People Describe The Worst Thing That Happened At A Wedding They Attended

Most weddings are pretty standard affairs. Some are downright boring.

But some people have had wedding experiences that rival a Hollywood drama—or comedy.

Reddit user General-Mango_ asked:

"What’s the worst thing that happened at a wedding you went to?"

Indecent Proposal

"The brother of the groom stood up when the priest said: 'if anyone who opposes the marriage between him and her speak now or forever hold your peace'."

"The brother then proposes to his girlfriend. Of 2 months. She is embarrassed. Apologizing to everyone."

"She declined the proposal. The brother raged. Accused her of cheating and revealing he only proposed to see if she only wanted him."

"In his mind, if she said yes, it meant she’s been loyal to him. But since she declined, it means she had been sneaking around."

"It gets better. He admitted he slept with 2 other people to revenge cheat even though he didn't know if she was cheating."

"The priest was just standing there. His face was just: 'oh sh*t'." Groom of course was shocked and mad. Bride was upset, which is understandable."

"The bride and groom are still married, but no longer speak to the brother. The brother is single. What a surprise…"

~ billyrko1987

Runaway Bride

"Bride didn't show up. Everyone waiting in a huge church, including the groom waiting at the altar for 30 minutes."

"Then bride's father came in and announced that she had decided she didn't want to get married."

"But as he'd already paid for the reception all the guests should go ahead with the party."

~ Brief_Reflection_343

No Rain Delays

"It was a destination beach wedding and the bride and groom allegedly spent over $100k on the entire thing, which was completely outdoors, with no contingency plan for some reason, all for it to not only rain, but POUR."

"It actually wouldn’t have been so bad had they started on time but the bride had everyone waiting for her for like 30 minutes. We just watched the sky get darker and darker in that time, then it just opened up & it came down cats & dogs right as the wedding party came out."

"It was already a bit awkward because in the water behind the alter was an ugly rusty cargo ship getting close to shore and there were folks off to the sides of the wedding area just enjoying the beach."

"At least the reception was fun once folks let go of caring about how they looked (and smelled) after getting drenched."

~ smashier

Two Funerals And A Wedding

"I was probably 9-10 years old, so this was like 16+ years ago. A family friend was getting married (the bride) so my family attended. The bride’s father had passed due to a heart attack a few weeks prior."

"His wake and funeral service took place about a week before the wedding. He’d had a major cardiac event while driving on the highway and caused a car accident as a result, but he’d already died before his car ever came to a stop."

"Very sudden, traumatic all around."

"The wedding was beautiful. All sorts of efforts to honor the father of the bride were placed around the reception hall. A chair with his favorite coat & hat hanging on it were at the head table, with a sweet framed poem in the seat about always 'saving a spot for him'."

"The father had even recorded himself singing the song for the father/daughter dance as a surprise to everyone long before he passed, and it played while the bride’s only brother danced with her in his father’s place."

"It was so sweet and so sad, the entire room of 300+ guests were all bawling our eyes out."

"The mother of the bride had walked outside, presumably for fresh air, midway through the dance. It was a really emotional song and dance, considering the circumstances, so no one thought anything of it that she’d needed a second to collect herself."

"It came time for her to dance with the bride shortly after the 'father/daughter' dance had ended, but she was nowhere to be found."

"The brother goes outside looking for her, we all hear him wailing in agony, and the guests rush outside to see the mother of the bride unresponsive on the ground. Major cardiac event."

"This family was all in the medical field, so cue a man in full formal attire doing chest compressions on a woman who’s turned blue while a frantic crowd tries to shield the children from seeing it and dispersed to call for help."

"It was a 'no cellphones' reception—which in 2009 was easier to do—and we’d all been shuttled from the parking lot to the venue, probably only 1/4-1/3 of a mile. So everyone is sprinting back to their vehicles to find a phone to call for help, complete with flowing gowns and tuxedos, down a gravel and dirt path."

"She didn’t survive."

"It was pretty wicked from the perspective of a child, for sure. I’d just seen my first dead person the week prior when I went to the husband’s wake. Seeing all the tributes to him in the wedding had started to kind of make sense of death in my little mind."

"A full life, the end of it, a new beginning—all commingling in this tiny span of time. I sort of understood the peace that accompanied death, watching his daughter step into this new chapter with his memory being honored."

"But the dead lady in the gravel outside sort of turned that understanding on its head, at least for a while."

"I haven’t been to another wedding, for obvious reasons. I picked a courthouse marriage for my own wedding. I’m not too interested in attending another one, that one was my first and last."

~ Odd_Wing_4690

One That Got Away

"Groom's Aunt got drunk and spilled all the details about the groom actually being in love with his friend who coincidentally was also attending the wedding."

"Awkward to the extreme."

~ Ultimatelee

Merry Marry

"The bride—who was my aunt—specifically told the wedding designer she wanted pastel pink and sky blue. The designer was agreeing, taking notes, and gave her the assurance that he would make it the way she wants."

"After the vows and all, we went to the after-party venue and it was CHRISTMAS THEMED."

"Happy Marry Christmas to them, I guess?"

~ Feisty-Matter2487

Changing Their Tune

"I worked a wedding once with no DJ. It’s not a rare occurrence but usually, it also means there’s no alcohol."

"Well, this wedding had no DJ and an open bar. Someone plugged their iPhone into the auxiliary and played music that way."

"As the night went on and people drank more, someone would pick a song and someone else would come up and change it 30 seconds in. Then someone would unplug one phone and plug their own in."

"It was so disjointed and messy. Hardly anyone was dancing except for whoever’s turn it was to pick the song."

~ luisc123

Uninvited

"The groom's ex and her child from after they split up were invited by the mother-in-law against the bride's explicit wishes. Because what the bride and groom knew and had come to peace with (f*cking barely) was that the child was his, the result of an affair he had after they were together.

"The rest of the wedding did not know any of this and thought the bride was being unreasonable. Until she threw a tantrum and spilled the beans."

"I disappeared to the free bar at that point."

~ BathFullOfDucks

Cold Feet, Warm Hearts

"The daughter of one of my dad’s best friends (an old frat buddy) had her groom cancel a couple of hours before the ceremony. Her dad called mine and we all went over to his house where the reception was going to be (gorgeous lakefront)."

"The friend, my dad, and a bunch of their frat buddies sat on decorated Adirondack chairs mostly silent and getting drunk. The wives got tipsy in the house trash talking the groom and his family."

"Everybody’s kids spent the day running around the gorgeous lawn or sneaking alcohol (depending on age) and eating from the wedding feast. No one got sloppy drunk, just loose."

"Jilted bride came out of her room midday and was surrounded by so much love. I was mid-teens and it honestly may be the nicest wedding I’ve ever been to even if there was no wedding. Total community."

"Daughter got married a couple years later to a great guy who treated her very well."

~ Pistalrose

Almost Dry

"The wedding venue was left open and someone stole ALL of the booze from behind the bar, the morning of the day of the wedding."

"Without tipping off the bride to the mishap, the groom gave the go ahead to open all of the cards with money, and send someone with a Costco membership to go buy all of the missing booze. AGAIN!"

"Bride obviously found out after the ceremony, and everything turned out great afterwards, but man, the stress we all went through."

~ NoInformation7506

Salmonella, Yum!

"The wedding was at a barn in the middle of nowhere. The food was brought in from the city, about 45 minutes away..Fried chicken, mac and cheese, I don't remember what else."

"But fun enough wedding. We get back to the hotel which was maybe a ten minute drive. The bride is throwing up in the parking lot."

"Okay, maybe she had too much to drink. A couple other people throwing up in the parking lot. Well, they are young, that happens at weddings. Then I get upstairs and it hits me."

"I swear I threw up for three days. If I had died that would have been fine with me. Worst food poisoning of my life."

"I found out after the fact that pretty much everyone was sick in some capacity. Good times."

~ Hoorayforkate128

Avoid Stunts

"During a reception, the bride's uncle parasailed over the reception towing a banner. A short time later the power went out."

"Some time later, a couple police officers showed up, and explained the uncle accidently hit some power lines and didn't survive."

~ Living-Rip-4333

No Objections

"The Bride, for a laugh, when asked the 'do you take' question, she said no, just for a giggle."

"The vicar stopped the ceremony dead. Said 'OK' and refused to marry them."

"They had to go through all the pre-marriage stuff again and get married some 6 weeks later."

~ nevermindaboutthaton

"My pastor married us in a backyard and he made it clear to not let anyone even joke about 'objecting' to the wedding because he wouldn’t be able to marry us, even if it was a joke."

"He also said no one that signs the marriage license can be intoxicated because he wouldn’t be able to sign it as well."

"They take that sh*t serious!"

~ Losingmyshit4what

"Oh yeah, that sh*t is deadly serious. When I was having my meeting with the registrar before my wedding, she said that if anyone even joked about it, she'd have to stop the wedding."

"I turned to my bridal party (who would have been some of the ones to do it) and said if anyone pulled that crap, they'd owe me £30k for the wedding. It turns out my husband had the same conversation with his groomsmen (the other most likely to think they were funny)."

"A month later, one of my bridesmaids was at a wedding where the maid of honor 'jokingly' objected to the wedding, and it couldn't continue. Bride and maid of honour are no longer friends."

~ alongthewatchtower91

Poor Mom

"So I went to a wedding held at a family run go-cart track. Vows were nice held by a big pond. The reception started and hamburgers were being served out of the go-kart snack bar."

"I knew the mother of the bride (MOB) had worked all summer for free as a waitress at a local restuarant in exchange for them catering the event, so I was very surprised to see all the family hucking burgers out the window."

"I went to McDonald's down the road becase I've never liked the burgers at the go-cart place and they were struggling to keep up. Came back about an hour later. When I got back, there was a weird vibe in the air."

"I thought it was because the MOB had got scammed by the restaurant on the catering agreement and everyone was reeling from having to step in and sling burgers. People were still partying, but there was something going on in the main group and 'something in the air'."

"I didnt see the bride and groom around too much in the the main party area, no mingling. If I did see them, they weren't together and they were sticking close to their respective parties."

"Well, turns out the groom caught the bride with the best man. It had been going on for months."

"I felt so bad for the MOB. It was the second wedding she's paid for for this daughter. She got scammed on the catering."

"Then to find out that her daughter was having an affair and the marriage didn't even last as long as one of the MANY unpaid shifts she did to get the fee catering."

"They decided to try to work if out, if she would stay away from the best man. 3 months later, divorce papers were served."

"She got knocked up by the best man and they are still together last I heard, but they didn't get married. Groom married someone else 2 years ago and he has a kid now."

"Restuarant that scammed the mother of the bride closed down."

~ nomorepumpkins

Trauma Bond

"I was at a wedding where the bride and groom had a Rottweiler that they really loved, and they’d had him in some pretty intense training. The dog was even part of the ceremony as the ring bearer, which y’know, very cute."

"But then at the reception, in the middle of their first dance, a guy kicks open the door of the ballroom and charges in shouting, 'Babe! I miss you! Don’t do this!' And the bride goes, 'What are you doing? This is over! I don’t want to see you!'."

"And the guy lunges at her, and suddenly the f*cking dog attacks him. It bites down on his arm and wrestles him to the ground."

"People started screaming and kids were crying and the whole thing was just chaos."

"And then suddenly the guy stands up like nothing happened, and the bride announces that he’s their f*cking dog trainer, and this was a demonstration of the dog’s 'defensive abilities'."

"He takes a bow and shows the little padded thing he had on his arm under his shirt, and then he has the dog do a couple of normal tricks."

"We all kind of politely applaud, he walks out of the room, and then they finished their first dance like this was not an absolutely traumatic experience for everyone else."

~ bootsmalone

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