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[C.Ann]

What is the biggest snafu or "oops" you have witnessed at a wedding?

Shortage of food; cake being knocked over; band not showing up; whatever..

For me it involved a bride.. She had a beautiful gown, but what she didn't realize was that as she went from table to table, and would bend over to talk to her guests, you could see right down the front of her dress and she wasn't wearing a bra!!! (I quickly took her aside when she came to our table and mentioned it to her.. Needless to say, she was mortified!! )

 

[lttlmc3]

The bride at the last wedding I went to had her bra strap hanging down and showing throughout the entire wedding ceremony. Poor thing.

 

[nannerbadnanner]

My best friend was married on a Friday, but the person who made her cake thought she was getting married on Saturday. She had just taken the cake out of the oven when they called looking for it! She hurriedly iced it and tried to drive it over, but the whole thing collapsed so she had no wedding cake or groom's cake in her pictures. They did serve what they could salvage. This was a cake a punch reception so it was a major disaster.

 

[C.Ann]

This was a cake a punch reception so it was a major disaster.

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Oh no!!

 

[Mrs.Toad]

Backyard reception. Grandma carrying cake out, trips on uneven concrete. Cake goes splat, grandma gets some pretty bad skinned knees and elbows.

Bride and groom took it in stride. We all felt so bad for the grandma.

 

[TwinsinCA]

For some reason the misuse of the term "mortified" really irks me. So when I see it used, and used so perfectly, I have to make note of it. Thanks, OP!

I don't have a personal wedding story. But I saw this clip on the news the other night.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqKWay-_3bk

Guess the moral here is don't get married RIGHT NEXT to the pool. Poor bride and minister though!

 

[C.Ann]

For some reason the misuse of the term "mortified" really irks me. So when I see it used, and used so perfectly, I have to make note of it. Thanks, OP!

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Color me confused.. Could you provide an example of the word being used incorrectly?

Thanks for the compliment though..

 

[Pin Wizard]

Nothing major, just something to watch during the ceremony in church. It was August and hot. The bride had a fly caught between the netting of her veil and the back of her dress. That little fly was busy the whole time and kept me entertained.

 

[golfgal]

This happened all at the same wedding-priest faints right before the homily (uncle of the groom), right after the homily, father of the groom faints, in the receiving line groom faints, get to the reception, groomsmen decorated the WRONG car .

 

[TwinsinCA]

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Color me confused.. Could you provide an example of the word being used incorrectly?

Thanks for the compliment though..

I think some people don't understand the difference between being horrified and mortified and use them interchangeably.

Someone was once "mortified" about a TV show regarding the cleanliness of Disney's hotel rooms. Unless she is in charge of housekeeping at the hotel...there is no reason for HER to be mortified. Another said that they were mortified that no one gave up their seat on a bus to another poster. The person who was "mortified" was not even there nor did she have any connection to those that didn't give up their seats. Again, no reason for HER to be mortified.

 

[C.Ann]

I think some people don't understand the difference between being horrified and mortified and use them interchangeably.

Someone was once "mortified" about a TV show regarding the cleanliness of Disney's hotel rooms. Unless she is in charge of housekeeping at the hotel...there is no reason for HER to be mortified. Another said that they were mortified that no one gave up their seat on a bus to another poster. The person who was "mortified" was not even there nor did she have any connection to those that didn't give up their seats. Again, no reason for HER to be mortified.

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Okay.. Now I understand.. Thanks for the examples..

 

[Pin Wizard]

Actually... When we had our rehearsal at the church, we all managed to take separate cars for various reasons and met there. I walked in with just about everyone having beat me. I looked at the minister at the front of the church. It then dawned on me that I didn't bring the money to give him for the ceremony! Had to drive back home to get it while everyone waited at the church. The rehearsal dinner and the fun my attendants and I had later that evening made up for it.

 

[arminnie]

Church was locked up, and the minister forgot to come. When a child finally answered the phone at his home the kid said "Oh he's at the mall shopping." Yep - the minister totally forgot.

And the family had gone to this church for decades. This minister had even presided over a funeral of a close family member a year earlier. He never did show up. Too ashamed to show his face I guess.

Someone called another minister they knew (totally different denomination) who came and performed the wedding in another person's home. The groom had a heart attack 4 days later - wonder why.

 

[MainStMandy]

I got married I showed up at the church and saw all these bouquets...I asked whose they were and if there was another wedding that day.

They were mine...and ALL wrong. My bouquet was HIDEOUS!! I was pretty upset but had an amazing wedding planner. She had the bouquet I had wanted by the time the ceremony finished (from ANOTHER florist). I walked one way down the aisle with one bouquet and back down with another. Then she headed off to the reception to ream out the florist and prevent the wrong flowers from being on the cake.

 

[LaraK]

At a friend's wedding in a church with no air conditioning in August (blech!)...anyway, all the doors and windows were open because it was so hot. Right in the middle of the ceremony the community fire siren (at the volunteer fire station next door) went off and went off and went off...I may have gotten through it without giggling horribly had the bride's uncle not walked over to the door and tried to block the sound with his body.

 

[AbsolutLaney]

One of my friend will be married next month..hehe.

 

[OlderMan]

I was unable to make the wedding of a co-worker many years ago, BUT.....

After being introduced at the reception, the bride disappeared for, I was told, quite some time.

She eventually returned to the reception, but with a rip in the back of her gown.

As I understand, she went to the ladies' room to remove the train on her gown. The train ripped, because IT WAS NOT REMOVABLE.

Sorry I wasn't there to see it myself!

 

[raysnkaysmom]

At my best friends wedding, my dad was sitting front row on her family side. As they were saying their vows, my dad snapped a picture, at which time the camera started to rewind the whole role, being the last picture. For about the longest 30 seconds ever, everyone had to wait because the noise was so loud. My best friend just laughed and my dad was mortified!

 

[roseprincess]

Oooh, this thread is good!

True story......
I was the bridesmaid from the wedding from hell Really!
First, I knew the bride 3 yrs before she got married.
When she was single, she told me she was going to marry her 1st or 2nd cousin. I was like, what??? She told me it was a cousin thru marriage. I was still in a little disbelief, thinking, "gee, I hope this is legal"
Anyways, the day before her wedding, I stayed at her parents house in northern Wisconsin(wedding was north of Green Bay, WI). Unfortunately, the upstairs of the house smelled really bad, like cow manure. Her mom passed away about 5 yrs before this, but her step-mom was living there with the bride's dad. I guess they forgot to clean the upstairs
Anyways, day of the wedding, everything went ok with the ceremony except the rings were missing! The best man forgot to bring in the wedding rings, so they had to use someone elses wedding rings to symbolize during hte ceremony. After ceremony was over, best man said he left wedding rings under a pile of laundry in trunk of the car Finally the wedding rings were found
At the reception, get this, the band was a polka band
I don't mind polka that much, I can only handle so much of polka music tho.
Well, polka music went on for 5 hours I thought, ok, maybe they will do 2 hrs of polka music and then do regular dance music of some sort. No, that never happened, all polka music til midnight! Got quite irritating About halfway into the reception, the wedding party had to do the Grand March. I still don't understand what that is, but we kept getting delayed to do this, and I had to dance with one of the groomsmen for the Grand March(which I didn't care for him that much, he drank alot). We had to stand and wait at least an hour in another room to do the Grand March. My feet were killing me!
After reception was over, tradition is to shaving cream the bride and groom's car. Not a bad thing, so bridal party did that
Well, bride and groom were supposed to head to the hotel they were going to stay overnight. Found out the next day that bride and groom lost their reservations at the hotel(some big aviation weekend was going on and all rooms were booked at all the hotels in area). So they ended up in a cow field overnight
My girlfriend was never good at organization, so her and groom never confirmed the hotel reservations for the wedding night. Oh well....
Her and groom seemed ok about it tho.
Day after wedding, bride and groom had a gift opening party. Never heard of that for a wedding, but I guess it was a traditional thing in her family. Everything went well with that.

It was the craziest wedding I have ever been involved with, but husband and wife are still married, as far as I know. Wedding was August 1992.
My DH(was my boyfriend at the time) went with me to the wedding. He stayed at a Motel 6 over night. We both are still laughing about this crazy wedding

 

[Disney Doll]

My mother's car and the brand new (like he picked it up ont he way to the wedding so it had less than 100 miles on it) car of one of my DFIL's friends were both stolen.

The freind's car was found with like $16000 worth of damage...it was some luxury car so they didn't total it, they fixed it. My mother's car was found with no tires and no battery, in a housing project.

Something happened with my wedding cake, but I never truly found out what. One of my freinds made it for me as a wedding gift and it was supposed to have pink and teal decorations on it...flowers and vines and wedding-y stuff liek that. When we got to the reception, the whole cake was white...it was beautiful, and delicious, but it was all white.

I heard rumors of her having to stop short while transporting it and the layers sliding and getting messed up so she had to redecorate it at the banquet hall and so couldn't do the color. But I never heard the story right from her. But it was fine.