Kind of wedding S/O-any drama at your wedding?

[bex1973]

Jan 25, 2023 16:41:28 GMT -5 ksun said:

Jan 25, 2023 16:35:32 GMT -5 noodleoo said:

I don’t get it. Signing on matted photos was a big trend when I got married. What’s wrong with it?

I'm going to assume she meant that the bride actually wrote SIGN HERE on the mat itself, instead of putting a sign next to the mat to ask people to sign it.

I assumed the same

[circa1978]

Jan 25, 2023 14:23:39 GMT -5 MixedBerryJam said:

Jan 25, 2023 14:11:11 GMT -5 mofongo said:

Wait, but was she already one of your witnesses?

it’s kind of a long story but my h stayed friends with a few ex girlfriends. 

One of my H's ex girlfriends was a bridesmaid of mine (I met her through him.) He...slept with a lot of his friends. I guess it's a fairly strong endorsement that he stayed friends with them all but when we first met an alarming number of women told me casually that they had slept with him.

ETA: I feel like my H is coming off as a lush whore in this thread, lol. I reformed him! He's a one-woman sober guy since 2006! 

[oregonpachey]

Jan 25, 2023 13:06:03 GMT -5 Patsy Baloney said:

Who here had the beautiful desert wedding with no officiant and no guests/wedding party? Just the couple and their photographer? I remember that was the first time I had ever heard you could be “self married” (there has to be a better term than what I just pulled out of my butt)

Anyway, after reading this thread, that was the way to go. Out in the desert by yourself.

That was walterismydog

I don't remember her new username on here though

[tacokick]

Jan 25, 2023 16:47:50 GMT -5 circa1978 said:

Jan 25, 2023 14:23:39 GMT -5 MixedBerryJam said:

it’s kind of a long story but my h stayed friends with a few ex girlfriends. 

One of my H's ex girlfriends was a bridesmaid of mine (I met her through him.) He...slept with a lot of his friends. I guess it's a fairly strong endorsement that he stayed friends with them all but when we first met an alarming number of women told me casually that they had slept with him.

ETA: I feel like my H is coming off as a lush whore in this thread, lol. I reformed him! He's a one-woman sober guy since 2006! 

This reminds me of Katherine Heiny’s book
Early Morning Riser. In that the main character is constantly running into women her husband had slept with (prior to her) all over the small town they lived in and beyond and they all had nice things to say about him.

[HRH Queen Dick I, Dreamcrusher]

My mother had a friend with an imaginary husband. This lady had the gall to rsvp to my wedding for two and then the day of she told us imaginary husband couldn't make it because his imaginary father had an imaginary heart attack.

She was an absolute fruitcake and my mother was too frankly for being friends with her.

[maudefindlay]

Jan 25, 2023 16:59:20 GMT -5 HRH Queen Dick I, Dreamcrusher said:

My mother had a friend with an imaginary husband. This lady had the gall to rsvp to my wedding for two and then the day of she told us imaginary husband couldn't make it because his imaginary father had an imaginary heart attack.

She was an absolute fruitcake and my mother was too frankly for being friends with her.

Whoa, that is out there. My friend's Aunt would do stuff like call out of work telling them she had died.

[kanga1]

Jan 25, 2023 16:55:40 GMT -5 tacokick said:

Jan 25, 2023 16:47:50 GMT -5 circa1978 said:

One of my H's ex girlfriends was a bridesmaid of mine (I met her through him.) He...slept with a lot of his friends. I guess it's a fairly strong endorsement that he stayed friends with them all but when we first met an alarming number of women told me casually that they had slept with him.

ETA: I feel like my H is coming off as a lush whore in this thread, lol. I reformed him! He's a one-woman sober guy since 2006! 

This reminds me of Katherine Heiny’s book
Early Morning Riser. In that the main character is constantly running into women her husband had slept with (prior to her) all over the small town they lived in and beyond and they all had nice things to say about him.

After my divorce I went on a few dates with a guy I had known forever through work. He was from a very small town and his wife had cheated on him. After everyone knew they were getting divorced he had so many guys he knew from his small town apologize to him for sleeping with his wife while they were married. He told me after awhile it was like wtf, not you too! 

[circa1978]

tacokick I'll have to read that! He lived in NYC from college until his mid-30s so I guess a fairly large sample size. He has good taste. I love all his friends. (Platonically)

[momin2013]

My wedding was lovely and I thoroughly enjoyed it, but it was completely anti-drama. Case in point: when DH and I got to the hotel at the end of the night I really wanted to take all of the stuff out of my hair and take a shower. Well, that took for-ever (I had these like crystals glued into my hair along with all these pins, lol), and by the time I came out of the bathroom DH was fast asleep. Whomp whomp.

[redheadbaker]

Our biggest drama is that the cruise ship we were on had to skip the port where the wedding was going to happen due to a medical emergency.

[wildrice]

Jan 25, 2023 16:47:50 GMT -5 circa1978 said:

Jan 25, 2023 14:23:39 GMT -5 MixedBerryJam said:

it’s kind of a long story but my h stayed friends with a few ex girlfriends. 

One of my H's ex girlfriends was a bridesmaid of mine (I met her through him.) He...slept with a lot of his friends. I guess it's a fairly strong endorsement that he stayed friends with them all but when we first met an alarming number of women told me casually that they had slept with him.

ETA: I feel like my H is coming off as a lush whore in this thread, lol. I reformed him! He's a one-woman sober guy since 2006! 

Ha! At my first wedding, one of the groomsmen was supposed to be a guy that I had slept with! It was a 100% casual thing, we never dated and it only happened a few times, but it was kind of a funny thing to think about. My XH was kind of a jealous guy in general so I'm actually surprised that it didn't bother him (he did know).

Unfortunately that groomsman passed away before the wedding, which is the only reason he wasn't there...

[lindyanne]

Jan 25, 2023 16:35:32 GMT -5 noodleoo said:

Jan 25, 2023 15:47:01 GMT -5 lindyanne said:

My friend did this but with a big mat around it and she wrote ‘sign here’ on the mat. They have it hanging in their house to this day. It pretty much sums her up. Sweetest person ever but doesn’t think sometimes. I love her.

I don’t get it. Signing on matted photos was a big trend when I got married. What’s wrong with it?

She actually wrote ‘sign here’ on the mat in permanent marker so in with everyone’s signatures it says ‘sign here’ in sharpie.

[rachers]

Nothing crazy but definitely some lighthearted ones.

Between my DH and I we have a ton of half siblings, step siblings, step parents, ex step family, etc.

My two step brothers came with no belts or dress shoes (they’re close to my age so early-mid 20’s at this point). Their mom (my SM) spent the day of the wedding shopping with them and didn’t come to get hair and makeup done. That has a backstory but it hurt my feelings.

Our guitarist is this awesome 12 string guitar guy - he forgot his capo? Kapo? Some tool and he ended up having to like rewrite the aisle music which delayed us thirty minutes. My bouquet was HUGE and it was unseasonably warm at the end of March and my poor Dad and I were standing outside just waiting.

But before that! H’s aunt and Grandmother barged into the bridal suite to find champagne and of course saw me in my dress.

And we also did first look pictures that my FIL crashed. It’s a sweet picture now but at the time I was so annoyed.

H’s CW’s showed up in bright orange bandanas and leather chaps (bikers). I wouldn’t even care except they are in EVERY picture of me and my Dad walking down the aisle. That was a TK hit for me, lol.

One of our GM’s used to own several pizza franchises and they had several limos for events. He offered us the stretch black limo that had a tiny logo on the back windshield. Yea…we somehow ended up with the 1993 white limo with GIANT pizzas on the side, as WELL as decals of my friend and his two business partners AND the very vilified “corporate owner”. No AC, no shocks. We just rolled with it.

And lastly, our BM initiated a game of beer pong at the reception site, which was a modern art museum in a historic building WITH my DH’s very southern old school Grandmother. Had to cut that that off real quick.

There was more but those are my highlights. Awesome wedding, only thing I would change is I would’ve worn my hair up .

[sent]

Not at the wedding but yes at the engagement party.

We had specified "no shots" to the people in charge ahead of time to remove any possibility of sloppy drunks at the wedding. We had also reviewed every tiny detail of the day with the IL's after the disaster that was the engagement party. My stupid fiancé had communicated nothing to me about his family's desires for the engagement party. The IL familiy was PISSED about some procession that they apparently do at everyone's engagement party and that we hadn't given them the time of day when they suddenly started parading in with a bunch of gifts. Well if your idiot son didn't tell any of us about your parade tradition, how were we supposed to know what was going on? They did get pissed at him as well once they learned that he was the source of the disrespect. That and other disasters at the engagement party surrounding alcohol (see above re no shots) should have been a humongous hint that I should not have proceeded forward with the wedding, but I was stupid and naive and here I am.

[katespade]

While we were taking pictures and the guests were leaving the ceremony location to go to the reception, my grandma accidentally stomped on the gas pedal instead of the brakes while parked at the top of a hill and drove her car a significant distance through a Christmas tree farm. Thank goodness she wasn’t injured, but her car and at least 100 feet of fully grown Christmas trees were not so okay.

[pandora89]

MIL got wasted at the wedding and was stumbling around and just incoherent. She cornered one of my BMs in the washroom and told her she “looked like a skinny version of [DH’s younger sister]”.

[pandorica]

First wedding - I don't know if this counts as drama because I never said anything to her about it, but my MIL wore a white dress. I was pretty surprised, and some people said something to me about it, but it was never discussed with her.
Same MIL also decided it wasn't fair that my dad got to give a speech (as the FOB but also the one who paid for everything so he was just welcoming everyone etc), so she insisted on giving one too. It was TEN MINUTES. And the speech was 95% about my XH and nothing about me/the wedding. All of my friends were telling me I had a psycho MIL after this wedding 😂
Oh, someone also left the rings in the limo after we got dropped off at the church, and we had to hunt the limo down to get them back since no one realized until the limo left to hang out elsewhere during the ceremony.

Second wedding - we eloped. We only invited my (at the time) BFF because she lived a couple of hours away from the location and we needed a witness (I think?). We were supposed to share a rental the night before because we were getting married at like 8am. Well, 5pm the night before rolls around and I haven't heard from her all day so I text her to see when she's arriving... And she tells me she's just not coming? Something about work? Not sure when she was planning on telling me this if I didn't contact her first. Our officiant happened to bring her husband (we had never actually met them), and he signed the license as our witness.

[sadlebred]

Jan 25, 2023 20:30:18 GMT -5 katespade said:

While we were taking pictures and the guests were leaving the ceremony location to go to the reception, my grandma accidentally stomped on the gas pedal instead of the brakes while parked at the top of a hill and drove her car a significant distance through a Christmas tree farm. Thank goodness she wasn’t injured, but her car and at least 100 feet of fully grown Christmas trees were not so okay.

This gave me the biggest laugh I've had in so long. I was laughing so hard I was crying. Please tell me this was a giant old Caddy that was probably fine in the end.

[katespade]

Jan 25, 2023 22:49:33 GMT -5 sadlebred said:

Jan 25, 2023 20:30:18 GMT -5 katespade said:

While we were taking pictures and the guests were leaving the ceremony location to go to the reception, my grandma accidentally stomped on the gas pedal instead of the brakes while parked at the top of a hill and drove her car a significant distance through a Christmas tree farm. Thank goodness she wasn’t injured, but her car and at least 100 feet of fully grown Christmas trees were not so okay.

This gave me the biggest laugh I've had in so long. I was laughing so hard I was crying. Please tell me this was a giant old Caddy that was probably fine in the end.

I wish I could remember what make/model it was. It wasn’t a caddy, but it was a similar kind of stereotypical “grandma” car. However, I do remember that it was not totaled and as soon as the repairs were done they traded it in for a new Ford Focus. LOL.

ETA: My H has a better memory than I do. it was a Buick. 😂

[chchchia]

Jan 25, 2023 22:49:33 GMT -5 sadlebred said:

Jan 25, 2023 20:30:18 GMT -5 katespade said:

While we were taking pictures and the guests were leaving the ceremony location to go to the reception, my grandma accidentally stomped on the gas pedal instead of the brakes while parked at the top of a hill and drove her car a significant distance through a Christmas tree farm. Thank goodness she wasn’t injured, but her car and at least 100 feet of fully grown Christmas trees were not so okay.

This gave me the biggest laugh I've had in so long. I was laughing so hard I was crying. Please tell me this was a giant old Caddy that was probably fine in the end.

Me too!  I'm sorry katespade I laughed so hard at this, thanks for giving me a morning laugh.  
I'm crying laughing and I don't know why and your subsequent post makes it even funnier.  
I feel like I'm high or something, I'm laughing so hard. 

[puppylove64]

Well the week of the wedding my sil dropped out of being a bridesmaid. Luckily she gave the dress up and my friend stepped in. The day of or day before I can’t remember, we figured out my flower order was cancelled by Sil and her bff (who wanted to hook up with dh). Publix created all the flowers the morning of. I told them colors and they winged it. Luckily it was summer and I wasn’t super picky. Then Mil refused to wear her flower because she was “allergic,” she wasn’t…. And I guess finally, my brother walked me down the aisle and when asked who gives her up, he said “she does.”

[puppylove64]

Oh yeah Mil was pissy that we didn’t do announced mother/groom father/bride dances. My dad had just died 3 years earlier. I told her they were welcome to dance, the dj just wasn’t announcing it and making a big deal of it. Sorrynotsorry

[shauni27]

Jan 25, 2023 20:30:18 GMT -5 katespade said:

While we were taking pictures and the guests were leaving the ceremony location to go to the reception, my grandma accidentally stomped on the gas pedal instead of the brakes while parked at the top of a hill and drove her car a significant distance through a Christmas tree farm. Thank goodness she wasn’t injured, but her car and at least 100 feet of fully grown Christmas trees were not so okay.

Jan 25, 2023 22:49:33 GMT -5 sadlebred said:

Jan 25, 2023 20:30:18 GMT -5 katespade said:

While we were taking pictures and the guests were leaving the ceremony location to go to the reception, my grandma accidentally stomped on the gas pedal instead of the brakes while parked at the top of a hill and drove her car a significant distance through a Christmas tree farm. Thank goodness she wasn’t injured, but her car and at least 100 feet of fully grown Christmas trees were not so okay.

This gave me the biggest laugh I've had in so long. I was laughing so hard I was crying. Please tell me this was a giant old Caddy that was probably fine in the end.

I am here. This is the funniest thing I have read in a long time. I laughed so loud at my desk my coworker came to see what was so funny.

A christmas tree farm!!!! Oh granny, lolol.

[chchchia]

Jan 26, 2023 8:11:16 GMT -5 shauni27 said:

Jan 25, 2023 20:30:18 GMT -5 katespade said:

While we were taking pictures and the guests were leaving the ceremony location to go to the reception, my grandma accidentally stomped on the gas pedal instead of the brakes while parked at the top of a hill and drove her car a significant distance through a Christmas tree farm. Thank goodness she wasn’t injured, but her car and at least 100 feet of fully grown Christmas trees were not so okay.

Jan 25, 2023 22:49:33 GMT -5 sadlebred said:

This gave me the biggest laugh I've had in so long. I was laughing so hard I was crying. Please tell me this was a giant old Caddy that was probably fine in the end.

I am here. This is the funniest thing I have read in a long time. I laughed so loud at my desk my coworker came to see what was so funny.

A christmas tree farm!!!! Oh granny, lolol.

You guys are killing me, I am going to start laughing again and ruin my repaired makeup from my laughing fit earlier. 

[maudefindlay]

puppylove64 Whoa, SIL is a bitch!

[bex1973]

Jan 26, 2023 7:41:56 GMT -5 puppylove64 said:

Well the week of the wedding my sil dropped out of being a bridesmaid. Luckily she gave the dress up and my friend stepped in. The day of or day before I can’t remember, we figured out my flower order was cancelled by Sil and her bff (who wanted to hook up with dh). Publix created all the flowers the morning of. I told them colors and they winged it. Luckily it was summer and I wasn’t super picky. Then Mil refused to wear her flower because she was “allergic,” she wasn’t…. And I guess finally, my brother walked me down the aisle and when asked who gives her up, he said “she does.”

WUT

[midwestmama]

Jan 25, 2023 15:44:54 GMT -5 wise_rita said:

Jan 25, 2023 14:33:07 GMT -5 midwestmama said:

Oh man, huge drama at my wedding reception. To the point I regretted not eloping instead.

SIL was a bridesmaid. She got so drunk at the reception that she stepped on the hem of her dress and got a huge rip in it. So she found a pair of scissors and cut off a bunch of the bottom.

Then we had the groom and a few women (none of whom were his new wife) from the wedding reception in the room next door come crash our reception. When they were politely asked to leave, the groom THREW A PUNCH at DH. Thankfully, he didn't land the punch and a few of DH's uncles were able to get him out of our reception room. Surprisingly, I don't think we decided to call the police. We did get the reception place to work with us on getting the cost of the alcohol for our reception (like $800) covered by the groom who caused the ruckus. (Then the guy was such a douche that he wrote the check to [DH's first name] [my maiden name]. At the time, SIL was working at a bank at which we had accounts, so it was no problem for her to deposit it for us.)

Because of that, I will either strongly encourage our kids to have their wedding reception (if they have one) at a place where it is only them/their wedding party and no one else.

What?!  The venue "fined" the guy for crashing and trashing your wedding by having to pay for your booze?

That's awesome.  I'd gladly let someone take a punch at my H for free booze at our wedding. 

The wife of one of DH's cousins went to bat for us and basically demanded (I swear she should have been an attorney!) that the reception venue do something to make up for it.   She asked us what we wanted them to do, and we said that because alcohol was the problem, we wanted our bar bill paid.  I think because it was an Elk's Lodge, and I believe the offending groom was a member of it, the Lodge was able to make demands outside of a civil legal process.

[periwinkle]

Just thought of a couple funny wedding things...

Had a table of H's and my co-workers. Two of the couples ended up cancelling last minute, I forget why. The others at the table split the 4 extra meals (I think it was 3 courses), they ate like kings that night and all ended up bonding over their shared plates!

We let everyone bring a +1, my one guy friend wasn't dating anyone so he brought this girl none of us had met. Turns out she was a stripper he met the weekend before and possibly a porn actress?...we still aren't 100% sure about that part. I guess the table (all my college friends) started playing "I never" and it was pretty vanilla, silly things, until the girl took a hard left and yelled out, "I NEVER HAD ANAL SEX" and then chugged her full beer. Later that night she was passed out in one of the rooms we were all hanging out in and I just remember the MOH's sister doing the cha cha around the girl singing "buttsex, buttsex, buttsex".

Oh, and our florist provided the aisle runner for the ceremony but accidentally sent one that was way too short. It was on this rope thing that my BILs walked up the aisle holding so it would unroll and then would be pinned down at the back of the church. In my wedding video it's them walking up as this thing unrolls and then about 3/4 of the way up the end flies off the roll and just flutters to the ground like a piece of toilet paper. They did it before I even was in the church so I didn't notice until we watched the wedding video, it still cracks us up because of the looks on their faces when it happened.

[waverly]

I'm down to minor drama now. My MIL was supposed to send us her guest list for us to mail all the invites. She forgot to add a family member that lives across the country and I never met. She threw a huge fit because that person didn't get an invite (because she didn't give me the name and address). That person RSVPed yes, and then last minute had an "emergency" and couldn't come. You know that person was never going to come anyway, I mean, come on.

I invited my friend, and he brought a plus one even though there was none on the invite. OK fine, whatever. It was an old friend from school and we have no beef. She showed up in khakis lol. DH's best friend's girl friend went fishing that day getting up at 5 am, so she looked exhausted and pale. I'm like hmm if you know you are going to a lunch wedding then maybe skip the fishing that day.

I can't complain though because I had to go to the hospital during their wedding (actually it was after in the middle of the night), but against my wishes DH had called them to see where to go and it was obviously the hospital, I mean where else do you go at 2 am with severe pain? I had already told him that.  It ended up being a kidney stone. Then DH arranged for them to pick me up the next night and for us to stay at their house. I would have never asked and gone back to the hotel, but I wasn't in charge.

[chchchia]

Jan 26, 2023 7:49:45 GMT -5 puppylove64 said:

Oh yeah Mil was pissy that we didn’t do announced mother/groom father/bride dances. My dad had just died 3 years earlier. I told her they were welcome to dance, the dj just wasn’t announcing it and making a big deal of it. Sorrynotsorry

Oh yeah, add that to my list as well.  My father was in a wheelchair so we did not have a father/daughter dance and my ex was perfectly okay with forgoing any of those dances, his mother on the other hand, threw a fit in front of my parents.  Good thing this was not the only wedding in her only sons future, she told my kids to tell me she was so happy to finally get that dance with him at his latest wedding.  I bit my tongue and didn't say anything but I really wanted to say, your precious son is a lot like you so I'm sure you'll have many more chances.  Such a bitch.