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Poll: Others' Wedding Drama
What have you seen happen at other weddings that was noteworthy?
I'd rather be rock climbing or playing volleyball
Re: Poll: Others' Wedding Drama
I used to be a day-of coordinator and have been a BM a ton of times so I've seen the inner workings of my fair share of weddings. Still, these are probably pretty tame:
1) I had to practically yell at a bride's dad to go get dressed because we were going down to the ceremony shortly and he was still dragging his feet about going back to his own room to get ready.
2) I had to kick some tourists out of the church once. They were sitting in the last pew and clearly didn't belong but wanted to just hang out and watch the ceremony.
3) A groom got completely sh!tfaced at his reception and yet his wife gave him a mic to do a thank you speech. He was slumped down in a chair while she stood behind him feeding him lines that he slurringly repeated into the mic.
4) DJ screwed up the bride's name while announcing the couple into the reception, despite the fact that she was told multiple times that bride was not taking groom's last name.
5) In a drunken bid to get the bride to kiss a couple of girls at the reception, the groom accepted a dare to first kiss one of the guys. Boys are so stupid.
6) A bird pooped across the front of the skirt of bride's dress while they were taking pictures before the ceremony.
7) Caterers ran out of food for the buffet dinner and started putting out random things they could find in the kitchen.
8) Cake people left without assembling the tiered wedding cake. We were left to oh-so-carefully try to plop one layer on top of the other. I'm not going to lie, we definitely smooshed some of that icing.
9) A DJ played BBD's Poison at the reception (as in "That girl is poison..."). That would be my wedding. Guess I should have put that on the Do Not Play list
10) Someone messed up the table count for a Chinese banquet reception and we were short one whole table (never mind 10 courses to feed that table).
Well, she doesn't like my bil, for one. Two, she doesn't really like social situations, and three, she only concerns herself with what makes her comfortable, and seems to gives no thought to how it may impact others.
WOW
You are a saint, M. Seriously, I don't know how you're able to basically live with her.
Well, she is a difficult person, but she's not a terrible or bad person. I think she just has some personality traits that aren't always compatible with mine.
M-seriously, you are incredible. I had almost forgotten that you live with MIL, and when I was just reminded, my mouth dropped open.
My husband was the Best Man in his friend's wedding and it was...interesting.
The MOH didn't show up at all, and then later texted the bride to say she had lost track of time while doing the nasty with her bf.
The DJ played "Roxanne" THREE TIMES. You know, the song about a hooker.
The professional photographer was a lady with a digital camera that took floppy dics. This was in 2006. FLOPPY DISCS, you guys.
I was a bridesmaid in one of my best friend's weddings a couple of years ago. This was a very elaborate "production" kind of wedding (turned out beautiful of course). Two things happened that I still remember as drama-ish.
1) The bridesmaids had to be up super early to get ready the day-of. I was about to go to bed the night before - around midnight - when I was informed by the MOH (bride's sister) that we had to tie ribbons around the favor boxes before we went to sleep. I thought, well, ok, she's my friend and it's her wedding. I'll suck it up and stay up a little longer. So we sit around a table in the hotel suite barely keeping our eyes open, tying these ribbons. The MOH starts stressing that the bows aren't done right and that the bride likes them a very certain way, then starts retying a lot of the ones she's already done. I - in an attempt to lighten the mood and make her feel OK about the bows - smiled and said something along the lines of "don't worry about it, I'm sure my bows aren't up to her standards either, but it's just bows. Not a big deal. She won't care that much tomorrow." MOH flips out at me for not taking the bow-tying seriously enough...
I mumbled some lame apology and tried to smooth things over, put my head down, tied some bows, then went to bed. It was kinda crazy.
The next day, the day of the wedding, we are running very behind schedule. We finally all get to the venue and the photographer and planner tell us the bride needs to get into her dress asap so they can start doing photos pre-ceremony. The bride hesitates because her mother hasn't arrived yet and she wants her mom there when she puts her dress on. We wait as long as we can until we're told we can't wait anymore. She gets dressed. Mom arrives a while later and flips out that bride has already put on her dress and she wasn't there... Bride breaks down and cries. Wedding planner leads MOB away to get a glass of champagne, while we try to calm the bride, preserve her make up and get her out for photos. I felt SO BAD for my friend, and so pissed at her mom for throwing that fit on her daughter's wedding day and making her cry.
Tea Time for Lulu
1. A wedding where the quickness of it all (invites went out 2 weeks before the date) caused people to speculate that the bride was pregnant, which would be heavily frowned upon in that particular social circle. The speculation was further fueled when the bride passed out during the ceremony. Sure enough, at an event 6 months later, she was carrying a baby in her arms.
2. A wedding where they ran out of food at the buffet with several tables yet to make their first trip to eat. It was being catered by a restaurant 30 minutes away, so we had to wait quite a bit for the caterers to go get some more food.
A friend's parents decided they weren't going to his wedding day-of. Then showed up 2 minutes before the wedding was supposed to start.
Someone placed my cousin's dress that was covered in a black plastic bag over a heating vent for her November wedding. Her Mom had to stitch the skirt minutes before the wedding to cover he melted black plastic.
"Here I Go Again On My Own" was the first song played at our reception