Tell me some real life wedding disasters…
February4
I’m curious. Are wedding disasters more of a literary and movie topic, or do that many weddings really get ruined? How real are wedding disasters? What are the most common ones? More than anything, I’d like to hear your experiences or stories from people close to you.
Why? Because I MIGHT be brainstorming for a scene in one of my books. That’s all I’m saying.
What about my wedding? It was a near melt down with a few things, but the evening pretty much progressed without any visible disasters. (The carriage ride to take us away never showed up, the audio in the chapel had to be repaired for the use of the mics right before the service, and let’s just say my mother and step-mother had never met before that evening. After 10 years. Yep.)
My bride’s bouquet was tiny. My mom stood outside trying to get them to open up or do something. It was awful. And they had lace sticking out of the plastic holder thing she stuck them in, even though I explicitly said what type I wanted and she repeated back to me, “the Martha Stewart type?”
I also told her that I didn’t care what color combos she used, only that I didn’t want any purple (bridesmaid dresses were pink). Guess what was in everything? Giant.purple.huge.monster.violet. flowers.
Oh, and she didn’t order the rose petals, so my mom had to go to Hobby Lobby the day of to get something to put on the reception tables.
She also made the crappiest kissing ball ever because she forgot about it. I couldn’t have rose petals at our church.
Can you see I’m still a little bitter? I would have called to make her change it, but she dropped it all off and went on vacation.
She also did the wedding of a friend and all she said was she absolutely didn’t want Gerber daisies or carnations. Every bouquet, arrangement, etc. was gerber daisies and carnations. True story. Luckily, they took them to another florist who saved the bouquets (they even fixed the awful lace and plastic like she did with mine).
She’s an awesome florist! It’s the details! *eye roll*
But I guess those aren’t really disasters, but it sucked.
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OMG…that was so long. lol
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When my best guy friend got married, he asked me to be one of his groomsmen, but I wore a dress. Anyway, right before the wedding was about to start, everyone was oohing and ahhing over the bride’s dress, and I took one look at it and said, “I can see your underwear through the dress.” She was wearing a blue thong!! (Her something blue) I guess she hadn’t bothered to do a rehearsal of her dress. Crazy. Anyhow, the bride freaked out. And all the other girls, who were actually her friends (just a reminder – I was the groom’s friend and actually didn’t like the bride all that much), didn’t do anything to help her. So first I said, “You’ll have to go commando.” Bride refused. 3 minutes before wedding is to start. I said, “Fine, give me your underwear,” and stripped out of mine (I’m smart and always wear appropriate undergarments). We switched underwear right outside the church! Anyway, it was gross, but the groom thanked me profusely afterward.
I’ve got more horror stories, including one where the bride had actually just given birth to the couple’s baby like a month before. She really wanted to get married in this awesome church at Harper’s Ferry, but it was a Catholic church, so she had to have a Catholic wedding. Anyway, during the homily, the priest started going on and on about how the bride and groom had done everything backward, how they had sinned by having sex before marriage, but God forgives us for our sins, blah blah blah. It was horrible! My friend the bride was so red and looked like she would cry! And everyone was silent and no one moved. Awkward.
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Well as a bridesmaid I stepped on the priest’s foot, I handed the wrong bouquet back to the bride.
Let’s see my own, my marriage license has the wrong date on it, my grandma forgot words to the song she was singing – she hummed some parts – was pretty funny. We forgot all the bubbles, and now my mom is still pulling them out at events, July 4th etc. 7 years later!! LOL Oh and the best man speech was horrible… he might have been doing something in the bathroom…
All true.
Good luck with getting the ideas
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By the way – that is a beautiful pic
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That is AWFUL about the poor girl who’s priest did that. I can’t imagine! What kind of person would do that to someone?
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Do we count the marriage as a whole??? That was a disaster in it’s own!
Where to start…. I’ll start a couple days BEFORE the wedding, although that’s not what you’re asking… it’s the anniversary of my divorce this week and I’m feeling rather “rant-y” (that’s a word… I promise)
1. Groom quitting his job 3 days before wedding to become a golf caddy. (he didn’t play golf or know a thing about golf)
2. Groom FORGETS TO PICK UP RING in the days before wedding (probably because he was busy dreaming of his PGA caddy-debut) and has to call the jeweler AT HOME the morning of the wedding (like 6 a.m. because it was a noon wedding) to have him open the store and get the ring.
3. Groom eats peanuts from one of the reception tables prior to the wedding, causing wedding planner to give him gum so that he won’t smell like peanuts during the wedding. Groom forgets to spit out gum and chomps on it very visibly all through the ceremony… captured on video for future generations.
SO looking forward to drinks tonight! Hopefully you can make it. I promise not to rant anymore!!! It’s a celebration weekend!
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hmm….At my wedding we noticed all the photos of the ceremony the Best man was leaning against the wall and looking at his phone. Since neither one of us noticed during the ceremony, it was so hot that we nearly passed out from the heat, we are not making a big deal of it.
Near the end of the reception, which ceremony and reception was at a restaurant, the owner of restaurant started bringing in customers and seating them in part of the restaurant we weren’t using. He was walking them through the middle of our reception.
My husband and I worried about the cake the most and then no one ate any. Since other desserts were also provided as part of the meal everyone had that. We cut the cake and then didn’t have time to eat any. We were eating Wedding cake for the next month.
The flowers I wanted, forget-me-nots, and goldenrods, apparently aren’t even ordered anymore so I had to pick completely different flowers a week before my wedding.
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Not really a disaster at all–but we got married in one state and a lot of my husband’s family was coming from another state. They were only about an hour and a half away, but his father apparently missed the memo that in crossing a state line they were also changing time zones. He showed up a half an hour after the ceremony ended wearing jeans and a crappy t-shirt because he rode his motorcycle in and had intended to change. We laugh now.
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Not quite a disaster but a classic nonetheless.
I’d carved some ceremonial rings for us to use during our wedding. We had macking diamond rings courtesy of family heirlooms so the wood bands were totally “Ryan and Lori”
Anyways I took them out to polish and got sidetracked. When it came time during the ceremony to bust them out, I had no idea where they were and I took off running to go find them. I was barefoot and the driveway at the B & B was rock. There was no time for pain, however, as I had about 3 minutes before it wasn’t funny anymore.
You can see a video of the fiasco under this blog post of mine.
http://thechinproject.wordpress.com/2009/12/23/mansbestfriend/
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