There is so much pressure on those that organise and have an integral role in the wedding day. Everything has to go off without a hitch, while every small slip-up can seem like a potential day-ruining mistake. With the stress running this high, you really want the guests to be on their best behaviour to make the whole endeavour worth it.
But there are some people that are either completely ignorant to the negative impact of their actions, or they simply can't stop themselves from upstaging the wedding with their antics. These real-life testimonies from wedding guests have revealed the most melodramatic and destructive interruptions to the big day.
1. Psycho brother-in-law
2. Not dressing for the occasion
3. Struggling to forgive
4. A stroke of bad luck
5. Melodramatic mother-in-law
6. Dog on the loose
7. Worst. Idea. Ever.
8. Impulsive behavior
9. Stealing thunder
10. The last person she wanted to see
If you've ever witnessed any awkward best man speeches or embarrassing relatives at a wedding, rest assured that they weren't quite as disruptive as these. And it should be clear to all of us that declarations of love should come on any other day than the wedding day, which is simply the worst timing ever.
Who doesn't love a good wedding? There's free food, champagne, lots of terrible dancing, and, of course, a chance to catch up on all the family gossip.
However, as good as weddings are, they are also undeniably one of those places where it's easy for something to go wrong. Someone will inevitably throw a hissy fit about their dietary requirements, at least one child will start crying during the ceremony, and you can almost be certain that the best man will spill one too many home truths during his speech.
But those things seem pretty mild in comparison to these absolute disasters...
1. Why exchange vows when you can trade punches?
"The sister of the bride who wasn't invited showed up drunk and got in a fight with the bride until the father of the bride broke it up by putting the sister in a choke hold and dragging her out of the venue."
2. The best man so often turns out to be the worst
"I worked weddings for a living, and once saw the best man get loaded, give a speech, and profess his love of the bride and how they had slept together two nights before."
3. Aww, personalised vows are the cutest
"When it came time to say the vows, he pulls out a sheet of paper and reads on for like 5 minutes, getting really intimate and pouring his heart out to her. It was kind of awkward tbh. But the icing on the cake was her response. When he was done, she just giggled loudly and awkwardly and got out "ditto!" That's it. That was her wedding vow. So freaking awkward."
4. Life pro tip: don't invite children to a wedding
"There was like an 8 year old boy who had loads of confetti in his hand so I didn't think much of it, turns out he thought it was sugar paper and ate all of, he then proceeded to projectile vomit everywhere through the middle of the ceremony. Was one of the funniest and most disgusting moments of my life."
5. Same rule applies to dogs
"Brother and sister-in-law thought it would be fun to have their dogs walked down the aisle after their flower girl spread the flower petals. The dogs thought mid-way down the aisle was the perfect place for a sh***ing photo-op on the white runner."
6. And relatives that can't hold their drink
"At a cousin's wedding my uncle was smashed and thought he'd had a stroke in the bathroom as he couldn't straighten himself. Turned out he'd buttoned his waistcoat to his trousers and couldn't stand up."
7. The reception is the best part anyway
"Bride never showed up. My cousin was the groom and had about 500 people in attendance. He got on the mic and said there's no bride, so we had the party anyway."
8. The mother of all fights
"Bride's step-mother and mother got into a fight. Step-mother bit the mother. Wedding went to a screeching halt."
9. It's amazing this guy made it so far in life
"After arriving 45 minutes after the ceremony was to begin, during the ring exchange, the groom gets this blank look and says he didn't know he was supposed to buy her another ring. SIL slipped off her wedding band and handed it off to the preacher."
10. If you're planning on doing this: don't
"During the best man speech, the best man proposed to the maid of honor. Totally stole the night from the bride and groom. Now the best man and maid of honor are in the process of divorcing."
11. How does that saying go? The family that fights together, stays together
"I worked at a wedding venue for 4 years. Having to stop a Bride's Stepdad from hitting her over the head with a chair was a highlight. The whole room were just fighting with each other, the best man kicked the Mother in Law."
12. Sometimes, though, everything goes to plan
And it's awesome.
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So, if we've learned anything here, it's that you shouldn't let the bride's family near the alcohol, avoid inviting children at all costs, and for god's sake make sure you know what the best man is planning before he gets up and blurts out your biggest secret in front of 400 people.
We're all familiar with the classic 'wedding disruption' scene in films and TV shows: the happy couple are at the altar, ready to say their I dos, when the priest says the inevitable: "If anyone knows just cause why these two may not be joined together in holy matrimony, let him speak now or else forever hold his peace" - and someone pipes up with, "I object!"
In reality, though, this very rarely happens. The congregation stays quiet, the couple is told to kiss, et voila, they're now ready for a lifetime of arguing over who last had the car keys.
But, of course, it doesn't always go as smoothly. Sometimes, someone does speak up.
Responding to a post on /r/AskReddit, these 10 people reveal what happened when someone at a wedding halted the ceremony, and some of them are pretty wild.
1. Best man becomes worst man
"The best man at my step sisters wedding did this. It happened at the rehearsal the night before ... The minister was going over the vows quickly while giving instruction on what to do. When he said something about objections the best man interrupted saying he had to put a stop to this. He was in love with the bride and was sure she felt the same way. My sister and everyone else was horrified. It caused plenty of chaos and confusion. As far as I know after that neither the bride nor groom ever spoke to him again." - /u/chadspdx
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2. Someone jumped the gun
"At my cousin’s wedding when the exchanging of vows took place, my aunt shouted “Wasn’t there supposed to be a part where you could object?”, or something along those lines." - /u/leshiye
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3. Not what she 'ex'pected
"My mom invited an ex she was still rather close with to her wedding and he stood up and yelled "I object!!"
"Little did everyone at the wedding know, my dad had gotten rather close with him and paid him to stand up and object just for the shits and giggles and he bursts out laughing.
"My mom didn't find it as funny and it really started their marriage off on the right foot." - /u/Consequence6
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4. Fiiiiiight!
"This was in the early 70s in semi-rural Washington state. My cousin was getting married, and my aunt and the mother of the groom did not get along well. During the ceremony, when the pastor got to the part about objecting, my aunt said something to my uncle and the groom’s mom jumped up and grabbed my aunt and they started going at it, all the way out the door and into the parking area.
"They were separated, and everyone filed back into the barn, where the wedding continued. The best part though was when another one of my cousins simply walked into the woods after the wedding because that’s where he lived." - /u/YourNameHere
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5. There's a time and a place, and this ain't it
"One of my friends interrupted his cousin’s wedding to come out of the closet. He couldn’t understand why people were so pissed at him." - /u/Parkstreet2north
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6. This is the only one that sounds acceptable
"It was a medieval themed wedding. The best man declared his love for the bride. Challenged the groom to a fight for her love. They march outside draw swords and go at it. Apparently they choreographed 2 nights a week for like 6 months but it honestly looked like they were trying to kill each other. The groomsman wins and everything goes on like normal." - /u/Andrakys86
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7. Ouch
"I was best man at a wedding and the grooms older sister decided to play a joke and stood up and said “I object” then started giggling. Grooms mother stood up slapped her told her is was not an appropriate joke and told her to go home. This mother still refuses to talk to her daughter 4 years later." - /u/PM_ME_UR_PHOBIAS
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8. This is a mess from start to finish
"Nobody had said "speak now", but the grooms ex still decided to get up and scream that he was her soulmate, that she forgave him for "this whole thing", and that they should leave now because he'd proven his point. By breaking up with her, five years earlier, falling in love, and holding a wedding.
"I ate so much cake and got so drunk at that wedding. Meanwhile everyone else was screaming and throwing s**t. Good times. The bride was my boyfriends ex. No idea why they invited us." - /u/HammeredHeretic
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9. We all must have been tempted at some point
"I went to a wedding when I was 5, it was between my Older Brother and his fiancée. Anyways, they said the whole "speak now" speil and right before he was done little 5 year old me said "I OBJECT!" And everyone turned to me. I was dead silent because I didn't know what would happen. My dad asked me "Well, why do you object?" And I said "I did not know what would happen if I did" and I was promptly seated." - /u/Camero32
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10. Sounds like God has some objections
"I was at an outdoor ceremony once, with a storm coming in. The pastor was trying to move things along so that we wouldn't get caught in the rain (the reception was indoors). He asked if anyone knows of any objection, and instantly, there was a loud clap of thunder.
"To his credit, the pastor just paused a moment and then said: "Anyone else? Alright, in that case..." and finished the ceremony." - /u/yshavit
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Objections do happen in real life, then - but they don't tend to go well!
Weddings are great and all, but there is so much that could potentially go wrong. Who's to say that estranged great-uncle, who your mum forced you to invite, won't take it upon himself to air the family's dirty laundry? What about that ex-boyfriend you invited who you were certain wouldn't cause any trouble? Big mistake: now, he's drunkenly telling anyone who will listen that you should have got hitched to him when you had the chance.
Not to mention the best man's speech: I once went to a Mormon wedding where the best man decided to reveal in front of the entire room that the no-sex-before-marriage couple had enjoyed a little hanky panky months before the ceremony. It certainly wasn't the best day of their lives after that revelation.
However, there are minor, avoidable slip-ups, and there are absolute horror stories. And the people on Reddit have plenty of the latter type to share. Join us as 10 people online share their worst ever wedding horror stories - and prepare to cringe in the process.
1.
I once attended a wedding in which the groom failed to attend. It was a total disaster. The bride looked like she could have been just 18, absolutely adorably cute and she just sat out in the hallway crying with her parents while her friends and family were moved from the ceremony hall to the reception area for dinner and drinks.
Weirdly enough though, the groom showed up later in the evening after the minister had already gone home. We had their formal dances but on that day, they didn't actually get married.
My mother not telling any of us she had both her legs amputated and showing up at my wedding and reception (both being held at non-HP friendly locations) having to be carried up stairs in a wheelchair.
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3.
Friends had a small wedding, with the reception in a private area of a restaurant, with about 30 people. After the meal, our server came through the doors with the three-tier wedding cake in her arms. When she got front and centre, she slipped and hit the floor like a rock - face first into the cake. The initial laughter stopped quickly when it seemed she might be hurt, because she wasn't moving. She got up with help, obviously sore, but crying as hard as I've ever seen. Hysterically apologising over and over. Fast forward a couple hours, and thankfully she was physically okay. But even better, she was serving New Yorkers with money who felt terrible for her, and were now drunk. I don't know what the hosting couple tipped her, but I'm certain she picked up another $5000 from the guests on the side. I threw her a $100, and I'm cheap. She was crying again when we left, but for an entirely different reason.
I was at a friend's wedding reception and we're having a good time dancing. A different friend's kid (maybe five or six years old) was hiding under a table while his parents were getting shitfaced and ignoring him.
The kid then starts running and laughing through the dance floor and I see him wipe something that looks like chocolate on the BRIDE'S dress. She's mortified and everybody stops dancing. It was shit. He had shit into his hand and wiped it on people.
5. My fathers wedding. Where the bride's mother brought whisky to the wedding. Gets shitfaced before the ceremony and loudly exclaims how my father is not good enough for my mother. Gets thrown out and slashes the tires on the limo.
I forgot an undershirt at my own wedding. Which would be no big deal except my shirt was white and my brown nipples like to say hi, especially on a hot day in July. I had to buy a shirt from the conference hall gift shop, and it had PRINCETON written in orange across the front. I just turned it inside out and was good to go. Marriage ended, but I still have my Princeton shirt, and I live in Princeton now so it works out.
I was one of nine groomsmen in my friends wedding. When we stood on the stage during the ceremony the last groomsman in the line (the brides brother) was a good 30 feet from where the bride and groom were standing. Anyways, before we walked out brides brother says to me "man I gotta fart so badly!" Me thinking he was joking just told him to let her rip. About 10 minutes into the 45 minute long ceremony he did indeed let er rip but silently so. Due to the air conditioning in the church being on, it took a bit for the stench hit me. It was like a low hanging fog. Over the course of the next couple minutes I observed this putrificiant cloud overtake each groomsmen one by one until hitting first the grooms nostrils, then the priest and finally the bride who started gagging.
I was at my aunts wedding. As she was walking down the aisle, a phone rang. It was her soon-to-be mother-in-laws. It rang for a while while she fumbled through her purse. She finally got it out. And answered it. And talked. For a while. While my aunt was walking down the aisle.
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Went to a wedding once where the caterer messed up the food so bad that it was basically inedible. They ended up "making up for it" by ordering a mass amount of chicken from KFC. The reception was literally just KFC meals. Everyone was shocked and horrified, me? I loved it cause come one, who doesn't love some good ol' colonel chicken.
My grandfather died at my aunt's rehearsal dinner. It was a week before my 8th birthday. We were dancing one second and he was on the floor the next. I don't think I was traumatized, but I learned a lot about death that day.
A wedding day is essentially an exercise in impossible levels of expectation.
Forced fun is difficult to navigate at the best of times, but when you're trying to live up to the pressure of having the best day of your life, the odds are stacked very much against you.
Quite apart from all the things you have to organise in anticipation of the special day, there's the added stress of attempting to navigate friends and family who dislike each other being in the same room for a number of hours.
Clearly, this is no mean feat, and as these wedding guests will surely attest, the people can often be the most difficult bit of any wedding day.
1. Same
2. That will take a while to live down
3. Not very considerate
4. The worst place to be
5. Time to grow up
6. I'm not sure...
7. Oops indeed
8. A sign from on high?
9. What next?
10. Classic
Would you invite these guests to your own wedding? Personally I'd give some of them a wide birth.
Despite traditionally being "the happiest day of your life", weddings can also be incredibly stressful occasions that are never shy of some family drama.
Take this ceremony, for example, which saw the groom's mother interrupting the ceremony because she was unhappy with the bride's vows.
The footage was captured by the bride's sister - Sarah Ragsdale from San Jose, California - and shows the moment the newlywed's big day was spoiled by a very rude mother-in-law.
Despite the wedding taking place a few years ago, Sarah recently uploaded the footage to TikTok, along with the caption: "My sister's wedding a few years ago. Her MIL has always hated her. She's just [one] of those MILs that feel my sister is taking her son away."
In a second video, Sarah adds: "Her MIL sat there as they finished their ceremony. Went outside and waited until they went outside to take their wedding pics just to start s**t again."
In the dramatic footage, the beautiful bride can be seen exchanging the vows she has written for her husband. However, just moments after completing the vows, her new mother-in-law starts shouting toward the altar.
The "monster-in-law" - who is sat at the end of the front row - can be heard aggressively telling the bride that her son has no "flaws", exclaiming: "You’re not going to say my son has flaws."
And it seems the bride fully expected to her mother-in-law to cause a scene, as she quickly responds: "You can leave. You're not going to ruin my wedding."
However, the livid mother-in-law further attempts to shame the bride, shouting back: "No, I don't have to leave, that dress you're wearing we paid for," and once again shouting: "You are not going to say my son has flaws."
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The heckled bride once again responds: "Everybody has flaws and that's why I love him. You can leave. You can get out of my wedding now."
After refusing to leave, another woman approaches the mother-in-law and requests that she exit the room, causing the irate mother to threaten to have them arrested.
During the chaos, the groom - who is perhaps the person I feel the most sympathy for - turns away from his mother and stares at the ground.
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He can then be heard telling his mother: "You have the flaws right now. You don't know how to act like an adult."
The video ends with two people attempting to calm the mother-in-law down, telling her "it's not about you, she in love with your son, accept it."
After the footage went viral, Sarah once again took to TikTok to share a follow-up video on the happy couple.
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