Most of us have already attended a wedding occasion. For every wedding, there is just an unforgettable (sometimes hilarious) moment that we have, and we can’t just hold it to share with everyone. People in the Reddit community shared their unique wedding stories that they just can’t seem to forget about. Do you also have those moments?
#1 Unasked and unnecessary
I’M WITNESSING ONE FROM THE SIDELINES NOW!!!
My wife’s brother just got married this past May. Bride’s mother is a big DIY person and went a little nuts with extra flowers, table pieces, decorations, etc… Note I said extra, it was already decorated by the venue, she just took it upon herself to buy and add way more stuff.
Anyway, a few weeks ago she sends my MIL (grooms mom) and email with receipts of all the extra stuff she bought ($7,000 worth!!! ) and asked that she pay half since it was technically set up in time for the rehearsal dinner for guests to enjoy. It’s causing a huge rift between the newlyweds since the bride is taking her moms side. —WanderingRaindog
The confusion on everyone’s as they check-in must have been comical. Seriously, parents should do the right thing and not put their kids in the awkward position of choosing sides.
#2 Fake until wedding cake
Mocking your partner, behind their back, with anyone who cares to listen has to be criminal in one of the several planets.
I was maid of honour. Me, best man and the couple went into a separate little room to do the signing stuff. Bride excused herself to go the bathroom and the groom started making pretty mean remarks about her cooking (sth she’s passionate about) to the officiary. She came back, heard they were talking about cooking family meals together and gave him the warmest smile, thinking he had praised her. He scoffed awkwardly and changed the topic. That always stuck with me. He wasn’t laughing WITH her but AT her, behind her back. —Kraken_of_BeverlyRd
#3 Cake scene went wrong
When the bride tried to playfully feed the groom some cake, pulling it back once it got close to his mouth. The third time she did this, he slapped it out of her hand and stormed off.
In the ensuing awkward silence and wide-eyed staring, we all knew it wouldn’t last.
Surprisingly, they were together for nearly two years before the bride eloped away with her step-brother. No one saw that coming. —grubychild
Eloping with the step-brother is an ending we never could have imagined. Kind of sours what could have been a celebration for her victory.
#4 Invitation of your ex? What could go wrong?
Wedding videographer here, I think my favorite moment was when I was sitting at the miscellaneous table with all the randoms and the girl next to me, the groom’s ex, drunkenly admitted to sleeping with the groom a few months prior. —qwertyNopesir
That was insider information that could have benefited the videographer if he had set up a running bet on how long the groom would remain faithful before his true colors showed.
#5 Married at 16
As sweet as puppy love is, you don’t do something as important as a wedding as an underage without telling anyone.
When they got married illegally in high school. Two 16-year-olds from different states who had to lie on their certificate to get approved by the state. It was annulled when the father of the groom found out. —sax_master225
#6 All eyes on me
My brother’s ex-wife. Throughout the exchange of vows, she was looking at everyone but my brother, making sure all eyes were on her. Later, she instructed the photographer (a family friend who was cheap) to “mingle” and get shots of people “being happy”. Within 10 minutes, she’d summoned the photographer back shouting, “Whose wedding is this?! I meant get shots of people being happy for me.”
They broke up when she cheated on him. Apparently, that marriage she was desperate for was only good while it brought her attention. —Stormaen
These were glaring signs that she was a selfish person. It is not surprising that she cheated.
#7 “Responsibility” wedding
What a way to make your partner feel undesired and like a burden.
When the groom started off his speech by saying, “we all know I didn’t want to get married but we’re here for bride and child we had together_.”
1 year, 3 months later they were finished. —[deleted]
#8 Nightmare with the bride
You know the marriage was definitely doomed from the start when the groom was already making plans for a divorce before the ink dried on their marriage certificate.
My husband was the best man at a wedding. The bride was a nightmare. Not just during the wedding, but in general everyday life. All of the friends hated her, and she had no friends of her own.
We knew it was doomed when: during the portraits, the bride was making everyone miserable as can be. The groom said (exact words):
“I’ll just send her to therapy. And, if that doesn’t work, we can just get divorced.” —Unusual_Form3267
#9 The forgotten bride
I was the maid of honor, they seemed like the perfect couple, together for nearly 10 years, and had this big, expensive, beautiful wedding.
The bride would have been happy with a small event but told me the groom had a big family and had insisted.
Alarm bells hit when I sat with her parents in the front row and realized the groom-to-bride ratio was so massively off. The groom had three best men, as well as ushers, etc. His sister and one best man read something during the ceremony (and then all three said long speeches about him at dinner). It was all about him.
The photographer was even his friend’s Mum, so she kept whisking away the boys for these ‘hilarious’ lads shoots.
The bride was ignored most of the day and in the evening he got too drunk, spilled a drink over her wedding gown, and danced with his friends. It felt more like a big birthday party than a joint event.
I’d never seen that side to him, but I felt so sorry for my friend, it was like she was just there to be a prop to his plans and look good.
Three months after the wedding he began being emotionally abusive. A month after that he admitted he’d been having an affair for years, then left.
If I hadn’t seen the way he behaved at the wedding, I never would have guessed he had that in him.
My friend hasn’t been able to trust or date again yet and it’s been 4 years. However, she has become an amazingly brave woman, who’s traveled to some amazing places alone and is now retraining to change careers.
I think she learned never to be a backseat passenger in a relationship again. Honestly, the way she handled the whole thing, with such grace and determination makes me so proud to be her friend. She basically told him when he left that he would never see her, or hear from her, or about her again. She dropped all friends that had a connection with him (after he left) and made sure he would always live his life wondering if he made the right decision and what she was up to.
I really hope his dying thought is about her. And I know for a fact hers won’t be about him, she’ll find real love. —GRC2772
#10 Hulk Smash
I was kindly included in a last-minute plus-one to the wedding of a family friend who I’d never met before. At the rehearsal dinner (or the German equivalent, the Polterabend) the guests smashed ceramic and porcelain items on the ground. I was fresh in Germany, so this was all pretty out of context and frightening, but my boyfriend explained that it’s a tradition – reminding the couple that life is sometimes difficult and you have to work together to clean it up.
The bride kind of half-heartedly motioned to the groom to sweep it up. He did a little bit, then just moved on to talk to his friends, leaving most of the shards strewn around the yard. Additionally, I don’t think I saw the couple talk to each other once over the next three days of celebrations.
It was a gorgeous wedding, and I’m so grateful that I was invited (a really good way to begin living in a new country), but it wasn’t surprising to hear that they’d divorced a few years later. —BilobaBaby
#11 Abused groom
I was the best man at a wedding a few years back. At the rehearsal dinner, his future in-laws were treating him like crap. They were bossing him around, making him do crap, and talking down to him. They didn’t let him hang out with his groomsmen afterward while the bride went out and got drunk.
They are now divorced. Yes, he should have stood up for himself. His Ex’s parents were making him do crap for the wedding the next day and he was too nice to say no.
For you youngsters out there, this is cliche, but you really do marry the family and the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree (a lot of the time). —Actuaryba
#12 Drama guests don’t care
My wife got invited to a client’s daughter’s wedding. The couple were both drama students. Many of the bridal parties were drama students. The maid of honor’s toast consisted of tearful declarations of unrequited love to the groom, along the lines of ‘if it couldn’t be me, I’m glad it’s my best friend that’s marrying you. The best man’s speech was a lusty declaration of ‘if it doesn’t work out, call me, babe… like the previous time you called me.’
Other toasts were similarly weird. A guy at the table I was seated at was a friend of the bride and said to me that he was ‘this close’ to standing up during the ‘speak now or forever hold your peace’ thing. I’m still not sure if the whole thing was a bunch of emotionally f**ked-up 20-year-olds, or one big piece of performance art. —sharplescorner
#13 Gone to an emergency room
He ended up at the emergency room between the ceremony and the reception. He went out the night before with his sister and friends and got plastered. They had to hold a cold pack to the back of his neck to keep him vertical during the wedding photos. The marriage lasted 30 days until they had a fight, she left the house and he filled the U-Haul truck with everything but her clothes. —blackhart452
#14 Pain of embarrassment
Marriage to a partner that takes pleasure in raining on your parade will definitely not last long.
Prior to my wedding, I’d asked my husband to practice dancing with me because I’m uncoordinated, due to a disability. He blew me off and said we’d be fine. As we were dancing, he spoke in my ear, not even quietly. “What are you doing? What’s wrong with you? You’re embarrassing me!!” We lasted 2 years. Leaving was the best decision I ever made. —Edavis050694
#15 Complete Opposite
I worked at a nice restaurant in Nola. The bride is lovely she is excited and very receptive to our suggestions on things in their budget. Groom is an insufferable know it all. He’s bargain hunting. “Crab cakes don’t cost that much what if I buy them and you serve them,”
On their big day I’m holding the door as they walk out the first time as husband and wife.
W: “We got married, I’m so happy”
H: “Not really we gotta fill out paperwork and file it with the state.”
I’ve seen 3-week old balloons less deflated than that poor woman. I hope she got out of there. —Shababajoe
#16 The night before the wedding
The ceremony was delayed because the bride and groom were on the phone with the groom’s mother (who refused to come to the wedding) trying to be talked into still going through with it. Apparently, they had a huge and physical fight the night before. Their roommate at the time didn’t come either. He told me what he saw in the house the night before was enough for him to know this wedding was doomed and they should not be dating, let alone getting married.
This was about 20 years ago and we are all in our 40s now and have moved on with life since. So, I don’t know why the mother wasn’t there. I just remember thinking it was weird when I noticed she wasn’t, and then later heard they were on the phone with her. The roommate was visibly angry when I went to pick him up for the wedding. Outright refused to come, and I think ended up moving out and basically disappearing after. He was a big dude who worked as a bouncer at clubs and my impression was he had to go into work mode the night before in his living room and wasn’t happy about it. I never heard details and I wouldn’t have felt right asking for them. I am still friends (in the sense that I see them every few years) with both the bride and groom. Happy ending considering. I should also add, the years in which they dated and got married, all of us were very heavy binge drinkers. We were in our twenties and worked service industry jobs. It seemed normal almost for this much drama to be around. Looking back I don’t have the same opinions. No one involved ended up in rehab or prison and all live relatively normal lives now. —CoolHandRK1
#17 Unhappy her and him
At my boyfriend’s sister’s wedding, the groom got drunk before the vows and smoked weed after the vows. Was crossfaded as hell and made a fool of himself. When we went up to congratulate them after, she refused to be near him or take pictures with him. It was awkward.
After the speeches basically everyone left. The family was still around and they opened gifts. Someone gifted nice champagne and the groom tried to open it and dropped it and it shattered. Bride stormed off screaming. Groom got upset and started cussing out the air.
They still went on their honeymoon together in Florida and she got pregnant almost immediately. Maybe 7 months into her pregnancy she kicked him out because he slept with her roommate. They got divorced when their kid was 6 months old.
But it’s for the best, the dude is a POS and wasted a lot of their money by being selfish on their day. —ambrosiadeux
#18 Fist-fight with father in law
Groom got into a fistfight with the father of the bride. Split after 4 months.
Context- Groom and bride’s dad (actually most people in these families if I’m honest) have pretty aggressive drinking problems. Father-in-law has always hated him. I wasn’t around for what actually set it off but it ended when the bride got in the middle, got an elbow in the eye, and the happy couple left for the night. This was in rural Canada. Not Letterkenny, but basically Letterkenny. I’d say the father-in-law won the fight though. —screamingcaps#19 Who are the newlyweds?
The bride and groom did the first dance then spent the rest of their reception completely apart from each other getting sh*t-faced with their own separate friend-groups. The only other dancing all night was the bride dancing with her high school friends, the father-daughter dance, and the mother-son dance, during which the groom was crying.
The best man’s speech didn’t mention the bride at all and basically boiled down to “Groom, you’re married now but our bond is older and stronger, all of our hunting and fishing trips together are the best thing in our lives, can’t wait for more.” Such a sad, desperate atmosphere. They made it a little over one year. —DrPeace
#20 He was blinded
This was my sister’s best friend and it was a bachelorette party moment. The bride had been having an affair, everyone knew it. The groom’s friends tried to tell him, but she convinced him they were making it up. I mean, at that point it was just sad. She actually had the balls to force her fiance to apologize to the guy she was sleeping with for the accusations.
The night of the bachelorette party she actually took all her bridesmaids back to the other guy’s house and spent the night with him. He came to their wedding. It was SO AWKWARD. Everyone knew and everyone was talking. The groom was told but chose to overlook it. After the wedding, she insisted the other guy come on vacations with her and her husband and included him in all their social functions. Now, if they’re nonmonogamous, whatever, go crazy! But her husband was an absolute wreck about it for years and she just kept gaslighting him. No one could convince him to leave her. She told my sister that the affair guy insisted he would never marry her and didn’t want kids so she was using her fiance to get them. They ended up divorcing two years later after their second child was born. She immediately moved in with the affair guy and they did end up getting married. —brookmachine
#21 Honeymoon but alone
When she went alone on her honeymoon because she booked a trip to the Caribbean despite her newlywed husband having a severe sun allergy
She was a good friend and they had been together for some years. They married young and it didn’t occur to them that it would be strange if she went on the honeymoon and he stayed behind. He was a good guy and just wanted to see her happy and she really wanted to go on this vacation, because she had never left the country.
They separated half a year after the wedding and my friend, the bride, told me, that the marriage had been a way to prolong the relationship despite both of them knowing that it was already over some time before they got married. Kinda like a couple gets a baby to save a marriage. It really was just sad because they were a nice couple, but they stayed friends after separating.
And I can guarantee that she didn’t cheat on him while away, they were both really loyal.
About his sun allergy: he had red hair, really fair skin, and burned up within minutes. And I mean really bad sunburn, the kind you have to go to the hospital for. He always had to wear sunglasses, long-armed shirts, and a hat, even on cloudy days, so the vacation was not for him. —Short_Perspective72
#22 Photographer STORIES
Wedding photographer here, I can think of a few….
Full-blown row during dinner had another couple fistfight during a first dance.
An infamous one for me was leaving a venue late one night and as I’m walking to the train I can see the bride down an alley, on her knees with the best man.
I was the wedding photographer for a reality tv show. End of the night I’m having a few drinks with the film crew and the groom has come up to me and one of the producers and says “I think I’ve made a big mistake” So we’re trying to be reassuring and telling him it’s natural to second guess such a bit decision to which he replies “no I mean I think I’m gay” I had them both on Facebook, the drama the next week was mesmerizing to watch unfold.
I’ve got a ton of these stories…
Was working with a video guy who had the bride and groom on radio mics. Sat around waiting for the evening activities to kick-off and the video dude called me over and said “listen to this!” Groom was talking to one of the bridesmaids about how they had to end their affair now he’s married
Not a “how could you tell they wouldn’t last” but shooting in an old church on the hottest day of the year. Watching the groom wait for the bride and he’s swaying back and forth. Next thing he’s fainted, fallen forward, and slammed his mouth into a stone step. Smashed his front teeth out, blood everywhere.
Had a bride and groom on a trampoline for photos, grooms heading downward, brides about to go up, he lands on her dress just as she goes up and she pops out the top of the dress, boobs flailing around in the air.
Shot a traveler wedding which erupted into a massive brawl
Watched a drunk usher knock over a wedding cake
Weddings are amazing, I’ve been doing this for about 12 years and see some sights, but I still love shooting them even now —the_heff
#23 A huge mistake
While they were planning the wedding, the bride came to me and asked “is it normal to realize that getting married is a huge mistake but still go through with it? Do you think we can still be happy?” I tried to talk gently to her about everything and she admitted that she and her groom had already had sex and that if she didn’t marry him, nobody else would want “used goods” and she would go to hell. They got married…. worst part is, they’ll probably stay married forever because they are VERY religious and God doesn’t allow for divorce. It was really hard to watch the bride cry as she walked down the aisle. Not happy tears either. —wannabe_pineapple
#24 A toast of embarrassment
When the maid of honor professed her love for my brother during her toast at my brother’s wedding… and her husband walked up to the head table, picked her up and carried her away before she could embarrass him further. They lasted about 3 months after that. My brother and his wife on the other hand are still happily married 20 years later. —cat9tail
#25 Poor groom
It was mine.
Ex-wife had a taste for theatrics and wanted a choreographed dance number for the first dance. Wanted the whole wedding party involved, but there was no interest. I’d never danced (not even at a club), but was willing to take lessons with her with the understanding we would do something together so she could have her dream wedding. I sucked but got through a few lessons of slow dancing. I can now awkwardly shuffle around, but don’t expect anything crazy. The dance school wouldn’t choreograph anything for us, so she promptly gave up.
When it came to choosing the song, she decided she wanted ‘I Want You To’ by Weezer (my favorite band, and the song had just come out recently), which has like a jamboree feel to it. It is not a slow song to slow dance to. I suggested we choose something else, but she insisted we would just slow dance to it. I made her promise she wouldn’t change her mind.
Sure enough, 30 seconds into the song she backs up and starts dancing a jig. I just stood there in disbelief fuming while she kept shouting and motioning for me to dance in front of all our guests.
To boot, we had set a budget, she exceeded it, then her parents decided to chip in 5K, and rather than use it to offset what we were over budget, she decided to spend more.
In retrospect, that should have been a huge clue that she didn’t respect me at all. Cheated on me and ran off with some guy like a year later. Got ‘remarried’ before we were legally divorced. Her parents never did hand over the 5K, because they’d put a provision on it that we had to go up north for a weekend and take some stupid Christian financial planning course their friend ran. My ex was also an atheist and didn’t want to do that, but knowingly spent the money we didn’t actually have. —theradiomatt
#26 Stall the wedding
She told me two days before that she found her fiancé annoying and that she didn’t like him and that he was AWFUL in bed.
She was visibly, endlessly uncomfortable at the rehearsal wedding/dinner combo.
Then she sobbed the ENTIRE morning, day-of. She ended up not getting any makeup done cause she wouldn’t stop scream-sobbing and refused to get dressed, stalling the wedding ~35 minutes.
She then said 45 minutes of “vows” that she had prepared (9 pages of things like inappropriate vows to friends and family, his parents and sisters, none of them her husband), and then ALMOST didn’t say “I do”. Managed to get a, “uh, yeah, okay, yeah I do” out of her almost a full 60 seconds after she was supposed to say anything.
I could go on for HOURS, but it was the most painful and awkward wedding I’ve ever been to. I’ve got my money in 10 months. We’re 1 month in. —brbdead
#27 Call anyone but the groom
I was at a wedding when a phone went off during the ceremony.
In the middle of exchanging vows.
It was the grooms.
He took the call.
They are divorced now.
I believe it was a cousin calling, to ask if they were late for the wedding. —TomppaTom
#28 Unsure wedding day
The bachelor party and the Bachelorette party were in Vegas at the same time. Across the hall from each other. The bride and groom got in a huge fight on the last night of the trip and when I was leaving I said “I’ll see you guys at the wedding” to the groom and he replied, “I’m not sure there’s gonna be one.”
There was a wedding, but they were divorced within 18 months I believe. —themightybearorrist
#29 Who among the two of us?
Portuguese wedding. A fistfight broke out at the head table during the reception. Between two groomsmen. They were arguing about which of them had slept with the bride first. Groom was oblivious.
He came home from work early one day two years later and caught her in bed with another man. Surprised it took that long.
The midnight buffet was amazing though. —hernes63
#30 From best to worst
If after 15 years, your relationship hasn’t moved to the next stage, you should probably start asking questions.
My friend got married to her boyfriend of 15 years, it was an urgent wedding because her Mom was dying of terminal cancer – she was given a few months to live and died two weeks after the wedding. The wedding was beautiful, and also was a funeral. My friend found out later that her husband had been cheating on her. He is the one person I’ve known who I may struggle to ever forgive. —hungrypendo
#31 Married Again
This would be the wedding of my own parents. They had been divorced for many years, but told us (the kids and their spouses) they were planning to get remarried, and would we like to go with them to Las Vegas to witness this event. We were all still in our twenties, so we thought Hell Ya!
Flash forward to two days into the weekend and there has been no word of a wedding. The kids all had a conversation: What should we do? Should we ask about it. That should have been our first clue that it wasn’t a good idea for them to get married. But lack of perspective made us oblivious to the obvious… So we pressured them.
Hey! You told us you were going to get remarried, when are you going to do it?
Anyway, then we suddenly found ourselves in a courtroom, speaking to the judge! He was wise, and asked to speak privately to my parents, and I am sure asked them: Why are you doing this, are you sure? Well, I guess they gave him the correct answers, because he did it!
Long story short, they ended up divorcing AGAIN! (not long afterwards). —InsideOut2299922999
#32 Swinging Things The Wrong Way
Friend’s wedding back in 2016, somewhat nice affair for us given we were in our early 20s and all. I was a bridesmaid and really hadn’t met the groom much prior. He was nice but quiet.
Day before wedding the bride, a long-time friend, asked me to help babysit one of the groomsmen because he was a nightmare. Asked me, other bridesmaid, DJ, the works to help cut him off from alcohol before the ceremony, not to allow him to make a speech, keep him from hitting on girls, the works. He was an alcoholic douche with 6 kids and 2 DUIs but was the absolute best friend of the groom. Day of the wedding, best douche breaks into the bar, gets hammered, has to be dragged down the aisle, gets the florist drunk while they pretty much have make out on the dancefloor, and makes what I can only assume to be a speech during the father/daughter dance.
The bride was annoyed and stressed as well trying to get things to not be a total disaster. Groom blocked us from keeping him in check, wanted us to just let it go while he did everything the bride asked he not do. It was like a weird purposeful or intentional self-sabotage thing. Douche also broke into the groom’s private stash of homemade mead he’d made special just for the wedding, stripped his clothes, and ran through the parking lot hiding in bushes at 11 p.m…
Same night the couple text me asking if I’d want to be their third in their open relationship, which I find out later was mostly the groom’s idea. I also found out later they got married pretty quickly because she suddenly needed medical benefits all the while he had been asking for an open relationship for the complete duration of them being together but she’d only acquiesce if he would marry her as well. Divorce was finalized a year and a half later. —lilmidjumper
#33 Auctioned Off
It was an Appalachian wedding in West Virginia. At the reception, there was a dude in the bathroom looking super depressed. He told literally anyone who asked that he was sad because the night before the wedding, the bride told him that was the last time they would be together.
People were super drunk by then, so it was a fight. Ever see those fights on Jerry Springer where everyone’s fighting, and Steve can’t even hope to break it up? That’s what it looked like. The next morning everyone goes to breakfast together at Bob Evan’s (because of course, they did). Bride and groom are there.
After a bit of awkward small talk followed by silence, someone’s like “So… are you getting divorced? Or….?” They said they decided to stay together since she technically didn’t cheat on him. She proceeded to cheat on him in the most spectacular ways (she literally auctioned herself off in a BDSM “slave auction” thing a couple years later). —j0y0
#34 Pepper Spray
My cousin got married probably a decade ago and during the wedding, it came out that groom was not the best to my cousin while dating. The bride’s brother did not take this well and during the after party, a shouting match became a brawl between the two families. Next thing you know the police show up and literally pepper spray everyone. Including my grandma, kids and anyone near the area. I don’t remember if anyone got arrested but the story got on CBS the early show for the international news. Lol they did not last long to say the least. —mendoza327
#35 Shady Bride
I was at a wedding. I was a plus one for my date. The bride sat down drunk at our table and started talking to us. She then told me that she slept with her ex right before walking down the aisle. She also slept with her ex in her wedding dress in the bridal suite. She then downed the last of my drink and went off to the dance floor. I was left speechless. I didn’t know anyone but my date. Less than a year later the bride and groom were divorced. —southdakotagirl
#36 Invited for a Reason
I was invited to a high school friend’s wedding. The night before the wedding she asked me to join her future husband’s bachelor party. He had no friends and it was only he, his brother, his father, and I. They were not thrilled with my presence. They wanted to go to a strip club, but thought I would rat them out. We to a bar, but I could tell I was the turd in the punch bowl, so I went back to the hotel and they went to a strip club.
My friend called me after I got back to the hotel. She asked me why I didn’t go to the strip club and I told her that it wasn’t my thing. She asked if we could hang out and catch up. I said “sure” and she came to my room only wearing a robe. It was obvious there was nothing on under it. We watched a movie and she fell asleep. At some point in the night she left.
The next morning at the wedding I was sitting next to a mutual friend. This friend was encouraging me to object and looked disappointed when I didn’t do it.
They lasted five years but lived together less than two. —whittlingcanbefatal
#37 Experimental
It wasn’t at a wedding, but it was the first time I really sat down to talk to the couple. They came to town about a year after the wedding, and my wife (cousin to the groom) and I met them for drinks at one of the “cool” parts of “cool city”. One of the first topics of conversation was what we knew about the lifestyle scene – a word which in this case means swinger.
Afterward, I pointed out to my wife that the bride seemed to have been rather openly and boldly flirting with her. My wife shrugged it off because I’m often pretty terrible at that kind of thing.
We met one more time, this time for a funeral. After the ceremony, we were hanging out in a hotel room drinking. The bride again seemed to be pretty openly flirting with my wife, and this time was going out of her way to show off her talent for bedroom knots. Again, the groom is there in the room.
I pointed out all of this again, and this time my wife tacitly agreed.
The two would divorce soon after. The bride, it seems, only discovered – or accepted – that she was a lesbian after she’d gotten married. —WithinTheMedow
#38 Museum Catastrophe
I worked at a museum that also doubled as a wedding venue in the summers. As part of the wedding package, the museum would stay open after hours for the guests only so I’d just sit there and greet people basically. One wedding got particularly rowdy. Almost everyone was drunk, people were jumping into the fountain, someone vomited in said fountain. At one point, the bride is crying. Turns out the groom and one of his groomsmen were screwing upstairs in one of the bathrooms. A fight ensued between the groom and the father of the bride and cops were called because it really got ugly. Entertaining for me but I felt so bad for the bride. —lacrimal_
#39 Here Comes the Brat
Not at the wedding itself, but I used to work at a David’s Bridal. Bride came in with tons of friends, we did the ‘Say Yes To The Dress Thing’, and an hour later she’d standing there in $3,000 worth of stuff and doesn’t have any money with her or in her account. She decides she wants to apply for the store credit card, I run it through the system, and she gets denied.
She then calls the groom for his info (which, to be fair, people did all the time), and he tells her no. She threw a huge fit on the phone with him, standing on the bridal stage, literally demanding “why not? why?! why!!” like an actual child over and over again. I’ve never seen a 30-year-old age backwards so quickly.
She was just a brat. Literally stomping her feet in front of me, all her friends, and the other bride in the store. *I* was embarrassed. At the end of all of that, she hangs up on him and her friend is like “I’m so sorry you can’t get your dress” and the bride stops crying instantly and just goes “Oh I’ll get the dress. I just have to do this at home and when he gets mad enough he’ll come get it for me so I’ll stop.”
Speechless. Sure enough. Girl came back two days later with her man and he applied for the credit card and bought the dress. He was livid and silent, and she was smug as hell. Can’t imagine they’re having a happy marriage if they are still together. —alsothebagel
#40 Birds of a Feather
Source: My Wedding.
We’ll start three days before. The wedding was a ren-fair style wedding outside at a large gazebo and the Maid of honor had promised to purchase a stylized dress for my bride that they had agreed on. three days before the wedding she calls to tell us she had no money and was embarrassed to admit it….so we literally hand-sewed on together in 24 hours. In my opinion, it turned out pretty nice for what we had…
Brides mother was supposed to pick up the cake in ATX and drive an hour south for the wedding. She left her house 30 minutes before the wedding to pick it up. When she finally showed up (hour late) the cake was destroyed….she put it in the back seat and drove like hell all the way down, just slamming it against box with every turn.
During the one hour delay, there was almost a fist fight between two groomsmen because….well the MoH showed up, in the dress that she was ‘unable to afford’. Obvious attempt to upstage the bride. The same MoH during her speech after the ceremony started it of by saying ‘When we all met, I did not like Drakkarim411 at all, however, I found that he grows on you…like a fungus.’
Needless to say, my entire side of the family was super cold to all of this.
Since all of these issues were on her side of friendships or families, I was told to suck it up and we’ll discuss later. I sort of assumed that a lot of these ‘friends’ had just shown themselves the door. Quite the opposite. In fact, two years later when I accepted my first well-paying job out of college, it became an issue that it was an hour and a half out of Austin…so she decided to just stay in ATX to be with her friends.
…I mailed her the divorce papers and since she couldn’t be bothered to even show up to the hearing….I’ve never seen her again. —Drakkarim411
#41 Cheap Trick
I was at a wedding where the groom took the stupid cake thing to an extreme. The bride had given him his bite, and mushed a little on his chin or nose. He then took a piece and MASHED it into her face so hard that I was expecting her to end up with a bloody nose. Cake and frosting got up her nose, in her eyes, down the front of her dress, etc.
The bride had to go get cleaned up, had her makeup re-done, and was ugly-crying within an hour of saying, “I do.” He didn’t have a care in the world. —erik_working
#42 Apart From Each Other
I used to be a wedding singer and I played a wedding that I knew was doomed from the start. We had a hard time figuring out who the groom was because he was never anywhere near the bride. The first dance was delayed because the wedding planner had such a hard time getting the two of them in the same place at the same time. Afterward, they both stayed on opposite ends of the ballroom. In the 6 hours of the reception, I don’t think they ever spoke to one another. —Purplehairedhussy
#43 Something Old, Something Renewed
My best friend always dreamed of her wedding day, having children, etc. We had been friends since we were 2, lol, So I know. We talked about it a lot and we vowed we would be each other’s Maid of Honor.
A boy came into her life and she was head over heels for him. But he never really seemed to be the romantic type. Long story short, they got engaged, and all of a sudden she didn’t want a big wedding, she wanted an elopement with no bridesmaids. Then the talk of children came about and she didn’t want children anymore.
I know that plans can change as we grow older but this wasn’t her. Nonetheless, I supported her. They did have a big reception (My only guess is that this was the compromise). At the reception, I remember the groom just not being around at all. He just drank and hung out with his friends and barely spent time with his wife! WTF? In my heart…I knew it wasn’t going to last.
Welp…5 years into the marriage, this jerk of a man child cheated on her and broke her. It took her a while to recover from it but today she is so much better off with a man who is treating her right and she is happily talking about the wedding she has always dreamed of and children 🙂 —KTFlamingo
#44 Regrets
Not a wedding moment as much as a bachelor party moment but my ex got married to a woman two years ago from a super conservative religious family.
We were still friends for the most part and I was surprised he asked me to be a groomsman but I figured, hey, always good to be able to stay friends with your exes – that feels like mature growth and closure.
He got really drunk at the bachelor party and at one point asked me if I ever had any regrets about us breaking up. And I said I had loved him but no – we had made the right decision in the long run. And then he told me that he sometimes wishes that we were getting married the next week and how his fiancee’s family will never accept him. And then after an awkward pause, he said, “what if we just run away together?”. Laughed it off as a joke and said we should rejoin the group. Then he said it again later again in a joke tone. And then a third time later in the night. We had been friends for years but only dated for like 6 months.
Turns out he asked the same thing to another one of his exes who wasn’t a groomsman but was attending the wedding.
The couple is still together technically but separated. —PhiloPhocion
#45 Trouble In Paradise
The couple in question had been married on some tropical island or another, and since the majority of their friends and family hadn’t been able to attend the ceremony, they had decided to throw a “lavish” party upon their return. This had prompted the pair to spend borderline-absurd amounts of money on what might very well have been the tackiest celebration I’ve ever seen.
Imagine renting out the cafeteria at an elementary school, then hiring a celebrity (who happens to be a half-blind orangutan) to decorate it. Commission the services of an expensive caterer, but require them to serve only the sort of slop that you’d find at a low-rent county fair, citing the fact that “nobody likes fancy crap.” Finally, enlist a disc jockey whose idea of an appropriate “first dance” song is “Freaks of the Industry” by Digital Underground.
I’m exaggerating, obviously, but that really was the song that they chose.
Now, everyone has different tastes, and it might seem reasonable to assume that the newlyweds were getting exactly what they wanted.
That was what I had been telling myself, anyway… until shortly before the “money dance” (the announcement of which was the first time that I’d ever even heard of the tradition), when I overheard a suggestive piece of gossip: The couple had apparently already argued about the amount that had been spent on the reception, with the bride claiming that the whole thing was a disaster, and the groom insisting that it was “classy as heck.”
He had been so certain of this, in fact, that he had used his new wife’s credit card to pay for it.
She had reportedly been rather upset when she’d found out about that, and had temporarily kicked him out of the house… which had prompted him to stay with an old girlfriend. Something untoward had allegedly occurred during the man’s exile, but details were lacking, and his spouse had decided to forgive him. That was already bad enough, but the rumor – at least as I understood it – was that the aforementioned “money dance” was supposed to help them recoup their financial losses, with the implication being that the future of their marriage was riding on them receiving upwards of thirty thousand dollars in a four-minute period.
As I considered all of this, and as I mentally added up the amounts being pinned to each partner, I found myself thinking “Yeah, this isn’t going to last.” —RamsesThePigeon
#46 She Said What She Said
Had a buddy (this was almost 30 years ago, btw.) whose girlfriend told him that if he smashed the cake in her face, it was O-V-E-R. She told him at least 10 times in my presence.
Day of the wedding, his “buddies” had gotten to him by making the whip noise and saying he had to show her Who Wore The Pants.
She fed him his piece, he mashed her face, she walked out and had the marriage annulled. —dramboxf
#47 Rude Groom
I know a photographer who was offered to shoot a wedding on the Gold Coast, Australia. If you’re from Australia then you know the Gold Coast while beautiful has a lot of jersey shore types living there, it’s kind of like Miami but no celebrities and very very trashy.
My friend is getting shots of everybody getting dressed up at the same time because the groom, groomsmen, bride, and bridesmaids are all getting ready in the same room. The groom decided to have his bucks party (bachelor, stag do) the night before so they’re all very hungover and snorting line after line of coke, something that is making my photographer friends job hard because she can’t get any nice shots of the groom or groomsmen without these illicit drugs in view.
The energy in the room is getting uncomfortable so the bride asks if they could take it easy on the coke and get a couple of nice photos. The groom yells “Shut up, witch” and keeps snorting.
The girl who got my friend the gig said they divorced like 4 months later.
Another friend of mine was pressured into marrying his girlfriend of like 8 years because she dropped an ultimatum, propose to me within a year or we’re done. He does so they get married but of every wedding photo she posted on Facebook, neither one of them looked happy. They divorced barely a year into their marriage. —insane__knight
#48 Selfish
When I was in college I went to a wedding with my girlfriend at the time during one summer. She and I had only been together for a few months, so it was actually the first time I had met the bride and the groom, and most of her family for that matter. I didn’t really say anything to my girlfriend at the time, because I didn’t know them at all aside from stories she told me, but I had a feeling like they wouldn’t last very long.
At the reception, she spent most of her time just talking with her friends and didn’t interact much with anyone else at all. He went around and tried to get time with everyone, but every so often I would see him with her and she would kind of not even acknowledge that he was there very much. When I walked passed her one time on the way to grab a beer, she was bragging to her friends about how much money the dress cost her and how he wanted her to get a cheaper one, but she wouldn’t have it.
At one point of the night, I was outside smoking with some of the other guests and he came out the back and asked to bum a cigarette. He was one of those types of people that only smokes when they are drunk, which apparently wasn’t that often for him since he was doing his residency at a hospital, so he was always really busy. The entire time he kept looking at the door and whenever it opened and someone came out, he quickly moved his hand holding the cigarette behind his back, because he thought it was her. It was like he was deathly scared of her and not like in a playful way.
It didn’t surprise me when about a year later they got divorced. Apparently, she just kind of was taking advantage of him, staying home all day (she didn’t work) spending thousands of dollars ordering clothes and shoes online using his money and credit cards she took out in their names. —-eDgAR-
#49 Unsure Bride
There’s this couple I know. They have been in and out of their relationship for several years, sometimes only a few weeks in between breakups. They’re constantly fighting, and the girl is a manipulative witch. It took them 3 years between deciding to get married and actually doing it, because she kept toying with him, breaking up every time they got close. He’s not much better either; the type of guy who gets drunk and aggressive picking fights for the fun of it. She used to have a crush on me and vice versa, and I thank god for dodging that bullet in the end. I just feel bad for their kid who has to grow up in such an environment… —Faglerwagen
#50 The Other Side of Her
After the wedding, my friend’s new wife (who was fairly quiet in public) was screaming at my friend’s family telling them it was the last time they would be seeing them and how terrible they were. It was hard to watch.
Two years later, my friend walked in on her and a dude. That was that. —ac2162