Trust me, not a competition I wanted to win! This is the first time I've ever written it down, and even now, I realize how many things I forgot - like my poor mother had to cancel her hair appointment. They sound so silly now, but I have this determined look on most of the pictures, like a "I will see this through!"

Sheer determination and an ability to laugh about it now!

1. One bridesmaid was drunk before the ceremony started. She had to be half dragged/carried down the aisle by my brother-in-law. I actually found the whole thing funny and laughed the entire time. She also forgot her bouquet at the bar and ran back for it when she realized she had a drink in her hand halfway down the aisle.

2. Same drunk bridesmaid introduced me to her boyfriend 6 times at the wedding. This wouldn't have been a problem but they had been together 5 years and everyone in the family knew him quite well. The booze made her forget.

3. An aunt was infuriated that she did not get to sit at the mother of the bride chair in the front aisle, she sat next to her thus, not leaving a place for my brother who walked me down the aisle. Luckily, there was an extra seat next to my mother-in-law so he sat on that side during the ceremony.

4. A drunk cousin wore a loose fitting low-cut dress (think J.Lo) and while dancing, didn't realize she was giving a peep show to everyone there. Imagine the shock on half the guest from Mike's side of the family who are Mormon. My side (the Mexican Catholics) laughed like crazy.

5. The boat left port while there were still 8 guests running to try and board. I asked them to please go back for those guests (family members) even if it delayed the ceremony but the shitty captain wouldn't do it. I still hear about this.

6. My matron-of-honor, mom, and an aunt were suffering from a horrible flu so they spent the entire reception sleeping on the downstairs lounge on the boat. They don't even really remember the ceremony.

Was I at this wedding? Seriously. One of my friends married a few years back and the entire wedding party showed up drunk to the church (at 4:00) , including the bride and groom.

The women all started drinking at 10am when they went to have their hair and makeup done. I don't know when the guys started, but the formal pictures are hysterical. They look like they were at a Fraternity Party (loose ties, disheveled tux).

When the reception ended at midnight, the groomsmen and the bridesmaids had all passed out. Leave it to my friend, the bride, and her hubby to close down the bar, doing shots.

I took them to the airport the Monday after, and they admitted to both getting sick on their wedding night.

The only things that I can say that went wrong (that I can remember) was the bride's bouquet breaking in the church and the bride getting into an argument with the photographer. The best thing I remember were the rumors circulating about the bride's aunt being the "date" of the Catholic priest.

Oh, yeah she did. She couldn't understand why she wasn't at the head table or why my husband was less-than-thrilled to see her. She's just lucky my mom allowed her to live.

My sentiments exactly. My FUBARs were minor in comparison

This doesn't even come close to Honeychile's, but here goes:

The groom's friends and family traveled from New Hampshire to Louisiana to attend our August wedding. Yes, it is the hottest time of the year to be in the South, but the groom's little brother was in college at the time, and we planned it before he went off to school. The groomsmen were thrilled to have side trips to Bourbon Street before and after the wedding.

At the reception after the 1:30 wedding we had really good heavy hors d'ouevres and lots of them, and open bar . Well, the groom's entourage, unfamiliar with this Southern wedding format, expected a sit down meal and didn't eat lunch beforehand. In the photographer's candid shots, the groomsmen have little cocktail plates piled up with cocktail shrimp. The club ran out of the shrimp after replenishing twice.

When it was time to throw the bouquet, the two female friends in the groom's entourage were in the front. The one who caught it was wearing a cute strapless dress. When she reached up, the dress stayed down. So, we don't have those photos in our album.

You'll love this, then: I showed my mother my post, and she immediately came up with at least eight other things that went very, very wrong! It was good for a laugh... :D

Oh I think I could use another laugh (or eight)! Spill it Honeychile!

That's awesome!!! LMAO :D THAT is why I will not be drinking all day before my early evening wedding... tempted though I may be ;)

Hmm....let's see


1. I rode in with my parents and DH rode in with his brother. After the wedding and the pictures, everyone except my parents had gone to the reception hall. We realized that we didn't have a way to get to our own reception so we had to bum a ride off of my parents.


2. DH's wedding ring almost hit a gutter before the ceremony. As I was giving it to the MOH to hold, she dropped it and it started rolling. Someone had just opened the door, and it decided to roll out the door...down the hall, and headed towards the grate at the end of the sidewalk. I yelled "someone get it, quick!" and one of the groomsmen stopped it with his foot as he was coming up the walk.

3. Our DJ was terrible..she didn't play the right songs, and even worse, she started to hit on some of the wedding party!:eek:

4. We met up with some friends immediately after the reception so we could spend time with them..since we had the limo, we all decided to use it to cruise around. My BIL, former bartender, decided to mix MY drinks. It was not good...especially when we got back to the hotel. I was terribly sick, and one of my good friends had to help me out of my dress so I wouldnt' get sick on it. I've never let him mix anything since then. So..the wedding night wasn't so great b/c of that, and I've still to make up for it.:rolleyes:

5. Same friends from above teased me the next day telling me they enjoyed the cheeseburger platter that I apparently ordered but didn't eat. I don't remember even ordering room service.

Well, a few more, since my mother isn't here to help me with this:

-The original soloist eloped, so the church organist suggested a friend of hers. The soloist was to sing while we lit the Unity Candle. Her voice was SO BAD, my ex dropped his candle - thank heavens it wasn't lit yet!
-He then forgot the vow that he was to say at the lighting of the candle.
-He also tried to force my wedding ring on the wrong finger, despite me telling him so.
-The programs which caused so much trouble? The ushers "forgot" to pass them out.
-My father was feeling "the daddy blues" about his little girl getting married, and when asked who was giving me away, he said, "My mother & I", then was so embarrassed that he visibly teared up. (Actually, it was kinda cute!)
-The veil which was made for fresh flowers but ended up with glued silk flowers? The glue dried in my hair, and hunks of my hair came out with it later!
-The disc jockey was SO loud at first, the reverberations set off my titular godfather's pacemaker, and they had to leave early. The Club did wrap up their dinners.
-WAY too many people don't know or don't care what "Adult Reception" means.
-The bar was set up in one corner of the room, the dance floor at the complete other side. The bartender leapt over the bar and camethisclose to catching the bouquet. I'd give her lunge at least a 9.8.
-The angelic-looking flowergirl became rather non-angelic by the reception, and insisted on sitting next to me. I know I've mentioned that my bridesmaids were evenly divided between ADPis and Phi Mus - her mother was an ADPi, so she knew this little fact. One of the bridesmaids tried to talk her into behaving, and sitting in her correct seat. This adorable child announced at the top of her voice that whichever sorority "THAT WOMAN" was in, she would never, ever join it. Her little sister (all of 3 1/2 years old) said, "Then I will!"
-and the last one I'll share: we do a Friendship Circle at weddings, and serenade the bride & groom. One of my sisters had too much to drink, and when it was her turn to hug the groom, she put her hand on his chest and said, "You're not good enough for Honey!" Truer words have never been spoken!

^^^
I would have loved to be a fly on the wall during all of that!


My wedding a few issues, but nothing like that! The biggest one was that my MOH was pregnant and 3 weeks before the wedding was put on bedrest. Luckily my sister-in-law was the same size (and we hadn't altered the dress to accomidate the baby bump), so she became a bridesmaid and my bio-sister became my stand-in MOH.

Oh and my veil was not detachable, so when my hairdresser did my hair she set it in place, well then on the drive to the church I accidentally buckled the veil into the seatbelt, where it became stuck.

Then the priest referred to me as the groom during the vows.

Finally, when we were pronounced husband and wife, the best man opened up a tin of altoids and presented us each one before we kissed. My husband has a strange sense of humor.

The one thing that I refused to do that I now wish I had done? My husband wanted to have "Be Not Afraid" played when he and the groomsmen entered the church. I said no-- but I wish I had said yes. It's now one of my favorite "church songs and we laugh every time we hear it-- so it's now more our song than anything actually played at our wedding!

1. When I had gotten to the church apparently there had been a break down in communication between the priest and I. My husband and the groomsmen were getting dressed in the area that I was supposed to get dressed in. I had to wait in the limo for them to get done and move to a different location so he wouldn't see me.

2. In my haste, I left the programs and flower girl baskets in my CAR at the hotel. My Brother-in-law who had a shiny new corvette did break neck speeds to drive back to the hotel to get the stuff from my trunk and speed back to the church.

3. My photographer left before the wedding is over, so we have no pictures after us dancing. After the fact, he ripped us off, we have an album of pictures and no enlargements after he was already paid in full.

Looking back, none of those things are major except the pictures. Other than that, we had a great day.

EB - sorry about the photographer, that was something I was super scared about since we had our wedding overseas. Thankfully he was great...but still, yours? no blown up photos? what a jerk!

Let's see, anything major for mine? Well it was major to me,

-The restaurant where we were to have the reception closed and didn't bother to call and tell me. I found out by calling one day and it was their last day open after their two week vacation - the manager said, oh we might be reopened by then. Thankfully we hadn't given a deposit, and I had a few months to plan, but I stressed to no end considering that I had never seen any of the places where we got married, including the church.

-My sister was freezing cold and refused to take off her jacket for most of the photos, except the ones in the church and at the reception. Her feet were cold in the shoes she decided to wear so she wore her UGGs.....yes, that's right...UGGs. Thankfully she had a long dress and we only had 19 guests total. :)

-The cake was lopsided and super dry. I'm talking drier than any cake in the history of cakes I have ever had.

I think that is it. Short list...I still had a blast and would do it all again just the same...even the dry cake.

No he never gave us the enlargements. He played the "contract" game for over a year. It goes something like this:

Me: Can we meet to discuss enlargements

Him: Ok, bring the pictures you would like enlarged and the contract...I forgot how many enlargements I owe you :mad:!!!!!

Me: 1 month later...are the pictures ready?

Him: I'm working on something special :rolleyes:

Me: 2 months later...are the pictures ready

Him: You never told me how many pictures I owe you, could you send me the contract

Me: I've already given it to you, but I'll fax it again today:mad:

Him: I never got it

Mom and dad call: Where are our daughter's pictures :mad::mad:

Him: She never sent me the contract

Me: Don't play these silly a** games with me! If you lost my d*mn pictures or spent the money, then say so and stop wasting my f*ckin' time!!!

To be continued......

EB: It sounds like it's time for small claims court on that...

sooo, what happened next?

Oh my. This wasn't the photo that made the rounds on the internet a few years ago, I hope! :eek:

A few years back I was a groomsman in a Brother's wedding. He was getting married in a formal ceremony at the bride's church in a very traditional Southern city.
The rehearsal went fine, the rehearsal dinner and cocktail party went fine, and then the wedding itself ...
We were in the sacristy up front and the bridal party was in the vestry room at the entrance. As the musical prelude was about to start the organist sent a note back to check if the songs on her list were the right ones. The maid of honor looked at the list and said yes those were what the bride wanted. The groom and party were supposed to take up positions after the third piece was played. So far so good. Then we were to come out of the sacristy and stand by waiting at the start of the fourth song. At that point the organist played "Bitter Foresight". Huh??
Then the bridesmaids started up the aisle to the "Funeral March of a Marionette", Huh again!, and when the bride appeared to begin her walk to the altar the organist played "The Queen of the Dead". Say what!?! Needless to say we were a tad bit confused, but the ceremony went well enough despite the barely surpressed annoyance of the bride. However, as we recessed out the organist played the "Dead March from Saul"!!! The bride was ready to shoot the organist on sight but she showed the list to the bride and pointed out that she thought these were odd choices and asked if these were the right songs. The maid of honor had confirmed the list so the bride was now looking for her scalp. The groom and his group were falling down laughing and the bride was seriously wanting to commit murder. We then noticed that the maid of honor had vanished, but tucked under the groom's car's windscreen wiper was a note to the bride which said "now we are even, b***h."
The groom tried his best to soothe his bride's rage and she was in reasonable shape for the reception but her mother was grim faced and seething and her father looked as though he wanted to murder the maid of honor's parents. They, incidentally, were really horrified and left after a quick and confused apology.
As far as I know to this day the bride never again spoke to her maid of honor and still says she hasn't a clue why or what caused this "sisterly gesture".


I have seen a couple of disasters and "practical jokes" at weddings, but I think this one takes the prize.

^^^Wow, that is one of the meanest things I have ever heard!

Wow, that's pretty clever, and funny cuz it didn't happen to me, lol.

Do you have fax cover sheets showing that you sent them?

I'd send a paper copy of the contract with the enlargement section highlighted by certified mail, return receipt. If you have the fax cover sheets, I'd send paper copies of those attached, as well. That way he knows that you can prove he received the contract. THEN, enclose a letter politely but firmly setting a deadline of 30 or 60 days for either completing his obligations under the contract or returning $____ of the money you paid plus copies of the negatives (if you don't have them) so that you can get them done elsewhere. Clearly state that after that 30 days (or 60 days) you will immediately be taking further legal action.

Thankfully, no. I was married in '89, so photographer used film. He was nice enough to send along the proof and the negative in a sealed envelope for me to give to the dress-less guest. He said "I think she might feel better having this herself."

We have gone through all of that. Mind you we were married in 2005, so the whole issue was just dragged out for a long time.

As a follow up to my last post, my mom called him and told him he was basically a scam and ruined our wedding etc. He went on to say that I was spoiled, his most difficult client, and he could tell I had never been inconvenienced! He argued that he gave us our album 3 months after the wedding, but not the enlargements.

Obviously, if you book a service, you expect delivery of the product in a reasonable amount of time. Every time I called he was busy, could not make the appointments etc. and this went on for a year. Then in 2006, my husband's mother died and he later tried to say that's when he was "getting" it all together and I was impossible to contact.

Even after settling with him, you still feel horrible about your wedding day memories being ruined.

We actually had the part that said something like "If anyone knows any reason why this couple should not be married, speak now or forever hold your peace" taken out of the service, since I know too many people who have been wanting to object for years!

BTW, I didn't even mention the photography problems at my wedding. Let's just say that one of my friends was an excellent photographer, and his pictures were at least 90% better than those of the "professional". The pro took ONE photo that everyone liked.

So glad this won't happen to me... Mastercard Wedding
 

http://i91.photobucket.com/albums/k2...cardCouple.jpg

He especially wanted to thank the bride's and his family

and to thank his new father-in-law for providing such a lavish reception.

As a token of his deep appreciation
he said he wanted to give everyone
a special gift just from him.

So taped to the bottom of
everyone's chair, including the wedding party was an envelope.

He said this was his gift to
everyone, and asked them to
open their envelope.

Inside each manila envelope was an 8x10 glossy

of his bride having sex with the best man.

The groom had gotten suspicious
of them weeks earlier and had
hired a private detective to tail
them.

After just standing there, just watching the guests' reactions
for a couple of minutes, he
turned to the best man and
said, 'F---you!' Then he turned
to his bride and said, 'F--- you!'

Then he turned to the
dumbfounded crowd and said,
'I'm outta here.'

He had the marriage annulled
first thing in the morning.

While most people would have canceled the wedding
immediately after finding out
about the affair, this
guy goes through with the
charade, as if nothing were wrong.

His revenge--making the bride's parents pay over $32,000 for a
300-guest wedding and reception, and best of all, trashing the
bride's and best man's reputations
in front of 300 friends and family members.

This guy has balls the size of church bells.

Do you think we might get a MasterCard 'priceless'
commercial out of this?

Elegant wedding reception
for 300 family members and
friends: $32,000.

Wedding photographs commemorating the Occasion: $3,000

Deluxe two-week
honeymoon accommodations in

Maui : $8,500.

The look on everyone's face
when they see the 8x10 glossy
of the bride humping the best man: Priceless.

There are some things money
can't buy, for everything else
there's MASTERCARD

http://www.snopes.com/weddings/embarrass/bothered.asp

Entertaining story, but appears to be just that...

Wow, that totally just ruined it for me :(

I got this forward at least 10 years ago.

Somebody had to of actually done something like this at some point...

That picture doesn't look like a $32,000 wedding anyways...but the story sounds awesome!

It does for 300 people! If you pay $75 per person for the reception, that's $22,500 right there! So $32,000 for 300 people is probably on the cheap side.

The wedding went fine, reception went fine. We stored the cake in the church's fridge afterwards, wanting to pick it up the next morning. Well, sometime in the interim, some diabetic lady needed some sort of sugar and ate my entire wedding cake by herself (it was a multi-layered monstrosity, I'm surprised the lady survived that episode).

She offered to pay $100, but my mother turned it down. I would have taken her money. I was already in Rome at this point.

When my dad hugged me once we walked down the aisle, he accidentally pulled my veil out of my hair ... my MoH picked it up and held it for the rest of the ceremony.

For the week prior to the wedding, I'd been getting sick with a cough. Don't get on an 8-hour plane ride with a cough ... after the plane ride back to Georgia, I'd manage to REALLY mess myself up. Sinuses, ears, throat ... it was nasty :(

I got sick the week before the wedding and went to the doctor and told him all of my symptoms and that I wanted to be better by the wedding. I walked out of there with an antibiotic, prednesone (steriod), and prescription cough syrup and I was fit as a fiddle by the wedding! ;)

When my cousin, the groom, got married for the second time, the entire families of both sides flew into the Mid Atlantic for the wedding. Everyone from out of town was invited to the rehearsal dinner (about 120 people). As we went through dinner, people from both sides got to know each other better.

Unfortunately, the best man was another cousin who is a very talented surgeon, but always at a loss for words (unless he is talking about curing prostate cancer). So, my aunt decided to make the toast. Blah, blah, blah, blah and blissful marriage to Greg and Marie. Marie was Greg's ex-wife.

All of us held our breath at that point. But Greg's new wife, Cathy, was as graceful as always. She smiled and gave a big kiss to my aunt. Lucky for all of us, the marriage is still strong 15 years later.

I just remembered something that happened when my oldest got married. Some of her best friends from camp (she was a counselor for years) were late. Turns out that they'd been trying to find their way through Alabama and made a wrong turn and ended up in a small town Christmas parade! All they could do was play it off and wave left and right at all the cheering kids lining the road.

Haha that's really cute!

Is it bad that all of this makes me excited to get married someday? :D