wedding trainwrecks

[Jennasis]

Is that you, Honey Boo-Boo?

hehe...it was surreal!

 

[PrincessShmoo]

Well, this is a little mild but the only wedding day train wreck I've been involved in was my sisters 2d wedding

They got married at the community center in our (little) town. We (the bride's family) arrived early to decorate. About 2 hours before the ceremony, we realized that the caters hadn't shown up yet. Phone call - yes, they had the wedding down FOR NEXT SATURDAY! Funny thing, they had the correct date (as in "it's the 24th"), but on their calendar the 24th was the next week .

They managed to pull together some food and show up for the reception, but it certainly wasn't the nice luncheon it was supposed to be. Needless to say, they didn't charge her.

And the best man passed out during the ceremony.

 

[palmbeachmom]

My mother hated my husband from the moment we started dating and was quite open about it. Because of her feelings, she wasn't involved at all with the wedding planning and on the day of our wedding, she approached my brother inlaw who was the best man and told him that I asked her to bring me my wedding band because I needed to check something. She told him that I would be carrying it down the aisle myself and give to my husband. Needless to say, she kept my wedding band, so when I got down the aisle and faced my husband, he whispered, "where's your ring?". I thought he was kidding me and got really irritated, meanwhile the pastor was very confused that we were whispering back and forth. When it came time to do the rings, my brother inlaw slipped his own wedding band off and that is what my husband had to put on my finger!

After the ceremony, she acted like my bil had made the whole thing up and I had to really get into for my wedding band. The funny part was that she wore an old, ratty dress with no makeup to the wedding also. Sadly, for the rest of her life she never made peace with the fact that I married someone she hated, and ironically, when she was on at-home hospice, my husband was the one that had to help me bathe her and change her diapers, which he did lovingly and willingly. But she still didn't budge, even up to the last minute... she even told my sister that he deserved to have to clean her behind She was nothing if not consistent!

 

[DisneyDiva8401]

My mother hated my husband from the moment we started dating and was quite open about it. Because of her feelings, she wasn't involved at all with the wedding planning and on the day of our wedding, she approached my brother inlaw who was the best man and told him that I asked her to bring me my wedding band because I needed to check something. She told him that I would be carrying it down the aisle myself and give to my husband. Needless to say, she kept my wedding band, so when I got down the aisle and faced my husband, he whispered, "where's your ring?". I thought he was kidding me and got really irritated, meanwhile the pastor was very confused that we were whispering back and forth. When it came time to do the rings, my brother inlaw slipped his own wedding band off and that is what my husband had to put on my finger!

After the ceremony, she acted like my bil had made the whole thing up and I had to really get into for my wedding band. The funny part was that she wore an old, ratty dress with no makeup to the wedding also. Sadly, for the rest of her life she never made peace with the fact that I married someone she hated, and ironically, when she was on at-home hospice, my husband was the one that had to help me bathe her and change her diapers, which he did lovingly and willingly. But she still didn't budge, even up to the last minute... she even told my sister that he deserved to have to clean her behind She was nothing if not consistent!

Wow, I'm so sorry you had to deal with that.

 

[DisneyDiva8401]

My mom knew a couple and the father of the groom had a heart attack and died on the way to the wedding

 

[tianna26]

This one is very tragic. My cousin was getting married to his daughter's mom. Their relationship was already rocky b/c on valentines weekend she found out he had a son born on thanksgiving. She still decided to marry him even though she was warned ahead of time by me & others in the family. He was just going along b/c she threatned to take his daughter he would never see her again. Anyway she made the decision to not invite non of his family she barely invited his mom. I was babysitting his daughter the day b4 the supposed wedding she never said a word about it when i saw her. That same night my cousin was murdered visiting his friend. He walked in on a home invasion robbery him & 2 others were shot & killed. So he ended up being buried in the suit he was supposed to be married in & the limo from the wedding was used at his funeral.

 

[usnuzuloose]

Me and DH thought it would be a nice idea to pay for the people that were attending our wedding to pay for their room. It was a small wedding. We got married in Reno at a wedding chapel.

So I made sure everyone got their room and paid. And we wanted the buffet, which was really good. So the day before the wedding we drove up and I went to check in and found out no one had any rooms. I was quite livid. The one couple they completely canceled as they were not coming until Saturday. I only found that out when that couple called and said they had no reservation. So I got that straightened out or so I thought. I went back and got them a room and told the cordinater not to charge their card that I would pay on check out. Well they charged them anyway. Then most people got outside rooms and not in the hotel, as there were no rooms left,they even had no room for bride and groom and had to upgrade our room as they gave that one away.

Then after getting that dealt with I wanted to pay for the buffet up front as I knew how many people were eating there. No one else was showing up. But I was told no. So the whole party had to wait in line for us to pay. I felt really bad. Then we got a call to our room stating they cancelled our reservations for the steak house. I thought how bizzare, we had no reservations and I felt bad for who ever they did cancel.

The day we were going to leave I went down stairs to pay for the other couples room and found they charged their card and had to wait till I got home to take care of it. So a few hours later we went upstairs to get our luggage and check out and found out they locked us out of our room. We had to and get them to unlock the door so we get our stuff , they apologized and said they thought we were checking out when I came to pay for the other room. I can laugh now but them no way.

 

[usnuzuloose]

This one is very tragic. My cousin was getting married to his daughter's mom. Their relationship was already rocky b/c on valentines weekend she found out he had a son born on thanksgiving. She still decided to marry him even though she was warned ahead of time by me & others in the family. He was just going along b/c she threatned to take his daughter he would never see her again. Anyway she made the decision to not invite non of his family she barely invited his mom. I was babysitting his daughter the day b4 the supposed wedding she never said a word about it when i saw her. That same night my cousin was murdered visiting his friend. He walked in on a home invasion robbery him & 2 others were shot & killed. So he ended up being buried in the suit he was supposed to be married in & the limo from the wedding was used at his funeral.

That is very tragic! I am so sorry.

 

[mamacatnv]

My Brother's wedding was scheduled for 6:00pm on a Saturday, I was in the hospital having DD who was 3 weeks early and devastated I could not attend (he lived 5 hours away).

Two weeks later, my mother calls and wants to know how my Brother is doing.
I responded with, "they would have just gotten back from the honeymoon, I haven't talked to them"
There was dead silence
Finally Mother says "you didn't know?"
Me: "Know what"
Mother: "your brother did not get married, he called it off at 5:30 pm"

6 years later, he married a wonderful woman. Myself and family were in attendance.

 

[samheatherwhite]

When my younger sister got married her future MIL insisted on making the bridesmaids dresses. She lived far away and said that it would be fine, she would come to where everyone else lived for a visit and measure everyone in plenty of time. Se never did! She insisted on everyone just measuring themselves and sending her the information. To say the dresses didn't fit would be the understatement of the year She didn't get to our area until like two days before the wedding to "make adjustments." It appeared to us that as she made the dresses she decided that we couldn't be built like our measurements suggested and she improvised. (She had never met any of us.) My dress fit fine in the body but she must of thought I had exaggerated my bust measurements because it was about four sizes too small in the top. Another bridesmaid had the exact opposite problem. She was a larger girl and MIL made her dress several sizes too big in the top. While hers was sort of fixable, we stuffed it full of tissue, you couldn't make something out of nothing so I got to be in my sister's wedding in a dress that was more appropriate for a formal stripper! I held my flowers high and hoped I didn't flash anyone. My daughter was almost 2 at the time and MIL made her flower girl dress the same size as the other flower girls. The problem with that was that the fg was 4. Poor dd tripped all over the place. The most ironic part of the whole thing was she charged my Mom full price for these disasters that didn't even resemble the pattern and then never payed for her part of anything else.

 

[roliepolieoliefan]

My Brother's wedding was scheduled for 6:00pm on a Saturday, I was in the hospital having DD who was 3 weeks early and devastated I could not attend (he lived 5 hours away).

Two weeks later, my mother calls and wants to know how my Brother is doing.
I responded with, "they would have just gotten back from the honeymoon, I haven't talked to them"
There was dead silence
Finally Mother says "you didn't know?"
Me: "Know what"
Mother: "your brother did not get married, he called it off at 5:30 pm"

6 years later, he married a wonderful woman. Myself and family were in attendance.

Oh my!!!

 

[ZachnElli]

Before DH and I got married we had to do an 8 week course with our minister, so he knew us. During the ceremony the minister says our names, well my name and the wrong name for my DH! I try to contain my laughter and just when I think I have it under control the minister says the wrong name again! And you know how when you are trying really hard not to laugh and you just laugh harder? Yeah, that was me, the bride! I had tears running down my face from laughter! DH had a friend do a reading and when he came up to the microphone he really emphasized DH's real name, but then after the minister decided his friend must be wrong and emphasized the wrong name! It was absolutely hysterical! DH did say his actual name when it came time and the minister was really embarrassed, but it sure made it memorable!

 

[bdcp]

No real trainwrecks in our families at all. In fact, DS just got married 3 weeks ago and it was almost perfect. The worst thing that happened was DS forgot to put on his boutonniere until after the ceremony. It was in a box with the best man's in the reception area-they got married and had the reception at the same venue.

We had friends who were in a car accident on the way to their rehearsal dinner (35 years ago). They were pretty banged up and their wedding pics are of them with some bruises.

 

[Jaya]

This story is about a wedding that didn't happen and a wedding that did. I was 18 (yeah, we were stupid back then) and three weeks away from my Labor Day weekend wedding when my fiancé came over to tell me he just couldn't go through with it right now. Couldn't give me a good explanation, just that he "couldn't go through with it 'right now'" but wanted to elope. Words were exchanged....I refused to elope....the situation got ugly.....I gave the ring back (well, ok, actually I threw the ring at him). Then spent the next 2 1/2 weeks undoing the wedding (calling people, cancelling cake, flowers, church, etc.). Come the weekend of the cancelled wedding, I couldn't stand the idea of being in town, so took off to spend the weekend with my maid of honor, my college roommate, who lived a couple of hours away. I drove home Tuesday morning just in time to get a call from my maid of honor, who had just got a call from the best man. He called her and asked "why the heck did they go ahead and get married this weekend without us?" She said "who got married? Jaya was here with me all weekend." He answered, "Well, ______ came in to work this morning and told everybody he had gotten married this weekend after all and we all assumed that it was to Jaya, so we all gave him the presents we were hanging on to." To make a long sad story into a short sad story, it turned out that he had had a little dalliance while I was on vacation in early June and there was a little bundle of joy on the way and a future grandpa with a shotgun determined to have his future grandchild born legitimate. Actually, I have to thank the SOB for doing me the biggest favor anyone has ever done for me. Three years later I married the RIGHT guy and had 37 years of a good marriage until death did us part.

 

[Lorelei Lee]

This story is about a wedding that didn't happen and a wedding that did. I was 18 (yeah, we were stupid back then) and three weeks away from my Labor Day weekend wedding when my fiancé came over to tell me he just couldn't go through with it right now. Couldn't give me a good explanation, just that he "couldn't go through with it 'right now'" but wanted to elope. Words were exchanged....I refused to elope....the situation got ugly.....I gave the ring back (well, ok, actually I threw the ring at him). Then spent the next 2 1/2 weeks undoing the wedding (calling people, cancelling cake, flowers, church, etc.). Come the weekend of the cancelled wedding, I couldn't stand the idea of being in town, so took off to spend the weekend with my maid of honor, my college roommate, who lived a couple of hours away. I drove home Tuesday morning just in time to get a call from my maid of honor, who had just got a call from the best man. He called her and asked "why the heck did they go ahead and get married this weekend without us?" She said "who got married? Jaya was here with me all weekend." He answered, "Well, ______ came in to work this morning and told everybody he had gotten married this weekend after all and we all assumed that it was to Jaya, so we all gave him the presents we were hanging on to." To make a long sad story into a short sad story, it turned out that he had had a little dalliance while I was on vacation in early June and there was a little bundle of joy on the way and a future grandpa with a shotgun determined to have his future grandchild born legitimate. Actually, I have to thank the SOB for doing me the biggest favor anyone has ever done for me. Three years later I married the RIGHT guy and had 37 years of a good marriage until death did us part.

What a loser! You were lucky.

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[bunkkinsmom]

Before DH and I got married we had to do an 8 week course with our minister, so he knew us. During the ceremony the minister says our names, well my name and the wrong name for my DH! I try to contain my laughter and just when I think I have it under control the minister says the wrong name again! And you know how when you are trying really hard not to laugh and you just laugh harder? Yeah, that was me, the bride! I had tears running down my face from laughter! DH had a friend do a reading and when he came up to the microphone he really emphasized DH's real name, but then after the minister decided his friend must be wrong and emphasized the wrong name! It was absolutely hysterical! DH did say his actual name when it came time and the minister was really embarrassed, but it sure made it memorable!

I worked as a vendor in weddings for several years, and I would say about 35% of the time at least one name was wrong. Usually just mispronounced, but sometimes just plain wrong!

 

[Help Please!]

Driving to Orlando (from Melbourne, about an hour away) for my wedding...the day before? My car is PACKED with all of our wedding stuff, dress, centerpieces, etc...get a flat tire coming on a big ramp right off of i-4. pull off, wait for a LONG TIME (almost out of gas, had to turn off the car, it was HOT!, no shade close to where I was, sat in the car for a while to stay in the shade but it turned into a furnace(I am super pale and couldn't get burnt right before the wedding, didn't have sunblock!), so I was awkwardly ducking in the corner. Mom was ahead of me, but took her a while to realize what was happening, then she had to go to the hotel to check in/ unpack/ bring stuff up to the room/ etc., finally came back and we switched off so i get my nails done, get ready for the wedding, etc.! The nail lady was great, but when she heard it was for my wedding she took almost 3 hours to do my nails, so I was running SO LATE, almost late for the rehearsal because of that...and then my mom and grandma got lost on their way to the church, in the rain in touristy Orlando (the church was in Celebration), I'm on the phone with my mom, who is crying, and I didn't know where she was well enough to give her directions. UGH!

 

[CharityLynn]

We had a couple minor things at our wedding 9 years ago.

The first thing I didn't even know about until I saw the pictures, I had met the minister but my husband hadn't because of his work schedule. Well when it was time for the ceremony they minister walked up with the best man and not the groom. She thought I was marrying the best man I guess. So my husband walked with his sister my MOH.

The other mishap still has me a little upset. My aunt's best friend makes really good cakes and my mother set it up with her to make our wedding cake. She even had me over to look through cake books to pick out various things. I wanted several cakes on different level stands rather than piled on top of one another. I had offered to buy the cake stands (found a great deal on ebay) but she said she had them. So no big deal. She was giving my Mom a great deal on the cake so the stands were to be a thank you from me or something.

Anyways, wedding happens and she has not arrived with my cake. We decide to eat and do the dances and such. A cousin was talking with my parents about running to the local grocery store to purchase a cake so we could at least cut it. Then the cake lady shows up with the cake. YAY, right? Well she puts the cakes on the table only she has them on various things including an overturned glass, I was fairly annoyed. Glad the cake made it basically in time but it did not look how I wanted it too. Also she made a Bride and groom topper herself very old fashion/country ish not at all what I wanted. We had a pair of doves and flowers...but yeah that was about the only problems for our wedding.

At my sister's first wedding I was MOH and about tripped up the aisle because the runner was not very secure (and plastic) and it was sticking to my shoes.

 

[Gumbo4x4]

Wow most of these stories read like a movie treatment. Some funny stuff. I really don't get how someone is about to marry someone and oh BTW I have a teenage son, who doesn't tell their wife that? Although I've known other people who actually kept the fact from their bride that they had multiple other kids they did not know about.

I was stuck more on "oh, by the way, I'm already married to someone else"

 

[Maridw]

At my sister's second wedding, my mom made the dresses. If they had been done in a different material they probably would have been nice. But the material she used made them look like they were homemade. (This was in 1981). I was the MOH. On the way to the reception, I changed into something different. My dad was very friendly and was buying everyone drinks.

At my first wedding, I got to the church and we decided that the hoopskirt that I had on with my dress was not big enough. My MOH had one on that was a bit bigger. So we go into the bathroom to change and there isn't enough room to move in hoopskirts let alone change them. So we ended up changing them in the nave of the church. Someone reached up and unbuttoned mine and I stepped out of it into the other one. Then it was pulled up and buttoned. I did get to wear part of my mother's wedding dress and she was very glad that I could. Also my sister didn't like the dresses I had picked out and so decided to buy something in the same color that she liked. She wasn't even the MOH.

At my cousin's wedding, one of the priests was my Aunt's brother (the was the mother of the bride). We are all seated and waiting for the wedding to start. It got really quiet and suddenly we hear "Where's the priest?" This came from my aunt. Everyone had a quick laugh and then the two priests came out.