Weddings

<p>Weddings are an opportunity to invite all of your friends, family, and co-workers to gather in one place, ply them with endless alcohol, and hope for the best. Though they often turn out magical, the potential for things to go wrong is quite high. The saying &quot;it only takes one bad apple to spoil the bunch&quot; definitely applies here. It only takes one drunk uncle, or oversharing best man, or venomous ex, to turn the most magical day of your life into a total sh*tshow. So let this post serve as a reminder to be very careful about who you add to that guest list.</p><h2>Someone <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/69yqg8/whether_it_was_your_wedding_or_a_wedding_you/" target="_blank">asked</a> Reddit: &quot;what is the worst behavior you&#39;ve seen from a wedding guest?&quot; These 25 brides, grooms, and guests share their stories of the worst wedding behavior they&#39;ve ever witnessed:</h2><p>1.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/peeingclitoris/">peeingclitoris</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>My step grandmother wore her wedding dress to my mom&#39;s wedding.</p> </blockquote><p>2.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/YeOldeHotDog/">YeOldeHotDog</a>:</p><div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> <p>My uncle waved a knife around drunkenly ranting in Chinese then threw a microphone at the wedding cake.</p> <p>The microphone was successfully embedded into the cake. Great aim for a drunk man.</p> </blockquote><p>3.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/4Words-IToldYouSo/">4Words-IToldYouSo</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>The worst was a woman at my cousins (the brides) wedding just this year. The woman was a plus one that came with one of the grooms family. Not in a relationship with them, just a friend, and as far as I know didn&#39;t know the happy couple very well.</p> <p>It started off in the church, she cried quite loudly to the point people were actually turning to look at her. After the actual ceremony we were informed that she was widowed early last year. Fair enough, though I did wonder why she&#39;d put herself in such a highly emotional situation for people she barely knew, but each to their own. Then came the dinner, rather tipsy from the pre dinner cocktails whilst the wedding party did their photos, she stood up to make her own speech. The wedding itself was a fairly relaxed affair, so although a little odd no one stopped her. She tearfully wished the bride and groom all the best because &quot;you never know when you can be ripped apart from the one you love&quot;.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> <p>First dance for the bride and groom was cut short as the song reminded the widow of her dearly departed. Father daughter dance also caused a scene because her daughter would never be able to do that with her father.</p> <p>Generally it just brought the whole mood crashing down, and it felt like we were all treading on eggshells. She stole attention from the couples big day and got a ton of sympathy from all the guests. I felt for her, loosing her husband had to have been awful, but she essentially ruined someone&#39;s wedding, and no one was going to be the a**hole to call her out on it.</p> </blockquote><p>4.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Sportsquid/">Sportsquid</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>Attended a wedding for a young couple. She was maybe 95 pounds. Just a little Lady. A guy friend of the bride and groom thought it would be funny to throw a big, full water balloon at the bride, instead of rice. He chucked it from across the patio. It nailed her in the face, but didn&#39;t burst. It just ricocheted off her dome. She started crying loudly. It was horrible.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>5.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/-Ubermensch_/">-Ubermensch_</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>My wedding: drunk coworker swiped his finger through our wedding cake for a taste before we even cut it.</p> </blockquote><p>6.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/namesaremptynoise/">namesaremptynoise</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>At my brother&#39;s wedding his bride&#39;s ex-husband showed up uninvited, drunk, and several of us had to escort him quickly out of the church since it was obvious he came to ruin the ceremony.</p> </blockquote><p>7.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/devilsfoodadvocate/">devilsfoodadvocate</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>Buddy&#39;s wedding day-- he and his groomsmen are taking a bit of liquid courage outside the church right before the ceremony, and a cop comes into view. One of the groomsmen, perhaps pregaming too much, flips off and starts mouthing off to the cop, and the cop busts him for drunk in public/open containers, etc. Takes the offending groomsman to the station (mind you, not the rest of the guys drinking on the sidewalk, just the one who felt like taking it to the next level), and the ceremony keeps getting delayed and delayed-- an hour and a half, so that the groom can bail out his pal, just to have him there for the ceremony.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>8.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/babasko/">babasko</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>Literal five minutes before our wedding ceremony started my aunt came up to me (the bride) and told me that my grandfather had cancer and mostly a few months to live. I had not known but seeing him that morning I saw that he was not well.(my parents and sister had (unnecessarily) kept it from me before the wedding)<br /> Auntie dearest just walzed up to me and said: If I were you I would not be so happy, did you not know that your grandfather is dying? I cannot remember but apparently I replied: Well, let me get married first and then we&#39;ll take care of this.</p> </blockquote><p>9.) From [deleted]:</p><blockquote> <p>Sh*tfaced mother of the groom who ACTUALLY STOOD UP when the preacher said &quot;speak now.&quot; The father dragged her out with her kicking and screaming, literally kicking and screaming at him, while she slurred her words. She yelled and screamed all of the way out the door until more family got her subdued and took her home.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>10.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Senorpuddin/">Senorpuddin</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>1.) At my best friend&#39;s wedding, a mutual friend of ours brought her obnoxious boyfriend as her date. He&#39;s an attention whore who dances wildly think it&#39;s funny, tried to repeatedly start a slow clap, he had to be told not to stand on chairs 3 times. He tried to break dance and knocked over the bride&#39;s mother.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>2.) At the reception for my cousin&#39;s wedding while he was off getting drunk off his a*s, his new wife&#39;s garter belt thingy slipped down. His best man bent down to help her fix it because she couldn&#39;t reach it easily. My cousin came back thinking that his best friend was trying to screw his wife and started a fight. I&#39;m not sure if it counts, I felt bad for everyone involved at the time. Now I think it&#39;s funny. Also when it came time to do the cake feeding thing, he fed her with the cake server and cut open the corners of her mouth.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>11.) From [deleted]:</p><blockquote> <p>It was well known that the mother in law(mil) wasn&#39;t a fan of the bride. On the wedding day she turned up late in a pale peach gown that may as well have been white and looked exactly like a wedding gown. She was up and about at the church until the wedding March started to play at which time she hopped up out of the back and walked quickly up the isle basically in front of the bride to take her seat at the front. She started making this horrendous crying sound as soon as the wedding vows started and didn&#39;t stop until the pastor presented the couple as husband and wife.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>She promptly ran to the front and used her elbow to move the bride before throwing herself into the arms of the groom. At the photoshoot afterwards she kept trying to exclude the bride from the pics and posed with no less than 10 photos of just her and her son. So every pose he did wid his bride, his mom tried to recreate.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> <p>I wasn&#39;t invited to the reception but heard she gave a doozy of wedding speech about how she couldn&#39;t believe the bride was stealing her only baby and implied quite strongly that the son only married her cuz she was pregnant. Bear in mind they were together for 5 years.</p> </blockquote><p>12.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/shaoting/">shaoting</a>:</p><blockquote> <p><strong>1.</strong> I photographed a wedding back in 2015, wherein during his speech at the reception, the best man inadvertently revealed to the 200+ guests that the bride was pregnant.</p> <p>Up until that point, only a very select few people knew. The look of pure rage/shock/embarrassment she gave him was staggering.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p><strong>2.</strong> Many moons ago, I was a guest at a wedding and during the reception, one of the bridesmaids got so pissy drunk that she bumrushed the very-full men&#39;s room to see what was happening and to take a piss (in one of the commodes, I presume). She had to be helped out of the men&#39;s room.</p> <p>Source: that bridesmaid is my wife.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>13.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Rumble_bot/">Rumble_bot</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>At my friends wedding one of her friends ended up proposing to his girlfriend. Best way to take attention from the bride and groom and put it onto yourself. Kinda ruined the brides day.</p> </blockquote><p>14.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/AcrolloPeed/">AcrolloPeed</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>Maid of Honor/Sister of the bride spent 20 minutes talking about how nerdy the groom was, how she and all her friends couldn&#39;t believe when they started dating, mentioned going home with a new guy every week, brought up how her mom and dad didn&#39;t like his parents for some reason.</p> <p>She was underage and clearly drunk at a dry wedding, which, wtf?</p> <p>Best Man managed to salvage the situation by delivering literally the best Best Man&#39;s speech I&#39;ve ever heard.</p> </blockquote><p>15.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Young_Omni_Man/">Young_Omni_Man</a>:</p><div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> <p>At one of my best friends&#39; wedding, his drunk coworker tried to have sex with literally everyone there. She tried to make out with a bunch of his married friends, male and female. Grinded on the 80 year old grandmother in a wheelchair, pulled random family members into grindy dances. It was really awkward and everyone rejected her advances. Oh, and did I mention she had her husband there too? He basically just sat in a chair drinking beer watching like he&#39;d seen it a million times.</p> <p>Worst at my own wedding was just a drunk girlfriend of a friend doing stripper moves in a short dress sans underwear. But that was possibly the most popular event at the wedding so, no harm done.</p> </blockquote><p>16.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Alman99/">Alman99</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>Beautiful day, blue sky etc. Waterfront estate, large gardens &amp; flowers. Ceremony under rose pergola, real organ plays wedding march. Bride &amp; groom fully decked out, saying their vows. Out of nowhere, the family bulldog wanders over, sits down beside them (vows still in progress, probably 300 people watching) and proceeds to noisily lick his balls. My sides hurt afterwards as I was laughing so hard (after the nuptials of course)!</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>17.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/YouKnowHowIBe/">YouKnowHowIBe</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>So this wasn&#39;t a rude guest, it was a rude bride and groom. They had a 5 pm reception with no food. None. Not even a cheese platter. They didn&#39;t warn us beforehand so we didn&#39;t know to eat before going. The reception was in a very rural location so we couldn&#39;t run anywhere to grab a bite.</p> <p>We had to write our address on a thank you note envelope. Which I&#39;ve seen before. But, we were also directed to write our own thank you notes!</p> <p>Finally, at 9 pm I told my husband we had to leave because I&#39;m starving aaaaaaand they wouldn&#39;t let us leave until we helped fold tables and chairs.</p> </blockquote><p>18.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/AdviceWithSalt/">AdviceWithSalt</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>MIL tried to hijack the photographer to take the pictures <strong>she</strong> wanted. I warned the photographer beforehand she would do this and he had mine and the bride&#39;s full permission to verbally slap her down if need be. He did...brutally. I tipped him...well.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>19.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/svendrex/">svendrex</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>At a wedding where the reception was a potluck and the bride and groom were vegan.</p> <p>There was an open mike for friends of the bride and groom to say stuff. One of their friends said they always put secret lard into all of the vegan dishes they made, including the one they brought for the wedding potluck. Boo-ed out of the wedding.</p> </blockquote><p>20.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Bassmonkeee/">Bassmonkeee</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>My wife&#39;s and my wedding didn&#39;t have too much drama. No kids allowed. It was started explicitly on the invitation. We wanted everyone to have a good time and to leave the kids at home. All of our friends knew, understood and appreciated the opportunity to cut loose. Everyone except the wife of one of my wife&#39;s friend from high school. &quot; We really want to bring little what&#39;s her name. She&#39;s quiet.&quot; &quot;Nope. No kids.&quot; &quot;Are you sure? We&#39;ve never been to Atlanta and we&#39;d love to bring her with us.&quot; &quot;Nope. No kids. No exceptions.&quot;</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> <p>Well, guess who brought their kid with them to Atlanta? One of my wife&#39;s other friends tipped us off because they were in the same hotel. So, we got a hold of them and told them she couldn&#39;t come. &quot;But we bought a really cute dress and we don&#39;t have a sitter!&quot; &quot;She can wear it in the hotel room while you send your husband to the wedding.&quot; To his credit, her friend had tried over and over again to convince his wife to leave the kid at home with his mom, but she thought she could force the issue. Instead, she got to buy a dress to hang out in a hotel room with her daughter.</p> </blockquote><p>21.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Glassneakers/">Glassneakers</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>I was invited as a plus one to a wedding where the bride and groom were both in polygamous relationships.</p> <p>When it came to speeches, the each invited another partner upstage. The brides partner talked about how they met and gave examples of how she was a great person. He also talked about how he was friends with the groom and he was great too.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> <p>Then the grooms partner got up. She talked about how they met at a party, fell in love and that their relationship was really special. Not one word about the bride. The groom was just sitting at his chair giggling and beaming at partner #2. He got up and went to hug/kiss her on stage.</p> <p>There were some people staring in surprise and on one particular table (his side of the family) they were really cringing in embarrassment.</p> </blockquote><p>22.) From [deleted]:</p><blockquote> <p>My husband&#39;s crazy aunt (who was married at the time) took off with our DJ at the end of the night. We had to field a bunch of calls from her husband asking where she was and when she was coming home. Essentially, she went missing for a week after our wedding while she was with our DJ. So awkward...</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>23.) From [deleted]:</p><blockquote> <p>As the bride and groom departed at a friend&#39;s wedding, I heard another guest say &quot;Well that was a lot of money to spend for an inevitable divorce.&quot;</p> </blockquote><p>24.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/AndyWho1237/">AndyWho1237</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>My wife&#39;s grandmother managed to insult every member of my immediate family (and several other guests) before the wedding even started. I refuse to speak to her to this day. My wedding btw. Forgot to mention this wasn&#39;t like a one thing she did that insulted everyone, she managed to do it individually person by person, without much effort on her part.</p> </blockquote><p>25.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/AnathemaMaranatha/">AnathemaMaranatha</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>The minister. Garden ceremony. He decided he should do a sermon on marriage, with a heavy-handed emphasis on how women should &quot;submit&quot; to their husbands. I was minding the music in the back, and it was all I could do to keep from heaving a speaker at him.</p> <p>Then he got all wound up in his own bullsh*t, forgot about the bride and groom standing in front of him, and decided that now was the time to issue an altar call for all those who wanted to come up <em>right now</em> and receive Jesus into their lives.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> <p>The only one who responded was the lady who owned the venue. She marched right up the aisle and spoke to him in an angry whisper that everyone could hear, &quot;*NO altar call! Finish the ceremony! No more sermons!&quot;</p> <p>Gotta love the minister&#39;s reaction. He got all butt-hurt and pouty, finished up the ceremony in a monotone, signed the license and huffed off.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div>

25 people share the worst thing they've ever seen a guest do at a wedding.

Weddings are an opportunity to invite all of your friends, family, and co-workers to gather in one place, ply them with endless alcohol, and hope for the best. Though they often turn out magical, the potential for things to go wrong is quite high. The saying &quot;it only takes one bad apple to spoil the bunch&quot; definitely applies here. It only takes one drunk uncle, or oversharing best man, or venomous ex, to turn the most magical day of your life into a total sh*tshow. So let this post serve as a reminder to be very careful about who you add to that guest list.Someone asked Reddit: &quot;what is the worst behavior you&#39;ve seen from a wedding guest?&quot; These 25 brides, grooms, and guests share their stories of the worst wedding behavior they&#39;ve ever witnessed:1.) From peeingclitoris: My step grandmother wore her wedding dress to my mom&#39;s wedding. 2.) From YeOldeHotDog: My uncle waved a knife around drunkenly ranting in Chinese then threw a microphone at the wedding cake. The microphone was successfully embedded into the cake. Great aim for a drunk man. 3.) From 4Words-IToldYouSo: The worst was a woman at my cousins (the brides) wedding just this year. The woman was a plus one that came with one of the grooms family. Not in a relationship with them, just a friend, and as far as I know didn&#39;t know the happy couple very well. It started off in the church, she cried quite loudly to the point people were actually turning to look at her. After the actual ceremony we were informed that she was widowed early last year. Fair enough, though I did wonder why she&#39;d put herself in such a highly emotional situation for people she barely knew, but each to their own. Then came the dinner, rather tipsy from the pre dinner cocktails whilst the wedding party did their photos, she stood up to make her own speech. The wedding itself was a fairly relaxed affair, so although a little odd no one stopped her. She tearfully wished the bride and groom all the best because &quot;you never know when you can be ripped apart from the one you love&quot;.  First dance for the bride and groom was cut short as the song reminded the widow of her dearly departed. Father daughter dance also caused a scene because her daughter would never be able to do that with her father. Generally it just brought the whole mood crashing down, and it felt like we were all treading on eggshells. She stole attention from the couples big day and got a ton of sympathy from all the guests. I felt for her, loosing her husband had to have been awful, but she essentially ruined someone&#39;s wedding, and no one was going to be the a**hole to call her out on it. 4.) From Sportsquid: Attended a wedding for a young couple. She was maybe 95 pounds. Just a little Lady. A guy friend of the bride and groom thought it would be funny to throw a big, full water balloon at the bride, instead of rice. He chucked it from across the patio. It nailed her in the face, but didn&#39;t burst. It just ricocheted off her dome. She started crying loudly. It was horrible. 5.) From -Ubermensch_: My wedding: drunk coworker swiped his finger through our wedding cake for a taste before we even cut it. 6.) From namesaremptynoise: At my brother&#39;s wedding his bride&#39;s ex-husband showed up uninvited, drunk, and several of us had to escort him quickly out of the church since it was obvious he came to ruin the ceremony. 7.) From devilsfoodadvocate: Buddy&#39;s wedding day-- he and his groomsmen are taking a bit of liquid courage outside the church right before the ceremony, and a cop comes into view. One of the groomsmen, perhaps pregaming too much, flips off and starts mouthing off to the cop, and the cop busts him for drunk in public/open containers, etc. Takes the offending groomsman to the station (mind you, not the rest of the guys drinking on the sidewalk, just the one who felt like taking it to the next level), and the ceremony keeps getting delayed and delayed-- an hour and a half, so that the groom can bail out his pal, just to have him there for the ceremony. 8.) From babasko: Literal five minutes before our wedding ceremony started my aunt came up to me (the bride) and told me that my grandfather had cancer and mostly a few months to live. I had not known but seeing him that morning I saw that he was not well.(my parents and sister had (unnecessarily) kept it from me before the wedding) Auntie dearest just walzed up to me and said: If I were you I would not be so happy, did you not know that your grandfather is dying? I cannot remember but apparently I replied: Well, let me get married first and then we&#39;ll take care of this. 9.) From [deleted]: Sh*tfaced mother of the groom who ACTUALLY STOOD UP when the preacher said &quot;speak now.&quot; The father dragged her out with her kicking and screaming, literally kicking and screaming at him, while she slurred her words. She yelled and screamed all of the way out the door until more family got her subdued and took her home. 10.) From Senorpuddin: 1.) At my best friend&#39;s wedding, a mutual friend of ours brought her obnoxious boyfriend as her date. He&#39;s an attention whore who dances wildly think it&#39;s funny, tried to repeatedly start a slow clap, he had to be told not to stand on chairs 3 times. He tried to break dance and knocked over the bride&#39;s mother.  2.) At the reception for my cousin&#39;s wedding while he was off getting drunk off his a*s, his new wife&#39;s garter belt thingy slipped down. His best man bent down to help her fix it because she couldn&#39;t reach it easily. My cousin came back thinking that his best friend was trying to screw his wife and started a fight. I&#39;m not sure if it counts, I felt bad for everyone involved at the time. Now I think it&#39;s funny. Also when it came time to do the cake feeding thing, he fed her with the cake server and cut open the corners of her mouth. 11.) From [deleted]: It was well known that the mother in law(mil) wasn&#39;t a fan of the bride. On the wedding day she turned up late in a pale peach gown that may as well have been white and looked exactly like a wedding gown. She was up and about at the church until the wedding March started to play at which time she hopped up out of the back and walked quickly up the isle basically in front of the bride to take her seat at the front. She started making this horrendous crying sound as soon as the wedding vows started and didn&#39;t stop until the pastor presented the couple as husband and wife.  She promptly ran to the front and used her elbow to move the bride before throwing herself into the arms of the groom. At the photoshoot afterwards she kept trying to exclude the bride from the pics and posed with no less than 10 photos of just her and her son. So every pose he did wid his bride, his mom tried to recreate.  I wasn&#39;t invited to the reception but heard she gave a doozy of wedding speech about how she couldn&#39;t believe the bride was stealing her only baby and implied quite strongly that the son only married her cuz she was pregnant. Bear in mind they were together for 5 years. 12.) From shaoting: 1. I photographed a wedding back in 2015, wherein during his speech at the reception, the best man inadvertently revealed to the 200+ guests that the bride was pregnant. Up until that point, only a very select few people knew. The look of pure rage/shock/embarrassment she gave him was staggering.  2. Many moons ago, I was a guest at a wedding and during the reception, one of the bridesmaids got so pissy drunk that she bumrushed the very-full men&#39;s room to see what was happening and to take a piss (in one of the commodes, I presume). She had to be helped out of the men&#39;s room. Source: that bridesmaid is my wife. 13.) From Rumble_bot: At my friends wedding one of her friends ended up proposing to his girlfriend. Best way to take attention from the bride and groom and put it onto yourself. Kinda ruined the brides day. 14.) From AcrolloPeed: Maid of Honor/Sister of the bride spent 20 minutes talking about how nerdy the groom was, how she and all her friends couldn&#39;t believe when they started dating, mentioned going home with a new guy every week, brought up how her mom and dad didn&#39;t like his parents for some reason. She was underage and clearly drunk at a dry wedding, which, wtf? Best Man managed to salvage the situation by delivering literally the best Best Man&#39;s speech I&#39;ve ever heard. 15.) From Young_Omni_Man: At one of my best friends&#39; wedding, his drunk coworker tried to have sex with literally everyone there. She tried to make out with a bunch of his married friends, male and female. Grinded on the 80 year old grandmother in a wheelchair, pulled random family members into grindy dances. It was really awkward and everyone rejected her advances. Oh, and did I mention she had her husband there too? He basically just sat in a chair drinking beer watching like he&#39;d seen it a million times. Worst at my own wedding was just a drunk girlfriend of a friend doing stripper moves in a short dress sans underwear. But that was possibly the most popular event at the wedding so, no harm done. 16.) From Alman99: Beautiful day, blue sky etc. Waterfront estate, large gardens &amp; flowers. Ceremony under rose pergola, real organ plays wedding march. Bride &amp; groom fully decked out, saying their vows. Out of nowhere, the family bulldog wanders over, sits down beside them (vows still in progress, probably 300 people watching) and proceeds to noisily lick his balls. My sides hurt afterwards as I was laughing so hard (after the nuptials of course)! 17.) From YouKnowHowIBe: So this wasn&#39;t a rude guest, it was a rude bride and groom. They had a 5 pm reception with no food. None. Not even a cheese platter. They didn&#39;t warn us beforehand so we didn&#39;t know to eat before going. The reception was in a very rural location so we couldn&#39;t run anywhere to grab a bite. We had to write our address on a thank you note envelope. Which I&#39;ve seen before. But, we were also directed to write our own thank you notes! Finally, at 9 pm I told my husband we had to leave because I&#39;m starving aaaaaaand they wouldn&#39;t let us leave until we helped fold tables and chairs. 18.) From AdviceWithSalt: MIL tried to hijack the photographer to take the pictures she wanted. I warned the photographer beforehand she would do this and he had mine and the bride&#39;s full permission to verbally slap her down if need be. He did...brutally. I tipped him...well. 19.) From svendrex: At a wedding where the reception was a potluck and the bride and groom were vegan. There was an open mike for friends of the bride and groom to say stuff. One of their friends said they always put secret lard into all of the vegan dishes they made, including the one they brought for the wedding potluck. Boo-ed out of the wedding. 20.) From Bassmonkeee: My wife&#39;s and my wedding didn&#39;t have too much drama. No kids allowed. It was started explicitly on the invitation. We wanted everyone to have a good time and to leave the kids at home. All of our friends knew, understood and appreciated the opportunity to cut loose. Everyone except the wife of one of my wife&#39;s friend from high school. &quot; We really want to bring little what&#39;s her name. She&#39;s quiet.&quot; &quot;Nope. No kids.&quot; &quot;Are you sure? We&#39;ve never been to Atlanta and we&#39;d love to bring her with us.&quot; &quot;Nope. No kids. No exceptions.&quot;  Well, guess who brought their kid with them to Atlanta? One of my wife&#39;s other friends tipped us off because they were in the same hotel. So, we got a hold of them and told them she couldn&#39;t come. &quot;But we bought a really cute dress and we don&#39;t have a sitter!&quot; &quot;She can wear it in the hotel room while you send your husband to the wedding.&quot; To his credit, her friend had tried over and over again to convince his wife to leave the kid at home with his mom, but she thought she could force the issue. Instead, she got to buy a dress to hang out in a hotel room with her daughter. 21.) From Glassneakers: I was invited as a plus one to a wedding where the bride and groom were both in polygamous relationships. When it came to speeches, the each invited another partner upstage. The brides partner talked about how they met and gave examples of how she was a great person. He also talked about how he was friends with the groom and he was great too.  Then the grooms partner got up. She talked about how they met at a party, fell in love and that their relationship was really special. Not one word about the bride. The groom was just sitting at his chair giggling and beaming at partner #2. He got up and went to hug/kiss her on stage. There were some people staring in surprise and on one particular table (his side of the family) they were really cringing in embarrassment. 22.) From [deleted]: My husband&#39;s crazy aunt (who was married at the time) took off with our DJ at the end of the night. We had to field a bunch of calls from her husband asking where she was and when she was coming home. Essentially, she went missing for a week after our wedding while she was with our DJ. So awkward... 23.) From [deleted]: As the bride and groom departed at a friend&#39;s wedding, I heard another guest say &quot;Well that was a lot of money to spend for an inevitable divorce.&quot; 24.) From AndyWho1237: My wife&#39;s grandmother managed to insult every member of my immediate family (and several other guests) before the wedding even started. I refuse to speak to her to this day. My wedding btw. Forgot to mention this wasn&#39;t like a one thing she did that insulted everyone, she managed to do it individually person by person, without much effort on her part. 25.) From AnathemaMaranatha: The minister. Garden ceremony. He decided he should do a sermon on marriage, with a heavy-handed emphasis on how women should &quot;submit&quot; to their husbands. I was minding the music in the back, and it was all I could do to keep from heaving a speaker at him. Then he got all wound up in his own bullsh*t, forgot about the bride and groom standing in front of him, and decided that now was the time to issue an altar call for all those who wanted to come up right now and receive Jesus into their lives.  The only one who responded was the lady who owned the venue. She marched right up the aisle and spoke to him in an angry whisper that everyone could hear, &quot;*NO altar call! Finish the ceremony! No more sermons!&quot; Gotta love the minister&#39;s reaction. He got all butt-hurt and pouty, finished up the ceremony in a monotone, signed the license and huffed off. 

Weddings are an opportunity to invite all of your friends, family, and co-workers to gather in one place, ply them with endless alcohol, and hope for the best. Though they often turn out magical, the potential for things to go wrong is...