Ruining a wedding

helimachoptor · 08-04-2021 9:19pm

Was at one where a work colleague of the groom spilled a pint of guinness over the bride at dinner.
Same guy basically ran around naked until security escorted him to his room.

Another wedding (wife's friend), the brides dad died the day before the wedding, it still went ahead, 350 people and she walked up the aisle by herself crying. He wanted it to go ahead as he moves in political circles. He got so **** faced he had to be put to bed at 10pm.
Same guy fell asleep in the urinal trough at my wedding..

lab man · 08-04-2021 9:21pm

helimachoptor wrote: »

Was at one where a work colleague of the groom spilled a pint of guinness over the bride at dinner.
Same guy basically ran around naked until security escorted him to his room.

Another wedding (wife's friend), the brides dad died the day before the wedding, it still went ahead, 350 people and she walked up the aisle by herself crying. He wanted it to go ahead as he moves in political circles. He got so **** faced he had to be put to bed at 10pm.
Same guy fell asleep in the urinal trough at my wedding..

Wat a tool

naughtysmurf · 08-04-2021 9:23pm

Didn’t ruin a wedding but one of the funnier lines I’ve heard from a best mans speech was when he was complimenting the bridesmaids on how well they all looked, so beautiful etc and followed up with “who says you can’t make a silk purse out of a sows ear”

Pauliedragon · 08-04-2021 9:26pm

This one is quite funny.
https://www.irishmirror.ie/tv/groom-humiliated-wife-wedding-reception-21178461

Grandeeod · 08-04-2021 9:46pm

Leg End Reject wrote: »

I'll never understand why they wait until the poor groom is waiting in the church, as least the bride gets a heads up and isn't humiliated like that.

Its more common than we may realise. Never reported on apart from gossip. I reckon most couples with doubts go through with it and then break up without much fuss later on. But by jaysus it takes some guts to do it on the actual day. Thousands shelled out and then bang! I'll never forget that day. It took a few more hours for people to disperese from the church, but then it was all gossiping and BS anyway.

ontour2 · 08-04-2021 9:57pm

seen from behind the bar...

Bride and groom got absolutely hammered, which is actually very unusual. Groom asked bride if he could dance with the bridesmaid; not sure whether he got permission or not but proceeded to the dancefloor anyway. Really bad timing for the band to switch to a slow set.... queue groom getting stuck in to the bridesmaid being watched by 150 guests. Bride's brother was on crutches but decided he was the right person to defend his sister's honour. Melee ensues and bride is brought home by her family. Most memorable part was the next morning when we happened to be there as the groom descended the stairs from the honeymoon suite alone and looking very confused... all we could do is recommend a full Irish and a pot of tea and take it from there.

kildare lad · 08-04-2021 9:59pm

naughtysmurf wrote: »

Didn’t ruin a wedding but one of the funnier lines I’ve heard from a best mans speech was when he was complimenting the bridesmaids on how well they all looked, so beautiful etc and followed up with “who says you can’t make a silk purse out of a sows ear”

Jaysus that's brutal haha

08-04-2021 10:14pm

Only ever been to 2 weddings,so thankfully no diasters.....missed 1 with covid :-/

But the cousin used work in a famous 5 star hotel,and stories he'd tell ya,are something else.....most extreme was where the bride went to a different room on night of wedding and a upset groom & parents checked out the following morning!

Grandeeod · 08-04-2021 10:21pm

Deleted User wrote: »

Only ever been to 2 weddings,so thankfully no diasters.....missed 1 with covid :-/

But the cousin used work in a famous 5 star hotel,and stories he'd tell ya,are something else.....most extreme was where the bride went to a different room on night of wedding and a upset groom & parents checked out the following morning!

The best stories about weddings are usually from people working at them. They're sober.:D

I'm 18 years married later this month and our wedding was the most ordinary one ever, but great fun because it was simple and filled with no BS. I've a few stories, but they're about guests more than anything.:D

Larbre34 · 08-04-2021 10:36pm

In my teens, my girlfriend's eldest sister got married one summer Saturday.

We weren't serious enough that I was invited to the Wedding Reception, but I put on a shirt and went to the Mass in our parish church up the road and sat in with a few other neighbours and onlookers to say congrats and see my girlfriend in her bridesmaid's dress and all that good stuff.

Midway through the Mass and before the vows, a commotion began in the next block of seats over from where I was. The priest stopped talking and everyone started standing up with a few of the Grooms family climbing over seats on their side.

One of the Groom's aunts, not an especially old woman as I recall even from my teenage perspective, had slumped over dead in her pew. No warning, no outcry, no evidence of distress, just snap, dead.

Top that for ruining a wedding.

Dublin Lad2021 · 08-04-2021 10:39pm

Larbre34 wrote: »

In my teens, my girlfriend's eldest sister got married one summer Saturday.

We weren't serious enough that I was invited to the Wedding Reception, but I put on a shirt and went to the Mass in our parish church up the road and sat in with a few other neighbours and onlookers to say congrats and see my girlfriend in her bridesmaid's dress and all that good stuff.

Midway through the Mass and before the vows, a commotion began in the next block of seats over from where I was. The priest stopped talking and everyone started standing up with a few of the Grooms family climbing over seats on their side.

One of the Groom's aunts, not an especially old woman as I recall even from my teenage perspective, had slumped over dead in her pew. No warning, no outcry, no evidence of distress, just snap, dead.

Top that for ruining a wedding.

Think we have a winner boys lol

Sebastian Dangerfield · 08-04-2021 10:55pm

Larbre34 wrote: »

In my teens, my girlfriend's eldest sister got married one summer Saturday.

We weren't serious enough that I was invited to the Wedding Reception, but I put on a shirt and went to the Mass in our parish church up the road and sat in with a few other neighbours and onlookers to say congrats and see my girlfriend in her bridesmaid's dress and all that good stuff.

Midway through the Mass and before the vows, a commotion began in the next block of seats over from where I was. The priest stopped talking and everyone started standing up with a few of the Grooms family climbing over seats on their side.

One of the Groom's aunts, not an especially old woman as I recall even from my teenage perspective, had slumped over dead in her pew. No warning, no outcry, no evidence of distress, just snap, dead.

Top that for ruining a wedding.

Since you had the shirt on, did you offer to step in to save the dinner going to waste?

lab man · 08-04-2021 10:56pm

Dublin Lad2021 wrote: »

Think we have a winner boys lol

Tis up there alright

Jim2007 · 08-04-2021 10:58pm

cena wrote: »

Has anyone here ruined a wedding or been to a wedding that was ruined? Let us say, someone has stood up during the mass service and said that this person should not marry him or she.

Best I have was a photographer who failed to but film in the camera. It seems he was a friend of friend who was just starting out and the couple was persuaded to give him a chance.....

He did put a lot of distance between him and the couple before he told them. Sent them a postcard from his holiday!

MrMusician18 · 08-04-2021 11:04pm

Jim2007 wrote: »

Best I have was a photographer who failed to but film in the camera. It seems he was a friend of friend who was just starting out and the couple was persuaded to give him a chance.....

He did put a lot of distance between him and the couple before he told them. Sent them a postcard from his holiday!

I find that hard to believe, unless the guy was an absolute simpleton. He surely would've noticed he needed to change rolls at some point during the day.

Larbre34 · 08-04-2021 11:04pm

Dublin Lad2021 wrote: »

Think we have a winner boys lol

Ah it was so dreadful for them all.

An ambulance arrived and the Guards too because of the circumstances. The ceremony was cancelled, obviously and the celebrant ended up administering the last rites to the lady who died. Somebody contacted the hotel and cancelled all the entertainment, but the guests were sent there anyway to eat before journeys home etc as it was all bought and paid for.

The Bride and Groom eventually married quietly weeks later with just the Parish Priest and their parents as witnesses. Fair dues to the priest though, he arranged a little Chapel attached to a convent so they wouldn't have to be in the same Church.

Its 30 odd years ago now but I'll never forget the sinking feeling I had when people realised what had occurred.

lab man · 08-04-2021 11:07pm

Larbre34 wrote: »

Ah it was so dreadful for them all.

An ambulance arrived and the Guards too because of the circumstances. The ceremony was cancelled, obviously and the celebrant ended up administering the last rites to the lady who died. Somebody contacted the hotel and cancelled all the entertainment, but the guests were sent there anyway to eat before journeys home etc as it was all bought and paid for.

The Bride and Groom eventually married quietly weeks later with just the Parish Priest and their parents as witnesses. Fair dues to the priest though, he arranged a little Chapel attached to a convent so they wouldn't have to be in the same Church.

Its 30 odd years ago now but I'll never forget the sinking feeling I had when people realised what had occurred.

Are they still together?

spakman · 08-04-2021 11:12pm

lab man wrote: »

Are they still together?

Whether they are or they aren't is hardly related to an aunt dying at the wedding

SCOOP 64 · 08-04-2021 11:12pm

lab man wrote: »

Are they still together?

Be nice if they were after the wedding they had.

Grandeeod · 08-04-2021 11:13pm

Jim2007 wrote: »

Best I have was a photographer who failed to but film in the camera. It seems he was a friend of friend who was just starting out and the couple was persuaded to give him a chance.....

He did put a lot of distance between him and the couple before he told them. Sent them a postcard from his holiday!

MrMusician18 wrote: »

I find that hard to believe, unless the guy was an absolute simpleton. He surely would've noticed he needed to change rolls at some point during the day.

Film in the camera??? What year was that?:D

lab man · 08-04-2021 11:13pm

spakman wrote: »

Whether they are or they aren't is hardly related to an aunt dying at the wedding

Yes it is actually

spakman · 08-04-2021 11:17pm

lab man wrote: »

Yes it is actually

If you know, why are you asking?

08-04-2021 11:21pm

I have a story. A fella I knew decided he wanted to try his hand at professional photography. So he buys a camera, tripod, the lot. He gets a job photographing a wedding, so off he goes taking all the shots of the big day.

So after the event he sends the prints to the now married couple. It only turns out that most of the photos were awful, with incorrect exposure, out of focus, and so on. A complete disaster.

So the brother of the bride and the husband turn up at the photographer's door baying for blood. What does the photographer suggest? He says, let's get everyone back in their wedding clothes at the church and I'll take the shots again!

08-04-2021 11:28pm

[Deleted User] wrote: »

I have a story. A fella I knew decided he wanted to try his hand at professional photography. So he buys a camera, tripod, the lot. He gets a job photographing a wedding, so off he goes taking all the shots of the big day.

So after the event he sends the prints to the now married couple. It only turns out that most of the photos were awful, with incorrect exposure, out of focus, and so on. A complete disaster.

So the brother of the bride and the husband turn up at the photographer's door baying for blood. What does the photographer suggest? He says, let's get everyone back in their wedding clothes at the church and I'll take the shots again!

Thought it was gonna end up with the photographer announcing that he'd ridden the bride, or suchlike.

Meh, bad photographers are ten a penny. Who rode the bride? Give the people what we want.

08-04-2021 11:33pm

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »

Thought it was gonna end up with the photographer announcing that he'd ridden the bride, or suchlike.

Meh, bad photographers are ten a penny. Who rode the bride? Give the people what we want.

It's the first photographer anecdote. We've had plenty of infidelity, corpses, bodily fluids.

Stovepipe · 08-04-2021 11:40pm

happyoutscan wrote: »

Was this a Shrule/Kilmaine wedding? (Not held in Shrule obviously!)

Over near Ballina. I'm not that familiar with the area. The wedding was better than it sounds, but there were definite shades of Father Ted in it.

Toots · 08-04-2021 11:48pm

Deleted User wrote: »

It's the first photographer anecdote. We've had plenty of infidelity, corpses, bodily fluids.

I was at a wedding in Greece where the photographer just didn’t show up. They were meant to be photographing from the church onwards so nobody copped they hadn’t showed until after the ceremony. All the guests just rowed in and took loads of pics - one of the uncles was decent with a camera so he sort of took charge and did a few shots etc.

Back to the hotel and everyone is sitting down eating their dinner when the photographer shows up and starts insisting that the couple get up from their dinner and go to get photos taken. The best man politely but firmly told them to eff off. Still don’t know why they showed up 6 hours late.

08-04-2021 11:51pm

Toots wrote: »

I was at a wedding in Greece where the photographer just didn’t show up. They were meant to be photographing from the church onwards so nobody copped they hadn’t showed until after the ceremony. All the guests just rowed in and took loads of pics - one of the uncles was decent with a camera so he sort of took charge and did a few shots etc.

Back to the hotel and everyone is sitting down eating their dinner when the photographer shows up and starts insisting that the couple get up from their dinner and go to get photos taken. The best man politely but firmly told them to eff off. Still don’t know why they showed up 6 hours late.

Meh, bad photographers are ten a penny. Who rode the bride? Give the people what we want.

Toots · 08-04-2021 11:55pm

Deleted User wrote: »

Meh, bad photographers are ten a penny. Who rode the bride? Give the people what we want.

Not the groom, in this case... that was one of those marriages that didn’t last long.

pgj2015 · 08-04-2021 11:57pm

I was at a friends brothers wedding a few years ago. I was out the night before with other friends and I was telling my best mate that I was with the brides niece a few years before. I was 100% until around 3am, then it got a little hazy, wedding went on until 6 in the morning. I was chatting my best mate a couple of days after the wedding, he asked me did I pull the niece at the wedding, I said I don't know, I was talking to her but cant remember if I was with her again. He said oh you probably weren't so. lol

Turns out we were all over each other, her 2 uncles didn't like it and tried to attack me, my friend and the groom backed me up, big commotion, people thought I started it but like we obviously weren't harming anyone. Irish weddings go on far too long, I never drink much at weddings since.

Great thread btw op, best one I have seen on here in a long time, some very funny stories.

beertons · 09-04-2021 12:10am

There was a row at my wedding. My side of the family, 6 couples sent on their way around midnight. No idea what it was about. Years ago now, so don't care.

Jimmy Bottlehead · 09-04-2021 12:18am

Was at one about ten years back where the best man speech was not well received.

He started off by going on at length about how much of a player the groom had been before meeting the bride, and how many notches were on his bedpost.

He then moved on, describing how the bride was so drunk on the night she and the groom met, that the groom had basically 'carried' her home, before presumably riding her.

He continued to sprinkle in attempts at humour, but each story and joke sucked all the air out of the room. When he paused for expected laughter, he just heard shocked murmurs. People stared at each other in disbelief. It was horrific, but like a car crash in that you couldn't look away or stop listening.

The bride waited until the speech (mercifully) ended, before running back to her room to bawl her eyes out, accompanied by family. I understand that the groom and the best man never spoke again after that day, but the couple are still married.

Nesta99 · 09-04-2021 12:25am

cena wrote: »

Has anyone here ruined a wedding or been to a wedding that was ruined? Let us say, someone has stood up during the mass service and said that this person should not marry him or she.

Was at a wedding where the father of the bride's speech lasted nearly an hour and only once the bride was mentioned at the toast at the end. The speech was basically a name dropping and nod to guests of importance to the father of the bride.

Another wedding one of the groomsmen punched the groom, there was reservations with having one of the brothers as one of the groomsmen but the grooms mother insisted that the brother couldnt be left out, he ended up spending the remainder of the night in a Garda cell.

I may have indirectly ruined a wedding, out one night and a group of girls fawning over one girl, how she was glowing, how lucky she was, how its 'not too long now' etc. I knew some of them, was in the smoking area and she refused a cigarette offered to her, wasnt drinking. She had a bump and looked 4 or 5 months pregnant so I congratulated her and asked when she was due. There was silence, girl looked on the verge of tears, and it turned out that she had lost a couple of stone in advance of getting married which was to be in a few weeks. Felt awful and valuable lesson learned!!:o

Nesta99 · 09-04-2021 12:40am

MrMusician18 wrote: »

I find that hard to believe, unless the guy was an absolute simpleton. He surely would've noticed he needed to change rolls at some point during the day.

Actually there was one family wedding where something similar happened. The videographer got his tapes mixed up after rewinding tapes used and used the same tapes again recorded over the ceremony, speeches, the important stuff really. All that was left was footage of the scuttered antics after 1am. Yer man tried to blame it all on kids that were there messing with his gear (when he was at the bar). Early 90's and some people in the family still not talking over it and the blame game.

09-04-2021 1:07am

Nesta99 wrote: »

Actually there was one family wedding where something similar happened. The videographer got his tapes mixed up after rewinding tapes used and used the same tapes again recorded over the ceremony, speeches, the important stuff really. All that was left was footage of the scuttered antics after 1am. Yer man tried to blame it all on kids that were there messing.

In fairness, he may have had a point?

All our home videos from the 1990s involve kids zooming-in on a pair of an aunt's breasts (???) or someone's arse, and the sound of howling laughter. Even now when i find an old tape, I think to myself "oh this will probably be just a video of the aunts' tits" (or whatever). So bizarre.

Snotty · 09-04-2021 1:09am

Back around the mid 90s working a wedding where the bride was catholic and groom was a protestant, this wasn't obvious to me at all until well into the dancing, the band called the groom onto the dance floor where he was blind folded and put on a seat. The bride comes dancing in wearing a celtic football top, whole place laughing their asses off but when the groom takes off the blind fold he didn't see the funny side of it at all, starts shouting at the bride and then storms off in a huff, most awkward silence ever, band didn't know what to do.

Another time the brides uncle was a RUC officer and had obviously had run ins with a few of the groom and his family/mates, so later on in the evening they spot him going to the toilets and drag him out an exit door and kick the crap out of him, bride was raging and grooms attitude was "he deserved it", that wedding ended right there.

Louis Friend · 09-04-2021 1:12am

I was at one (which broke up after around three years).

The groom, his groomsmen and best man, plus his family seemed like complete scum.

The best man in his speech advised the groom to adopt the same philosophy as Ronaldo throughout his marriage...“always go down in the box”.

I remember all these grannies looking confused.

It was ridiculous stuff.

pgj2015 · 09-04-2021 1:19am

MrMusician18 wrote: »

I find that hard to believe, unless the guy was an absolute simpleton. He surely would've noticed he needed to change rolls at some point during the day.

The exact same thing happened to a cousin of mine.

Nesta99 · 09-04-2021 1:28am

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »

In fairness, he may have had a point?

Nah, he just rewinded a tape and then ended up putting that tape back in the camera thinking it was a blank tape. He should have broken the tab or at least labeled the tape. Kids are all mischief but not doing away with hours of footage. He was too fond of being at the bar himself like a guest rather than being paid to be there...

Larbre34 · 09-04-2021 2:02am

lab man wrote: »

Are they still together?

Yep. Coming up on 30 years now, running a family pub in the rural area the Groom hails from.

Wanderer78 · 09-04-2021 6:45am

.....so elope......

c.p.w.g.w · 09-04-2021 6:48am

the beer revolu wrote: »

The groom got drunk and decked the best man!
The marriage didn't last either.

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

Toots · 09-04-2021 8:46am

Mentioned this thread to my husband and he reminded me that at his brother's wedding, the cake was burnt - to the point that the hotel couldn't serve it.

None of the guests realised; there was a plate of cake put out with the evening food on each table, but none of us knew it wasn't the wedding cake - it was cake that the hotel had managed to pull together.

It was 2 tier - one sponge and a tiny fruit cake top tier (to keep the oldies happy) and apparently when the bride and groom had cut the cake and it was brought back to the kitchen to be sliced, the staff discovered the sponge was completely burnt.

It was a cake they'd ordered from a wedding cake company and it wasn't cheap, but they eventually got their money back from the baker, after a bit of hassle. Seemingly they initially denied anything was wrong with the cake and only when confronted with photos that they finally refunded them.

gmisk · 09-04-2021 8:52am

This is a fun thread.

I think the worst I have seen was a wedding with the best man telling stories that were really inappropriate about groom....it involved crapping yourself at a roundabout...and went on for ever and ever....
He looked ashamed the whole night, got a big telling off seemingly.

Tame in comparison!

banie01 · 09-04-2021 9:03am

Toots wrote: »

I was at a wedding in Greece where the photographer just didn’t show up. They were meant to be photographing from the church onwards so nobody copped they hadn’t showed until after the ceremony. All the guests just rowed in and took loads of pics - one of the uncles was decent with a camera so he sort of took charge and did a few shots etc.

Back to the hotel and everyone is sitting down eating their dinner when the photographer shows up and starts insisting that the couple get up from their dinner and go to get photos taken. The best man politely but firmly told them to eff off. Still don’t know why they showed up 6 hours late.

It happens more than you'd think.
We used a sharing app for our wedding so everyone could take photos on their phones and share them with us and each other.
It worked great, also had a photographer who was great craic too but the whole range of pro and candid shots was brill IMO.
Only thing I regret is not having proper videos, none of the speeches and given my son was 12 and co-best man when we got married...
He skewered me, roasted me to absolute bits and was brilliant at it...

Little prick

Hangdogroad · 09-04-2021 9:06am

Best man and father of the bride speeches, nothing dramatic. Father of the bride (a joyless bunch of snobs) talked for what felt like an age about ",Our Lady" and the couple following the blessed sacraments.

Another the best man speech mostly consisted of him talking about Liverpool FC and some goal by Scholes.

HildaOgdenx · 09-04-2021 9:15am

Hangdogroad wrote: »

Best man and father of the bride speeches, nothing dramatic. Father of the bride (a joyless bunch of snobs) talked for what felt like an age about ",Our Lady" and the couple following the blessed sacraments.

Another the best man speech mostly consisted of him talking about Liverpool FC and some goal by Scholes.

Just catching up on the thread, and thinking, from the various anecdotes, probably nerves or trying too hard to be funny can lead to the best man making a mess of a speech.

I have never been to a wedding that was ruined.

I was at one where the father of the groom made lots of in-jokes (not anything rude but just family stuff) that meant nothing to anyone else, except his family.

partyguinness · 09-04-2021 9:25am

Just remembered one I was at a few years ago.

The bride was a distant cousin of the wife and let's just say she would not look out of place on a Jeremy Kyle Special. Single mother, kids all over the place, different absent dads and all the usual drama/sob storied to go with it, life on benefits. At one stage she was shacked up with a father of one of her kids in his childhood house...best bit...the mother had been brutally murdered by the father who is in jail and there was still dried pools of blood in the house that the had'nt bothered to clean up.

She got married to a totally different guy (father of child #4) whose background and family history is a complete mystry. From a different country and all we can gather is that he was told to leave..registry office job and small reception...he had absolutely nobody (friends or family) on his side at the wedding so the rest of us had to shuffle across to the other side to balance to crowd. The reception was non existant...we just gathered in a disused conference room at a hotel down the street and the hotel brought out bowls of finger food. There wasnt even seating (chairs were all stackedup). We just stood there picking chips for a couple of hours. We were home by 4pm.

TBH most people just stayed out of sheer politeness and we genuinely felt sorry for them. Again this is in England.

Wanderer78 · 09-04-2021 9:29am

partyguinness wrote: »

Just remembered one I was at a few years ago.

The bride was a distant cousin of the wife and let's just say she would not look out of place on a Jeremy Kyle Special. Single mother, kids all over the place, different absent dads and all the usual drama/sob storied to go with it, life on benefits. At one stage she was shacked up with a father of one of her kids in his childhood house...best bit...the mother had been brutally murdered by the father who is in jail and there was still dried pools of blood in the house that the had'nt bothered to clean up.

She got married to a totally different guy (father of child #4) whose background and family history is a complete mystry. From a different country and all we can gather is that he was told to leave..registry office job and small reception...he had absolutely nobody (friends or family) on his side at the wedding so the rest of us had to shuffle across to the other side to balance to crowd. The reception was non existant...we just gathered in a disused conference room at a hotel down the street and the hotel brought out bowls of finger food. There wasnt even seating (chairs were all stackedup). We just stood there picking chips for a couple of hours. We were home by 4pm.

TBH most people just stayed out of sheer politeness and we genuinely felt sorry for them. Again this is in England.

....the 'joys' of multi system failure.....

Ash.J.Williams · 09-04-2021 9:29am

i hate speeches, i find it awkward hearing family stuff that is only interesting to them

Ruining a wedding

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