Nightmare wedding stories(inspired by bridesmaid dropped out thread!)

[luv2nascar]

the list goes on and on
our wedding two tables caught on fire due to defective candles
my cousin one of my bridesmaids got drunk fell dancing electric slide and broke her foot
BIL broke our Lenox crystal toasting flutes on the way home

My cousin's wedding the minister forgot to show up ?? duh how do you forget to do that. back up minister and 1 hour later they were married

BIL's 1st wedding - bride and groom showed up 1 hr late to rehersal duh
minister was ticked. Had to rush because another couple was waiting to use the church
Bride's parents and other relatives did not show up at rehersal dinner?? they went home.
we went to SIL's house in between wedding and reception for pictures. FIL sat on chair and his tux was covered in cat hair He said some bad curse words that day.
bride was over heard saying she wasn't worried she could always get it annuled

that gem lasted 2 months before she kicked him out

 

[robsmom]

Your story was so sad but sweet. I am sure Papa was happy that you went forward and married a great many. My sisters close friend had a sad but similar story. Her mother was terminally ill with cancer when she was engaged. they moved the wedding up by about 6 months so that should could attend. Unfortunately she ended up in the hospital the week of the wedding. They released her so that she could attend the wedding, but she calapsed at the reception had to go back to the hospital and passed the next morning. Like you it was sad but in some ways sweet. She had no Dad and it had always been just her mom and her. Her DH is a great man with a big family that treats her as one of their own - so her mother got to see that her daughter wasn't going to be alone before she passed. 6 years and 4 kids later, she has a big family of her own.

 

[Pin Wizard]

I had a bridesmaid drop out...after the gown was ordered! It turned out that after she agreed to be a bridesmaid, she found out that a cousin of her husband's was getting married the same day. Her husband thought it was more important for her to be in his cousin's wedding. Eek! Then she had called me afterwards and said that her husband had become so ill...I forget what it was...menengitis I think! Since he was ill, she wasn't in the other wedding either! Luckily, I had enough time to ask another tiny friend to take her place.

Rehearsal? LOL! I forgot to bring the money with me to give the minister. While everyone waited in church, I drove back home a half hour each way to get it and return!

 

[sunsprinkle24]

My first wedding -- this is by no means a nightmare but at the time I was upset because I wanted every thing to be so "perfect" -- we had two ministers performing the ceremony. Well, time comes to bless the rings, and one of them drops my husbands ring....they are looking all over the floor for it, we are looking, then the other minister hisses to the one who dropped it, "shake your robe!" sure enough, the ring was caught in his robes....my husband gets the giggles because he was so nervous, and I had to give him a quick elbow jab so we could go on with the vows.

We spent the night at a hotel about 30 minutes from home. My BIL used our car to pick up my husbands father and his girlfriend before the wedding...she left her purse in the car, under the seat, which we drove to the hotel. She had to have her medication, which was in the purse so.........my mother and one of the preachers drove to our hotel to get this womans purse out of our car....imagine my surprise, we get a call in our hotel room, its my mother, she says, her and the minister are down in the lobby....


Second wedding, we were married in church with just our parents, his grandmother, sister, and my kids present....I did not want the hassle of another big wedding!

At my best friends wedding, the minister said "for breast" instead of "for better" .... the wedding party avoided eye contact with each other because we knew we would crack up if we did, the bride and groom didnt even notice his goof, they didnt believe us till they watched the video!

 

[theSurlyMermaid]

My wedding was amazing, but it was also held on September 15, 2001. The reception was held on a military base a few miles from the Pentagon. Oh, and a good 65% of the guests were coming from 1.) Boston and 2.) New York City (where me and DH lived at the time). For some reason, DH and I decided to come to D.C. a week before the wedding and we got all the marriage license stuff done on Monday, September 10. Good thing, too, everything was closed the next day.

Well, needless to say I spent September 11 hysterical because many of my law school friends had started their jobs at WTC the day before. I called families (which in retrospect was stupid) and luckily everyone was OK.

Then the cancellations started pouring in. Two days before the wedding, the reception site told us they didn't know if we could have our reception as planned on Saturday. My mother was beside herself (everything had been planned for a year and a half) but for me it was very easy to keep things in perspective. Unfortunately, our only other choice for a reception site would have been the lobby of the Doubletree Hotel everyone was staying at. Luckily we were able to have the reception at the military base and all went very well.

Back to the cancellation fallout: one of the cancellations was our soloist, who was a friend of my DH's from his hometown Tennessee who refused to come because she was under the impression everyone in Washington was living in a bunker. We had to obtain a soloist in two days. Believe it or not we did, and she was wonderful. Many people started coastal carpools, picking people up on the way to the wedding because all the airports were closed. It actually turned into a wonderful day, despite the fact that we had about 25 people cancel.

As a footnote, we had to cancel our honeymoon to Italy. Originally, it was going to be a week in Venice and a week in WDW. It quickly became two weeks in Disney World, which was just fine by me.

My sister has just gotten married and was hysterical over every little detail especially the weather. My parents just spent the weeks up to her wedding rolling their eyes and saying, "THIS is not a crisis....don't you remember your sister's wedding?" Oh, and her day went off without a hitch despite the snowstorm she kept insisting was going to happen....

 

[The Duchess]

My Maid of Honor and some college pals hijacked he bus (they went to Bickford's) we had rented to transport everyone back to their hotels.
By the time we had found rides for everyone, my husband and I were stranded (still in my dress) at the inn at about 2am.
Fortunately, a friend of my husbands came back for us.

 

[MsDisney23]

I got married on Nov. 18, 2000. Mickey Mouse's birthday and we did a complete Disney Theme Wedding, In under one week from the wedding the place where our receiption was to be held BURNED to the ground! Fianice called me to tell me it was on fire, but not to go over there. At first I thought it was a joke, I jumped on my broom and flew over there, I just had to see it to believe it. Oh what a nightmare, I did not sleep for two days, I had to find another place and re-plan my whole weddding.

Now my Maid-of Honor was flying in from Florida the day before the wedding, she almost did not make it, problem's with the plane, they finally cancelled her flight all together. There she sat in an airport! She was caring her gown with her. She explained her situation and they got her on another flight with another airline.

I am glad all of that is behind me.

 

[Micheme]

not too disasterous but pretty funny all the same.


Dh and I were married in an old church in a small town. During our ceremony the volunteer fire siren went off.

At the remote location for our pictures our limo broke down. Luckily some guy got lost and was in the park to turn around and he had jumper cables to boost us.

Micheme

 

[Mad4Mickey]

We got all the way to Cozumel for my dream wedding without papers I needed. I always wanted to get married barefoot on the beach at sunset. When we had emailed and called the wedding planner he never metioned that I would need my divorce papers from my 1st marriage. Of course when on the 1st day he still didnt mention it but on the 2nd day he asked me for the papers. When I told him that I didnt have them he informed me that I would not be able to get married . BIG Problem , they were in my saftey deposit box here in Texas and no one could get into it but me. The bank would make no excepetions even after begging . I cried and pleaded but they Mexican goverment would not let me get married. I dont know how my husband did it but on the day we were to be married they let us do it . He swears he didnt have to pay anyone off

 

[Kermit]

It wasn't a disaster, but my flower girl insisted at the rehersal that she was not going to walk down the aisle during the wedding unless we put a frog in the basket with her flower petals. In the end, she decided to do it, even without a frog.

Our ceremony was outdoors, and the pastor had a spider on the top of his bald head for most of the ceremony. After it was over, DH and I asked if he had noticed it. He said he had but that he didn't want to ruin the mood by getting it off. We told him that it would have been fine with us if he had just flicked it off.

 

[DD2Disney]

We had a very very informal wedding, so I think that is why there was'nt much room for things to go wrong....... However I do remember two small things. My husband's friend was making me a special bouquet to carry, we waited and waited and waited for it to come and finally DH had to go buy a fresh flower one for me on the DAY of the wedding (lol I said it was informal) luckily it was prom weekend. When he got back to his apt. the keepsake one was there waiting for him...lol I think its funny.

The only other thing I remember being wrong was the Pastor called me Theresa during the ceremony, instead of Tricia.

 

[Beth E. (NJ)]

I have to stories -- but neither of them happened to me. The first was at the wedding of my best friend from college. One of her fiances grooms men was a no show. He had the tux and everything, but he wasn't there. They handled it okay though -- two bridesmaids walked with one groomsmen.

Another was at a wedding my dh and I went too. the ceremony was held outdoors. We were seated on the aisle behind an older couple. The man in front of us started to cough and cough. He could not catch his breath. He got up to walk away and suddenly he started to cough again. Just as he was passing us we saw something fly out of his mouth as he coughed -- it was his dentures! They hit the grass a few feet away. He kept walking and grabbed them up as he passed. I though the young guys on the other side of the aisle were going to pass out from laughing!

 

[swea_pea1]

DH was asked to do one of the readings in his cousins wedding. About two weeks ahead of time, I asked if he had heard anything about the rehearsal, and he hadn't. So he asked his mom to make a call to his aunt to inquire about where/when the rehearsal was. His aunt said that my DH wouldn't need to rehearse, he just needed to read. Oooooooookkkkkkkkk....

Fast forward to the wedding...on our way in the door, his aunt hands him a copy of the reading. It's the one that goes "Love is patient, love is kind....". Anyway, he's not allowed to bring the copy up to the lectern with him and he has to read it directly from the Bible. He ends up reading the verses either right before or right after the ones he was supposed to read. Whatever it was, it was filled with references to "fornicating" and being "wanton with lust" At one point, he realized that he was reading the wrong thing...I will always remember the look on his face at that moment. And I could just tell that he was trying to decide whether to stop or to go on. He looked out at me but I was no help because I was laughing uncontrollably. He ended up finishing the next verse, and ended with a solemn "The Word of the Lord". I had tears running down my face!

The bride and groom didn't notice, but I'll tell ya, the priest sure did!

 

[Otto's Doll]

My "husband to be" was in the Navy, and married someone else on MY wedding day. (He had called and said he was being sent out to sea, and we would have to postpone our wedding - I don't know why he didn't just tell me the truth. Found out later that he got married instead.) He has since been divorced 3 times.

I am now married to the most wonderful man in the world. God sure knew what He was doing when that fiasco happened with the other guy.

 

[theSurlyMermaid]

Good grief, Otto's Doll....I think you win!

 

[leanne2255]

Originally posted by arminnie
I'll bet we've all heard stories about a missing bride or groom or some other party of the wedding, but do you know of another wedding where the MINISTER FORGOT TO COME.

At my brother's wedding, the priest was there to start, but then we lost him towards the middle of the ceremony because he was drunk and passed out. Funny story now, but not so funny at the time.

 

[Pig Pen]

This is the funniest thread ever. The spider on the bald head almost did me in.

 

[gshoemate]

I had a friend that just had a terrible week of her wedding. Lets see, the Tuesday before she had an emergency appendectomy, the night before the wedding the grooms grandfather passed away, the day of the wedding one of the groomsman showed up....and decided he didn't want to be in the wedding so the father of the bride ended up being a groomsman...and then to top it off, right before the wedding, the bride broke her mirror on her compact. But after all that..they went through with it, the bride was on major pain medication but still went through with it.

The only issue with my wedding was we were planning on going to Hawaii and eloping but I let my MIL talk us out of it....BIG MISTAKE!!!

 

[LadyAurora]

I wanted my maid of honor to be someone that wasn't only a friend, but also someone who could help me with the wedding. So I asked a friend that worked with me, part of another couple that we spent a lot of time with. Her fiance dumped her, and she moved to another state. I asked another friend to be my maid of honor. Then SHE moved to central IL, when I lived in Northern IL. Didn't get much help with the details from her.

One of DH's groomsmen dropped out a week before the wedding, because he couldn't afford the tux. We "moved up" an usher.

I wore my mother's dress. Before getting it altered, we decided to have it cleaned at a dry-cleaner that advertised for wedding dresses. The lace, an overlay of the bodice and at the hem, dissolved. So, we had to have the lady doing the alterations (which weren't going to be major) replace the lace, and it needed to match the lace on the veil, which did not dissolve. Well, she got pretty close. No one really noticed.

My brother-in-law came to the rehearsal drunk. The minister was not happy.

I left a WHOLE bunch of stuff at home...most noticeably the rings and all the undergarments I needed to wear with my dress! My mom had to run to my apartment and pick up the box which I had placed near the door so as not to be forgotten.

But hey...we managed to get married. The rest is just details!

 

[debster812]

Otto's Doll wins!!!!!!!!

Mine was BIL's wedding. The bride's MOH was her sister, a very petite tiny thing. She had 'forgotten' to eat the day before, and the day of the wedding. Ohhhh-Kayyyyy.

So, we are in the church, and the bride, groom, MOH and Best Man are up at the altar. All of a sudden, the MOH starts to sway. I mean REALLY sway. Well, it becomes apparent that she is going down. Her DH swoops up to the altar, and catches her on the way down. This was good save #1. Good save #2, was one of her other bridesmaids, just scooted right up to the altar, and took her spot. The bride did not know any of this happened until after the fact.