" Seconds later on , the bouquet was lying on the basis in the center of an empty roofy of women who did n’t want it . The bride was furious . "
Weddings by nature are memorable, but some weddings are memorable for all the wrong reasons. That’s why I was pulled into this Quora thread asking,“What did someone do during a wedding that made you say, ‘You gotta be kidding me?'“Here are the worst answers.
1.“A bridesmaid arranged her own spotlight dance with the groom. The DJ announced them, and the groom politely met her on the floor. The chosen song, mystifyingly, was ‘Hopelessly Devoted’ from the movieGrease. If you don’t know the film, it’s an imploring ballad about heartbreak. Then they slow-danced, with the groom smiling tolerantly while she clung to him and wept. Not like ‘eyes glistening with emotion.’ Her face crumpled up, and she cried, clasping his shoulders as if she needed support, for the duration of the song. I was at the singles table with a bunch of their friends I didn’t know, who were also goggling at the spectacle. I asked, ‘Is that Rob’s sister?’ Wordlessly, they shook their heads NO. And not his cousin or former babysitter, either. She was a childhood friend — now a mutual friend of the couple — who had always had an unrequited love for the groom.”
" I will probably never know if the couple sanction the dedication in advance or if she used her bridesmaid status to hard - limb the DJ and caught them off guard . But they could not have anticipated that uncomfortable scene . It was the bridesmaid ’s masochistic farewell , played out for a captive interview . "
— Allyson Miller
2.“At my cousin’s reception, her friend decided to, during her maid of honor speech, announce her own engagement.”
— Brenda Parry
3.“We went to the reception with about 300 other people. The bride’s parents paid for the reception, which featured six open bars and a full dinner. They also paid to rent out an entire art museum for the event, to lease a municipal parking lot for the overflow of guests, and for two city buses to shuttle people back and forth. While I certainly appreciate how much money they must have spent, I still think it was inappropriate that when the time came, her parents ‘stole’ the honor of the first dance. It also turned out to be the bride’s mother’s birthday, which she celebrated by opening presents at her table while we were seated for dinner. It just seemed as if the evening was more about their largesse than about the newlyweds. And to add insult to injury, we’ve never seen a single photo from that day.”
— Cristy Gullett
4.“At my own daughter’s wedding, my ex-husband’s new wife, married only a few months, changed decorations and added flowers the day of the wedding because what we had done was ‘substandard,’ and talked loudly about it. My daughter had planned and put together a beautiful venue on the budget we had. New wife was giving instructions and directions; I overheard a guest ask if she was the mother of the bride, and she said YES! She changed the meal seating. We let all of this slide, not wanting to cause a scene. The last straw was when she instructed the kitchen crew (we had prepared the food with the help of friends who ran a catering business) not to put certain items on the buffet. My dad actually pointed out that about a third of the guests had gone through the buffet, missing those items, when he finally got into the line…yep, she (new wife) had rearranged the guests so that grandparents were in the back.”
" I speedily but quietly had the token added and apologized to guest that bag had been leave , and pay for anyone missing food to sense free to make another round of the buffet . This evidently send off novel wife into a tailspin , as she had ex - married man ( father of the bride ) take her home in the middle of the meal , announcing that she had a headache . They only live a couple of minutes from the venue , but Padre of the Saint Bride did not return for the residue of the celebration . Sad . "
— Gail Simmons
5.“The officiant begins the ceremony, and the groom interrupts the officiant, grabs a beer from the back side of the arbor, cracks it open, and announces, ‘I CAN’T DO THIS SOBER!’ He takes a big swig and then hands it off to the best man.”
" A few other time throughout the brusk ceremonial occasion , he snapped his fingers in the direction of the best man ( who unsuccessfully seek to pass the beer down to the last guy in line to keep it by from the groom ) so he could take another drink . When the ceremony ended and we began to make our way at heart for the cocktail hour , the shop class secretary say to me , ' Did you see that too or am I in a bad dream mightily now ? ' I reply that this was real lifespan . The St. Brigid go in the back door and straight across the banquet hall and out the front room access without say a word . She got in her car and left . The bridesmaids went after her . The groom defend himself , saying , ' It was just a joke , I thought she ’d laugh ! ' The bridesmaids went after her ( she just conk back to their household , about a mile off ) , and they convinced her to come back . She was threatening to shred their marriage licence alternatively of file it . I do n’t blame her one scrap ! Six years later , they are marital and doing well , but yowza , what a way to start your spousal relationship ! "
— Venna Trettel
6.“I went to sit at the table, hoping that there would be some food served soon, because I was so hungry I thought I’d faint. There were the dances, and it went on for hours. We were there at 7 p.m., and by 10 p.m., there was still no food being served. Everyone started to complain about it, and my mom went to ask her sister (the bride) if the food would be served soon, since many people were starving at that point. That’s when we found out that the bride actually had a buffet during the photo shoot where only she, the groom, and a few select guests ate, so they decided to postpone the dinner at the restaurant. My mom was upset that she didn’t announce that to the other guests so they could have had some food as well instead of waiting for the reception.”
— Vanessa Ispas
7.“It was an Orthodox Church wedding, where the bride and groom walk around the altar with their hands tied and candles and crowns. All in all, very picturesque. After the church wedding, the ceremony continued at the groom’s paternal home, a huge house, with the yard so heavily decorated with flowers that it was hard to breathe. Apparently, there were several customs for the bride to manage before entering the house. One of them was that she should lift the youngest child on the groom’s side (which happened to be his sister’s baby boy), kiss him, and turn him around a couple of times for everyone to see so they would have a lot of children as beautiful and healthy as that one.”
" So the Saint Brigid arise the child , but the baby did n’t care it at all . He kept kick and scream while she kissed him , and then there was the smell . like a shot , everyone know what had happened , but no one want to say a thing . To look sharp the thing and be able to return the boy to his female parent for change , the Saint Brigid turn the child a few time , but it was maybe too fast . Baby made a face , then threw up all over her marriage ceremony frock . "
— Illyria Duncan
8.“When it was time for the bouquet toss, the bride insisted that I participate. I didn’t want to make any drama, so I took a position on the outskirts of the group. When she was cued to toss the bouquet, she spun to face the group, saw me, wound up her arms like a baseball pitcher, and fired those flowers straight at my gut. I twisted, but it was shock, not athletic reflexes. I moved, and the bouquet bounced off of me. It caromed sort of toward the next woman, who jumped backward. Seconds later, it was lying on the ground in the center of an empty circle of women who didn’t want it. The bride was furious.”
— Carole Unter
9.“A friend of mine was the bridesmaid, so I crashed the wedding and sat in the back. When the preacher said, ‘If anyone has any reason why this man and this woman … speak now or forever hold your peace,” THE BRIDE’S EX STOOD UP AND PROFESSED HIS UNDYING LOVE AND ASKED HER TO MARRY HIM INSTEAD! The look on the bride’s face was priceless. The fact that her father, the bride, and the groom all restrained themselves from pummeling the guy was admirable.”
— Suzanna Nicholson
10.“Once the Mass was done, they directed their guests to the reception venue and turned up an hour later with no apologies. Now, this might’ve been acceptable if the guests had a place to sit! But the couple were so focused on the venue that they forgot to make sure they’d hired the right number of chairs for their guests to sit. So with people milling about as if they were in an overcrowded waiting room, the reception finally commenced. The meal they provided did nothing to ease the guests’ discomfort, as there were no tables for them to eat at.”
— Anonymous
11.“My wedding reception took place at the Millwall Football Club banqueting suite in London. At some point during the evening event, a security guard rushed up to me as I was making my way around the room, talking to and thanking our guests. He demanded to know where my husband was. I had no idea — it was a big area, and I couldn’t see all of it from where I stood. The groom and a number of his friends, all die-hard Lions fans, had ‘escaped’ through a window onto the terraces and, from there, onto the pitch. I have a memorable picture of them, some of them stripped to their underwear, posing in the goal mouth. I thought it was hilarious, but the security guard was not amused!”
— Jenny Fletcher
12.“When I was at law school, I used to serve documents (as a process server). I rarely read them, just looked at the name and address and handed them over, but occasionally, especially when I couldn’t find someone, I would read through the documents to see if I could get a hint of where they might be. I was looking for this one guy, a Navy boy, for whom I had divorce papers. Now, serving military folks is the easiest gig ever. you just call up the right military department HQ and tell them you have papers for so-and-so, and they tell you where he is.”
" Well , my guy rope had abandon , so I started to register the written document to see if I could find him . I ’ll never forget the details … it said , ' After a verbal affray at the wedding reception , the husband left the reception with the first bridesmaid , and the two have not been visualize since . At that time , the wife determined that the marriage was over . ' look like he had a farseeing account of running away … she likely should have been going for an revocation rather than a divorcement , but what would I know ? I never did witness him to serve him . "
— Keith White
13.“The mother of the bride walked into her daughter’s wedding in a beautiful, expensive, extra-white, long, flowing, sparkling gown that outclassed, and outshone, her daughter’s off-white, cheaper, and less desirable-looking wedding dress. The mother also carried a bigger bouquet, had her hair and makeup professionally done, and was smiling and waving the entire time.”
— Denny McLeod
14.“A Royal Marine asked me to sing at a wedding. One of his company was the groom. The plan was that I would start singing when the bride entered the church. I was to be out of sight the whole time — standing in a side porch. I was given a walkie-talkie headset so that I could get the signal for when she arrived. Neil, the Royal Marine, was standing with me. Neil had no time for the bride. Me neither. The pair of us in the porch, he reminded me that none of the groom’s friends wanted them to get married. I agreed, saying, ‘Who would want to marry her, seriously? She’s a fantasist…”
" The vicar hurried out into the porch and shushed me . The sound technician had mess up and fed my walkie - talking picture headset through the pulpit mike channel . Every word I ’d say had come loud and clear out of speakers above the altar . "
— Iestyn Edwards
15.Finally, “A neighbor of my husband (for our reception) made rattlesnake stew without telling anyone what the meat was. People started asking when they bit down on tiny, little bones. I was appalled at his lack of consideration at MY wedding.”
— Wanda Tucker
take note : Some responses have been blue-pencil for duration and/or clarity .
