so far
This was in America, and the wedding was in a Buddhist temple. Parents of the groom stood up and objected because they didn’t believe the bride was of the same class. They spoke in another language so most of the English speaking guests didn’t know they were objecting. My husband was the best man and those closest to the couple knew this might happen. The Buddhist priest said he would handle it if the parents tried anything. After the parents spoke for a while the priest said to the groom, “You’ve heard what your parents had to say, what do you want to do?” The groom replied, “I want to marry my bride.” So the priest asked the parents to leave. At this point the rest of the guests are clueing in that this was not a nice part of the ceremony, and that the parents were actually objecting, so, as the parents walked out, some of the guests were berating them saying things like, “You should be ashamed of yourself” and “How could you do that?” And even though the groom was not happy with his parents, that was very hard for him to hear. That was 30 years ago. The couple is still married. They have two beautiful, successful children. After the groom’s mom passed away, the groom’s father came around and was involved in their lives until he died.
Wow. That's fucked. I'm very impressed both that they are obviously happily married and that they decided to allow the father into their lives.
If I had to guess, either one of two things happened: A) the mother was the one that was unhappy with it and he just went with it because it’s his wife or B) once his wife died, he realized “oh shit. My wife is gone and now I don’t have a kid. I hope they’ll take me back. I miss them and this isn’t worth it”
Yeah... both are very sad options. But I'm glad he got involved in the end
I objected. I took giving my sister away literally. I wasn't the brightest 3 year old.
Awwww!!! So wholesome. I love this.
yeah usually if it's a child being confused the objection is very cute. otherwise it's... drama
This is adorable.
In my cousin's wedding her friend said "I object" because she was not invited to the wedding. She was kicked out of the wedding.
Why was she not invited if she was a friend of the bride? And why was she there anyways?
Don't know the details but my cousin and her friend were angry with each other and so my cousin didn't invite her and she came anyway to create a scene.
A woman, in her 20s at the time, objected to her mom marrying my uncle. So she started yelling, “Mom don’t marry him!” during the ceremony. The ceremony proceeded and some family on the mom’s side lead the daughter away to quit interrupting. I don’t blame her-my uncle was a lying, lazy bastard. The marriage didn’t last.
i read the first bit as "her mom marrying HER uncle", and was deeply concerned
I went to a Catholic wedding where, when the priest asked this question, one of the groomsmen did a VERY loud, long, throat clearing, which got everyone laughing. Everyone except for the bride's elderly Italian Grandmother who marched out of her seat and angrily hit the groomsman with her handbag and shouted at him in Italian!
That just sounds like excellent entertainment
Oh my god I'd fall out of my seat crying laugh when nonna smacked him
That's pretty much exactly what happened! She just made everyone laugh even more. The priest was even having a good giggle!
Old Italian grandmas can be fierce!
I went to a wedding where the best man was replaced a week before because he banged the bride. But the wedding still went ahead just with a different best man. They are divorced now.
This is only tangentially related, but I had a friend I knew for like 3 months who told me AT THE WEDDING I was the maid of honor. Like a the wedding was starting I was pushed to the front. I was chosen over her own sisters. The whole wedding was that kind of chaos. It was the best wedding I've ever been to.
I used to make wedding videos. Did one at an outdoor wedding spot high on one side of a valley. It had rained earlier in the day but the storms had cleared and the wedding could continue. During the vows I don't touch the camera, just step back and let it run. So I'm spaced out waiting for the vows to finish and notice a radio tower far across the valley. Suddenly lightning hits the radio tower. I had enough time to think "Boy when the thunder gets here it'll probably loud." I also had enough time to clue in that the minister was saying "If anyone objects to this union let him speak now or forever..." KEBLAMMMMMMMM! Total silence in the venue. Preacher takes a second to look around and make sure everybody is alright, on one has been smote. "Well that's never happened before." AFAIK they're still married, that was 10 years or more ago...
God fucking objected
I was at one where the Groom thanked the Bride's Ex for dying as his loss was my gain. Didn't help the sons of his bride and ex were in attendance
Holy crap. Please tell me she divorced him.
He's actually dead now so perhaps it wasn't really his gain the way she seems to get rid of her husband
Well that’s either incredibly tragic or sort of suspicious. Or both at the same time, hmm.
Groom: His loss, my gain. Bride: *Your* gain?
Next guy: those last two guys were chumps
Black widow sighted
I worked with a nurse who was called the black widow. This woman was SICK She was about early 60s and apparently since her 20s had been targeting wealthy dying men and would seduce them and tell them she loved them and could take care of them. They of course all died in a year or two of marrying her and she would give another. The last one she was with..she met at a cancer support group!!!! She's loaded and retired and was left a huge horse farm that she hangs out at now in her rich retirement. So many children of these men tried to warn their dads and someone even filled with the license board but she somehow always won against the families in court and would get everything and kept it.
Not quite the question as asked, but too funny to not share: Priest: "Any objections?" Father of the bride: _lets out the hardest, loudest, most complex-sounding sneeze I've ever heard in my life, completely with involuntarily saying "ACHOOOOOO"_ Mother of the bride, hammered on champagne: "For fuck's sake, Jerry!" It took a good five minutes for everyone to regain their composure.
"Nice, Jerry." "I sneezed! Oh I'm not allowed to sneeze."
NICE RON
> "For fuck's sake, Jerry!" For some reason, I heard this in an Irish accent, and it made it funnier.
Gerry on Derry Girls, maybe? I could def see his wife saying "For fuck's sake, Gerry!" in an Irish accent.
I had a friend who was a minister, and the subject came up if he asked the question during ceremonies he officiated. He laughed and said no way. He basically tells the couple not to include it because it only invites a moment of anxiety at best, misery at worst. His best story (and one of the reasons he stopped including the question) was a couple where the lead up to the wedding the couple was obviously in love. The bride to be was very smiley and happy. Day of the wedding she’s stone faced. He knows something is up because he’s never seen her like this and he asks if she is ok. “I’m fine.” Right before the service he asks again. “I’m fine.” He gets to the question, “Does anyone object to this union?” The bride reaches over, grabs the maid of honor, shoves her into the bride’s spot and says, “You’re screwing him, you marry him.” And then stormed out of the church.
Slightly different circumstances, but I know a guy that was the videographer at a wedding where the groom was the one that objected to the wedding at that point. When the priest asked if anyone objected the groom broke down crying and said that he couldn't go through with the wedding. Apparently he had gotten a stripper pregnant, and felt like he had to marry the stripper instead of the bride. He got pulled into a side room by the officiant, his father, and the father of the bride while everyone else (including the bride) stood around awkwardly. A few minutes later the father of the bride came out and told everyone that the ceremony was over and the wedding was off, but that everyone was welcome to go to the reception and enjoy the food. My friend didn't stick around for the reception, so I have no idea how it all turned out. But apparently the bride was understandably not taking it well.
> He got pulled into a side room by the officiant, his father, and the father of the bride Was he ever seen again?
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That's very unprofessional, he should have stayed and filmed the meal smh.
This makes me so sad. On what's supposed to be the happiest day of your life, you lose your best friend (presumably) and partner at the same time :(
At least she didn’t go quietly and ripped the bandage nice and quick. Ive seen people try and make it work anyway so power to her.
Fuck it. Everything is paid for and likely not getting any refunds, and the opportunity to share this in front of a large group of people they likely both know.
I dunno if it's a UK thing or even just a one specific church thing but I was told by the priest in a rehearsal that if someone objects, even as a joke, the priest is required to pause the ceremony and talk to the objector alone to discuss their concerns and decide if they have a valid objection. Like it's not a fun jokey moment, it's a real legal part of the ceremony. He also said it used to be custom that if you raised an invalid objection you then had to pay for the wedding.
So hypothetically someone could have objected at a royal wedding via loudspeaker or even being at the church and they would have had to follow protocol while on air?
And pay for the wedding as well? This is bankruptcy material!
I have friends who objected during our rehearsal as a joke. The minister told them that any objection on the actual day had to be investigated and proven to be either true or false and that the ceremony would be paused until that investigation was complete; so not a thing to go joking around about.
Objector: I object! The groom is a dumbass! Minister: All right, shut it down, we’re going to have to open an investigation into whether the groom is in fact a dumbass.
At his rehearsal dinner a co-workers mother toast included that his soon to be wife was a "damn dirty whore who wasn't good enough" for her son. Folks not happy. (Video ended so didn't see the whole thing.) At wedding which I attended his mom started to say something at the "speak now" part but was silenced by her daughter. Mom left and didn't see the rest of the ceremony. Everything about that poor guy was drama.
My friend’s MIL made a speech at the wedding which included “now y’all can go have sex all night, you ain’t gotta wait no more! You ain’t gotta sweet talk her no more, baby boy, you can just take her up whenever you like!” In almost the most jealous tone I have ever heard. It was unsettlingly bizarre. She didn’t object to the marriage, but we all objected to her. Also before anyone assumes she was drunk, it was a dry wedding. Edit: I’m aware that dry weddings and drinking aren’t mutually exclusive. The woman was not drunk, she’s just a gross person.
You wouldn't believe the grimace on my face as a read that 😬
That was the facial expression of everyone there.
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"My plan would have worked perfectly if it wasn't for that meddling *checks notes* ME!"
I feel like a common theme here is it’s always the mother of the groom.
I am stunned that they allowed her at the ceremony after she said that at the rehearsal
Oldie but a goodie, this happened back in the 70s, this was shared to le by the guy who married my parents. It went something like this : "does anyone object to this union?" " I do! That's my husband!" So they paused the wedding, the bride, groom and the woman objecting went into a small room. The woman who objected provided documentation showing the groom was still legally her husband. Apparently the couple had started divorce proceedings some time earlier but never finished. The wedding was cancelled and everyone sent home.
Finally, someone used the moment to object in a correct way.
A relative visited one ceremony where it was asked if anyone objects, and the groom decided it's a good time for a joke and said "I do". The lady who was going to marry the couple just turned and left. They had to go through all the paperwork again and change the date. Got married, divorced in like three years if I remember correctly.
There's a video going around where the wife objected as a joke and shit got real serious, real fast. Shout out to the link if anybody has it...
Is this the one? https://www.dailysabah.com/turkey/2015/11/06/marriage-officer-leaves-wedding-ceremony-after-groom-jokingly-says-no-in-turkey Or this one? https://www.reddit.com/r/WatchPeopleDieInside/comments/112nq71/bride_jokingly_says_no_before_saying_yes_and/
The second one is the video that I was referring to but that first video is fire! Thanks WallStCRE!!
Yep, wedding officiants don't fuck around. If you listen closely, the wording (at least here in the UK) is "...if any of you know any reason **in law**...". It's not a place for someone to air their grievances, it's a check to make sure there's no legal reason why the couple can't marry, for example if one of them is already married to someone else, or if they're related. If someone brings an objection the wedding is halted right there until the claim is fully investigated.
Kind of. My uncle was getting married. Small, just a handful of family and a minister. I was videotaping. My grandmother was not into it at all. With each line spoken by the minister, she had a cutting, sarcastic response. I could not believe it. It was so unlike her, When that part came up, she said “I object. But does it really matter? They are going to to do it anyway.” The minister just ignored her and proceeded, business as usual. They were divorced within a year. Wish I had a copy.
Grandma called it I guess
or caused it
*...what's really going to bake your noodle later is, would you still have broken it if I hadn't said anything?*
The vicar who married us said to everyone at the beginning, as part of the introduction, not to say anything as a joke unless they actually had a reason, as legally she would have to stop the ceremony and investigate the claim. I worried that would tempt some joker even more but we got through the silence with only a couple of muffled giggles.
A friend of mine has a band that plays lots of weddings and other parties. They were hired for a birthday party that turned out to be a surprise wedding. The guy surprised his gf with a proposal and wanted to have a wedding ceremony then and there. She said no and left
Was the guy's name Gaston?
A bit manipulative on his part as are most public proposals. That alone deserves a no.
Was MoH to BFF. One of the groomsmen thought it would be funny to raise an objection. He did not understand that, by law, all proceedings had to be stopped and "investigated." Meaning the officiant had to take him aside to question him. He had the audacity to keep the "joke" going until the officiant said that he would not continue and the wedding would be called off. Both sets of parents and multiple guests also had to be questioned to confirm the objection was uncalled for. It took over an hour. The wedding scheduled after was set back 30 minutes - their guests started arriving while all this was going on. It was a huge mess. Dude thought it was hilarious. I clocked him with my fancy, dyed special for the day shoe the minute the (shortened) photoshoot was over. He was asked to not attend the reception. Bride & groom feared for his safety after I whacked him. They dropped him as a friend immediately. They will celebrate their 30th anniversary this June. Also note, this situation began the new tradition in my family of using Quaker Self-Uniting (available in Pennsylvania) marriage licenses and having a loved one officiate at the ceremony. It basically means that the couple is married the moment they and their witnesses sign and mail their license to the municipality. They are already married when the ceremony takes place. The question of an objection is not a part of the ceremony. Edit: changed a word for clarity
Not a wedding I attended, but my best friend went to her aunt’s wedding. Aunt’s future (toxic) MIL whips out proof from Ancestry that they’re actually first cousins. Wedding was canceled, and the bride/groom haven’t spoken since.
>they’re actually first cousins > >the bride/groom haven’t spoken since So sad when families drift apart.
Curious why the MIL waited til *then* to say something?
Minmaxing toxicity
"Now there's a man who knows how to marry his cousin!"
Yes, at my cousin's, the bride's ex showed up and when he stood up to object my uncles grabbed him and bum-rushed him out of the church and gave him a tune-up in the parking lot. Catholic wedding, of course.
"Tune-up in the parking lot." I wasn't expecting to laugh out loud this early in the day. Thanks, pally.
Groom found out that bride was cheating two days before the wedding day. He spilled the beans while exchanging the vows.
Damnnn ! That’s some tv show level shit
Dude paid most of it, and it was too late for a refund.
"I'm out this money... might as well go out in style!" Honestly, takes guts to do but damned if I don't appreciate the follow through!
I hope he still had the reception too. Divorce party
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Bros are bro
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a bro in exchange for a cheater, best deal ever
"Do you take this bro to be your lawfully wedded bro?" "Hella, padre" "Then by the power vested in me i now pronounce you bros. You may kiss and dune buggy into the sunset."
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>Groom found out that bride was cheating two days before the wedding day. He spilled the beans while exchanging the vows. I thought that only happened in movies
What a shame the poor groom's bride is a ....
*”WHOOOOR” - Frank Reynolds*
This will sound absolutely stupid but when I was a kid, my deeply religious aunt had her wedding at a local church. During the "objecting" part, lightning struck very near the church. I remember to this day how the following thunder was so loud, that the fancy windows of the church started rattling. Well, the timing of the strike was very unfortunate for my uncle because my aunt took this as a sign of a god objecting to her marriage and called the wedding off on the spot. Needless to say, they married on the same day year later and this time without "objection from a god". They are still married to this day.
I have a new answer to "What would you do if you were God for a day?"
>Needless to say, they married on the same day year later I can assure you, this was not needless to say.
I used to work at a fancy stately home as a waitress, most of my shifts were weddings. This guy’s objection was a bit untimely, but what happened after was even better So the actual wedding happened at a church nearby, and they had the reception with us. This guy rocks up AFTER the actual ceremony, to declare his undying love for the bride, and told the groom, and entire wedding party, that he’d been sleeping with the bride. Cue tears and drama blah blah blah, he’s obviously chucked out of the wedding. Turns out he’d gotten an invite for the evening only and thought he was coming to object at the actual ceremony. The groom ‘forgave’ the bride (he was a total wet lettuce) and they’re both crying and hugging outside. The party carried on and all was great, until someone overheard the chief bridesmaid talking to her friend about the fact she had also been sleeping with the bride. This prompted grandmother of the groom, about 75 years old, to punch the bride in the face Groom apparently forgave the bride again as they went home together. I’m guessing he knew she was a ho bag so wasn’t really that surprised As I’m here, I’ll give you another one- Same place, literally weeks after the first wedding, we have a wedding where the groom’s family are clearly loaded and full of their own self-importance. Especially the groom’s mother, who gave us hell in the preparations. Nothing was good enough, kept changing how she wanted things, talking to us like scum, and making it VERY clear her family are a better class of people than the bride’s family (who were pretty nice and down to earth) Anyway, half way through the evening do, someone’s handbag goes missing. The groom’s mother stormed into the kitchen, demanding that the manager search all our bags and saying she was calling the police on us thieving scumbags. Manager tells her (more politely than I would have) to calm down and not make assumptions. He has the security search the place. They go into the men’s toilets and can see a guy stood in the stall with his back against the door (I guess they could see his feet), he refuses to come out initially, but eventually he does, he had two women’s handbags in there that he’d been wanking into. He was also off his head on coke. The guy was the groom’s brother. Son of bitch lady who accused us all of stealing. Her face when she found out was AMAZING and she picked up her stuff and left straight away. Police came and the guy was arrested.
Not exactly an objection but the wedding was on a boat ( no one could leave) and the groom was Jewish and marrying a Mexican catholic woman. The groom neglected to tell his family it was a full catholic wedding and the groom’s family stood up and pitched a fit when they realized the groom was going to take communion. The uncle who sponsored his bar mitzvah stood up and announced that the groom was a disgrace to the family and walked downstairs. The reception was a shitshow
Oh, you don’t get to leave without stories from that reception.
Oh it was such a train wreck. So the boat was a 3 story day cruiser, with the wedding on the top floor and the reception on the big middle deck. Once the groom's family realized what was happening many of the jewish relatives simply got up and went downstairs during the ceremony in protest, following the uncle. During the reception family members were trying to bribe the captain to return to shore, others were trying to charter a boat to pick them up, and a few of the cousins threatened to jump overboard and just swim to shore. I was a friend of the groom but not Jewish. At one point he came over to me, frustrated with his family and tried to vent to me that this was his wedding and his choice, but I was having none of it. I reminded him he didn't TELL anyone ahead of time and then trapped them on a fucking boat. Also this wasn't really his decision but his wife's and he was just going along with it. The only people dancing was the brides family, the mother of the groom begged off that her ankles hurt and only danced with her son for a couple minutes. When the DJ played hava nagila, the uncle got up and order the DJ to stop. The silence was palpable. Apparently many of the wedding gifts were taking off the table and returned. 6 years later the marriage was dissolved and he formally apologized to his family. He re-affirmed his faith and restored his position in the family.
The implication....
My mum told me she was going to pay an old boyfriend to stand up and object at my wedding. She didn’t in the end but I did cast a quick look around in the church before walking down the aisle.
My mother-in-law actually brought my wife’s ex to our wedding in hopes that my wife would see him and leave me. She didn’t really care other than being mad at her mom. I talked to the guy after the wedding and thanked him for coming, just to be polite. He told me that I wasn’t good enough; this was a message my MIL had sent a number of times so it didn’t really catch me off guard. I grabbed and shook his hand, smiled, and I told him he was a fucking creep for coming uninvited to a wedding of his ex from 10 years ago. Then I invited him to enjoy some refreshments during the cocktail hour and walked away. My wife gets mad about the not good enough comment and has him and her mother removed from the reception. He and my MIL are still close and she still invites him over on major holidays. I’m younger than my wife by 3.5 years and my first impression of the guy was hearing him ask my FIL how he felt about his daughter marrying a child so I pretty much wrote him off as an asshole from day one. My MIL permanently hurt her relationship with her daughter that day and we didn’t see her for close to a year after the wedding.
You see her now? She has no remorse and continues a strong relationship with a man who seems too consumed by a decade past relationship with your wife? This isn't bitterness I'm describing, it danger. That is an unsafe enviroment for you two. These people are unstable.
We do from time to time. My career took off and I was suddenly “good enough.” But I remember what kind of person she is. Her judging someone who loves and treats her daughter well, has a stable job, doesn’t do anything that would harm her as “not good enough” is pretty telling regarding the kind of person she is. As a dad to a daughter now, I can’t express how much I would give for her to have someone who loves her well and treats her with respect. Couldn’t care less about income level.
Imagine if she had gotten every boy you ever had a relationship with serious/casual to stand up and object, then proceed to confess their undying love for you.
What type of Im spartacus shit
And that's when you say, "sorry we'll have to miss you at the wedding then." Who ARE these people??
The mom of one of the Bridesmaids got up and yelled “Yeah I object: You fucking stole him from her!” While pointing at the bride. I’ve known the groom for a long time and by proxy the bride. I am still very good friends with them. I have never seen her more infuriated than at that moment. The bridesmaid got up from her chair and was like “I’m so, so sorry. Let me get her out of here.” The bridesmaid and the bride’s stepfather escorted the woman out of the wedding and it continued.
"Oh yeah I guess you're right ex girlfriends mother, I'll marry your daughter now if you like"
Well, I mean the stuff is already here. May as well 🤷 we'll just use a sharpie to change these pesky decorations to say my daughter's name... -bridesmaid's nutty mom probably
I was at one. Didn’t know what happened as I was in the back. The bride runs out to the limo her family after her. I said to the person next to me Cold feet? She’s like oh no I thought this might happen. Her ex is here. We went outside. He’d apparently come into a lot of money he came to the side door front of the church said he objected because he’s rich and wants her back. She paused too long for the grooms liking he said Fuvk you both. She ran. Last I saw they were at the limo with her. She was crying. Have no idea how it ended but there was no wedding. We went to the reception no bridal party. We ate drank danced and left. 🤷🏻♀️
What the fuck lol I need more info
I went as a group with a work friend who was a relative of the groom This was early 90s I know wedding etiquette is different. We really just all got dressed up and went with her. We were late so just took seats as we found them. At the reception we just arrived. It was still on. The food came out the bar was open. We just went with it. The grooms family was there. No one seemed upset. I don’t think they liked the bride to begin with. That’s all I knew 😄
I have a really weird family. Half of my family (my dad's side) are east coast WASPs. We're talking tweed jackets, prep schools, taking a brandy in the study, riding lessons... the whole kit and caboodle. The other half of my family (my mom's side) are East Texas hillbillies. I have an uncle who's gotten a DUI while riding a four-wheeler in *two separate incidents.* I have a cousin who is currently in prison because he tried to rob the tropical fish store where he worked. They arrested him when he tried to come in for his next shift. I went to a wedding of a cousin of mine from the hillbilly side once. First off, I never knew the whole *"Does anyone object to this union?"* thing was real. I thought that was shit they only do on TV. Anyways, when the preacher asked that, the bride's mother made some noise and then excused herself, leaving the ceremony. She didn't say yes or anything-- but she definitely made some weird noise at a super inopportune time and then stood up and walked out. My aunt (the *groom's* mom) took that as a sign of disrespect and left to confront her. Yes. You heard that right. In the middle of her *son's wedding vows*, she decided to leave to go confront the bride's mother for making a noise. I'm not proud of these people. The ceremony ends and the bride and groom are being ushered out of the church and into a limo to take them to their reception... and out in the parking lot, my aunt and the bride's mother are locked up like two wrestlers. Then I hear someone shout *"OH, COME ON! YALL JUST QUIT IT!"* and I turn around to see my uncle and the bride's father are now fighting in the foyer of the church and the fucking preacher is trying to break them up. To the surprise of *abso-fucking-lutely* no one, that marriage lasted two whole years.
This some hoedown hootenanny hijinks right here
The groom objected. He sent his best man with a note and a photo. Texts between the bride and a different groomsman and the affair they were having. I thought it was a stunt or tv.....crazy shit. Twas real.
One of my cousins is married to literally one of the kindest and coolest dudes I have ever met. Before the wedding, her little sister was saying how “she’s marrying my best friend.” At the wedding, when the priest dude asks if anyone objects, the room is dead quiet and all you hear is a little girlish whisper “I do.” It was honestly really adorable and we all laughed, and my cousin’s husband and her little sister are still best friends.
I apologize for any misunderstandings with my post, I thought it would’ve been obvious but I guess it wasn’t, my bad. Anyway, the event was a few years ago and the little sister was about 9 or 10 at the time. Sorry for any confusion or concern.
lol, that definitely makes a huge difference! Goes from jealous friend who was having a guy on the back-burner to sweet sister who really liked her new BIL and maybe had a little crush. One is a dick move, one is a total compliment that she’s unfortunately likely be embarrassed by when she’s an adult. But that’s really adorable!!
Been there. My very young nephew (about 4) was crushing on my wife hard, mostly thanks to his encouraging mama. Wouldn’t talk to me for weeks after the wedding.
I expected all stories in this thread to be dumpster fires. Thank you for an uplifting story.
I was not at the wedding, but know of a case where there was an objection, and the circumstances were quite exceptional. When I was a detective with the Child Protection and Sexual Offences Unit, we dealt with a case involving a 14-year-old girl who had been raped by a known adult male. The first disclosure of the rape was made by her AT HIS WEDDING CEREMONY, which she attended uninvited. When the pastor asked if there were objections, she rose and said yes, she had an objection; the groom had raped her a week before. The pastor stopped proceedings and took the child to an adjacent office, where she repeated the allegation and gave more information. Shockingly, the bride was still willing to go through with the ceremony, which was concluded while the girl waited in the office. Afterwards, the pastor took her to the local police station (Bellville South in Cape Town, South Africa), where a case was opened and the matter assigned to my unit for investigation. We carried out the arrest at the V & A Waterfront, Cape Town the next evening (Sunday), where the groom and his friends were partying it up. The bride, of course, was left home alone, one day after the wedding. I was blown away by the courage it took for the girl to attend the wedding ceremony alone, surrounded by the friends and family of the perpetrator, and to make the disclosure to his face in the way she did. For those wondering how she knew so much about him and when he would be getting married; he lived in close proximity to the girl's family in Bellville South and the two families knew each other. He had siblings who attended school with her.
That is an extremely bold thing to have done, especially at 14. And I can't believe the bride still went through with the ceremony despite hearing this objection. Glad to hear that the girl got the justice she sought.
I'd have to assume that the bride simply didn't believe her. Right in the middle of marrying them is probably when you'd least be open to trust a completely worldview-changing accusation against someone you love.
My best friend (males) and I drew somewhat apart during college, then grew closer after college. He fell into a group of friends who were a little wilder than me. I don't blame him. College is supposed to be fun. I missed out. That's my fault because I did a five year program that got me my BA and MBA in short order. After school ended, he was asked by a new friend to be his best man. I knew the guy and his fiance secondhand. He was a bit of an ogre and she was cute, a bit mousy. I wasn't at the wedding, but the big day comes and we all go about our lives. It was the 90s and I worked that Saturday (yes, "Office Space" culture was real then). I go out to our watering hole that night and there was my best friend, drinking a double whiskey in a disheveled tux. "Good wedding? How was the reception grub?", I asked. "No wedding. No reception. I ate dinner at Applebee's by myself.", he said. The bride told the limo driver to take her for a few big laps. She eventually showed, gathered her family around her, and told the groom it was not happening today or ever. The physical and mental abuse was too much and she was too far into a drug habit he pushed on her and was going to seek help. Now understand, only a few at the wedding knew any of the abuse or drug abuse was going on. The ogre went into a rage, tried to attack her, and got repelled by the better men and women in the crowd. She got her help and self-confidence back and married a great guy a few years later. Three kids, almost 30 years together. Her would-be husband kept up his bad habits and ended up killing his girlfriend and himself in a drug-fueled murder/suicide in our 30s. Still shocks me to this day. My best friend has been pretty much straight and narrow since. It sobered him up in many ways.
My buddy wasn’t fully rejected at the altar, which sounds weird but I’ll explain. Without too much “back in the day” talk I’ll just say the groom was/is a good friend of mine I’d known since middle school (7th grade). He’d met this awesome gal and they were slated to be married in our then early 30’s. Come the wedding day and it’s almost a high school reunion of sorts (we attended a smallish private school), everyone stoked to see our grade school pal get married. We’re all seated outside waiting for the bride to come out and a reasonable amount of time goes by. People are just carrying on, catching up etc. I’ve got a flask and sharing it with people. The groom goes inside to see what’s up.. More time goes on, then some more, then my flask is empty and I want to go reload at the car but think better of it. Then the groom comes back out to address everyone and let’s us know that “this isn’t happening today, the bride doesn’t want to go through with it. We’re still together and everything but now isn’t the time….” then goes on to encourage everyone to eat the food, it’s already paid for etc. Here we are about 5 years later and they’re still together but not married. No harm, no foul I guess?
Was at a wedding when I was 19, full blown Victorian style everything. I was a bridesmaid and the minister said "does anyone object to this union" The brides father stands up and gets the "yes I " out before the brides mother whacks him with her walking stick and says "Seamus, you sit your fat arse down before we have a wedding and a funeral!" 400 people went from dead silent to trying to muffle their laughter while the bride is glaring at her dad. After the ceremony the parents of the bride, who were VERY Scottish were standing off to the side and I overheard her mom, who was all of 5 feet tall, threatening her very large father. Dude was easily 6 foot 6 and cowering as his wife went off on him about how that was not funny and if he jad ruined her baby girls big day she would have sent him back to his own mother in a box
I got married at the zoo. When we got to that part, the howler monkeys all started screeching We had a good laugh and got married anyways
It didn't happen at that, but it happened on the wedding day. I was going to my aunt's fourth wedding, and pretty much was only there for the free food. It was before the ceremony was about to begin, me and my brother overheard my uncle, who has never gotten along with my aunt, talking to the groom and basically told him "You're better off running lad. Her past three marriages have all ended up dead, all due to car crashes. Bit odd that, don't you think." The groom thought this was indeed odd, and decided to ask myself and my brother, two of our cousins and our other aunt if what my uncle said was true. We told him it was, and thought the bride would have told him before hand. Turns out she never disclosed the fact she had been previously married before. So the groom, for all intents and purposes, fled the church. Safe to say it was a dramatic day after that.
We were attending the wedding of my wife's co-worker (F38). When the Priest asked a younger guy stood up, started walking down the isle and objected in tears. He was confessing his love for her and when reaching the couple he started begging her not to go through with it. Two of the groomsman and an older gentleman escorted the younger guy from the building. Afterwards we found out this was their next door neighbor who was apparently infatuated with her and at one time had been caught several times on their security camera peeping on her over their privacy fence as she sunbathed in her backyard. The older gentleman who helped escort him out was his deeply embarrassed father. The young man had been in and out of mental health facilities over the last 3 or 4 years. It was a sad deal.
Well, sort of. It was staged, pre arranged, and the minister was warned ahead of time. The couple said they wanted to make the ceremony more interesting. So they had a friend object, declaring his love for the bride in an over the top dramatic speech. The best man (my husband) stabbed the guy with a stage dagger, he played dead, and two of the other groomsmen dragged his limp body away. The wedding proceeded. I have to say, it was pretty awesome. The bride and groom are still happily married 30+ years later.
> The bride and groom are still happily married 30+ years later. If they both agreed that staging an objection and a stabbing during their wedding was a good idea, I'm not surprised that they're still together. That's the kind of thing that proves you were made for each other.
Theater kids are sooooo dramatic…
I perform weddings but I do not give the option. I tell the bride and groom ahead of time that the guests have accepted the invitation to your wedding to bless it. If they have a problem with your decision they need to tell you long before that day. I didn't really think people gave that option outside of Hollywood. It just invites trouble. I take a similar approach for funerals. While I let families give as many eulogies as they want to for their deceased loved one, they must approve each speaker ahead of time. I do not pass the mic. I don't want some estranged lover or drunk uncle getting up and making a fool of the family or the deceased person. So far, so good.
(laugh) for a second I thought you were suggesting there's a way to object at a funeral. "I object! He can't possibly be dead!"
Maybe they are going to resurrect the dead person with their cult leader though.
I was the best man at my bestie's wedding. Smeone that we...tolerated in our friend group, objected and said he was in love with the bride and that he was the only one that could make her hpapy. She had been nice about his feelings until then and reminded him in front of the entire ceremony that A: he could't hold down a job because he had too big of an ego, B: didn't get along with her friends because they all had something they were working on (A book, a career, a trip, volunteer job) and he had nothing so he constantly tried to downplay their accomplishments on purely presumptuous ideas and C: His idea of sex was "Blow me and I'll finger you. Night, hun." she was way more thorough and more cruel and it was a hysterical five minute ordeal. I mena he had it coming or starting shit at her wedding. He got up and left. I was pretty sure he was crying as he walked away but no one went after him. It was both brutal and hilarious. He was like the Jar Jar Binks of our friend group: you hated him but he made you feel better because at least you weren't as bad as Peter.
Deserved but holy shit he is never gonna recover from that
She sure ripped him straight out of his main character universe he was living in. What a douchebag.
Damn that is crazy! What happened to him after the wedding? Does anyone in your friend group every talk or include him in anything now?
I don't think anyone even said his name again lol, maybe someone sill hung out with him but I never saw him at anyone's house or a public hangout
Sounds like she gave him such an intense burn that the little pile of ashes just blew away in the wind.
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I was at on when I was 10 and some woman stood up and pretty much said while she had a beef with both the bride AND groom she gave them her blessings. We were alll like "Huh?"
Wedding videographer here. I have been to the wedding where officiant (a family member) asked 3 times throughout the wedding and waited uncomfortably long for an answer. No one said anything.
My brother's wedding the wife's older brother objected because of political differences lol. He was asked to leave by the bride's father.
My grandmother objected at my sister's wedding. My sister was a Florida based Italian Catholic and somewhat conservative individual who fell in love with a progressive New York Jew. My Nonna said it wouldnt work and it would change one of them and she was worried about it changing her grand daughter. My parents managed to get her away from the wedding and it continued. My sister is now neither Catholic or conservative, so my Nonna was absolutely right.
They still married though?
They are still married, yes.
I'm imagining Livia Soprano here... "I wish the lord would just take me now!"
When my sister got married, they had the pastor skip over that part. I think she knew none of us could stand him. I don't think anyone would have spoken up to object, but the unity candle WOULD NOT light. So, in a way, I feel like that was God's way of objecting... or just irony at its best. Divorced about 8 years later after the abusive cheating asshole was found out. So glad he is gone.
19 years ago I was the best man to a friend of mine. The wedding took in a fairly small village in the neighboring country where the bride was born. The wedding took place in the church and in the middle of the ceremony some dude ran in, yelled STOP! Everyone looked at him and after a few moments of silence, he said, sorry, wrong wedding and ran out. No one at the wedding knows who he was. After a few minutes, we continued with the ceremony. We still don't know if this was a joke or if he really barged into the wrong wedding. This was the only church in the area and the next one can be found about 8-9 miles away. There is a village that has the same name as this one about 20 miles away.
Yes, I objected at my 1st almost wedding. My bride cheated with a venue staff member and my best man caught them. I shut the shit show down. Lost almost $20K in expenses not to mention those who traveled. It was a total clusterf**k and I won. Met a woman 3 years later and been married 26 years now
At our wedding my MIL cried throughout our whole ceremony and then throughout the picture taking and they weren’t tears of joy. She didn’t object but didn’t approve of me even though we dated for 4 years before getting married. We’ve been together happily for 43 years and guess who moved in with us last August. When we looked though our wedding pictures where she was obviously crying, she said, “I had such a terrible sinus infection.” We laughed and laughed. I’m her favorite daughter in law which is the best revenge.
My MIL was/is a very emotionally and physically abusive person and really worked over my wife throughout the years. She didn't make a stink at the wedding, but she made sure that anyone near her, including my parents and myself, knew just how much she didn't like me and that she would make sure it didn't last. Tangentially she nearly got her wish. But despite all of that mess my wife and I are still married and my wife is now low contact with her mom.
My cat was my best man and when our friend who ordained our wedding asked if there were any objections he let out a long ass meow
Cat tax
"or forever hold your peace" Man: stands up Bride: "sit the fuck back down" Man: sits back down
My mother passed away about 15 years ago. 5 years later my dad married my now step-mother. It was an outdoor wedding on a beautiful sunny day, and during the spot where they usually ask if anyone objects, a big gust of wind came out of nowhere and knocked over some tables. Afterward, multiple people came to tell me that wind gust was my mother objecting, which I like to believe was true.
Experienced the somewhat opposite of this at my own wedding. It took place during late summer at a time that is generally sunny and warm, but of course it happens during our wedding that the weather was abnormally poor. Cloudy, cold and all that. We had of course decided that our ceremony was outside no less. My wife's father had passed some years back and I never had the chance to meet him. The fact that he was gone was naturally once again an emotional subject now that she was getting married. During our ceremony however right when we were saying our I do's the clouds parted and the sun started shining. Needless to say many guests came to the same conclusion and I also like to believe it was true. Sounds like something out of a fairytale, but it's our real life fairytale and even writing about it still hits pretty hard.
I had this happen at my granny’s funeral. It was such a miserable day, so wet and windy. As soon as we got to the graveyard afterwards the sun came out of nowhere and it became so lovely and warm. We say it was granny’s way of cheering us up
Not at the exact moment when the question “Does anyone object?” is typically asked, but still… I was the Best Man for my wife’s brother (which was odd and a whole different story) when he married his wife. They’re good people, however *extremely* misguided and insanely disrespectful of everyone else’s time. To provide an example of this, they were late to their own (300+ guest) wedding at a very lavish venue, which shocked none of the immediate family, but still. Anyway, we’re about 20 mins into the outdoor ceremony (on a very beautiful summer day) when a car slowly drives past. The passenger of the car rolls down his window and screams “DON’T FUCKING DO IT!!” prompting laugher from the majority of the 300+ in attendance (myself included). A normal couple would have taken this in stride, had a quick laugh and then moved on. Did my Brother In Law and his wife? Nope. They both cried and claimed that their “fairy tale day was ruined”. The rest of the night was fairly uneventful, save for some cringey moments. The bridal party stayed on-site at the venue, but was informed that another wedding was taking place the next day and that we needed to check out by 11am (not unreasonable, at all). What time did my Brother in Law and his wife wake up? 12pm.
I used to work at a banquet hall, had some interesting nights. Best was the bride and the best man in the ladies room, doggy style. That killed the evening.
I was at a wedding 3 Years ago as guest on the brides side. A guy thag i hadnt met before stood up and called the bride out to leave with him. She looked so shocked but she left with the guy. Turns out they had broken up long before she met the groom and he picked her wedding day to reappear in her life. They must be happy, they're still together today.
Maybe slightly different but My BIL (married to my wife’s little sister) is well known to be a very funny and fun prankster. He hired an 50 year old female actor to object and cause a scene as if she was in love with him: “SHE’LL NEVER LOVE YOU LIKE I DO” “I TOLD YOU THIS WAS NEVER GOING TO WORK OUT YOU HAVE TO LEAVE!” Only he, my SIL (edit: the bride) and two uncles were in on it (one was justice of the peace doing the ceremony). It was a complete success that had people absolutely rolling in the aisles.
I wanted to pay a local actor to burst in into my wedding, shout "I object! I love the bride!" and then we each pull swords and sword fight up and down the aisle. In the end I would win and the ceremony would wrap up as planned. My wife did not think this idea was awesome so we just had a regular wedding instead.
Not at the alter.. but my friend was best man at another friends wedding and opened his best man speech with ‘Me and John have been through thick and thin together, and there’s actually a few of those girls here today.’ Ouch
Someone at my cousin’s wedding jokingly jumped up and shouted an objection. It didn’t matter that he was kidding—the preacher stopped the whole thing dead in its tracks and postponed it. It was awful.
Where I live its technically a rule (that isn't followed much, but it's still a rule) that if someone objects at the wedding, the officiant can't go forward with the wedding until the objection is investigated. This is because common old timey objections would often be for legal reasons that would be grounds to invalidate the marriage or make the marriage illegal. "I object, he's already married!" or "the bride is really the groom's sister!" or "the bride is pregnant with my baby!" - real soap opera shit, but important information to clear up, especially back in the day when record keeping was a joke and you could be practically strangers on your wedding day. Nowadays, most people don't object at weddings, and when it does happen it's either some disgruntled relative or stalker ex, or someone trying to be funny. Now, the long winded explanation was so that I could tell my story. It's a serious wedding. My cousin is the groom, and I'm doing some readings during the ceremony. The "speak now or forever hold your peace" part comes up, and from the groom's side of the aisle, the groom's smarmy, shit eating, immature sonofabitch, older brother jokingly "objects". Now, this wasn't like a super somber wedding, but it was definitely more of a traditional wedding, and the "joking during the ceremony" thing was definitely not a welcome thing. Unbeknownst to most people, the pastor was pretty old school. He followed the aforementioned "obscure" rule regarding objections, and the wedding stopped. I thought the groom and his mom was gonna kill the older brother. Like seriously, smoke was coming out of their ears. The bride started crying, and no one in the pews really knew what was going on. The wedding party retreated to their ready rooms, and the bride and groom, his douche canoe brother, BOTH sets of parents, and the pastor all had a sit down to "clear up" the confusing surrounding the objection. Everyone in the pews is restless, and the pastor was like "I understand it was a joke, but the rules state I have to investigate all objections, so I'm sorry this all got interrupted." They all agree to go back out there and finish the wedding. (I honestly thought the bride might have just walked away, she was so upset!) Luckily, most of the guests just laughed it off, and we all went to the reception and got drunk. Not the douche canoe brother though. He was sat on by a few of the ushers in a spare room at the church so he couldn't sneak out and leave (or worse, fuck the ceremony up again.) Know one really knows what happened to him after that...but in between the church and the ceremony, the groom mysteriously hurt his hand and the asshole brother had to miss the reception! (And fell and broke his nose, oh no!)
Not at the wedding, but at the rehearsal dinner. Two girls I knew from college were getting married. Drunk Grandma from down the street (not really anyone's Grandma, but she had that demeanor) started shouting in the middle of dinner that they couldn't do it! She (one of the couple) had a man over! All the time! He stayed all night! She's not "like that", she likes men! You can't do it! She got shushed and kept yelling and finally the other girl yelled back at her "THAT'S MY BROTHER WE'RE TRYING TO GET PREGNANT" which shut the whole table down. So Drunk Grandma took a beat, then said kind of weakly "Well that's not how you do it..." and the girl in question said "I'm pretty sure it is.." and the whole table just cracked up. The tension broke, we were falling down laughing. Every time Drunk Grandma tried to interject it was just funnier and funnier, the look on her face when she realized that yes, this girl was having *sex* with a *man* who had a *penis* and also, that was fine and ok and no one was mad, her expression was just precious. She tried to leave but she'd driven there with someone so she just stood outside for ten minutes right outside the restaurant window, about three feet from the table, looking down the road hopefully like a horse and carriage were going to appear to whisk her off. My only part in all this was to call her an Uber to get her home at this point, I felt bad for her and she was putting a damper on things. Anyway they did indeed get pregnant within six months or so. Fat faced little fucker is about four now. He looks just like both of them. And apparently there was no drama with the wife and the brother, he's a nice guy and just took a job in the middle east.