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Re: Wedding horror stories? share them!
We had our wedding out at a B&B on a farm and our immediate families stayed out the house (everyone else stayed in hotels near the area) the night before our wedding my SIL (younger one...I know that's shocking) had been complaining about she doesnt like heels (My BMs wore wedges)(she was in the wedding bc my older SIL is one of my best friends and all of my BILs were groomsmen) so we all told her to just go practice walking in heels.
She goes out in the hall and "trips" and when her sister was trying to help her up she punched her in the leg and ran down stairs (in her heels) crying to her mom and dad about how she doesn't want to wear the wedges. The whole day of the wedding she whinned to her whole family about how mean I was for making her wear them.
They just told her to suck it up and then day of she is walking down the aisle she was "wobbling" and would not shut up about how much she hates heels. So in all our wedding pictures of them walking she looks miserable.
I Know it wasn't the worst thing ever but it still makes me laugh and mad about the whole thing.
I must preface this with I am an incredibly scatterbrained person, as well as forgetful. : )
I forgot to put on make up, as it isn't part of my daily routine. Not putting it on wasn't a disaster-I didn't even notice until I got my pictures back. No one else cares, but I can tell I look tired!
I misplaced my veil, and completely forgot about it until later that night anyway, haha. I also forgot my bouquet. This worked out just fine, however, as both my father and mother walked me up and my arms were otherwise occupied.
I have a Super 8 camera that was supposed to be used along with a friend's film school camera. Both of us forgot these. -_-
My father, usually extremely difficult to get along with, was a complete doll up until the reception. As we were doing our informal father/daughter dance, I asked him how he was doing and how it was going and all he could manage was "it sucks."
My mother and stepfather were nowhere to be seen for the first fifteen minutes of the reception. They were supposed to be handing out drinks and starting other things up (like frosting the ten cakes I had made, or cutting up the pumpkin pies). I ended up doing this myself.
Someone who had been delegated to move the cake I had made (one of my bridesmaids had told someone who had told someone else to watch it) left the cake in their car. It melted and pretty much fell apart. I ended up taking another one of the cakes I had made, frosting it with chocolate frosting in my gown and using it as our cutting cake.
The woman in charge of our reception hall was difficult to work with. She was never in the office, she would tell us different things concerning the use of the hall that what others in the office told us, never seemed to be in a good mood, etc. She also never returned our deposit and has been impossible to track down.
As we cleaned (yes, I helped clean, oh noeeeees) someone took all of the leftover chicken from dinner and made off with it.This was a huge metal pan belonging to our cook, and easily had enough food to feed me, DH and my family for a week. They left all the pasta and salad and side stuff, which was all in the disposable aluminum trays.
All in all, I absolutely loved my ceremony. I enjoyed every second of it! Most of these things about the reception are funny to me now, though DH, when someone brings up something at the reception gets a little angry.
I live in the islands and DH did not want to get married here because of hurricane season, so we picked a beach in NJ that was 3-3.5 hours (opposite directions) from most of our guests. Ceremony on the beach with a tented reception.
Tropical Storm Hannah with her 60+ mph wind driven rains hit on our wedding day.
Our tent collapsed in the morning,
We had to move the ceremony to the tent, which caused some issues.
The tent had a huge pole in the middle of the aisle you had to walk around.Somehow the bar was opened before the ceremony. All of our guests had cocktails in their hands. Not a big deal, but it was pretty funny seeing people drinking while I walked down the aisle.
The guests attacked the candy buffet before the ceremony. The plan was they would not see it till the cocktail hour.
I had to wear a bright yellow rain coat and hike up my dress to my but so it would not get wet.
5 guests couldn't make the drive because of the weather
our cake melted from the humidity,
No place to take pictures,
The tent workers in jeans and carrying ladders had to stick round to make sure the tent would not collapsed again. (they were great, I felt bad because they lived an hour away and ended up spending their Sat night with us --- we took good care of them including giving them the same food as the guests)
The wind was so loud you could not hear us say our vows
Overall we had awesome food, an open bar and a packed dance floor, so besides not getting good pictures it was a great day.