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Ok I'm sure there is a few floating out there. I just what to hear what I should avoid so my day goes well.
I don't know that my cousin was horrified, but I would have been upset....our younger cousin wore a velour track suit to her wedding and got pretty drunk and I am pretty sure she was 15 at the time...I was embarassed enough for her. I am hoping to put a note in our invites regarding semi-formal attire..I wouldn't want pictures of someone in their sweatpants attending my wedding!
At my sister's reception, her MIL got so drunk that she did a pole dance. Thankfully, no nudity was involved, but she got rather embarrassingly up-close-and-personal with the pole. From my perspective, it was *awesome*. I'm not sure that my brother-in-law would agree with me :)
I didnt have any guests ruin my wedding, but my DJ played the wrong song when I walked down the aisle. Id been imagining walking down to the theme song from the Princess Bride, "Storybook Love" for a few years. He assured me he knew the song and would have it. I shouldve made him play it for me before because he played a different song from the movie. Not the worst thing that could happen but I immediately noticed it when I entered, mumbled it to my dad and the coordinator but it was too late to do anything. The ceremony was perfect otherwise but I will always remember I didnt come in to the song I wanted to. Double check and confirm song choices with your DJ!!!
That's so funny about your MIL red..I would have laughed too. I'm sure I'll have a few drunk guest doing odd things at mine !
i dont think anything can beat a pole dancing mother of the groom... unless its a pole dancing mother of the bride that i guess :)
Red...I'm not sure I would have considering that something that ruined the wedding...it may have been one of the best things at the wedding. I'd love to laugh about that for years to come...atleast I think I would...and as long as it wasn't my Mother.
My MOH did not approve of our union - she thought I was better off single. She had mentioned to me that she felt really uncomfortable lying to all of our guests and talking favorably about our relationship when it came to wedding party speeches.
I appreciated her honest opinion and told her that if she didn't feel comfortable and couldn't say anything nice, I would not make her get up and say anything. We told our DJ that only the best men (we had two) would be giving speeches.
The day of the wedding, my MOH was probably catching a good buzz by the time speeches came and ran up to mic after one of the best men had given their speech. She didn't diss our relationship publicly (which I was secretly fearing) but she emphatically declared that my FI/newly wed husband was "just, ok....". This offended some of my FI's guest and family and they started mocking the statement "________'s JUST OK" chanting it for about 2-3 minutes. I don't think MOH even realized what she had said or how it came off....
I just hope that gets edited out of our video when we get the final product back - we are supposed to get an edited video of just the wedding party speeches!
I went to a wedding recently that had a free bar (including spirits), there was lots of heckling during the speeches, a female guset climbed onto a table and held up her dress to show her underwear whilst dancing (Not during the speeches!) and the whole wedding were cut off for an hour. Other than that it was the best wedding I'd ever been to, shame the guests couldn't behave themselves!
Hey, I think as long as THIS doesn't happen, a wedding can be counted as having gone reasonably well in comparison.
At my friend's wedding, her groom's friend which was a female showed up dressed really skanky. She then got wasted and got a hold of the microphone and said something to the effect of " Wow like I can't believe you are actually getting married, you and I have so much history together", and rambled on and on how she is so close to the groom. Never did she say congrats or mention the bride The entire 200 person reception was silent and uncomfortable.
My DJ didn't show up. My sister fell and put a 4 inch long cut in her arm. And someone tried to get a piggy back ride from my dad without telling him, he fell and busted his face. Awesome.... lol
At my friend's wedding last year the hotel's renovations were not complete even though they were supposed to have been finished months earlier. The ballroom where they were holding the reception (which had no windows) in addition to the guest rooms at the hotel (where everyone was staying and which had windows that didn't open) all lost A/C. Her cake half melted. Everyone was a sweaty disgusting mess in all the pictures. The hotel staff was being totally wack about it, too. It was pretty painful.
At my ex-SIL's wedding two cousins from opposite sides of the family got in a fist fight. Classy.
It didn't ruin their day, but when my FH's best friend got married (who is our Best Woman), her FMIL showed up to the ceremony in a black mourning gown and full length black lace mourning veil!!! LOL - she had the classic, floor length, black lace veil covering her face through the entire ceremony.
Everytime I think about that, I thank my lucky stars for my awesome FMIL!!!
At my cousins's wedding (who I'm not close to) The groom made a speech, which is normally fine I've seen it happen before, but in his speech he totally dissed the bride. They were an older couple and had been dating for about 7 years before he proposed and only did so after being forced by her parents who are ultra conservative. He said things like "And I knew she'd say Yes when I proposed so I wasn't nervous!" It was awful. Also, she's not very pretty and he kept mentioning how she was an ugly ducking when she was a child, but then not transitioning into saying now she's beautiful. And it was weird, b/c she clearly isn't very pretty so we were all looking at each other like "What is he saying??" And to top it off he never made an effort to come over and say hello to me, so I still to this day have not met him. There were less than 100 people at the wedding!
Another wedding was beautiful, but had a big open bar and no food for about 2 hours so a lot of people were getting physically ill in the ballroom. They couldn't even make it to the bathroom. It was really gross. The problem was, it was a destination wedding and the ceremony didn't start until 6:00pm so all the guests were at the hotel bar waiting for the ceremony to start drinking away, thinking it would be fine since they would eat at cocktail hour. Wrong! The bride and groom wanted to save money so didn't include any food, only booze. Bad idea! And never have a long cocktail hour with nowhere to sit, I thought my feet were going to fall off!
I am not married yet, but I work in special events a hotel. We do about 10 weddings or so a year. I am usually there the day of, making sure we are on time, keeping in touch with vendors, etc.
We did a wedding for 360 guests back in October, and toward the end of the night, the brides mom hugged me, telling me what a great job we did. She then informed me that the bride and groom were departing soon, as they were "very eager to consumate the marriage."
TMI.
Oh, I've also been to another wedding (forgot about this one!) where the groom was less than happy to get married. I literally didn't see him at all during the reception, he was at a different hotel bar (it was a big hotel) doing shots and smoking. The DJ had to send someone to get him to do the mother/son dance. It was very strange and awkward, I felt really bad for the bride.
Oh man, if feels wrong to laugh but some of this stuff is too funny! I hope the brides and grooms are over this stuff and can laugh too. My grandmother (who is young and funny and old school italian) told me she'd like to bring a tazer to ensure everyone acts appropriately. I was like, "yeah um gram, I'm pretty sure there isn't going to be a need for that". Now that I think about it, she may be on to something there lol.
My parent's friend's daughter got married and so I went and sat with my parents and their friends... one of my parents friends is kinda creepy and asked me to dance with him.
To the apple bottom jeans song. As in, bumping and grinding with him. It was weird. And he wasn't even drunk! He doesn't drink!
I was at a wedding where the bride was outside for pictures, and saw a stray cat. She decided it would be a good idea to try and pet the cat...so wrong! She was bitten and had to be taken to the hospital for a rabies shot! What a way to spend your wedding night!
my grandma freaked out and kept yelling to my dad and brother about who was going to clean up everything when it was done. My brother had to keep telling her not to bother me because apparently she was going to come up to me during my wedding reception and ask me how she thought we would clean all this up. She didn't understand that you hire a venue for a reason and that they have event staff to clean up their own tables and paper lanterns.
That is just one of the many ridiculous things that my grandma did that weekend. The list could go on forever... I haven't spoken with her much since the wedding - she pissed me off a lot, and she made everyone else uneasy too.
@amariem - your grandma sounds like my mom. She was psycho about my entire wedding...blaming me for forgetting small things, stressing me out the entire day. It was horrible!
I feel terrible for some of you brides that had to go through some horrible moments. I'm hoping you can look back and laugh now!
My cousin's wedding was in an upscale restaurant that had several floors/spaces for events. Some of our family members caught some girls crashing the open bar, and when the girls were confronted, they ran away to their own party in a different area of the restaurant. I guess it's not THAT horrible, but it would make me pretty mad.
During our wedding reception I went up to DH to ask him something about the music (which he'd done and I wasn't very happy with). He said he had other things going on and when I asked what he told me not to worry about it, so I went back to dancing and socialising. However half an hour later I heard there was a girl who had a BLEEDING HEAD after a wrestling match with another girl. It was about time for us to leave anyway so I went into "I must leave now" mode, got the MC to announce we were leaving, got my girlfriends to rally everyone together, and we made a very hasty exit. DH asked his friends to make sure I didn't see her (since she was one of his friends), knowing that it would upset me, but I still saw her as we left, crying with her head covered by a suit jacket like some kind of criminal.
Other guests have told us it was the best wedding they've ever been to, and I can laugh about it now, but FAR OUT. Way to cut my fun short, bleeding guest!
PS The girl was fine, she'd just been hit in the head with the door to the bathroom, but I think she was super embarrassed as was the other girl involved in the wrestling match!
WOW!!!
I am innapropriatly making "trying not to laugh" noises at work.
my co-workers think im nuts!
Well, I attended one of my close college friend's weddings a couple of years ago. The best man's speech was so embarrassing. He was trying to explain how the bridal couple met and said "well Greg went to Lynn's's sorority formal, but with another girl. Shit, we no longer know who that girl was, guess she wasn't too memorable because Greg ended up dating Lynn."
Problem was that the other unmemorable date girl was in the crowd and the rest of us knew who she was!
I was also at a different wedding this summer where they served chicken nuggets (think gross elementary school cafeteria type) as appetizers with ketchup "sauce". Found out later that this was apparently an inside joke between bride and groom, but they didn't share that joke and never ate a nasty chicken nugget because they were off for pictures.
So I guess this wasn't horrible but at my cousin's reception, the best man was so drunk - like on the verge of alcohol poisoning, he was trying to give his speech and you literally could not understand one word. And there were parts that were apparently funny because he would start laughing really hard, and the room would fill with awkward laughs. Then, the groom raised his glass to toast, but instead managed to kind of toss it, causing it to shatter in the middle of the dance floor.
My cousin, who is hilarious and a bit of a drinker had one of those receptions where EVERYONE is drunk. I was a bridesmaid and to this day when we watch the video we still can't figure out where I was during dinner since I am missing from the head table. Good thing too since they did a ridiculous amount of shots at dinner. Well during the dancing portion of the reception the bride's FMIL surprised the couple by hiring those creepy "little people". You know the ones- with the giant heads, kind of weird mascot-looking costumes. My cousin took one look at them, made a disgusted face, and said "this better be a joke, I hate the gd little people", left the dance floor and went to the bar. I still snicker when I think about it.
I would be mortified if someone were to get drunk at my wedding. Especially if there is a mic present! But even more than those who can't hold their liquor...I'm afraid of the antics children present. My FI has lots of children and spoiled teens on his side of the family and I just know they are going to try and upstage everyone. I'm not overreacting- it happens every holiday and special event. At birthday parties they fuss because they always wanted the gift that the bday boy/girl got, but never did. They throw fits if they are made to give up cell phones and ipods in public places. And they literally rush to be the first in line when food is involved, even when this involves running into physically handicapped people standing in line! So needless to say, I'm dreading what kind of mayhem they will cause at our wedding.
Ok I'll share my only funny wedding story. It was my Aunt's wedding and it was held in Dallas at a super fancy hotel. It also happened to be my 17th birthday. I agreed to be in the wedding party but with the understanding I was allowed to drink. Parents agreed so I went. Well I got super drunk and said on video how great the wedding was and that I couldnt wait for the next one..funny I know. Than I dirty danced with the grooms 35 yr old cousin on the dance floor. After that moved to the now cash only bar and downed shots with my new Uncle and my Dad's cousin, they buying of coarse. My Aunt had to fend off the other above said cousin from " showing me his room " after she almost killed him. Mhmm well it gets blurry about now but from what I was told I fell down a few times. Then up in the bridal suite with everybody my new Uncle ( who BTW is cooler than hell ) passed me the bottle of red wine..and I totally missed my mouth. After that I was cut off and ferreted to were my parents crashed at. The next thing I remember is waking up on my Aunt's sofa and my mom, another female cousin and grandmother all looking at me. They keep asking me questions about how bad I felt and I was like I dont even have a hangover. This got a few very serious looks so I covered my tracks and complainted about the worse hangover, clutch my head dramatically and was allowed to go back to sleep....i know bad but I was only 17 !
I wanted to post this as I received a PM from someone accusing me of being inconsiderate and insensitive for talking about what I still think are the creepy people puppets with the giant heads. Their real name is "The Funny Little People" and that is what they are still called according to their website:
http://www.thosefunnylittlepeople.com/aboutus.html
They are PUPPETS and don't remotely resemble actual humans and did not get their name from a resemblance to someone afflicted with any type of dwarfism. Apparently they are regional and were popular about 10 years ago when my cousin got married although they started in 1976. I remember seeing them perform at various events. And I will always laugh when I think of my poor cousin's face when she saw these on the dance floor at her wedding:
funnylittlepeople.jpg (12.4 KB, 60 downloads) 2 years old
heheeheh i didnt take offense and knew what you meant - i would have also started drinking if i had this troupe show up at my wedding reception
its a wedding not the muppets show (although i kinda like the muppets so that wouldnt be as bad)
We got married at my grandparents' house so my grandfather, who was quite ill with lung cancer (don't smoke!) could be there. During the ceremony itself, my grandmother - who was mean, not demented, and probably potted - wandered off into the bushes and whacked around with sticks, claiming, out loud as the Justice of the Peace was talking, that there were "little boys" there who needed to leave. we have it on camera.
@Grace8367- I'm glad you posted that, although sorry you got a rather mean PM from someone bc I didn't know what you were talking about and was not offended but a bit taken aback by your story...Makes much more sense now!
All these stories are making me laugh on the outside but silently shake with fear on the inside that something like this will happen at mine!
ok ladies, this is a true wedding horror story and best of all, it happened to me! About 5 months into my wedding planning there was an offer on here weddingbee for a free planner for east tn brides, well i didnt have the money to hire someone myself so i jumped on the offer and was real excited, the girl was trying to build up her new business so she was doing 3 weddings for free. When i spoke with her i told her that i already had everything planned out i just needed someone for the day of to set up things and make sure everything went right that way i could get ready, Well we had several emails, i think 2 phone calls and the day before my wedding i spoke with her, she couldnt do the rehersal dinner which was fine but promised everything would be fine she would be there on the day. So lo and behold the day of my wedding she was supposed to arrive around noon, So i called her to make sure she was finding the place ok and how much longer it would be until she got here so i could meet her and show her what was to be done. She answers the phone "cough cough, didnt you get my message?' Big suprise shes not coming! Shes sick. SO i was actually nice i told her to get better and i got off the phone and then went into panic nervous breakdown mode, I checked my phone and there were no voice mails, texts or missed calls at all, I rushed and got to the site and put everything up almost bymyself, I had the help of my grandparents but nobody knew how anything was supposed to go and it was awful so needless to say while i was doing everything she was supposed to be doing, I missed my hair and makeup appointments, We were scheduled to get married at 7pm, a beautiful sunset lakeside wedding..well i left to pick up the flowers down the road after 5, thats when i finally finished setting everything up and it still wasnt complete, I had ordered a boquet of stargazer lilies and pink roses, all pink, The boquet they had for me had 4 lilies and maybe 6 roses and a million babysbreath everywhere! I lost it, I had to wait there while they fixed it, (they did fix it for free) that took another 45minutes. It was after 6pm by the time i got back to the hotel to get ready, I was covered in sweat, my hair up in a ponytail and i was just miserable, I ended up not getting down the aisle until almost 9pm! when i finally did make it down the dj that i had spent $400 on messed the songs all up, I wanted to walk down to cannon in D, well the bridesmaids walked down to is as well (not as planned) and then when it was time for me to walk he started it all over again! We didnt get to do a unity candle because it had started to rain, SO I got married in the dark and in the rain. Well we had a whole grand entrance song and everything, the dj didnt even play it, He came highly recommended and ended up being just awful. All the music he played was wrong, and it was so loud i had to keep asking him to turn it down repeatedly! It was just plain awful, Iwould have been better off witha radio and some cds, Now its been almost 5 months and i just feel so cheated. Yes i did get married but i have always wanted this dream of a wedding and everything went horribly wrong and i cant help but blaming the majority of it on the mia wedding planner, it really infuriates me when i think about it, because i will never get that day back sad to say but there are more bad memories than there are good of my wedding and i just dont know what to do about it, i found her under onewed.com and left her a bad review but in the broad scheme of things it doesnt do anything, about 3 months after the wedding she sent me an email because she had seen the review and told me that was wrong of me to leave that and that she was sorry everything went wrong, but you know if she had at least told me the day before when i was tlaking to her that she didnt feel well or didnt think she could come i could have made plans or got up at 7am and went and got everything ready. Im gonna have to leave it as this because the more i think about it the madder i get! The girls business is called picture perfect moments and its in tennessee, her name is tiffany lynn kelsey , so take this as a warning!
I went to a wedding for a college friend of mine a few years ago, and she was marrying the guy that she'd been with for about five years, and who had repeatedly cheated on her.
When the priest came to the part in the vows about "being faithful", she shot him a very, very, VERY strongly punctuated look. It was funny, but awkward...
my cousin got married about 10 years ago. There were a ton of small children present and several were running around during the reception. One of them knocked over the cake table. It was destroyed.
I went to one wedding for a relative a number of years ago that people to this day still talk about as far as how bad it was. There was a ton that went wrong or should never have been done in the first place. The things that stood out to most people were the fact that the bride was so uptight and grouchy the entire day and night that no one was able to enjoy themselves, including the groom. The bride was offended that the guest count at the reception (they didn't allow anyone to witness the ceremony) was microscopic since the majority who were invited refused to attend since they weren't good enough to attend the ceremony, which they were perfectly justified in. They did an Ipod dj that was compiled the ngiht before so the dance floor was empty. The music was fine to listen to but not danceable. That, along with anyone daring to talk to the couple or take pictures of them, sent the bride into a childish temper tantrum. Since the wedding was out of the area (where the couple lived but everyone else had to fly in, even from overseas) and no one was fed, nor were they allowed to go out anywhere to eat while they were visiting, at any point (or anywhere for that matter that the bride was not able to keep tabs on them). While there is nothing wrong with a cake and punch reception, make sure that the cake doesn't taste like cardboard and make sure that your guests have other food in their systems during the weekend. The couple also couldn't be bothered to send thank you notes later.
Compared to that, all the other weddings I have been to have been great.
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