May 2010 Weddings
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Embarrassing moments at your wedding?
For an upcoming article, we want to hear about the most embarrassing and hilarious things that happened on your wedding day. Did a groomsman have a little too much to drink and dance to his own beat on the dance floor? Or did a bridesmaid trip as she was coming down the aisle? (And don?t worry ? the story doesn?t have to be about you!)
So you tell us, what are you hilarious or embarrassing wedding day moments? Share them below!
Re: Embarrassing moments at your wedding?
Two embarrassing things happened at our wedding, and both of them involved our DJ.
First: when our DJ announced us to enter our reception, my new husband wasn't even in the building!! He was out in the parking lot chatting to a few friends. I had just come in the door to the little entry/waiting area and I guess the DJ saw the swish of my dress and announced us...all of our guests stood up and started clapping, and I had no idea what was going on...that was pretty mortifying...and pretty anti-climactic when our wedding party had to rush outside and grab my hubby and get him to come inside!!
The second was later on in the night. Instead of tossing my bouquet, we decided to have all the married couples up on the dance floor, with the DJ getting them to sit down based on how long they've been married (eventually leaving the longest married couple up dancing, and then being presented the bouquet). Well, even though he'd had our song selections months in advance, and strict intructions on when and how to get the couples to sit down, he totally messed it up. He played the same song twice in a row, at which point a bunch of the couples sat down. He got them to come back on the dance floor, but at that point THEY were embarrassed that they'd messed it up. THEN he kept counting in five's, as in "Everyone who's been married 25 years, sit down. 30 years, sit down. 35 years, sit down"...well hello, we told him to count by ONE'S past 35 years...then by months once there was 4 couples left on the dance floor...but he just kept counting by 5's. So when there were about 7 couples left on the dance floor, he said the next number, and every single one of them sat down. Finally we just handed off the bouquet to my aunt and uncle who've been married for 47 years and called it a day, since there was pretty much no recovering at that point. I'm trying to laugh about it now, but I think that some of our aunts and uncles were truly mortified because they felt that they had no idea what the DJ was doing.
Our best man announced during his speech that most of my husband's friends have had crushes on my mother in law. Then about 20 minutes later, my husband and I are greeting tables and I hear the song "Mrs. Robinson" start playing. Yes, the song about the older woman that has an affair with a younger man. All of our groomsman brought my mother in law onto the dance floor and proceeded to dance in a circle around her! My father in law finally interjected and finished up the song with his wife.
It was hilarious to us because we knew it was true but it was hard to explain that one to Grandma!!
Immediately after the ceremony, my new husband headed up the hill towards the rented sound system to get the music going. We had a tight time window for the photography, though, and we needed him there to get started, so I ended up yelling "HEY HUSBAND! Come back here!" across the park. At least he "left me at the altar" after the vows!
My mother-in-law wore a dress that was whiter than mine and printed with neon pinwheel shapes, but I don't think she was embarrassed about it.
Well it wasn't my wedding, but my brother's a few years ago. And I know some of you girls have already heard this one back on TK!
My cousin's wife, who is not well-liked by most of the family, showed up just before we lined up for the procession. As we are coming down the stairs, we see this winter white blur wave and pass. Then we notice it is my cousin's wife and that she is wearing head to toe winter white. Shoes, skirt, sweater set, pearls and coat. Not a touch of color on her. The MOH almost went BSC. (My SIL wore ivory... NOT white)
Then at our other cousin's wedding last September, she shows up, once again, in head to toe winter white. Shoes, slacks and a crocheted sweater top w/ a tank underneath.
She was informed that it was in her best interest to NOT wear white to my wedding.
Oh I've got another one: my FIL during his speech proceeded to accidently insult all of his children in one fell swoop.
He told my husband that he was lucky to have found me, because I have two good qualities: I'm beautiful and intelligent. But then he kind of stuttered and kept repeating two good qualities, two good qualities...as if I only have two good qualities. He then said that HH was lucky to have found a wife like me, because he was never the son who was out on the prowl, unlike his oldest brother. HH just laughed, but that's a bit of a dig...basically saying he had no game. Also managed to offend oldest brother AND his wife, who have been together since they were only 14 (so when exactly would he have been out on the prowl?). And this whole tirade was offensive to middle brother, who is gay and was just recently married himself - which FIL did NOT mention...he was like "oldest son and wife, middle son, wrong name of middle son's husband, with no mention of how he fit into the family (leading my family to think that he was another son), youngest son and wife"
hahaha FIL is not a bad guy, just seemed to be on a roll for about 2 minutes of his 15 minute speech.
So in summary:
Oldest son: apparently a big player?
Oldest son's wife: married to a man who according to FIL may not have been the most faithful boyfriend/husband? (not true, btw)
Middle son: got glossed over in his father's speech
Middle son's husband: got called the wrong name, with no mention of who he even is
Youngest son: has no game and somehow lucked into managing a decent wife
Me: only two passably decent qualities