77 Wedding Guest Horror Stories That Left Couples Speechless

I get angry just thinking about this. It was my husband's best friend's mom, who was not invited, but showed up anyway, and brought a bunch of small children with her (it was explicitly a no-kids, no-exceptions wedding), tried to sit at the same table as me and tried to take pictures of me while I was eating, and loudly criticized one of the caterers because she thought she saw him put a used spoon into a buffet dish (he didn't). My mom, who is pretty blunt, straight up asked her 'who are you and why are you here? I personally addressed all the invitations and I know we didn't invite you'. To which she replied 'well my son needed a ride!'. My mom told her to leave, which was so unbelievably awkward, but she left without making more of a scene.

Nothing, because my wife and I, after saving up a bunch for a big wedding, decided f**k all y'all and we got married in Las Vegas and blew the wedding fund for tons of fun. Best decision as of yet.

Wife's uncle showed up uninvited. The same uncle that m***sted her when she was twelve. I was the only one that knew. The wife ignored it so I stayed as cool as I could. He shook my hand and said take care of her. I didn't let go of his hand for a bit and never broke eye contact, never spoke a word to him. It's the best my rage would let me do without f*****g up the wedding for the love of my life. He's in jail now for f*****g a fourteen year old. Gets out soon....

At my brother's wedding, his mother-in-law sat her ELEVEN last-minute guests at our guest's table because she clearly did not give a f**k about my family's guests. We couldn't add another table because we were at the max tables that would fit in the venue. So I had to ask the reception venue staff to add chairs to our other tables (which overcrowded our other tables and f****d up our seating chart), his mother-in-law cuts me off saying "No, you cannot have 13 people to a table. It's unlucky."

THEN B***H, WHY DID YOU STEAL OUR TABLE???? HUH??? YOU F*****G D*****S SUPERSTITIOUS B***H. What the hell were we supposed to do??? Ask our guests to leave???? I completely ignored her, turned to the staff member, and had them add the chairs anyway.

Okay, I'm done ranting.

My mother in law changed our reception venue behind my back. Luckily, I found out and was able to get it changed back. This was my first introduction to her boundary issues. I have since learned that if she thinks there is even the slightest chance that someone won't do what she wants, then she feels completely entitled to use whatever means necessary to get her way. I think she legitimately believes that people who won't do what she wants are purposely being mean to her.

She also passed out dollar store glow necklaces at our reception. She didn't ask me or anything, of course. It was a complete surprise to see her handing out glow necklaces as wedding favors.

Not a b***h, a c**t.
Little guy big mouth was a really close friend until at my wedding he stood in front of my mum when we were cutting the cake and proceeded to give her the finger when she asked him to move over a little. Just after that while my dad was taking photos of me and my wife cutting the cake he keeps nudging my dad's arm so he would get a shaky photo, my dad gave him a swift elbow to say f****n stop, then said c**t stamps on my dad's foot, my dad loses it, pushes him out of the door to my father in law, who then pushes him further outside to his brother who is an big guy and an ex bouncer, Picks him up by the collar and slaps him around the face a couple of times and drops him on the floor, cops were called because he wouldn't calm down and had a night in the cells. I don't speak to him anymore,
If you are reading this Ricky, you are a c**t.

Not my wedding, but my cousins. Her best friend kept jumping into every picture she could and she'd stick her middle finger up at the camera in every picture. And then she tried to make out with the groom. No one has heard from her since the wedding.

Oh my God I have three different ones. Tell me which is the worst: my mother refused to wear the color that I asked her to wear, which my mother-in-law and all my bridesmaids wore and which matched my table decorations. Instead she were a sparkly silver sequined gown which had the express purpose of upstaging the bride (me).

Then my sister-in-law threw a hissy fit because when we went into a small room with the Rabbi for a blessing only the wedding party was allowed to come. It was supposed to be intimate and a small, hence the small room. Since sister-in-law couldn't come she didn't let her husband who was a groomsman (my husband's brother) come either and made a big noisy stink about it.

Third, my husband's cousin somehow got the band to honor her for her birthday with a long speech and a special dance for her and her husband even though it was also my cousins birthday and was also my best friends anniversary and it was my f*****g wedding not her birthday party.

Overall my wedding was magnificent but they were definitely three b*****s there.

At my moms best friends wedding a young lady decided to wear a white floor length dress and kept asking the dj to play all these line dancing songs that only she knew the moves to. I think the groom was more pissed than the bride so part 2 of my wedding gift to them was to casually drag her off the dance floor and talk to the dj about reading the room when it came to requests.

We invited around 100 people to our wedding. 18 people who had RSVPd that they would come didn't show up. At $18 a plate, that's expensive.

Upside: instead of numbering our tables, we named them after Star Wars planets. It turned out ok because nobody from Alderaan showed up.

My sister's wedding. The groom's grandma and female cousins (parents are deceased) wiped their feet on my sister's dress train during pictures, then stole all the bottles of wine that had the labels customized to read the wedding vows of the groom's parents, then proceeded to bring back hard liquor, do shots, and grind on the DJ while he was playing bass-booming hip hop that my sister and her husband explicitly said they didn't want.

After those shenanigans, they also threatened to physically a*****t my sister and my mother.

Edit: my sister didn't confront them because she didn't want to give them the pleasure of seeing her hurt or angry on her wedding day. The groom is no contact with his cousins, and low contact with his grandparents. My sister hasn't seen any of them since the wedding.

The grandma wasn't doing any grinding, but the groom found out later that she orchestrated the whole thieving of the wine bottles, which occurred while my mom and sisters stepped away after the ceremony, because the woman who was going to perform was dying in hospice, and we needed to say goodbye.

My sister is white, my BIL is black, and I don't think his family is racist, I just don't think they liked my sister.

My uncle went around taking photos and getting people's names and addresses to "send them the photos".

A month later, he sent out photos, printed on an advertisement for his fly by night "prepaid legal" business, along with hard sell marketing material. So basically, he lied about what he was doing to get people's contact info for his business. Pretty pissed off about that one.

My new MIL wouldn't let me be in some photos because she wanted "only real family members".

My mother. My SO and I ended up doing a court house type marriage. Did the papers, found someone to marry us, went to her office to do it.
The only people there were my ex step dad (I call him bonus dad), mom, aunt, uncle, and grandmother.
My mom was my maid of honor, bonus dad was my SOs best man. Right in the middle of our vows, my mom "breaks down" sobbing, interrupting everything. The b***h is obviously trying to get the attention on her since she can't seem to stand not being the middle of everything.
We try to continue over her "sobbing" but only starts crying louder.
My aunt, being the amazing person she is, grabbed the ring from my mom pushed her towards my uncle who pretty much dragged her outside. Aunt quickly announced she's the maid of honor now, which I was completely fine with and the vows carried on.
After signing everything we go out to get to the car and my mom is just furious at me for "letting your aunt do that!" I just ignored her and went to the car.

On the upside, when we were saying our vows, bonus dad started tearing up. It made me happy because it was super unlike him. Kinda guy who never says "I love you" because that's just him, ex 1st sergeant, served from 1972 to 2007 manly man.
I love you bonus dad!
F**k you mom!

I have a couple, unfortunately.

My first marriage didn't go very well. At the wedding, I had a rented tux on and I asked my new wife not to smear cake on me when we cut the cake because of that. Of course, when the time came, it wasn't just a cute smear of frosting or something like you'd see at most weddings, oh no...she full on plastered me with cake and and a mess of frosting and food coloring. I don't know what was worse, being angry and hurt and embarrassed when the whole room was watching or when people were pulling me aside later and apologizing for it when her and her parents were still laughing and making jokes about it a couple of hours later.

I thankfully remarried a great person years later, and we had a small ceremony that was really very nice. Our photographer was taking pictures afterward before we were heading to the reception, and I had been talking to my dad when he started so he just took our picture together first.

My mom, being who she is, was incensed by not being first to get her picture taken when she wanted and proceeded to throw a fit and leave (my parents had been divorced for at least a decade or so prior to this). Maybe a couple of minutes later, we were all lining up and getting family together for pictures, and when I couldn't find my mom I learned that she'd stormed off and left. On what would otherwise be one of the best days of my life, there'll always be that storm cloud of pettiness that she left behind because she couldn't handle putting one of her kids ahead of herself for ten minutes worth of time.

By the time of our wedding, my husband's 33-year-old sister was still single and she hated that her younger brother was getting married first.

How did she deal with it?

By trying to sabotage my wedding.

The night before our wedding, she got s*******d and, while ugly crying, told my husband that it was supposed to be *her* wedding and it wasn't fair because she'd be able to plan a much better wedding than ours. (That would eventually prove to be false, as she finally got her on-again, off-again boyfriend to propose... by giving him an ultimatum.)

We had a small elegant outdoor wedding at a mountain lodge, and my SIL convinced some family members on my husband's side that the dress code was casual, so they showed up in jeans, t-shirts, and hoodies. I was beyond upset with them for readily taking my SIL's word without double checking with us. Luckily my photographer was sensible enough to exclude them from the pictures as much as possible.

At our reception she went around complaining to our guests about how "cheap" our wedding was. My husband's side is used to those typical church-and-banquet-hall weddings and ours was way different. But still, it's rude to s**t all over someone else's wedding *at* their wedding.

The lodge had a hot tub on the property, and near the end of the night when people were starting to leave, she changed into her bathing suit and chilled in the hot tub. This was *planned* ahead of time because she thought to bring her bathing suit there!

My husband and I don't really talk to her anymore.

She asked me why I didn't get my hair cut for my own wedding. Dammit mom, I'm a grown-a*s man and I'll keep my hair long if I want it long!

Maid of Honor at my wedding.

The ceremony went off without any problems and she was actually a huge help with setting everything up and organizing most of the day. During the cocktail hour afterwards she gets absolutely smashed and then punches her boyfriend in the face, then somehow convinces him he has been kicked out and has to leave. (I spoke to the owner and the bartenders and told them not to serve her any more alcohol at this point but they didn't think it was an issue yet.) As soon as her boyfriend is out of the parking lot she drags one of my groomsmen to bathroom and gives his skin flute a thorough cleaning.

Manages to get more drunk because she was tipping the bartender a lot. She then stumbles onto dance floor during my wife's dance with her father. I managed to stop her before any real interruption happens to the dance, but she then tries to kiss me in front of everyone, I kinda push/drop her and she hits the floor like I've shot out both her knee caps and starts crying hysterically. My mother in law runs over and drags this stupid b***h out of the reception hall all the while she is shrieking like a banshee because "I threw her to the ground."

Everything is good for around 2 hours while the Trash bin of honor is no where to be seen... until the owner of the golf course taps me on the shoulder and asks to speak to me outside in private.
I go outside and see her boyfriend has returned, who I didn't mind seeing there because I actually liked him, but his face is panicked and he just starts apologizing for something. I was pretty drunk so it took me a few seconds to realize the tire marks all over the 9th green leading up to the golf cart about 90% submerged in the pond right beside the green. Wasn't to concerned about her dumb a*s but unfortunately she was still alive and thrashing around trying to get out of the pond.

I just laughed and told the owner I wasn't paying a single cent for any damages. I told them to stop serving her hours previous and to call the police and have her charged for destroying the green and driving the cart into the pond. Surprisingly he was very understanding of my point of view and we worked together to get everything sorted out.

She ended up owing him just over 15 grand ( 8 or 9 for the cart and the rest was to fix the green and lost wages for him not being able to offer people a full 18 holes of golf.) Her parents just paid for all of it and she is currently on a "soul searching adventure" in Asia.
Despite all this my wedding was still the most amazing day of my life and my wife actually thought most of what happened was pretty funny in a Jerry Springer dumpster donkey kind of way. I'm just glad my wife's day wasn't ruined by it and my best friend, who she blew, has one hell of a story for all of his friends about my wedding.

In this case, I was that b***h. At my friend's wedding, they had a bench for people to sign and wrote well wishes on. On the underside, I wrote "if you can read this, you two must be in a terrible fight. Now kiss and make up." Drunk me (and sober me too) thought it was funny, since it's not obvious. The happy couple did not find it funny. Oops.

Skipped my bridal shower and bachelorette party, but found time to go (uninvited) to the str*p club with my husband, his friends, and her boyfriend, who was a groomsman. Came to my wedding dressed as a h**ker and congratulated me by saying she thought it would be her getting married first. We're obviously not friends anymore, and these aren't even the main reasons for that.