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After my first wedding, I found out that one of the groomsman (and I HATED this guy, he was a friend of ex-H's) "hooked up" with a wedding guest (who was my former roommate's friend) and then kicked the girl out of his room in the middle of the night. So she calls my former roommate, who calls my brother, and he has to drive 10 miles in the middle of the night to pick this girl up and drop her off at the hotel where former roommate was. I found out the next day and was furious. Fortunately, I haven't seen that guy since 2004!
When the reception was over, there were so many people who stayed to help us clean and pack things away. We gave away some extra champagne, food, cake, etc to our departing guests.
I found out the next day that my hubby had accidentally boxed up the top of our cake and put it in a friend's truck instead of ours.
I kept asking my hubby about it to arrange to get it back but he didn't seem that worried about it. Then about a week later he proceeded to tell me that the top of our cake had slid out the back of the friend's truck somewhere in the span of the 30 mile drive home, so it was gone. I think my hubby knew the fate of the cake whole time but just didn't want to tell me.
It is now wedding cake road kill. That's not like a bad omen is it?
.. I cannot BELIEVE people stole all the candy. That is just so tacky (I know people hate that word on the boards but come ON). At least you didn't have leftovers...?
Wow. I'd be really annoyed if I found out people did that (steal the candy)!
At a friend's wedding, the candy bar got so out of control and guests actually took the jars and containers as well! There were huge glass jars and vases in all different shapes that took a lot of time to find, store and make sure they don't break. Within minutes, the whole table was swiped clean!
The venue had another party before our wedding. While in itself I understand , as they are in the business to make money. But they were not ready for us in time so out cocktail 1/2 hour(which i had said to them many times , time line was VERY important to me) was more like a cocktail 1 1/2. which cut back time for dancing by about an hour, the reception was rushed. I've let it go but still wish i could have had more pics of all my friends and family dancing.
Every wedding I've been to with a candy bar it's always been a huge hit and completely gone by the end of the night. The trick is to ask the staff to set it up at the end of the night when there's like 1 or 2 hours left - that way people don't help themselves before or during dinner when they would probably take more than a favors worth.
I think that's really awful what those people did at your wedding, it's the same thing as running to the buffett table first and loading your plate up with the filet! It's like they never learned basic sharing skills or something.
I went to a wedding where the bride and groom realized afterwards that there were about 12 people who got sick and had to leave the reception all together. I would never say this to them, but it was because there wasn't enough food provided and people were drinking heavily. There were also some people who left to order pizza and grab dinner and came back. It's strange because it was actually a full dinner reception, but it took so long to get any food it was too late.
My cousin had a candy buffet and I think there was a little left over at the end of the night. No one seemed to be "stocking up" or anything.... I think it is probably guest-dependent. Not so much WHEN it was set out haha.
Okay, this makes my reception so much trashier than it was (I promise it was a very nice reception) but I found out later that:
- one of our friends puked right on the table (my mom told me the next day, she didn't want to tell me that night). Fortunately no one but the people at that table and my mom and her friend saw it, and it was easily cleaned up. That friend (and another) had decided it was a good idea to start drinking on Friday night and continue on until our reception. Thanks guys.
- another friend almost ended up getting into a fight with a groomsmen becuase the fiance of the groomsman and that friend went out to a field near the reception to "talk". I've been assured that nothing but talking happened, but to the groomsman it seemed pretty fishy (that friend and the fiance had not known each other before that night) and he had every right to be upset. My FSIL played referee and nothing happened, but it could have ended badly. I found this out a week after the wedding
Well, I guess ignorance is bliss!! :)
Is it bad that I'm really enjoying these stories? :)
@moderndaisey: That was our first reaction, to have the venue put the candy bar out after the cake cutting, when there was about 2.5 hours left. However, because of the way our venue was set-up, it wasn't possible without causing a scene in the middle of the reception. We tried to work it out, but no matter what we came up with, it just wasn't good. In the end, it actually didn't even bother me that people got their candy before dinner. I just thought we could trust our guests to not dump it all in their purses to bring back for other people. The core group that did it, though, I must say, it doesn't totally surprise me, so ... yeah :)
after my friend's wedding it was revealed that at the bridal shower (that I organized as MOH.. it was a traditional afternoon shower in a room at a church) the groom's sister (a bridesmaid) and the groom's mother brought a cooler with them in the car... full of alcohol.. and when they took "smoke" breaks periodically throughout the shower.. they were really going out to the car to drink!! really!? who DOES that!! trash-tastic.
the venue didn't put out enough chairs for the ceremony - so our wedding was literally "standing room only"! we thought everyone had arrived b/c most of the seats were filled. a few people missed the beginning of the ceremony as a result.
I found out a bridesmaid was "annoyed" we did makeup and hair in two different locations (think 25 minutes away at my SIL's salon and then we stop halfway on the way home for makeup, and it was literally on the street on the way home, no turning or nothing).....we only did them that way because this way, they didn't have to pay for the services! I DID. Of course I'm going to go to my SIL's salon, even if it's not RIGHT by my house.
Here, I thought I was doing her a favor by saving her over $80 but it turns out she was complaining behind my back. Boo.
I found out after the honeymoon that my boss (!) made a fuss about being kosher and tried to stop the food from being served at his table. My husband, bless him, told the servers to bring out the food anyway since there were other non-kosher guests at the same table and then he ordered extra food on the spot so my boss and his family would have enough to eat. I had a traditional Chinese banquet reception, which he knew about months in advance. Who doesn't expect pork and shell fish at a Chinese dinner?! He could've made arrangements with me beforehand instead of making trouble at the wedding. Good thing Hubs handled it and even kissed some @ss for me.
I wasn't annoyed by this but I had no idea it was going on during the wedding. The boyfriend of one my BM brought a slew of airplane bottles and kept convincing people to go behind the house and take shots with him.
Eee Gads! At my first wedding, which was a DW in the Caribbean with only 11 guests, my MIL brought a female friend with her as her husband had recently passed away. Her friend threw herself at my Dad when my Mom was in the restroom. Kissed him and propositioned him to have an affair when they got back home! WTF??
Some of these are hilarious! I mean, terrible, but hilarious! I found out after the wedding that my sister and her boyfriend left the reception to go make-out in the parking lot. She left my (3 year old) nephew on the dance floor with a big piece of cake and told him she'd be right back. Sisters.
Some of these are really funny! At my brother's wedding we later found out that:
1. My FI was almost arrested when he ran outside during the thunderstorm hopped in the convertible 1965 Mustang aka get-away-car and began rolling up the windows. The hotel security thought he was trying to steal the car and were ordering him to back away from the car. The top and windows were down on the car and it was pouring.
2. One of my brother's friends lost his wedding band in the front of the building. My SIL remembers when they were running to the car and we were throwing roses petals at them that she was hit in the forehead with something really hard. It was his ring! He never found it. Went back out there the next day with a metal dector and couldn't find!
3. We had those fake diamond paperweights scattered on the tables as part of the centerpieces. Some were small and we got them at the dollar store but each table had at least 2 of the bigger ones that cost about 15-20 dollars. People took them home at the end of the night.
We also had an unknown honey thief....still no confession. Our favors were honey and people stayed really late dancing and just left their honey on the table. At some point during the night, around 10 or 11, no one else got honey as it disappeared. Still haven't figured that one out.
<span style="font-size: 7.5pt; color: black; font-family: Verdana;">I was a bridesmaid in a beautiful, upscale wedding in New Jersey and apparently one of our college buddies got so drunk that after the reception when he missed the wedding bus back to the hotel, he STOLE a CAR that was in front of the reception venue (a staff member had left his car running out front while he ran back inside to get something). The bride and groom’s mothers were summoned back to the venue first thing the morning after and had to identify the thief via the security cameras. The car was later recovered at the hotel next to where our buddy was staying and he had no recollection of the event AT ALL!! The mothers were very embarrassed that the car thief had been one of their wedding guests!!
@ bvig - maybe some bears visited?? :)
Oh, and it's definitely fun to hear other people's "horror stories."
I was in my friends wedding and my friend told us that she would need help cleaning up after the reception. We were fine with that. What we were not fine with was the groomsmens doing absolutely nothing. Picture this, 5 bridesmaids in dresses and high heels, family of the bride (including grandpa) all helping to clean up the place. (It was at a park and we all needed to get out by 10.) And what were the groomsmen doing, having a cigar and a beer while they were watching us clean up. The nerve!! Let me tell you, the other bridesmaids had to hold me back because I was so close to telling those lazy groomsmens off!
At mine I heard later that:
1. A few of the SOs of our bridal party met and then bonded while we were taking pics after the ceremony by convincing the bartender to give them shots :)
2. One of my BMs was frequently whisked away from me during the day by my other BMs for crying - her stupid BF dumped her a few weeks before our wedding and she had wanted nothing more than to marry him. So despite being happy for us, our wedding was sooo hard for her. (It all turned out well for her though!) but my girls were sweet enough to take her somewhere private to talk.
3. One of our groomsmen who is actually very reserved, dropped to the dance floor to do a worm. However, upon lying on the dance floor discovered he had no idea how to do so, and ended up shaking his body around for a second and then quickly getting up. Thank goodness it was caught on video!
Our candy bar was also a hit! And I think people were relatively well behaved :) We had it out all night.
@janna, we had someone do the worm, too. But, actually do it right, lol. Oh yeah, it was a groomsmen. Hilarious =]
@ejs - that is awesome! too funny, what is it about the worm? We nearly had our friend begging to never show him the video of him in his attempt, but we couldn't resist!
I didn't see this until we got our wedding video back ... Our ring bearer was scratching his crotch during our ceremony. I mean, full on "let me put my hand down there and scratch it really good" type of thing. For about a good minute or two. I told his mom when I saw her after watching the video and she said "yeah, I saw it during the ceremony but what did you want me to do?" WHAT THE HECK! What did I learn from this: to 1. not have ring bearer or flower girl OR 2. tell the ring bearer and flower girl to sit down as soon as they are done with their "jobs". Hubby and I were too in the moment of looking into each other's eyes to notice and it totally skipped our minds to tell them to sit.
I found out that one of the groomsmen (husband's cousin) was responsible for the destruction of my paper lanterns. He demonstrated to the kids how to throw them into the fountain and then step on them. NICE!!
Oh, and the lanterns that weren't destroyed, people took home. :(
Oh well, I had a BLAST though. Even if my nose did start bleeding at the end of my walk down the aisle. haha!
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Okay ladies, so this is a thread about things that went down at your wedding, but you had no idea about them until someone told you after the fact.
My husband heard interesting pieces of news from his mom during their phone chat last night. Backstory about the candy bar at our wedding. We bought way too much candy. We knew we did, and we assumed we would have tons of leftovers (the price to pay to make it look pretty, right?). After cocktail hour, though, we walked into the reception room to find that the candy bar was already more than half gone. It was awesome! Come the end of the night, it was completely gone, with a stray lollipop here and there. Score! No leftover candy for us. People actually liked it, and it was a hit! Although, the sad part was, the people who actually followed instructions and waited until the end of the night to fill up their candy boxes on their way out barely got any. I felt bad, but hey, we bought so much candy.
So after this chat with MIL, my husband finds out that four or five of his cousins (varying in age from 21 to 25) hoarded up a lot of our candy during cocktail hour to bring home to family members who were invited, but couldn't make it, and friends of theirs who weren't even invited (people we don't know)! I was appalled. All I could think was, "Dear friends of ours missed out on the candy bar because these people couldn't contain themselves and loaded up their purses and bags with extra candy?" These were our favors, too, so some people walked out empty-handed.
I'm over it now because really, I could not have prevented this from happening, and I'm pretty sure no one was heart-broken that they missed out on M&Ms and mini peanut butter cups. But still, who does that?
Does anyone else have funny stories about things they found out after the wedding was all said and done?