At the reception the best man and groom were drunk and started fighting. Cops were called and the groom decided he would win a fight with the 6 foot 5 state trooper. They had to hog tie him after he kicked two other officers. I was the photographer doing a favor for a friend.
Some. It was dark out and the trooper gave me a look after the third flash so I stopped.only one came out clear. I mentioned to my buddy later that I had them and he asked let him see. He laughed and they added them to the wedding album.
Attended a wedding where they had hired private security to ensure the bride's father and stepmom wouldn't come in and disrupt everything. After security blocked them from going in I guess they decided to get drunk in the car, they then came back and proceeded to beat the security guards up with their empty liquor bottles.
Before the wedding I overheard the groom's family calling the pride paranoid and selfish, and that she should have invited her dad. Obviously, they had never met him before.....
Oftentimes people don’t believe it when you say your family members are terrible people. They should see it for themselves. Here’s another example of that
Thank you for respecting her decision and for going above and beyond. As someone who's currently estranged from family, I can tell you that she really really appreciates you.
I’m fortunate to have a normal family, but I don’t understand people who don’t believe them when they say they don’t want anything to do with certain family members.
It’s like, have you not met assholes and narcissists in your daily life? Those assholes have families. It’s perfectly reasonable to cut toxic people out of your life.
I guess they can’t imagine the extent. When I started dating my future husband, he never questioned my strained relationship with my dad, but after meeting him for the first time, as we were driving home, he sat in silence for a while and then said “shit, I thought you were exaggerating. I’m sorry, I had no idea”.
The last time I saw or spoke to my family was when I had to bring the police to my parents house to get my kids after my mother kidnapped my kids. My entire family took her 'side' and said I was being cruel. Even after I tell people the story they still say my kids should have a relationship with my family and I should just supervise.
Ugh we are completely NC with my MIL because of her abuse and aggression. My family always acts like it can't be that bad and she deserves to be a part of her child's life.
I didn't specifically hire security, but I did show my wedding planner's boyfriend a picture of my brother and that he wasn't to be allowed in. The boyfriend is built like a Viking berserker, I have no doubts he would have taken care of any disturbance. Bro didn't show up and we had one hell of a party. Blood =/= family. Some people need to experience the bad behavior themselves before they accept a person willingly cutting out biological relatives.
Groom got up during the reception to announce that they (both 18 yrs old) were already expecting a child. They had purposefully gotten pregnant so their parents would have to let them get married and the very religious parents were very ashamed and trying to keep it a secret. But after the groom so loudly announced it to everyone else, a brawl broke out between the families, each accusing the other's kid of entrapping the other.
Yes... the children definitely masterminded the entrapment.. not the familial and social expectations those adults laid out as the only options....
Playing games and winning prizes! Lol
Ha. I was at a wedding in my early 20s where we ALL stepped out of the way of the bouquet and it landed on the floor. We all looked around at each other, then the maid of honor picked it up and handed it to the girl with the long-term boyfriend. She reluctantly took it 😓
I pissed my ex off by catching the bouquet at his brother's wedding. The bride didn't mean to launch it straight for me but in the pictures, you can clearly see it wasn't thrown high enough for everyone to try and grab it.
I was in one in my mid-20s where I only participated in the bouquet catch because the bride had asked all the bridesmaids to beforehand. Then she accidentally tossed it so that it ricocheted off the ceiling and hit the floor. And I reflexively picked it up to hand back to her to try again—only to realize what I’d done way too late. There’s a photo of me somewhere looking chagrined while the bride laughs at me and hugs me.
… there must be something to the old superstition, though, because I was the only girl in that group who didn’t plan to get married (was, in fact, rather against the idea of marriage) and somehow was still the first to actually get married—7 years later.
Dayum. I screamed and dodged out of the way as the bouquet hit me square in the body at my half sister's wedding because I was 12 at the time. This caused the women behind me, who were late teens through 40s, to lunge for the bouquet so it didn't hit the ground, and then that started a tug of war because 3 people put hands on it at the same time.
After the toast the Bride said she had a surprise for everyone and started playing a video. They got married a year ago in secret only 2 people there knew about it and kept it a secret from everyone, even the parents didn't know. The end of the video the Bride turns to the cameras and said "Surprise bitches, you are at our 1 year anniversary".
A lot of screaming and yelling "WTF" it didn't ruin the wedding or anything it was kind of funny and shocking. Heard one of the groomsman complaining is a jokey matter that they own him money for the suit since it was not a real wedding. Anyone that knew the bride knows she love play pranks, everyone knew it was her idea.
Wow. Sounds like they got off easy. You'd be surprised how insanely serious people take OTHER PEOPLES' weddings. My good friend met an amazing woman during early covid lock downs. They quickly got engaged and wanted to get married. Knowing they couldn't have a huge wedding they took a trip to Costa Rica with a couple very close friends and just got married in a small ceremony. His family essentially disowned him for not inviting them to the wedding. Luckily it's not like he was dependent on them or something. But their relationship wasn't exactly strained until he got married. It makes no sense either because his wife is amazing and the exact type of person his family would love. But for some reason them having the wedding they wanted to have is just unacceptable to the rest of his family. I'll never understand that shit.
I attended a wedding reception where the wait staff started to become generally distracting during dinner...they were sweeping the floors, spraying windows, creating more of a mess than anything. They would ask guests to move, interrupting their conversations and meal. They would clear away bottles of wine and champagne that hadn't been finished, then quickly bring another, just to grab it away again. One of the waiters even sat down and poured himself a drink. It was confusing and a bit appalling, but not as much as it was amusing.
Turns out, they were the hired entertainment! It created quite a buzz of conversation once we had all processed what was happening. I've never seen anything else like it.
I went to a play like that once! It was a rendition of Midsummers Night Dream preformed outdoor in Harlem, so they made it Harlem flavored. Puck was dressed as a security guard, going up and down rows looking for people causing trouble. I took us nearly 20 minutes to realize it was fake, and we were so nervous he'd take away our bagged liquor! Instead when he came to us he swigged it and gave it back. Super fun.
Oh thats so cool! I've actually been to a Midsummer Night's Dream that was Southern Appalachia themed. Puck was in dirty overalls with no shirt running all around. One of the most fun plays I've been to
Male stripper in a leopard print thong was hired to provide entertainment at the wedding I was attending. Nobody paid any attention to him or tipped him. He got bored and sat by the buffet tables. I felt sorry for him and joined him for the remainder of the reception. We played many games of Tic-Tac-Toe.
I was 6 years old.
A group of women shrieking with laughter as they tried to put their hands up the kilt of a seven year old boy 'to see what's up there'.
The Bride and some of her friends intervened and the women were physically removed from the wedding.
Edited to add: the women in question were arrested for it, after the one who was basically the ringleader was knocked out by the bride. They then spent the period from Saturday night until Monday morning in the cells.
The bride did nothing wrong. If the police had asked me what happened to the ringleader I would have said that one second they were assaulting a young boy and the next they were on the floor unconscious.
That's a crime. That's full on sexual assault OF A MINOR. The fact they're not all behind bars is disgusting.
Edit: I KNOW THEY GOT ARRESTED YOU CAN STOP TELLING ME.
The first “you may kiss the bride” the groom practically swallowed the bride’s face and it lasted a good eight to ten seconds. Her second wedding, his fourth. It was so cringy.
My aunt was a justice of the peace and officiated a wedding where seven women were wearing bridal dresses. Not white dresses, full on wedding dresses with accessories. Turned out the bride was very shy and hated to be the center of attention, but also wanted to wear a bridal dress for her groom. Her friends promised to wear their bridal dresses if she would wear one, and so they did.
Apparently historically all the bridesmaids used to wear the same dress as the bride, because just in case anyone was trying to kidnap/run off with her, they wouldn't know which one was the real bride.
I was once invited to a Nigerian wedding held in the UK. I arrived at the church about 20 mins early and it was locked, no one there. After a few minutes, a couple of other guests arrived. After about half an hour, a guy arrived to unlock the church and a lady started to set up flowers.
*Easily* over an hour after the supposed beginning of the service, other guests started to arrive. Then the bride and groom. Then as the service went on, including well after the bride and groom had walked down the isle, guests continued to arrive and shuffle about the church taking their places, saying hello to other guests, etc.
At the end of the service we all had to drive about 30 mins to a reception elsewhere. We arrived there a good *two hours* before the wedding party.
After the event, the bride realised that she'd sent the same invitation to her English and Nigerian guests and asked what time we got to the church. Apparently guests are traditionally so late to Nigerian weddings that it's usual to put a false start time on them, which in turn leads to everyone intentionally getting there well after the time they're given.
However the real WTF moment was at the reception where the bride and groom danced as guests approached one by one to shower them with money "make it rain" style. Again apparently not unusual at a Nigerian wedding, but 100% not what I'd expected.
It was a great wedding, it just would have been handy to know when to get there.
There’s a funny reel on Instagram about this. Two older white guys in traditional Nigerian dress are hurrying along, saying they’re late and worried about it, and they show up to an empty wedding venue as the first ones there.
We used to do that for my auntie. But then she showed up at the requested time for once and she got really pissed when the event wasn't going to start for another two hours
At the wedding of a young couple - 19 & 20 years old. The father of the bride had an obviously raging erection during the dance with his daughter. I’ve never been more disturbed, and felt so sad for that young lady. I hope her husband saved her from that man.
To be fair, you can unfortunately get them when you’re anxious. I do. For instance, if you don’t normally dance and now are dancing in front of a room full of people all focused on you and it’s the most important day of your kid’s life.
I hope to god at least that it was just an unfortunate coincidence/nerves. Because otherwise, what in the goddamn hell…
If that’s true I really feel bad for all you penis people. My vagina can be a real bitch at times, but at least she doesn’t conspire to make me look like a pervert at family functions.
At my male cousin’s wedding they had his new bride play a game. They lined up my cousin, his groomsmen, and my uncle (her new father-in-law). She had to go down the line blindfolded grabbing everyone’s ass to decide which one was her groom. I thought it was hilarious at the time, but now just like wtf.
There was an AITAH post not too long ago from a woman who had repeatedly warned her fiance leading up to the wedding day not to do the cake smash but he still did it. She walked out of the wedding and left him.
I saw that one too-good for her! There was one last week where the couple is engaged and the guy is OBSESSED with being able to smash cake in her face. Like it’s his right and duty. He keeps bringing it up so she’s even letting him practice so minimize the mess. I just think it’s so awful that humiliating her in their wedding day is his main purpose. I hope she dumps him.
Isn’t she now rethinking letting him do that? I agree that it’s a weird flex to do that. A little dab of icing on the nose wouldn’t bother me so much. But the whole smashing thing is just too much. You’re supposed to be in love!!
Never understood the cake smashing thing. Who thinks it is funny to have your problerly expensive make-up and hair ruined and be sticky the rest of the night? I wouldn’t find it funny and the grooms who does this should be sure that their wife find that entertaining or else I hat think it seems a bit thoughtless.
I had expressed to my boyfriend that if we had a wedding I wouldn’t like for either of us to participate in that. He had no clue that it existed in the first place.
It makes me think that the groom didn’t even discuss his plans for this to happen.
A male relative of mine got married. His mother died a couple of weeks before the ceremony. His widowed father showed up to the wedding with his new girlfriend, who was wearing the dead mothers clothes. I mean the dress she picked out for the wedding, her shoes and jewelry. Our whole family was shocked. They spent the whole day telling everyone they saw that it would have been a shame to not use it, since it was such a happy coincidence that his late wife and new girlfriend shared the same size. Needless to say the groom loves his wife, but doesn't like to talk about the wedding.
Oh 100%
My uncle did something similar to his daughter (my cousin).
Broke up with the wife the day after the last kid graduated HS to go be with a gold-digger he'd been cheating with that nobody liked. Fast forward many years, he's broken up with her, has a GF everyone loves, relationships are all on the mend. Middle daughter gets married, new GF is in all the pictures.
He breaks up with her right after the wedding on the private plane home and goes back to the gold digger. He'd been planning it for months, but didn't want to disturb the wedding plans. Still with her to this day, extended family doesn't speak to him very much anymore. Relationship with his kids is rocky to say the least.
Edit: I learned at christmas that the gold digger is now out of the picture for the second time we believe after some failed joint business ventures. No idea if there's another lined up.
Immediately after dinner half the reception (the bride’s family) got up en masse to go milk their cows. They were Amish or Mennonite. It occurred to me later that maybe they were really avoiding the dancing.
I was almost taken away by EMT during my first marriage. We were having a Catholic wedding, and everyone knows how long those are. The priest told us to kneel, so I did then my fiance asked “are you okay?” i said “nope” and promptly passed out. There were several nurses at the wedding. I was pregnant and my BP & sugar dropped bc I didn’t eat all day. That Catholic wedding got cut down to like 15 min.
At my wedding, one of the caterer attendants decided to take my husband and his groomsmens offer of a few swigs of whiskeys before the ceremony on the side of the building. The attendant was younger (at least 21 but not much older) and was drunk af. He then got fired and decided to join our reception party and get more drinks, he jumped in front of all the guys to catch the garter. I was really upset at the time, but I found a candid photo of the moment he caught the garter , and he did a whole ass air kick and was so disheveled it made me laugh.
Was invited to a coworkers wedding. My coworker was the bride and she was a really funny no bullshit New York girl.
The priest who was supposed to officiate the wedding was an old family friend but he fell ill so they had to send out another priest to do the wedding ceremony.
The ceremony starts and the new replacement priest launches into this 15 minute long sermon about how, according to God, the woman is supposed to be subservient to the man. This is not the brides vibe at all and all of us are sitting there simply just stunned at what the priest was saying waiting for the bride to snap and punch the dude in the throat.
To her credit she just stood there and listened but you could tell she was furious.
I’ll never forget the scene immediately afterwards as the bride stood there crying and a bunch of family members had the priest basically cornered chewing his ass out for ruining the wedding.
Similarly, there's a great photo of me (the bride) doing the finger slash across the throat motion because the DJ started playing a country song that reminded me of my abhorrent family/abusive childhood despite my all caps instruction to him that zero country music was to be played. I was a very chill bride but that song was not going to be played. He cut it off mid-verse.
We gave our DJ 4 pages of song titles that we liked, with written instructions that under NO CIRCUMSTANCES was "Celebration" to be played, EVER. Guess what was the third song he played?? My new wife intercepted me on my way to the DJ's booth and started a conga line to keep the DJ from being deleted on the spot.
My friend and his wife had a similar thing happen at their wedding. It was a destination wedding in Mexico and they asked for a non-religious ceremony. The officiant started saying how the woman should take care of the man, make sure to have dinner ready when he gets home, etc, etc. Their relationship was the exact opposite of this. He gets off work at 3 and cooks most meals. She is a lawyer who works crazy hours.
No one got really mad it was more that everyone at the wedding, including the bride and groom, were trying to stifle laughter at the advice this officiant was giving.
I knew a girl who did photography on the side. She was hired to shoot a wedding on the Gold Coast, Australia. The Gold Coast has a reputation for having very beautiful beaches but very trashy people, think jersey shore types.
Anyway, the bride, groom, bridesmaids, and groomsmen are all getting ready in the same room. The photographer I knew was told the boys had their bucks party (bachelor party, stag do) the night before and that they were still a little drunk. They decided it would be a good idea to do some cocaine to try and wake up a bit. Also by some cocaine i mean a lot. The photographer is trying to get some nice photos, but it's hard when there are illicit drugs in every shot and the men are too rowdy to sit still.
She tells the bride that it's a little difficult to get decent shots so the bride asks the boys stop taking drugs for a minute. The groom yells "shut up, cunt!" and just keeps snorting, his groomsmen just laugh.
I attended my cousins second wedding with my grandparents and mom. I was 12 years old. It was a fancy event.
My cousin, the groom, sang to the bride. His bandmates performed during the night.
When it was time to leave my cousin wanted to walk our grandmother out and help get her in the car. I was already in the backseat.
My cousin said he forgot to kiss me goodbye. He opened my car door and slipped his hand under my dress and grabbed at my privates as he kissed me. I was in total shock.
Even if I told my Mom she wouldn’t have believed me. For years after that I was dodging his advances at our family events.
When I was 50 years old I decided to tell my Mom. No surprise, she just kind of shrugged it off.
Agreed. He may be my cousin but he’s only 5 years younger than my Mom.
The last time he forced himself on me I was 19. It was after our Grandma’s funeral.
He cornered me in the kitchen. Grabbed at me holding me against the wall and stuck his tongue in my mouth. I fought him off the best I could.
He was there with his wife and kids. All these years I’ve been waiting for news of his death.
I felt tremendous guilt when he had a daughter with his first wife.
When ever she was visiting us I kept a close eye on her. I know now I should have spoke up. I still feel guilt.
Groom was drunk, standing on the hood of the bestman's car and hood surfing around the hotel parking lot. Groom ended up getting launched off the hood onto the asphalt. Bride and groom end up at ER and she has blood all over her dress. Kids... tsk, tsk, tsk.
Had a friend of a friend in high school die doing something similar. Really fucked up his friends who were with him and especially the driver, who was a good friend of mine.
Right after one of my friends in high school got his license him and another of our buddies were doing something like this in a park, figuring that if he fell off he'd fall onto soft grass and not asphalt. Well he fell off alright. The car ran him over and snapped his femur clear in half. My other friend, the driver, panicked and ran out of the car to check on him. When he saw what happened and the state of a leg bent in half in all the wrong place he started throwing up uncontrollably. He didn't realize he had forgotten to put the car in park and it drove itself into a river. Meanwhile the dude that got run over is howling in pain. Neither of them ever lived it down. Further evidenced by the fact that I still remember this 30 years later.
Couple was conservative, evangelical Christian. The bride had always been a Christian, but the groom had converted sometime in his mid to late 20s. As such, the bride was a virgin and the groom was not.
Not a big deal.
Except every single one of his groomsmen brought it up during their speeches. Like, they felt the need to let everyone know that the groom had gotten laid before and now got to bang a virgin.
it was truly gross.
Maid of honor told the bride she was pregnant, during the reception, with the groom’s child 😐 that led to the NEXT wedding where the groom is now marrying the former maid of honor and the ex-wife tells her that she is also pregnant with, you guessed it, the grooms child 😬
😂😂😂
You know God was practically screaming up there. "DON'T FUCKING DO IT! HE'S A TOTAL ASSH- GABRIEL GET ME A LIGHTNING BOLT, SHE THINKS THE VOICE SHE'S HEARING IS JUST COLD FEET."
The groom's father was drunk BEFORE the ceremony and got worse as the evening progressed. During the reception, the groom's mother locked herself in the bathroom while other women tried to coax her to come out. Several people on the bride's side were also fighting, I was asked to drive a terrified old lady home.
The couple divorced soon after.
Seen it twice. At the reception, the older, unmarried sister of the bride or groom has to dance in a hog feeding trough by themselves in front of everyone, because their younger sibling got married before them. All the family, friends, guests gather around them to laugh and heckle. We couldn’t help but feel bad for them, especially the poor big sister who was a little on the heavier side. Sorry about your self esteem, I guess!
There's apparently an old French-Canadian tradition of unmarried older siblings doing a dance in colourful socks while guests throw money at them. The money goes to the newly married couple. It's meant to be fun & silly, not embarrassing.
Hmm... apparently the trough dance is also of French-Canadian origin. WTF Quebec?
https://thedjservice.com/the-french-canadian-hog-trough-dance/
I was back home to MC my cousin’s wedding to his very uptight bride about 15 yr ago. She’s SO uptight because her family is certifiably insane and she clings desperately to normalcy like it’s a life raft. Sometimes she clings a bit too hard and cracks under the pressure.
Well…the groom’s Dad and the bride get into a screaming match at the rehearsal. The minister refuses to move forward with the wedding until they do some emergency, on-site counselling. The rest of the wedding party is asked to leave. We wait for hours across the street at a coffee shop until we’re told to head to the reception venue. We had a dinner scheduled and we’re supposed to finish decorating. The bridal party and family finally show up just as the staff is about to lock us out for the night. We’ve had no dinner, no rehearsal, and the reception isn’t set up properly. I leave and meet an old friend for a late dinner.
The next morning I arrive at the church not entirely sure there’s going even BE a wedding. We do an impromptu rehearsal with the minister, and I head down to the basement to use the washroom before the guests start to arrive. There’s a weird, sickly sweet, chemically smell down there; I walk into the ladies room and find the bride’s father with a crack pipe in his hand. Settling his nerves, I guess? This sets the vibe for the rest of the day…
The ceremony goes surprisingly well, and we head to the reception. The hotel had just opened that week, this is the very first wedding they’ve held, and they’re clearly not ready yet: only one elevator is operational and the staff isn’t really trained.
The elevator broke, and the staff couldn’t figure out how to get food down from the kitchen to the ballroom, so they just stopped food service half way through the meal. The DJ played the wrong song for the first dance and the bride broke down in tears, ran out, and didn’t come back for an hour.The bartender kept setting up unlimited shots along the whole bar and leaving open bottles for guests to take (many of whom haven’t eaten).
I (the MC) start projectile vomiting because both my friend and I got horrendous food poising from our dinner the night before. I was in a long gown, and would go upstairs to a bathroom away from the party, undress, puke my guts out, re-dress, go back to complete part of the itinerary, and repeat.
In the meantime, everyone who wasn’t violently nauseous was getting absolutely hammered. The night culminated with my uncle punching his pregnant daughter in the face because she wouldn’t give him his motorcycle keys to ride away drunk. He then fell into a large sculpture and smashed it, causing the police to be called. He, of course, tried to fight the police.
The wedding was shut down because of the excess drunkenness just before midnight. I went back to my parents’ place and threw up for three more days.
And before you ask: yes, the bride and groom are still happily married. They have three kids; she dresses them like little Instagram models and is a wannabe “momfuencer”. They make TikToks.
That reminds me of a friend of mine. Her dance with her father was supposed to be to “Wind Beneath My Wings” but the DJ was confused, and instead played “Don’t Cry For Me Argentina”.
One of the Bridesmaid got caught doing the nasty with the groom….. needless to say the wedding was called off and presents were picked up at the door when people left…. Most awkward thing ever since everyone was so confused.
Everyone's going to say a fight, and those are very much WTF.
However the fight I witnessed was between a man and a woman. Sure, notable...
However the woman had a previous career as a mud wrestler and had since moved on to bodybuilding.
Also, the man she was fighting was her brother who was three weeks out of rehab.
You may have witnessed a fight at a wedding but I witnessed an ass-kicking the likes of which I have never, ever seen. That woman took him down and beat his ass brutally and decisively, in heels and a tight dress.
When the cops came and both were being dragged off in cuffs she was able to get herself, in heels mind you, out of the main hall, down the front stairs and into the cruiser, with absolute grace and form.
Her brother had to be carried with occasional drops of blood-soaked tissue falling off behind him.
Not particularly WTF but I thought it was hilarious. At our wedding, there was a LOT of booze, and an excellent time was had by all. A friend of mine (about 25F) had had a skinful, went upstairs to find a quiet bathroom to have a tactical vomit, came back downstairs and as she was half way down the stairs, she tripped, rolled quite gracefully down the stairs, continued rolling when she got to the bottom and stopped after a few yards when she bumped into my mother-in-law's legs. My friend was lying flat on her back, and being the well-brought up girl she was, looked straight into my mother-in-law's eyes and said "I'd just like to say what a wonderful wedding this is, and didn't the bride look beautiful". Then she passed out.
Everybody in the ceremony was standing on a raised platform -- like, 4 feet off the ground. One of the groomsmen, the bride's brother, was standing with his knees locked. (In the army, they tell you not to do that, because you end up fainting.) He fainted, and toppled off the platform. He landed on his head. Concussion, skull fracture, broken orbit and cheekbone, other messy stuff.
He got taken away in an ambulance. The rest of the bridal party got into cars and went to the hospital in full wedding regalia, to sit in the ER waiting room.
I don't remember the timing, but it must have happened after the Impressive Clergyman said "man and wife", because the wedding happened and they're still happily married. Oh yeah, and brother is fully recovered.
I worked at a wedding venue. Bride and groom shut their reception down in the middle of it to show a basketball game. Their team lost so everyone started drinking real hard and the bride ended up on the floor, throwing up in our mop bucket.
The groom’s sister gave a speech at the reception and ended it with “You can’t make a ho a housewife”, and literally dropped the mic and sat back down.
The kid bearing the ring arrived at the altar with no ring on the little pillow, quick-thinking father of the groom substituted his own wedding ring (the ring was never found). Later in the ceremony the organist passed out slumped on the keyboard, treating us all to a glorious sustained cluster chord on the pipe organ.
Long ago I worked at a banquet hall and witnessed a fully NASCAR themed wedding. During the reception they played the audio of the proposal going out over the PA at the track. It was fully unintelligible. BZZT GABBAGBGA MRRRY MEZZZZZ RROOOOOWWWVROOOM.
Other highlights were the owner locking himself in his office to avoid the bride’s father because he was threatening him to haggle on the costs.
In the end we had to call the police because the bride in gown climbed over the bar to steal more sweet sweet MGD after we had closed the taps and the event was over.
Might be late to this. But I've been working hotels for almost 20 years. Seen a lot of weddings. One of the craziest was a really redneck one. But they had an open bar... so... problems happened. One family insulted another. It wasn't even an insult really. It was over a football game. Little guy was talking a lot of smack and this big guy just grabs a bottle of beer and wacks the little guy across the dome hard. He goes down and it happened so fast. Big guy realized he fucked up and runs with his girl. About 30 minutes go by and the cops finally come. The ambulance guys said he was pretty much dead instantly. Cops take statements. Later that night while we were cleaning up, a detective comes by and rips out the carpet.
They eventually catch the guy a few states over. I had to ID him.
Again, this was one of the crazier ones. I'll have to tell you about the secial killer next.
I conducted a wedding at the brides parents house. It was where she grew up.
The garden backed on to a field, the bride had told me that she asked the farmer if the cows could be in the field on her wedding day so she could see them. He was happy to oblige.
Day of the wedding, I'm there early as you do... and I see the farmer moving the cows into the field. I move away from the marquee to look at the cows and the farmer comes over to the fence where I am.
He says to me all pleased.. "the wife and I are invited to the reception!" I tell him that's lovely and I am sure he'll have a great time and I mention how pretty the cows are and he goes... "oh bride wanted them in the field for the wedding and I said to them - Ladies, you've been invited to a wedding! You've got to look your best... So I power hosed them!"
I thought that was hilarious! And brilliant. lol
This actually happened. DJd a rich family wedding. 400 person on their massive property. Under a huge tend. The the rich daughter married an indigenous Canadian gent. It was easily 45oC with the humidity that day. Got heat stroke setting up. Boss told me to finish or I was fired. Figured it was my last gig cause I was done at that point.
Seemed like nice enough guy. They looked like an adorable couple. Brides dad was a total condescending dick to staff and me the whole day and evening.
Overall there was an obvious tension the entire night though. At some point someone on one family side said something to someone else about 1am and a massive brawl started. This wasn’t teens fighting but 45-50 year old white bankers throwing down with stacked farm working and reservation living people. It was wild.
You’re going to ask - did I cut the music? Eff no. I was fed up. felt like ass, and saw an opportunity so I threw on Kung Fu fighting and watched this brawl go down. Multiple cop cars (7-10?) multiple arrests. Didn’t get paid. Don’t care. Worth it.
The rich dad may have gained a son but he definitely lost that fight and a few teeth that day.
EDIT: I was asked via DM what was said. Not sure who said something first but I do know after asking during tear down that punches were thrown when one of the brides uncles told the grooms brother something around the vein of “Why don’t you go back to the rez to huff a litre” - so incredibly racist shit. I’d have thrown down at that point too if I were him. So. Ya. Rich assholes gonna asshole.
EDIT 2: To confirm the hockey player who commented on the fight winners - Yea the banker boys got their asses BEAT son. Lemme telll ya. Son son son. Wooo boy.
>45-50 year old white bankers throwing down with stacked farm working and reservation living people
Have played hockey with and against those stack farm workers, I know who won that fight.
My wedding... 2 things, 1 godbrother
1. Blew out a candle at the table super hard causing the wax to blow back in his face land all over his mustache and beard where it hardened on his face... everyone who saw it laughed and no one attempted to help him remove it. He was too drunk to notice.
2. Went next door to the empty conference room and pissed on the track where the wires were plugged in the floor for the equipment... this idiot "thought" he was in a really "nice" bathroom
We were at a resort in Mexico. I thought he was gonna get arrested, but they were cool, just took him back to his room.
He remembered nothing the next day.
I was a wedding caterer. The venue I worked at had a strict rule about no outside alcohol. I worked with my mom and she noticed that the groom and groomsmen were extremely intoxicated very early on in the day. She went in their rooms and found a bunch of moonshine and put it behind the bar but it was too late.
The groom had to be helped to the alter to marry his PREGNANT wife. Poor thing. After dinner I was clearing plates and I walked outside where the groom immediately hit on me. I was 16 and just turned right around and went back inside.
At my sister's wedding reception, it was at this banquet hall where another wedding was also going on. The place was split in half so 2 events were happening.
The 2 sections were sealed off but smokers went outside and after 5 hours of open bar we started mingling. I went to their side and some came over to our side.
All was fine until some college football rivalry thing broke out and the guests started fighting. People were getting glassed, tackled, stomped, etc...
My sister's side was a bunch of drunk Penn State bros vs I can't remember the rival team.
We had to call several ambulances. I having no dog in the fight just went to their reception and was delighted that they had a sushi chef and better liquor.
Made a lot of new friends that night from watching them go at it.
Those college football bros are dumb AF IMO, but I admire their dedication.
The brides mother showed up, refused to sit at the table she was assigned to and rearranged some seating to accommodate her other daughter and herself. She ensured she was at the table closest to the exit. She refused to talk to the grooms family and gave dirty looks to the brides father and stepmother. She loudly exclaimed that the turkey that was served was the fries and most overcooked thing she’d ever eaten and the wine selection was atrocious. She doesn’t even drink wine. The second the brides father got up to make a speech, she got up and silently left, taking the brides younger sister with her. Two weeks later the bride, the groom, the grooms mother and the brides grandmother all got nasty letters about how disgusting the whole event was and that she was ashamed to be acquainted with them. I was the bride, she was my mother. Now she’s just Kathy.
They ignored the entire group of wedding guests and only talked/took pics with their bridesmaids/groomsmen. Then the second the wedding ceremony was over they grabbed a whiskey bottle and proceeded to drink from same bottle while passing around to their wedding group. Everyone at that wedding was pissed they spent time/ money to even go. It was like a white trash sorority party
We definitely left shortly after that bit. Especially when one of the friends started flirting with our 16yr old cousin (offering her liquor as well) and her mom was right there. It was my husbands brother wedding and he was extremely disappointed in them. What topped it all they had no planning done at all and kept moving tables to fit their "party" and no one had any clue what was goin on. It was just awkward as hell.
Best man pulled the chair out from behind the bride as she was sitting down (to be "funny") after a toast to her new husband and she went straight down and seriously injuring her back. Paramedics took her away in ambulance... reception over.
My sister in law wore an unconventional wedding dress, a short skirt, halter top with bare midriff, and fairy wings. It was very cute. She came over to our table to say hello during the reception and my great aunt pulled up her skirt to see what she was wearing underneath, exposing her underwear to the table and possibly the rest of the room. My sister in law just laughed it off, probably because my aunt was very old. Still, I couldn’t believe she did that.
I was the DJ at my friend's daughter's wedding. The parents were divorced and nobody got along with the ex wife. Wristbands were handed out to people that were able to get free drinks at the bar, the bride's mother didn't get one because everyone knew she was unstable. She shows up tries to get a free drink and gets denied. She then tries to pull the "Do you know who I am card?" Still no free drink. I am not sure what happened next but some argument started, pushing shoving people moving outside. I see the mother trying to drive away and someone reaching through the window trying to choke her with her seatbelt.
don’t mean stuff that isn’t to your taste, or there was a cringe first dance. I mean proper, OMFG situations.
I’ll go first: a female friend of the groom known to be a bit (very) volatile when drunk and was generally known to be extremely unstable, called the bride a cunt before the meal and screamed abuse at the bridesmaids, and then curled a shit at the top of the stairs in the hotel venue. Of course, she was frogmarched out of there and never showed her face at her work again (where she knew the groom from).
The grooms dad trying to start a fight with a random guest in the mens toilets and the groom quickly telling us all to leave and go home for the night, abruptly. Very odd. Apparently his dad is barred from all the pubs in his area. Sounds a nice blood
Bride had two MOHs (one matron one maid) and groom had one best man. Groom has anxiety issues but an all around awesome human as is his wife (the bride). So the MOHs knew to keep the speeches short as groom would rather party with his bride everyone and keep the spotlight off of him. Both MOHs gave lovely speeches. Then came the BM. Who then passed the mic to the first GM who then proceeded to pass the mic along to the others. The bridesmaids starting freaking out and thankfully the fathers of the couple got up did a quick “thanks for coming we love you both let’s eat and be merry” and wrapped it up because what should’ve been maybe 10 minutes tops between the three speeches was going on 40 (I know this isn’t the worst out there, but 40 minutes of speeches when you’re hungry and the bar runs out of water and soda so you are left with very little patience)
My cousin's wedding reception. I was about 9, so my mom took me and one of my brothers home before the REAL fun started. While I was there, the MoH was absolutely hammered before entering the firehall, grabbed a $500 bottle of rum that was supposed to be raffled off to help with the couple's honeymoon, and proceeded to CHUG a good third of the bottle. Had some rando teenager from the bride's family (I'm related to the groom) try to hit on me for most of the reception because he refused to believe I was as young as I said I was (I've always been pretty tall).
WHAT I WASN'T THERE FOR BUT HEARD ABOUT IN THE MORNING:
DJ's extremely inebriated ex-boyfriend showed up and harassed him (the DJ) for most of the night. Guests were fine with him until they started verbally screaming at each other, then my (also extremely inebriated) family tried to shoo the ex out. Got him outside the fire hall, ex took a swing at someone, pissed off my drunk redneck cousins, who took swings back. Ex runs, RIGHT INTO THE ROAD, gets hit by a car and flies into a ditch. He was ok, minus a broken arm, broken/bruised ribs, and was screaming about my "homophobic" family ganging up on him for no reason.
Happened to my GF now wife.
Good friends wedding about 25 years ago. We were young and loved to party.
Bride and groom left the reception early to head out for the honeymoon.
A group of us took mushrooms, and we re drinking hard.
Close friend was a huge wrestling fan. Like WWF.
He was dancing with my GF.
Out of absolutely nowhere, he grabs my girl, picks her up, and legit suplexed her on the dancefloor.
Her head hit the floor, and she was lying there in a spaghetti strapped LBD with her eyes fluttering.
I put both my hands around his neck and tried with every ounce of strength I had to choke the life out of him.
Friends calmed us down, and he was escorted home.
It was the most insane thing ive seen at a wedding.
About 15 years ago I catered a weekend long wedding. 2 rich families making their kids marry to join the businesses together or some such. The groom really didn't want to, he was in love with someone else but his parents pressured him into doing it.
After the wedding, dinner and party, the bride and groom went back to the hotel. He packed his bags, drove to the airport and left the country. When his parents finally got in touch with him the next day he told them he went through with the wedding like they wanted, and now they could fuck off because he wasn't coming back.
None of the guests were told. When asked where the bride and groom were for the rest of the weekend everyone was told they were "busy" wink-wink nudge-nudge. But all the staff knew.
The families spent over $750,000 on the wedding - church, decorations, food, venue rental, flying over 200 different guests in and paying for their hotels.
Bride was druuuunnnnnnnkkkkk like, whoa girl! Her dad basically had to carry her down the aisle with her brothers help. It was a surprise they went through with it!
My Nonna objected at my sisters wedding because she was marrying a progressive New York Jew and her grandchild would cease to exist if she married him.
Traditional Italian Catholic girl living in Florida marrying her progressive Jewish boyfriend and Nonna objects of course my mother escorts her out of the room and the wedding continues. They move to NYC , a year later she has converted to Judaism, completely changed her politics and my Nonna was right, her grandchild ceased to exist how she was and now rarely visits.
At my sister's wedding our step mum had found out what bridesmaid dresses for her children would be, she got her young daughter the same dress and kept pushing her daughter into the photos. Even the photographer told her to stop.
I was a plus one to a wedding about 2 years ago. I went with this guy I was seeing and it was one of his buddies he played baseball in college with.. we were at the back table by the bar with his other old teammates. During the best man/maid of honor speeches, the MOH was talking about a deceased family member.. I couldn’t really hear because at our table, one guy vomited all over the PREGNANT girl next to him and they were fighting, another guy and his date were making out and he was hands all up in her dress, and one guy was talking on the phone loud as heck! I was so embarrassed and I didn’t even know these people. I smacked my hand on the table and said “have any of you ever left your homes ever?” After we are silently me and my date kinda just lingered around and stayed away from the table. I can’t believe people actually act that way.
My cousin (the bride) has some kind of disease (nothing immediately terminal but I think it’s one of those things where you slowly deteriorate unfortunately) so when she was getting married, they wanted to make it a huge event. My family is scattered across the country but we all made sure to make it there especially since my aunt and uncle put so much time, work, and money into planning it.
So, we’re all at this fancy country club with at least 200 people and halfway through the party, the bride disappeared. After a while I go to the bathroom and there she is, puking her guts out because she was taking shots of tequila since the MORNING when getting ready for the day. She never recovered that night so the toasts were never made and the cake had no cutting ceremony and my aunt and uncle were understandably pissed.
When I was my best friends MOH years later, I made sure to monitor the brides alcohol intake just in case
1) I owned a sound company that did over 200 weddings a year. I have a wedding coming up on Saturday. On Thurs it gets cancelled! The bride is boning the best man. OOps.
NO PROBLEM! The new couple, who dont want to lose any deposits, book their wedding two months later.
The reception starts with everyone going to their seats. No intermingling. They eat their meals without a word. Then after the first dance, there is a stampede to the front doors and the place empties. I was tearing down at 1030 pm instead of 1 am.
2) Groom disappears with ex until 12:30 am. When he returns, well...you can guess what happened. The next day, bride files for divorce. I quickly deposited the cheque.
Brazilian couple? In many Cristian denominations, the form of the salute is a way of blessing, somewhat akin to putting your palm over someone's head, but doing it from a distance. I personally prefer the ICXC gesture.
Unless of course everyone said the Siege Hail when then extended the hands.
A White friend had a long term Black girlfriend.
The man's parents were renewing their vows, because they got papal permission to get married in a Catholic church.
The Black woman was specifically disinvited.
During the vows, a black cat showed up from who knows where, and walked up the aisle meowing.
A coworkers wedding at a very nice country club/golf course. Her "friends" (a couple M and F early 30's maybe) dropped acid at the reception. Started throwing glasses and yelling at random people. The chick tried to drive off and the brides dad tried to stop her. She hit both cars next to her and he finally pulled her out of the car. She tries biting him so he pins her down until the cops arrive. Cops get there and demand he release this tiny girl. The dad does and she runs to bite the cop. He pins her down and she's screaming and kicking and spitting. That was the craziest shit I've seen at a wedding and I still tell that story!
I used to work at a hotel doing weddings and saw many things, highlights include the wedding party minus the bride all breaking into the spa and sitting in the jacuzzi in all their clothes, a man who got extremely drunk and drew cartoons all over the expensive tablecloth, and then asked to buy it, and one time a three legged dog broke in and wouldn't let any guests out of the room we were in
My mum, and my Dad’s third wife (by wife three it’s *not* a step mother) both turned up to my brother’s wedding in the same dress. So all the professional photos they are almost matching. Maybe not a WTF moment, but utterly hilarious.
Best friend from growing up got married on an extremely hot summer day. Probably around 105 when the reception started at 4pm. Some poor old lady in the crowd had a heat stroke, but it's ok, the bride and groom were both medical students. As were about half of their friends in the crowd and another 30 doctors and nurses were at the wedding.
So you had this massive gaggle of doctors and nurses all trying to help out this poor old lady before they realized it was better to just let 2 ER docs handle it and went back to snacking on passed apps
The groom went into the forest to talk with an acquaintance of his (I know, bad idea). After about 30 minutes, only the groom emerged from the forest, badly beaten and covered in blood, and there was no sign of the acquaintance. After many searched the forest, the acquaintance was also found beaten, and a quarter of the guests chased and confronted the assailants. It was chaotic.
I went to a wedding where the whole thing was WTF. The bride was visibly pregnant (not a big deal), the flower girl was the daughter of the bride and the best man. The maid of honour was very pregnant and fainted during the ceremony, so her husband, the photographer got almost no photos of the wedding. It was an odd one.
Ha. Was at a wedding at a hotel where they were also holding an AA convention. We also had a keg in a bath tub because as recent college graduates we refused to pay for beer. It made for some fun elevator rides with AA folks.
Groom AND bride starts to drunkenly make out with two guests, tho groom starts alone intimetly dance with those two guests and groping them to love songs. The bride and grooms young kids are present to witness it. It was awkward/uncomfortable as hell and I don’t think either of them remembered it the day after.
At the reception the best man and groom were drunk and started fighting. Cops were called and the groom decided he would win a fight with the 6 foot 5 state trooper. They had to hog tie him after he kicked two other officers. I was the photographer doing a favor for a friend.
But did you get photos of it all?
Some. It was dark out and the trooper gave me a look after the third flash so I stopped.only one came out clear. I mentioned to my buddy later that I had them and he asked let him see. He laughed and they added them to the wedding album.
That made me laugh out loud. A hogtied best man in the wedding album Edit: hogtied groom, even better
Hogtied groom
Someone who gets so ripshit drunk they try and fight cops sounds like a great person to marry
Attended a wedding where they had hired private security to ensure the bride's father and stepmom wouldn't come in and disrupt everything. After security blocked them from going in I guess they decided to get drunk in the car, they then came back and proceeded to beat the security guards up with their empty liquor bottles. Before the wedding I overheard the groom's family calling the pride paranoid and selfish, and that she should have invited her dad. Obviously, they had never met him before.....
Oftentimes people don’t believe it when you say your family members are terrible people. They should see it for themselves. Here’s another example of that
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Thank you for respecting her decision and for going above and beyond. As someone who's currently estranged from family, I can tell you that she really really appreciates you.
I’m fortunate to have a normal family, but I don’t understand people who don’t believe them when they say they don’t want anything to do with certain family members. It’s like, have you not met assholes and narcissists in your daily life? Those assholes have families. It’s perfectly reasonable to cut toxic people out of your life.
I guess they can’t imagine the extent. When I started dating my future husband, he never questioned my strained relationship with my dad, but after meeting him for the first time, as we were driving home, he sat in silence for a while and then said “shit, I thought you were exaggerating. I’m sorry, I had no idea”.
The last time I saw or spoke to my family was when I had to bring the police to my parents house to get my kids after my mother kidnapped my kids. My entire family took her 'side' and said I was being cruel. Even after I tell people the story they still say my kids should have a relationship with my family and I should just supervise.
Fuck that noise. You don't visit kidnappers with your children!
Right! I haven't and I've instantly ended any friendship when they said I should.
Ugh we are completely NC with my MIL because of her abuse and aggression. My family always acts like it can't be that bad and she deserves to be a part of her child's life.
I didn't specifically hire security, but I did show my wedding planner's boyfriend a picture of my brother and that he wasn't to be allowed in. The boyfriend is built like a Viking berserker, I have no doubts he would have taken care of any disturbance. Bro didn't show up and we had one hell of a party. Blood =/= family. Some people need to experience the bad behavior themselves before they accept a person willingly cutting out biological relatives.
They wanted their German shepherd in the wedding. He walked down by the bride and took a dump. Hilarious.
What else dog can do at a wedding 😂
I was at a wedding where their dog walked down the aisle with them, then laid at the bride’s feet the whole ceremony. Less funny, but super cute.
Groom got up during the reception to announce that they (both 18 yrs old) were already expecting a child. They had purposefully gotten pregnant so their parents would have to let them get married and the very religious parents were very ashamed and trying to keep it a secret. But after the groom so loudly announced it to everyone else, a brawl broke out between the families, each accusing the other's kid of entrapping the other.
Yes... the children definitely masterminded the entrapment.. not the familial and social expectations those adults laid out as the only options.... Playing games and winning prizes! Lol
So did the marriage last? And how does an amusing mistress figure into the narrative?
Maid of honor did a wide receiver dive trying to catch the bouquet and went right through the wedding cake.
Ha. I was at a wedding in my early 20s where we ALL stepped out of the way of the bouquet and it landed on the floor. We all looked around at each other, then the maid of honor picked it up and handed it to the girl with the long-term boyfriend. She reluctantly took it 😓
I pissed my ex off by catching the bouquet at his brother's wedding. The bride didn't mean to launch it straight for me but in the pictures, you can clearly see it wasn't thrown high enough for everyone to try and grab it.
I was in one in my mid-20s where I only participated in the bouquet catch because the bride had asked all the bridesmaids to beforehand. Then she accidentally tossed it so that it ricocheted off the ceiling and hit the floor. And I reflexively picked it up to hand back to her to try again—only to realize what I’d done way too late. There’s a photo of me somewhere looking chagrined while the bride laughs at me and hugs me. … there must be something to the old superstition, though, because I was the only girl in that group who didn’t plan to get married (was, in fact, rather against the idea of marriage) and somehow was still the first to actually get married—7 years later.
Dayum. I screamed and dodged out of the way as the bouquet hit me square in the body at my half sister's wedding because I was 12 at the time. This caused the women behind me, who were late teens through 40s, to lunge for the bouquet so it didn't hit the ground, and then that started a tug of war because 3 people put hands on it at the same time.
After the toast the Bride said she had a surprise for everyone and started playing a video. They got married a year ago in secret only 2 people there knew about it and kept it a secret from everyone, even the parents didn't know. The end of the video the Bride turns to the cameras and said "Surprise bitches, you are at our 1 year anniversary".
How did that go down with the families and guests?
A lot of screaming and yelling "WTF" it didn't ruin the wedding or anything it was kind of funny and shocking. Heard one of the groomsman complaining is a jokey matter that they own him money for the suit since it was not a real wedding. Anyone that knew the bride knows she love play pranks, everyone knew it was her idea.
Wow. Sounds like they got off easy. You'd be surprised how insanely serious people take OTHER PEOPLES' weddings. My good friend met an amazing woman during early covid lock downs. They quickly got engaged and wanted to get married. Knowing they couldn't have a huge wedding they took a trip to Costa Rica with a couple very close friends and just got married in a small ceremony. His family essentially disowned him for not inviting them to the wedding. Luckily it's not like he was dependent on them or something. But their relationship wasn't exactly strained until he got married. It makes no sense either because his wife is amazing and the exact type of person his family would love. But for some reason them having the wedding they wanted to have is just unacceptable to the rest of his family. I'll never understand that shit.
I attended a wedding reception where the wait staff started to become generally distracting during dinner...they were sweeping the floors, spraying windows, creating more of a mess than anything. They would ask guests to move, interrupting their conversations and meal. They would clear away bottles of wine and champagne that hadn't been finished, then quickly bring another, just to grab it away again. One of the waiters even sat down and poured himself a drink. It was confusing and a bit appalling, but not as much as it was amusing. Turns out, they were the hired entertainment! It created quite a buzz of conversation once we had all processed what was happening. I've never seen anything else like it.
I went to a play like that once! It was a rendition of Midsummers Night Dream preformed outdoor in Harlem, so they made it Harlem flavored. Puck was dressed as a security guard, going up and down rows looking for people causing trouble. I took us nearly 20 minutes to realize it was fake, and we were so nervous he'd take away our bagged liquor! Instead when he came to us he swigged it and gave it back. Super fun.
Oh thats so cool! I've actually been to a Midsummer Night's Dream that was Southern Appalachia themed. Puck was in dirty overalls with no shirt running all around. One of the most fun plays I've been to
Did they do anything else entertaining other than…fake clean? Cuz that’s not very entertaining lol
Male stripper in a leopard print thong was hired to provide entertainment at the wedding I was attending. Nobody paid any attention to him or tipped him. He got bored and sat by the buffet tables. I felt sorry for him and joined him for the remainder of the reception. We played many games of Tic-Tac-Toe. I was 6 years old.
Was not expecting the ending
Yes, not the type of happy ending anyone was expecting.
"Has anyone seen Schwarzes_Loch?" "Oh it's fine. Barry is looking after him. They are playing tic tac toe." "Oh, great! Wait Barry???"
This reads like a David Sedaris story.
Who won?
OP, obviously
A group of women shrieking with laughter as they tried to put their hands up the kilt of a seven year old boy 'to see what's up there'. The Bride and some of her friends intervened and the women were physically removed from the wedding. Edited to add: the women in question were arrested for it, after the one who was basically the ringleader was knocked out by the bride. They then spent the period from Saturday night until Monday morning in the cells.
That poor kid! Good on the bride for removing those horrible women!
To clarify: the Bride intervened physically and took down the ringleader, then the Police were called.
The bride did nothing wrong. If the police had asked me what happened to the ringleader I would have said that one second they were assaulting a young boy and the next they were on the floor unconscious.
Did nothing wrong? That bride is a hero.
That's so extremely fucked up that I had trouble upvoting it. What in all the actual hells?
That's a crime. That's full on sexual assault OF A MINOR. The fact they're not all behind bars is disgusting. Edit: I KNOW THEY GOT ARRESTED YOU CAN STOP TELLING ME.
What. The actual. Fuck‽
Were police called? Gross fucking bitches
Yup. And the way that the Justice system works in Scotland, they were kept in the cells until they were taken to court on Monday morning.
Those women should have been charged and arrested and shamed by the entire family wtf
Bride’s mother pulled a gun on the groom prior to the wedding started….for some reason the wedding got cancelled
I have so many questions…
I mean normally you pull a gun on the groom to make sure that he goes through with the wedding.
The first “you may kiss the bride” the groom practically swallowed the bride’s face and it lasted a good eight to ten seconds. Her second wedding, his fourth. It was so cringy.
My aunt was a justice of the peace and officiated a wedding where seven women were wearing bridal dresses. Not white dresses, full on wedding dresses with accessories. Turned out the bride was very shy and hated to be the center of attention, but also wanted to wear a bridal dress for her groom. Her friends promised to wear their bridal dresses if she would wear one, and so they did.
aw, that's adorable, actually
Right? This one would definitely make me go "WTF" but in the best way. Reminds me of Monica and Phoebe hanging out in the wedding dresses.
Apparently historically all the bridesmaids used to wear the same dress as the bride, because just in case anyone was trying to kidnap/run off with her, they wouldn't know which one was the real bride.
I was once invited to a Nigerian wedding held in the UK. I arrived at the church about 20 mins early and it was locked, no one there. After a few minutes, a couple of other guests arrived. After about half an hour, a guy arrived to unlock the church and a lady started to set up flowers. *Easily* over an hour after the supposed beginning of the service, other guests started to arrive. Then the bride and groom. Then as the service went on, including well after the bride and groom had walked down the isle, guests continued to arrive and shuffle about the church taking their places, saying hello to other guests, etc. At the end of the service we all had to drive about 30 mins to a reception elsewhere. We arrived there a good *two hours* before the wedding party. After the event, the bride realised that she'd sent the same invitation to her English and Nigerian guests and asked what time we got to the church. Apparently guests are traditionally so late to Nigerian weddings that it's usual to put a false start time on them, which in turn leads to everyone intentionally getting there well after the time they're given. However the real WTF moment was at the reception where the bride and groom danced as guests approached one by one to shower them with money "make it rain" style. Again apparently not unusual at a Nigerian wedding, but 100% not what I'd expected. It was a great wedding, it just would have been handy to know when to get there.
There’s a funny reel on Instagram about this. Two older white guys in traditional Nigerian dress are hurrying along, saying they’re late and worried about it, and they show up to an empty wedding venue as the first ones there.
Turns out my Caucasian Australian Mum is actually Nigerian lol. I always pad times for her now, after a childhood of waiting.
We used to do that for my auntie. But then she showed up at the requested time for once and she got really pissed when the event wasn't going to start for another two hours
I do this with my family, if the event starts at 7:00 I tell them 6:30 so we stand a chance of being on time 🙃
During the father daughter dance- father was grabbing the daughters ass. I was in utter disbelief
Thats... disturbing
At the wedding of a young couple - 19 & 20 years old. The father of the bride had an obviously raging erection during the dance with his daughter. I’ve never been more disturbed, and felt so sad for that young lady. I hope her husband saved her from that man.
To be fair, you can unfortunately get them when you’re anxious. I do. For instance, if you don’t normally dance and now are dancing in front of a room full of people all focused on you and it’s the most important day of your kid’s life. I hope to god at least that it was just an unfortunate coincidence/nerves. Because otherwise, what in the goddamn hell…
If that’s true I really feel bad for all you penis people. My vagina can be a real bitch at times, but at least she doesn’t conspire to make me look like a pervert at family functions.
At my male cousin’s wedding they had his new bride play a game. They lined up my cousin, his groomsmen, and my uncle (her new father-in-law). She had to go down the line blindfolded grabbing everyone’s ass to decide which one was her groom. I thought it was hilarious at the time, but now just like wtf.
Groom smashes cake in the brides face, her dad immediately leads him outside and all you hear is a is a thump and a moment later dad walks back in.
There was an AITAH post not too long ago from a woman who had repeatedly warned her fiance leading up to the wedding day not to do the cake smash but he still did it. She walked out of the wedding and left him.
I saw that one too-good for her! There was one last week where the couple is engaged and the guy is OBSESSED with being able to smash cake in her face. Like it’s his right and duty. He keeps bringing it up so she’s even letting him practice so minimize the mess. I just think it’s so awful that humiliating her in their wedding day is his main purpose. I hope she dumps him.
Isn’t she now rethinking letting him do that? I agree that it’s a weird flex to do that. A little dab of icing on the nose wouldn’t bother me so much. But the whole smashing thing is just too much. You’re supposed to be in love!!
Never understood the cake smashing thing. Who thinks it is funny to have your problerly expensive make-up and hair ruined and be sticky the rest of the night? I wouldn’t find it funny and the grooms who does this should be sure that their wife find that entertaining or else I hat think it seems a bit thoughtless.
>problerly This is my new favorite
How satisfying. I despise cake smashing.
It’s both disrespectful to the person and a colossal waste of very expensive cake. I hate both of these things
I had expressed to my boyfriend that if we had a wedding I wouldn’t like for either of us to participate in that. He had no clue that it existed in the first place. It makes me think that the groom didn’t even discuss his plans for this to happen.
A male relative of mine got married. His mother died a couple of weeks before the ceremony. His widowed father showed up to the wedding with his new girlfriend, who was wearing the dead mothers clothes. I mean the dress she picked out for the wedding, her shoes and jewelry. Our whole family was shocked. They spent the whole day telling everyone they saw that it would have been a shame to not use it, since it was such a happy coincidence that his late wife and new girlfriend shared the same size. Needless to say the groom loves his wife, but doesn't like to talk about the wedding.
That’s insanely cruel and disrespectful. But I’m having a harder time getting over the fact that he moved on within *weeks*…
Oh, she had been his side piece long before the wife died.
Oh 100% My uncle did something similar to his daughter (my cousin). Broke up with the wife the day after the last kid graduated HS to go be with a gold-digger he'd been cheating with that nobody liked. Fast forward many years, he's broken up with her, has a GF everyone loves, relationships are all on the mend. Middle daughter gets married, new GF is in all the pictures. He breaks up with her right after the wedding on the private plane home and goes back to the gold digger. He'd been planning it for months, but didn't want to disturb the wedding plans. Still with her to this day, extended family doesn't speak to him very much anymore. Relationship with his kids is rocky to say the least. Edit: I learned at christmas that the gold digger is now out of the picture for the second time we believe after some failed joint business ventures. No idea if there's another lined up.
Immediately after dinner half the reception (the bride’s family) got up en masse to go milk their cows. They were Amish or Mennonite. It occurred to me later that maybe they were really avoiding the dancing.
I love this excuse. Can’t dance, got cows to milk.
Bride take away by EMT after drinking too much
I was almost taken away by EMT during my first marriage. We were having a Catholic wedding, and everyone knows how long those are. The priest told us to kneel, so I did then my fiance asked “are you okay?” i said “nope” and promptly passed out. There were several nurses at the wedding. I was pregnant and my BP & sugar dropped bc I didn’t eat all day. That Catholic wedding got cut down to like 15 min.
At my wedding, one of the caterer attendants decided to take my husband and his groomsmens offer of a few swigs of whiskeys before the ceremony on the side of the building. The attendant was younger (at least 21 but not much older) and was drunk af. He then got fired and decided to join our reception party and get more drinks, he jumped in front of all the guys to catch the garter. I was really upset at the time, but I found a candid photo of the moment he caught the garter , and he did a whole ass air kick and was so disheveled it made me laugh.
Was invited to a coworkers wedding. My coworker was the bride and she was a really funny no bullshit New York girl. The priest who was supposed to officiate the wedding was an old family friend but he fell ill so they had to send out another priest to do the wedding ceremony. The ceremony starts and the new replacement priest launches into this 15 minute long sermon about how, according to God, the woman is supposed to be subservient to the man. This is not the brides vibe at all and all of us are sitting there simply just stunned at what the priest was saying waiting for the bride to snap and punch the dude in the throat. To her credit she just stood there and listened but you could tell she was furious. I’ll never forget the scene immediately afterwards as the bride stood there crying and a bunch of family members had the priest basically cornered chewing his ass out for ruining the wedding.
Similarly, there's a great photo of me (the bride) doing the finger slash across the throat motion because the DJ started playing a country song that reminded me of my abhorrent family/abusive childhood despite my all caps instruction to him that zero country music was to be played. I was a very chill bride but that song was not going to be played. He cut it off mid-verse.
We gave our DJ 4 pages of song titles that we liked, with written instructions that under NO CIRCUMSTANCES was "Celebration" to be played, EVER. Guess what was the third song he played?? My new wife intercepted me on my way to the DJ's booth and started a conga line to keep the DJ from being deleted on the spot.
My friend and his wife had a similar thing happen at their wedding. It was a destination wedding in Mexico and they asked for a non-religious ceremony. The officiant started saying how the woman should take care of the man, make sure to have dinner ready when he gets home, etc, etc. Their relationship was the exact opposite of this. He gets off work at 3 and cooks most meals. She is a lawyer who works crazy hours. No one got really mad it was more that everyone at the wedding, including the bride and groom, were trying to stifle laughter at the advice this officiant was giving.
I would not have been that patient. I would have interrupted the priest after a few sentences of that crap.
Hell, I'm proud of her family for chewing him out. They had her back
I knew a girl who did photography on the side. She was hired to shoot a wedding on the Gold Coast, Australia. The Gold Coast has a reputation for having very beautiful beaches but very trashy people, think jersey shore types. Anyway, the bride, groom, bridesmaids, and groomsmen are all getting ready in the same room. The photographer I knew was told the boys had their bucks party (bachelor party, stag do) the night before and that they were still a little drunk. They decided it would be a good idea to do some cocaine to try and wake up a bit. Also by some cocaine i mean a lot. The photographer is trying to get some nice photos, but it's hard when there are illicit drugs in every shot and the men are too rowdy to sit still. She tells the bride that it's a little difficult to get decent shots so the bride asks the boys stop taking drugs for a minute. The groom yells "shut up, cunt!" and just keeps snorting, his groomsmen just laugh.
This is why they have annulments.
> The groom yells "shut up, cunt!" How Australian of them
I attended my cousins second wedding with my grandparents and mom. I was 12 years old. It was a fancy event. My cousin, the groom, sang to the bride. His bandmates performed during the night. When it was time to leave my cousin wanted to walk our grandmother out and help get her in the car. I was already in the backseat. My cousin said he forgot to kiss me goodbye. He opened my car door and slipped his hand under my dress and grabbed at my privates as he kissed me. I was in total shock. Even if I told my Mom she wouldn’t have believed me. For years after that I was dodging his advances at our family events. When I was 50 years old I decided to tell my Mom. No surprise, she just kind of shrugged it off.
Your cousin is a piece of shit
Agreed. He may be my cousin but he’s only 5 years younger than my Mom. The last time he forced himself on me I was 19. It was after our Grandma’s funeral. He cornered me in the kitchen. Grabbed at me holding me against the wall and stuck his tongue in my mouth. I fought him off the best I could. He was there with his wife and kids. All these years I’ve been waiting for news of his death.
Christ I hope he never pulled that shit with his children.
I felt tremendous guilt when he had a daughter with his first wife. When ever she was visiting us I kept a close eye on her. I know now I should have spoke up. I still feel guilt.
It sounds like you knew your mother wouldn't believe you and you were correct. There's really nothing you could do, so don't blame yourself!
Fuck. I am so so sorry. Your cousin is a piece of shit. And your mom should believe you and act accordingly.
I am so sorry that happened to you.
Groom was drunk, standing on the hood of the bestman's car and hood surfing around the hotel parking lot. Groom ended up getting launched off the hood onto the asphalt. Bride and groom end up at ER and she has blood all over her dress. Kids... tsk, tsk, tsk.
Had a friend of a friend in high school die doing something similar. Really fucked up his friends who were with him and especially the driver, who was a good friend of mine.
Right after one of my friends in high school got his license him and another of our buddies were doing something like this in a park, figuring that if he fell off he'd fall onto soft grass and not asphalt. Well he fell off alright. The car ran him over and snapped his femur clear in half. My other friend, the driver, panicked and ran out of the car to check on him. When he saw what happened and the state of a leg bent in half in all the wrong place he started throwing up uncontrollably. He didn't realize he had forgotten to put the car in park and it drove itself into a river. Meanwhile the dude that got run over is howling in pain. Neither of them ever lived it down. Further evidenced by the fact that I still remember this 30 years later.
Couple was conservative, evangelical Christian. The bride had always been a Christian, but the groom had converted sometime in his mid to late 20s. As such, the bride was a virgin and the groom was not. Not a big deal. Except every single one of his groomsmen brought it up during their speeches. Like, they felt the need to let everyone know that the groom had gotten laid before and now got to bang a virgin. it was truly gross.
Jesus’ name, that is gratuitously off-putting.
Maid of honor told the bride she was pregnant, during the reception, with the groom’s child 😐 that led to the NEXT wedding where the groom is now marrying the former maid of honor and the ex-wife tells her that she is also pregnant with, you guessed it, the grooms child 😬
The ole tit for tat.
Move to Utah at that point.
A thunderclap at the "if anyone objects" bit in the ceremony. Groom got caught cheating on the bride 2 months later.
😂😂😂 You know God was practically screaming up there. "DON'T FUCKING DO IT! HE'S A TOTAL ASSH- GABRIEL GET ME A LIGHTNING BOLT, SHE THINKS THE VOICE SHE'S HEARING IS JUST COLD FEET."
Obviously cheating is horrible, but imagine trying to keep your composure after the universe itself basically says “I know what you did”
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The groom's father was drunk BEFORE the ceremony and got worse as the evening progressed. During the reception, the groom's mother locked herself in the bathroom while other women tried to coax her to come out. Several people on the bride's side were also fighting, I was asked to drive a terrified old lady home. The couple divorced soon after.
Seen it twice. At the reception, the older, unmarried sister of the bride or groom has to dance in a hog feeding trough by themselves in front of everyone, because their younger sibling got married before them. All the family, friends, guests gather around them to laugh and heckle. We couldn’t help but feel bad for them, especially the poor big sister who was a little on the heavier side. Sorry about your self esteem, I guess!
God, that's a horrible tradition!
What the fuck
There's apparently an old French-Canadian tradition of unmarried older siblings doing a dance in colourful socks while guests throw money at them. The money goes to the newly married couple. It's meant to be fun & silly, not embarrassing. Hmm... apparently the trough dance is also of French-Canadian origin. WTF Quebec? https://thedjservice.com/the-french-canadian-hog-trough-dance/
lol where in the world is this?
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I was back home to MC my cousin’s wedding to his very uptight bride about 15 yr ago. She’s SO uptight because her family is certifiably insane and she clings desperately to normalcy like it’s a life raft. Sometimes she clings a bit too hard and cracks under the pressure. Well…the groom’s Dad and the bride get into a screaming match at the rehearsal. The minister refuses to move forward with the wedding until they do some emergency, on-site counselling. The rest of the wedding party is asked to leave. We wait for hours across the street at a coffee shop until we’re told to head to the reception venue. We had a dinner scheduled and we’re supposed to finish decorating. The bridal party and family finally show up just as the staff is about to lock us out for the night. We’ve had no dinner, no rehearsal, and the reception isn’t set up properly. I leave and meet an old friend for a late dinner. The next morning I arrive at the church not entirely sure there’s going even BE a wedding. We do an impromptu rehearsal with the minister, and I head down to the basement to use the washroom before the guests start to arrive. There’s a weird, sickly sweet, chemically smell down there; I walk into the ladies room and find the bride’s father with a crack pipe in his hand. Settling his nerves, I guess? This sets the vibe for the rest of the day… The ceremony goes surprisingly well, and we head to the reception. The hotel had just opened that week, this is the very first wedding they’ve held, and they’re clearly not ready yet: only one elevator is operational and the staff isn’t really trained. The elevator broke, and the staff couldn’t figure out how to get food down from the kitchen to the ballroom, so they just stopped food service half way through the meal. The DJ played the wrong song for the first dance and the bride broke down in tears, ran out, and didn’t come back for an hour.The bartender kept setting up unlimited shots along the whole bar and leaving open bottles for guests to take (many of whom haven’t eaten). I (the MC) start projectile vomiting because both my friend and I got horrendous food poising from our dinner the night before. I was in a long gown, and would go upstairs to a bathroom away from the party, undress, puke my guts out, re-dress, go back to complete part of the itinerary, and repeat. In the meantime, everyone who wasn’t violently nauseous was getting absolutely hammered. The night culminated with my uncle punching his pregnant daughter in the face because she wouldn’t give him his motorcycle keys to ride away drunk. He then fell into a large sculpture and smashed it, causing the police to be called. He, of course, tried to fight the police. The wedding was shut down because of the excess drunkenness just before midnight. I went back to my parents’ place and threw up for three more days. And before you ask: yes, the bride and groom are still happily married. They have three kids; she dresses them like little Instagram models and is a wannabe “momfuencer”. They make TikToks.
I do not blame the uptightness of the bride. It’s like a version of “it ain’t paranoia if they are actually after you.”
That reminds me of a friend of mine. Her dance with her father was supposed to be to “Wind Beneath My Wings” but the DJ was confused, and instead played “Don’t Cry For Me Argentina”.
Not sure how you get those mixed up lol
Father of the bride gave a 10 minute long speech where he said if she wasn’t his daughter he’d marry her. While his wife stood right next to him.
One of the Bridesmaid got caught doing the nasty with the groom….. needless to say the wedding was called off and presents were picked up at the door when people left…. Most awkward thing ever since everyone was so confused.
Everyone's going to say a fight, and those are very much WTF. However the fight I witnessed was between a man and a woman. Sure, notable... However the woman had a previous career as a mud wrestler and had since moved on to bodybuilding. Also, the man she was fighting was her brother who was three weeks out of rehab. You may have witnessed a fight at a wedding but I witnessed an ass-kicking the likes of which I have never, ever seen. That woman took him down and beat his ass brutally and decisively, in heels and a tight dress. When the cops came and both were being dragged off in cuffs she was able to get herself, in heels mind you, out of the main hall, down the front stairs and into the cruiser, with absolute grace and form. Her brother had to be carried with occasional drops of blood-soaked tissue falling off behind him.
Not particularly WTF but I thought it was hilarious. At our wedding, there was a LOT of booze, and an excellent time was had by all. A friend of mine (about 25F) had had a skinful, went upstairs to find a quiet bathroom to have a tactical vomit, came back downstairs and as she was half way down the stairs, she tripped, rolled quite gracefully down the stairs, continued rolling when she got to the bottom and stopped after a few yards when she bumped into my mother-in-law's legs. My friend was lying flat on her back, and being the well-brought up girl she was, looked straight into my mother-in-law's eyes and said "I'd just like to say what a wonderful wedding this is, and didn't the bride look beautiful". Then she passed out.
Everybody in the ceremony was standing on a raised platform -- like, 4 feet off the ground. One of the groomsmen, the bride's brother, was standing with his knees locked. (In the army, they tell you not to do that, because you end up fainting.) He fainted, and toppled off the platform. He landed on his head. Concussion, skull fracture, broken orbit and cheekbone, other messy stuff. He got taken away in an ambulance. The rest of the bridal party got into cars and went to the hospital in full wedding regalia, to sit in the ER waiting room. I don't remember the timing, but it must have happened after the Impressive Clergyman said "man and wife", because the wedding happened and they're still happily married. Oh yeah, and brother is fully recovered.
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I worked at a wedding venue. Bride and groom shut their reception down in the middle of it to show a basketball game. Their team lost so everyone started drinking real hard and the bride ended up on the floor, throwing up in our mop bucket.
The groom’s sister gave a speech at the reception and ended it with “You can’t make a ho a housewife”, and literally dropped the mic and sat back down.
The kid bearing the ring arrived at the altar with no ring on the little pillow, quick-thinking father of the groom substituted his own wedding ring (the ring was never found). Later in the ceremony the organist passed out slumped on the keyboard, treating us all to a glorious sustained cluster chord on the pipe organ.
Long ago I worked at a banquet hall and witnessed a fully NASCAR themed wedding. During the reception they played the audio of the proposal going out over the PA at the track. It was fully unintelligible. BZZT GABBAGBGA MRRRY MEZZZZZ RROOOOOWWWVROOOM. Other highlights were the owner locking himself in his office to avoid the bride’s father because he was threatening him to haggle on the costs. In the end we had to call the police because the bride in gown climbed over the bar to steal more sweet sweet MGD after we had closed the taps and the event was over.
I’m dying over the proposal.
Might be late to this. But I've been working hotels for almost 20 years. Seen a lot of weddings. One of the craziest was a really redneck one. But they had an open bar... so... problems happened. One family insulted another. It wasn't even an insult really. It was over a football game. Little guy was talking a lot of smack and this big guy just grabs a bottle of beer and wacks the little guy across the dome hard. He goes down and it happened so fast. Big guy realized he fucked up and runs with his girl. About 30 minutes go by and the cops finally come. The ambulance guys said he was pretty much dead instantly. Cops take statements. Later that night while we were cleaning up, a detective comes by and rips out the carpet. They eventually catch the guy a few states over. I had to ID him. Again, this was one of the crazier ones. I'll have to tell you about the secial killer next.
I conducted a wedding at the brides parents house. It was where she grew up. The garden backed on to a field, the bride had told me that she asked the farmer if the cows could be in the field on her wedding day so she could see them. He was happy to oblige. Day of the wedding, I'm there early as you do... and I see the farmer moving the cows into the field. I move away from the marquee to look at the cows and the farmer comes over to the fence where I am. He says to me all pleased.. "the wife and I are invited to the reception!" I tell him that's lovely and I am sure he'll have a great time and I mention how pretty the cows are and he goes... "oh bride wanted them in the field for the wedding and I said to them - Ladies, you've been invited to a wedding! You've got to look your best... So I power hosed them!" I thought that was hilarious! And brilliant. lol
This actually happened. DJd a rich family wedding. 400 person on their massive property. Under a huge tend. The the rich daughter married an indigenous Canadian gent. It was easily 45oC with the humidity that day. Got heat stroke setting up. Boss told me to finish or I was fired. Figured it was my last gig cause I was done at that point. Seemed like nice enough guy. They looked like an adorable couple. Brides dad was a total condescending dick to staff and me the whole day and evening. Overall there was an obvious tension the entire night though. At some point someone on one family side said something to someone else about 1am and a massive brawl started. This wasn’t teens fighting but 45-50 year old white bankers throwing down with stacked farm working and reservation living people. It was wild. You’re going to ask - did I cut the music? Eff no. I was fed up. felt like ass, and saw an opportunity so I threw on Kung Fu fighting and watched this brawl go down. Multiple cop cars (7-10?) multiple arrests. Didn’t get paid. Don’t care. Worth it. The rich dad may have gained a son but he definitely lost that fight and a few teeth that day. EDIT: I was asked via DM what was said. Not sure who said something first but I do know after asking during tear down that punches were thrown when one of the brides uncles told the grooms brother something around the vein of “Why don’t you go back to the rez to huff a litre” - so incredibly racist shit. I’d have thrown down at that point too if I were him. So. Ya. Rich assholes gonna asshole. EDIT 2: To confirm the hockey player who commented on the fight winners - Yea the banker boys got their asses BEAT son. Lemme telll ya. Son son son. Wooo boy.
>threw on Kung Fu fighting and watched this brawl go down I'd have thought that would have stopped the fight because of laughing!
>45-50 year old white bankers throwing down with stacked farm working and reservation living people Have played hockey with and against those stack farm workers, I know who won that fight.
Like a rugs on a clothes line. Ever seen a 300lbs person tossed like a bail of hey over a bar? 👋
Nice on the song. If I was quick enough to make the decision I would have mixed in Ballroom Blitz too.
These are the petty moments in life I live for. Well played, sir (pun intended).
King Fu Fighting!! 🤣🤣 I hope someone got this on video.
My wedding... 2 things, 1 godbrother 1. Blew out a candle at the table super hard causing the wax to blow back in his face land all over his mustache and beard where it hardened on his face... everyone who saw it laughed and no one attempted to help him remove it. He was too drunk to notice. 2. Went next door to the empty conference room and pissed on the track where the wires were plugged in the floor for the equipment... this idiot "thought" he was in a really "nice" bathroom We were at a resort in Mexico. I thought he was gonna get arrested, but they were cool, just took him back to his room. He remembered nothing the next day.
At the reception, they had live goldfish in bowls on each table. The groom got really drunk and ended up swallowing one of the goldfish for fun.
I’ll never forget going to my friends house in elementary school, and their older siblings were watching that jackass episode 🤮
I was a wedding caterer. The venue I worked at had a strict rule about no outside alcohol. I worked with my mom and she noticed that the groom and groomsmen were extremely intoxicated very early on in the day. She went in their rooms and found a bunch of moonshine and put it behind the bar but it was too late. The groom had to be helped to the alter to marry his PREGNANT wife. Poor thing. After dinner I was clearing plates and I walked outside where the groom immediately hit on me. I was 16 and just turned right around and went back inside.
At my sister's wedding reception, it was at this banquet hall where another wedding was also going on. The place was split in half so 2 events were happening. The 2 sections were sealed off but smokers went outside and after 5 hours of open bar we started mingling. I went to their side and some came over to our side. All was fine until some college football rivalry thing broke out and the guests started fighting. People were getting glassed, tackled, stomped, etc... My sister's side was a bunch of drunk Penn State bros vs I can't remember the rival team. We had to call several ambulances. I having no dog in the fight just went to their reception and was delighted that they had a sushi chef and better liquor. Made a lot of new friends that night from watching them go at it. Those college football bros are dumb AF IMO, but I admire their dedication.
The brides mother showed up, refused to sit at the table she was assigned to and rearranged some seating to accommodate her other daughter and herself. She ensured she was at the table closest to the exit. She refused to talk to the grooms family and gave dirty looks to the brides father and stepmother. She loudly exclaimed that the turkey that was served was the fries and most overcooked thing she’d ever eaten and the wine selection was atrocious. She doesn’t even drink wine. The second the brides father got up to make a speech, she got up and silently left, taking the brides younger sister with her. Two weeks later the bride, the groom, the grooms mother and the brides grandmother all got nasty letters about how disgusting the whole event was and that she was ashamed to be acquainted with them. I was the bride, she was my mother. Now she’s just Kathy.
They ignored the entire group of wedding guests and only talked/took pics with their bridesmaids/groomsmen. Then the second the wedding ceremony was over they grabbed a whiskey bottle and proceeded to drink from same bottle while passing around to their wedding group. Everyone at that wedding was pissed they spent time/ money to even go. It was like a white trash sorority party
I would leave early, taking my gift with me.
We definitely left shortly after that bit. Especially when one of the friends started flirting with our 16yr old cousin (offering her liquor as well) and her mom was right there. It was my husbands brother wedding and he was extremely disappointed in them. What topped it all they had no planning done at all and kept moving tables to fit their "party" and no one had any clue what was goin on. It was just awkward as hell.
Limo engine caught fire a block from the church after they left.
Best man pulled the chair out from behind the bride as she was sitting down (to be "funny") after a toast to her new husband and she went straight down and seriously injuring her back. Paramedics took her away in ambulance... reception over.
My sister in law wore an unconventional wedding dress, a short skirt, halter top with bare midriff, and fairy wings. It was very cute. She came over to our table to say hello during the reception and my great aunt pulled up her skirt to see what she was wearing underneath, exposing her underwear to the table and possibly the rest of the room. My sister in law just laughed it off, probably because my aunt was very old. Still, I couldn’t believe she did that.
I set up ballroom events… wedding reception had a mechanical bull with a padded ring for the guests
I was the DJ at my friend's daughter's wedding. The parents were divorced and nobody got along with the ex wife. Wristbands were handed out to people that were able to get free drinks at the bar, the bride's mother didn't get one because everyone knew she was unstable. She shows up tries to get a free drink and gets denied. She then tries to pull the "Do you know who I am card?" Still no free drink. I am not sure what happened next but some argument started, pushing shoving people moving outside. I see the mother trying to drive away and someone reaching through the window trying to choke her with her seatbelt.
don’t mean stuff that isn’t to your taste, or there was a cringe first dance. I mean proper, OMFG situations. I’ll go first: a female friend of the groom known to be a bit (very) volatile when drunk and was generally known to be extremely unstable, called the bride a cunt before the meal and screamed abuse at the bridesmaids, and then curled a shit at the top of the stairs in the hotel venue. Of course, she was frogmarched out of there and never showed her face at her work again (where she knew the groom from).
now when you say curled a shit at the top of the stairs in the hotel venue...
Clearly their venue was a tilted ice rink. I really feel bad for the people who had to direct it with the brooms though.
The grooms dad trying to start a fight with a random guest in the mens toilets and the groom quickly telling us all to leave and go home for the night, abruptly. Very odd. Apparently his dad is barred from all the pubs in his area. Sounds a nice blood
Bride had two MOHs (one matron one maid) and groom had one best man. Groom has anxiety issues but an all around awesome human as is his wife (the bride). So the MOHs knew to keep the speeches short as groom would rather party with his bride everyone and keep the spotlight off of him. Both MOHs gave lovely speeches. Then came the BM. Who then passed the mic to the first GM who then proceeded to pass the mic along to the others. The bridesmaids starting freaking out and thankfully the fathers of the couple got up did a quick “thanks for coming we love you both let’s eat and be merry” and wrapped it up because what should’ve been maybe 10 minutes tops between the three speeches was going on 40 (I know this isn’t the worst out there, but 40 minutes of speeches when you’re hungry and the bar runs out of water and soda so you are left with very little patience)
My cousin's wedding reception. I was about 9, so my mom took me and one of my brothers home before the REAL fun started. While I was there, the MoH was absolutely hammered before entering the firehall, grabbed a $500 bottle of rum that was supposed to be raffled off to help with the couple's honeymoon, and proceeded to CHUG a good third of the bottle. Had some rando teenager from the bride's family (I'm related to the groom) try to hit on me for most of the reception because he refused to believe I was as young as I said I was (I've always been pretty tall). WHAT I WASN'T THERE FOR BUT HEARD ABOUT IN THE MORNING: DJ's extremely inebriated ex-boyfriend showed up and harassed him (the DJ) for most of the night. Guests were fine with him until they started verbally screaming at each other, then my (also extremely inebriated) family tried to shoo the ex out. Got him outside the fire hall, ex took a swing at someone, pissed off my drunk redneck cousins, who took swings back. Ex runs, RIGHT INTO THE ROAD, gets hit by a car and flies into a ditch. He was ok, minus a broken arm, broken/bruised ribs, and was screaming about my "homophobic" family ganging up on him for no reason.
Happened to my GF now wife. Good friends wedding about 25 years ago. We were young and loved to party. Bride and groom left the reception early to head out for the honeymoon. A group of us took mushrooms, and we re drinking hard. Close friend was a huge wrestling fan. Like WWF. He was dancing with my GF. Out of absolutely nowhere, he grabs my girl, picks her up, and legit suplexed her on the dancefloor. Her head hit the floor, and she was lying there in a spaghetti strapped LBD with her eyes fluttering. I put both my hands around his neck and tried with every ounce of strength I had to choke the life out of him. Friends calmed us down, and he was escorted home. It was the most insane thing ive seen at a wedding.
Sweet Jeebus. Was she okay?
Sore as hell but nothing serious.
About 15 years ago I catered a weekend long wedding. 2 rich families making their kids marry to join the businesses together or some such. The groom really didn't want to, he was in love with someone else but his parents pressured him into doing it. After the wedding, dinner and party, the bride and groom went back to the hotel. He packed his bags, drove to the airport and left the country. When his parents finally got in touch with him the next day he told them he went through with the wedding like they wanted, and now they could fuck off because he wasn't coming back. None of the guests were told. When asked where the bride and groom were for the rest of the weekend everyone was told they were "busy" wink-wink nudge-nudge. But all the staff knew. The families spent over $750,000 on the wedding - church, decorations, food, venue rental, flying over 200 different guests in and paying for their hotels.
Bride was druuuunnnnnnnkkkkk like, whoa girl! Her dad basically had to carry her down the aisle with her brothers help. It was a surprise they went through with it!
My Nonna objected at my sisters wedding because she was marrying a progressive New York Jew and her grandchild would cease to exist if she married him.
So what happened? Tell us the rest of the story.
Traditional Italian Catholic girl living in Florida marrying her progressive Jewish boyfriend and Nonna objects of course my mother escorts her out of the room and the wedding continues. They move to NYC , a year later she has converted to Judaism, completely changed her politics and my Nonna was right, her grandchild ceased to exist how she was and now rarely visits.
Almost a self fulfilling prophecy...
At my sister's wedding our step mum had found out what bridesmaid dresses for her children would be, she got her young daughter the same dress and kept pushing her daughter into the photos. Even the photographer told her to stop.
I was a plus one to a wedding about 2 years ago. I went with this guy I was seeing and it was one of his buddies he played baseball in college with.. we were at the back table by the bar with his other old teammates. During the best man/maid of honor speeches, the MOH was talking about a deceased family member.. I couldn’t really hear because at our table, one guy vomited all over the PREGNANT girl next to him and they were fighting, another guy and his date were making out and he was hands all up in her dress, and one guy was talking on the phone loud as heck! I was so embarrassed and I didn’t even know these people. I smacked my hand on the table and said “have any of you ever left your homes ever?” After we are silently me and my date kinda just lingered around and stayed away from the table. I can’t believe people actually act that way.
My cousin (the bride) has some kind of disease (nothing immediately terminal but I think it’s one of those things where you slowly deteriorate unfortunately) so when she was getting married, they wanted to make it a huge event. My family is scattered across the country but we all made sure to make it there especially since my aunt and uncle put so much time, work, and money into planning it. So, we’re all at this fancy country club with at least 200 people and halfway through the party, the bride disappeared. After a while I go to the bathroom and there she is, puking her guts out because she was taking shots of tequila since the MORNING when getting ready for the day. She never recovered that night so the toasts were never made and the cake had no cutting ceremony and my aunt and uncle were understandably pissed. When I was my best friends MOH years later, I made sure to monitor the brides alcohol intake just in case
1) I owned a sound company that did over 200 weddings a year. I have a wedding coming up on Saturday. On Thurs it gets cancelled! The bride is boning the best man. OOps. NO PROBLEM! The new couple, who dont want to lose any deposits, book their wedding two months later. The reception starts with everyone going to their seats. No intermingling. They eat their meals without a word. Then after the first dance, there is a stampede to the front doors and the place empties. I was tearing down at 1030 pm instead of 1 am. 2) Groom disappears with ex until 12:30 am. When he returns, well...you can guess what happened. The next day, bride files for divorce. I quickly deposited the cheque.
When the groom kissed the bride all the guests did a nazi salute. I was staff
Brazilian couple? In many Cristian denominations, the form of the salute is a way of blessing, somewhat akin to putting your palm over someone's head, but doing it from a distance. I personally prefer the ICXC gesture. Unless of course everyone said the Siege Hail when then extended the hands.
A White friend had a long term Black girlfriend. The man's parents were renewing their vows, because they got papal permission to get married in a Catholic church. The Black woman was specifically disinvited. During the vows, a black cat showed up from who knows where, and walked up the aisle meowing.
The bride’s aunt was screaming at her and calling her a whore for no reason. Apparently they had gotten into a squabble earlier. She then stormed out.
A coworkers wedding at a very nice country club/golf course. Her "friends" (a couple M and F early 30's maybe) dropped acid at the reception. Started throwing glasses and yelling at random people. The chick tried to drive off and the brides dad tried to stop her. She hit both cars next to her and he finally pulled her out of the car. She tries biting him so he pins her down until the cops arrive. Cops get there and demand he release this tiny girl. The dad does and she runs to bite the cop. He pins her down and she's screaming and kicking and spitting. That was the craziest shit I've seen at a wedding and I still tell that story!
I used to work at a hotel doing weddings and saw many things, highlights include the wedding party minus the bride all breaking into the spa and sitting in the jacuzzi in all their clothes, a man who got extremely drunk and drew cartoons all over the expensive tablecloth, and then asked to buy it, and one time a three legged dog broke in and wouldn't let any guests out of the room we were in
My mum, and my Dad’s third wife (by wife three it’s *not* a step mother) both turned up to my brother’s wedding in the same dress. So all the professional photos they are almost matching. Maybe not a WTF moment, but utterly hilarious.
Best friend from growing up got married on an extremely hot summer day. Probably around 105 when the reception started at 4pm. Some poor old lady in the crowd had a heat stroke, but it's ok, the bride and groom were both medical students. As were about half of their friends in the crowd and another 30 doctors and nurses were at the wedding. So you had this massive gaggle of doctors and nurses all trying to help out this poor old lady before they realized it was better to just let 2 ER docs handle it and went back to snacking on passed apps
The groom went into the forest to talk with an acquaintance of his (I know, bad idea). After about 30 minutes, only the groom emerged from the forest, badly beaten and covered in blood, and there was no sign of the acquaintance. After many searched the forest, the acquaintance was also found beaten, and a quarter of the guests chased and confronted the assailants. It was chaotic.
So, they got mugged in the woods?
I went to a wedding where the whole thing was WTF. The bride was visibly pregnant (not a big deal), the flower girl was the daughter of the bride and the best man. The maid of honour was very pregnant and fainted during the ceremony, so her husband, the photographer got almost no photos of the wedding. It was an odd one.
>the flower girl was the daughter of the bride and the best man What the hell is the story there??
Ha. Was at a wedding at a hotel where they were also holding an AA convention. We also had a keg in a bath tub because as recent college graduates we refused to pay for beer. It made for some fun elevator rides with AA folks.
Groom AND bride starts to drunkenly make out with two guests, tho groom starts alone intimetly dance with those two guests and groping them to love songs. The bride and grooms young kids are present to witness it. It was awkward/uncomfortable as hell and I don’t think either of them remembered it the day after.
The groom went home with his Mommy on the wedding night. The marriage ended at that moment, paperwork was never filed.