Ruining a wedding

Pawwed Rig wrote: »

When we got our little one christened there was another child being done on the same day. We were all sitting in the church on 1 side (about 30 of us) and the other family had just the Dad and the baby. The priest said he had to start as he had a funeral after this so couldn't wait. 10 minutes later Godmother arrived in a catsuit. Halfway through the mother finally arrived. It was at the end that the Godfather finally got there. After it was all over we were leaving the church and there were still people sauntering in from the other family looking shellshocked. Missed the whole thing.


edit not travellers btw

Some people are so flaky around time they don't seem to realise that church ceremonies go on without them!

A friend of my daughter's missed her communion altogether because her mother thought that it was an hour later. Worst thing was the poor little one was to sing a song and was really looking forward to it. Turns out they were outside the church during the ceremony taking photographs etc. Did they not wonder why no-one else was outside???

Mister Vain wrote: »

Jasus he would have needed some patience to wait that long to deck him.

I know the guy to see him but don’t know him, seems like a nice fella and this happened maybe 7 or 8 years ago and he has never remarried. Obviously he just snapped on the day when the pressure was off and the realisation hit him.

whitey1 wrote: »

Every January our local paper would have pictures of couples who got engaged over Xmas.

I know a fella who had his picture in there one year and on the very same page was a report of him getting arrested on Christmas Eve for drunk and disorderly with a blow by blow of the foul language he used towards the Gardai during the arrest

Fantastic

Motivator wrote: »

I heard of a wedding where the best man stood up to do his speech, talked about how great the groom was etc and how lucky he was to be marrying such a great girl. The groom stood up and punched the best man in the face. He caught the best man cheating with the new bride a few weeks before but decided to push it aside and press on with the wedding anyway. With all the stress and pressure out of the way, when he heard the speech it really dawned on him what happened. Hit him a slap, told his parents what happened and walked out of the room. Aside from wrecking a new marriage, the best man’s marriage also broke down as his wife was at a table no more than 20 foot away from the top table.

sorry but this sounds like a poor mans version of this urban myth

https://www.irishmirror.ie/tv/groom-humiliated-wife-wedding-reception-21178461

which I've heard so many varied versions of well before this graham norton one.

https://www.elitedaily.com/social-news/groom-pulls-off-savage-revenge-cheating-bride-wedding-reception/1660409

https://www.news24.com/you/Wellness/groom-humiliates-wife-at-wedding-reception-by-revealing-the-eight-guests-she-cheated-with-20200103

spacetweek wrote: »

Got a few for yis. I have been to over 40 weddings.

Was at a wedding where the priest knew the bride and went on at length about how he had known her "since she was a little girl running down the hill to church" and had watched her "slowly blossom into a beautiful woman", all the time with his gaze fixed on her.

As a man 42 years of age, with nothing but utter disdain for the catholic church having been very badly mistreated during my primary and secondary school years, for no reason that I can understand....I can still conclude what an utter load of sh*te that is, particularly with the verbatim quotation marks, so that happened word for word? Cop on to yourself.

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Love this thread, never ruined a wedding myself but saw the usual overly drunk guests, Remember I got extremely drunk at an open bar wedding but nothing came from it only a bad hangover the next day ha

Some of the stories here were surly the gossip of the town and the nosy neighbours wet dream/tea chat etc

Great thread, have sunk numerous hours in the last few days reading all the replies, some stories have literally made me spit out what I was drinking!

My own wedding a few years ago could have been a disaster. It was in Portugal in summer, small group of us no more than 20 in total of just immediate family. The night before the big day, as is tradition, myself and the now wife spent away from each other. I was with all the fellas sipping away on pints at the hotel bar playing a few games of cards while all the women were off doing their own thing.

The wifes grandparents were out wandering around the town we were in and then the grandad collapsed and hit the ground. An ambulance rushed him to the nearest hospital and one or two from the group went to see what happened and ended up spending the night there with him. We all agreed to not let word get out to the rest of the women's group, especially the wife as she'd be up in a heap with worry all night on top of the normal pre-wedding nerves and everything else.

Thankfully her grandad was ok and they released him early the next morning after doing some checks. Turned out he got sunstroke as they asked him what he did all day and if he was getting in enough fluids. He responded by saying he alternated between being in the pool and panning out on a sunbed in the 30+ degree heat. In typical Irish oulfella fashion, he also said he was adequately hydrated after having two cups of tea and a small glass of orange juice with his breakfast that morning (the cups being those ones you get in hotels/apartments that hold enough tea to barely wet your whistle).

He genuinely had no clue of the concept of hydration in hot weather so for the rest of the time there we had to ensure he had a bottle of water at his side at all times. Was only the morning after the wedding we had breakfast with her grandparents and he accidently let it slip out about being in hospital, thankfully by then we were out of the woods though!


Most stories here are usually a result of fools having too much to drink or fcuking something up but this one is more down to just sheer bad luck/timing: Wasn't at it but the brothers friend got married about ten years ago. In the months before the wedding he got big into running and exercise and around the time of the wedding was looking in great shape. Everyone was complimenting him for the hard work he had put in to look his best for the big day.

The day before the wedding he came down with an awful dose of flu. One of those bad doses you might get every 5+ years where you're bedridden, aches and pains, cold sweats, cant keep food down etc. The morning of the wedding they got him suited up and looking as best they could, all things considered, but it was a struggle getting through the ceremony as he looked like death heated up.

After that it was another ordeal doing the photos which they tried to just wrap up as soon as they could. Half hearted smiles and it was etched across his face in every pic that he just wanted to get the fook outa there and back into bed to suffer in peace. When that was done he went back to bed for a few hours to try regain some energy for the evenings activities. They had to nearly carry him down to have a stab at the speeches, first dance and cutting of the cake which again was an eternal struggle as he was only fit to drop at that point. After the cake was done, he made his apologies, wished everyone a good night and headed off back to the scratcher.

You'd take a bit of rain on your wedding day or someone spilling some drink on a dress/suit but you'd be wondering what you did to p!ss someone off up above to get the kind of fortune to basically render you a non-participant in your own wedding.

I worked in a hotel throughout college and there were weddings every weekend.

This story certainly didnt ruin the wedding but did make me chuckle.

A local "celebrity" was getting married so the hotel pulled out all the stops. Even got the carpet cleaned in the ballroom for the first time in what seemed like years. Night before the wedding there was a function on and some young lad puked all over the freshly cleaned carpet. Cue frantic running around to hide it the next day. Lucky it was near one of the bars and away from the tables

The bride and groom decided to provide their own drink for the toast and had boxes of shot glasses delivered. We poured the drinks and delivered to them all the tables for the speeches. The father of the bride got up and spoke about how all the glasses were hand engraved and delivered from New York. As natural people started to read the writing when all you can hear is one falling on the ground smashing (table was on the dance floor). The look of horror on the father and the bride while all the barstaff had to turn around so no one would see us laughing.

The best man actually included the names of the bride and groom to 'suit' the joke, the backstard!