wedding horror stories?

Question

Share the things that were terrible on your wedding day.

Answer 1

Our wedding location was to be out at a beautiful lake. 3 days before the wedding (which was in MAY), the forecast was calling for snow and high temperatures in the 40's. So, we had to find a church (literally last minute), and call everyone (300 plus guests) and tell them the new location of the wedding. My mom and I made all of the food for the wedding (to feed 300 plus people) two days before and let me tell you - shredding prok roasts will wreak havvoc on your finger nails - by the end of that day, all of my finger nails were broken and I had to trim them really short (but that was the least of my worries yet to come). The day before the wedding, I went to pick up my dress from the seamstress. I had taken it in to be altered because it was a strapless dress and too big up top, and so I needed it altered so that it wouldn't fall down - well to fix the problem, they put cups in the dress - when I tried it on, it wouldn't zip up! It was too tight with the cups! So, we had to rip out the cups and all during the wedding I had to deal with pulling my dress up continuously so that it wouldn't fall down. The floral shop then called and said that for some reason because of the change of the wedding location, they could not deliver the flowers ($1500 worth)- this meant no pew flowers, no flower girl flowers, no church flowers, no reception flowers, no boquets, boutineers - NOTHING! So, the morning of my wedding, at 5:30 a.m., I walked over to the neighbors house and picked some lilacs from their bushes (with their permission of course) and stuck them in two vases and those were our wedding flowers. I then went to get my hair done. haha. ha. The incompetant woman who did my hair did a horrible job - I could have cried. I brought a picture of the updo I wanted (an updo where the hair is curled and pinned up and it was just beautiful in the picture) what the gal who did my hair did was put it up in a pony tail, smash the ponytail against the back of my head and stuck hairpins in it. It looked HORRIBLE! I cried and cried - it was awful and she just put my headpiece on hop of my head and left the white wire showing all the way around. I didn't have time to get my make up done, as it took forever for all of the brides maids and myself to get our hair done because our appointment started late because there was another bridal party at the salon and their appointments were running late, and so my make up was a 5 minute job that I did myself in the mall bathroom. When we arrived at the church, we were running late, and so we had to hurry up and get dressed. I went to give my husband my ring to give to the best man (it was a fake cubic zerconia ring that I bought for $8 at Walmart because my husband didn't get me an engagement ring or wedding ring), and when we opened the box, the center stone had fallen out! We couldn't find it anywhere. So anyways, in our hurry to get upstairs and dressed, I forgot my vail and didn't have time to go back down and get it and by this time, my crappy hairdo was falling out. I should mention the church - since it was last minute that we all of a sudden needed a church - the only church we could find was a small church with the max capacity being 120 people - the remaining 170 plus people had to stand outside the church in freezing weather or in the small entry way. Since there was no center isle in the church, and the two side isles that were there we had to walk down the side isles to the front. They were so narrow, that no one could walk down in pairs, so we had to walk single file (i.e. my dad had to walk down the isle behind me and when my husband and I walked out , and we're both small people, we too had to walk single file as did the bridesmaids and groomsmen). Anyways during the ceremony, the pastor accidentally skipped half of the service (the best man timed the entire ceremony from the moment I walked up to the moment we walked out - it lasted a total of 12 minutes), and none of the microphones worked, there was a spider on our unity candle, my maid of honor fell down the stairs of the alter, our ring bearer was running around like a hooligan, my dress fell a little too low (if you know what I mean) before I could catch it to pull it up) and I had no vail because I had forgotten it in the church basement. One of the guests was veeeeeeeerrrrry drunk and kept yelling and cheering during the ceremony too. Anyways, as we were preparing to leave the church, and were bustling my dress, one of the two buttons that were used to bustle it had at some point fallen off, and so we were unable to bustle my train and so I and everyone else was stepping on it (it was 6 feet long) all night at the reception. We left the church in my car because the transportation that we had arranged for (a trolley) for the bridal party from the church to the reception hall canceled on us because of the weather so the entire bridal party had to find rides to the reception hall. When we arrived at the reception - all of the lights were off, the candles weren't lit, the dancefloor lights (we had a canopy of white lights over the dancefloor) weren't lit and worst of all was the cake. The cake was leaning to the side and the flowers on the cake (the only flowers at our wedding as these flowers came from the cake decorator) - ugh! I had ordered a white cake with a white rose flower arrangement on top each of the 5 tiers - the flowers that were on the cake were RED AND YELLOW roses! I about cried. Then, as we were walking into the reception hall, one of the groomsmen for some stupid reason had a mirijuana pipe in his pocket - well it fell out and shattered on the floor into a million little pieces, and so everyone was trying to cover him while he was picking the pieces up as a lot of the guests were police as my dad was a state policeman and my mom worked with the city police. So, then at the dinner, we had BBQ pork and a huge gob of bbq pork spilled out of my sandwich and landed all over the front of my dress, so all of the reception pictures have this HUGE bbq stain all over the front of my dress and all of the wedding pictures have my fake ring with the center stone missing out of it and my hair looking awful and my 5 minute mall bathroom makeup job. By the end of the evening, the train of my dress was all torn and dirty from people stepping on it (because the button hook to bustle the train fell off), and it was just a horrible day. My husband and I left the reception around 11:00 in my car for our hotel and when we got there, we got a phone call that my grandpa had lost his wallet, so we were calling everyone trying to figure out what had happened to it and it was just a big mess. My wedding day was the worst day of my life. I hated every moment! I look back and shudder - my husband and I didn't keep any pictures of it because of the bad memories attached to them - things that we will surely never forget but that we don't want pictures of to remind us...lol! 4 years later, I'm still waiting on a wedding ring and engagement ring...lol!

Edit: It's all true! We weren't able to go on a honeymoon either - we both had to be back to work on Monday (we were married on a Saturday), and even if we had wanted to, there was no way we could have afforded it! lol! Everything's pretty good in the marriage though, and that is what matters. The only thing missing is still no engagement ring or wedding ring, but in the grand scheme of things, it's not too important - it'd be nice, but it's not detrimental to our marriage. lol. He's a good guy! I'll keep him! :)

Answer 2

There was huge protest rally, the make up crew and the video crew was late by 3 hours, traffic was jammed, the sponsors and all the brides maids were late, the florist almost got hit by a car while she was crossing the street and my spouse couldn't find a parking spot. To make matters worse, it rained hard, there were several gate crashers at the reception and I was still in love with someone else while I walked down the aisle.... horror story enough for you? Its all TRUE.

Answer 3

Danidane really had it bad, I am not even gonna try and compete with that, you poor thing!!! Compared to what happened to you nothing was wrong with our wedding!!

Answer 4

DaniDane,

I´m so sorry about your wedding day. It sounded so bad I thought this story was made up-unbelievable.

I hope your marriage is not a disaster---that´s all that counts in the grand scheme of things in life.

Answer 5

I had a groomsmen unable to fly in until the day of the wedding and a bridesmaid who had to be replaced two weeks before the wedding.

My maid of honor got sick the night before and spent a lot of the morning in the bathroom throwing up, unable to go to the hair or nails appt. My sister ran out to get her something to help! This also meant my sis had no bathroom to get ready in.

As far as the weather goes, it was HAILING. Big huge chunks of hail. My uncle was screaming since it was his antique car that was getting pelted.

I needed to leave to get to the church but no one was ready to go. I had to call my aunt and uncle at the hotel to come pick me up. They did and by the time they got there it was pouring rain. They drove me to the church and the rain let up but we got there about 40 minutes later than the photographer told us too. As my parents weren't there and my aunt ran off, my photographer helped me into my gown. When my sister and cousin (bridesmaids) got there, we did the pics of me getting ready.

Rain let up and we were able to get our outside pics but it was crushing the photographers timeline and boy was she stressed. I tried to calm her down.

My florist arrived with my bouquet which was yellow--not coral. Hideous and didn't match my bridesmaids. However the alter arrangement was gorgeous so he was batting about .500. Right before we walked down the aisle, my groom realized he didn't have the ring. We borrowed my grandfather's.

When the wedding started, the preacher asked if my husband would marry the best man. No idea how he flubbed that but he said "Do you Eric take Jason to be your lawfully...." I was laughing so hard he stopped to ask the audience "what did I just say?"

Then comes the exit. Wow you should see my wedding video. My MOH's bracelet got stuck on my gown and she couldn't get it off so she walked with me back up the aisle. My best man--stranded--looked around lost. The next groomsmen leaves with the next bridesmaid. The flowergirl leaves, then the best man. Then my next two tripped. Only my sister walked as if she had been to rehearsal the night before. The ushers came to get the mothers, but my father-in-law was talking and missed when my MIL left with the usher. My aunt screams at him; he runs up the aisle after them. Meanwhile, groom's grandfather gets up and walks out a side door, so when the usher came he was very confused.

The rain starts back up during pictures and my groomsmen realizes he has left the top down on the antique car we borrowed (from his parents). He couldn't get the top up so we had to cover the car with a tarp. My mom started crying b/c we couldn't drive to the reception in the antique car. So we stole my cousin's mustang, drove to reception, hopped out and got into the antique car for pictures. It was drizzling and we got a little wet but the pictures turned out great.

All in all, what does it matter? The wedding wasn't RUINED. We had the company make us a blooper video instead of a real one--it has emphasis on the bridesmaids yawning, the preacher flubbing, me laughing and the exit is in slow-mo. It rained a bit but nothing was ruined and it's a running joke now that the groomsmen missed the button clearly labeled "TOP" as how to put the convertible top up. I pick on them all about needing more rehearsal time before the next person's wedding. The wedding was funny and ended up with me married to my love. The reception was a great party, with dancing and drinking enjoyed by all. The stressed photographer had hundreds of great pictures. We have some hilarious pictures of the crazy things that happened.

I could not have asked for more.

Answer 6

There are no more horror storyies from my side

Answer 7

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Answer 8

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