50 Wedding Moments So Awkward They Made Guests Question Reality

Civil War reenactment across the street from the church. Literal cannons going off the entire time during the ceremony.

My mom's wedding was held at the same small venue, with the same s****y menu AND decor, as my father's funeral had been held a year prior.

It was a great reminder to my 13 year old self that my dad was dead and that she was 90% of the reason he drank himself to death!

It wasn't at the wedding but at the after party her brother proposed and the girl he proposed to said yes cause she was put on the spot then afterwards called him out for it and they broke up.

It was a destination beach wedding and the bride and groom allegedly spent over $100k on the entire thing, which was completely outdoors, with no contingency plan for some reason, all for it to not only rain, but POUR.

It actually wouldn’t have been so bad had they started on time but the bride had everyone waiting for her for like 30 minutes. We just watched the sky get darker and darker in that time, then it just opened up & it came down cats & dogs right as the wedding party came out.

It was already a bit awkward because in the water behind the alter was an ugly rusty cargo ship getting close to shore and there were folks off to the sides of the wedding area just enjoying the beach. At least the reception was fun once folks let go of caring about how they looked (and smelled) after getting drenched.

My cousin hired her friend who was supposedly a DJ and he was literally playing music from Pandora ... There were Ads playing literally in between songs .... Eventually after some time someone else went on the aux who actually had a subscription to a streaming service lol. Overall it was a fun wedding though.

Father of the groom speech went a little something like this ‘ bride we never thought he’d marry you , you wasn’t his first love , Que 20 minute monologue of the groom’s love for cars and his love of his son and granddaughter then end speech. Nothing about the bride , nothing nice about the bride or welcoming her to the family just ‘we didn’t think he’d marry you’. I was absolutely floored.

- 2x waiters full on karate fight IN the reception hall. The rest of the wait staff quickly shoved them into a back room, but after one of them got flipped over a table.


- 2 weeks later, best man and another guest almost fought. Then the best mans wife/guests GF did fight. It was crazy.


I wasn't at this one, but my friend told me during a reception he was at, the brides uncle parasailed over the reception towing a banner. A short time later the power went out. Sometime later, a couple police officers showed up, and explained the uncle accidently hit some power lines and didn't survive.

Well the tornado at the outdoor reception was kinda bad.

The cake collapsed in the middle of the cerimony. It was a sign!

The wedding officiant forgot...
 Someone tracked her down finally, she showed up 45 minutes late drunk off of her a*s. She barely made it through the ceremony, starting and restarting several times at certain parts. It was super awkward for everyone and the bride was pissed. .

Well there was the fight between the groom's familly and some cousins that showed up. But there was a far more interesting wedding I went to where the father of the bride gave a long preachy speech that focused almost 90% on how his daughter was "an obedient child". I mean, you might mention that point in the context of showering praise on someone, but this was specifically a speech about obiedience...to him...to her soon-to-be spouse, and obiedience to God. It was over the top. And to put the cherry on top, when the preacher presented the new bride and groom, somebody lit off fire crackers ON THE ALTAR INSIDE THE CHURCH! There was smoke everywhere.

The brother of the groom stood up when the priest said: anyone who opposes the marriage between him and her speak now or forever hold your peace.

The brother proposes to his girlfriend. Of 2 months.. she is embarrassed. Apologizing to everyone. She declined the proposal. The brother raged. Accusing her of cheating and revealing he only proposed to see if she only had him. In his mind if she said yes, it meant she’s been loyal to him. But since she declined it means she has been sneaking around. Gets better. He admitted he slept with 2 other people to revenge cheat.

Wedding was for the daughter of a very religious conservative family who had found out that the daughter and her boyfriend were having premarital s*x and basically pressured them into getting married to “fix” the sin they’d committed.

The mother, father, and priest took every opportunity during the ceremony and reception speeches to remind everyone that the bride and groom had premarital s*x and say how disappointed they all were that the marriage was starting in sin.

I almost died on my way to my own d**n wedding with my father in the car. We were driving to the church in a limo that my dad knew the owner from the bar. (That should’ve been a red flag) Well everything was nice except the old man driver was S**T FACED at 11am. We didn’t know he was so drunk until he blew through a stop sign on a tight turn on a two lane country road. I was at that moment I was telling my dad he was going too fast to stop around the bend. 😱Straight ahead was a farmers field. Miraculously no one was driving on the other road when we blew thru the intersection or that no one was sitting at the stop sign. I would guess he was probably doing 40-45 mph.

Don’t ask me how he managed to get out of the field but he did. I clearly remember my father ripping him a new one bc he had been so drunk and that he nearly k**led us. This happened in 1988.

The parents let the Bride sing a song about love she'd written herself

We were at a satellite table with some other unimportant people but the old couple at our table whispered to the rest of us at the table, "you know, they paid for a lot of those voice lessons."

In retrospect it was hilarious, like at the end of Dirty Dancing where the mom says, "I think she gets it from me" even though there's no evidence even to the end that the mom knows anything about dancing.

"When you were in the room, I was in bloom"

"When you told me you were in love, I knew it was what you were made of"

"In love ... In LOOOOOOVE"

It was so bad. 1990s.

The maid of honor (bride's sister) gave a BLISTERING speech. one of the meanest things i've ever sat through. called the bride a b***h. no minced words. wanted to crawl in a hole after that one...

The best man gave his speech about how no one liked the bride. Later, another guy got drunk, stole the caterers golf cart to do burnouts, then did the worm and split his chin on the dance floor, bleeding everywhere! The photographer loved it, but the bride was less than impressed.

I remembered another one! Went to a friend's wedding and at the reception they had tea lights going on high top tables. Some woman with big 80's hair was drunk, cackling, and through her head back. Boom, her hair went up in a ball of fire! Thrown drinks and a jacket got it under control, but she left quickly, and the whole venue smelled of burnt hair.

So I went to a wedding held at a family run go cart track. Vows were nice held by a big pond. The reception started and hamburgers were being served out of the go kart snack bar. I knew the MOB had worked all summer for free as a waitress at a local restuarant in exchange for them catering the event so I was very surprised to see all the family hucking burgers out the window. I went to mcdonalds down the road becase I've never liked their burgers and they were struggling to keep up came back about an hour later. When I got back there was a weird vibe in the air. I thought it was because the MOB had got scammed on the dinner agreement and everyone was reeling from it. People were still partying but there was something going on in the main group and 'something in the air.' I didnt see the bride and groom around too much in the the main party area no mingling. If I did see them they were'nt togetther and they were sticking close to their respective parties.

Well turns out the groom caught the bride with the best man. It had been going on for months. I felt so bad for the MOB it was the second wedding shes paid for for her daughter. she got scammed. then to find out that her daughter was ho'ing it up and the marriage didnt even last as long as 1 of the MANY unpaid shifts she did to pay for it.

My own wedding.

Married in Hawaii on the beach near the north shore.

Signs on the beach for dangerous currents.

Invited all to throw flowers in the surf to remember those they've lost.

Then my groomsmen decided to go for a swim. 3 men entered, 2 men made it out, 3rd almost didn't.

Luckily, a guy on a surfboard rushed in to pull the third out.

Then Baywatch, yes, yellow pickups, red shorts and all show up.

All three ended up in the hospital as they drank a lot of ocean water.

So the after wedding luau was awkward.
And my wedding pictures didn't have any of my groomsmen in them.

Luckily, the husbands of the bridesmaids thought it would be funny if they got matching hawaiian shirts. And they kinda matched mine and the wedding colors.
So my wedding pictures that hung in the house weren't the actual wedding party.

Now I'm divorced and only speak to one of the groomsmen.

An older family member was asked to be in the wedding party. Really sweet, but also, this person is probably about 80 years old and standing through a ceremony that had all sorts of extra readings and songs to include different people. Right about the time I was thinking “man, this is a long ceremony”, they passed out, 911 was called and they were taken to receive medical attention. It was very upsetting, people were crying. The ceremony paused until medical help arrived, but the ambulance was still out front when we left the church and they still made us stand there blowing bubbles as they exited the church for the photos, so that was weird lol. They’re okay now, but didn’t made it back for family photos or the reception, so that’s a shame.

Side note, the officiant said a wedding party member passing out has happened in about 10% of the weddings he’s officiated. Let your favorite people sit down if you want a long ceremony lol.