Imagine yourself being with your special someone for months or years. Already established and stable in life. One day, you both decide to get married.
Wedding is one of the most special occasions a person experiences. Making sure everything’s well-planned, organized, and executed is very essential. However, some unlucky people experience the worst wedding day.
1. Same Energy
Shooting a very fancy wedding at the Boca Resort in Boca Raton. The groom was 3x divorced. Looks like George Hamilton, very wealthy, recently a great-grandfather.
When asked where he’d be going for the honeymoon, he said, “Eh, she travels plenty on my dollar. But maybe we’ll go somewhere later this year.”
Meanwhile, the bride was less than half his age, gorgeous. While alone outside the reception before entrances, when asked by a friend how it felt to be Mrs. ____, she said, “Oh, it’s fine. It’s whatever.” A notable quote from a guest I overhead: “This is disgusting.” I’m sure they’re fine.
codisinc
2. Bitter Guy
At one wedding I bartended about seven years ago, the best man was giving his toast and made a joke about the size of the groom's private part.
One of the male guests yelled out, "She's missing my extra 4 inches!" That led to a very awkward silence. Everyone’s jaw dropped.
Well, a couple of groomsmen had to hold the groom back. I later found out the guy who yelled out was an ex-boyfriend of the bride.
cut_that_meat
3. Wasted Groom
Audio guy here. The groom passed out not once but twice during the ceremony. Like standing there... gee, this guy isn’t looking well, BAM. Groom on the deck.
Smelling salts, we get him up. Get him some water and orange juice... get through the vows, and yep... here he goes again, not as bad.
How bout we just sit down on the steps and finish the ring ceremony? The whole time, his brother, the best man, has that look like, “I really should just scoop and run with him out of here....”
The poor bride has the worst look on her face, like, omg, what do I do? Six months later, it was over. I was not surprised about it.
marrieditguy
4. Impatient Girly
I photographed a wedding, and I was working with the groomsmen and groom. It was after the ceremony, and the bride went off to fix her makeup.
I was probably about 70 percent done with the men's photos when the bride started screaming and crying, asking why she wasn’t in any of them.
I explained that these were the guy's shots and that the bride and bridesmaid shots were up next. She did not like that answer. She demanded that she be in their shots, too.
These kinds of photos were the ones where the groomsmen were doing good things with the groom. She then proceeds to take my camera and grow it on the ground.
Shattering the lens. She then cries harder, and the groom just walks away. I was so petrified. RIP Canon 6D, you will always be missed.
RainbowBee108
5. Distant Couple
I’m a wedding video editor. As I’m going through the footage for this one job years ago, it got weirder and weirder. The cameraman asked the groomsmen to say something about the couple while they were getting ready.
They each seemed uncomfortable with awkward smiles. They took turns wishing him luck and providing some cliche advice.
Then he asked the groom how he felt. The groom’s response was also strange. The cameraman asked, “Are you excited!? How do you feel?” He smiled awkwardly and said, “Good.”
His body language said he didn’t want to be there at all. The groomsmen patted him on the shoulder in support, but it had more of an “I’m so sorry, bud” vibe.
During the ceremony, their kiss was a brief peck. It was a long time ago, so it’s hard to remember, but it may have even been on the cheek.
They had their reception in a very fancy, well-known, expensive hall. The room was two stories and huge with marble columns. It could have easily fit 300+ people, but there were less than 100 guests, which made it look strangely empty.
There was no fun party vibe for the majority of the reception. The mood was more like an eighth-grade dance. The dancing was the most awkward part. During the first dance, they kept as far apart as possible while holding each other’s shoulders. Both looked like they were forced to be near each other.
Later, the groom danced with his friends, and the bride danced with hers. In one part, the bride and her friends made what I can only describe as a grinding line. She had no problems being close to and grinding up on her friends.
Then, someone physically grabbed the groom and pulled him over to the bride. This guest pushed the two of them together, and they repelled each other like magnets. They were so uncomfortable near each other. They didn’t know how to interact. It was so bizarre!
Impartial_Hamster
6. Prodigal Husband
I was a DJ at a wedding maybe ten years back. Pretty normal wedding standard reception. They were kinda kooky, but I thought it was all in good fun.
I got the gig through the bride's younger sister, who was a friend of mine. I ran into her later and asked her how her sister and new husband were doing.
"Not great," she said. It turns out that the day after the wedding, the groom took all the checks and cash they had been gifted and went on a shopping spree.
He spent like five grand in five hours. Blew all their money. I don't remember exactly what he got, but the most ludicrous thing that sticks with me was two iPod touches. One is for music, and one is for audiobooks.
It was all for stuff for him. I think he got her a backpack at REI. She was not into the outdoors. They were both in their mid-thirties, with established careers.
His reasoning was that this was "extra" money, and now that they are going to be putting their incomes together, they can spend more.
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7. Bad Weather
I'm a wedding singer- one stood out when the wedding was on an unseasonably hot day in our city at a venue with no A/C. The time came to dance, and none of the almost 100 guests wanted to be inside on the dance floor.
The bride gets up to dance after dinner as we kick off, and she is literally the ONLY ONE on the dance floor -- one of her bridesmaids joined her after two minutes (an eternity) because she felt bad and didn't want the bride to be alone.
We heard through the planner that the bride didn't even want a big wedding. She said yes to her husband's desire for a bash, but the only thing she really wanted to have was a band.
So she's out here dancing with maybe three or four people at this point. The husband could not be bothered to join her. I keep seeing him walk by, chatting with various people.
At one point, he had a drill in his hand to fix something. Basically, anything but dancing with this poor woman and joining in is the literal only thing that she finds pleasurable about this event.
He finally chats with someone near the dance floor, and she goes over to get his attention. I see her ask him to dance, and he completely blows her off, doesn't even stop his sentence, just kind of shoves her hand away.
It was so sad. She was so crestfallen that she stopped dancing and went outside. We played in an empty room for another hour and a half.
HeyYoEowyn
8. The Bridezilla
Bride pouted through all of her photos because I couldn’t magically make 2 hours of photography happen in the 35 minutes we had.
She legit wanted 4 locations, all family formals, and wedding party shots done in just over a half hour. How would that be possible?
From all that I saw at the wedding, it seems like she doesn’t get told “no” a lot. She was a nightmare to work with, and the venue’s coordinator literally did a happy dance once it was over.
BellaFace
9. Negative Energy
I play in a wedding/event band, and we played at our friend's wedding. I remember watching the ceremony from afar, and the whole thing was weirdly sad.
Their ceremony featured friends and family giving speeches, and all of the speeches (a truly comical amount) and the vows were all about how hard marriage is. Nothing positive at all. It was hilarious to me.
Later that evening, I found out the groom confided in one of our bandmates that the part he was looking forward to the most in the day was hearing us play the reception. Truly ridiculous, haha.
bassocontinubow
10. Hidden Identity
Made the mistake of planning my little sister's wedding in 2018. She didn't let anyone get to know the groom before her wedding.
She was specifically keeping the groom's age a secret, but of course, the information came out a few days before the ceremony.
He was the one to convince her that secrecy was necessary. She was 24 he was 49. They had nothing in common, and it was clear she was just the trophy wife.
Within a year, big secrets came to light. A secret house, bank accounts, a second home in another country, and a secret phone were all discovered. They didn't last long for obvious reasons. I feel bad for my parents, who paid for everything.
KoalasAndPenguins
11. Cake Disaster
I was the bride: When the wedding planner dropped the top two tiers of my cake and didn't say anything to me, then had the catering department fix it by putting flowers all over the first tier to hide what happened.
My Sister-In-Law thought I knew because after they dropped it, one of them came upstairs where I was getting ready, and when they went back down, she said, "It's ok, and we have to try to fix it."
No one ever came to me. The only reason I knew is that she told me they did a nice job of fixing it after the wedding, even though she didn't think it could be fixed.
I knew there was something different with the cake, but it looked nice, so I was ok with that. After hearing it, I was heated, but all in all, I couldn't even tell. Nice one, Planner.
[deleted]
12. Iced Flowers
When my wife and I got married, we chose a deep winter date. We had a friend make up all the button holes and bouquets and pick them up the day before the wedding as we were getting married in another town.
My wife's bouquet was quite large and was in a bucket of water to keep it fresh. We stayed (in separate rooms, obviously) in a small hotel in the town, and I left the flowers in the car to ensure they stayed as fresh as possible.
Unbeknownst to me at the time, that night was going to be the coldest of the year and plummet to about -12 degrees Celsius.
The following morning, my wife got up early for her party and went to the venue to get ready. I got up, got ready, and headed out to the car to drop the necessary flowers off with my father-in-law at the wedding venue before heading to the church.
Got to the car, and the bucket with her bouquet had frozen solid! I headed up to the venue and got her dad out. Like a champ, he took over and got the wedding planner to find every hair dryer in the place to melt the ice so the bouquet could be used.
I left him to it, and when my wife turned up at the church, she looked amazing and was carrying an ice-free bouquet. She had no idea there were any problems at all!
criminalsunrise
13. The Emergency
At my step-sister's wedding, her grandfather had a mild stroke right in the middle of the vows. He's pretty loud and a touch belligerent anyway, but it became much more obvious something wasn't right as we were having the formal photos done.
With barely a word, the wedding planner booked a taxi for my parents to take him to the hospital nearby to have him checked over quickly, promising to keep an eye on us kids.
It came to light that it was a little more serious than they'd thought and that they wanted him to be admitted to the hospital near where we lived (a four-hour drive away).
Queue him phoning about ten car rental places (the Saturday before Christmas, no less) to have a car delivered to them at the hospital so they could leave immediately while speaking to the hotel to have their bags packed up.
He then delivered them to us and waited for us to finish dinner and toast the happy couple before driving us to the train station himself and booking us train tickets back home, even slipping us a tenner from his own pocket for the taxi to our house at the other end.
The whole time, he was keeping up to date with my parents so he could update my step-sister from worrying too much. That could be too much for her.
I can only imagine how out of her mind and worried she would have been without him telling her he was okay. Gramps ended up being just fine and even jokes that it was the only way of getting out of giving a speech.
SevasaurusRex
14. Gone Reception
When my parents got married, my dad had to call her while she was having her hair done to break the news to her that the demolitions in the building beside the reception venue had gone horribly wrong.
They sent some debris towards the venue and right through a wall. My mother burst into tears on the spot. It was so frustrating for her.
The wedding was saved by my grandparents' next-door neighbors, who went "screw it, party at our place" and ordered a crapton of pizza for everyone.
Echospite
15. Rough Patch
My wedding was a little rough from the start. We were on a shoestring budget (14k from start to finish, including all incidentals in an area where 30k is considered a cheap wedding), and things were not always going well.
The photographer didn't commit until a week before the wedding, and on the day of the wedding, the bus carrying my husband, stepdaughter, groomsmen, and bridesmaids crashed INTO the venue.
No one was hurt, and my MOH is a paramedic. More than 1/2 of my guests are nurses, first responders, and paramedics. We were covered.
Just before I'm set to walk down the aisle, my dad says to me, "Just so you know, your grandma was feeling a little sick, so she had to stay home today." She was 94.
Made total sense to me. One of my cousins was missing from the wedding, but they said she took my grandma to the doctor. (Grandma can't drive, so that makes sense.)
It wasn't until two days later, when I was in NYC with our out-of-state/out-of-country guests, that I saw a post from my cousin with a picture of the view from Grandma's hospital room.
She'd had a major heart attack the night before my wedding, had surgery the day of or after (can't remember which), and all I was told was, "She was feeling a little sick" because no one wanted me sad on my wedding day.
Aunts, Uncles, and cousins were all there to celebrate with me; they all knew (you're talking almost 40+ people), and they ALL kept it a secret.
kitsukitty
16. Guest Drama
One of the bride's guests flipped out in one of those "so when are we getting married?" arguments with her boyfriend at the venue.
She left the wedding, went to his parent's home where their daughter was staying, and took her daughter out of her grandmother's lap while expounding upon their (her child's grandparents) flaws the entire time before driving away, presumably in the direction of home on the other side of the state.
Eventually, we were able to convince her to stay at a hotel and bring the daughter back to her grandparents the next day. The bride was quite close with this madwoman's boyfriend and would have been distraught by these events.
I wish I could say the couple separated after this, but as I worked their wedding too, I just chuck it up to the (evidently) masochistic husband.
Blocktimus_Prime
17. Last Minute
A friend gets married, and the maid of honor forgets to order the bouquet, which is made of silk flowers and a unique piece.
That takes about 2 or 3 weeks to be handcrafted, so on the day of the wedding, the maid is searching desperately for the aforementioned piece.
Almost mission impossible... She finds it. It turned out it was from a canceled wedding that would happen that very day.
Moonwarden666
18. Missing Girls
My wedding was phenomenal. Beautiful, elegant, and relatively inexpensive! My maid of honor was one of my best friends who flew over to the US from the UK for our second meeting ever. (We'd been online friends for about ten years prior)
At one point, about halfway through the reception, I noticed my younger sister was missing. And then, moments later, I noticed one of my friends, a girl she'd had her eye on, was also missing.
At that point, I'd already mentioned to my mom that my sister was missing, and I casually said, "Oh, (friend) is missing too, huh." After realizing the implications, I added, "Maybe they're in the bathroom!"
But my mom began hunting them down. My husband and I sat back at our sweetheart's table and laughed it off, and that was that.
Apparently, my maid of honor found my sister and my friend, uh, getting better acquainted in the bridal suite. This was her second or third time meeting either of them.
However, she yelled at them both to get back down to the wedding, as it was my day, and they could screw around on their own time.
They came back down looking like they'd just been spoken to by the principal, and I knew something had happened, but it wasn't until two years after the wedding that I found out what. She was a spectacular maid of honor and took her job very seriously.
w0nd3rk
19. The Separation
Over an hour into the meeting, the groom-to-be still hasn't shown up. The bride called him up all pissed and yelled, "If this is your attitude to our wedding planning, maybe we shouldn't get married!"
The groom yelled, "You're right! Cancel the wedding!" It wasn't a joke. They actually broke up. Only a bunch of deposits have been paid, and it was split almost 50/50 by both families.
Apparently, they can't agree on who needs to pay whom back, and neither wants to back down, so both families decided they'll both have a party instead of a wedding.
The wedding planner ended up planning two separate "Christmas parties" for two feuding families in the same ballroom. People showed up out of morbid curiosity, and apparently, it was awkward as heck.
eraser_dust
20. No One To Bless
A few years ago, my sister got married. The wedding was in a small town up north, and the church was old and small but beautiful. Of course, she asked my brother and me to usher the wedding.
The wedding day comes, everything is great, and everyone is seated in the church. We close the outside doors to prepare for my sister to walk in.
The wedding planners are standing outside with us doing a final check. Everything appears to be okay. Except no one knows where the priest is.
He is nowhere in any part of this small church. My sister came out and called the priest, who, as it turned out, thought the wedding was actually an hour later than it really was.
So he started speeding toward the church. In the meantime, the harpist kept playing, and everyone inside was getting a bit antsy.
Then we realized that while we were figuring this whole thing out, no one bothered to clue in my soon-to-be brother-in-law, who was just standing alone at the altar. After this event, the planners added "Check that the priest is there" to the list.
[deleted]
21. Planner Anger
At my cousin’s wedding, everyone was there and had a role. I’m a scripture reader, and my little sister and cousin are in charge of handing out the programs.
Cool, right? Until the wedding planner ran up to the girls minutes before the guests arrived and ripped the programs out of their hands, chastising them for not standing outside to greet the guests.
It was 98 degrees outside, a mild spring day for Texas. The bride had to come away from photos to tell her own wedding planner to back off and leave the church for making the girls cry.
We later found out that the planner was only there at the mother of the bride's insistence, and the bride just planned everything herself while her mom and the planner would get drunk at brunch “planning” the wedding. The girls were fine, and the wedding went off without a hitch.
socksandpoptarts
22. Messed Up Day
I felt so sorry for the wedding coordinator for my niece's wedding. It's always a bit of a trash show with that part of the family, but they went all out for the wedding.
The mother of the bride was noticeably drunk (like leaning over to one side drunk) and noisy during the ceremony. The stepmother of the bride was in a snit.
The father of the bride was his typical spineless self. The bride, groom, and wedding party were all drinking natural light beer before, during, and after the ceremony, and most of them were a lovely shade of orange from the fake tans.
The officiant showed up in a t-shirt and sweatpants. There wasn't enough food for the guests, not even enough for everyone to get a bite of something.
Arguments broke out all over between all members of the bride's family. If there had actually been dinner, it would have been a great "dinner and a show" thing.
kc-fan
23. Monetary Issues
I'm a "day of event" coordinator (so I'm not part of the arrangements. Only handle the details to make sure everything goes smoothly. This was one of the rare times it didn't.
Once the ceremony started, I headed over to the reception hall to oversee the setup, only to find out that the couple had paid the deposit but never paid the balance of half of the total cost (IIR about $30k).
The catering hall was refusing to hold the reception until they got their money in cash (no personal checks allowed). It was a Sunday before a bank holiday, and while most commercial banks would have been fine, their local bank was not open until that Tuesday.
Slightly panicking, I called the main coordinator, who was still at the church with the couple, to try to figure this out. The older brother tried to help by trying to get money from relatives, but they were obviously short of the sum needed.
We were at the point where guests were starting to arrive. After going back and forth, the catering manager said they would hold the cocktail hour since the deposit covered that.
When the couple arrived, the groom, the brother, and my lead coordinator met with the manager, and they basically offered their money box.
It was along with whatever payment they were able to round up to hold as ransom until they made the payment. The reception went on as planned, and once everything was set, I broke my work rule and had a strong drink.
ec1722
24. Poor Couple
Not a coordinator, but a tale about a coordinator. The bride and groom decided to get married in an old boutique hotel/theater. The building is a three-story affair: a ballroom on the first floor, "rooms" on the second, and a theater on the third.
The coordinator had failed so hard on the wedding from the very beginning. As guests arrived for the event, no one had a clue of where to go. There were no signs leading the way to the theater.
So the guests gathered on the second floor instead; the problem with this was that it was where the wedding party was getting ready. The bride and groom were constantly barged in on by every single guest trying to find a seat.
The wedding was set for 3:00 pm. The coordinator had the audacity to hold the wedding party back until 3:45 to account for stragglers and to be "fashionably late." Being in an old 1800s building, let's just say the lighting isn't the greatest.
I think a candle would have put out more shadows than the lights in the room. This was compounded by the fact that the only windows in this theater were on the south-facing side of the building, which was where the audience was facing.
You literally could not see the wedding party. Because the coordinator delayed the ceremony for so long, the daily 4 pm train came whistling through as the couple were saying their views.
Blitziel
25. Got Ditched
I am not a wedding planner, but a member of a string quartet booked to play at the wedding & reception afterward. The person who was going to officiate was a rabbi who was also a professor of the bride and groom.
He never showed up for the wedding. So our quartet was asked to keep playing while the couple desperately tried to find a last-minute justice of the peace to perform the ceremony.
We played for hours and were invited to eat the food offered to the guests. In the end, the couple found someone to perform the ceremony. I cannot imagine what it must have been like for them to see their professor the next day.
gardano
26. Black Out
Obligatory, not a planner. My dad and my stepmom got married on a vineyard/golf course, and since it was neither of their first rodeos, they decided to plan much of the wedding themselves.
Blistering hot day in July. Literally just sweating for ages and trying to get the wedding shots out of the way as quickly as possible because the entire wedding party was just DYING of heat.
Everything goes great up until huge black clouds start rolling in over the golf course just as we're finishing up speeches after dinner.
A huge thunderstorm knocked power out to the entire venue for HOURS. This means no power to flush the toilets, no power to run the bar, and the DJ my parents paid for was rendered almost useless.
Although my parents paid him a bit extra to bring instruments since a lot of our extended family was musically talented.
The only lights we had were candles in the centerpieces of each table, which caused the room to heat up even more. Still was an awesome night.
The only reason we left so early was because the toilets started to overflow. However, the power going out during your wedding reception is probably not an ideal circumstance for anyone.
AlexaGxo
27. Family Concerns
I'm not a wedding planner, but this was cringeworthy and embarrassing as heck for me. Legitimately, I just got married yesterday, and the only hitch was that my now father-in-law and my mother-in-law still don't get along after being divorced for years.
Not even the happiest day of our lives so far brought them together. The actual ceremony lasted about 20 minutes. Her father was there for about an hour and a half, then left around 4:30 pm. The wedding didn't get over until 9.
He didn't tell her or me that he was leaving. Apparently, his feet hurt, and he didn't like barbecue. Lost a bit of respect due to him not even watching our first dance, staying for the toast, or changing into his normal shoes that he brought that were comfortable.
He told me beforehand in the changing area, "I don't know why she brought her here," referring to her mother. Like, dude, who the fudge cares? Deal with it.
She lives across the states; the past is the past, and it's for one day. She still hasn't talked to him yet, and I can't really blame her.
MrTeeBee
28. Horrible Moment
I remember one wedding I bartended when I worked at a hotel. The groom got so pissed he messed up his speech and left his food.
He had to be carried to his room to sleep it off barely an hour past being officially married. The bride was seriously messed up and pissed off.
The bride had to have her first dance with her dad because the groom had passed out and missed his own wedding party. What a nice day!
[deleted]
29. Fast Events
I was the wedding photographer. They were an older couple, maybe in their 50s. The bride had never married, and the groom was divorced with three adult children.
Bride’s grandma was talking with me while I was getting detailed shots of the chapel and the reception area, “(Bride’s mom) went all out on this wedding, you know we never thought (bride) would marry,” rolling her eyes.
The groom was drunk the whole day, and the bride never cracked a smile. After the ceremony, the bride also got drunk, and then they proceeded to make out the entire reception. I’m talking full-on tongues everywhere.
As I’m editing photos, Groom’s daughter messages me asking if I can send the gallery and the USB to her instead of the Groom. I said yes, of course, since he had also signed the contract.
She then tells me that the Bride and Groom are no longer together because the Bride was having an affair with an inmate at the prison where she worked.
I’m not sure of the extent of the affair, but I believe she snuck him a phone, they planned on getting together once he was released, etc. Mind you, this was less than three months after the wedding.
jsr010292
30. Called Off
Officiant here, Sat with a couple to talk about their ceremony. They asked for the barest of bare-bones, 5 min or less package. Well, ok, I guess.
Show up, knowing the ceremony was casual and poolside in their backyard. Didn’t realize it was in swimsuits. Ok, cool, sure. Hottest day in Phoenix ever, so we all appreciated the shortest ceremony ever.
Get a call Monday from a family member that the bride and groom broke up. He had been cheating. Right as I dropped the license in the mail.
goodsnusnu
31. Forced Day
'Bride' and 'groom' were quite young and dated happily for several months. The bride was in a hurry to settle down - I think to fit in with our friendship group who had or were doing the same - and pushed for engagement.
The groom was reasonably happy to oblige but not ready to take the next step and wanted a long engagement. The bride began pushing to set wedding dates almost immediately.
The groom's mother and father were unwell. Getting closer to the wedding date, the groom made it known that he loved the bride but wasn't ready to settle down yet.
The bride wasn't having any of it and complained to her own immediate family about this, who started berating the groom's parents about how "he's a dog," mistreating their daughter, etc. The groom agrees to go ahead with the wedding if Bride's family leaves his parents alone.
The wife wasn't quite satisfied with this and called the celebrant "to talk some sense into him." The celebrant refused to perform a wedding where one party wasn't on board.
The bride insisted the event go ahead and that they pretend it was real - but with a bunch of guests who had been married or attended weddings recently, we immediately noticed the celebrant didn't say the words legally required for marriage in Australia, and no paperwork was signed.
The groom's parents refused to attend the reception, leaving table 1 half empty and not paying for the bar service. Guests took back their gifts.
The bride and groom avoided each other the entire time except for a super awkward first dance. The whole thing was super surreal and awkward.
They split up a couple of months later. This was maybe 5-6 years ago now, and the groom is now in a happy long-term relationship. No idea about the bride, who did some other dodgy stuff before leaving our lives - hopefully, she's grown up a bit.
jbadams
32. War Of Families
A dear friend of mine got married. Love him to death. Both families got into a fistfight at the wedding before the reception and alcohol. I was just some small Asian kid standing to the side and having no idea what the heck was going on.
The bride ran into whatever the bride suited. And the groom is in the mess, yanking family members apart. So much yelling and just absolute carnage. Tux and suits are torn.
Blood everywhere. I busted out my first aid kid and just started bandaging people. To this day, I don’t know how or why these two people got married.
I didn’t think that train wreck was going to end, and I figured this marriage wouldn’t last. Eight years later, those two are still married.
It probably didn’t help that the groom's side was deep southern rednecks, and the bride was a mix of Italians and Brazilians. That poor bastard.
elan_alan
33. Entitled Bride
I did a year and a bit as a photographer/videographer. The worst one was when, while I was setting up the lights in the reception hall, I got to witness the bridezilla lose her mind at the poor florist setting up the table centerpieces.
Apparently, the petals were a shade off from the napkin colors. The poor florist finished setting up in tears and ran out; I later heard the bride refused to pay her.
When I met the groom, he seemed very put-upon and exhausted; I felt bad for him. No clue what happened there, but I'm guessing they lasted six months tops.
Iximaz
34. Arranged Marriage
I did a wedding for a couple, and it was pretty much an arranged marriage. The groom was clearly gay, and the bride talked CONSTANTLY about how she was marrying into money, and even if they divorced next week, she was set.
The groom's vows were tragic, and he looked like he was reading a cancer diagnosis. Their kiss is forever in my mind as the most uncomfortable thing ever.
It wasn't super unconvincing, but you saw SO many people give each other weird looks or make jokes to the point where the videographer had trouble editing the ceremony to be convincing.
The reception was basically the groom's side and the bride's side, with barely any interaction. They skipped the first dance, and the cake-cutting was just the bride and her bridesmaid for some bizarre reason.
At some point early in the evening, half of the groom's wedding party disappeared, and the groom never returned. The bride got so drunk she peed in her gown. The bride's father loudly called the groom a horrible word I won't mention.
It was super fun, let me tell you. They didn't last the year, and the bride hired me to do an event later in the year showcasing her new apparel line. Apparently, she got what she was after.
wesbug
35. No Interaction
This was my cousin’s wedding. At her wedding, she barely interacted with her groom at all, but not because of his lack of trying.
Instead, she danced with all of her male friends and everyone else and hardly paid him any attention.m It was so incredibly awkward. We also traveled a bit to be there, and I don’t recall her even saying hi.
I didn’t know him very well, but I do know from her parents that he took penalties out of his 401k to help pay for the wedding of her dreams.
They got it annulled or were divorced within months, if not weeks, I’d say. I honestly never saw photos of them together again after that night (not that they were really together that night).
lewdicrousss07
36. Groom On Duty
My dad was a lawyer and was a friend of the bride and groom. I remember that they were both a bit crazy but seemed good for each other.
The wedding was pretty much a crap show, so our family left shortly after the food at the reception and went back to our house.
I distinctly remember waking up at 3 am that night with my dad talking on the phone with the police... he explained to the officer that, yes, they had just got married, and he would be down to the station to collect them.
I guess they started a fight at a bar... as a wedding present. The police let them go on a ROR. The marriage lasted < 6 months.
Goldenyellowfish
37. The Bridesmaids
My dad took some pics of a wedding he was invited to save money for the bride and groom (professional camera) back in the 90s.
He just said that the groom was excited around the bride up until after the ceremony and then turned his attention to the bridesmaids, his groomsmen, and the drink at the reception.
In fact, only one photo was taken of the bride and groom side by side. They looked happy together, but he said he could just tell that the groom only liked the idea of being married, and it didn't matter to whom. They lasted two years.
xull_the-rich
38. Animals As A Sign
Ok, it’s quite a long story, but here’s the gist. It’s a forest wedding between two women. On the way to the ceremony (for which the guests stood in a large circle), one of the brides had a personal concern, so they decided to put it back by an hour.
The guests went back to the bar. After an hour of them having a time out, they decided to put it back another half hour. Gosh.
Once the ceremony finally began, the person hosting the ceremony said, “bride and groom.” They planned to launch butterflies mid-ceremony.
All but one were dead (nobody dared to check the box in case they all flew off). At the end of the ceremony, the “You may kiss the bride” moment... a rumble of thunder.
InsideSugar3257
39. Not Funny, Man
I saw a couple getting their pictures taken as I was on a run at a park near my home. There’s a huge ornate 1920s fountain in the center of the park that’s bigger than most swimming pools.
The groom jumps into the fountain and then proceeds to run after the bride (in her dress and heels). He finally grabs and hugs her, drenching her dress.
The cherry on top was when he grabbed her, flung her over his shoulder, and body-slammed her into the fountain. I thought, YIKES!
chuckguiy
40. Cake Topper
One time, Mom was mid-cake-setup when the mother of the bride (MOB) handed her a 5 lb. Precious Moments wedding car, and told her it was their cake topper. Besides being heavy, it was also larger than the top tier of the cake.
My mom flat-out told her, “No way. That thing is way too heavy. It will crush the top of the cake.” MOB didn’t want to take “No” for an answer and kept insisting that the wedding would be ruined if they didn’t have this cake topper.
Mom refused and explained several more times that the cake could not support the car. She placed the car next to the cake and got a pretty spray of flowers from the florist to put on top instead.
An hour later, she got a frantic call from the reception hall because the cake fell “all by itself.” It turns out MOB waited until Mom left, placed the car topper on top of the cake, and left for the ceremony. The reception manager found the cake all over the floor shortly after.
A similar scenario occurred with a motorcycle-themed Precious Moments figurine several months later. Mom banned all Precious Moments after that.
SmthgWicked
41. The Coordinator
Well, my day-of coordinator couldn't remember my mother-in-law was not my mother, failed to show up at rehearsal, and was late to the wedding ceremony.
That person really screwed up literally everything at the reception and tried to steal my decorations after sneering at them prior to the wedding the day after during clean-up.
She charged more than our photographer, and my mother-in-law insisted on having her. Even she admitted afterward it was a mistake.
Lilivati_fish
42. Not In My Wedding
I'm not a wedding planner, but my horror story is about our wedding planner. When we went to get married at our church, the church provided a wedding planner. She was retired and had pushed to be the church's on-site wedding planner, so she had something to do.
She was a complete pain in the back. She tried to tell us that our florist friend couldn't do the flowers and that we had to use the florist she wanted us to use. We went to the church, and they told her to back off.
It was the same deal with every little detail. Everything we had already planned. We already had 90% of the wedding planned and on a strict budget. Lots of our friends had volunteered their services as their gift.
This wasn't us asking Uncle Bob to take some photos with his newfangled camera and Aunt Margie to pick some flowers from her garden to decorate the church. These people did this stuff professionally.
Yet every time we told her we already had that taken care of, she tried insisting that we do something more expensive that suited her personal taste.
Then, when it was clear that we weren't going to play her silly games, she stopped returning our calls and even answered her door when we knew she was inside. Another friend who was an actual wedding planner helped us sort out a few logistic details with the ceremony.
For a few weeks before the big day, we got nothing but radio silence from her, which was fine by us. Then, she shows up at the rehearsal and starts trying to run the show according to her plan. No, no, no, fudge, no.
We had a little chat outside with her, letting her know that in no way was she a part of our wedding, that her plan, whatever it might be, was NOT our plan, and that as far as we were concerned, she could back right off.
She tried the same kind of crap the next day when my fiance was getting dressed, but the bridesmaids intervened and shut her down.
We had been communicating with the church secretary and the minister all along, so they knew what was up. Evidently, we weren't the only couple who had problems with her, so the church "fired" her.
DLS3141
43. The Peacemaker
Not a planner, but I felt like I was merely invited to play peacekeeper. My sister has always favored her dad as he spoilt her rotten, running off to another city as soon as she was able to wring everything she could from her mother.
I've had pretty much zero contact with her for years. Mother would hear from her one in a blue moon, so imagine my surprise when I and my partner are invited to her wedding.
Long story short, I was basically there to wrangle our mother because her dad's family took up the first three rows, her friends the next two, and then there were us in a crowd of strangers.
Then, at dinner, we're at a table with a handful of her friends from our city, which is tucked away in a corner while about half of the head table is her dad's family. Dinner sucks, deserts are barely a mouthful, music was terrible meme stuff.
My sister came and saw us for about ten mins tops. She was incredibly dismissive when she asked what my job was, and I replied I was the site manager for a cleaning company & also worked as the team leader in a cinema.
She kept her now husband far from us (I later went over to meet him, a decent fella but has an air of being so whipped he might as well have been meringue).
By this point, Mother was quietly fuming and decided it was time to go, which caused my sister to pout and start being passive-aggressive when word reached her, as we were gonna leave before their first dance.
But I managed to smooth things over, gave them their gifts, exchanged contact info, and invited the new fella to play some games online sometime before we left. Took three days for my mother to unwind enough to discuss the day. Any attempt before that would get an icy stare and completely kill any interest my partner had in a proper wedding.
Toxicshop
44. Rollercoaster Day
The bride and Groom were both very young, and the groom's father was the owner of a local (run down) strip joint. Had their reception in an old recording studio space. They wore their working uniforms...
The bride's baby's father showed up to drop off the baby the morning after confessing his love to her and begged her not to go through with the wedding.
They had a screaming match with each other before he was asked to leave. The mom's friend had said she would do the flowers as a gift, but she wouldn't answer anyone's calls on the day of the wedding.
Finally got a hold of her, and she said she was told the wrong dates by the MOB and didn't have anything ready. We called a florist we worked with regularly and got 12 bouquets, 12 boutonnieres, and three flower crowns made within the hour (we made sure they paid the florist before anything happened).
The friend florist showed up with some sloppily made things, and we had to kick her out of the venue because the MOB and Bride were so pissed and didn't want her anywhere near them.
Many more things happened that night, but ma,s that one was for the books. Also, we were all paid in cash...I can only imagine where it had been.
SansaFarrell
45. The Bendy Straws
Groom here, and my wife definitely knows, but our friend who was supposed to do the legal side (sign our marriage certificate; we had a separate pastor for the ceremony) RSVP'd for him and a girlfriend but then stopped responding to messages as the wedding got close and didn't show.
Luckily, my groomsman happened to also be ordained and happily signed our marriage certificate! Also, the cake people decided the best way to hold together our 3 tier cake was by using bendy straws instead of dowel rods as supports in the cake.
BENDY STRAWS. This wasn't even a small podunk operation. It was a local chain company that many people have used and recommended.
The cake slid off, and they had already left the venue, so our wonderful catering company and venue staff did their best to put it back together and used extra roses to hide the damage.
After the wedding, my wife called the cake company to complain, and the manager was snarky, saying that using bendy straws was normal and part of their policy.
He said the best he could do was offer $50 and a free anniversary cake, which may have been fine but, due to his attitude, was not. Finally, he huffily snarked out, "Ma'am, what do you want me to do?" to my wife over the phone.
So, since his attitude didn't change, we put in a request to talk to the owner. The next day, the owner calls, and LO AND BEHOLD is very gracious, stating that, in fact, no, it isn't their policy to use bendy straws.
He offered a full refund as well as reassured us that the issue would be dealt with by that huffy franchise manager. I still can't get over that. Bendy straws. It's in the name that they bend!
MrSunshoes