Ruining a wedding

Large bottle small glass · 10-04-2021 6:49pm

odyssey06 wrote: »

But I hope we haven't had anyone turn up at a funeral thinking it was a wedding!

In 2008 the man I used to work for died. He's was in his 70' had lived a full life and was a bit of a legend and his AA friends and others.

The family asked would I sit with him and a few of his friends through the night while he was waked in house. I had never done it before and wasn't looking forward to it.

Other than praying on the hour for about 5 minutes (which I used to get more drink) it was a brilliant night. Lots of lads telling stories about him which they would never get the chance to again.

His nephew, from Mayo, said he loved a good wake. A coffin be pushed to the side to make room for set dancing not being that unusual.

We waked our own father 10 years ago and it was a brilliant decision. Sad but a really beautiful occasion and really nice way to wake a loved one. Funeral homes are the pits imo.

A local man, who was a fiery athetist rural Ireland in the 70 and 80's and when it came at a real cost, was buried last January. They waked him in the local community center where there was food, drink, dancing and some really good singing and dancing. I was at very few better weddings.

He was buried in a graveyard on same site as the now derelict school he went to. His son read a poem the Deceased had written about his school days while we all looked down on the building. It was a magical way to send him off.

Jim Root · 10-04-2021 6:49pm

Drink really brings out the worst in people

Ckendrick · 10-04-2021 6:49pm

lawred2 wrote: »

I'm not sure what honour has to do with it to be honest...

Either way I'm speaking from the perspective of the grieving family shaking hands with a procession of people not the 'honourable' folk who stood in a queue.

Neighbours friends work colleagues and far flung relatives want to offer their sympathy to the mourners.
What is “horrible” about that?

Cilldara_2000 · 10-04-2021 6:56pm

Sebastian Dangerfield wrote: »

You're making a big assumption that it is comfort though. In any of my experiences, it has been anything but. Ive just wanted to go and comfort my family, and not sit in the cold for the benefit of strangers.

I think I started this funeral talk so hopefully to close it, with an example of my reasoning. A cousin of mine passed away in a tragic accident, a young man in his early 20s. His parents and siblings were distraught beyond anything Ive seen, but held themselves together as best they could to get through the funeral. The one thing they asked was that people not pay their respects in person, they couldnt face it. It was announced by the priest at the mass, on the local radio announcement and even a sign on their front door that they ask people to hold off on passing on their sympathies. Did anyone listen? Did they fcuk. They were queuing as the priest asked them not to. There were endless knocks on the very door that had the sign. I even saw them cornered putting diesel in the car.

My mother in law (about as old Ireland as it gets) talked about paying her respects. I told her as bluntly as I could not to, his mother was on the verge of a breakdown and just wanted to be left alone. She did it anyway, she said she couldn't let an event like that pass, despite knowing it would upset the recipient (which it did).

Fond rememberance of an old person dying is all well and good, but there's a certain arrogance to think that acquaintances offering platitudes brings any comfort to a devastated family.

Obviously there's different strokes for different folks, but IMO, having had more than my fair share of loss, having loads of people sympathising and a big funeral or wake or both is helpful.

Having said that, there's no excuse for these gob****es ignoring the sign on the door etc in this case.

pgj2015 · 10-04-2021 6:58pm

Jim Root wrote: »

Drink really brings out the worst in people

If it wasn't for drink, we wouldnt have heard all these hilarious stories on this thread.

Sebastian Dangerfield · 10-04-2021 7:13pm

I don't know if it ever actually got to the church but I worked in an office a while back with a fella who talked a lot about his upcoming wedding. I assumed it was to another girl in the office, since they flirted outrageously and there were thinly veiled jokes about them shagging after work nights out. Turns out she was the other woman, but it was so well known that people in the office had gone beyond gossip and openly talked about the situation in front of them.

Your man and his fiance had a party in their house a few weeks before the wedding, and the following Monday he was openly joking about riding the colleague in his utility room while his fiance was in the living room. I left that week so never found out the ending, but kinda hope it all blew up in his face.

Andrea B. · 10-04-2021 8:13pm

Cilldara_2000 wrote: »

Obviously there's different strokes for different folks, but IMO, having had more than my fair share of loss, having loads of people sympathising and a big funeral or wake or both is helpful.

Having said that, there's no excuse for these gob****es ignoring the sign on the door etc in this case.

Always pissed me off with work colleagues (not work friends) marching in among your family to offer condolences. It is a somewhat private and vulnerable time.
Had a colleague once who headed off on a 200 mile roundtrip for our bosses father in law funeral. Wtf.

Toots · 10-04-2021 8:25pm

Sebastian Dangerfield wrote: »

I don't know if it ever actually got to the church but I worked in an office a while back with a fella who talked a lot about his upcoming wedding. I assumed it was to another girl in the office, since they flirted outrageously and there were thinly veiled jokes about them shagging after work nights out. Turns out she was the other woman, but it was so well known that people in the office had gone beyond gossip and openly talked about the situation in front of them.

Your man and his fiance had a party in their house a few weeks before the wedding, and the following Monday he was openly joking about riding the colleague in his utility room while his fiance was in the living room. I left that week so never found out the ending, but kinda hope it all blew up in his face.

Not quite a wedding, but a colleague of mine invited a gang of us from work to her engagement party. Towards the end of the night there was a commotion because one of the would-be groomsmen was caught getting a handy-j in the toilets from one of the bride-to-be’s friends. Problem was he was married to the grooms sister, who also happened to be there. Murder ensued.

Pauliedragon · 10-04-2021 8:26pm

RubyGlee wrote: »

I was at a small wedding a few years ago. Day was going great until the speech’s. The bride has a daughter from a previous relations and the bride and groom had a 1yr old son. A comment was made about the 3 of them being a beautiful little family now and the little girl was heard crying then asking was she not part of the family anymore. It was actually really sad and the bride and her two bridesmaid sisters stormed off to the comfort the child. The atmosphere dropped after that

Was the comment intentional or a slip of the tongue? Nasty stuff if it was intentional.

10-04-2021 9:29pm

Andrea B. wrote: »

Had a colleague once who headed off on a 200 mile roundtrip for our bosses father in law funeral. Wtf.

Often those types are after a promotion or will claim back the time and put in for travel expenses.

lab man · 10-04-2021 9:45pm

cena wrote: »

Hi, Folks. OP here. I was not expecting this many replies.

So brother got married 8 years ago. Uncle and his come over from England the day before the wedding. The hotel was 30 minutes away from where we all lived. They wouldn't even come out to the brother and his wife the night before.
Day of the wedding we get to the hotel and they stayed in the room while the photos are been taken. It left a bad atmosphere for the day the way they treated my brother, they were also heard to be saying they didn't want to come to the wedding.

We also had an aunt come over from England. She stayed with us the night before and kept going on about staying in the hotel. We didn't stay at the hotel and we only lived 30 mins away and I was driving (non-drinker), Anyways the whole day of the wedding she kept going about us staying there for the night. We kept telling her no due to living so close. The night rolls on and the aunt is very fond for the drink and gets plastered. She makes a show of the family jumping on the chairs and making a fool of a much older cousin.

Anyway, we going home and my mother lets loose in the aunt and uncle her (sister and brother) how bad they acted over the weekend and the uncle couldn't even come to the house the night before. The aunt got her wish and stayed at the hotel after been told she was no longer welcomed back to the house.
I arrived back to the hotel the next morning with her suite and she gets in the uncle's car to get onto the same boat home as the uncle and wife. He only came for the day
8 years later and haven't spoken to any of them. We have another aunt in England who wouldn't come over for her first nephew of 3 to get married. That took the biscut altogether with hte brother and mother

Winner 1st place

Seth Brundle · 10-04-2021 10:10pm

Not a ruined wedding but was a funny one...
My sister returned from America to get married (blessed) two decades ago. Her now husband is Asian.
Anyhow a few days before the wedding there was a rehearsal in the church. It went perfectly and the priest showed everyone what to do.
On the day of the wedding, I and my OH arrived early at the church. My brother was groomsman whilst the groom's brother was best man.
However, as the guests arrived we became concerned as the priest wasn't there. I eventually ran down to his house and his housekeeper said that he had left a few hours ago. A short while later I went to another priests house and he didn't know where he was.
About (I think) half an hour after we should have had kicked off, he arrived up with the hair covering his face and looking a bit odd. Nothing said about being late or anything.
I phoned my sister to come down and we got going.
When it came time to do the readings, it was to be my mum, the responsoril psalm by the groom's mum and my brother was to do the second reading. When it came time for my brother to do the reading, he walked up to the pulpit and the priest just carried on with the mass. My brother sheepishly walked back down to his seat.
During the vows the priest referred to the bride by my mother's name.
After Communion, were fairly sure that when the priest sits down and reflects, he fell asleep.
The smallish congregation were finding all of thia gas craic and people were having fits if giggles. When an aunt had a 5 minute coughing fit, it just made the atmosphere funnier.
When it came time to sign the vows, he went over to the side of the church and dragged a wooden table back across the floor, maybe 50m and it made a screeching noise that most of us were in tears at this stage.
Anyhow, I'm not sure what was wrong with him but he didn't smell of drink.
At the wedding reception, the best man was unfamiliar with the role and asked my brother to do the main speech. He stood up at the top table (with the priest sitting there also) and said that before he read out the telegrams, he wanted to read something out to people. He reached into is jacket, took out a piece of paper and said "A Reading from St. Paul to the Corinthians". Everyone there, except one who didn't get the joke, cracked up laughing.
The priest didnt drink at the reception and when he was leaving, myself and my father watched him bumble his way through the car park wondering if he'd make it home (he did).

freshpopcorn · 10-04-2021 10:30pm

Was the above priest from Cork by any chance?

Seth Brundle · 10-04-2021 10:50pm

Looking at his death notice, he was originally from Carrickmacross.
No idea what was wrong with him on the day.

freshpopcorn · 10-04-2021 10:53pm

Seth Brundle wrote: »

Looking at his death notice, he was originally from Carrickmacross.
No idea what was wrong with him on the day.

That's not him.
I knew a priest and he could go missing, fall asleep at any event or sleep in and the family/alter servers would have to go to his house to wake the priest up for a wedding, funeral, etc.

Leg End Reject · 10-04-2021 11:01pm

freshpopcorn wrote: »

That's not him.
I knew a priest and he could go missing, fall asleep at any event or sleep in and the family/alter servers would have to go to his house to wake the priest up for a wedding, funeral, etc.

Narcolepsy? Boredom?

freshpopcorn · 10-04-2021 11:04pm

Leg End Reject wrote: »

Narcolepsy? Boredom?

I don’t know he was a nice man but he probably had some issues and could have being a bit lazy as well. You could meet hit at 12 at night at Tesco buying ice cream.

sligojoek · 11-04-2021 12:49am

Didn't ruin a wedding but a nice anecdote.

My brother got married about 15 years ago. Civil ceremony in a hotel suite with 40 people. Back to the upstairs of a local pub / restaurant. I was best man and had absolutely no speech prepared. I didn't even want to make one. I hate public speaking.

Anyway after desert I was getting funny looks from people. So I said I'd better say something. I got up and said, "Good evening everybody. Thanks very much for coming. Hope ye have a great day. Here's to X and Y. "

Later that evening in the bar downstairs someone said my speech was very short. My uncle said "It was so short I couldn't even get a photograph of it".

SeaFields · 11-04-2021 1:21am

My own wedding...two first cousins. One on my side, one on hers. They got plastered (as we all did - it was a glorious sunny summer day made for all day drinking) but both were lads that the drink didn't suit. They were annoying all day but tolerable however there was a serious tension between the two of them. It was like who could be the"funny drunken cousin". Anyways after the meal people taking to the dance floor in the usual fashion. Both lads started sizing each other up immediately once they were near each other while dancing. Punches starting flying. I went into it. My wife of a few hours grabbed me and said you can't do this you're the groom! Our friend who happens to be a detective was also dancing away with us, sees the commotion and puts the both in a wrist lock and on their holes within seconds before it was suggested to both by the aunties they go to bed. Looking back it was actually hilarious.

Honourable second mention to one of my best buddys weddings. His (married) work colleague starts propositioning one of the lads wives with lines such as "I'm the alpha male at the table. I can offer more than him. Come up to my room". This was during the meals. A few of us were acting as grooms men so couldn't make out exactly what was happening from the top table but knew something was going on. The fella was eventually put to bed. He arrived back when we were in the residents bar a few hours later. Grabs his bosses wife's arse and starts the same ****e "alpha male" with her. We have to pull the boss off him. He somehow makes his way behind the bar and grabs two bottles of whiskey and tries to drink them... security arrive and that's the end of the wedding.

Fck it I miss a good alcohol fueled Irish wedding.

Louis Friend · 11-04-2021 2:24am

In my experience, alpha males don’t go around telling people that they’re alpha males...

Someone who feels the need to claim that they’re an alpha male is actually a flaccid cuck.

cbreeze · 11-04-2021 2:49am

I was at a friend's wedding on a cold slushy day in January (pre-Covid). She had a lovely wedding dress with a long train. Unfortunately, my shoes were muddy from outside and I walked on the train. Thankfully, she did not notice that mine were the muddy prints on the dress.

Goldengirl · 11-04-2021 6:27am

Mister Vain wrote: »

A bit like the episode of Only Fools And Horses where Del and Rodney went to the wrong funeral.

I did that !
Ended up at one funeral home, same name, wrong side of the city .
Turned out the chief mourner was somebody who worked in the same hospital as me and he was so impressed that I came tihis granny's funeral .
I sympathised and legged it as fast as could to the correct funeral .
When I told my friends what happened they all got a very inappropriate fit of laughing ..it was not my finest hour.

This is a great thread btw

Motivator · 11-04-2021 9:30am

I was a plus one at a very country, very boring and very cheap wedding a few years ago. I didn’t know anyone at it apart from my girlfriend but lots of people were there that she worked with. Nobody was really drinking and as I was warned to be on my very best behaviour as she didn’t want me to make a scene. The girlfriend was up and down chatting to work colleagues and left me sitting there, I noticed a bit of tension between a couple of people at my table and once I noticed it it was all I could focus on. There were two women and and a man in their 50s, it turns out the women were sisters and were the brides aunts and the man was a husband of one of them. All night there was very little being said and all of a sudden it kicked off after the meal.

It turns out one of the sisters was from up the country and travelled down to stay with her sister and the husband the night before. They had a few drinks and the married sister went to bed early. Yes you guessed it, the husband ended up shagging there sister downstairs as the wife slept but obviously she copped something happened. It all kicked off after the meal, the husband and wife went at it at the bar and it spilled back to the table and the sister then got involved. At this stage the commotion got that bad that the band stopped and the top table were dispatched to the middle in the middle of the floor to make the peace. I was say at the table when things really kicked off and everyone’s attention was now drawn to my table so I couldn’t get up and leave, nor could I sit their staring. It was very awkward but unbelievably entertaining.

The took it outside to another room beside the function room and the band started up again but I made some great friends that night as people were getting the story from me. It didn’t end well though and I think there was a big split in the family after it all. It was a terrible wedding but very entertaining post meal.

Samuri Suicide · 11-04-2021 9:42am

I was at a wedding in Edinburgh. The best man was the grooms brother, bit of a headcase who is in the Royal navy. He was in an absolute state for the speech, hammered and on god knows what. The groom and best man had a fostered sister (Rachel) which the best man dated in his late teens, caused a massive family rift at the time. His opening line of the speech was "thanks everyone for coming especially Rachel, the best ride of my life" She was sitting there with her husband and two kids.
He was instantly hooked and removed outside.
Possibly the shortest and greatest speech I have ever heard.

11-04-2021 9:53am

Louis Friend wrote: »

In my experience, alpha males don’t go around telling people that they’re alpha males...

Someone who feels the need to claim that they’re an alpha male is actually a flaccid cuck.

Joined a company and the CEO and I went for a get to know you meeting. It was going well until he described the difficulties of being one and having to work with another Alpha male (another CEO).

I lost respect for him immediately.

the beer revolu · 11-04-2021 10:02am

c.p.w.g.w wrote: »

Was that a Limerick wedding, involving a couple of lads from 1 GAA club, by any chance

No. It was in Cork early 90s,I'd say.

corner of hells · 11-04-2021 10:42am

Motivator wrote: »

I was a plus one at a very country, very boring and very cheap wedding a few years ago. I didn’t know anyone at it apart from my girlfriend but lots of people were there that she worked with. Nobody was really drinking and as I was warned to be on my very best behaviour as she didn’t want me to make a scene. The girlfriend was up and down chatting to work colleagues and left me sitting there, I noticed a bit of tension between a couple of people at my table and once I noticed it it was all I could focus on. There were two women and and a man in their 50s, it turns out the women were sisters and were the brides aunts and the man was a husband of one of them. All night there was very little being said and all of a sudden it kicked off after the meal.

It turns out one of the sisters was from up the country and travelled down to stay with her sister and the husband the night before. They had a few drinks and the married sister went to bed early. Yes you guessed it, the husband ended up shagging there sister downstairs as the wife slept but obviously she copped something happened. It all kicked off after the meal, the husband and wife went at it at the bar and it spilled back to the table and the sister then got involved. At this stage the commotion got that bad that the band stopped and the top table were dispatched to the middle in the middle of the floor to make the peace. I was say at the table when things really kicked off and everyone’s attention was now drawn to my table so I couldn’t get up and leave, nor could I sit their staring. It was very awkward but unbelievably entertaining.

The took it outside to another room beside the function room and the band started up again but I made some great friends that night as people were getting the story from me. It didn’t end well though and I think there was a big split in the family after it all. It was a terrible wedding but very entertaining post meal.

I always do well when im warned to be on my best behaviour.

Anyway , i was at a wedding years ago in Kerry when father of the bride stood up to give his speech.
He started off welcoming his new son in law into the family , complimented and thanked everyone for coming, the usual stuff.

Then he went off on one ,turning his speech his speech into a hilarious monologue saying he was delighted for his daughter to have married into such a prestigious South Kerry GAA family, he spoke about various members of his daughters new family turning out for Kerry , scoring vital points and the injustice of referees and selectors.
He stated that in his family there hasn't been a man that could kick a mangey cur up the hole in over 40 years ,pointing out his own flamboyant son who arrived home from London with his partner Bernard saying he knew what type of balls he was into.At this stage the crowd were in uproar pissing themselves laughing.
He wasn't finished , his other daughter had flown home Texas with her Mexican American husband , there was no hope of them producing a footballer according to him.
His last sentence, delivered with tears in his eyes , used Martin Luther Kings quote, "I have a dream " that a grandson of mine will turn out in Croke Park one day.

The J Stands for Jay · 11-04-2021 11:10am

cj maxx wrote: »

I did that myself. It was a far better wedding than the right one !

Many years ago the work Xmas party was on in the Guinness Storehouse, with other company parties happening on different floors. One of the older lads went out for some reason and went back to the wrong floor. Took him an hour to realise.

Homelander · 11-04-2021 11:47am

Not ruined but I was at a wedding where a guest got absolutely disasterously smashed early and had to be ordered to bed shortly after dinner after repeatedly disrupting dinner, speeches, etc. He was shouting and roaring like the place was a nightclub, talking complete nonsense to strangers, crudely hitting on women, doing shots at the bar, wrapping his tie around his head, knocking over drinks and all that. Still bright outside, most other people on their second pint.

Normal guy with wife and kids. Cannot understand how he got in that state.Shortly before he was led away like a bold child the entire room was awkwardly staring at him trying to wrestle the mic from a speaker so he could sing a song, he could barely string a sentence together. It was absolutely mortifying, it was all anyone talked about anytime the wedding was mentioned for years.

JustAThought · 11-04-2021 12:20pm

!!!!

I had TOTALLY forgotten about the wedding randomers with their ties wrapped around their heads like Arnie warriors!! Usually while pissed at the bar with their chin on a pint!!! LOL!

Love this thread!

KevRossi · 11-04-2021 12:25pm

freshpopcorn wrote: »

That's not him.
I knew a priest and he could go missing, fall asleep at any event or sleep in and the family/alter servers would have to go to his house to wake the priest up for a wedding, funeral, etc.

freshpopcorn wrote: »

I don’t know he was a nice man but he probably had some issues and could have being a bit lazy as well. You could meet hit at 12 at night at Tesco buying ice cream.

Am I the only one who's thinking we're dealing with a stoner here?

Graces7 · 11-04-2021 12:37pm

Cilldara_2000 wrote: »

Obviously there's different strokes for different folks, but IMO, having had more than my fair share of loss, having loads of people sympathising and a big funeral or wake or both is helpful.

Having said that, there's no excuse for these gob****es ignoring the sign on the door etc in this case.

Because of illness and distance, when I have been unable to attend a funeral I have waited a while then written a sincere sympathy letter at a time when things will be harder.

Never a wake in my family life but as both my brother and my mother died violent sudden deaths yes it helped greatly to have so many there; and what was even more , it helped them to cope with the loss.

HildaOgdenx · 11-04-2021 12:55pm

Someone mentioned going to the wrong hotel, in Connemara.

I remember that happening to a colleague but they made it on time to the right hotel. I think there used to be two hotels in Connemara with similar names, or something.
In the case I'm talking about, there was only a wedding at one that day, so no story really

Great thread, btw.

Sunny Disposition · 11-04-2021 12:57pm

Drink an awful curse sometimes and a huge factor in most ruined weddings.

Toots · 11-04-2021 12:58pm

My sister-in-law's wedding to her now- ex husband would probably fit on here. The husband was the absolute stingeiest fecker you could meet and I'd say the idea of paying for dinner for 100 people caused him physical pain. I reckon the only reason he agreed to a wedding at all was the prospect of recouping the costs in cash gifts.

Anyhow, he said he'd arrange the DJ (my SIL had arranged everything else) and he had a friend who was actually a proper decent wedding DJ so it was assumed that was who he was asking. On the day itself some other guy showed up with just a laptop and one speaker - no lights or other rig-out you'd typically see from a wedding DJ.

Couple do their first dance, and then the floor fills up and things are going well but after about 4 or 5 songs he announces he's taking a short break. So he sticks on "The Men Behind the Wire" and fecks off, prompting a mass exodus from the dance floor. My husband and I figured he'd probably gone to the loo or something so we figured we'd get a drink and then head back to dancing in a few mins. Turns out this guy had obviously stuck on some sort of "Top 20 Rebel Songs" play list and what we thought was a bathroom break was actually him going to the bar to get a few pints in while leaving The Wolfe Tones and friends to keep the guests "entertained".

He literally left the play list go for close to an hour while he sat at the bar chatting to the groom and drinking. The craic was just gone out of the place and so were quite a lot of the guests - one entire table got up and left in the middle of "Kevin Barry". By the time the "DJ" returned there were probably about 40 people left and nobody got back up to dance.

We found out afterwards that the groom HAD approached his DJ friend about doing the wedding and he offered to do it for mates rate of €250 - half his normal fee - but groom said it was too expensive and said no. He then went and found this guy in his local and paid him €100 to DJ for the night. The guy had never DJ'd so much as a 21st before and his previous experience was just him providing background music for a load of auld codgers in a dingy local.

HildaOgdenx · 11-04-2021 1:02pm

Was this him?

Toots · 11-04-2021 1:10pm

HildaOgdenx wrote: »

Was this him?

That would probably have been an improvement TBH :pac:

malinheader · 11-04-2021 1:31pm

Sunny Disposition wrote: »

Drink an awful curse sometimes and a huge factor in most ruined weddings.

I have noticed in the last few years hotels trying to hold off the meal as late as possible. Hard to get enough in you when you're stomach is full. People probably leaving the house in the morning and drinking till 6 or 7 in the evening without eating is a recipe for disaster.
Makes for a brilliant thread though. Loving it.

Cushtie · 11-04-2021 2:30pm

Arrrhhhhggg! Had a big long post typed and lost it. Short version. Got absolutely hammered at a mates wedding and had to be carried home at about 10pm. Have no memory after sitting down for the dinner. Next day at the pub everyone telling me that I caused a big fight, wrecked the wedding, caused it to end early. No recollection whatsoever.

Turns out I just passed out, and my mates made up the story to scare the ****e out of me. I would rarely be that badly drunk, but it was a long week drinking leading up to the wedding. They even had the bride in on the prank. Came up to me following day saying how I should be ashamed of myself etc. Ruined her big day. Had one of the other guests accuse me of trying it on with his wife etc. ****ers kept it going for a couple of hours before they put me out of misery.

Funny thing is how it could have been true, I was that far gone, anything could have happened.

HalloweenJack · 11-04-2021 4:42pm

I was at a Spanish wedding a few years back, one of my wife's friends from college.

It was a humble affair in a function room at a bar on the motorway where truckers stop off, no hotels or anything like that. It was great craic, in fairness.

The fun started with the parish priest sarcastically congratulating the guests for making it to the church when they normally couldn't seem to find it.

The couple had a three-month-old so the bride hadn't touched any alcohol for a year. She proceeded to get blackout drunk, lost her phone and the keys to her house (where me and my wife were staying) and had a blazing row with the groom to the point they couldn't look at each other. Her cousin had to wake their 90-year-old gran at six in the morning to find a place for us all. In the taxi on the way, the bride threw up all over the back seat and passed out. They called an ambulance only for the driver to say she just needed to sleep it off and pat the groom on the back, saying 'Won't be happening for you tonight'.

lab man · 11-04-2021 6:02pm

I was at a friends wedding a few yrs ago down in cork the brides family very quiet and humble lovely people there was 2 lads from grooms side of the wedding drinking with a fella I know that drinks brandy with a bottle of bud all day together hed drink like a suck calf the 2 lads thought they'd bury yer man anyway but by 7 or 8 he was drinking no bother an the two lads were loaded and took out their tools in the middle of the dance floor jaysus twas cat their parents hardly spoke to them for 3 mts after twas a great wedding in fairness

EmmetSpiceland · 11-04-2021 6:30pm

lab man wrote: »

...the two lads were loaded and took out their tools in the middle of the dance floor jaysus twas cat

The “elephant dance” or just doing it for show?

KevRossi · 11-04-2021 6:51pm

lab man wrote: »

I was at a friends wedding a few yrs ago down in cork the brides family very quiet and humble lovely people there was 2 lads from grooms side of the wedding drinking with a fella I know that drinks brandy with a bottle of bud all day together hed drink like a suck calf the 2 lads thought they'd bury yer man anyway but by 7 or 8 he was drinking no bother an the two lads were loaded and took out their tools in the middle of the dance floor jaysus twas cat their parents hardly spoke to them for 3 mts after twas a great wedding in fairness

Maybe they wanted to put them in Mrs Doyle's box.

MyLove4Satan · 11-04-2021 8:01pm

I traveled back from the USA in the late 80s for my bother's wedding. My brother was getting married at the Roadstone Club somewhere near Rathcoole. Anyway we all were put into a white Dublin Bus double decker and made our way though all the worst parts of Tallaght. People have no idea what a ****hole it was back then. The bus went through Traveller camps and litter all over the place with millions of plastic bags caught on hedgerows. It really looked like a Third World country. Pissing rain and miserable too. Kids throwing stones at the bus.

Anyway got to the reception and there are the men of the wedding party dressed in grey suits and top hats trying to look fancy. We sit down for the meal and it was - I **** you not - ham salad on paper plates with plastic knives and forks. Then a couple of hours of drinking and at one point some wagon on the dancefloor with a buggy (and a baby in it) and they all singing some Man United song. Right there and then I more or less disowned my family, my community and vowed never to go to another wedding. I also gave my brother a wedding present of 500 pounds which was huge money in the 1980s and he didn't even say thanks.

It was one of them, 'DNA is not the full story' experiences.

Necro · 11-04-2021 8:15pm

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Can we not drag this excellent thread off topic discussing or criticizing other people's posts? I've removed some posts doing this. Thanks.

11-04-2021 9:06pm

I was at the afters of a wedding 15 years ago where two of the bridesmaids were knocking lumps out of each other over a man. The stud in question was sleep facedown on a table until one of the bridesmaids kicked him off his chair into the floor. I didnt know the bride & groom as I was a plus one, but it sure was entertaining

cena · 11-04-2021 9:06pm

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Mister Vain · 11-04-2021 9:09pm

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I was at the afters of a wedding 15 years ago where two of the bridesmaids were knocking lumps out of each other over a man. The stud in question was sleep facedown on a table until one of the bridesmaids kicked him off his chair into the floor. I didnt know the bride & groom as I was a plus one, but it sure was entertaining

Sounds like a WWE script. :pac:

ontour2 · 11-04-2021 9:38pm

from behind the bar...

Bride and groom were in the residents bar at about 2am with about 6 other people. We checked with the guests if they wanted any more drink and they were fine so staff went to the kitchen to make some sandwiches before we had to go back to the function room to set up the furniture for a huge wedding the next day.

When we came out, all the guests were gone and all was quiet so we cleaned up the bar, locked up and headed off to the function room. What we had not realised was that the bride and groom and stepped out to get something out of a car and were chatting down the street. Usually this would be fine as they would hit the intercom and we would be notified of someone at the door. On this night the intercom decided to stop working and no one was picking up the phone. Oh, did I mention it was a winter wedding and bloody cold.

After trying to get in for a while the bride and groom gave up and the honeymoon suite for the night was downgraded to the back of the Opel Corsa.

Four hours later they got back in when the chef arrived for breakfast. While they claim the wedding was ruined, they managed to exchange the 4 hours in the back of the Opel Corsa for the entire hotel bill and a good story. So I think they got a great deal.

Andrea B. · 11-04-2021 9:52pm

https://youtu.be/1KPlFuN0nYk

Ruining a wedding

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