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Caught up with a buddy yesterday that got weded last May, seems Murphy was at the nuptials cause it was one screw up after another, worthy of a sitcom. Here's a brief list of some of the more notable FUs.
Where's the Rings ? - Classic WD screw up, they lost the rings or rather the best man got drunk the night before and "put them in a safe place". Greg and the groomsmen tore the house apart looking for them, finally found em on the tines of a mounted deer head.
The Flat- Seen this one myself, the guys had a flat on the truck on the way to the chapel. They were all standing around on the side of the highway in thier tux's agrueing on who'll "take one for the team" and get dirty, I drove by and put on the spare for them.
Cell phone serinade- While the Bride was on the way down the aisle her brother's cell went off (Arkansas fight song), during the ceremony an attendee's cell went off (Who's sorry now), on the way back down the aisle Greg's went off (Save a horse, Ride a cowboy), yeah it was planned by his brother.
Just a taste - The church secatary walked in on the happy couple while the groom was gettin' nasty with the Bride, hasty retreat.
Tarmac troubles - They sat 90 minutes on the tarmac cause of mechanical problem with the plane.
A last surprise - Heather forgot her pills so they got a lasting memory of thier honeymoon due in Jan.
So what happened on your wedding day ?
mollygrue
08-30-2007, 12:52 PM
ok--1st wedding: FOL refused to attend because it was courthouse not catholic. heel broke on shoe, had to wear MOL's ugly shoes.
this merely supplimented my lovely look as i only discovered after the fact that the beautician who cut my hair the day before was my x's old fuk buddy-the groom refused to wear his handsome dress uniform and bullheadely insisted on wearing his suit fm his senior prom--hey it still fits ( and yeah its still PLAID!)--we had wedding photos taken at the local botanical garden and somehow i slipped on the wet grass in the scenic japanese garden and managed to land in koi pond. at the reception, my name ws spelled wrong on the hall's sign out front, and on everything inside. ( BOL cant spell ), my SIL took all the candids and since she is abt 4ft tall none of us have any heads in any of the pictures. we paid the caterer, and later found out the SOL had paid the caterer, and the MOL had also paid the caterer. no, the money was never recovered. and later that nite, just in time to ruin the festivities, we got a call from my parents who were babysitting, to inform us that the baby was at the ER. I spent my wedding night walking the floor w/ a quite sick child.
Stratego
08-30-2007, 12:53 PM
Not that terrible, but I got laryngitis the morning of (probably sickness combined with stress.) I couldn't say any of my vows and only my wife could hear me croak/whisper "I do."
Limper
08-30-2007, 12:56 PM
Who ever had painted the eye of god over the alter area of Our Lady Of Perpetual Sorrows was a HUGE fan of the Bavarian Illuminati and Cthulhu Mythos... damn creepy standing up there in their collective gaze.
Thats about it thought.
My wedding was outdoors. Ceremony in a ruined mill with a stream running through it, and reception at a covered pavillion elsewhere in the park. Loved the idea of an outdoor wedding, wouldn't do it again.
Ceremony: Alternating rain, brilliant sunshine, snow, sunshine, hail, sunshine, rain, sunshine. Went from goosepimples to sweaty and back again. At least it was gloriously sunny for the vows and for the photographs.
Reception: The tent rental place had put up the tent siding (to enclose the pavillion) all wrong, I had to redo it all in a mad scramble first thing that morning. Table rental place forgot some important tables (head table *coughcough*) and had to run out and get them before the setup could complete. Music guy who we expressly told "no country" brought 90% country music. Food was excellent, but I was doing the groom thing and trying to meet/greet everybody, and the fuckers took my food away before I got to eat it. The night got cold, so not a lot of people were drinking beer. Nevertheless the fucking caterer tapped *both* kegs right at the beginning of the night, so no possibility of a return for refund. We had to drink our asses off over the next week to get our money's worth. After the reception, the tent company didn't come until two days after to collect their rental. They were supposed to be there late that night. What happened? Vandals cut a few new doors in the side of the thing, and the tent company wanted *us* to replace it. Fuck them, they're the ones didn't bother picking it up as contracted.
Who ever had painted the eye of god over the alter area of Our Lady Of Perpetual Sorrows was a HUGE fan of the Bavarian Illuminati and Cthulhu Mythos... damn creepy standing up there in their collective gaze.
Thats about it thought.
Don't you think getting married in a place called "Our Lady Of Perpetual Sorrows " was enough of an omen for you ?
Limper
08-30-2007, 01:07 PM
Don't you think getting married in a place called "Our Lady Of Perpetual Sorrows " was enough of an omen for you ?
I thought all Catholic Churches were named like that? Is that unusual?
To me it is, St. Lukes is the one here
Limper
08-30-2007, 01:09 PM
To me it is, St. Lukes is the one here
St Luke of what? I thought they all had to have a fun descriptor... like St Luke of the Festering Wounds.
St Luke of what? I thought they all had to have a fun descriptor... like St Luke of the Festering Wounds.
You're one of those Mel Gibson catholics, aren't you?
Droid101
08-30-2007, 01:12 PM
We had to drink our asses off over the next week
What's the opposite of "horror story?"
:D
Limper
08-30-2007, 01:13 PM
You're one of those Mel Gibson catholics, aren't you?
Wife is a Catholic, I was Southern Baptist till I got my head on straight... I'm just going by observation on this.
What's the opposite of "horror story?"
:D
Drunken relatives extending their stay with you when you'd like to be "honeymooning"?
I was wrong, It's St. Joseph and St. Peter, better then St. Joseph's Peter but still.........
Next time I do my Modern campaign I need to have the players go to a church called Our Lady Of Perpetual Sorrows, maybe with a Triefling nun ?
Wife is a Catholic, I was Southern Baptist till I got my head on straight... I'm just going by observation on this.
Amen ! , another backslide SB !! Met my Mothers new pastor yesterday, she's already siced him on me about going to church
mollygrue
08-30-2007, 01:17 PM
wedding number two---wonderful man, but the day was a logistical disaster. to please his mother we had arranged to use her church, and rented the church hall. we arrived to decorate to find the church sec had double booked and the annual ladies fish fry and prayer meeting was in full swing.
(BIG wedding so we had a 20 people w/ boxes in their hands at noon--and no access to the place till after 10 pm. since we worked in the food service industry, we were doing all our own food prep--and had no access to the kitchen. oddly enough, we had some difficuly accomplishing our tasks 12 hours later , despite working till 4 am on my wedding day w/ only a skeleton crew.
I was so angy i nearly cancelled the whole thing.
disasters large and small plagued the day--from tiny and inconsequential--someone dropped my grandmothers antique candy dish that was to be at the door way with the guest book--which by the way somehow got overlooked and no one signed--the birdcage meant to hold card was brought late, misplaced-the cards wernt put in and many went--astray-
--the minister showed up ]drunk and inserted a ton of "praise jesus" religion into a carefully planned and crafted ceremony which was constructed to be both beautiful, fun and inclusive and non offensive to our gathering of catholic, pagen, wiccan, aethist, agnostic, morman, fundi, methodist guests.
at some point the photographer, backing up to get a wide shot tumbled backward down the flight of stairs at the entryway;
friends planned a very special gift of a suprise white horse and carriage to take us away after the reception--which would have been great had the paid by the hour people not shown up two hours early ( friend is well intentioned but clueless). the friend shooting the video forgot to put a battery in the camera.
aunt insisted onpacking a picnic basket for us to take away on our honeymoon nite at the luxury hotel--unfortunately neglected to actually put any food in it--just cookies etc. so at midnite we had to order room service and diined on burgers. meanwhile, due to an unfortunate combination of events, the friend scheduled to pack up the leftovers for us( it was a huge english tea-party buffet), becuase of some difficulties w/ storage space etc, ended up giving away about $500 worth of wedding cake and such.....
theres more but i think its just best to close the door on this now.
Oh, the guests were mostly unaware of theproblems--a lovely time was had by all etc. Wanna know the kicker? I was at that time managing a Wedding Venue ( The SKYROOM Banquet Facility)--and could have had my wedding there--the date April 1st, was, suprisingly enough, not booked.--all most all the headaches would have been avoided. but we chose to use MIL's church, to please Grandma, and MIL/FIL . Exhausted, fell asleep still in my weddding dress.
No more weddings for me.
Limper
08-30-2007, 01:20 PM
Amen ! , another backslide SB !! Met my Mothers new pastor yesterday, she's already siced him on me about going to church
The only upside of Grandma getting Parkinsons disease was the hounding stopped.
Since you are going to hell no matter what I never could figure out why I should go to church or not enjoy living.
mollygrue
08-30-2007, 01:22 PM
x MIL #1 attends Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Catholic Church.
freq. abbreviated Ass. of BVM
strawberry
08-30-2007, 01:34 PM
The only sort of bad thing that happened was the morning of our wedding the photographer called me and informed me that she had broken her ankle and was sending a substitute. By that time I had entered a semi-glazed, "whatever happens at this point, happens" stage and I don't think it really even registered with me.
I eloped with the last one (remember Da Hobbit ?), she wasn't quite over an ear infection so I had to take her to the Emergency Room twice on our wedding night.
I eloped with the last one (remember Da Hobbit ?), she wasn't quite over an ear infection so I had to take her to the Emergency Room twice on our wedding night.
The first time, you could have been forgiven for not knowing ear infection + donkey punch would end up badly. The second time, even I had to scold you, buddy.
Yeah well it was too good to pass up the second time, with her being sedated and all. My habit of cracking jokes when I'm nervous didn't go well with her either.
Space Cadet B^3
08-30-2007, 01:52 PM
The minister of ours was a childhood friend of my wife and her maid of honor, so when he started the ceremony he said "Melissa and Sarah are here today to join together...", also, the ring bearer didn't sit down after he came up the aisle, so we had a toddler quietly roaming around us for the whole ceremony.
Not really horror tales, but...
Harry
08-30-2007, 06:39 PM
My wedding day was fairly normal, right up until the end. We held a small, straight forward wedding and had a nice simple reception in the church basement for my family - very Southern Baptist and straight laced. After they all went to their motels, we held a second reception for my wife's family. A good old, rowdy drunken party at a dive in Grafton, IL, right next to the river.
New new brother-in-law didn't like me, and frankly, the rest of the new family was wondering how I was going to fit into the clan, being something of a cerebral sort. None of them really knew me. Well, as the night wore on, a noise erupted from outside the bar. A man who REALLY didn't like my new brother-in-law Jesse had set up outside drunkenly harassing everyone, and trying to get a rise out of Jesse.
Well, see now, Jesse was a big guy, and a mean drunk, but he was also a Marine who'd already gotten into a crapload of trouble with the Corps for brawling. So, while the jackass who was trying to start the fight stood in the street yelling, Jesse kept trying to go at him. Various family members got between them and tried to stop it, but it was spiraling out of control.
Finally, I stepped out into the street, and got between the two myself. I got Jesse somewhat calmed down, and told the other guy to get lost and stop fucking around with my wedding day. To my utter drunken bafflement, he shut up, and started to back away. But well, I was pretty damned wasted myself. By that point, I'd had a bellyfull of the whole affair, and even though he was backing away, I decided I'd had enough of his lip and lashed out. First, I gave him a roundhouse kick to his groin, which left him lurching over in pain, then I laid a haymaker on his chin. Gave him several more good shots before he beat a retreat. Not bad, considering he had several inches and many pounds on me.
Everyone saw all of this, except my new wife. And as the cops were rounding the corner, the young fellow who was driving us off to our motel that night, with the car trailing tins and shaving cream and such, pulled up with my new wife in the back seat and everyone tossed me in cheering. The driver knew what was going on and congratulated me, the new wife asked what he as talking about, and she thought he was making up the tale.
When I next saw Jesse and my new in-laws, several days later at another riverside shindig where much alcohol was involved, the Marine clapped me on the back, poured beer down my throat, and drunkenly declared that for the first time in his life he knew he had a true brother.
And when the divorce came many years later between me and my wife, the whole thing was still a sore subject with her.
Black Angel
08-30-2007, 07:58 PM
We had only had a couple of minor disasters, but I'm sure they could have been taken as major had I chosen to...
-My mum and I both drove to the hairdresser, about 15 minutes from our house, with the 2 bridesmaids. When mum and one of my bridesmaids were finished, I sent them home to start getting their makeup done with my house key. I later realised (when I was about to go home with the other bridesmaid) that the key ring also had my car key on it. So mum had to come all the way back again to bring it to me, making us late getting ready.
-I also found out that when she got home the first time, she had punched in the alarm code, but forgot to press enter, so the alarm was going off for ages before she rang my husband-to-be to find out what to do. I'm sure the neighbours were impressed.
-The make-up lady I had booked was sick, and sent a replacement without telling me. This lady who I didn't even know just rocked up at the door. I think it worked out better though, as she was nicer!
-When the lady came with the flowers, she had an extra corsage for my SIL-to-be. Somehow we had forgotten to order one for her, but Coops realised when they delivered most of the flowers at his parents place, and they passed it off as the florist's mistake. Luckily they had enough equipment to whip one up for her, and then we could take it to the ceremony.
-When we got to the reception, they had tied the wrong bows on the chairs. I actually wanted just a type of knot, but instead they were fluffy bows.
All-in-all, it really went quite smoothly, and things definitely could have been worse, seeing as we got married in the middle of winter, and it didn't even rain (just was very cold)!
Varaj
08-30-2007, 09:03 PM
Happened to a friend.
His mother kept saying if he married that girl it would kill her. She died of a heart attack during the ceremony. She wished herself dead.
Limper
08-31-2007, 06:39 AM
Happened to a friend.
His mother kept saying if he married that girl it would kill her. She died of a heart attack during the ceremony. She wished herself dead.
Was her acessment correct?
Happened to a friend.
His mother kept saying if he married that girl it would kill her. She died of a heart attack during the ceremony. She wished herself dead.
Scratch one bitchy MIL
Atropine Mama
08-31-2007, 01:27 PM
Other than my parents being there, my wedding to Varaj went beautifully. The post-reception afterparty at our house was big fun! Of course, with such a simple wedding, so few details and a bride who desperately wanted to elope, not much could go wrong. I just wanted to get it over with.
can't say i had any actual bad experiences at my wedding. about the only thing i remember that really sucked was my father-in-law.
he's had issues with my wife for years, long before i even met her. so in their latest argument, he was using me as an excuse. his whole side of the family pulled a no-show. i'm not one to write people off lightly, but fuck all of them in the ass with a big 10" black dick. seriously, i still take that shit personally, and no apology has crossed my ears as of yet in the last 4 years.
Tetsubo
09-04-2007, 08:49 AM
On my wedding day (first marriage) I had laryngitis, pink eye and the flu. I couldn't speak, breath or see. My gods were desperately telling me, "Don't do this!". I failed to listen. Once I smartened up I got divorced and married a much better woman...
Dawnstar
09-04-2007, 09:46 AM
Happened to a friend.
His mother kept saying if he married that girl it would kill her. She died of a heart attack during the ceremony. She wished herself dead.
Are you serious? This is a majorly bad thing to happen on your wedding day.
There really was not a whole lot to go wrong when you elope. The only thing that was even slightly bad was that on my wedding day I had some issues with swelling but keep in mind I was also 7 1/2 months pregnant at the time. So it hurt to have shoes on, that is the only thing that could be considered bad that day.
Ancalagon
09-04-2007, 12:19 PM
6 people dead, several injured by an out of control truck:
http://www.canada.com/topics/news/story.html?id=1a56a238-1990-4a15-94a1-e950aed9eaaf&k=33493\
THAT is a disaster.
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