Tacky wedding guests protest cash bar, steal gifts, start food fight, and more.

Wedding guests famously let loose when the drinks start flowing and the dance floor fills up, but what happens when your particularly unruly guests are so unhinged that they start...stealing your gifts?

When a disappointed wedding guest decided to vent to the gloriously petty 'Wedding Shaming' group on Reddit about some fellow guests who clearly must've left their manners and human decency at the door, people were eager for every last detail.

Wedding guests put all their effort for the day into trashing wedding...

A few years ago a friend and I went together to the wedding of some mutual friends (both invited, decided to be each other’s plus 1). We’ll call them Donna and Dave. They were absolutely lovely people and a lovely couple and proof that you don’t need a lot of money to put together a great wedding. They went to SO much effort and worked incredibly hard on it.

When we arrived about half the guests were in jeans, t-shirts, tank tops and what I can only describe as grotty dresses. The invitation said “cocktail” and while I don’t think the bride and groom expected people in Armani it doesn’t cost a lot to make an effort and look nice and presentable.

When the bride turned up, her bridesmaids abandoned her and ran to the front and started flirting with the groomsmen. She was just left standing there after exiting the car. Myself and another woman hotfooted it over there and primped and primed her for her walk.

When the officiant did the traditional “objection” question some guy decided to leap up and object, thinking it was hilarious to tell everyone about how he’d always “wanted the bride.' He stood there laughing at his own joke until a person sitting near him basically manhandled him back into his seat.

The reception was to take place in a back room at a nearby pub. It was, I thought, a clever way of doing things because guests could head there and wait in the main area and have a drink while waiting for the bride and groom and reception to start. The invitation had made this clear and that those drinks were at guests' own cost.

A group of guests started shouting at the bar staff about having to pay for their drinks. Another few guests ended up offering to pay for their drinks just to avoid a major issue. Another group of guests got trashed in the 30-40 minutes we waited.

A woman and I stuck our heads into the reception room and discovered it had been ransacked. Someone had made off with gifts and even some of the glassware, plates and decorations via an open back door (where the bride and groom were to enter). We notified staff who were then frantically trying to fix things with the help of some guests.

Then the gift thief - a guest! - came back for another round. An older guy, probably in his 70s, was so fed up he crash-tackled the guy to the floor and then a couple of people dragged him to the manager’s office to call the police.

Donna and Dave arrived shortly after this and all of us in the know stood there with insane plastered smiles. Like “nothing to see here, all is good!” (The situation got resolved somehow - the police got rid of the douchecanoe, got the gifts back and a couple of guests brought them back in to the venue as though they’d just been stored somewhere else.)

The reception was, again, really well done for a tight budget. But so many of the guests got drunk, were rowdy beyond acceptable and behaved belligerently. Two of them (people in their late 20s) started a food fight FFS. Luckily security threw them out.

The sensible guests spent most of the night running interference. At one point I helped a bridesmaid to the toilet to vomit because she had otherwise thought under the table was a good spot. My friend had a guy he was helping wee ON him and then try to kiss him.

It was a rough pub so thankfully the staff were pretty used to dealing with this stuff. They were unbelievably tolerant and helpful.

At the end of the evening - and many of us were really struggling but determined to stay to support Donna and Dave - we went to see them off and someone had vomited all over their car. A couple of kind older ladies got supplies from the pub and cleaned it off while the rest of us stood around trying to laugh and joke with the bride and groom.

A few of us went back to the venue before leaving and discovered that the bride’s parents - who had agreed to pay any extra “on the day” costs as their wedding gift - had nicked off. We split it, including some cost of the missing glass and tableware.

There was a brief moment when those of us remaining were thinking about having a final drink in the bar and then it was like, “Nope nope nope. Let us all go home and never speak of this again.” We were COVERED in grot. One guy had cake all down his suit trouser.

Donna sent us the loveliest thank you notes. They had, despite everything, had a wonderful day, which was such a relief.

Of course, the jury of wedding shamers was ready to roast these demon guests. Here's what people had to say...

Quicksilver1964 said:

You all are HEROES. seriously. You should be proud of how much you managed to make their day great.

GeekMamaBee said :

I was reading and cannot imagine, for the life of me, these people being actual adults! How the hell are Donna and Dave friends with these people????? Special place for you in the afterlife for helping smooth things over!

Bird_Brain4101112 said:

This sounds like a case of people who were invited out of obligation.

Trick-Statistician10 said:

Someone stole the gifts, and more, from a wedding they were a guest at. I can't even.

AmazingPreference955 said:

It’s so sad when people can’t even scrape up enough class to get through one day for the sake of two people they supposedly care about.

Usually I'd be opposed to a cash bar at a wedding, but these guests definitely didn't deserve a single drop of free champagne.

Who starts a food fight anywhere that isn't the 3rd grade cafeteria? Better luck next time, everyone!