Another Wedding Thread:The Disasters

[becka]

I had lots of little things but the one I was most worried about is when about 1 hour before the wedding I went up into the chapel to just check on everything. I noticed that one side of the unity candle was not really straight (DH's single candle). I proceeded to "straighten" it and I snapped it in two! Is that a bad sign?

I didn't have any way to repair it so my Dad ran to a gas station to buy a cigarette lighter and we "welded" the two pieces together. There was a nice black mark around the middle. I then sent someone to tell my DH to be "very careful" with his candle when he went to light it because we were not entirely sure it was going to hold. I just knew it would snap off and set the altar on fire! When we went to light the candles I could see the fear in DH's eyes. He was so careful with that candle!

I still joke about how before I married DH I had to "break him".

 

[kdibattista]

DH and I planned our wedding a year and a half in advance. At the time we "booked" the church, they did not have their 2000 booking calendar yet so the priest wrote down our date and told us everything was fine and that he would insert it when they got the calendar. I guess you see where I'm going with this . I called him about 6 months before the date and he tells me he "accidentally" gave my date away. Now, we were scheduled to get married at 5:00 on a Friday night and he gave this other girl 4:00. He told me that since we had it first, he would honor our date and make them change theirs. I actually tried to change my date but couldn't because the reception halls were all booked (prom season) and I told him that I tried to change the date but we were not willing to move the time being that it was a Friday evening... blah, blah, blah. To make a long story somewhat short, the priest gave the other girl MY HOME PHONE NUMBER and I had her calling me, my mom and anyone else in the house to get us to move our time!!!!! We politely told her no and that we did try to move the date... blah blah blah. So, the priest told us not to worry, that she changed her time to 3:30 and she was NOT having a mass... just the ceremony. The coordinator at the church also reassured us that they would be out by 4:15 at the latest and they were not allowed to take pictures around the church.. blah blah blah. That was the condition that they took to keep the date. WELL ... I was on time and arrived at the church right at 5:00 only to see my guests waiting around outside the church (we are talking at least 200 - I had 300 at my reception). That other %*$(# didn't show up to her wedding until 4:45 and we later found out that her invitations stated that her wedding ceremony started at 4:30 (not the 3:30 it was suppose to). They were just coming out. Apparently the priest quickly made them run through their vows and that was it (and I here he wasn't very nice about it). I still didn't freak though... our ceremony started about 5:20, which wasn't too bad. It was a beautiful ceremony and we were pleasantly surprised to walk out the door to a fire engine sounding off (DH is a fireman). Our friends got together and planned it.

Oh.. a funny quick thing from the ceremony. At the part where they ask the bride/groom "do you take this ____", I apparently got a little impatient with DH (he was choked up) and said "SAY IT". I didn't realize I did that until after the ceremony

Sorry so long!!!

 

[suzannen]

I have two:

1) One of the groomsmen had partaked a little too much the night before at the bachelor party. During the middle of the vows he suddenly swerved into the minister, then turned in a circle and threw up on the flower girl and then passed out on the floor. The flower girl (age 5) then began to scream and cry and ran down the aisle jumping into her mother's arms, unfortunately splashing the vomit from her dress onto the guests as she ran. After a 10 minute break during which the flower girls' mother took her home to change, the groomsmen carried the unconscious groomsmen to another room and the guests went to restrooms to clean themselves, the wedding continued. It was not funny then (10 years ago), but folks laugh about it now as one of the most memorable weddings they ever went to.

2) At another friend's wedding, the center table where the caterers had placed her $500 wedding cake collapsed and we all watched it crash to the floor. The caterers rushed to the grocery store and served Entemann's pound cake with ice cream and optional chocolate sauce. My friend sighed "well at least everyone saw what a beautiful cake it was."

 

[Keli]

There was a disaster at my sister's wedding and unfortunately it was ME! I was one of her bridesmaids and I walked down the isle with a friend of her dh's. This friend is in a wheelchair and somehow the lace overlay in my dress got caught in the wheel of the electric wheelchair and it ripped it right off of my dress. It was terrible while it was happening because I thought my whole dress was coming off and the groomsman could not stop his chair for some reason. I was desperately trying to remember if I had a full slip on or not because I thought all the guests were going to be seeing me in whatever I had on underneath any second. The videotographer didn't tape it but he was standing near our place in the isle and you can hear me saying over and over "Oh no, Oh no, Oh no..." Thankfully except for the lace overlay, the rest of the dress remained intact so I didn't end up nearly naked at the wedding, lol.

 

[RUDisney]

On our wedding day, we borrowed my DH's uncle's limo. He had this car to lend to friends and business associates.

My best friend's DH drove us since he's been a friend of mine for so many years. When he dropped us off at the reception, he didn't bother to look to his left to see if any cars were there. He thought the rest of the bridal party was going to pull up individually in front of the door.

Well, he near took off the back door of my new SIL's car. The guys got it to sort of close.

Luckily, DH's uncle had many connections to get the limo and my SIL's car fixed. Our friend was mortified by causing this accident.

 

[KiminChicago]

I was maid of honor for one of my best friends and all her attendants met at her parents' house to do our makeup and get dressed. The limousine was supposed to pick us up and take us to the church. Well, as luck would have it, the house was in an unincorporated area and instead of a sewer system, there were drainage ditches on both sides of the driveway. The limousine driver managed to back up into one of the drainage ditches and got stuck. I was driving a little Plymouth Sundance at the time, so we got the bride into my car and I managed to get around the big stretch limo in the driveway and drove to the church. The other bridesmaids followed as best they could while the father of the bride called for a tow truck to get the limo out of the ditch. The good news is that there was no damage to the limo, the bridesmaids all made it to the ceremony and the limo was pulled out of the ditch in time to show up at the church to take the happy couple to the reception.

The worst wedding I've ever been to had to be my cousin's. My cousin (the groom) and the father of the bride were both extremely hung over from the bachelor party the night before, and my other cousin (the best man and brother of the groom) was actually in the bathroom throwing up just minutes before the ceremony started. I missed the later parts of the reception, but I heard from both my mom and my sister that the bride's brother was celebrating his birthday that day, and as part of the festivities, he had his face shoved into a chocolate cake. Later, several members of the bride's family decided to "moon" the guests from the back porch (the reception was at the bride's grandmother's house). There seems to be some question as to whether or not the bride also decided to display her assets to the crowd. They are a very strange group to say the least, and I'm just glad it wasn't my wedding.

Finally, for my sister's wedding, I was 6 months pregnant. My sister had chosen a very nice two piece bridesmaid dress with a purple satin skirt and a black velvet off-the-shoulder top. The dress was large enough to fit over my very pregnant shape, but the top just wasn't going to work. So, I hired a supposedly experienced seamstress to make me a maternity top out of black velvet to match the other bridesmaids. Unfortunately, she somehow forgot that velvet has a nap, and cut some of the pieces upside-down. In the pictures I look like a huge purple whale, and my top is just slightly off in color (because the nap was facing the wrong way on the front). Bless my sister though, she never even considered not having me in her wedding party although I did volunteer when we found out I was pregnant.