16. Take it easy.
“After the ceremony, right at the start of the reception – photographer was taking ‘jumping’ photos of the bride and bridesmaids, so they were all jumping in the air while wearing heels. Bride landed and dislocated her knee, then passed out and kept going in and out of consciousness. We called an ambulance who turned up and fixed her knee etc, but she wanted to continue with the wedding. She then had the first course of the meal and threw up down her dress, and had to sit with her mum in another room while everyone else danced etc. Felt so bad for her as she spent the rest of the evening crying.” –bethcrumb
17. The all-nighter.
“I finished work at 9pm then came back 3 hours later to work in the night club. I get in at midnight. Start pouring drinks. It’s busy as fuck with like 250 people in the club. Around 1am the groom and bride parties roll in absolutely destroyed. They look disgustingly drunk. I’ve no idea why security let them in because I wasn’t serving them.
They left about 45 minutes later.
So, roughly, they’d arrive back at their hotel rooms around 2am with the expectation that the bride and her party need to be up at 4am for hair and makeup to be done in time for a 715am ceremony. They all decide “we’ll just stay up all night and keep drinking until the wedding!” At this stage they had to have been drinking for 15-18 hours.
Anyway, ceremony time rolls around. She can’t walk down the aisle, which is on the beach, in her heels so she tosses them off. Groom and all their friends are drunk as fuck and can barely stand. They try to say their
vowelsvows but the celebrant can’t understand them so she isn’t leagally allowed to marry them because they’re too drunk to consent to marriage.Whole wedding is canned.” –YoungPatrickBateman
18. Be a nice parent.
“I was invited to the reception of one of my good friends. They had been courthouse married for months and living happily. When I arrived at the location and saw the big crowd I knew something was wrong. Friend’s wife is prone to panic attacks and is extremely agoraphobic to the point of breaking down and crying if she is overwhelmed.
Immediately call friend and ask what’s going on and if this was okay. Turns out friend’s parents invited everyone possible to be there without my friend knowing. After I sent him a picture of the crowd, him and his wife thought it would be better to go on a second honeymoon than have a reception.
He sent a message apologizing to all those his wife and him invited and telling them to leave without telling his parents. Parents had a meltdown as we left.” –BitterGingerDude
19. The perfect wedding.
“Hurricane Ivan. Our wedding was scheduled for Friday and the hurricane hit us dead center on Thursday. We were sitting around with no power on Friday and remembered that a neighbor was a pastor? So my partner and I just knocked on his front door and asked if he would just marry us in the front yard. So the big church wedding was cancelled but instead I got married in the front yard with chainsaws and stuff in the background.
Been married 17 years now.” –microtodd
20. A team effort.
“A fight broke out between father of the bride, brother of the bride and some guy that just happened to be staying at the hotel. In reality I don’t know how much of a ‘fight’ it was, more just the Dad and Brother assaulting some man. So anyway they were both arrested. Cut to the bride sobbing at breakfast because her Dad and Brother spent the evening of her wedding in jail and now face assault charges for what they did to this poor man.” –Maggiemaccy
21. Can’t take this guy anywhere.
“The grooms father groped both the bride and his daughter, my then girlfriend, multiple times each. Ended up getting punched out by his son, and locked in a mini-van for a few hours until he sobered up.” –KillionJones
22. “Decorating.”
“We all thought it was weird when a couple of the groomsmen asked for (and got access to) the reception room during cocktail hour. For decorating. Not something we normally saw the men do.
In any case, we get through the courses just fine, and one thing becomes VERY clear to us staff: the bride’s side of the family is VERY conservative. They didn’t drink, they barely danced, and they watched wide-eyed as the grooms side of the party went wild.
Now it’s time for the speeches!
About halfway through his speech, the best man says something along the lines of: Hey bride’s family, I know you think your girl is so sweet and innocent and Christian, and they are the perfect couple, but if you want to see what they’re REALLY like, look under your seat!
Well, taped under EVERY chair was a picture of the bride and groom caught in the act. The grooms family and friends roared with laughter, but the bride’s side was PISSED.
There were so many fights that broke out that night. Did I mention this was in NJ? The wedding was pretty much over at that point.” –alllowercaseyouknow
23. Name names.
“Was at a lovely wedding .. really romantic .. all candle lit .. and the reception was lovely .. bestman made a good speech then at the end he said everybody raise your glasses to .. he said the grooms name & then accidentally called the new bride the ex wife’s name (of the groom)!” –laidonsettee
24. A good marriage is like… a staircase…?
“I was at one really fancy one a couple of years ago, typical outdoor deal at a swanky location in the middle of nowhere.
The place was really nice, had a large concrete stairway flanked by water fountains that led down to the altar area, so the bride could be seen by all like she was ascending from heaven.
The ceremony begins and the bridal party come down and take their places. Then the bride appears with her father. She takes 3 or 4 steps down the concrete steps and her shoe twists on her, she tumbled down a good 12 feet or more and busted out the majority of her front teeth in the fall. So much blood all over her.
With the place being so isolated, it took a good 40 minutes for ambulance to arrive and she was in intense pain. Ultimately she was ok and I got an email from them weeks later with the reschedule date. This time there was no stairs anywhere in sight.” –MaestroLogical
25. Short and sweet.
“Drunk mother of the bride stumbled, fell, and rolled into a lake…” –thebeautifulseason
h/t Reddit: r/askreddit