Another Wedding Thread:The Disasters

[CourtasanSatine]

My DBF's roomate heard of one where the cops were called during the rehesal dinner to break up a fight

 

[jamsmom]

Sort-of:


This happened to an extrmemly close friend (*wink*wink*):

The husband-to-be had been arrested a few days before because he supposedly offered candy to a child to get in the car. The car identified was my friend's (*wink*wink) and was in another town when it supposedly happened. They were waiting for paper work to be cleared for him to be released. The wedding was at 7:30pm. He was released at 5:15pm- an hour away from the wedding location!!

 

[ASFCurly]

my the best man at my cousin's wedding (her DH's younger brother) fainted in the middle of the wedding, it was outside in August, and it was really hot outside, maybe not a disaster, but it stopped the wedding for a while while trying to get him concious and feeling alright.

 

[katerkat]

Well, my photographer was late... And my flowers were completely wrong. (I said daisies! And there were a total of 15 daisies in 6 bridesmaids bookays!) Oh, and I get patches of red skin when I'm hot/nervous/excited/bascially all the time, so my wedding pictures reveal blotches of red all over my back. Oh, and my sisters (MOHs) didn't fix my veil after the blusher was put back, so in all the pictures, it's crooked.

Nothing drastic... But we did have some drunk friends, which caused the bar to be cut off an hour before the reception ended...

 

[mtemm]

we went to our friend's wedding. a great time was had by all, when suddenly one of the bridesmaid's father collapsed with a heart attack. The bride is a nurse, and it was quite a sight to see her on the ground administering cpr, huge gown piled up around her and veil flying. Thankfully the man lived.

On a much sadder note, at a different wedding an abusive ex-boyfriend of a bridesmaid tracked her down, made a scene at the wedding and they disappeared. Later the bride and groom were called to the police station that night...the ex had shot and killed her. Not exactly a honeymoon. This happened over 10 years ago and I'm still sad about it.

 

[Briar Rose 7457]

there was a big news story on Long Island about 16 or 17 years ago. the wedding party had left the church and was headed to the reception at a local catering hall (I think it was down in Long Beach or Lido Beach). as the limo carrying the wedding party was turning off the street and into the parking lot it was hit by another car. the bride and groom were killed. that's mor ethan just a "disaster", I know, it's a tragedy.

I went to a wedding a number of years ago where the birde and groom planned on an outdoor ceremony at a country club, and it rained. the back up plan was to get married in the room where the reception would be held later that evening -- but the room that was supposed to be used as a chapel was not available (the country club screwed up) and they had to get married in the bar, with all the golfers who were coming in out of the rain.

 

[RUDisney]

One of my neighbors growing up was getting married on a Saturday. Her father decided to seal the blacktop in front of their house and had a heart attack doing it. He survived until Friday and his dying words were for her to get married and to know that he will be there with her in spirit. It was the saddest wedding anyone had ever been at. The couple even had their reception... it became just a meal since people had to eat anyway.

Gee, this is really a downer thread.

Where are the funny disaster stories?

 

[gshoemate]

Had a friend that had an emergancy surgery 4 days before the wedding, the night before the wedding the groom's grandfather passes away, and the day of the wedding, the bride broke a mirror. Not a good start.

 

[mrsv98]

Well, mine is kind of funny, but not strictly a "disaster"

My sister stood up for me and her 3 yo son was supposed to sit with my parents. At the last minute, he refused to sit down so I jsut told my sister to let him walk her down the aisle and then hand him of to his Papa. Ok, thkat worked for the first five minutes of the ceremony. We are listening to the Pastor when out of the corner of my eye, I see Jeremy has escaped and is standing with my sister, no problem. Then a few minutes later, I see him swinging upside down on the alter rail like some crazed sloth!!! I started silently laughing because, really what were we going to do?! Then our Pastor sees me laughing and he starts laughing. Poor DH couldn't see around me to figure out what was going on! After a bit, Jeremy decides he is tired and his new shoes are bothering him. So he goes behind me and sits on my train and takes his shoes off! We have a hysterical picture of this very solemn looking ceremony taken from the balcony, but if you look carefully, you can see J sitting on my train! And in the picture of my parents walking out of the church, my Mom is carrying his shoe! It was a riot because no one could get him and no one wanted him to start screaming! It makes for some good family stories and embarrasses the heck out of him now that he is a mature 8yo!

 

[CookieGVB]

Check out this site for some real beauts:

http://www.etiquettehell.com/wedindex.htm

 

[d.kurz]

DH averted a disaster once. He was best man for his friend and they had a reception at a bar/club. DH HAPPENED TO NOTICE the table with the cake starting to list and he CAUGHT it just in time. I saw all of this from afar and believe me it was a spectacular catch!! My hero!!!

 

[kidzmom3]

A co-worker told me just last evening that someone in her family was having a wedding on cape cod at 6 pm. Bill Clinton was in town for a democratic fund raiser and the secret service blocked off all the roads around the venue. the road to the church included. They begged and pleaded but to no avail. My co-worker claims that the entire wedding had to be moved to 10 am on the fly and then they all waited around all day unitl 7 pm when they were able to have the reception. Don't know if its true, but she claims it was.

 

[d.kurz]

Originally posted by CookieGVB
Check out this site for some real beauts:

http://www.etiquettehell.com/wedindex.htm

Thanks, cookie. I bookmarked it. VERY entertaining!!

 

[CourtasanSatine]

does anyone have a funny story? DBF's roommate told me that one rehersal dinner had the police called to break up a fight in the parking lot

 

[Steve H.]

Originally posted by CourtasanSatine
does anyone have a funny story? DBF's roommate told me that one rehersal dinner had the police called to break up a fight in the parking lot

What's funny about the police breaking up a fight?

 

[beccab]

not really a disaster.

Everyone is at the church, guests, bride, groom ect.. no minister.

After waiting about an hour, the minister came flying in. He forgot & went to the movies w/his young son. He remembered in the middle of the movie. Showed up in his civilian clothes.

 

[CourtasanSatine]

the way it started:from what I was told it was drunks crashing the dinner

 

[DonnaS]

I can't think of any disasters. There were a couple of humorous things at my wedding...

DH dropped wedding cake down the front of my dress and someone yelled for him to kiss it out.

While doing my wedding video, the videographer went around and interviewed guests. He had asked me beforehand if there were people not to interview and I told him that my ex-boyfriend would be there as a date of a friend, but I did want him to interview my friend. He didn't interview my ex, but he kind of scanned the table and the look of fright on Doug's face when he thought he was going to be asked how well he knew me. LOL

There was also my eldest brother who took it upon himself (quite nicely) to run interference between my divorced MIL and FIL. He took MIL and danced with her, talked with her, etc. She still talks about how she'd like to go out with him sometime. LOL

 

[WDWHound]

My wife had a wedding consulting business a few years back which she ran part time. She closed it after what we affectionately call "The reception from hell". I was there and beleive me, she made the right decision.

You see, when one of her clients weddings would arrive, I was pressed into service. Usually everthing went OK, but this one reception teatered on the edge of disaster the entire evening. The wedding was at a seperate location, so Mandy dropped me off at the reception hall to get things organized 2 hours before the wedding while she went on to the church to help the bride. Much to my suprise, nothing was set up. The workers who were supposed to set up the tables had forgetten to show and I was left alone to set up tables, chairs and linens for 200 people in 3 hours.

I ran like crazy, but I managed to get everything set up. Then I realized, I should have seen the caterers by now. And where the heck was the cake? It was almost time for the reception to start and there was no food! I called the company that was supposed to set up the buffet and they informed me they would be an hour late! I told them that was not accetpable, but they said they had overbooked and there was nothing they could do. At that point in time, the lady with the cake arrived. She was the one who asked why there weren't any flowers on the cake table. Damn! How could I have missed the fact that the florest hadn't shown up?

Around this time Mandy arrived. She told me she was just minutes ahead of the wedding guests. I stuck her with the florest problem (turns out the florist was still at the church). While proceeded to try to get the champange fountain working . I had just got the thing running when the guests started arriving, along with the florest.

The DJ (The only person we hired who showed up on schedule) noticed that there was no food and that the flowers were still being set up, so he tried to distract the guests by getting people dancing. This worked, but made it very hard for the florests and the buffet people (when they eventual arrived) becuase people were dancing all around them as they tried to set up. We had a few collisions and spills, but nothing to drastic. Fortunately, this bride was much more patient than some others we had dealt with and didn't seem to mind.

OK, the food was set up, the flowers were set up. Everyone had eaten dinner. Everything was finally on track. Now it was time to cut the cake. Thats when I asked Mandy where the forks were. The look of panic on my wife's face is still burned into my mind. You guessed it, we had no forks. Worse yet, most of the guests had thrown away the plasic forks they had gotten with the buffet. We needed to do something and fast.

I approached the people who had done the buffet and asked them if they had any more forks. They did! In fact, they had lots of them! There was just one catch, they were all in individual plastic bags with a napkin the read "Pok-e-Joes Barbeque" in orange and read letters. Not a real attractive thing to place on a cake table. No problem, I grabbed the DJ and an armload of bags and we ran into another room, where we began unwraping forks as quickly as we could. As soon as we had 10 or 15 forks ready, Mandy would run in and take them out to the cake table where the cake was being served at the same time. It worked. We never ran out of forks and the wedding party never knew there was a problem.

Finally the reception was over, everyone was happy and the wedding party and guests had gone home. Mandy and I were dead tired, but glad to be finished at last.... Yeah, right! Rememebr those guys who forgot to show up to set up the tables and linens? Well guess who forgot to show up to tear down the tables and to clean up? Mandy and I were the only ones left in the building and it was 10pm, so we had no choice but to do it oursleves. Ever try to clean up for a group of 200 people with just 2 people? Ever try to do it in dress slacks and a dress shirt? I don't reccomend it. We finally finished at 2am after tearing down everything, packing it all up and mopping the reception hall (you would be amazed at how much people spill at a reception). I learned a new meaning of the word tired that night.

There was more we had to deal with that night that I don't have the time to get into (broken chanmpange foutain, flies in the champange foutain, not enough linens for every table.. the list went on and on), but somehow we managed to hide most of it from the wedding party and guests. Looking back, I still don't know how we did it.

As you might of guessed, the next day Mandy refunded her deposits for her remaining clients, reffered them to another consultant she trusted and closed the business forever.

 

[cgcw]

At my cousins wedding reception, the uncle of the groom suffered a massive heart attack on the dance floor. Very tragic and something we will never forget.