“Camera Guy Was In Tears”: 69 Wild Weddings That Left Guests Speechless And Jaws On The Floor

A close friend got married on a beach in Maui. The reception was at a restaurant overlooking the beach. In the middle of the dinner and party, up off the beach walks Morgan Freeman, who proceed to sit with the couple and offer congratulations and fatherly advice, and hung out at the party for about an hour before moving on.

Surreal.

The wedding planner handed out containers of live butterflies for the guests to throw like rice, but the ceremony was night. The butterflies were asleep. Some groggily flapped a few times after being launched into the air but most dropped to the concrete like stones. The guest proceeded to smush them underfoot. This weird girl walked around trying to save them. Which drew the guest's attention to the senseless butterfly [carnage] and made the wedding planner/bride's friend cry.

I was that weird girl and I'd do it again.

My 300 person wedding was next door to another 300 person wedding, we, brides and grooms started dancing together. It became a huge party as others have joined to almost 2000 people. Even DJ's got together and sync played the same music, loud [as hell]. We are still friends to this day.

Groom shoved wedding cake into his new bride's mouth so hard that he busted her lip open and chipped her tooth. Kept pushing until she fell backwards and broke her wrist. Blood was all over her wedding gown. Groom's father began to beat the hell out of his own son.

Good times.

It wasn't really wild but I went to a wedding that took place on the grass next to a walmart. The people getting married were older like 50s or 60s. Met working at walmart, and thought walmart was just the best, so got married at walmart. And by went to I mean went outside on my break and got a piece of cake, from my co-workers wedding reception (which we were all invited to do).

I think the wildest part about it was all the trashy comments by customers about it. I mean these 2 people worked at walmart, they had no money. They both old, they had no parents helping pay for anything. Venue, free. Cake and drinks, provided by the store manager. DJ a kid in electronics department who really wanted to be a DJ. And the list goes on. But I guess if you're poor you're not allowed any moments of happiness in this life, you only get to suffer and serve. Why the [hell] are they out there getting married instead of in here serving us!

Bride didn’t turn up. I was a guest of the groom who was a mate from work. Most of both sides of the family left. It was at a hotel so all the food was cooked and wine was open. The grooms Dad who had paid for a lot of it said let’s stay and eat and drink. About 30 of us did, a few of the Dads friends and then other rouge guests such as myself did exactly that. Even the band still turned up and played! Some of the staff also got involved and we partied into the night. Met some great people some of which I’m still friends with.

Sucked for the groom but all in all a top night for the rest of us.

They broke up and get met someone else and has now been married 15+ and has 3 kids. Second wedding wasn’t as much fun, his Dad agreed.

The bride forgot the groom's name and called him by the ex-boyfriend’s name. The silence that followed was so loud I think I actually heard the marriage certificate self-destruct.

The bride and groom didn’t want to throw rice, because they believed it harmed birds. So they threw corn instead…after their wedding ceremony which took place on one of those huge old school pirate type sailboats. About 50 birds divebombed the couple going after the corn that was in their hair and on their clothes. The couple had to take off full sprint the entire length of the boat to get to safety while flailing their arms trying to knock the birds away. Was like watching a horror movie in real time.

Two different weddings. 

1. The bride's family threw a fit when they found out she signed a prenup. Smashing furniture, screaming, police. The marriage was annulled shortly after. 

2. The groom found out a few days before the wedding his fiancée was cheating. Day of the ceremony he emailed proof to bride's family and no showed. The guests were told to proceed to the reception. Eventually word got around. The DJ played the country song "Your cheatin' heart".

DJ and father of the bride got into a fist fight when father found DJ hooking up with bride's 17 year old sister. Woof.

A guy who had been stalking the bride for years tried to sneak into the wedding ceremony, got recognized by some of her friends and stopped. He then tried to force his way past to get to her, the police were called, and now there is a criminal record and a restraining order against him.

Groom gave a speech about when he first started dating the bride and how her parents didn't like him.

He mentioned dates and myself and a few others started doing math in our heads...

They didn't like you because you were 21 and she was 16. KYLE!

A child pushing the 4 tier cake off the table and it just going everywhere. Bride and groom were furious.

Not super scandalous but wildest thing I've seen at a wedding so far.

Wedding 1, terrible priest: the priest was late, disheveled, and looked hung over. While giving an painful, cringy homily in which he pretended to know the bride and groom (but never used their names or a single detail about their relationship), he said, "... and they will continue to get to know each other tonight as they explore every inch of each other's naked bodies." Yikes. The next song was "Bone of my bone, flesh of my flesh." Very awkward. And yes, the priest came to the reception and got trashed. (That was almost a given.) He drunk danced with a dog collar and leash around his neck.

Wedding 2, me: I was a good friend of the bride. She invited me to do a reading at her wedding. The night prior, after the rehearsal dinner, everyone went to a bar. This was a south-side Chicago wedding, so a loud, fun crowd. The groom and his guys left around midnight so he wouldn't see the bride on the wedding day. I partied with the bride and bridesmaids.

I was riffing and goofing with my church reading, making up words. I changed the refrain from "The Lord is kind and merciful" to "The Lord is kind...to some people." I would invent passages, like, "Though I walk through the valley of promotion and they give it to Chad who is a [jerk], and he gets a corner office, still, the Lord is kind... To some people."

The bridesmaids would shout out the last three words and then drink.

At the wedding, during the ceremony, I did my reading. Completely straight-faced, no weirdness. No reference to last night's jokes. But when the videographer turned the camera to the bridesmaids, they sat in the front pew laughing, snickering, doubled over. To me, the video looked like a Salem witch trial with women laughing and snickering for no discernable reason while the holy Bible was read aloud. Pretty tame, but bizarre on film.

Wedding 2 (same wedding), bride: During the planning, the groom kept asking for things she kept vetoing: Can we have a disco DJ on roller skates? No. Can we have a clown who makes balloon animals for people as they leave the church? No. What if we had three live turkeys at the reception hall, just running wild? NO.

All this suggested in a spirit of play. He kept inventing outrageous requests. (The groom is a great guy and he makes his bride laugh.)

After the priest pronounced them husband and wife, and everyone clapped, they faced the long aisle to walk out. The bride, my friend, leans over and says to him, "Look." At the far end of the naive, near the back of the church is a fully made-up clown already making balloon animals for the guests and wedding party. So many wedding photos with balloon animals!

Thirty years, and two grown kids later, they are still in love and still goofy and playful with each other.

A kid was running around and crashed into the camera, breaking the lens. The camera guy was in tears.

Brides dad dropped of a heart attack on the dance floor during the reception.

Bride got so smashed she couldn’t say her vows properly, then passed out so she wasn’t in any of the photos. Her sister got so angry she punched her mum. Then when the bride woke up she got caught in bed with the best man. I know this because they got caught by me, in my room.

Dear reader I am sure you’ll be shocked to learn they are no longer married.

Edit - since it’s been commented so frequently, the ceremony was at midday, she woke up around 4pm, I caught them in bed at around 2am, and they certainly both knew exactly what was going on because they both spent quite a long time trying to explain it away and stop my gf from immediately telling the groom. Quite dark what is being suggested tbh.

Retired pro photographer that did combat, er, wedding photography for years and saw too much insanity.

One wedding that was particularly odd was a large, big church wedding where both families were Florida State fans. The brides parents house looked like the FSU gift store exploded logos everywhere!

Well, the only day they could get the church was the day of the big Florida vs Florida State football game. As I'm doing formals of the groomsmen, I noticed they were all wearing a single earpiece that looked like secret service agents. Every man in the wedding including both dads had them.

During the ceremony (!!) they were all listening to the darn football game and *twice* there were audible noises and twitches as the game had a big play. Too much fandom there.

Someone barfed on the bride’s face. After she got cleaned up and makeup reapplied someone else barfed on her face.

At every family wedding, we have a tradition that was started by my great grandma, Nanny Shift, back in the early 80s. She apparently got very drunk at someone’s wedding back and got kinda crazy. For reference sake, she was in her 80s and wore old fashioned bloomer type underwear that looked like long shorts but in bright colored silks.

So anyways, Nanny Shift is completely drunk and feeling kinda frisky. So she had the band (no DJs back then!) play an old burlesque number and she started lifting her skirt and dancing around, showing off her red silk bloomers and parading around while everyone [laughed].

For the grand finale, she turned her back to new couple sitting at their table, put her head between her knees to look at them through her legs and flipped them off with both hands proudly. The room erupted into big cheers and Nanny was ushered away with another drink.

So naturally, this became a thing at every wedding we’ve had since then. When Nanny Shift passed away in the mid 90s, my aunt Lois took over the bloomers and has worn them for at least 10 weddings over the years, including my own and more recently, my young cousins.

I love my family. We throw the best weddings.