wedding trainwrecks

[denisem]

Wow, these stories make mine insignificant!

My wedding was perfect, even with the comic relief of the Best Man's date. She was a "friend with benefits" kinda date and was a little spacey back in the early 80's. (Picture a female version of Taxi's "Reverend Jim", ok?). She wore a white gauze dress with no underwear to a late afternoon venue, standing in front of picture windows with the sun behind her. EVERYONE wanted to know who's side she was on.

I also worked for my cousin's florist for awhile servicing wedding flowers. Besides the table flowers, I was to decorate the wedding cake with fresh flowers and...the cake was late in delivery. Why anyone would find it desirable to take photos of me decorating the cake (in my tasteful, but subtle, Mickey Mouse shirt) I'll never know...

 

[JakeJenna]

What a loser! You were lucky.

While she was undoubtedly lucky what makes him a loser? He made a mistake and from the very little we know tried his best to do what he thought was right. Who knows how it turned just don't get how it makes him a loser more like a kid who messed up.

 

[NHdisneylover]

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.

Surprise!

 

[Lorelei Lee]

While she was undoubtedly lucky what makes him a loser? He made a mistake and from the very little we know tried his best to do what he thought was right. Who knows how it turned just don't get how it makes him a loser more like a kid who messed up.

He didn't just "mess up." He:

1. Cheated on Jaya while she was on vacation.

2. Lied to her. Instead of saying "I messed up", he told her that he couldn't go through with their planned church wedding, but urged her to elope with him so that he could avoid marrying the girl he got pregnant. He didn't tell her what was really going on.

3. Tried to avoid his obligations to the other young woman by running off with the Jaya.

4. Married someone else on what should have been his wedding day with Jaya and didn't give her the courtesy of a phone call.


Even at 18 there's a difference between a kid who messed up and a lying SOB.

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[dogluva]

This was my wedding:


1. Sister decided she didn't want to be my maid of honor, picked a huge fight at the rehearsal dinner, finally showed up as I was walking down the aisle

2. My husband left the rehearsal dinner half way because he was going to his bachelor party ( red flag)

3, husband showed up 45 minutes late because he was So drunk the night before he didn't get up

4. My mother in law came up to the limo while I was waiting and told me to call it off, he obviously did't want to marry me, got the priest to side with her, I was bullied for a half an hour by this horrible woman

5. Was told by the limo driver as I was waiting for my husband for 45 minutes that the air conditioning was on but it was the heat- he was. He was So rude and did not care I was melting- it was June

6. Husband finally shows up not wearing socks and looking like he felt

7. Phone rang the whole time during the ceremony, his friend calling who had gone to look for him to see if he had returned, it was So loud, nobody could hear us exchange vows

8. The reception was cut by an hour, we had barely enough time to eat, cut cake, I was rushed to do my dances, I felt like I didn't even have a reception

10. My Mother was so drunk it was mortifying


There are others but these are the ones that bother me. I hated my wedding and usually try to forget everything about it, not one good memory.

25 years and six kids later so the marriage has been good so far!

 

[glammadiva]

He didn't just "mess up." He:

1. Cheated on Jaya while she was on vacation.

2. Lied to her. Instead of saying "I messed up", he told her that he couldn't go through with their planned church wedding, but urged her to elope with him so that he could avoid marrying the girl he got pregnant. He didn't tell her what was really going on.

3. Tried to avoid his obligations to the other young woman by running off with the Jaya.

4. Married someone else on what should have been his wedding day with Jaya and didn't give her the courtesy of a phone call.

Even at 18 there's a difference between a kid who messed up and a lying SOB.

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Bingo! You nailed it!

 

[dogluva]

Bingo! You nailed it!

I left out number 10-someone, probably my mean sister, cancelled the rehearsal dinner. We got there and they said that someone called and said that the wedding was cancelled! They were great and set it up very quickly so it was fine.

Thanks, I won the worst wedding award, I think!

 

[dogluva]

Bingo! You nailed it!

Oops that wasn't for me, haha I didn't even read it! Sorry! Relying my wedding memories is making me slow.

 

[branv]

OMG, I just remembered something! This technically didn't happen, but it shortened my life considerably.

The day before the day before our wedding (got that?), DH and I had our respective bachelor/bachelorette parties. Very very low key not-crazy stuff, DH just went out with my big brother and a couple of friends, while me and my friends had dinner and hung out. We lived in Houston at the time, but had planned the wedding in Dallas, so we were staying at my parent's house before the wedding. My SIL (brother's wife), picked me up in her car and my soon-to-be DH drove himself and my brother in our car.

When SIL and I came home, blocking the entrance to my parent's subdivision was a horrible accident that had just happened. Police weren't even there yet. It was dark outside with only a small street lamp, but we could see vaguely two men slumped over, one hanging partly out of the car. The thing is, it was my DH's exact same car model, color and year. As we approached, all I could say was, "Oh no, oh god no, oh no," over and over. And my SIL couldn't even speak, she just turned white.

When we got next to the car, however, we could see the men were not my DH or brother. SIL and I both, however, were still so shaky and trying very hard not to cry. I tried for the next two hours to call DH over and over and over again, but no answer. I swear I didn't stop shaking until he got home. Goofball had lost his phone in a go-kart of all things (incidentally, that made things quite difficult when trying to coordinate all his out-of-town family for the next few days). And when he got back, the first thing I did was yell, "Where is YOUR @#$@#$ PHONE?!?!" Then I just burst into tears and threw my arms around him. Yeah, he was confused.

I still wonder about those men, if they were okay. Feels weird to have felt relief at the same time as being horrified for those men.

 

[Lorelei Lee]

OMG, I just remembered something! This technically didn't happen, but it shortened my life considerably.

The day before the day before our wedding (got that?), DH and I had our respective bachelor/bachelorette parties. Very very low key not-crazy stuff, DH just went out with my big brother and a couple of friends, while me and my friends had dinner and hung out. We lived in Houston at the time, but had planned the wedding in Dallas, so we were staying at my parent's house before the wedding. My SIL (brother's wife), picked me up in her car and my soon-to-be DH drove himself and my brother in our car.

When SIL and I came home, blocking the entrance to my parent's subdivision was a horrible accident that had just happened. Police weren't even there yet. It was dark outside with only a small street lamp, but we could see vaguely two men slumped over, one hanging partly out of the car. The thing is, it was my DH's exact same car model, color and year. As we approached, all I could say was, "Oh no, oh god no, oh no," over and over. And my SIL couldn't even speak, she just turned white.

When we got next to the car, however, we could see the men were not my DH or brother. SIL and I both, however, were still so shaky and trying very hard not to cry. I tried for the next two hours to call DH over and over and over again, but no answer. I swear I didn't stop shaking until he got home. Goofball had lost his phone in a go-kart of all things (incidentally, that made things quite difficult when trying to coordinate all his out-of-town family for the next few days). And when he got back, the first thing I did was yell, "Where is YOUR @#$@#$ PHONE?!?!" Then I just burst into tears and threw my arms around him. Yeah, he was confused.

I still wonder about those men, if they were okay. Feels weird to have felt relief at the same time as being horrified for those men.

that must have been scary.

 

[Lorelei Lee]

I went to a wedding a few years ago that could have been a train wreck, but fortunately was not.



The bride and groom were living in Florida at the time. The bride was from Florida, but the groom was from New York, and was part of a very large family. So there were a lot of out-of-town guests, including me and my dh. Wedding was on a Saturday, so most of the out-of-towners arrived Friday. Friday night, after dinner, the groom's brothers decided to take him out for "a drink" at the bar in a local bowling alley. My dh went with them. At 2 AM he called me, and said he was too drunk to drive, but that he was the only one sober enough to make a phone call. You can just imagine... So the the bride and the matron of honor had to drive over to the bar to pick everyone up -- the bride was afraid the groom would try to drive home and would wind up in jail.

the wedding itself was nice, mostly a mellow affair. But...well, there were a lot of kids at the wedding, the groom's sons from his first marriage, the bride's son from her first marriage, lots of cousins...there was some sort of champagne fountain, with strawberries floating in the champagne, and several of the kids ate the strawberries...a couple of the kids got a bit sick...

 

[mickeyboat]

There were not huge mishaps at our wedding, but a couple of things went wrong.

Apparently my brother decided that the elevator would be a good place to have a cigarette, and set off the fire alarm at the hotel we were staying at. When I got back from decorating the church the morning of the wedding, my entire family and most of my friends had been evacuated and were standing outside the hotel as the fire trucks were pulling up behind us. My dad rushed to help me out of the car and promised that if the hotel was really on fire, he would go back in to rescue my dress.

When DH and his groomsmen arrived at the church, they found a bat flying around. They sprung into action, used a collection basket to knock the bat down and cover it up. Then they used a hymnal to slide under the basket and released the bat outside. I can tell you I would have freaked out if I saw that thing flying around while I walked up the aisle.

 

[Jaya]

When DH and his groomsmen arrived at the church, they found a bat flying around. They sprung into action, used a collection basket to knock the bat down and cover it up. Then they used a hymnal to slide under the basket and released the bat outside. I can tell you I would have freaked out if I saw that thing flying around while I walked up the aisle.

I worried about bats at my wedding, too, but luckily my mother-in-law didn't attend.

 

[Handbag Lady]

There were not huge mishaps at our wedding, but a couple of things went wrong.

Apparently my brother decided that the elevator would be a good place to have a cigarette, and set off the fire alarm at the hotel we were staying at. When I got back from decorating the church the morning of the wedding, my entire family and most of my friends had been evacuated and were standing outside the hotel as the fire trucks were pulling up behind us. My dad rushed to help me out of the car and promised that if the hotel was really on fire, he would go back in to rescue my dress.

When DH and his groomsmen arrived at the church, they found a bat flying around. They sprung into action, used a collection basket to knock the bat down and cover it up. Then they used a hymnal to slide under the basket and released the bat outside. I can tell you I would have freaked out if I saw that thing flying around while I walked up the aisle.

Go dad, the PERFECT thing to say at the time!

I worried about bats at my wedding, too, but luckily my mother-in-law didn't attend.

Buahahahahahaha!

 

[TJ's Mom]

Wedding of my husband's coworker.... We came a little early (30 minutes) since they asked him to be a "sponsor" and we did not know what it entailed (found out later - just $). We sat down only to realize they ran weddings every hour and the wedding in front was late. We had to sit through another couple's wedding! EEK! We stood out and got lots of weird looks.

The real wedding starts... I kid you not... the bride is halfway down the aisle when the "coordinator" runs up the aisle to tell her she did it wrong and everyone had to start over. They did the processional a second time. I have never seen anything like it in my life. Too bad cell phone cameras did not exist back then. I would love to have that on tape.

 

[Disneybuckeye]

DH and I hit 25 years on 11/12/13, so I guess this is now all irrelevant but,

My MIL was 30 minutes late to our wedding. I was begging my mom to let my BF mom just to pretend to be the mother of the groom so we could get started. I was really worried that everyone would blame me even though I was ready to go. She never did apologize or anything. Keep in mind my parents paid for everything and did everything except the rehearsal dinner which DH and I paid for. All she had to do was show up on time and could not even manage to do that.

Instead of a receiving line we visited every table at the reception to thank everyone for coming. We were down to the last three table in the back of the room that were my friends. DH's Aunt walked up to us and asked if she could borrow DH for a few minutes to take a family picture. Obviously I am not family. Luckily we haven't seen most of them in years.

 

[castmemberb4]

DH and I hit 25 years on 11/12/13, so I guess this is now all irrelevant but,

My MIL was 30 minutes late to our wedding. I was begging my mom to let my BF mom just to pretend to be the mother of the groom so we could get started. I was really worried that everyone would blame me even though I was ready to go. She never did apologize or anything. Keep in mind my parents paid for everything and did everything except the rehearsal dinner which DH and I paid for. All she had to do was show up on time and could not even manage to do that.

Instead of a receiving line we visited every table at the reception to thank everyone for coming. We were down to the last three table in the back of the room that were my friends. DH's Aunt walked up to us and asked if she could borrow DH for a few minutes to take a family picture. Obviously I am not family. Luckily we haven't seen most of them in years.

Read BF as Boy Friend Mom, thought you had DH to be and boyfriend at your wedding ! LOL!

 

[PigletsPal2]

I was Matron of Honor for a friend getting married in Texas (I lived in Maryland) and she selected our gowns without our input. They were pink, empire waistline, huge puffy sleeves with Schifffli (sp?) embroidery. I'm a redhead and pink really isn't my color.

We arrive in Texas the Wednesday before the Saturday wedding, I get a fitting on my dress, which is six inches too short. I wore a size six at the time and designers thought someone who wore a size six must be 5' tall. I'm 5'6". Mother of the bride had the brilliant idea to buy another dress, remove the sleeves and make a border at the hem of my dress to lengthen it by six inches.

Well, OK, the MOH can be dressed a little differently, but I felt weird. Luckily the bride's family was wealthy and paid for our dresses.

At the party at the bride's parent's house later, I went to the bedroom DH and I were using and changed my clothes. Later, an elderly guest confided to me that she had seen one of the bridesmaids going into a bedroom with a MAN!

Queen Colleen

 

[alexensmom]

My mom's cousin was getting married. Mom's Aunt and Uncle were in there 70s. Her Aunt was in the last stage of cancer and even though she was such a positive, happy person, there was just this sad aura all weekend. We all felt that for many of us this would be the last time we would be visiting with her. During the ceremony when the minister asked Mom's Uncle "who gives away this bride?" He says "my MOTHER and I." The whole church erupted in laughter. Mom's Aunt laughed so hard and had the whole church in tears and turned what would have been really embarrassing into something that reminded us all to celebrate instead of being sad.

 

[Disney Doll]

While she was undoubtedly lucky what makes him a loser? He made a mistake and from the very little we know tried his best to do what he thought was right. Who knows how it turned just don't get how it makes him a loser more like a kid who messed up.

What makes him a loser is that a couple of weeks before his wedding to the poster, he told her he "just couldn't do it" and on the weekend he was supposed to marry the poster, he married someone else who was pregnant.

The facts that prove he was a loser:
1. He was engaged and fooling around with someone else obviously because she was pregnant
2. He didn't have the decency to tell the poster the truth
3. He married the other woman on the same day he was supposed to marry the poster
4. He didn't want to marry the poster in their planned wedding but wanted to elope, meaning he was going to ditch his pregnant girlfriend

That says "loser" to me too.

At my wedding, my mother's car got stolen from the church parking lot, my DFIL's friend's car got stolen from the church parking lot (brand new...they had literally picked it up on their way to my wedding), my MOH's crinoline slip snap broke as the bridesmaids processional started and her slip fell down around her ankles. Thankfully I had a lot of bridesmaids so as they were processing in, I flipped the MOH's dress up over her head (much to limo driver's delight), grabbed one of the emergency safety pins I had in my "bride bag" and fixed it. My MOH was FREAKING OUT, I was totally calm. She kept saying "Hurry, hurry the wedding is about to start". Finally I said "Listen honey, I'm the star of the show and this thing doesn't start without me".

My co-worker was making my wedding cake which was supposed to be white with pink and teal accents (wedding colors were pink and teal...it was the early 90s). I bought a topper that was 2 wedding bells intertwined with lace and pink and teal ribbon and my colleague said she'd do the pink and teal on the cake too to blend it all inwith the topper. When we got to the reception and I saw the cake, it was all white except for the topper. No pink & teal accents. It looked really pretty so it wasn't a problem other than I kind of briefly thought "I wonder why there's no pink & teal on it?". But there was so much else going on that I didn't really give it another thought. All my co-workers that were invited to the wedding seemed to be walking on eggshells when I went over to them...I didn't know why.

When I got back from the honeymoon I found out that while she was transporting the cake to the reception hall, she had the layers on the back seat of her car (I think there were 4 layers) and she had to stop short and they all slid off the car seat and got ruined. When she got to the reception hall she literally scraped the layers clean and redecorated it while we were at the wedding Mass. She could only use the white frosting, so white it was. Like I said, it looked pretty so it was fine.

I wasn't a young bride (I was almost 30) so I was pretty non-chalant about a lot of the wedding stuff. I figured the day would shake out as it did and there was nothing I could do to control possible mishaps so why worry?