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

[Samandmom]

I had just finished up at the hairdressers the morning of my wedding. I had Grandma with me. I got on the highway to take her home and I missed the exit. So I took the next one. As I am exiting I notice the car is riding horrible. So I pull over and notice I have NOT one but FOUR flat tires. I called my soon to be DH and he sends over his buddy with a wrecker. I called my brother and he let me take his truck while he waited for the wrecker. I was about an hour late for my make-up appointment. After my appointment I go over to my SIL house to get dressed and have no pantyhose. (I left them at the hairdressers) My brother went and got them. After we are all ready and take pictures, we get in the limo. We still have some time so the limo driver drives around for a bit. The limo's AC was NOT working and it was a record high day in August. We made a quick stop for some soda and booze. The Ceremony went great. After the ceremony we went to a local park to take some pictures. We had sweat dripping down our faces. We all were dying of thrist because of the humidity. All the soda and booze were all GONE. The rest of the day went wonderful though.


At my SIL wedding I was driving with Grandma (same one with me in the car with the four flats) to the hairdressers. On the way there we get into a big accident. My truck is totaled (sp) Grandma's door not hit and her leg got stuck in the door. I was able to help her out. I called my DH (boyfriend at the time and he was living at home with parents) and he goes downstairs to tell his dad (Grandma's son) about the accident. They get their and ask grandma if she wants to go to the emergency room and her reply was "OH NO!!! I have to still go get my hair done"

 

[goin2disneyagain]

These stories are hilarious!!! I have tears running down my face from laughing so hard. The dentures flying out story was funny. The man marrying another woman is terrible!!!

I don't have a story of my own yet because I haven't gotten married, yet. But I do have 2 stories.

A friend decided to get married at one of the big, old churches in downtown Atlanta and during the ceremony they drained the baptismal (sp.?) water and you couldn't hear them say their vows. I thought that was a bad sign. They divorced 2 years later.

A former co-worker had her wedding dress in a box sitting in the bottom of her closet. Well her apartment flooded. They had to do a lot of work to fix her dress. I don't know if they are still married or not.

 

[phisigprincess]

Eeks! What a thread to read while planning my wedding!! Some of these are cracking me up though!! Yikes!!

 

[JoGloMorKat]

My story's not nearly as horrific as the others but at the time I was pretty mad.

The rehersal at the church is scheduled for 5 PM with the rehersal dinner to follow. At 5PM I'm at the church, my parents and relatives are at the church, priest, MOH, Bridesmaids, ushers, reader, musicians but no fiance or her family.

5:30 Still no sign of her and no cell phones back then.

6:00 Priest says we should run through the ceremony without them. By now I'm getting a little mad. DW is a little blond and used to working the night shift so any decisions made when the sun is up are not always the best.

6:15 after everyone else has gone to the dinner, they all show up. She had gone back with her sister to the hotel after their nail appointment and were waiting on FIL to pick them up. FIL got lost getting to the hotel and was driving in circles for an hour.

I did get my revenge. I switched the recessional music to Gary Owen. Small joke that only John Ford/John Wayne fans or members of the 7th Cav could understand. Still married 14 years later so the song wasn't a sign.

 

[Cindy B]

Yes, we have heard of bridesmaids dropping out at the last moment.. but try having only ONE bridesmaid.. and having that ONE person drop out ONE WEEK before the wedding!


That was a nightmare!

 

[robsmom]

My only snag was that my DSIS2 went to the hairdressers and didn't come back. The photographer came and we were suppossed to do family pictures so we started the one's without her. my DSIS1 started "the search" and found that she had fainted at the hair dressers. They had revived her but had to have her rest on the coach for a while and she couldn't drive home! No problem, we send my brother for her and tell my DSIS2 call my DH and tell him to go right to the church (was suppossed to meet my DB and BIL at the reception hall to drop off cars). Only problem is my DSIS2 would not tell my DH what was wrong, told him he didn't need to know and hung up on him. So my poor DH spent an hour or more thinking something was wrong with me and maybe i changed my mind!! then when my dsis1 gets back from hair dresser, dsis2 starts yelling at her and makes her cry (she felt really bad already). I wasn't mad at dsis1 at all but by the end of the day was really annoyed at dsis2!! We got the pictures, got to church and had a beautiful day. DH cried when we saw me - probably relief that i was actually there!

 

[Stepharoonie!]

I think Otto's Doll is the winner so far. My GOODNESS!

 

[OhMari]

I like Swea Pea 1.

The readings are really nice, but do you think anyone ever listens. It just cracked me up and I was laughing, cause she was laughing when her DH read.

What is a DS1S2 and a MOH?

 

[tkd lisa]

Dear Sis number 1, and Maid of Honor.

On my wedding day, the bridesmaids and I got to the church EARLY to put together the balloons (no rice allowed, and I didn't like the birdseed idea). I had called my mom and left her a message about 10 am to pick up somthing for us to eat cause we were starving (for some reason we didn't have a car there, so couldn't go get anything).

Mom finally shows up about 3 hours later (about 1/2 hour before the wedding and 2 hours after she was supposed to be there) with a loaf of bread and a package of bologna. I'll never understand my mother!

 

[Shannon G]

Not my wedding, but SIL's. FIL (father of the bride) got drunk and started a fight with the groom.

For some background, FIL (now deceased) had a serious drinking problem. His GF at the time was no help. Anyway, at the reception, SIL finally has a chance to sit down and rest her feet a bit. She happens to be sitting with an aunt on MIL's side, who FIL did not like. FIL came over and asked SIL to dance (mind you, she had already danced with him multiple times). She told him this was the first chance she'd had to rest a bit, so she'd rather take a break from dancing for a little while. So, gets PO'd because his daughter said no to him in front of the aunt he doesn't like (which, of course, in his mind, made him look bad). He goes back to his table, and his GF just encourages his anger - "You're own daughter won't dance with you at her wedding?" Like I said, she had already danced with him numerous times. So, he gets even more PO'd. Ends up telling SIL he wants to talk to her, and they go out on the patio (through a door located directly behind the head table). Someone tells the groom that SIL just went outside with her dad, and didn't look happy, so he goes to check on them. Apparently, FIL didn't appreciate the interuption, told BIL to stay out of it, and when he didn't listen, took swing at him! Next thing you know, the groom and the father of the bride come crashing in through the doors behind the head table!

Finally get FIL under control (after he has also swung at the groom's father and knocked down the groom's mother), and he has been told to leave. SIL, DH (DBF at the time) and BIL are all out on the patio telling FIL & his girlfriend that they are no longer welcome at the reception and they should just leave. FIL's GF then starts yelling at SIL (the bride), and tells her "you're just a w*ore like your mother!" That did it - next thing you know, SIL and GF come tumbling back inside from the patio, with SIL on top of FIL's GF!

To her credit, SIL can now joke about it - she says that at least no one will ever forget her wedding!

when it came time to plan our wedding a couple of years later, I was so stressed out, worrying about what FIL would do to screw it up - to the point of breaking down in tears just at the thought of it a couple of times. DH told him flat out - "you'd better not do ANYTHING out of line, or I'm done with you." Luckily he was fairly well behaved. The only thing he did (which I wsn't even aware of until after the fact) was argue with DH about the fact that his GF (new one) was not being announced with him at the reception, when the family and wedding party are introduced. We had him instead escorting his mother (DH's grandmother), who is a widow. He was aware of this ahead of time. But, at the reception, as we are lining up to be announced, he starts in on DH about this. DH basically told him you can either drop it, or you can go sit down and you don't have to be announced at all. That finally seemed to do the trick.