“Had A Bridesmaid Go Into Labor”: 40 Wild And Sad Things That Happened At Weddings

In the 1970’s, there were no MP3 players. If you wanted music at your wedding reception, you hired a band. Like the one I played guitar in.

At one such wedding, the bride and groom were doing the first dance. Very romantic. Until the father of the bride walked over and confronted the groom about something (never did find out what it was.) At that point the groom and the bride’s father began duking it out on the dance floor. Both were a little intoxicated, so they weren’t doing each other much damage, but that just meant the fight had no reason to end.

And then it got really bad. You know how the usher sometimes ask the wedding attendees “Bride’s side or groom’s?” Well, most of the wedding guests proceeded to jump to their feet, rush the dance floor, and square off against somebody from the “other side”. We, the band, decided we weren’t doing much good by providing a soundtrack to this fiasco, so we quit and one of us called the police.

Two cops showed up, realized they had a small riot on their hands, and dealt with it by handcuffing pairs of pugilists to the columns that supported the roof.

Our gig ended early that night. I’m guessing the marriage did too.

I wasn’t a guest but I was working at the venue. Beautiful wedding, beautiful couple. All was moving along quite well. They couple had their parent dances (groom/mother, bride/father) and then they had their first dance. Immediately following that that DJ kicked off the reception and during the first song of the reception he collapsed. CPR was started immediately and we cleared the venue. CPR was administered by guests until the paramedics arrived. They did CPR for 45 minutes to an hour, to no avail. It was another 45 minutes to an hour for the coroner to arrive. The DJ was in his mid 30s and had a major heart attack. :(

I went to one where the Milwaukee Brewers’ racing sausages showed up and danced with everyone. I was 7 months pregnant, dancing with the bratwurst.

Another one, literally everyone over 13 was drunk as a skunk, and during “Save a Horse, Ride a Cowboy” a dude took off his shirt and got down on all fours and started trotting around the dance floor like a horse, complete with bucking. Then this girl hopped on his back and he literally gave her a horsey ride until she fell off. Upon which the bride’s 400-ish pound father hopped on dude’s back, and dude KEPT GOING.

Two sisters had weddings a few months apart. At the second sister’s wedding, the dad and daughter danced to the same song as the previous wedding’s bride and groom song.

Groom broke up the dance and started screaming at the dad, and then got hauled outside. Later that night he beat the s**t out of the dad at an after party, was subdued, then returned later and started hurling full beer cans at everybody and then was taken away by the police.

It was a beautiful Napa wine county wedding. Bride a Groom both were in Marines, Met in the Marines. Both Bride and Groom had a Pugil Stick Fight with Drill Sargent.

I was the wedding planner. We had a final walk through with the caterer and gave final head count. They failed to take note of the final numbers and shopped for the original max count, greatly increasing the cost that bride’s parents were covering. They also had pulled as many family and friends to cover tasks as they could (against my advisement) and then when the groom’s mom got sick and couldn’t do flowers, brother was too busy to hang tulle they had purchased, MC didn’t bother showing up, and we had a massive heat wave for that time of year, they expected me to handle all that when I clearly didn’t have time to handle all that train wreck too.

But what took the cake was that the mother of the bride went ballistic on me. I had discounted my services just so they could have help, yet this woman accused me of being in on a scheme with this caterer I’d never worked with before to rip them off and make some extra money. I had already told them I would be speaking with the caterer as that was not right… but she went off and tried to attack me.

She chased me around threatening to rip the bun off my head and calling me names. I should have called the authorities and pressed charges, but I was concerned for the bride whom I adored. It was an absolutely awful experience. I had to leave with my daughter, who was assisting my team, and leave my crew there. I went home. Dropped off my daughter and got my husband and went back, waiting for everyone to be gone so I could finish my job. I, to this day, cannot stand alcohol at weddings. I’m surprised that didn’t make me quit.

My mother in law passed away while my brother in law, her son, was marrying.

She got very sick less than a week before the wedding and she asked her son to not delay the ceremony. While he was marrying in the church she died. At the end, my husband and I saw that we had missing calls from the hospital and we knew… He headed to the hospital and Somehow, I ended up with my father in law and some friends in the car, I had to take them to the party. My husband or his brother would tell him, I was devastated and I was not the right person to give him that news so I said nothing … I was in the hotel and I was a zombie, I even danced with my father in law, since I was the only woman from the family. I managed to go to the hospital and be with my husband until the funerary guys took her. Then we headed to make arranges for the funeral.

After that, we arrived to the party. My brother in law knew his mom died but he did not called off the party. We ate something and we left, just to change our clothes to attend the funeral. Worst wedding ever.

This didn't happen to me, but my wife was working a wedding and a drunk guy that lived behind the venue decided he wanted to crash the reception. Ended up getting into an argument with one of the parents of the bride/groom. During the argument, dude reached for his waistband, which resulted in multiple people pulling guns on him. Turns out drunk guy was just pulling his pants down. Groom ended up tackling the drunk guy and held him until cops showed up to arrest him.

The bride was changed!

Yes, you heard it right.

It was kind of filmy. One of our school friend’s brother’s marriage it was. She invited 4 friends including me.

She also showed us a picture of her would-be sister-in-law. We knew that it was a love marriage.

As soon as we went to the marriage hall, we sensed something must be wrong. The bride looked different than the photo she showed. Also, she was wearing a normal saree and little make-up. Above all, the groom’s face was something to notice! Red and embarrassed all over!

It was the most depressing marriage I ever attended! Gloomy! Out of curiosity, we asked our friend, ‘what’s the matter?’

She made up some stories and told us to finish our dinner as early as possible.

After a few days, we came to know the whole story.

The groom was working in Mumbai. The bride in the mandap was also his boss. His marriage was already fixed in Kolkata. But he was double-timing both the girls at the same time.

He took leaves from his office and came down to Kolkata to get married, secretly. Unaware of what was waiting for him! The girl sensed something fishy and chased him quietly.

Upon arriving in Kolkata, she got to know of his lies. She showed some of their intimate pictures to his family.

She also threatened him of Police case.

My friend’s family had to inform the original bride’s family, and they cancelled the wedding.

Unwillingly, he had to marry his boss.

Working a Viet wedding and I had to use the washroom during the reception. Tons of middle age Viet guys who are very OG looking, lining up for the stalls in the men's washroom when all of the urinals are free. You can hear them snorting [illegal substance] in the stalls. To add to that, in the middle of the reception, I guess one of the bride or groom's uncle went to the podium randomly and yelled: "NO SMOKING IN HERE!!" and then proceeded to light up a joint. One of the younger guests had to stop him and push him outside of the banquet hall. Fun times.

I worked a wedding at a country club outside of Chicago where the bride got SUPER drunk even before dinner and ended up peeing herself IN her wedding dress. Then something happened with her dad (an argument? Or he was sick? I don’t remember) but he left the wedding during dinner. She had to do the “father daughter dance” with her mom and was in tears the whole time. The bride ended up leaving the wedding before my coverage even ended.

We were invited to the wedding of our friend’s daughter. We were only going to the reception as we couldn’t make it to the ceremony due to time and distance. The reception was held on the second floor of a VFW post in July. We got there and sat with about 50 people in a room with a stage and no a/c. Nothing happened. After about an hour, we got word that the ceremony was delayed by two hours due to the bride being late. The room was like an oven and there was no water or snacks. People were drinking from the bathroom tap. When everyone else showed up, the room which was supposed to hold about a hundred people now had way more than that. There were not enough chairs or tables so people were lined up against the walls. Still no food or drink. All of sudden, there was music and a liturgical dance group went onstage. While they were dancing, snacks like chips and dips, cheese and crackers, non-alcoholic beverages were set out. The dancing went on for over an hour and since they would come down and dance among the tables, it was awkward to get up to get some lemonade or chips. After the performance, we made a hasty exit to the nearest restaurant.

A guest who was a speaker during the ceremony almost died during the cocktail. He had a massive heart attack and I was sure he was dead when they wheeled him away. A few days later the bride emailed me to let me know he lived but couldn’t remember the day. I sent her photos early to share with him.

I had a bride throw her bouquet at me in anger because the "berries" on it were red and not pink (bear in mind, I am not the florist. She was just effing nuts)


I had a bridesmaid (sister of the bride) fake passing out during the recessional because she was jealous of the attention the sister was getting (this was all explained to me later)


The grandma of the groom got hit on the head with some blunt object on the dance floor and got rushed to the hospital.

My wife's cousin's wedding was a horrible experience right from the get go.

The ceremony was outdoors and it was over 100 degrees.

The grooms grandfather on the other side of his family decided he wanted to officiate the ceremony and made a total a*s of himself.

The cocktail hour had one bartender working for over 200 guests and the hors d'evours were cold chicken nuggets and something with spinach.

Dinner was served cold and tables were getting served dessert before others got their entrees.

Bride and groom never came around to the tables to thank people for coming.

The groom's brother and his partner DJ'd the event. They fancied themselves as some kind of big shot South Beach nightclub guys and played extremely loud club music occasionally talking over it “Wedding of the Century….AWWWWWWWWWW YEAH!!”…

It was a doozie for sure…..15 years later my wife's other cousins, friends and one of my former coworkers that were in attendance still laugh about it..

Really nice wedding in Palos Verdes California. Private home just across the street from the ocean. Probably several million dollars for the house. Groom got drunk at the reception, tore his shirt off and started scooping handfuls of cake and throwing them at the guests. Me and the videographer got shots of it from a covered location. Not sure how long that marriage was going to last.

The night before a friends wedding, the groom called me and wanted me to sneak out of the house and meet him. I was totally shocked. He didn’t know me well enough to know that was not the kind of behavior I would be involved in. The next day at the wedding, when he spotted me, he gave me a look of Please don’t tell. Which I didn’t until years later. After the marriage was over. You may ask why I didn’t blow the whistle on him and I really can’t say. I don’t think she would have believed me, I didn’t want to hurt her, I hoped it was a fluke on his part. I was also a bit afraid of him. He had been in prison. He turned out to be a very bad guy. He drug her across country and back, using her to steal credit cards and cars. The FBI actually came to me for information. Which I provided. They finally caught up with him and he went back to prison. She had been his victim in all of that and she did not get into trouble. He had beat her up, caused her to miscarry a baby, dumped her on the side of the road. She’s gone now, so I can tell her story.

Groom’s brother got so drunk the groom (I think) kicked him out of the reception. On our way out for the night, we saw the two of them fist fighting behind the barn.

A different wedding, the bride was getting ready in the cry room and her father dropped off one of the ring bearers. Unfortunately, father of the bride forgot to grab the ring bearer’s dress shoes and there wasn’t time to run back home before the ceremony was to begin. The bride, furious, through ring bearer’s tennis shoes and screamed something along the lines of, ‘He can’t wear light up shoes, thanks for ruining my wedding!’.

Drunk reception...bride gave stepdad lap dance. MOH gave mother of bride lapdance. Expected me to photograph it. Still in my files. End of night, they wanted me to drive their car up cause they were too drunk to drive...Did not do that and luckily my time was up so I packed up gear and started to leave. Bride starts cussing me out saying she paid me to be there until midnight (contract stated otherwise). Still haven't received apology for that as the groom's dad is acquaintances of my family. Bonus: preacher's kid was the groom.

Bride's mom and other family members made the DJ cry (for playing the wrong music, Egyptian vs Saudi). End of the reception the bride took the microphone and was about to go on a tirade but the groom took the mic from her.


To be fair. The DJ was pretty bad, during dinner the same Justin bieber song played like 7 times. She didn't seem to notice.