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[nannerbadnanner]

This is just funny. My other best friend was married last year. Her DH is Egyptian. When his family and friends celebrate, they make a loud, clicking sound with their tongue. I can't really describe it, but it is like the Egyption version of "yeeHaw." I had been to several celebrations with his friends and family so I was used to it and knew it would happen during the wedding.

Anyway, when my friend started walking down the aisle, the loud celebration started. One of the older wedding guests was so startled that she dove under the pew with her hands over her head.

 

[Stacerita]

I went to a wedding where the bride ended up passed out in the bathroom after vomitting on her dress.

 

[mickeylove2]

Not a terrible story, actually really cute...my DD was 2 and was the flower girl in my best friends wedding, well her dress was a miniature of the brides, almost identical, so it came totally to the floor, anyway, during the rehearsal she was in a normal summer dress that came to her knees (this is actually important so you have a visual) So we are at the rehearsal and she is going down the aisle throwing the fake rose petals, we did this 3 or 4 times, and when she was finished the groom would ask her to help him pick up the petals, so here she is going down this long aisle dropping petals and coming back picking them up, like I said 3 or 4 times, and it was getting late. So the next day we are at the church and she is getting ready to walk down the aisle and has the real petals, she goes down and doesn't drop a single 1. Oh it was cute! She gets to the steps to go up the platform (remember gown to the floor) she takes the first step and steps on the hem of her dress, she stumbles and drops the basket of petals! She sits down and begins to pick up the petals to put back in the basket, the grooms father (about 6' 4") squats down to help her pick them up. Meanwhile the whole church is kind of chuckling and the bride is patiently waiting. She says something like, I hope Mr. Brad doesn't yell at me again! It was priceless!

 

[Kteacher]

My sister's ex recently remarried. At the reception the best man, who btw, was the best man at my sister's wedding as well , gave the toast. Unfortunately for the my ex BIL the groom he mistakenly said my sister's name instead of the new bride's name during the toast

 

[powellrj]

I guess it would be my wedding. My grandfather made my cake as a gift, he was a baker so it was beautiful. It was June and about 100 outside and instead of putting the cake together at the church, he drove it for an hour in a van with no ac. You guessed it, about a block from the church it collapsed. My mom was on the phone buying frozen cake layers from all the local grocery stores.

Photographer was suppose to come 2 hours before to take pictures, he showed up 20 minutes before. The wedding was in Frankton, he was in Lapel which is across the county. This was before cell phones. He was so stressed when he got there that he tripped over the aisle runner and it was crooked and all bunched up in all the pictures.

Wedding went off and 30 years later we have funny stories.

 

[Jynohn]

It was downpouring on my wedding day, and when the photographer arrived at my parents' house, he slipped in the entry way and fell against the heat register leaving a huge cut on his back which bled so badly that he ended up needing stitches. Thankfully we didn't know it at the time, and he was nice enough to stay for the ceremony and most of the reception, but my dad spent most of the day worried about being sued.

My sister recently went to a wedding where the groom got so drunk during the cocktail hour and dinner, that the bride had to bring him up to the hotel room. She ended up spending the majority of her reception alone while her new husband was upstairs passed out.

 

[NotUrsula]

That would be the infamous "tackle on the altar" that happened at one of my cousin's weddings.

This was a BIG cathedral wedding. The bride was a convert to Catholicism, but all of her bridesmaids were Baptists who were not used to standing through long services. It was in August, and the nine bridesmaids were ranged down the 25-ft marble staircase that led to the altar. Right in the middle of the ring exchange the Maid of Honor fainted, and the groom saw it happening over the bride's shoulder. He instinctively *dove* to catch her before she went head-first down that marble staircase. Trouble was, he went THROUGH the bride to do it. He shoved her aside and she ended up knocking over the Priest when she fell down.
To make it that much worse, she was wearing a hooped skirt.

 

[jordansmomma]

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!

OMG!! I saw that on Yahoo last week. That is just horrible, but FUNNY!!

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.

eewww..Flies are gross.

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.

Well at least you ended up with a better bouquet. And not the hideous one.

My sister's ex recently remarried. At the reception the best man, who btw, was the best man at my sister's wedding as well , gave the toast. Unfortunately for the my ex BIL the groom he mistakenly said my sister's name instead of the new bride's name during the toast

OUCH. I would have hated to been the best man after that.

 

[Loverly]

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.

Really? What exactly was wrong with the first bouquets?

I can't imagine many Florists who could make all new bouquets in the time a typical wedding ceremony occurs-or even to have the correct colored flowers! That is amazing!!!

 

[Sneezie]

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

Yes to all!

One of my friends, who - like many of us- had been planning her wedding since she was a young girl had a Murphy's Law wedding. What could go wrong did go wrong.

1. Shortage of food: Rice dressing spoiled

2. Cake being knocked over: When the baker delivered the cake, the baker's daughter knocked one of the columns on the stage causing it to fall on the cake. The baker tried to "icing" and decorate the cake to camouflage the damage and it turned into a big flowery mess which we promptly fixed once the baker left.

3. Band not showing up: She had a second line band who was supposed to come at the end of the reception but called and told her that they'd been in an accident on the way to location. We later find out that was a lie and they'd really double booked and took the job closer to where they were from.

4. The Whatevers:
She picked a location with a beautiful water fountain to take pictures before the wedding, but the day of the wedding the fountain was off because they were re-painting it.

The Rolls Royce she'd rented for her and her husband never showed up - engine trouble.

Photographer ran late and didn't make it to her house for her pre-wedding pictures.

All of these went unnoticed by guests, and a more stressed out bride would have went crazy, but she took it all in stride.

 

[Sneezie]

Just thought of another one:

Was at a reception and the bride's brother got up to do a toast and went on and on about how the family was so happy that the bride had finally found someone willing to marry her and how they thought she would be single for the rest of her life. It made everyone very uncomfortable but he didn't seem to notice. The bride and groom were . Needless to say, that toast ended up on the cutting room floor at the videographer's house.

 

[sdarwkcabemanmy]

If it hadn't happened to me, I wouldn't believe it.

On the day of the wedding, MIL and FIL pick up the cake from the bakery and plan to drive it (and themselves) over to the church in DFIL's Ford Bronco. Now..on the back, there is the tailgate and a window that flips up and out. DFIL left the window open accidentally as he backed out of the garage and, somehow, the windshield wiper on the back window catches on the edge of the open garage door, causing the entire window to shatter.

Thank goodness my cake was in boxes at this point or it would've been inedible.

Oh it gets better.

While setting up the cake in the reception hall of the church, a portion of the bottom layer cracks and falls off. So my stepsister (a former cake decorator) uses plastic coffee stirrers to stick it together and goes to a local bakery for some icing to sort of patch it up.

A little while after this, while we're getting dressed, my sister shreds her hose with her faux nails (she wsn't used to them) and had to run to KMart in her maid-of-honor dress for new ones.

During the ceremony, there is a point where DH and I walked up some stone steps to the altar. My sister, as maid of honor, is supposed to pick my train up GENTLY and lay it to one side. Instead, she picks it up and just kind of throws it to the side. I couldn't tell exactly what happened (since it was behind me) but you could hear it go "thunk!" against the floor from all the beads, etc hitting the floor.

After the ceremony, we stayed in the church (vestibule? Nave? I don't know..near the altar anyway) for some photos. One of my flowergirls started fussing and hunting for a dropped clip-on earring. I stepped back to get out of the way and heard a 'crunch' under my foot. I had crushed the plastic bead earring.

In some of my reception photos (mainly the ones where DH is removing my garter) you can see that under my gown I had on a pair of tennis shoes. I had been wearing strappy high heeled sandals all day and by the time the reception started, my feet HURT. So I ran to the bridal room and changed into my tennis shoes.


At my SIL wedding a few years later, there is one or two pictures of her perfect cake with an itty bitty finger print right in the middle of one of the layers. The pastor's son was leaning towards the cake with his finger out, ready to scoop off some icing. His mom caught him just in time and we didn't notice he'd actually touched the cake until afterwards.

 

[eowensby]

DH and I were supposed to walk out to The Turtles "Happy Together" instead we walked out to "It Ain't Me Babe" It wasn't super funny at the time, especially to DH, but now it is. It makes me crack up thinking about it.
Here's the lyrics for your laughing enjoyment....

Go away from my window
Leave at your own chosen speed
I'm not the one you want, babe
I'm not the one you need
You say you're lookin' for someone
Who's never weak but always strong
To protect you and defend you
Whether you are right or wrong
Someone to open each and every door

But it ain't me babe
A-no, no, no it ain't me babe
Well, it ain't me you're lookin' for babe

Go lightly from the ledge, babe
Go lightly on the ground
I'm not the one you want, babe
I'll only lead you down
You say you're lookin' for someone
Who'll promise never to part
Someone to close his eyes to you
Someone to close his heart
Someone who will die for you and more

But it ain't me babe
A-no, no, no it ain't me babe
Well, it ain't me you're lookin' for babe

No it ain't me you're lookin' for, babe
I said a-no, no, no, it ain't me babe

 

[Sneezie]

Go away from my window
Leave at your own chosen speed
I'm not the one you want, babe
I'm not the one you need
You say you're lookin' for someone
Who's never weak but always strong
To protect you and defend you
Whether you are right or wrong
Someone to open each and every door

But it ain't me babe
A-no, no, no it ain't me babe
Well, it ain't me you're lookin' for babe

Go lightly from the ledge, babe
Go lightly on the ground
I'm not the one you want, babe
I'll only lead you down
You say you're lookin' for someone
Who'll promise never to part
Someone to close his eyes to you
Someone to close his heart
Someone who will die for you and more

But it ain't me babe
A-no, no, no it ain't me babe
Well, it ain't me you're lookin' for babe

No it ain't me you're lookin' for, babe
I said a-no, no, no, it ain't me babe

If I knew then what I know now, that song would have been perfect for me and my now ex to walk out on.

 

[connorlevismom]

I was at a wedding for a co-worker of last year and almost fell off my chair when the unthinkable happened.

The maid-of-honor was giving her speech and she called the groom by the brides ex-boyfriends name. It was horrible and you could hear a gasp all through the room when she said it. To make matters worse, they almost did not get married because of this guy!

Kristine

 

[nannerbadnanner]

DH and I were supposed to walk out to The Turtles "Happy Together" instead we walked out to "It Ain't Me Babe" It wasn't super funny at the time, especially to DH, but now it is. It makes me crack up thinking about it.
Here's the lyrics for your laughing enjoyment....

Go away from my window
Leave at your own chosen speed
I'm not the one you want, babe
I'm not the one you need
You say you're lookin' for someone
Who's never weak but always strong
To protect you and defend you
Whether you are right or wrong
Someone to open each and every door

But it ain't me babe
A-no, no, no it ain't me babe
Well, it ain't me you're lookin' for babe

Go lightly from the ledge, babe
Go lightly on the ground
I'm not the one you want, babe
I'll only lead you down
You say you're lookin' for someone
Who'll promise never to part
Someone to close his eyes to you
Someone to close his heart
Someone who will die for you and more

But it ain't me babe
A-no, no, no it ain't me babe
Well, it ain't me you're lookin' for babe

No it ain't me you're lookin' for, babe
I said a-no, no, no, it ain't me babe

 

[Pooh_Friend#1]

At my wedding, the florist forgot about my wedding day (even though I talked to her a few couple days before). The ceremony was suppose to start at 6:00 and that is when the florist pulled up in her van and started making the arrangements. Flowers were wrong, bouquets didn't get made, center pieces were wrong, etc. I had to throw my sister's bouquet because she forgot to make me a toss bouquet, etc.

Also, my cake was delivered to the wrong place and showed up at the right place the same time the florist did and all my guests were already there. I had fresh whole strawberries cascading down my cake, so they had to assemble it onsite....only it was the wrong site, so of course you could see in the pictures where some of the strawberries slid down the cake.

 

[Pooh67_68]

My wedding

After I get my dress on and get ready for my dad to walk me up the aisle, my mom steps on the train and tears the gown. (Luckily it was a very small tear)

Since John and I paid for the whole wedding, we couldn't afford a photographer. 2 cousins say no problem, one would take all the pictures and another would rent a camcorder. I don't have but a few pictures. Cousin 1 never checked his camera and there was something wrong with it and cousin 2 didn't know how to operate the camcorder once he got it.

At the reception the best man was doing the toast and he said here's to Heidi and Dawn (this is my sister).

 

[NMAmy]

Oh, these are making me smile!

I'm not recalling any big wedding issues at any I've attended. At my first wedding, however, the minister dropped my wedding ring during the ceremony. It wouldn't have been a big deal but this was during the 80's so, of course, I had a HUGE dress and the ring rolled under it. I had to back down the aisle while my sister wrestled with my train so the minister could retrieve the ring.

 

[malibuconlee]

I have a couple..

My best friend growing up was 3.5 years older than me. She got married at 19, so about a month after I turned 16 I was maid of honor in her wedding. Her grandmother was the only one who knew where all the hooks on her bustle were, well she'd already been seated so the extremely pregnant wife of one of the groomsmen unhooked her right before we all walked down the aisle. She missed one or two so the dress wasn't laying right. During communion my friend's mom was gesturing and telling me to unhook and straighten it out. All well and good, but as I was getting back up from straightening it out my heel caught on the underskirt of my dress, so I was yanking it trying to free it and apparently gave the groomsmen who were seated on chairs in front of the front pew quite a show. Good thing I was wearing underwear!! The guys were about half -drunk before the wedding and were falling off their chairs laughing.

We went to one wedding where they had glass lamps on poles with candles attached to the pews as decoration. As the bride came down the aisle her veil caught on one and tipped the glass over. Well DH saw and was about to stand up and blow out the candle when, as he suspected, the glass broke because of the flame and a piece hit another guest in the head.

Then there was my friend's older brother/best friend of my ex-boyfriend whose wedding I technically never got an invite to. I helped his mom make the mints, helped decorate for the reception and ended up driving him all around three towns in two states on his wedding day. He needed a ride from the reception hall to the church, so I took him. Had to drop by his dad's house to get his tux. We were about halfway out of town when he says to me "I know I'm forgetting something, but I don't know what". I said, "You forgot the ring, didn't you?" only joking. He really had forgotten it. Then we get into town and he realizes he forgot to bring socks. So I took him to the mall so he could buy a new pair of white socks to wear with his white tux. He should have thought about the color of his underwear too and bought new ones, you could see them thru his tux. To top it all off he had broken his wrist while moving furniture into their new place, but had told his fiance that he had tried on the tux with his cast, which he apparently hadn't done. He had to cut the cast off before the ceremony. WHAT A DAY!!!