48 Of The Worst Wedding Moments That Guests Can’t Believe Actually Happened

I couldn't make the day part of the wedding, due to work. But I went to the evening and saw the bride and groom and, while I didnt say this, I thiught it was odd he was in a suit and she was in a red (non wedding day vibe) dress.
Whatever, I thought. Maybe she changed for the evening.

Turns out he had a few 'for courage' drinks in the morning and had thrown up on her during their vows.

They laugh about it now, but not exactly at the time.

Father of the bride's trousers fell down, as he was walking his daughter down the aisle. He laughed it off in the moment but asked me to cut that from the final film.

The bride and groom had ordered a fancy chocolate sculpture cake. Stunning if tacky, cherubs and hearts etc. Anyway,  time comes to cut the cake and it will not cut. Bigger and bigger knives were brought in from the venue kitchen. In the end the hotel manager ended up smashing it open with a sledge hammer. .

I was at a wedding where someone objected during the "If anyone knows of any lawful impediment..." bit of the ceremony. The registrar took the objector aside for a chat, then spoke privately with the bride and groom, then apologised to everyone and abandoned the ceremony.

We had the (very awkward) reception anyway. The couple got married a few months later in a small registry office ceremony with just them and a couple of witnesses.

I later found out the reason for the objection was that the bride and groom were double cousins, and step-siblings. Presumably the registrar had to go away and do some research to work out if they were too closely related to get married.

Friend of mine said his ex-girlfriends name instead of new wife in his speech at the reception.

Inspired by the Friends episode best man had been winding him up all day saying "make sure you say the right name."

He was nervous and got in his own head and uno-reversed at the wrong time.

Air went out of the room. Was amazing.

Two "Best" men, who had read somewhere that the Best Man's speech was supposed to be funny at the expense of the groom.

Except these two barely had three braincells to rub together so spent 10 minutes being rude to the groom. It was a horror-show. The Mother of the groom was crying, a few old folk took off their hearing aids to avoid hearing any more. The evening guests arrived to a "Party" with absolutely zero Party Atmosphere. The only folk on the dancefloor were the under-12s as no-one was in the mood to dance.

A story an old boss of mine told me once.

The mother of the bride (single) had a car booked to pick her up from her house and get her to the venue. She wasn’t trusted to book a taxi and get there on time by herself.

She texted on the way to say she’d left but still hadn’t arrived about 10 minutes before the start. Her life360 said she was there so one of the bridesmaids went looking outside.

She was found in the car park getting *seen to* by the driver of the car service.

The vicar made his whole sermon about forgiving infidelity when married, during their wedding. Turns out however that the vicar may actually be clairvoyant.

I was the MC at a wedding where the grooms parents had separated acrimoniously 18 months or so before.

I had the father of the groom on my speech sheet, he made a heartfelt and funny speech about his son and welcoming his new daughter in law to the family. Standard stuff.

The mother of the groom was not on the sheet. But she was so incensed by her ex husband having had a moment of spotlight, she sent her sister over to me to DEMAND that she also get a chance to make a speech. Unplanned, unscripted, several glasses of champagne and wine deep. This went as well as you could imagine.

The groom is an ex model (handsome chap). She started off by saying how hot he looked shirtless. This devolved into her saying she preferred the groom’s ex girlfriend, and talking at length of her hatred for her ex husbands new partner (he didn’t cheat, she wasn’t at the wedding to try and avoid such a situation).

By the time I got the mic back after her ramblings, the bride was in tears, half the room had realised the mother had a strong Jocasta Complex, and the father was bright red and about to burst.

Disaster.

I worked with a chap, who was getting married, booked two weeks off for the event and honeymoon, we all wished him good luck on the Friday.
On the Monday afterwards he came into work, had a quick chat with his manager and just started working. Obviously something had gone very wrong. The story leaked pretty quickly, when it came time for him to say I do, he bottled it and said he couldn't do it. He'd been having 2nd thoughts for weeks but let it go right to the wire before speaking up.
The bride to be went on the honeymoon with her best mate, her family sent him the bill for everything they paid for. He was skint for years 🥺.

Arrived at the evening session of a wedding to hear the ONLY thing the day guests were talking about was the father of the bride speech when he said far too much about remembering the childhood friends of his daughter in swimming costumes and bikinis as kids and how lovely they had grown up! Obviously they were in the room (some were bridesmaids). So glad we were only evening guests!

The younger sister of the bride, who was about 19 and had been with her boyfriend for about 6 months, interrupted the first dance by getting the microphone from the DJ and proceeded to silence everyone before proposing to her boyfriend. It was absolutely wild.

Not me - but I know someone who got dumped at the altar.

Packed church, she's at the front with her dad and the groom. The groom turns round, blurts out 'I can't do this' then leaves at high speed.

It absolutely devastated her, took her months to get over it.

My best friend went to a wedding where the best man's speech was announcing his love for the bride, right before they ran off together.

Halfway through the reception the bride (23) started a very slow dance with this older guy (well into his 40s). It took a turn when he grabbed her behind - there were audible gasps from a few parts of the room!

Turned out he was her boss and they’d been having an affair for a year. She left her husband when she got back from the honeymoon.

My mil interrupted my first dance, crying on my husband. 😂 She disliked me. (Reason still unknown after 35 years of marriage but, possibly because I had 2 children when we met and I’m mixed race)
I was also her daughter’s friend.

Few weeks ago. Father of the bride calling the bride by her sister's name throughout his speech. Probably about 8 times. Guess which daughter is his favourite.

I worked at a bar in a hotel that was hosting a wedding. One of the guests had been sort of sulking by the bar most of the night. He was knocking back a good few drinks and barely said a word. Something was certainly up with him.

Later on in the night the groom was talking to him at the bar right in front of me and the guy planted an absolute perfect headbutt right on the grooms nose then legged it.

I never saw that guy again but the groom spent the rest of the night nursing a splattered nose on a chair in the corner with people fussing around him. He didn't go off in an ambulance for some reason, but he definitely should have.

I went to a wedding where the ceremony finished at 1430, then nothing until 1900. Most people left for the pub, leaving the bridal party in an empty hall.

Just terrible all round. Was a destination wedding in Mexico. The brides brother was swimming in the ocean and got into difficulties. His/brides dad dived in to save him... which he did... but couldn't save himself and tragically drowned. The wedding went ahead somehow... but obviously they didn't last. Brides head was messed up. She cheated a few times and moved away. I've never seen her again. I'm still mates with the groom, he married again and has a couple of kids and is doing great in life.