Wedding Horror Stories

[Chicago526]

In planning my own wedding, I've started to come across various "wedding from hell" stories that I find both frightening and entertaining.

I thought it would be both educational and enjoyable to share our wedding horror stories. It could be your own wedding, or just one you've attended. I'll go first, although mine isn't all that shocking!

I was a bridesmaid in my brother's wedding a few years ago. Everything was fine, the ceramony and the reception had gone off without a hitch. All the in-laws were getting along, the MoH and Best Man didn't embarase the couple TOO much. It was a lovely wedding.

As the reception went on, the alcohol was flowing and everyone was having a VERY good time. I run into my cousin, Kevin and his dad, my uncle Joe and we start to chat. Kevin was rather drunk, and starts to HIT on me, right infront of my uncle! :O All of a sudden, I "heard" the bride calling for me and I broke the land speed record getting out of there!

So, what are your stories?

 

[T16GEM]

Here's mine:


When I got to the church the Verger was waiting for me, he said " we have a slight problem" now IMO that's one thing you should never say to a bride on her wedding day!! It turned out that the person who was going to play the organ in church was sick and the stand in person was on holiday! So the next thing I knew our Vicar was sprinting down the church yard - in his full robes etc to get a CD of the bridal march!!!!

It was quite funny afterwards and we did get a refund for the organ, but at the time I thought DH hadn't turned up or something!

Next............

 

[Kimberle]

At BIL's wedding, organist forgot to show up. They tried to find her, but couldn't. The minister sort of "hummed" while the Bride walked down the aisle.

They had their rehersal a week before, rather than the night befor. The organist just forgot.

 

[Rowena]

From my own wedding...everything was wonderful, well except my mom stranding me at her house 4 miles away, until 1/2 hour after the wedding was supposed to start. She seemed to think it was too early or something. Well, and my sister, opening up the food area while we doing the congratulatory line, so DH and I ended up with none of the good food, while some of our guests had already has seconds.

But the worst, was some joker filled our trucks battery with birdseed. Luckily, rather than blowing up our truck, it blew out the headlights, on that dark rainy night we were twisting through the desert on our way home. Used some of our gift money for the nearest motel for the night as well as the next morning to buy a new battery and headlights.

 

[rubyslipperlover]

I went to a wedding once, at a country club. there were two rooms in the clubhouse -- a bar where the club members could have a drink after their golf game, and a large party room. the party room could be subdivided into two smaller rooms. one of the smaller subdivided rooms could be set up as a chapel if you wanted your ceremony at the club.

the bride and groom planned on an outdoor ceremony at the club at 4 in the afternoon, followed by a reception at 7 in the evening. they were told that if tthe weather was bad, they could hold the ceremony in the chapel. they were and were an interfaith couple -- he was Jewish and she was Italian and Catholic. they planned on having a priest and a rabbi perform the ceremony. a week before the wedding the priest backed out, and at the last minute they found a judge to take his place.

when we arrived for the ceremony that afternoon we were asked "which wedding?" it seems that there was a reception going on in the party room all afternoon.

no matter, it was a sunny afternoon.

the bride arrived at about 4:20. and realized that she'd left the marriage license at home. someone was sent ot fetch it.

by the time the marriage license arrived, the weather had changed...it was pouring rain. all the wedding guests were huddled in the bar with the golfers.

and the chapel turned out to be unavailable. seems that the other wedding was larger than the club anticipated, and they'd used the whole party room.

after waiting for almost 2 hours for the rain to stop, the bride and groom got married in the bar.

 

[llij]

My sister went to the wedding of her brother in law and new wife. The ceremony was fine, but at the reception the caterer had a heart attack and died. The poor guy.

 

[Amy]

Mine's not a "horror" story, but it was interesting.

My parents never show any emotions - my brother and I never got hugs or "I love you" from them when we were growing up; we never even saw my parents hug each other! So it's my wedding day, my maid of honor walks down the aisle, and it's time for me. I told my dad "here we go" and he bursts into tears, turns around and starts to walk away! I'm in total shock, grab his arm and dragged him down the aisle, and he's crying all the way. Somebody got a picture of it, and it's one of my favorite pix from our wedding.

DH's brother did one of the readings - the "love is patient, love is kind" passage. I realize he was trying to put some emotion into it, but he was reading so slow......I thought he would put everybody to sleep. I swear, it took 10 minutes just for that little reading!

One really GOOD thing happened: my one uncle hadn't spoken to this one aunt of mine for years and years over some stupid thing that happened before I was even born. They were both at the wedding and both had enough booze to soften them up. The made their amends and while they weren't really close after that, they did manage to keep in touch with each other from them on.

 

[OhMari]

We just took our niece to her uncles wedding. Do you wonder why her parents didn't. They were at the Nascar Race in Arizona.

My brother-in-law got his tickets for him and his wife, (his wife is my husbands sister) last November. He said his brother knew he had tickets but planned his wedding anyway. My in-laws told him to try to change his flight to Sunday morning, but the Nascar Race was Saturday nite. He was going to the race no matter what.

Dave told me, his brother didn't attend his wedding, so he guessed they were even.

Well, my niece had a good time at her uncles wedding. I'm still baffled.

 

[Lisa loves Pooh]

My mother arrived for my wedding on Wednesday. She was in charge of the favors. On wedding morning--I had planned for us to go to breakfast, get our hair done--yadda yadda yadda.

I go to her room on wedding day morning. She's not dressed for breakfast and she had finished favor #4 out of 80. I had no idea that she hadn't been working on them until the night before and stayed up to midnight doing those 4 (She's a perfectionist and spent wayyy much more time on them than necessary). So my bridesmaid and I pursue rapid favor making as my mother was going to cancel her appt and make them all morning. At this point, I had NO faith that this would happen in a timely fashion. We make about 10 more....and she ran out of ribbon.

I high-tail it to wal-mart where I want to buy an entire spool. The associate wants to measure it. I tell her no, I'm in a hurry I will pay for the entire roll as is. She tells me that she has to measure it or I won't be charged properly. I tell her I have no desire to wait and do not care that I am paying extra, please charge me for the spool. And she does.

Back to mom's room--we assembly line the process and poof--we finish in record fashion (less time than the original 4 ). I have missed breakfast...mom will make her appt. My poor sister was stuck at breakfast with my dad and step-mom (pure torture for her since they can sometimes be the most annoying people--and she's not related to them ).

Onward to the hairstylist. I arrive--they do this magical do (updo that looked like my hair was tied in a bow--wayyy cool!). Anywho--the annoying step-mother made my veil and bought a non-adjustable headpiece. When she first showed it to me earlier in the week that it was too big--she brushed me off and said no, this is how it is, it will be okay. So back at the hairstylist, time to put the veil on---I've got big gaps all the way around--I started crying....b/c I looked like a dolphin jumping through a hoop (it was huge)....my bridesmaid runs off to a florist who kindly suspends all work to help us with our hair emergency. She brings back this headpiece all made of flowers--I cry even harder b/c I do not want to look like a bush (it was HUGE!). Hairstylest cuts the headpiece of the veil and uses floral wire obtained from the florist to get it to stay in one piece. She dissects the floral headpiece and puts flowers in my hair--and I was one darn beautiful bride (now with puffy eyes).


And it gets better---she had bought me corset/bra thing and it was too huge! Luckily I had a back up.

Evidently she thinks I'm an elephant or something

 

[disneysnowflake]

Last Summer I went to 2 interesting weddings.

At the first wedding everything went fine until the reception when the bride and all her friends got smashed. They kicked the DJ out of the reception and played rap music from a small stereo system. The bride was dirty dancing with the groom's father and was later found out back doing bad things with him.
The groom was ticked and went on the honeymoon to Florida without his wife.
They are still married though, but she's pregnant and isn't sure who the father is.

At the second wedding the bride's dress started to fall apart. During the reception the bride's mother and the bridesmaids dresses started falling apart, too. The owner of the bridal shop that sold all the gowns never had the dresses altered and in fact had them basted.. except the bride's dress which she quickly altered on her sewing machine with the wrong colored thread and just randomly decided where to alter it. The dress was so tight her mother had to cut the back and hand sew ribbon to tie in the back. The store owner was shut down by the attorney general. Also, the photographer was later arrested for molesting children, but when the wedding photos came back about 1/3 of them were of the bride's 5 yo daughter only. Sick.

 

[boucheresq]

my dh was a best man in a wedding wear the bride's brother threw up all over the dance floor from too much to drink - YUK!

and he was a groomsmen in another wedding where another groomsmen spilled a dark beer all over the bride's wedding dress after the service but before the pix were taken - boy was she ticked!

yes, my dh has some interesting friends - and alcohol is not great for them. Thankfully, my dh is the cautious friend of the group.

 

[rdrjj5]

My mom was traveling my BIL wedding cake 70 miles. My dad had to stop quick in traffic on the highway. Needless to say in 30 years of my mom making wedding cakes, this was the only cake that went sliding and 3 of the 6 tiers were unsalvagable. The good news is that it was 4pm on friday and the wedding was at 10am saturday. She called me crying with about 20 miles to go not to tell my BIL or his bride. My DH knew someone who use to work at a huge bakery, got the unfrosted cakes in the sizes she needed. We went to the rehersal dinner with my parents staying behind to redecorate the cake. My DH knew it would be ok so he told everyone during a toast at the rehersal dinner. My DH even took video (which my mom to this day does not think is funny) when they went to pick up more supplies. By midnight the cake was redone and all was well. In the end everyone but my mom had a good chuckle everytime they walked by the cake.

 

[newmousecateer2]

When my brother and SIL got married, at the church my SIL decided to "touch up" her makeup and spilled liquid foundation down the front (bottom part) of her dress.

The church was on the same block as our house, so my Dad ran home, got a ton of safety pins, and neatly pinned the dress all the way down the front like a "seam".

Nobody even noticed!!

 

[jellymanoffspring]

When my brother and SIL got married, at the church my SIL decided to "touch up" her makeup and spilled liquid foundation down the front (bottom part) of her dress.

The church was on the same block as our house, so my Dad ran home, got a ton of safety pins, and neatly pinned the dress all the way down the front like a "seam".

Nobody even noticed!!

Your Dad sure is a quick thinker! Sounds like a good one to have around in an emergency!

 

[ChrisnSteph]

The cake fell over at my wedding. Not only that, but it was the wrong cake. The ugliest wedding cake I had ever seen. It wasn't even decorated with anything. And the idiots who set it up did it well before the ceremony, in 100 degree heat, and let it sit that way until the reception. Well, being that it was an outdoor wedding, and the cake had whipped cream frosting, it wasn't pretty. The food serves also took all the leftover food and champagne home with them instead of offering to us first. Needless to say, the place that hosted our wedding catered another family event for free of charge for how bad they handled our wedding.

 

[jellymanoffspring]

After the Wedding and reception....which went just about perfectly (except for a couple of folks who enjoyed the open bar too much!)...we are driving home from the reception....stopped in bumper to bumper traffic (saturday eve in paramus NJ on Route 17)
when we hear the screech of tires and the crunch ...crash..crunch of a chain reaction crash just behind us!
My DH has great instincts and takes his foot off the brake..just as we get hit from behind!
Luckily the traffic in front of us has just started to move...so we get pushed forward but do not hit anything....


We get out and our car is not damaged but the ones behind are crunched...

My sister who left the reception just behind us comes upon the accident and says....oh theres a bride in the road....oh its carol!!!

My poor MIL who is riding with sis thinks I am roadkill!

We stand there waving to our relatives as they pass by and I yell for them to get the dress I need for the honeymoon from the dry cleaners before it closes...
When the policeman gets there...he thinks we are just going to our wedding(Glad we still looked so good after the celebration) since our car is not damaged he takes info andwe go on our way........

Thankfully not a horror story ..........

 

[froglady]

My driver didn't know how to get to to the church, but insisted he did! He started going in a round about way. When I (or one of my bridesmaids, I don't remember which) commented, he said it was to avoid traffic on the interstate. OK We continued chatting in the back, and he continued driving; mind you, the church is usually only 10-15 minutes away. More time goes by, and I finally ask, "Where are we?" We pull up to a strange church, and he says, "Here you are."

Fortunately, I'm able to look around, figure out where we are, and how to get to the right church...45 minutes late! (Only 15 minutes late for the ceremony, thank God. The minister wanted me there 20-30 minutes early) My DH was in a panic, because HE knew I was late, and thought something terrible had happened!

Our soloist, who was replacing our original solist who got laryngitis the week before, got "lost" during our wedding song, so it went on forever.

Then the florist forgot the centerpieces and favors. Fortunately, she did remember the flowers for the head table, and the hotel had artificial flowers (white) and candles that they were able to put out at the last minute.

 

[newmousecateer2]

Your Dad sure is a quick thinker! Sounds like a good one to have around in an emergency!

Yes!! He literally "saved the day"!!!

 

[WDWAurora]

Oops.

 

[WDWAurora]

I really shouldn't be reading this thread...I think I just had a panic attack. I will say that I know there are things that I don't want to know on my wedding day. The lady making the cake has made cakes for everything in my town for ages, and I am well aware that up until about 5 minutes beforehand, they are unfinished. I have told everyone that under no circumstances is anyone to tell me anything about the cake...It always works out, I just don't want to know.