People Share What Ruined Weddings They Attended, Here Are The 43 Best Stories

Guy had a heart attack while a prayer was being said, but he was adamant to not make a scene… so his sons dragged him out of the room while he was seated in his chair.

While all this was done with good intentions, the chair screeching against the floor probably made more of a scene than if they had just carried him out of there… iirc the heart attack guy survived.

I had to kick out a (somewhat known) wedding crasher from my wedding. This woman, who I had never met till the wedding weekend, had been angling to come to my wedding as a guest for months. She was dating one of the groomsmen. They started dating right around when my now husband asked him to join the wedding party, so it was a pretty new relationship.

I got married somewhat young so it was low, low, low budget. No +1s available for anyone who wasn't already married. Well, she didn't like that. Over the months she tried: showing up to my husband's bachelor party and getting him drunk to get him to agree to invite her, writing desperate pleas on her boyfriend's RSVP card, guilt-tripping us that she'd bought flights already and was using her only vacation days to go. She showed up to the rehearsal (like the part where the wedding party practices their entrance/the ceremony) which is where I finally first met her. She introduced herself as "Becca, but who the f**k cares?" As if all the other behaviors weren't a red flag, that one really said something to me. We graciously invited her to the rehearsal dinner, because we had some extra space. We thought that might be the end of it.

On the day of the wedding, as I was nervously waiting for the ceremony to start, I saw her show up in a fancy dress. I was so over it at this point. She knew she wasn't invited! My venue came with security, so I informed them of the situation. They went over to kick her out. She wouldn't leave. They moved to make her leave. Her boyfriend showed up to see what the commotion was. She started screaming obscenities, calling me (the bride) a b***h and a w**re, f- you this, f-you that. Then she screamed at her boyfriend "it's THIS, or ME. Make your choice." Her boyfriend was not the kind of guy who stands up for himself...he was sweating bullets and in tears. They go somewhere to have a conversation, and he eventually does participate in the wedding but he leaves at the start of the reception.

I found out later that this woman showed up at the beginning of the wedding day at my reception venue...she lied to my aunt and said she was a friend and was there on my behalf to help set-up. She spent several hours with my family members pretending to be my friend and helping them with the floral arrangements. After she was kicked out of the ceremony, she went to the reception venue and sat outside and cried.

5 years later, during COVID, I got an email from her out of the blue. It was written as a defense of her actions. Not a single apology in there. It was bizarre, as if she'd written it 5 years prior and had just pushed send. I wrote her back and said to never contact me again. She called me and my husband awful a******s who deserve each other and wished us misery for life. Again, I only met her the one time, lol.

edit: fixing verb tense.

So, we are Jews, and for those who are not that well versed in Judaism, I will tell you that an essential part of the ceremony, without which the groom and the wife do not actually complete the marriage process, is the ceremony of breaking the glass (the groom breaks a glass that is placed on the floor as a reminder of the destruction of Jerusalem). The instruction is to break the glass with the heel In order not to risk injury, at the wedding I happened to be at, the groom "missed" and broke the glass with the softer part of the foot, which sent glass everywhere and, among other things, deep into his foot, he ended the evening in the orthopedic department at the hospital.

My best friend in high school invited me to her cousins wedding. We’re both Indian and you typically invite everyone to Indian weddings because it’s usually a really extravagant party. She’s been to some of my family’s weddings. BUT: she forgot to mention her cousin’s Pentecostal. At Indian Pentecostal weddings you invite people to give sermons/testimony. The more sermons you have, the better you look. And like. Zero partying. It’s sermons and a quiet dinner.
I sat through 4 hours of prayer and sermons and had mid food around a bunch of people who also looked incredibly miserable. No alcohol either.

I’m a wedding videographer. I’ve seen it all.

Worst instance was filming a wedding for a pro NHL player and his bride. Turns out, the bride had a thing for insanely giant dudes built like The Rock, and had a super smart idea to invite her ex boyfriend to the wedding.

Everything was chill until reception. My assistant and I kept hearing glasses break every minute or so. We were like “damn, these people are really partying hard”. But then we heard the loud boom and crash of a table flipping over. And then another

Turns out the ex boyfriend went Hulk Mode and started smashing everything. Obviously no one tried to stop him because he was hugeee. The bride was crying and the groom went to beat the Hulk’s a*s

It was a pretty even fight, but the police pulled up quick, jumped on the megaphone and yelled “this is the police! This party is OVER! Go home NOW!” Turns out the venue called them the second Hulk started breaking property

The bride is sobbing her eyes out, the groom and Hulk were detained. Everyone awkwardly scampered out, including us. Got a message from the bride the next day apologizing for the mess.

My cousin and his wife got married in a Catholic basilica but since they already lived together the priest refused to give them the 'long service' and then proceeded to start his homily with comments on how God has a plan for us all, but it may not be the same as we have planned for ourselves and sometimes that leads to divorce. It was wild.

They're still happily married a decade later and have two kids now.

Still gonna go with the priest asking if that was their first kiss, cause we all were like "aweee"
The bride was pregnant, showing but she hid it really well with her giant chest and excellent dress choice .

A guest got very drunk at my wedding. He came up to me on the dance floor and forced a kiss on me. I was so upset and angry that someone would do that! Who kisses a bride at her wedding?! His wife was also a guest. Unbelievable.

Bride did a keg stand and the brother of the bride s**t his pants

(I was the bride).

I was a +1 at a wedding where I only knew my date and her mother, it was for a family friend of theirs. The brides side was Italian and grooms side was rural Ontario rednecks, literally degens from upcountry.


Father of the groom got wasted and had a fist fight with the father of the maid of honour. The groom basically tried to get the his dad to calm down and stop ruining the wedding, and the dad sucker punched his own son. There were a bunch of people fighting after that, and I just kind of stood and watched.


The reception abruptly ended at that point, but I can remember that a lot of rented tuxedos got very bloody very quickly.

Guest got super drunk and started eating food from the buffet with his hands. Like just hand into a big tray of pasta shoveling it in his mouth. Then he kept hitting on my sister making her incredibly uncomfortable. Politely asked him to leave a few times to no avail. Then he got belligerent. Only fight I've ever been in in my life was on my wedding night. Good times -_-.

A cousin was notorious for getting drunk and being a nightmare. Especially at the bouquet toss. If she didn’t hurt someone getting it, she’d rip it out their hands. Once someone confronted her and she tore it apart right there. This was pre cell phones so it took a few times before someone showed her footage of her behavior. She cleaned up after that.

Bride’s entire family left to go smoke weed to celebrate. Staff thought the wedding was over since so many people left and started cleaning up. Then, the bride and groom had their first dance with the lights up and people sweeping around them.

My good friend had a stroke the day of her sisters wedding. She was 30 at the time. [She's ok.]

I grew up in a ghetto in Los Angeles and attended a Russian wedding when I was in high school. The bride was from the old country and didn’t speak English. The groom was named Bill and he was about 19 although he looked about 30 with a thick beard. He was my older brother’s friend and was a raging alcoholic.

Anyway the wedding was a modest affair held in someone’s back yard. The bride was about my age and was very beautiful. The groom was sh*tfaced by the time they did the vows and was passed out on the grass about 20 minutes later. His shirt was pulled up and half his fat belly was showing. People just stepped over him. That’s what kind of party it was.

I kept thinking the bride was trying to catch my eye. Anyway I danced with a girl on the dance floor and the bride comes over, cuts in and starts slow dancing with me. OK, no problem. Then she starts rubbing my crotch. I backed away and left the dance floor. The best man came over and said “I saw what happened”. I said “NOTHING HAPPENED!” He said “I know and Bill appreciates it.” I felt like I was in the Twilight Zone.

Anyway I start getting drunk (I was about 17 and already had a drinking problem). Long story short I walked past the garage and the bride was giving some guy a blowjob in her wedding dress with 20 guys watching and laughing. It made me very very sad. I walked home.

This was in a small, rural town in Ontario, Canada. The female part of the betrothed had 'got around' in her previous years. One of the guests at the party had too much to drink, and immediately set about telling everyone about who, where, and how often she'd been with other guys including himself. The groom had finally had enough and they went and had it out outside. A while later the groom came back in looking very dishevelled and with a rapidly swelling eye. But I guess he won as the other guy didn't return.

Bride and her family received word that the child of a relative who could not attend unexpectedly died earlier in the day.

Everybody on the bride's side was just screaming and sobbing and the wedding was called off right then and there.

That was a couple years ago and the bride and groom only got married recently.

A wedding participant banging the freshly married woman hidden under the music stage.

The bride's brother was taking pictures of people when he backed into a server carrying a large tray of fruit-shaped ice cream.


CRASH. Tray went down, ice cream spilled, a few glasses broke.


The brother turned beet red and looked utterly horrified. He immediately started belting out apologies, and even insisted on helping with the clean up.

Former Banquet Bartender. So I have seen a lot of horror shows, Two that stick out, Father of Bride performed a 45 Minute Drum Solo, in a wife beater shirt. This one is sad, DJ had a stroke prior to Wedding, was unable to operate his equipment, no music at all. Rolled the Grand Piano in and grabbed the Hotel Front Desk receptionist who could play. Called in a backup. The Poor DJ was in tears, the Bride and Groom were sad.