Another Wedding Thread:The Disasters

[bpr2002]

Some things run in the family I guess...

at my mom and dad's wedding (June 1967), my mom was late due to trying to cross the Mississippi bridge because there was a suicide jumper on it!

at my oldest sister's wedding (June 2001) my sister forgot her DH's wedding band at the hotel (luckily it was across the street) and the priest gave an impromptu latin quiz during the ceremony and the DJ did these weird yo-yo tricks....

at my wedding (October 2002), I forgot my engagement ring in the car which was parked at the reception hall, my requested daisies were not all there, the florist threw a fit and didn't want to give me all my arrangements, the makeup artist stuck me in the eye with the mascara brush, I was almost late to the church and got my veil caught in a bush..... but hey, I still think it was the most wonderful wedding ever!

at my other older sister's wedding (May 2003), my sister spilled orange juice on the front of her wedding dress. Luckily it dried out in time and no one could tell!!

 

[Gette88]

At my wedding non of the tuxes fit. The co. was able to replace some the night before but not all. My Aunt was taking out hems and sewing rented tuxedos. My DH locked his keys in the car at the church. I guess he had other things on his mind. Nothing bad.

 

[Kaos Creator]

Does anyone else find that wedding site VERY hard on the eyes to read?? The grey letters just blur for me when reading them of the black background. It makes me naseous!! Too bad because I really wanted to read it!! But OMG my eyes are all wonked out when I look at it!

 

[WDWHound]

Originally posted by Kaos Creator
Does anyone else find that wedding site VERY hard on the eyes to read?? The grey letters just blur for me when reading them of the black background.

Lots of sites are like that. I just highlight the text dragging over it it with the mouse. That usually makes it readable.

 

[katerkat]

Originally posted by bpr2002
at my other older sister's wedding (May 2003), my sister spilled orange juice on the front of her wedding dress. Luckily it dried out in time and no one could tell!!

Oh, gosh, I forgot this one! I put my dress on first, then stepped into my crinoline. And yep, I put my makeup on first. So... My sisters are trying to flip my dress UP so they can get the crinoline on, and I'm trying to prevent the dress from flying in my make-up caked face... Mom steps in, whips the dress up...straight into my lipstick! BRIGHT red, of course! Right smack dab in the middle of the dress.
Luckily, we managed to get it to fade with baby powder, and the dress had folds in the front which hid most of it. But it was distracting in the ceremony, trying to make sure the folds were still hiding the stain.

 

[4greatboys]

Okay if God ever tried to send someone a sign not to get married it was definately me (and I ignored them--what a fool! lol).
First we discovered the morning of the wedding they gave the groomsmen the wrong ties for the shirts they had. 2. My hamster was very sick and ended up dying (that day). 3. One of my bride's maid dresses was altered to much she could barely fit in it. 4. The top of my wedding dress was see thru (not the breast area
I asked few a few tiny pearls to be glued on that area, they put a ton on there. 5. My grandmother lost her job that day--found our the place she worked was closing--she had been there for over 20 years. And lastly I got the flu. After the reception we went to the hotel where I proceeded to throw up ALL night long. Took me 10 years to finally get rid of the loser.

 

[Princess_Aurora]

Well, my wedding started late but it wasn't my fault. While I was getting my hair and makeup done, my BMs thought it would be fun to just stand around and do nothing! So when we got to the church while all I had to do was step into my dress, they had to get dressed, touch up their hair and then do their makeup. They made me almost an hour late! I was so mad at them. DH's best man even came knocking on the door to ask me if I still planned on getting married

After the ceremony and reception, the limo never showed up. DH called the company and they said they would be about two hours late! All the food and entertainment was over with so the guest started leaving, so by the time the limo did get there, there were only like 5 people left to throw the rice at us

Then came the worst of it. I left my purse at the reception with my ID in it. We were flying to Orlando the next day and I had to have the ID to get on the plane. We called around and found out that a friend of mine had my purse with him...only no one could find him! We drove around until 3am until we finally got ahold of him so I could get my purse back. Our plane left at 6:45am!!! I was in tears the whole night because I didn't think I'd be able to go to Disney World with DH

 

[jipsy]

My wedding disaster? I actually said "I do."

 

[Claudia1]

Here's one.......

I used to be an organist for weddings and I remember one when the ushers (big, burly football-type guys) pulled the aisle runner down the aisle. In the rehearsal, they were told to light the candlabras , including the single family candles on the alter and then take the candle-lighters out with them when they pulled the carpet down the aisle. Well, they must have had some hang-over from the bachelor party because they each held the aisle runner in one hand and the full-sized, swirled, floor candlabras in the other! They walked all the way down the aisle, trying to not catch the guests on fire or drop the heavy metal. I really don't know how they managed to do it but they made it all the way to the back of the church. I watched from the balconey, playing all the while, in horror and then amusement that nobody stopped them.

The candles stayed in the back of the church for the entire ceremony.

 

[DonnaS]

I just remembered our best friend's wedding. They had a small informal wedding at her parent's house. A couple of things stand out.

First the bachelor's party was at a strip club and one of the guys (not my DH) had the poor taste to bring snap shots of the groom dancing with a stripper to the wedding. The bride knew about the dancing, but to bring the photos to the wedding???

Second, the bride got the giggles during the ceremony. Her grandfather was conducting the ceremony since he was an ordained minister and she just couldn't stop laughing while she was repeating her vows. She ended up totally busting out laughing at the part where she was to promise about being faithful. She never did actual say that part which we remind her DH of all of the time.

11.5 years later they are still happily married and I'm pretty sure she has been faithful.

 

[wdwnutze]

My sister got married in June of 98. Well, it was a very rainy day. We got to my mothers to get dressed and wait for the Limos to pick us up. Only 1 limo showed up instead of 2 and he was an hour late. We all pile into the limo and the photographer takes the people that didn't fit in the limo. We get on the highway in this major rain storm and about half way there the highway is shut down due to flooding. My sister is sticking her head out of the sunroof yelling at everyone to get out of her way. We finally got within about 20minutes of the church and her friend (a cop) managed to get us a police escort the rest of the way. We were 2 hours late for the wedding. The guests(bless them) stayed and waited. Some of the groomsmen decided they should have a couple beers outside the church which caused an argument with them and the groom. Things were very tense needless to say by the time we arrived. The whole day was a fiaso! The marriage lasted less than a year- she should have taken the wedding day as an omen.

 

[Margie J]

This is the story of the wedding for a very good College friend #1:

A good friend was having her wedding out of State so I stayed the night before at another friends (male) house. Well, he kept talking for hours about "does she know what she is doing" and "doesn't she think about what her family will think", etc.

Day of the wedding - Many of her relatives show up wearing black! Not fashionable black, funeral black! The ceremony goes smoothly.

Reception - Open bar, this will become key later on. A few of the grooms relatives get drunk and a fist fight breaks out on the dance floor involving the grooms brother and an uncle. :eek :eek My friend, the Bride, is mortified and worried as her Groom goes to try to end the fight.

Post-reception - A bunch of us College friends decide to get together and toast to the happy couple. The friend I stayed with the night before continues his rant, "how could she do this", "doesn't she understand how this hurts me", etc. He still wasn't over the fact that the Bride never wanted him as a boyfriend, let alone a husband.


Wedding for another College friend #2:

Ceremony goes very nicely then all of us in the bridal party get into a bunch of cars. The bride and groom are in a limo. I am driving along with a friend I haven't seen for a while. We start chatting as we get on the highway, following the limo. We get caught up in conversation and finally realize we crossed State lines and we are in the wrong State! :eek We find a place to turn around and make it to the reception area a bit late. As we get closer to the hall we can see our friend, the groom, standing in the middle of the roadway in a panic! He's freaking out and then tells us he sent his FIL out to find us. Everyone had to wait for the FIL to make it back to the hall before the reception could start. This was all before cell phones, which would have helped that day.

 

[CourtasanSatine]

another second hand story: the same wekend of last summer's flood there was a wedding in a hotel lobby since the first location was underwater

 

[MerryPoppins]

My Maid of Honor passed out during the service.

We lost our plane tickets and almost missed our flight the next morning. We had them all along. We'd just misplaced them.

DH was amused at our reception. Everything was turning into a blur for me. My head was spinning from all the well wishes. Some man came up to us and said something like "In a few hours you'll be doing what all married couples do, I guess!" What a weird thing to say, right? And my answer was a gushing "I know and isn't it just WONDERFUL!" When he told me later, I couldn't help wondering what else I'd said at the party and who the goofy man was that had said that.

I was once in a wedding in Mexico where the flower girls started beating each other over the heads with their bouquets. Looking back it was pretty funny. Almost like what you'd see in a movie, but my Spanish is shaky and I felt like I should make them stop, but I couldn't communicate with them very well.

A wedding I attended had the cutest flower girl. She started walking down the aisle dropping petals, one by one. About halfway up the aisle she decided she had too many petals left, so she turned the basket upside down and dumped them all in a big pile. Then she flounced up the aisle. Mission accomplished. The church cracked up. Poor bride, the kid stole the show!

I have friends who attended a family wedding. At the rehearsal dinner the bride and groom had a big fight. She threw her ring in the bushes and broke up with the groom. Her father started yelling at her that she was going to get married and it was too late to back out because the money was already spent. It got worse from there, but I don't remember the details. I'll try to remember to ask my mom. We always said it would make a great comedy movie. EVERYTHING went wrong. Maybe someday I'll write a screenplay and make a bundle. Folks will think I am so creative. LOL!

 

[ASFCurly]

I remember another thing, at another cousins wedding, the flower girls (the brides nieces, there were 3 of them) were scared to go down the aisle, so they had candy and food in the front pew for them and told the girls that if they made it down the aisle it was there for them to eat, so they ended up eating during the entire thing.

 

[Michelina]

Right before the first guests started arriving for my bridal shower I saw my dad walking up the front steps and thought "That's strange, what is dad doing here?" He comes in looking very solemn and says " Jerry (my future DH) fell down." and then just stops. Well I thought he was dead, but turned out he had fallen at his parents house and broken his leg. (It's 6 weeks before the wedding.) Needless to say I freaked out and wanted to go to the hospital where he was having surgery but one of my aunts came in and told me I had to put on a brave face since the guests were coming in and soldier through. In all of the pictures from the shower my face is BRIGHT RED like my head is going to pop off and I don't remember anything that really happed there.
He got his cast off 3 days before the wedding and stood during the ceremony on one leg with the other one barely touching because he didn't want his crutches in the wedding pictures! We still managed to go to St Petersburg and MK for a week for our honeymoon! I pushed him around in his wheelchair all day (in August!) but at least we got to go in the front of the lines!

 

[snoopy]

DH was amused at our reception. Everything was turning into a blur for me. My head was spinning from all the well wishes. Some man came up to us and said something like "In a few hours you'll be doing what all married couples do, I guess!" What a weird thing to say, right? And my answer was a gushing "I know and isn't it just WONDERFUL!" When he told me later, I couldn't help wondering what else I'd said at the party and who the goofy man was that had said that.

This cracked me up! LOL, LOL, LOL Merry Poppins!

I'm the Queen of Other People's Bad Weddings........

Wedding from Hell #1 - Bride freaked out on me because I had the nerve to cut my hair two months before the wedding, thereby making myself different from all the other bridesmaids, and throwing off her "syncronicity"..... Made for a most miserable wedding. I have a picture of me and DH around here somewhere, we are scowling at the camera, I have to see if I can dig it up.

Wedding from Hell #2 that Didn't Happen - Bride-to-be announced her wedding, asked us all to be bridesmaids, we all went and got our dresses, and two weeks before the wedding Groom-To-Be was caught red handed with Maid-of-Honor-to-be!

Wedding from Hell #3 - Bride and Groom are my brother and his girlfriend. She has decided that everything, and I mean everything, must be MAUVE. She later becomes nicknamed Mauve behind her back. Her father is Hades, and her mother is Cruella de Ville. Mauve and Cruella have a near fist fight two seconds before walking down the aisle, and Hades is visibly drunk while walking Mauve down the aisle. The smell of liquor is so overpowering people are raising eyebrows and whispering to one another! Oh, and before that, ringbearer is walking down the aisle, gets mad at his little brother for making faces at him, and throws the pillow across the pews. Good thing the ring was fake!

Wedding from almost Hell #4 - Sister is the Bride, second time around. We hated the first time around, at the courthouse, and we hated her groom, so this wedding was going to be special. It did turn out well, but crazy Grandmother announces to the entire wedding that she doesn't know where her Granddaughter is getting the money to throw such a lavish wedding party, and does she think she is rich????? Sister of the bride (ME!) tells everyone she is a mean old bat and to just ignore her.

I also went to a wedding once where the Mother of the Bride got so drunk, when she was dancing she split her dress wide open!

 

[mrsdon]

Its not really wedding diaster, but it mad me made.
My FIL refused to come to our wedding, Its not that he hates me, but he was having an affair at the time and it was a perfect excuse to have a weekend with his girlfriend.
We've been married almost 22 years and i still have an angry spot in my heart over it.

 

[Beth E. (NJ)]

Years ago I was a guest at a wedding and the I saw the groom pass out during the ceremony. One minute he was standing and the next he was down for the count.

At my cousins wedding the ceremony was outdoors on a covered patio. The flowers were on the railing of the patio. When the photographer was taking pictures he backed into one of the arrangements. One minute he's taking a picture the next he's turning around and diving to save the flowers.

 

[Fire14]

My Wedding:
Day before Moh/Bestfriend is scheduled to fly in and still needs to have dress fitted. I pray hoping flight gets in early so i can get her to dress shop 1 hour from airport to get dress fitted in time for wedding. Of course this would be one time when Northwest would fail me. To top this all off It had been like 7 years since I had been to airport I was picking her up at and I didn't realize secrity was as tight as it was. So I open my trunk like I'm asked and secrity guy got a good luck at all kinds of stuff 3 prs shoes, M+m's for reception, my honeymoon bag etc. I think he got bit embarrassed LOL.

Day of: I'm stayed at hotel with girls night before. We get up and ran out of towels after 2 of 4 of us took showers. I have to get MOH to dress shop to pick up her dress and pray it fits right now. As I'm heading out to take her, my brother pulls in and hands me his 3 yr old dtr still in Pj's, unshowered. and her dress for wedding, He got called to work to fix something and he needs me to watch dtr. So here I am day of my wedding 3 yo in tow trying to get MOH to dress shop, get to florist to get flowers and get back to get ready. As I'm pulling back into hotel lot in pulls my Dh to be in a strange car with another woman! I'm like Ok what the heck. I calmly get stuff up to girls room , tell Niece she needs to stay with girls I'll be right back. I go track my Dh to be down come to find out his car blew what he thought was Engine on way up, and he had offered to give a friend's wife a ride up to wedding since her husband was already in area of wedding. This whole time I'm thinking what a way to start a marriage, car needs costly repairs, I'm on verge of wanting to strangle a few people and I have an adopted kid in tow. We got everybody ready and heading in right direction in time for wedding. I had to drive myself to wedding since I was 1 of 3 people who knew how to get to wedding site easily. Dh rode with Officant and best man, my mother was at site decorating so that left me to get girls to wedding. My other bridesmaid followed me, MOH and Flower girl rode with me.

During ceramony skys opened up and we had 5 min down pour, We got married outside in covered gazebo. After cermony Officant slid down hill and was covered in mud, My DH set off my car alarm trying to get door open for me to get in car.

In the end the wedding was beautiful and "blown engine" turned out to be 5.00 Oil fliter (old seal had stuck on during last oil change).

And to think it's been almost a year and we are still happily married