People Share The Worst Things They've Seen In A Wedding

Step into the world of wedding woes, where the unexpected takes center stage and ceremonies turn into tales of unforgettable moments. Join us as we unveil a collection of stories, shared by those who witnessed the wildest, weirdest, and worst moments in the world of 'I do's'. From unexpected guests to wardrobe malfunctions, get ready for a rollercoaster ride through the most memorable matrimonial mishaps!

1. When the Best Man Accidentally Spills the Beans

It all began when the best man started off his speech with, "I've seen \*the groom\* with a lot of girls over the years...".  

You know the cliché speech where it goes on to say but you're the best for him, etc., etc. 

Turns out the bride and groom were dating long before the best man even became a friend.  Essentially outed him as a degenerate cheater.   She was super pissed.

Wallace2727

It started super late, it was super hot out, and the future father-in-law was wasted and left before it started. 

He then showed back up in a red bathrobe and his gun. Cops got called. It was a whole thing.

Oh, and then after the reception we were all trying to convince one of our friends not to drive. He insisted he was fine... Drove his truck into the river.

MLaw2008

I went to a friend of mine's Aunt's wedding. It was a second marriage for both of them so they wanted something “relaxed” 

They threw it on one of the family members' property and had all the guests do grueling manual labor to get the property ready for the wedding. We were landscaping in the Texas summer. 

I was climbing trees to hang lights, we laid sod, we laid down stone for a walkway, and my friend's mom cooked food for days and made all of the floral arrangements. 

We were setting up tables and chairs, you name it. We worked from 6 a.m.. until almost midnight for 3 days. 

Finally, the wedding happens and it’s beautiful. I was proud of what we had done. It looked professional. 

We go to cut the cake and the couple is nowhere to be found. They just left without telling anyone and went back to their hotel. I was offended by that because we had worked so hard for them and they didn’t even stay for the entire wedding. 

We never got a thank you or any appreciation for it. Other people were upset too and took their gifts back before leaving.

littlemybb

I was at a wedding in rural Wisconsin and both the bride and groom were members of the local all-volunteer fire department. Almost everyone at the wedding proceeded to get quite drunk, except the bride, who doesn't drink.

At some point, there was an emergency call to the fire department (not a fire, but a medical call). 

The wedding was not far from the fire station, so the bride rushed over and, along with one other volunteer who was on call, drove an ambulance to an emergency call. 

In her wedding dress.

GingerStu

I was supposed to be the best man at a friend's wedding.  At 7:30 AM, the morning of the wedding the groom called and said the wedding was off.  It wasn't going to happen.  

I never talked to or saw the guy again.  He signed up for the army and within a few days he was just gone.

fredzout

We got to the church and took our seats. The vibe was off, but didn’t think much of it. Then the start time passed and nothing happened. I didn’t think much of it. Finally, I said something to a friend next to us, something like, “Gee this is late?”

“Yeah it’s terrible isn’t it?”

“Huh? What?”

“Oh, you didn’t hear …”

The entire wedding party got food poisoning from the rehearsal dinner the night before. One bridesmaid, then another, then siblings, parents, bride and groom, everybody. They had a small ceremony at the bride’s parent's house. 

No church ceremony but a short talk from the pastor (in part to kill time before the reception). They made a short appearance at the reception, but that was it. Just wholly unfair.

yallcaps

A guy I used to work with was the groom. 

The wedding was at a very expensive venue overlooking Sydney Harbour, and a lot of time and money was spent on it, with over 100 guests.

The groom got blind drunk, and decided he would give his own speech during the speeches.

He proceeded to talk about how horrible the bride's parents were, and how hot her sister was.

It was like watching a slow-motion train wreck, and everyone was shocked. The room graduated from forced chuckles at the start of his speech to stunned silence by the end. 

He went on for five minutes before the bride's dad grabbed the microphone.

Kind_Ordinary_8959

The bride was dancing during the reception, fell and broke her left arm. Lots of pictures from the e ER- the photographer went with them! When the Dr. heard he’d be setting a bride’s arm, he put on a suit! 

They worked hard to get the swelling down so she wouldn’t have to have a brand-new wedding ring cut off. Crazy.

I was at a wedding party, I was 10, this was a long time ago! The bride was my aunt. 

The fall happened after dinner. Before they left for the hospital the cake was quickly brought out for the bride and groom to cut. 

Everyone went on partying after they left. I haven't seen the pics since she got them back from the photographer. I remember pics of her and the Dr. in the suit, my uncles in their tuxes doing wheelies in wheelchairs, and red-rimmed eyes while cutting the cake.

Principessa116

My wedding. My Mother-in-law was an alcoholic and we asked her not to drink. My Father-in-law's ex-husband was with his new wife. Long story short, when we were wrapping up reception she was so drunk she tried to hit him with a bottle of champagne and missed and swung around and knocked herself out.

We were asked to leave immediately and had to do something with her. We were so mad that we decided to drop her off at the police station and they took her to detox for the night..  😁

This is the tamest story I have about my Mother-in-law. that.

PanchoVYa

10. From Frosty Weather to Food Poisoning

To begin with this, the weather was below zero F temps so a lot of guests did not attend at the last minute. 

The Maid of Honor and Best Man, who had just met the day before, disappeared for a bit and the bride searched and found that they had used the groom's van as a place to have a problem. Maid of Honor had just given birth to a baby a few weeks before and she was hemorrhaging.

Bride left with the Maid of Honor to go to the ER. In the meantime, a huge percentage of the guests started getting violently ill.

As it turned out, the beef was tainted. The health department shut down the caterer some days later, and all guests had to be contacted to see who ate the beef.

It was factual info. I was there. I lived this. Thank God I ate the chicken. The couple divorced 18 months later.

Grilled_Cheese10

My wedding.  Evening was wrapping up and I hadn't seen my new-husband in a while.  He had taken off to local bars to continue partying with friends, without his new bride.  

My Brother-in-law (as advised by my heavily pregnant sister) escorted me to find him somewhere.  We were in our mid-30s!!

I'm daily grateful to my sister and brother-in-law in my life.  And more grateful my ex is long gone.

newsungirl

The groom got appendicitis the night before, got it removed the morning of, and still showed up for the wedding itself. She had to prop him up while they had their first dance. 

I was amazed he made it through, but it was just such a wild and sad experience for both of them and cast a huge cloud over everything.

They're divorced now. He ran off with an Instagram model/escort. They were my best friends.

She's still my best friend, and I haven't seen her this happy before. I guess the appendicitis was an omen.

eyebrowshampoo

The groom tried to do a little dip kiss on the bride before they walked back up the aisle… he dropped her accidentally on the floor.

Everyone let out a collective gasp that immediately turned to snorting chortled laughter.

 It was the most awkward thing I’ve ever witnessed in real life. 

Thankfully the bride was my sister, and I will get to remind her of this forever and I  have photo evidence.

Happyintexas

This happened at my wedding reception 

My mother's best friend just got out of a sloppy divorce. Truly horrible. She proceeded to get blind drunk. 

During the speeches, she gets up from her seat, completely blacked out, and throws up all over her table. She proceeded to piss herself and pass out on the said table and flipped it. 

In the fall, her dress managed to rip and she was completely undressed on the floor. 

We had first responders as guests at our wedding so they managed to get her wrapped up in a tablecloth and carry her outside to an ambulance that showed up rather quickly.

IsopodPlus6095

I used to work at a wedding venue so I've seen a lot of weddings, but none are even close to as bad as one particular wedding reception was. 

People were getting way too drunk and wild. The place was a mess halfway through the party. About an hour before it was supposed to end, the brother of the bride got into a fight with one of the groomsmen in the middle of the dance floor.

The father of the bride tries to break up the fight but accidentally hits his elderly mother in the face and she falls on a tray stand. My bosses burst into the room, broke it up and yelled for everyone to leave.

The worst part was the bride in absolute tears leaving the venue, "I just wanted one day!"

TheOtherTyler

My cousin's wedding. All 300 guests were outside at the start (outdoor wedding) and the tornado sirens went off. We start quickly, and during the ceremony, the wind picks up and starts pelting all of us with hail. We all bolt inside, and my cousin the bride finishes her vows and they kiss and everyone claps. 

The power goes out at that moment. The resort was in the middle of nowhere, and the backup generator only powers one of the fridges and a few sparsely placed emergency lights. 

The wedding reception is supposed to take place upstairs on the 3rd floor. No ac in july in Wisconsin with no power and no lights. The caterers attempted to serve food that was definitely lukewarm and only half the food was served because of food safety, thank god. 

The rain was coming down so hard and the tornado sirens kept going off, but no one seemed concerned. The 3rd floor was insanely hot and humid. The cake melted.

I was the hired Photographer:

The groom was such a jerk about pictures and kept turning around when I tried to line people up to somehow get a record of the day. 

I was so frustrated because I was equipped for an outdoor wedding and for lighting to at least be on when we were at the reception. 

To make matters worse I couldn't charge my equipment for lack of power from using my flash and the lighting tents needed power. 

My stepdad was the entertainment. He and his band hooked up all his equipment to a laptop and a speaker system powered by a backup battery and somehow got a bit of a show on for people in the lobby on the first floor since the 3rd floor was so hot and stuffy. 

Overall I wanted the groom to pound sand for being so obstinate about the photos, but given the circumstances, we had a lot of fun! not a single thing went to plan, but the bride was not phased. My aunt (the bride's mom) was pretty bent out of shape for a bit though. 

As the photographer, I was incredibly nervous and frustrated over the whole nightmare. 

I got absolutely terrible photos and it took months to Photoshop to look even a bit decent. They divorced 4 years later. 

Tldr: Cousin; I was hired as a photographer. No power, tornado weather, and nothing worked. The groom was an a-hole.

trksccrplr

My cousin was getting married and we took her dress upstairs to get photos in an archway and her groom had to wait 5 minutes in the bathroom so she wouldn't see the gown. 

The dude flipped out. It was insanely awkward.

 She’s been married 5 years and he hasn’t worked in 2, throws tantrums, won’t eat fast food unless it’s piping hot and fresh yet has a fear of leaving the house.

I’d say his behavior was the worst thing I’ve personally seen at a wedding, but marrying him might have been the worst.

Frangipani_850

I was at my male cousin's wedding. I was like 12-14 years old. Idiot I went up when they called for all the unmarried young men. Suddenly there was something flying through the air and my competitive sports instincts kicked in and I jumped for it. 

It was the bride’s garter belt. I had no clue what was happening. My family then proceeded to pressure me into going up in front of everyone and putting it on the leg of the late 20-something-year-old woman who caught the bouquet. I was a very shy kid so I was so mortified. 

But everyone thought it was hilarious. The woman was also embarrassed but went along. My memory is that someone told her how old I was and she got this “oh no” look. I put it up to her mid-calf before I ran away blushing.  

When I got back to my table my mom was pissed at me because I was “too young to catch the garter.”  Well, why didn’t you say something when I went up there, Mom?

thrax_mador

A male friend was getting married. I worked with him, in the same company, on different teams. We knew his fiance, they had been together for 6 years.

The same day, my friend interrupted the wedding with a pregnancy test and an ultrasound. Turned out she was pregnant with him, and expecting twins.

The wedding became a mess after the bride's dad punched my friend. The bride hit the intern, and then the groom's family and the bride's family started fighting.

It all happened inside a church and the priest had to shoot a gun in the air to stop the madness.

My friend got dumped, and he ended up marrying his intern and raising the kids. The woman was 9 years younger than him and stopped working after they married.

She cheated on him twice and they divorced during the pandemic. He is raising the twins on his own since the girl moved to another country after meeting a foreigner online.

gglavida

Years ago, I went to the wedding of a friend and his (now ex) wife. 

My friend had been in a terrible car accident earlier in life and relied on forearm crutches and a wheelchair. He was so excited about his wedding and was so madly in love with his bride, who none of us were huge fans of. 

She was extremely emotionally immature and he wildly deserved better, but he wanted her. So, we supported him.

Time came for the first dance and the groom swapped his wheelchair for his forearm crutches so he could dance and sway with his now-wife. He was limited in his moves, but this was a special moment, and what is dancing but swaying, anyway? 

It did not matter at all that he couldn’t move as fluidly as others. He wanted to gaze into the eyes of his new wife while she held him and they danced together.

I think we got about 20-30 seconds into the song when this moron of a woman dropped her arms to her sides and started laughing. 

She just let him go and laughed in his face, then turned to address the crowd and said, “How the hell am I supposed to do this?! This is ridiculous.” Refused to continue, just laughed and laughed at him. 

Beyond heartbreaking to witness, but he held it together as best as he could. They stopped dancing their first dance. And so weird that they didn’t work out, right?!

shakethewaves

I watched a massive draft horse, attached to the wedding carriage, drop its gigantic private part and unleash a torrent of piss that splashed on the whole bodies of the ring bearer and flower girl. 

The parents were freaking out wanting the driver to do something to make the horse stop peeing. 

There was screaming from the parents, crying from the children and that horse was still peeing on them.

So much pee. It was hilarious and also awful. Those kids had been entitled and unwatched for much of the outdoor reception.

colormeruby

A long time ago a friend asked me if I would video his sister's wedding. 

It was a fairly boring event and I did my best. 

All night this one couple was dancing up a storm. Older guy, just going at it with his girl on the dance floor. So, I was filming them the most as it was the most interesting thing going on by miles. 

A couple of weeks later I asked “How did I do/ how did it turn out” 

And he was like, “You did good, it turned out well, but there was this one couple at the wedding and we don’t know who they are?”

Indaflow

I was the matron of honor at my BFF's wedding. 

Her dad was semi-recently married to his 4th? Wife. So, the bride is “stepmom” but only in name. She and the bride didn’t get along but were surface-level cordial to each other. Stepmom was super weird about $. Because she had none and married the dad for it. 

She was very upset about how much he spent on this wedding for his only daughter. So upset apparently, she showed up in a floor-length, full-on white wedding gown of her own. 

The wedding coordinator saw them walk in, pulled me aside, and let me know this snitch that just walked into the cocktail hours before the ceremony in a goddamn wedding dress and asks if I think the bride should be made aware or if we should just hope she doesn’t notice until after the vows, etc. 

I told her I would take care of it, and did. We did the “getting ready pics” in the bridal suite, and after she was all ready to go it was 15 minutes till showtime… I took the bride out to the patio overlooking her gorgeous venue and watched her guests scurrying to find their seats. 

We shared a secret cigarette like we were teenagers again… and I told her that I saw her stepmother in the lobby.

And that I unceremoniously poured an entire glass of red wine down the front of her dress.

NeverMeantDuckin

It was a Christian ceremony. The priest was a total alcoholic who assured the wedding party he had experience. 

He showed up to the rehearsal and crushed a beer/finished his smoke then didn't know the groom would walk the aisle first + a bunch of other details. 

Big day happened and he's drinking the church wine and forgetting his cues. Forgets to say the classic," You may now kiss the bride". 

The entire audience was yelling "kIss her" to the groom and 

Mr. Half Cut priest thought they were egging him on. That's how the bride had her first kiss of the marriage with our local problem priest.

Quicky-mart

The bride's best friend got extremely drunk and hit on the bride's brother in front of his wife. Then went around the whole reception tearfully telling all the guests that she should be the bride, as she’s the pretty one! 

I was the bride. It was my wedding. My guests managed to keep her away from me and my husband and kept her dramatics quiet so as not to ruin our day. 

They got her  a taxi and told me all about her nonsense a few days later.

So I suppose it wasn’t something I saw, but I imagined it wasn’t great for those who did see it. I just had to share because 18 years (today is our anniversary) later, I do think it’s hilarious and no we aren’t friends anymore.

FairyDollyMix

My brother-in-law spilled red wine all down the front of my sister’s dress right after photos.

The seamstress who sent shout wipes with her after her alterations was a true angel. 

We were able to get 80% of the stain out and the rest was fairly hidden in the folds of the skirt. 

To their credit, my sister and brother-in-law are still married!

wrig1542

Catering a wedding at a beautiful venue. No expenses were spared. About 10 min before the bride got into a fight with the father-in-law. Things escalated… fight lasted 1.5 hours with continuous wedding off, wedding was on back in limbo. 

Ended up starting to serve wine to tide people over… fight continued, and I got told to serve food, fight continued through all 3 courses.

 The wedding got called off and everyone went home. 

The odd part is the fight was visible but inaudible to the guests so it was this twisted form of entertainment where the guests were getting drunk and having a great time watching the wedding crash and burn.

throw1away9932s

The groom didn't know about the wedding until the dress rehearsal the night before.

The morning of the wedding, he never showed up. Then the bride came out with this story that he had been kidnapped by his parents who were keeping him locked in their house.  The men of the family drove over to talk to them and that's when the whole delusion unraveled. 

The bride-to-be planned the whole thing behind his back. A lot of the family pitched in to help her out not knowing it was all madness. 

 An aunt of mine who sold cakes made her a beautiful wedding cake.  

My dad got her a discount on the reception venue because the owner was a friend.  Fugly matching custom dresses and shoes were bought and paid for by all the bridesmaids.  A fancy classic car was rented (and decorated no Just Married! by us kids).  Etc, etc.  

It wound up being the most awkward (and expensive) family reunion ever.

Crixxa

I went to a small 20-ish wedding in the Tuscan hillside of Italy. It was at this old castle. As the bride was giving her speech a phone started to loudly ring. Everyone was looking around to see who the idiot was.

  In The End, it was one of the priests who was standing just in front of them…. What made it way worse was the guy picked up the call and started talking loudly.   

The bride understandably was like “Are you freaking kidding me!?”

Does make me kinda laugh to think how much they must have spent for their special day to have that happen.

PillBaxton

Conservative Baptist sister’s wedding. 

My older sister at her wedding reception had music playing on speakers, naturally (we grew up listening to a lot of RnB so a lot of this was playing). 

Suddenly the music just stopped and remained off for the remainder of the evening, an odd atmosphere. 

Turned out the pastor and his wife had gone up to her at her table and told her if she didn’t turn off her ungodly music they would leave. 

So she being a devout Christian girl just turned it off for them. At her wedding. I would have just been like “ Ok don’t let the door hit your judgemental butts on the way out.”

imnotamoose33

DJ here.

I believe it was the best man who did the first speech and claimed he'd do anything for the family. 

He came back and did the fourth speech stating that he really would do anything for the family. 

His third speech was the sixth speech and claimed he was willing to go back to prison for the family. 

His fourth speech was the eighth one and he didn't like that he was upstaged by the seventh speech.

He came back for a fifth and detailed how much he didn't believe everyone else believed he'd do anything for the family.

He might have come back for a sixth time as the final person to give a speech.

I wanted to stop him on the second speech but by the fourth I wanted him to keep coming back.

ollie1313

The bride's uncle had a heart attack.

I was up at the bar trying to grab a few drinks and I saw a lot of commotion just to the side when I saw the bride's sister run off crying. I knew something horrible was happening.

Ambulance came but in the end, there was nothing they could do to save him.

The wedding took place at a winery and while this was all happening the bride and groom were off in the vineyard having the wedding photos taken.

Once they were told there was a very long time while the family decided what to do. In the end, they decided that stopping everything wasn't going to change the situation so they would continue to celebrate the wedding as best they could.

Unable_Bank3884

The week before the wedding my then gf, groom, and his fiancée were driving home for four hours from another person's wedding. Fiancée wasn’t nice to him. Just the kind of things you don’t say in general and also not in front of outsiders. 

Two days later, 4 days before the wedding, I told him I didn’t think he should marry her. She’s not nice to him. In our culture, it’d be a thing and I told him no one who loves him would care. I did this in a public setting as I was fully expecting him to punch me. 

He did not. We finished our beers and went home. I was still invited to the wedding. 

Day of the wedding we are all seated and waiting for stuff to start. The groom's brother comes and says “The groom needs your help”… I thought it would help with tying a tie because he was bad at that. 

I got upstairs to the room and he’s in a wife beater and basketball shorts with his mom and dad. He says “You were right. I can’t do this. Help me”.      

My parents wanted to slaughter me but I knew deep down inside they were happy about it. I knew this because I was just so arrogant and believed no one would ever be mad at me for real. 

I offered an escape plan. He left. 

I returned to sit next to my girlfriend and said “No wedding. Play it cool”… ten min later the bride's mom comes down, says the wedding is off, and leaves the room. 

Everyone is stunned. We casually left. 

Gf wants a recap of my convo from the bar. I told her. She blamed me. I said love works in mysterious ways. She said I’m an idiot. This was roughly 15 years ago.

Itchy-Picture-4282

Our jeweler's daughter's fiance has his Australian groomsmen come to town for the wedding. 

They took the groom out the night before the wedding and got him blackout drunk. 

They put a cast on his leg and when he came the next day told him about a whole fake accident. 

He went through the entire wedding and photos with a cast and crutches. Only after did they admit it was all fake. The bride was furious.

buttercream73437

I was working at a catering gig and during the ceremony, the owner of the catering company assaulted another employee. They got into a fistfight just feet behind the bride and groom saying their vows. 

Although the conflict was unseen (in a food truck) the employee walked out and was (justifiably) very upset. 

At this point, the owner began to yell profanities at the employee. 

This drew the attention from the wedding guests and the bride and groom. After the altercation, I informed my employers I would not be returning to work for them anymore.

Ok_Wishbone_1953

It was a hot and sticky Auckland summer. Auckland is built between 2 harbors and rests on a lot of estuaries and swamps, so when it gets humid it gets humid. It was a 32 degrees C + day and you got sticky as soon as you stepped out of the shower.

I witnessed a wedding in an old Catholic Church, with no air conditioning, airflow, and nada.

In the middle of the first speech, the priest had to sit down. He then resumed and  2 minutes later, completely fainted, fell on his butt, and lay spread eagle in front of the wedding party.

It took an hour to cool him off and get him back to where they were and we all just sat there, like lemmings, in the heat.

Looking back, I have no idea why no one called an ambulance!!

CharacterSuccotash5

My husband has a big group of friends from school. The bride at the wedding in question doesn't like the friend group much. I am an outsider but I think it's because one of the guys in particular can be a massive creep and they had some sort of history. 

But he was (rather reluctantly I imagine) invited to the wedding along with the rest of us. On his birthday.

The speeches were very long (and, sorry, very boring as the best man hardly knew the groom - he had to get stories from all the friends - but was "approved" by the bride) and occurred before dinner and after a champagne reception. 

We'd made it through a lot of the table wine before the food was finally served. 

The creepy friend ended up tearing into some glow sticks with his teeth and spitting the glowing chemical contents at the band. I guess it's not that toxic?! 

I think something untoward happened to the cheese stand, too. I was *ahem* indisposed by then having spent the evening sitting next to him and the wine but no one even noticed - always be the second most drunk!

They called him not long after, told him he'd ruined it, and not to speak to them again.

common-spite

The groom was nowhere to be found as the expected bride and groom dance was supposed to start.

A search party spread out across the large outdoor Phoenix-area resort while we in the jazz big band continued to play song after song hoping they'd find him soon. 

Eventually, he's found with his buddies sloshed at a minibar in a remote corner. The groom literally dragged onto the dance floor and draped onto his bride to carry out the obligatory dance. She's holding him up as best she can, but his weight on her was too much.

He went down to the ground and unfortunately pulled her strapless wedding gown down with him, leaving the beautiful bride completely topless in front of all the wedding guests. 

She crumbled into a pile of tears as her new husband incoherently drools on the stone floor. "I give this marriage less than six weeks," I whisper to the alto-saxophone player next to me.

Available_Animal_931

I used to work at a wedding function center. The bride got super pissed about something and ended up sleeping with one of our BOH staff. He met her out the back smoking angrily, since he was BOH he thought she was one of the bridesmaids. 

He hightailed when the chef told him that the guy was huge 

People got so messy at weddings. It's an emotional experience, you've got family members who may not like each other and then you douse the situation with alcohol. There's always one person who tries their best to mess it up.

If the couple did the traditional thing the bucks night would be the night before the wedding, so we'd see some severely hungover grooms. 

It was such a fun job though. I worked the bar and we'd oblige guests at every whim. If they wanted the bar staff to party with them, the bar staff would party. And if the bar staff is partying it's unfair for both not to be drinking too. The entire staff would be absolutely cooked sometimes.

pipple2ripple

I used to be a banquet server and worked a lot of weddings. One time, the bridal table was set on a stage. The MC was doing the intros of the bridal party, entering one by one. 

Then comes the bride & groom. They walked up the steps onto the stage. As they’re walking to their seats and everybody watching them, she steps into 221 the gap between the stage and the wall, and goes down. 

She was fine but the audible gasp was quite something. 

Another time during the dancing portion of the night, an older relative had a heart attack on the dance floor. Paramedics came and performed CPR, taking him away in an ambulance. The bride was distraught. They continued with the reception, but the mood obviously was way off.

snowman_superstar

I worked in a hotel in a previous life. I was in charge one night when we catered a wedding. I was first on the scene of the incident. 

It ended with a drunken bride and groom setting their hotel bed on fire, running into the corridor to grab fire extinguishers, having a fire extinguisher fight in the corridor (leaving a wild mess), and then running away. 

A decade later, I still can’t comprehend the scene I arrived at. Needless to say, they got a hefty bill.

lobotomy-chic

My cousin was getting married by a river promenade. An intoxicated guy climbed onto the roof of the reception hall overlooking the outdoor area while the wedding ceremony was going on (Australia).

He was shouting nonsense. Some guests climbed up to confront him and tell him to get out of there. He then threw himself off the roof (about two storeys) below. He hit a wooden beam as he came down. He was yelling in pain. Anyone who saw it would have thought he broke his back. 

Luckily the bride and groom were recently graduated doctors. Many of their guests were their classmates. A few doctors rushed to his aid. The ceremony was paused and an ambulance came to take the guy to the hospital (we found out he checked himself out that evening somehow) 

The ceremony and wedding took place after about an hour pause. It was dulled a bit but still good.

yankel97

The Mother of the Bride got into a fist fight with her ex-husband (the father of the bride), then proceeded to start beating on her current husband (the bride's step-father).

At the reception.

The groom had a "redo" a month later with none of that side of the family invited. 

Did a pretty good job of it, bought his wife a new wedding dress and everything and it was a surprise party for her.

Anyway, they've been married for 7 years now and she hasn't said a single word to her mother in that time.

goss_bractor

My own personal wedding.

We hired a cartoonist for the wedding day to come after the wedding ceremony had wrapped up so my wife and I could get pictures done so the guests would not get bored, or so that was the plan.

Before the wedding started me and a few of the best men turned around and asked each other “who the heck is this dude dressed like a clown?”  

Everyone is asking who the clown was at the event and it actually turned out he was the cartoonist!

This was a problem because my wife and I had picked a really high-class wedding location and you had to dress up to even get inside.

Somehow he managed to get inside the hall with all the guests and more people are asking who invited the clown to a wedding.

It was super awkward and he walked up to us and said “Hey I'm the cartoonist” and then blew up some balloons and made animals with them and we both got dog balloons and then proceeded to throw a cream pie at the waitress with zero warning and that’s the moment staff buzzed over like wasps and beat the hell out of him.

Needless to say it was a highlight of the day and we probably won’t ask him again to do it but it’s likely he would not come anyway after the butt-kicking he got.

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At the reception, the bride and groom were going to read some cute things that they wrote for each other. My girlfriend's brother who was sitting at their table was beyond hammered and kept interrupting it to make dirty jokes. 

They weren't even dirty jokes really, he was just saying filthy disgusting things. 

Every single person in the dining hall was cringing so hard and he just wouldn't stop despite the groom telling him to knock it off several times. 

To this day, it's still one of those memories that makes me hold my breath with cringe.

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