Someone brought a child that fell off a cliff immediately following my ceremony, right before the reception. Not only were we very concerned, we had to deal with all the paramedics, etc and the chapel staff started following me everywhere asking 1000 questions trying to figure out if that kids mom would sue. We couldn't leave later for our honeymoon because I was so stressed trying to find out how the kid was doing. There was blood everywhere. He's fine now, with some permanent scars.
And this is why we didn't have kids at our wedding. Something like this was my nightmare.
We rented a really cool limo that looked like a giant taxi, to take us from the church to the reception hall with photos at a park in between. We got to the park and walked away to take photos - when we got back the driver said the car wouldn't start. The company rushed us another car and the driver went about 90mph to get us to the reception.
During the father-daughter dance, my mom (I love her but she's a GIANT AW) kept shouting at us to look at her for a photo. Then she grabbed my brother and sister, dragged them to me and Dad and made us all do some group hug/sway thing, then she slow-danced with my brother for the rest of the song.
Post by darthxtater on May 17, 2012 21:08:20 GMT -5
My & DH wedding
We got married outside (only 14 people). My FIL, who was also the BM, had surgery on his left foot and my dad sprained his right foot days before our wedding. Luckily neither had a cast on, but both were hobbling along. I thought it was hilarious!
My nephew was the RB and had 2 right shoes and we were 800 miles away from the store we rented it from. Luckily he thought it was funny.
Mom & Dad's wedding
I was the flower girl (4 yo at the time). As I was walking down the aisle, I freaked and threw the flowers and screamed, "I don't wanna get married!"
Then everyone, including my mom, enjoyed the white t-shirt contest in the dunk tank and a kegger! Kaaa-laaasssyyyy!
Mine do not compare to this at all, but my real dad 'stole' the father daughter dance with my step dad. The picture of the dance is hilarious because all of my brothers and step dad have the dirtiest look on their faces.
That reminds me!
My FIL interrupted H's and my first dance. We had been dancing for only a few seconds.
My dj was an ass and parked a huge rv right next to the deck where everyone was supposed to eat. Instead of looking off into the beautiful farmhouse and vineyards, there was a shitty rv. Then they didn't have the father daughter dance song. Then they lied to us about a 300 dollar cowboy hat our groomsmen supposedly stole and told us he wished he could have beat them with a baseball bat. I got three phone calls about it in the few days after the wedding. When it was located, it still had a 70 dollar price tag attached.
I lost a ton of weight from my next to last fitting until my final fitting and my seamstress had less than a week to take the dress in and redo all the beads. My MIL ended up sewing me into the dress because it wouldn't stay up. The bustle let loose at the beginning of the ceremony and my seamstress had to safety pin it up.
My sister ignored me when I asked her to be in charge of bringing the memory candles from the church to the reception.
My SIL took her hair out before the final pictures.
A large number of invites were lost in the mail, and people didn't ask why they weren't invited and still hold a grudge.
My MIL ordered a bunch of personalized M&Ms for favors without telling me, then forgot them at home 40 minutes away and went to get them 30 minutes before the ceremony was supposed to start.
The best man gave an embarrassing, drunk speech even though we asked him not to and did not serve alcohol at our daytime wedding. We later heard he was drinking out of a paper bag the entire day.
The wedding party decorated H's car, and the best man wrote "I'm happy I swear" on the window - this still pisses me off. He's a dick in general though, and was cheating on his wife and planning to leave her at the time. H isn't really friends with him anymore.
Post by MrsManners on May 17, 2012 22:49:25 GMT -5
We got married on a 150 acre private resort. The neighbors called the police to come shut down our band because we were "too loud".
Our minister spelled my name incorrectly on our marriage certificate.
It was so hot that dh sweated through his clothes and had to change out of his tux at the reception (ended up changing his shirt 3 times because he sweated through).
I can't remember anything weird from my wedding, but a couple from my friends' weddings:
I fainted as a bridesmaid in my friends wedding 5 years ago. It was unseasonably warm and the church was really hot. I think I was also standing with my legs too straight and not moving for a while, and I just fainted during the lighting of the unity candle. I was out for about 5 minutes and I woke up on the front pew where the brides family was sitting, with a cold cloth on my face and the brides uncle fanning me. I was embarrassed.
This happened to me at my brother's wedding. It was hot, the cathedral had really hot lights set up for the photographer and the first day of my period. I must have looked awful because at one point I looked over at my mom and she was frantically gesturing for me sit down. I sat with my head between my knees for the rest of the 45 minute ceremony and pulled it together for the recessional.
We got married in Mexico. I became sick with salmonella about 3 days after getting there. I basically spent my honeymoon running to the bathroom every 20 minutes. I thought I was going to die, I was so sick.
i dont know what i would have done though if i would have tried to cut one of the other layers.. It was a really pretty fake cake and you couldn't tell!
I totally forgot about this, but I planned our wedding long distance, so I didn't meet face to face with any of our vendors until the week of, some not at all. I know our bakery probably told me which layers were real, yadda, yadda...but I was running in a million directions that week and it was apparently low on my priority list to remember the detail.
It wasn't until we're standing in front of alllll of our guests with this antique saber (apparently EVERYONE in DH's family uses it to cut their cakes) and we're sawing...and sawing...AND SAWING...and I'm like, "Oh craaap...." b/c I realize that we must have hit a fake layer. Fortunately, the area we were cutting was out of view for most of the room so I was able to redirect and cut a piece of actual cake, but jeesh.
Post by datsyuksmommy on May 18, 2012 1:17:47 GMT -5
My unity candle got taken accidentally by the couple whose wedding was just before ours.
Our ceremony started 30 minutes late.
While DH and the GMs waited behind the little door behind the altar, no one told them there was a delay or anything was wrong. DH thought I had run away.
The ceremony musicians interrupted the receiving line to get paid, even though I had asked my dad to pay them before the ceremony.
BIL wrote "better luck the second time around!" on the front of our photo puzzle guest book, so I can't display it.
We invited DH's aunt and uncle, and they ended up coming in a group of 13. 11 uninvited guests from one invitation.
The bartender tried to tell me that he wasn't allowed to serve shots.
Mine pale in comparison (love the Skittles ringbearer. I would have "aaaawww"ed that.) Wedding with PracticeHubby: My cake turned out nothing like it was supposed to. Flowers were supposed to be tipped with a touch of ice blue, I ended up with a cake full of these aqua/skyish blue roses. Bleh.
Ex's mom spent the entire ceremony crying and wiping her eyes, saying "he's too young. He's too young. They're both too young." (note: she was absolutely correct. But still...)
Stopped off for gas to drive out of town (wedding was at mom's hometown, which took most of the tank of gas and we didn't bother filling up before the wedding.) Pulled into the first gas station...my ex boyfriend (the one just before ex-h and I got together) had transferred and was working there. Awkward moments ensue.
Pulled into the apartment on our way out of town. Phone was ringing and PH picked it up to talk to whomever was calling to congratulate us (this was before caller ID and cell phones were pretty standard) and it turned out to be his Commanding Officer (he was in the Navy) to tell him "Congratulations on your wedding but your leave isn't requested to start until Monday and we need you to come in this weekend." Military orders circumvented departure for honeymoon, so said honeymoon never happened since we didn't have enough time requested for leave; PH had included his weekend off (or supposed to be off) and didn't request additional.
My sister's wedding, she had the most not-attractive 1980s Victorian style bridesmaids dresses made with lilac polyester skirts, calico floral bodices and little cap sleeve to match the skirt. The seamstress was in her hometown and I was two states away. The measurements we sent her were apparently off. I arrived in town the night before the wedding and spent time visiting; when we went to get dressed my dress bagged on me in all directions. The DoC spent a good half hour looking for pins and pinning me up. I spent the entire ceremony wiggling to make sure I wasn't getting poked by straight pins.
My mom flipped out after our rehearsal dinner stating that she will never accept my H and that she won't come visit us and he won't be welcome in her house. I will never forgive her for this. What a selfish cvnt.
Our DJ's equipment blew-up during the reception. Their contract/ads say that they always carry back-up equipment. Unfortunately, his equipment had also had issues the night before, and this WAS his back-up. I was furious, and it felt like forever until the company owner showed up with new equipment.
During his speech, my BIL, who I can't stand, said something to insinuate I was pregnant. (I wasn't)
My parents invited a ton of their friends to my wedding and agreed to pay a chunk to offset the costs of their guests. I got stuck at work on the evening that I was supposed to drop-off our final payment to our venue, so I asked my mom to run a check over, and I paid her back the next day. So (using made-up numbers) I owed the venue 22k and mom wrote them a check, and the next day I wrote my mom a check for 18k (since they were paying for their friends).
The contract with the venue had only my name on it. When the wedding was over, the venue owed me a good chunk back (we had an open bar and our guests weren't as big of alcoholics as I expected). When I hadn't received a refund check after a couple weeks, I called and was informed that they had sent the refund check to my mom. I called my mom who admitted to receiving the check and wouldn't give me any of the money, because she wanted to apply it to her guests (refund was for more than what she paid for her guests total). She actually came out ahead in the deal and I am still annoyed about it.
When we got our bouquets, they forgot to bring one for the flower girl. My grandfather missed my wedding because he was having emergency surgery (another "mishap" I suppose) so we had an extra boutonniere, so we disassembled the boutonniere and had the flower girl carry those. It was definitely not what I wanted, but it worked...
I forgot to add the mishaps at my brother's wedding.
While we were setting up, x-SIL's cousin was watching my 3 yo nephew and he some how fell off the dock into the water and struck his head on a rock. So x-SIL ended up at the ER with nephew on her wedding day and all of the pictures have a huge stiched brusied gash on their son's forehead.
The hair people x-SIL hired were SLLLOOOOWWWW making all of the bridesmaids late to the location. And don't get me started on the dress x-SIL wore. She looked like a two-bit hooker.
I told everyone after the ceremony to head up to the porch for appetizers while pictures were being taken. When we finished pictures we realized there were no appetizers out...they were put out with the dinner which was over an hour late.
They got married at a local state park where alcohol is not allowed. My mom told my brother to tell all of the guests no alcohol - they could go to the bar after. The caterer who was a friend (in his 40's) of my brothers and doing the food for free ended up bringing alcohol and everyone was gathered back by the grill drinking. Then the caterers wife shows up absolutely plastered (drove herself there) and they have to take her back to the car and wait for someone to come pick her up.
It was a joke from the beginning and never should of happened. Thankfully it didn't cost my parents very much...and they are already divorced less than three years later.
Post by vanillacourage on May 18, 2012 8:36:24 GMT -5
They did our bouquets wrong, so I disassembled them in my MIL's kitchen the morning of and put them all back together myself.
I had told immediately family to be at the church at 3:30 for pictures, with the ceremony at 6 (we did formals first then bridal party took a party bus off-site briefly). My dad showed up at 5:50, as we were literally lining up to walk down the aisle. I had just about drafted my grandfather to walk me down the aisle. My dad isn't in any of the formal pics.
I haaaate the bouquet toss so we did the thing where they have a dance and the DJ has those who have been married 1 year, 5 years, 10 years etc sit down until you have the ones who have been married the longest. I was pretty sure that it would be my grandparents (it was) but I should have realized that DH's grandparents would be the 2nd longest and have had something for them too. Oh well.
Post by mrssavy42112 on May 18, 2012 8:38:16 GMT -5
Our officiant forgot the kiss, which was just funny. The groomsmen were given the wrong color tuxedos & no one noticed until I met them after the first look pictures & saw they were wrong. Oh well. The biggest was that I was very against having a cash bar. We had beer/wine/champagne & I didn’t want a cash bar. Apparently the event in the other, much smaller, room got too crowded & they had to put THEIR cash bar in the outside hallway where our guests thought it was for them. So, I basically had a cash bar against my asking. Not the end of the world, but not what I was promised.
Post by stingsharkruns on May 18, 2012 9:21:54 GMT -5
My sisters snuck liquor into the reception venue VIA baby stroller. I get that this probably happens pretty often, but the venue is owned by a family member who would make money off of drink sales. I got the venue for free, so they made no money off of that. I was livid - i don't speak to the sister (very regularly) that orchestrated it. (its been 3 years. i'm awesome at holding a grudge).
One of the biggest things was right before we did our first dance, I looked out from the dance floor and realized that 85% of my guests were gone. This included my father, FIL, all but one of the groomsmen and one of the DJ's. I cried through our entire first dance.
Come to find out, they went down the hall to watch a baseball game. On the wedding video you can clearly see when the game was over, because all the guests returned.
H's best man roasted him for the toast. It was long, awful, and didn't mention me or a congrats or even a " to the couple"! At the end. Awkward.
My Fiance just told me last night he was thinking about having his groomsmen do this at our wedding in November... I took me about ten minutes to convince him that it isn't appropriate and if he wants a roast something like that it should be at the bachelor party.. not at our wedding... He finally agreed that it would be a little awkward..
Our DJ's equipment blew-up during the reception. Their contract/ads say that they always carry back-up equipment. Unfortunately, his equipment had also had issues the night before, and this WAS his back-up. I was furious, and it felt like forever until the company owner showed up with new equipment.
During his speech, my BIL, who I can't stand, said something to insinuate I was pregnant. (I wasn't)
My parents invited a ton of their friends to my wedding and agreed to pay a chunk to offset the costs of their guests. I got stuck at work on the evening that I was supposed to drop-off our final payment to our venue, so I asked my mom to run a check over, and I paid her back the next day. So (using made-up numbers) I owed the venue 22k and mom wrote them a check, and the next day I wrote my mom a check for 18k (since they were paying for their friends).
The contract with the venue had only my name on it. When the wedding was over, the venue owed me a good chunk back (we had an open bar and our guests weren't as big of alcoholics as I expected). When I hadn't received a refund check after a couple weeks, I called and was informed that they had sent the refund check to my mom. I called my mom who admitted to receiving the check and wouldn't give me any of the money, because she wanted to apply it to her guests (refund was for more than what she paid for her guests total). She actually came out ahead in the deal and I am still annoyed about it.
That is awful of your mom. Why did she think she should make money on your wedding?
Our cake started to melt fairly early and was starting to lean. Luckily our DJs were awesome and we just moved up the cake cutting while they made a joke about shipping the cake in from France. (Italy?) wherever.
Post by Hold Me Closer Tony Danza on May 18, 2012 15:22:40 GMT -5
At my friend's wedding, I gave a drunken semi-lap dance to her grandfather (who was the preacher that married her).... Then proceeded to do an interpretative dance to "Bleeding Love"....
Our dogs were in our wedding, and midway through the ceremony they started fighting. Needless to day it made for good entertainment!
Our DJ's equipment blew-up during the reception. Their contract/ads say that they always carry back-up equipment. Unfortunately, his equipment had also had issues the night before, and this WAS his back-up. I was furious, and it felt like forever until the company owner showed up with new equipment.
During his speech, my BIL, who I can't stand, said something to insinuate I was pregnant. (I wasn't)
My parents invited a ton of their friends to my wedding and agreed to pay a chunk to offset the costs of their guests. I got stuck at work on the evening that I was supposed to drop-off our final payment to our venue, so I asked my mom to run a check over, and I paid her back the next day. So (using made-up numbers) I owed the venue 22k and mom wrote them a check, and the next day I wrote my mom a check for 18k (since they were paying for their friends).
The contract with the venue had only my name on it. When the wedding was over, the venue owed me a good chunk back (we had an open bar and our guests weren't as big of alcoholics as I expected). When I hadn't received a refund check after a couple weeks, I called and was informed that they had sent the refund check to my mom. I called my mom who admitted to receiving the check and wouldn't give me any of the money, because she wanted to apply it to her guests (refund was for more than what she paid for her guests total). She actually came out ahead in the deal and I am still annoyed about it.
That is awful of your mom. Why did she think she should make money on your wedding?
Seriously. This would be a relationship altering offence to me.
Post by starrynight on May 19, 2012 15:48:09 GMT -5
I was a bridesmaid for my cousin's wedding. During formal pictures a relative knocked over a glass candelabra, complete with burning candles. The hot wax and glass was headed straight for my feet. I yelled "oh shit!" as I jumped out of the way.