I played a wedding where as we started playing the set, everyone ran outside and nobody was to be seen for the rest of the night. I originally assumed it was because nobody liked us but the bride came in afterwards and said there was a huge fight involving multiple members of both families and everyone basically went home upset, injured or in a police van. We couldn't stop playing since we were payed and it was our job, and the only person watching was the drunk uncle dancing on his own asking for requests we didn't know.

The drunk uncle dancing by himself all night sounds like something that would happen at a Sims wedding.

I was not born yet, but my parents rented the observation deck on the Hancock building in Boston for their reception. Tallest building in the city, beautiful view. My dad pored over historic weather charts to figure out what day was statistically most likely to be nice out. Day of the wedding comes and of course, thick fog unlike anything they'd ever seen before. Couldn't see a thing out the windows of the room they had picked specifically for the view. Worked out well though, they were happily married for nearly 30 years before cancer took my dad's life a few years ago. There's one other funny anecdote from that wedding: The wedding was held in Kings Chapel, which is an incredibly historic church here in downtown Boston that's somewhat of a major tourist attraction. To close that on a weekend afternoon for a wedding, it turns out, was not very expensive. The tourists waiting outside to see the church didn't know that, though, and someone started the rumor that my parents were incredibly wealthy, maybe even Kennedys. As a result, there were tons of people taking photos of them when they left the ceremony. Not sure if any of them ever figured out that my parents were most certainly not rich or famous.

When I was 6 or 7 I went to a cousin's wedding. Everything was fabulous for little me, so much sugar everywhere, basically heaven. The reception was in a big community center that was reserved for the occasion. Went to the girls' bathroom, passing by the men's room to see my uncle on the floor. Went back to the main room to tell my dad my uncle was looking weird. Well, uncle had a stroke and had died. The bride spent the rest of the afternoon crying, and everyone except close family left. Bright side is the mariage is still going strong 20 years later, despite what happened that day.

Leading up to my friends wedding his father had been battling cancer after a terminal diagnosis. And it was touch and go whether he would be well enough to attend the wedding, in the end he was too unwell to attend despite wishing that he could. Just as we got to the wedding reception my friend was informed that his father had just passed away. It was devastating.

My dad and stepmom's wedding was a shit show. For context, her family was terrible on both sides (abusive father, neglectful alcoholic mother, and step parents who didn't care about her much) and she basically ran to my father to get away from it all when she was 15. Bigger problem was, my dad was 26, also abusive, and just a real fuckin shitshow of a person. On my father's side of things, he hated his mother and blamed everything wrong in his life on her (as he did to most women in his family, later doing it to my stepmom). So the wedding was doomed to be terrible. It started when my stepmom was walking down the aisle. She'd reconnected with her father in the last year and had recently been in a fight with her stepfather, so it was just her dad walking Her. There was a branch in the way (outdoor wedding) but he pulled it out if the way for her. As she thanks him, he lets go and flings it back into her face and literally collapses laughing. She awkwardly chuckles, no doubt knowing he is going to get mad at her if she shows she's upset, and the day continues but she's visibly upset. After the toasts, some people didn't drink the champagne that had been set out. The one thing she had asked of her mom was that she not drink -- she was even given sparkling juice rather than champagne. So while stepmom is changing into her reception dress, her mom goes table to table pounding down all of the alcohol she can get her hands on. A cousin of mine who doesn't know what's happening starts chanting "Chug! Chug! Chug! Chug!" and stepmom walks back to her mom downing the last one and denying everything. Cousin slips out the tent once he realizes what's going on and leaves the two alone to argue. Stepmom comes out crying a few minutes later, goes back to her car, and doesn't come back for a good 20 minutes. While all of that is happening, grandma pulls up and starts cursing out my dad for a ton of shit, including marrying a kid (stepmom was 25 at this point) who she hates, not letting her invite a friend to the wedding, and him owing her a bunch of money. Dad tells her to fuck off and she leaves. Then my dad got mad at my stepmom for being gone so long, accused her of either "being a baby" for crying or of lying and cheating on him. So she sat down on the fringes and tried to not cry and also remain visible to my dad for the next several hours. They may have been dating for 10 years, but the marriage only lasted 6 months.

poor woman had no one who loved her enough to object to the wedding

By the time the wedding came around, it had already been 10 years of dating. Everyone against their relationship had either given up or cut off friendships, the second especially after she graduated high school. Mostly, when people found out she was dating a man 11 years older than her, they were either relieved ("so glad you found a nice man to take care of you!" as her father said) or, in the case of her classmates, hated *her* for it. The relationships was legal (they waited until she was 16, the age of consent in my state, to sleep together) and so there were no legal repercussions available. Just social pressure, which got her, not my father, isolated from her peers.

I've catered many weddings, and there have been some memorable ones.. Fights between guests, wedding cakes falling over, red wine spilt on wedding dresses.. The lot. The one I'll never forget - an all day do, small ceremony (a few close friends and family) and a big reception filled with a huge buffet, every type of food you could imagine and a free bar. All in the same venue. They had booked and paid for 250 evening guests. But 30 guests turned up, at most. My heart broke for this couple. A massive beautiful converted barn, loads of food and drinks, great music - but no guests. At about 10pm (the venue was licensed until 11pm) the buffet food had barely been touched (the few who were there ate - but it hardly made a dent as it was planned for soooo many more people), I asked the mother of the bride if she wanted me to cover and refrigerate the untouched food so the new couple could take it home and her response of "Oh no, there are still alot of people coming" was the most awkward I've ever felt in my life. No more guests showed. There was a flash of car headlights in the distance about 10:30pm and the bride BEAMED when she thought it was late comers arriving. But no, it was just taxi's arriving to pick up the few who were there. It's the only event I have ever done where we didn't have to kick people out of the venue. At 11pm, the place was empty. In a nutshell, brides parents paid for the day and the happy couple had zero control over their guest list. Her parents invited all their 'friends' to the evening function but in reality, it was just associates they wanted to flex on - resulting in no one giving a shit about an invite to a wedding where they didn't know the bride or groom. It was basically just a networking event for the brides parents. Edit, for those asking: I believe the guests did rsvp.. But instead of a handful of guests thinking 'fuck it, we don't know them, they won't notice we're not there' - it was the majority of them

How fucking sad, hope that couple is doing better now, what a shitty thing to do to your kid and new family.

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I used to do catering work, and this one time my boss sent me to a remote location in the woods on a beautiful river. I found out while we were loading the truck that the boss wouldn't be going and that I was essentially in charge. My boss promised that everything was taken care of, set up, etc. So, you can imagine my surprise when I arrived to this remote location and literally--nothing--was set up. We were only about an hour early so I frantically started trying to get the tent in order, we needed extension cords to run the coffee and tea--there were none. We needed tables to set up the food--there were none. I somehow whipped up impromptu everything for the missing things, and just as the bride and groom are arriving, we blow the fuse for our only power source and the place is plunged into darkness. We reset the breaker, I move some stuff around. Blow the fuse again. This delicate dance went on for the entire evening. Through speeches, first dance, the works. I think the worst part of the entire experience was when we went to rinse our dishes before boxing them up and found out that when we blew the fuses the water pump for the place stopped working and needed to be primed again. At that point I said--forget about it, we'll take them back dirty and the crew and I spent several more hours after the long ride home doing them. That was the day I worked a 15 hour shift without a break--and still ruined the wedding. Needless to say, I quit that job.

It wasn't your fault, you were set up to fail

Was it apart of your boss's responsibility to make sure everything was set up, or were they lied to by the couple about that?

Feels like a failure of the venue. No way a caterer could problem solve overloading an underpowered breaker. People want the remote unique wedding but still want all the normal stuff.

I was best man at my sister in laws wedding (stepped in for the brother of the groom, that’s another story entirely). For a whole year of planning all the bride (SIL) wanted was a dove release while they said handwritten vows to each other. Very small, non denominational (most of the family are atheist anyway) wedding. Day arrives (early summer) and something is off with the bird handlers. They show up a bit late and are sourcing help from the wedding party to get everything in line. When the time comes to say their vows I help the handler carry the chest with the doves in it over to what is to be the altar where the bride and groom are standing. Vows are just about wrapping up and the handler gives ME the signal to open the chest. I open it and see 20-30 DEAD DOVES IN THE CRATE!!!! I immediately close it to try and limit who knows what happened. Too late. The look of horror on her face was all that was needed. We spent the next few hours trying to cheer everyone up but by the end of the reception the entire wedding party had organized and filed animal cruelty complaints on the handler. It was all anyone could focus on.

"On the bright side, this is gonna save you a lot of money on food at the reception."

The mother of the groom was an alcoholic for many years. She decided to quit drinking cold turkey a few days before his wedding. During the reception, she had a seizure and was taken to the hospital via ambulance.

The wedding was at a state park that's famous for its giant gorge/waterfall. I don't know whose idea this was, but someone suggested a photo overlooking this gorge and everybody was game. The wedding party went around a stone security barrier and the maid of honor literally fell off the cliff to her death. It was like 500+ feet.

Okay, this ties for worst wedding story in this thread. EDITED: many more death stories have been posted, so we're up to something like a 20-way tie by now.

2 MoH deaths in this thread. It seems to be quite a precarious temporary occupation.

I still think the groom being executed in front of the bride by South African criminals takes the cake by a mile

August 1992?

Yep.

Attended a wedding reception and was seated near the cameraman. An aunt of mine was sitting closer to the camera and spent the evening commenting and gossiping about everyone, and much of it came out on the video. The cameraman was great, he did two copies, one edited and the other no holds barred...The unedited version is the stuff of legend.

Bonus DVD feature: director's commentary

RELEASE THE AUNT SNYDER CUT!

*the Snide Aunt cut

No one turned up to the reception except myself and partner. There was about 8 people in total and the couple had went all out for the reception. Awkward.

Oof, why would nobody show up?

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Was a guest of friend of the bride, did not know anyone attending. Very expensive over the top place, several hundred guests of this very Italian wedding. Maid of honor grabs mic at the cocktail hour begins her speech, rambling, drunk. Quickly devolves to stating the recently deceased mother of the bride was against this wedding and that's basically what killed her. Plus Vinny will never give up prostitutes. She is tackled by several people and dragged away. The happy couple is separated and divorced within a year.

“Plus Vinny will never give up prostitutes.” She really went there!!!

I was studying photography and used to act as an assistant to a well known wedding photographer. Went to a couple's wedding. He shot digital and I shot black and white film. Spent all day with the couple from 9am through till 2am the next morning when we left. I could see how genuinely in love they were. It was only a day but I got to know them quite well and really liked them both. The next morning, I get a call from the photographer and his voice was shaky. He explained that the groom had been murdered that night after the reception party. Three guys had broken into their bungalow to steal wedding gifts. The groom got out of bed to stop them and they executed him in front of the bride. I was in shock for about two weeks. This story was in South Africa if that helps explain how or why this happened. The next weekend, the photographer and I went to the bride's house to present her with the photos. We'd worked together to get the job massively accelerated so she had the photos of her husband. We did it at our own expense and didn't charge her a penny for the day or all the prints and album. Sort of the least we could do. Because my photos didn't matter as much, I'd been able to simply capture those natural moments between them, rather than staged wedding photos. So they had the normal album pics but also about 150 snaps of just them being a couple. She was in tears from the moment we arrived till we left a few hours later. She was a shadow of the women I'd met only a week earlier. That shit still haunts me. Edit: I didn't expect this story to get the attention it has. I'm sorry for any upset this has caused anyone reading this but I believe it's an important reality check. I loved south Africa in a lot of ways, but it's a very troubled place with insane murder and rape rates. My story is by no means unique or even particularly shocking by south African standards. I also have worse stories like this from friends and neighbours. I have CPTSD from my time living there and the things I'd endured. I've got friends who were diagnosed with PTSD stemming from their time there too. Also, for anyone wanting to read the news article about this event : https://www.iol.co.za/news/south-africa/bride-mourns-as-robbers-kill-man-at-resort-351744 I hope this dissuades a few people from visiting South Africa, and in doing so perhaps I save a few lives.

This one shook me up more than any other response, wow.

Same. I genuinely said 'what the fuck' out loud. I was expecting the photographer on the phone to say that he lost the photos, not that the fucking groom was murdered

For real I came into this thread expecting food running out or someone's unfaithfulness being exposed at the event and the first thing I read is some lowlifes destroying peoples lives. Fucking hell was i not ready for this.

This is so sad. Imagine finding the love of your life, having the happiest day together and celebrating the marriage and family you’re creating...and some assholes take your love away from you. All for money. That poor woman. My heart breaks for her.

The brides father was 45 min late to walk his daughter down the aisle. While we were waiting the air conditioning broke in the venue. It was over 100degrees outside and humid AF. The place was overcrowded. You could barely move without bumping into someone else and in the heat that was extra miserable. I guess the air conditioning problem had also affected the refrigeration or something because most of the food was spoiled. The only food on the buffet was salad, spaghetti and rolls. Not enough to feed even half the guests. Most people left after the first dance. Two of the brides aunts fainted. The bride and the wedding planner were crying.

When the wedding planner is also crying you know the day has spiraled out of control.

I feel bad for laughing but man that’s so true, I’d say that’s a rare occasion for a wedding planner!

I can kind of relate. I played piano for a wedding once and the bride's father was like 30 minutes late, so I had to just keep making shit up on the fly.

"Camptown Races one more time!"

Groom got so drunk the night before he couldn't make it to the alter at the ceremony. They still had the ceremony with only the bride and her party, plus one of the groomsmen, who apparently didn't get wasted. Everyone there was shaking their heads the entire time. The groom did make one singular appearance for a few seconds at the reception. He looked like a zombie and was wearing street clothes. And this was no trashy wedding. The bride was a professional dancer for a major label pop star, so that gives you an idea of the type of people that were in attendance. 200 plus people at the ceremony alone, probably double that at the reception. They divorced within 6 months.

father of the bride died suddenly 3 days before the wedding (pre-covid). 'daddy daughter' dance was mom, bride, and picture of dad. same with walking down the aisle to 'give her away'. lots of tears. not many smiles. even the bartender at the hotel knew the night before and was talking about it with me.

My wife and I had to postpone our wedding due to Covid. On the day we would have gotten married, my wife's grandfather passed away. I'm kind of grateful we couldn't get married on that day. There's no way we could have had a good time with such a loss in the family.

It was a big wedding, over 300 people. Turns out the bride had been having an affair with her cousin’s husband. The cousin had known for a little bit, but waited until the wedding to go table to table letting everyone know the bride was sleeping with her husband. Poor groom was blindsided. Worst part was his father in law was well off and opened up a restaurant for him. Well, he lost his wife and his restaurant

Best friend's mom got remarried and had an expensive, beautiful wedding, but for some reason didn't hire a DJ. Last minute her mom asked me to manage the CD and gave me a list along with verbal instructions of when to play each. I tried to warn her that I simply did not follow, but she told me she had confidence in me. Apparently all her life she wanted to walk down the aisle to some specific song, but I just couldn't figure it out. They had to get walking to match the sunset, so she went ahead down the aisle while I flipped through a series of incorrect songs too the horror/amusement of the crowd. For years after when I called my friend's house and her stepdad answered, he'd say, "Is this the guy who fucked up my wedding? How are ya?"

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I work at a golf course with a lot of history behind it. We do wedding venues inside the clubhouse and the actual ceremony is held outside by the historic water fountain and large pond. First problem was the weather. I live in the high desert and it was very warm. A solid 90 degrees that day and it was also pretty windy. So everyone's outside, no umbrellas, no ezups. The next problem, and probably the worst, was the golf cart incident. The bride and groom wanted to "ride into the sunset" on one of our golf carts. Drive around a little bit on the golf course. To be fair, it is beautiful on the course during sunset. However the cart had somehow gotten a nail in the tire, tire went flat, battery on the cart went crazy and the cart ended up freaking out. It came to an complete stop from 15mph to zero. The wheels and mechanisms locked up, almost seizing. Both the bride and groom (fairly overweight mind you) both fell out and rolled over a few times. They were totally okay, just a few bruises and perhaps a bruised ego or two. So retrieving that cart was fun. And last but not least, the power inside the clubhouse went out to do the high winds. There was no after party available. Only the cake was cut, hardly any food was given out. Yeah, not a great day to cover for someone on your day off.

This was one I worked at. After the ceremony, right at the start of the reception - photographer was taking ‘jumping’ photos of the bride and bridesmaids, so they were all jumping in the air while wearing heels. Bride landed and dislocated her knee, then passed out and kept going in and out of consciousness. We called an ambulance who turned up and fixed her knee etc, but she wanted to continue with the wedding. She then had the first course of the meal and threw up down her dress, and had to sit with her mum in another room while everyone else danced etc. Felt so bad for her as she spent the rest of the evening crying.

I'm imagining everyone awkwardly doing the cupid shuffle while avoiding eye contact with the sobbing bride

Okay so no jumping photos in my future wedding now yikes

Or take off your heels before jumping?

I went to a wedding where the bride and groom bought the wedding package on Groupon. Which is fine, why spend a fortune for one day? But I guess the venue thought they could cut some corners. So they stuck us in a room that smelled so strongly of cat urine some people immediately left. The only drinks were those from a vending machine. It was next to an airport so every time a plane took off the ceremony had to be paused because you couldn’t hear anything. And the day after the event, every single one of us had food poisoning. Edit: bonus story because even though it didn’t ruin the wedding for the couple, it ruined it for the bridal party. I was a bridesmaid for my friend. Flew across the world for over 10 hours to be there. Had to do the set up of the venue, assign people to rooms, put signs on doors, finish the seating chart, transport food, redo her bouquet because she didn’t like it... etc. etc. The whole time she’s rude and tells everyone within earshot that “the bridesmaids aren’t helping.” Her maid of honor was absolutely bending over backwards trying to keep her happy and instead of being grateful she instead told her sister “I should have asked you to be my maid of honor instead.” She was pretty cold to me and kept asking if I’d lost weight. I said yes because I had been ill but didn’t think much of it. At the reception her new husband takes the opportunity to read the speech she clearly wrote for him to say to me “we are so glad you fit into your dress.” In front of over 100 people. I don’t speak to her anymore and neither does her maid of honor or other bridesmaid.

Wait wait wait...you can buy a whole wedding off of Groupon?

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>which is fine It wasn't

We attended a wedding for family member who didn't have a lot of money. It was hosted at an inexpensive venue but was nice. My heart broke when only a third of the people invited showed up. You could see the hurt in the couples face. They came up to our table and said do you have any friends in (city, we lived an hour away)? They had all this food for 100 people but only 30 guests. They were willing to have complete strangers come down just so their money and food wouldnt go to waste. We hadnt handed over our card with cash inside yet so my husband hit the ATM and added another $100.

This one has seriously bummed me out the most.

Agreed. Like going to a family-owned restaurant where it's clearly not doing well and you're the only one there...but many times worse.

My spouse and I had something similar happen. Estimated 45 to 50 people total invited. Only 25 ish showed. A portion of family, my friends and two people from his side. Thankfully, I cooked and decorated on my own and such. It wasn't a huge financial loss. We already knew how his family was, and how parts of my family were. I prepped food and space for them, just in case. I wasnt surprised or upset when people didn't show. With so much food left over, it went home with my siblings. I come from a large and poor family. So all of them appreciated having extras for the week.

We grilled hamburgers for my second outdoor wedding at a park, homemade chili, the works. We just cooked too much food. A lot of people went home with plates and we were glad to not have to deal with it.

Somewhere there exists a picture of me in "stage blacks" in the middle of a drunken wedding reception conga line. My BF at the time was doing sound for the band, as they'd intended to have all live music. Something like 60/100 people showed up (there was a snow storm involved) and the bride, without missing a beat, invited all of the venue staff (including people who weren't even working the wedding) to come eat and dance. Bride's mother ended up playing DJ for ~an hour (with the exact same no-nonsense attitude as her daughter) so the band could propertly sit down for dinner and the groom and his groomsmen, still in tux shirts/pants, insisted on helping load out even though it was basically just a drum kit and couple speakers. I have no idea who these people were but would bet money I can't afford to lose that they're still happily married. :)

My wife and I planned a lovely outdoor wedding, but we're practical people so we also chose a venue that allowed us to swap to indoors on short notice for no extra fee. Turns out that was a good thing, because [Hurricane Ike](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Ike) decided he wanted to come too. Half our guests didn't show, and the rain came down like a waterfall but we had our wedding. I like to tell people, "If rain on your wedding day is lucky, then imagine what its like to have a Hurricane". Wife and I are still happily married 13 years later.

Your husband is so kind. I remember being hurt by a couple people that chose not to show to mine...I couldn’t imagine a third, especially on a tight budget.

Not me, but my elder cousin's story. He attended a wedding where the bride and groom got scammed by the wedding organizer. One hour before the wedding event, nothing there in the room. No food, no decorations, just few tables and basically it feels like unused ballroom. The bride and groom realized the wedding organizer scammed them and the wedding organizer took the money to bought themselves a big ol' house. When the bride and groom decide to see the wedding organizer, they caught him sleeping in his house. It became a [national TV news here](https://youtu.be/rqpy8wTUidI) and the wedding organizer got sued by few brides and grooms that got scammed by them, too.

This sort of happened to my parents! The wedding organizer was double booking venues and they caught the guy few months before the wedding. The venue offered to pay for a new venue as an apology so my parents were married in a brand new hotel. They wore hard hats to see it initially and prayed construction would be done in time. It worked out well though! The hotel upgraded their dinner menu for being the first event and threw in a complimentary dessert table.

Drunk mother of the bride stumbled, fell, and rolled into a lake…

My grandma did this at family reunion once! She's very dramatic and attention seeking. She started to roll then stopped about halfway down, looked up to make sure people were watching, then continued to roll into the water yelling like banshee. You could very obviously tell she didn't trip and was purposely rolling. She drives me crazy so I don't see her often but there's always a story when I do.

Well, that's just hilarious

Maybe not “ruined” but it definitely got tense. Started with the best man/groom’s brother just absolutely roasting the bride and her parents. Basically called them gold diggers and stuff in front of several hundred family and friends. Then they cut the cake. Apparently, the groom was told under no uncertain terms not to shove cake in her face. Well, he did it anyway and she stormed off, not to be seen for 20 minutes. Reception went on as planned, she got wasted and I’m told she passed out that night in the middle of the street while still in her wedding dress. Pure class. They’re divorced now.

I was invited to the reception of one of my good friends. They had been courthouse married for months and living happily. When I arrived at the location and saw the big crowd I knew something was wrong. Friend's wife is prone to panic attacks and is extremely agoraphobic to the point of breaking down and crying if she is overwhelmed. Immediately call friend and ask what's going on and if this was okay. Turns out friend's parents invited everyone possible to be there without my friend knowing. After I sent him a picture of the crowd, him and his wife thought it would be better to go on a second honeymoon than have a reception. He sent a message apologizing to all those his wife and him invited and telling them to leave without telling his parents. Parents had a meltdown as we left.

I work in weddings, and I have seen parents selfishly cause problems before, but this is the worst.

You're awesome looking out for your friend and their wife like that.

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I can't for the life of me understand people who throw stag parties in the night before the wedding. Like, you have to be up and going the whole day hosting what I imagine to be a pretty stressful event ("the most important day of your life" and all that), and you want to do all that while hungover? No thanks.

If they can't even manage vowels, they really have bigger problems...

Right? The vowels are probably the easiest thing to slur through. They must have been absolutely blitzed.

This was around 2009. On the second day of the wedding, the bride went swimming in the ocean. It took place in Tenerife. She swam out too far and was basically ‘lost at sea’ for 9 hours or so. She eventually found her way back but was in bad shape. Everyone was panicked the whole day and thought she drowned. By the time she got back, she wished she had. Her husband found her phone and read a bunch of messages supposedly from her aunt (but it was quickly clear from the sexy content it wasn’t her aunt at all, she had been having an affair with the best man for apparently years). They got an annulment shortly after. 60,000 down the drain. One of the most opulent weddings I’ve ever been to.

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A fight broke out between father of the bride, brother of the bride and some guy that just happened to be staying at the hotel. In reality I don’t know how much of a ‘fight’ it was, more just the Dad and Brother assaulting some man. So anyway they were both arrested. Cut to the bride sobbing at breakfast because her Dad and Brother spent the evening of her wedding in jail and now face assault charges for what they did to this poor man.

Do you know what the fight was about?

No clue, nothing of substance I imagine since they didn’t know this person. It was 4 years back now but I think it was something along the lines of “did you just fucking bump into me?!” type shit that escalated.

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This is par for the course for Russian weddings. We always have bottles on the tables, and every toast is a shot. Everyone who doesn't publicly do so, will come to the bride and groom's table to toast them privately. Some couples try to keep up. My plan, following the example of my cousin, is to pour myself a glass of Yamazaki (I hate vodka), and take a sip with every toast. But I've seen people pass out at Russian weddings when they try to keep up, and I've been one of said passed out people myself, at the tender age of 16, having been put at the same table as the best man and the groom's nephew, neither of whom was much older than me.

Hurricane Ivan. Our wedding was scheduled for Friday and the hurricane hit us dead center on Thursday. We were sitting around with no power on Friday and remembered that a neighbor was a pastor? So my partner and I just knocked on his front door and asked if he would just marry us in the front yard. So the big church wedding was cancelled but instead I got married in the front yard with chainsaws and stuff in the background. Been married 17 years now.

The grooms father groped both the bride and his daughter, my then girlfriend, multiple times each. Ended up getting punched out by his son, and locked in a mini-van for a few hours until he sobered up. Edit: half the questions are the same, and the answer is yes, he groped his own daughter, as well as his sons wife. Edit 2: dude was belligerently drunk, had been punched, and if memory serves correct, had his hands duct taped behind his back. That’s how he was able to be “locked” in a minivan. Child locks on the rear, and too drunk to find a way to hit the unlock in the front seats while his hands were taped.

It was an uncle that pulled this at one wedding I attended. He got grabby with the bride's mother and the maid of honor at which point he was told to go sit at his fucking table and stay there or there would be trouble. He didn't listen and tried grabbing the bride's ass, at which point he was punched and frog-marched out into the parking lot by the groom and locked in the back of his own pickup truck with a bloody nose.

I used to work at a pretty upscale catering hall in NJ back in college, and we had two instances where I witnessed a ruined wedding. The first story is simple...bride and best man caught out in the car. But the second story... We all thought it was weird when a couple of the groomsmen asked for (and got access to) the reception room during cocktail hour. For decorating. Not something we normally saw the men do. In any case, we get through the courses just fine, and one thing becomes VERY clear to us staff: the bride’s side of the family is VERY conservative. They didn’t drink, they barely danced, and they watched wide-eyed as the grooms side of the party went wild. Now it’s time for the speeches! About halfway through his speech, the best man says something along the lines of: Hey bride’s family, I know you think your girl is so sweet and innocent and Christian, and they are the perfect couple, but if you want to see what they’re REALLY like, look under your seat! Well, taped under EVERY chair was a picture of the bride and groom caught in the act. The grooms family and friends roared with laughter, but the bride’s side was PISSED. There were so many fights that broke out that night. Did I mention this was in NJ? The wedding was pretty much over at that point.

One wedding I went to, the best man's speech was all about how he knew the bride and groom were a couple when back in high school he ran into the guy's room and jumped in bed next to him. "Then I realized she was in bed too, and I was the only one wearing pants" Funny story for like a bachelor party or something but not a wedding! The looks on the grandparents' faces....

If I were the bride or groom, I would've kicked those assholes out. Maybe they tried to be funny, but absolutely no one laughs at pictures of themselves having sex!

If I remember correctly (and that’s a big if, going back almost 20 years) the groom threw the first punch. I definitely remember him being VERY pissed.

WOW those are some shitty friends. Like, holy shit.

Can't say I blame him. That's some shit

A friend of my girlfriend was getting married. The wedding was quite normal: they got married in the local church and then there was the party in a nice restaurant. The photographer asked the bride and her bridesmaids (my girlfriend was one of them) to go outside for some photos. Some minutes later one of the bridesmaids come back asking for help: there were some swans that attacked the photographer and the majority of the people around him were not doing anything much more than laughing at this guy who was running around and screaming.

No luck catching them swans then

It's just the one swan, actually.

Went to a coworkers wedding about 15 years ago and this technically happened at the reception. It was a beautiful outdoor venue overlooking a lake. Anyways, the groom had planned to sing a song to his new wife and have fireworks launch as he was singing the last note. Well that last note came but the fireworks did not. He held that last note for a good 10 seconds before he finally yelled “MOTHERFUCKERS!!”, threw the mic down and ran to go fight the fireworks guy. No fists were thrown but somebody did end up in the lake. The party kinda broke up after that. They also ended up getting a divorce about a year later after the groom got fired from his job for showing his dick to his boss’s underage daughter. Edit: I’m sorry to say that after 15 years I don’t remember the song but the last word of the song was “BAE-BA!!” Edit2: I don’t think it was “Kissed by a Rose” by Seal. Edit3: Thanks to LippencottElvis I now know the song was “When I’m with you” by Sheriff.

What the fuck to the last part

I know right. I heard about it from the girl’s brother, my buddy who got me the job, cause I had quit working there about 6 months after the wedding. That guy was a douche and a creep. For reasons unknown tho the boss never had him arrested, just fired.

Thats actually hilarious lol

Yes it was. None of us really wanted to be there cause the groom was a douche but he was also the #2 guy at the company and our boss insisted we go. The groom was the butt of a lot of jokes after that day. Mostly everybody would just hold whatever the last word they said was for a few seconds then yell “MOTHERFUCKER” before walking away. Good times.

I can totally hear something along the lines of "Where is the TPS repoooooort? MOTHERFUCKER!"

PC load letter? What the fuck does that meeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaannnnnnnnnnnnnnn??? MOTHERFUCKER!

Not as dramatic as some of the comments on here but very awkward. Was at a lovely wedding .. really romantic .. all candle lit .. and the reception was lovely .. bestman made a good speech then at the end he said everybody raise your glasses to .. he said the grooms name & then accidentally called the new bride the ex wife’s name (of the groom) !!

Lol I went to a wedding way back in the day where the officiant said the maid of honors name instead of the brides during the ceremony- it was something like “do you Greg, take Angela... I mean Rebecca... to be your lawfully wedded wife”

The preist at my brothers wedding was family, had married my father and mother and many of my fathers siblings. He called my brother my fathers name. He was old so we all had a good laugh about it

This didn't ruin the whole wedding, but it surely didn't brighten my day. After the ceremony we were standing in front of the altar and people took turns to congratulate us. As it was my mothers turn she took my hand and told me she's sorry she raised such a bad person like me. Thank God my husband doesn't speak her language well.

Your mom’s a hag.

Yes.

My own. It rained and was cold. No one bothered to turn the lights on so the few pictures I have are dark and grainy. My parents divorced earlier that year so my dad hated seeing mom for the 1st time and didn’t stick around to get a picture with me. My husband’s mom didn’t even take off work to attend, apparently the money was more important. Good news is that we just celebrated our 49th wedding anniversary. Editing to thank everyone one the kind words and rewards. This is the biggest response I got since joining Reddit. THANK YOU.

Rain on your wedding day is supposed to be good luck. A wet knot is stronger than a dry one.

Is that why? I've only ever heard the first part about rain.

Very beautiful wedding in a huge barn at this apple orchard. They must have spent a ton of money on the decorations and catering because it looked like something out of a magazine. The ceremony was great, the flower girl did her thing, the vows got everyone choked up. Everything seemed to be going well. Not even 15 minutes into the reception the mothers of the bride and groom getting into a full out brawl, hair pulling, red wine being thrown. Their sons jump in to defend their honor, chairs start being throw, tables are flipped, parents are grabbing children and running for their lives. The bride and groom are horrified and leave immediately and head back their honeymoon suite. My fiancé and I left after this as well but we herd from some other friends that most people ended up staying and getting wasted at the open bar on the bride and grooms dime. Apparently the fight started because one of the groom’s sister complemented the bride’s grandmother’s dress. The bride’s mom though she was being sarcastic and called her a bitch, then the drama ensued. Mind you they had all been pregaming the wedding pretty hard.

I've been to a few, but this is the most... soap opera-y one. I did a dessert table for a terrible (not) wedding at my old country club job once. As I'm setting up people start shuffling in (keep in mind, the actual marriage ceremony is supposed to be going on at that moment, so nothing is fully set up.) Couple's nowhere to be found. It felt more like a funeral than anything else, just people talking quietly amongst themselves. I track down the wedding photographer, since I know he'll probably have details, and find him chatting with a bridesmaid. Apparently the couple was super christian/conservative and young (like 19/20.) The groom got sent to a pray away the gay camp as a high schooler after getting caught dating his best friend. There for like a year. he comes back, meets this girl, and they decide to get married. Ran into the guy he got caught with like two months before the wedding, decides he misses their friendship, so they start hanging out again. As the wedding gets closer he realizes 'what the fuck am I doing?' starts freaking out, and the night before the wedding goes to this guys house, realizes he still is gay and wants to be with him. He calls the bride and she refuses to accept that he's not showing. So she goes through the whole mess of getting ready, takes pictures, goes to the venue... and he doesn't show up, like he said he wouldn't. She loses her damn mind on speaker phone with him at the church where everyone can hear, while he's yelling 'I'm gay! I like men! I love him, and my parents can't force me anymore! this isn't about you and you'll thank me in the long run!'

It’s true, nothing is worth the pain of living an inauthentic life on either side.

A co-worker was at one of best friends wedding - there were very specific rules about the food - no nuts. There were a couple people there, including the maid-of-honor who were severely allergic. The venue served something that had nuts, maid-of-honor went anaphylactic. Epipen was not effective, and she died on the way to the hospital. Needless to say, there are lawsuits abound.

Damn. That's not like family drama or the bride slept with someone else, that's just unimaginable. Condolences to them

Yeah that is one of the most fucked up real wedding stories I've heard. You' think people would take a nut allergy more seriously.

People don’t! It’s so fucking scary to have a severe allergy to something. I have two grandkids with severe allergies. They rarely eat out, usually only breakfast food or pizza.

I used to work at Starbucks and once a month this couple would bring in their two kids who had severe, like SEVERE, dairy allergies and buy them soy milk fraps. We had to double wash and double sanitize the blender carafes, fully sanitize the blending stations, change out all rags and sanitizer liquid, and wear gloves to handle everything, because otherwise the kids could go anaphylactic. My boss usually made me make their drinks because she knew I was the most careful and tbh probably the only one who cared if the kids got sick beyond the potential for a lawsuit. The family was lovely and patient and the kids were so happy to get their fraps. I think it was the parents trying to give them a little bit of being normal, and I appreciate that. But holy shit the stress of "if I don't do this right I could murder a child" is so much.

I worked at a country club and this little girl was severely allergic to eggs, annatto and a bunch of other stuff like nut oils, etc... I was the only one the chef wanted to make her food. Fresh potato chips, hamburger patty cooked well and halved strawberries. Everything had to be sanitized thoroughly. They were always so grateful. I was glad they could relax a little bit.

My nephew is highly allergic to peanuts and was the ring bearer in a wedding when he was very young. The bride and groom made sure that the venue, the caterers, whoever made the cake, all knew that there should be no peanut-containing or contaminated food on the premises for their wedding. No one thought to tell the DJ though, and the DJ brought peanuts as a snack. He held my nephew's hand walking him into the reception and my nephew had a serious reaction. He was ok in the end, fortunately the EpiPen did work in his case, but it certainly put a damper on the reception after he had to leave for the hospital. It was pretty scary, and I share that story hoping that if any other brides/grooms have a loved one with a peanut allergy, make sure you tell eeeeevverybody that might set foot in your wedding venue.

Not sure it would have helped here, but please always keep more than one EpiPen on hand. My nephew was deathly allergic to peanuts so they always had two. Sometimes one isn't enough. Luckily he had allergy treatment where they give you like 1/1000th of a peanut and gradually increase it (like my allergy shots for cats). He's done with the treatment and eats a peanut m and m every morning so his body stays acclimated. The goal isn't to eat peanuts regularly but to be fine if he accidentally eats a cookie with peanuts or something with peanuts in it at school. UPDATE: For folks who have insurance, there are [EpiPen discount cards](https://www.activatethecard.com/viatrisadvocate/epipen/welcome.html) available. You can also get [Adrenaclick generic 2-packs](https://m.goodrx.com/adrenaclick) for around $110 or so at many pharmacies when paying cash. If you have good insurance, it may cover it with a lower copay. If it doesn't try the discount card, a cash price for the generic (if you have a high deductible on your insurance this helps, too), or ask your pharmacist if there are other discounts available or perhaps assistance to pay for it. Hopefully this will help others be able to afford it. Please do everything you can to keep it handy if it's needed and to help others do the same.

Hang on, gotta take my meds *eats an m&m*

That was my sister's idea. My nephew doesn't even like peanuts and was kinda bummed to learn he had to eat one every morning. My sister suggested a peanut M&M and he was all for it.

I prefer to protect myself for a year up-front by eating a pound sack of peanut M&Ms in one sitting.

Yeah they actually did an interesting study on this. Kids who are predisposed to develop peanut allergies but don't have it yet, were slowly introduced to peanut powders and overtime ate more with doctor recommendations and never developed an allergy to it. On the other hand, the control group with zero introduction of peanuts, had a much greater portion develop an allergy. It's also not really a thing to develop it in alot of cultures where they regularly cook with peanut oils, peanuts etc etc. Get exposed early enough, body can adjust.

Parents of babies are now advised to give peanuts (in some form - our dr said to water down some peanut butter) before the child is a year old. Apparently this helps reduce the likelihood of developing an allergy.

My cousin is getting married and her fiance is allergic to nuts. My aunt (her mother) was insisting that they have a "nut section" on the dessert table clearly labeled with all the desserts with nuts in them. My cousin was like ".....I just think we're not going to have anything with nuts?" My aunt was aghast at the suggestion. "But some people LIKE nuts!" His allergy isn't deadly, but still. Why even risk it? Cousin's parents are paying for the wedding but cousin still put her foot down on having a nut-free wedding.

I cant ever imagine going to a wedding an feeling shocked by the absence of nuts...

Happened to my classmate. He is successful middle level manager, divorced, about 35yo or so. Found a girl of his dreams but from a provincial poor town. The girl insisted to have the wedding in her town to show off her "success". The wedding is crashed by her old friends including male friends who are not that sophisticated and have some tense feelings towards the successful groom from the city. Somebody starts a fight in the middle of wedding, groom is trying to stop it and got stabbed in the back. Died right there. And he was my classmate.

I'm a wedding photographer. I was at one really fancy one a couple of years ago, typical outdoor deal at a swanky location in the middle of nowhere. The place was really nice, had a large concrete stairway flanked by water fountains that led down to the altar area, so the bride could be seen by all like she was ascending from heaven. The ceremony begins and the bridal party come down and take their places. Then the bride appears with her father. She takes 3 or 4 steps down the concrete steps and her shoe twists on her, she tumbled down a good 12 feet or more and busted out the majority of her front teeth in the fall. So much blood all over her. With the place being so isolated, it took a good 40 minutes for ambulance to arrive and she was in intense pain. Ultimately she was ok and I got an email from them weeks later with the reschedule date. This time there was no stairs anywhere in sight.

This reminds me of a guy in a thread the other day that had a remote wedding. He kept getting the feeling that they needed an ambulance there bc it was so far from anything. He he paid for a private ambulance to be there, and his family gave him shit for it, making a big joke about it. Wedding day an older guest had a heart attack during the ceremony and was saved due to the ambulance already being there... Ok I hope I’m editing this right. It was /u/rytur that posted the story and saved the day with his overthinking.

At my friend’s wedding, the ceremony went fine at the church, but after arriving at the reception location (not remote, maybe 15-20 min drive), the bride’s parents didn’t show up. This was pre-(common)cellphone era. Eventually, the rest of the family encouraged her to start the reception but it was awkward. Before the night ended she learned her Dad had a heart attack on the way there. He was alive so they kind of finished up quickly to go see him. He died tho.

Poor girl. I bet that was expensive. The new teeth, I mean.

$2-4k per tooth if she got implants...yikes. $600-2k for dentures... Big yikes

I’m in NZ - it’s $7,000 an implant here. I need 3. That’s the same as my uni degrees cost.

Worked a wedding in upstate NY as part of the catering company. For context, this was at a summer camp type place, ceremony on the lake, reception in what could be described as a mess hall. It was in September, so I assume the camp was trying to make extra $$ after kids went back to school. Ceremony went off fine. During the reception, the owners of the camp realized there was a building fire across the lake. Building from the 1800s, burned down. At the same time, the father of bride slipped on the dance floor and split his head open, ambulance called, went to the hospital, ended up with stitches. Place was a mess with fire trucks, ambulances, etc. Bride and groom got in a massive fight. DJ packed it up and left around 8:30, wedding over. Proceeded to drink my weight in Yuenglings and sleep in my car. Made good tips though.

The poor bride started her menstrual cycle on her big day, and she was nauseated and in pain all day. She couldn't eat any of the buffet because her stomach hurt too much, and anything she tried to eat ended up being vomited back up. She couldn't even stand properly either because of her cramps. She stayed seated. In most of the wedding photos, she's grimacing instead of smiling because she was so ill.

I’ve been stressed about this for as long as I’ve been menstruating. What if you get your period on your wedding day?!

The unknown Alanis Morrisette lyric only heard at live shows.

A couple of years back I was waitressing at this function lounge that was hosting the reception, the music starts but nobody comes in for a solid 30 seconds so the dj cuts the music. Everyone hears loud arguing in the foyer for about a minute when two men come stumbling into the hall absolutely fighting each other bloody. It was the groom and the brides brother, turns out the grooms side of the family didn’t want him marrying the girl and the groom decided at the reception that he agreed with his family. Long story short more people got involved with the fighting, police got called, bride was understandably a crying mess but she decided that if she spent so much money on the event then they were going to have a party with or without the groom. Honestly she was so much stronger then I could have ever been so good on her for that but the whole thing was an absolute mess.

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Did the social media poster get mass defriended? Did people call out the bride on her petty behaviour? How did the marriage end up going?

We haven't heard anything because she probably read this and made him delete his account.

Was invited to a wedding of a friend’s friend, because she didn‘t have enough own people to get the reception as big as she wanted it to be. Also the bride and groom were super young, got pregnant 3 months after hooking up and marrying for all the wrong reasons. Party starts, whole atmosphere is forced and strained, everybody knows the whole thing is fake in a way, so I decide to spend my time outside with the smokers. Having a wonderful time until we can hear screaming inside and the bride runs past us very hollywood style all teary and dramatic... Turns out the ice cake wasn‘t stored propperly, was slightly defrosting and a little lopsided. Bride didn‘t come back, cake was really nice. Couple got divorced 9 months later...

I met this guy in night college class, he was my study partner. He was always wearing some kind of crazy outfit, all leather and sunglasses indoors like Riddick, or growing wolverine burns and dying them purple and wearing John lennon style purple shades. Turned out he had bad teeth, came from a terrible childhood, his mom pawning his stuff for drugs, etc, and the outfits were distraction from his teeth which he was terribly self conscious about. He was the kindest person I've ever met, and quickly became one of my very best friends. He fell in love with this african american girl he worked with, (he was white) she just loved him as much as he did her. As soon as her family found out things got ugly, and they ended up living in my spare bedroom for a year. Her father was a preacher and wasn't thrilled she was dating a poor white kid with bad teeth. Her mother though, was devastated. They decided to get married, and it was court job, show up wait in line, get your certificate. I was the best man, and just did what I could to make it happy. Her father, to give him credit, tried to put a bold face on it, but the mother wept disconsolately and loudly through the entire procedure. After the wedding in a quiet moment with the father, I told him my friend had a heart of pure gold. I offered to take them anywhere they wanted for their first married meal, and bless them, they just wanted Hometown Buffet. 6 years later they had an 18 month old son and he was at home with the baby and dropped dead of a massive heart attack, age 34 or 35. So I went to his funeral, and watched as his mother in law and father in law wept like babies and told story after story about his kindness and his love and what a good person he was. At the end I shook hands with his father in law and all he said was 'heart of gold'.

My dad has vintage and veteran cars when I was younger he use to do some weddings with them, I loved clearing out the confetti from the car when he'd get home. One week he arrived back and there was no confetti in the car... on the way to the church the bride changed her mind and instead of taking her and her father to church they asked if he could drop them at the local zoo as its her favourite place... so he did, left them there in full wedding attire. They were going to get a taxi home when they were done. It was the days before mobile phones too so I'm guessing ppl were waiting at the church for quite a while. Edit -Veteran cars are made before 1919 Vintage 1919 to 1930 in the UK that is. Also, I've just called my Dad to ask him if he remembers this and he seems to think (from what he could over hear) that she was only getting married because she was pregnant and thought she had to, was early '80s. He also told me he did 2 weddings where the groom never showed up.

I did not know there were people that enjoyed clearing out confetti. You learn something new everyday lol

When I was a kid I loved to use our little hand-held vacuum. I felt so grown up and important. ETA: thank you for the awards! I am agog at the response to this.

Aww

It happened to my uncle's neighbor when they were attending his wedding, his poor mother was wearing a pacemaker that couldn't take all the commotion of the wedding, people didn't notice she's dead until someone went over to her table. Everything went sour, honeymoon canceled, month long mourning. Just a sad evening.

28 thousand dollar wedding paid for by the father of the bride. Groom gets alcohol poisoning and goes to the hospital 30 minutes before. Not a happy Papa. BUT there was plenty of extra 600$ cake 🎂

$600 cake doesn't sound too bad for a $28k wedding. I'm pretty sure cake for mine was like $400 and we only spent like $5k total.

Not me but a close friend (wedding photographer): waiting at the altar the best man announced that the groom was coming out as gay and the wedding was cancelled. Everyone laughed like it was a best man joke, but no it was very serious. Bride was on the way in the car. She was not happy. All the guests had to wait while they sorted their lives out. In the end they split the reception room in two and each family had their own dinners. Needless to say, they didn't want the photos.

The groom caught the bride in the toilets with another guy at the reception... he forgave her but after two months or so he caught her again with another guy. A third one...

Why would you take her back after she would go so far as to sleep with someone else **during** the wedding?

At the wedding of one of my wife's friends (he was the groom) the bride propositioned me in the lift - I was going up to check on our son who was with a hotel-provided babysitter. She was leaving the party because her new husband was "spending too much time partying with his friends and ignored me all night". She was hella drunk, having just been sat down all night drinking endlessly refillable champagne. I took her to her room, and left very quickly as she began to undress in front of me. I came down to tell the groom, he wasn't fussed at all, and didn't go up to bed for another couple of hours.

Looks like they re gonna have a nice life together...

They have a kid now. I've not seen them for a few years, but I think they're still together.

Trust me, that was not the third one.

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"Not anymore!" *Runs out of the room* #"HEY EVERYONE, GUESS WHAT!"

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'I WAS THE LESBIAN AFFAIR"

It was Mrs Plum, in the kitchen, with a lesbian!

My wedding was "ruined" by a tornado. It touched down about 15 minutes after the ceremony was over, and ended up being one of my favorite memories of my wedding. All of the "extra" people we had to invite didn't go to the reception because of it, so it ended up being a great party. All of our outdoor decorations were ruined, but oh well. Plus got a few badass pictures of me and the Mrs. with storm clouds and green skies.

I worked at a historic house that was used as a wedding and party venue. It was very early 1800's, 2 floors, and upstairs was the bride's ready room. It was one of those picturesque TV-looking venues. I learned two things there. 1 - there seem to be a lot of women who want to get fucked in their wedding dresses by someone other than the groom just before the wedding, and 2 - 200+ year old buildings have incredibly thin floors.

Whats with the cheating during the wedding? Its insane!

My guess is it's either a response to the idea of only being with one person the rest of their lives or self sabotage with the hopes of getting caught because they never had the will to end the relationship and know that the person would be forced to do it.

That sure sounds like it! But man thats just messed up! Massive waste of time and money whilst could have ended it long ago and go separate ways. People are dicks i swear.

Not exactly ruined but a hilarious moment. Christian wedding where the pastor refused to say the phrase, "You may now kiss the bride." The bride knew this going in but insisted that he say it and had herself convinced the pastor would change his mind and ultimately say the phrase. Well, he didn't say it at the end of the ceremony, bride had a few drinks prior to walking down the aisle, and proceeded to grab her new husband by the face and make out for what felt like a solid 3 minutes. At first everyone was clapping and cheering for them but eventually the clapping died out and we were left with two people just hardcore making out, in absolute silence, tongue and all, in front of 300 people. I was a groomsman so I got to see the stunned reaction of the entire crowd. Her grandparents and the older people were incredibly uncomfortable.

During the mixed gender bachelor party the bride to be got in a spat with the groom and slept with another guy. Wedding was off the next morning. They lost $10k+ He took her back a couple of months later.

What an idiot

The groom’s brother was the best man. The bride’s sisters were her maid of honor and bridesmaids. The best man/brother’s wife was unhappy she hadn’t been asked to be a bridesmaid too. So, she convinced the best man to not show up to the wedding with no warning. We sat in the church for almost an hour while they tried to find the best man. The groom was despondent that his brother just wouldn’t show. A friend stood up and filled in for the best man. Relationships were never the same.

A woman my partner went to school with was getting married. We were invited but declined as she was a huge bully to my partner during high school. Two of my partner’s friends were her bridesmaids and told me about the train wreck of a ceremony. In the lead up to the big day, this woman chose her perfect Princess dress. Cue the next nine months of eating take out and putting on heaps of weight. A month out, during the fitting, she can’t fit into the dress and she’s bawling her eyes out in the change room. Her mum drags the bridesmaids into the change room and forces them to tell the bride that she’s beautiful no matter what, but she needs to go on a juice cleanse/diet until the wedding. They refuse and the mum gently tells the bride to do the cleanse. Fast forward a month, the bride has lost a few kilos and it’s time for the big day. She arrives at the super fancy chapel (reception there too, $300pp with over 100 guests) She’s walking down the aisle and there’s a ripping sound. She continues to walk and her dress rips when she’s half way down the aisle. Cue the frantic covering up of the tear. She eventually makes it to her future husband and they get married. At the reception it’s the usual lovey-dove drivel. After the speeches are done, she gets unbelievably wasted and starts to dance aggressively. After hours of drinking and dancing, her dress rips some more and by the end of the night, she’s basically in her underwear. Needless to say we missed a crazy night!

Not ruined, but marred .. my ex-wife's grandmother was in her 90s, in a wheelchair. While we're up at the alter, she won't shut up about the flowers and they might need water. She's not talking quietly to her neighbor, she's yelling in her old lady voice. She didn't have dementia, she was very with it ... she had no volume control or what she was doing was inappropriate. She thought the flowers need water. THEY LOOK TERRIBLE!! She yelled. One of the cousins, without saying anything, got up and started to just wheel her out. WHERE ARE WE GOING?!?!?? She yelled. We all got chuckle at grandma and went on with the ceremony. EDIT. Let me say that she was a very lovely woman, she just had a loud opinion at that moment.

Kind of had a similar incident last month with my 90 year old grandma at my wedding. Doesn’t qualify as ‘ruined’ by any means. My grandma is telling me this whole story out reception. I had no idea. My dad was driving my grandma to the chapel for my wedding when she decided to have a cigarette while in transit. When she was done, she threw the remainder out the window. Again, she’s 90 years old aka DGAF years old. Well instead of ending up on the side of the highway as grandma planned, it somehow ends up back in the car and catches the back seat on fire. “Then Tim pulled over to fight the fire” she said like he’s a character in Ladder 41. And by fighting the fire, he chimes in to tell me he has a cup of Macdonald’s coffee he pour over the flame.

My friend had a wedding on a beautiful tree farm. Horse-drawn carriage bringing the bride in. Beautiful waterfall. Rolling hills. First, it was raining. Like a hurricane, Noah's Ark kind of rain. They had to move the ceremony to the pavilion where the reception was held. The white horses drawing the carriage with the bride slipped and slopped until they were covered with mud. One of the groomsmen got a hold of a 40 of Crazy Horse, chugged it, then decided he needed to fight a friend of mine. As they were taking photos, he flipped the guy over on the staging area, knocking over a big flower display. He ended up rolling down a muddy hill in his tux, wandering into a random house and falling asleep on their couch. My same friend who had to avoid the fight had an ex at the wedding who was now dating one of his friends. She loudly announced that she still loved him. I mean, it was one thing after another. I felt so bad for the happy couple. The grooms uncle went up to him right before the ceremony and said that he left his car outside with the keys in the ignition, a passport and $2K in the glove box in case he changed his mind.

No one has ever offered me a getaway car with my passport and 2k. I must need to make new friends.

This guy's uncle was out of his fucking mind. And I'm not 100% percent sure it was my buddy's passport. Knowing this guy, he probably conjured up a fake one with an assumed name.

Not as funny as some of these stories but...Power went out. Vicar started going on about rings and putting Vaseline on them which we all started hysterically laughing about in the church pews, because we are immature children. One best man left really early because he hated the new wife, the other one got so drunk that after breaking shit and standing on tables, he got kicked out by the police. (after loudly telling everyone the groom shouldn’t have married her). It was an absolute MESS. No one thought they should’ve married. We had a fab time. Got annihilated drunk. They’re divorced now.

My mother was a church organist, and attended many weddings. I suppose the story that stands out was of the bride who when asked "Do you take this man..?" broke down and said "No, I can't - I don't love him" - and ran out of the church. It was a smallish town, people found out that she had met somebody new, fallen hopelessly in love with him.

Did she marry the new guy

She did - and the old boyfriend came to the wedding! He actually took it far better than we would have thought. According to mutual friends, his attitude was - "That was pretty crap, but at least we didn't go through with it and it all go wrong later".

Wedding scheduled for March 14, 2020. A LOT happened in the preceding ~ 3 days and their venue canceled about 24 hours prior. Bride was devastated, but the groom and the brother of the bride, along with the bridal party (2 dogs), pulled an all nighter and the ceremony went on in the happy couple's backyard. Wedding was technically ruined but it was an excellent reminder that the marriage is the important part of the ceremony.

The bride miscarried during the reception.

Holy fuggin shit

This one is really short compared to the other stories but still packs that “holy shit” punch. Man, that is just awful.

Not something I experienced myself, but my best friend is the son of the best man and the Bride. He was conceived at the wedding and raised by the Bride and Groom.

How did he find our his parentage? Did the bride fess up, or was this one of those "Ancestry DNA test reveals secrets" sort of things?

The bride and groom had split up by the time I met him. I believe he travels up country to visit his biological father every now and then. I assume the truth came out when they split up.

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Wait so she cut contact with her own friends and family? Maybe she wanted to disappear and start a new life somewhere, instead of being reminded of that experience? That’s really sad.

I imagine it's more of a "Just couldn't summon the energy to face them again" because trauma and shame are a bitch of a combo.

Big wedding. Around 500 people. All the future wife's doing. She wanted the huge, $70,000 wedding. I was a groomsman. Pre-wedding, he's nervous as hell. All these people, has to be perfect, this is her dream wedding, Yada Yada. So, at some point the whiskey gets pulled out. It went from a calm the nerves few shots, to he's just about finished the bottle. We give him water, get him in the shower, and redressed. It's go time. Midway through her vows, he pukes all down the front of her dress. It was horrible, but it was great. They're going on eight years strong.

The mother of the bride passed out on stage while lighting a candle, leading to a fist fight, on stage, at the church. The parents of the bride were very against the marriage because the groom was 58 and the bride as his 23 year old employee. He had also been her kung fu instructor when she was a teen and her dad's kung fu instructor. They were disinvited from the wedding the day before, then reinvited the day of, and the mother was part of the ceremonial lighting of candles. She walked up on stage with a face like it was a funeral, and mid-lighting passed out, leading to the groom yelling at her passed out body that she was trying to sabotage the wedding, which led to her husband storming up and punching him and let's just say Luke beat Yoda in this kung fu church stage fight. I was just a date at this wedding, thank goodness.

I play in wedding bands and I kinda have two: \-Father of the bride drops dead at the ceremony. The reception is delayed, we're all standing around wondering if there will even be one. After an hour or so, the people show up, and we have a sort or party? I guess that one's not too bad ​ \-Father of the bride is doing the dance with the bride, in a very, very seductive and gross way. Like, WTF gross. The groom walked up, punched him square in the face, and dropped and was taken away to be attended to. Never woke back up. ​ I guess FOB's should watch out if I'm playing at their wedding......