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Every wedding seems to have one person who turns a normal day into a story people keep repeating for years. These moments are funny, awkward, and just chaotic enough to feel completely real.
Couldn’t miss the party
“Soon to be mother in law doesn’t show up to the wedding cause she hates her soon to be son in law (reasons still unknown years later) but she sure showed up to the reception for the free food and open bar.”
Having second thoughts
“Ex-girlfriend who I hadn’t spoken to in 4 years sent me a text message minutes before the ceremony was to start that simply said.. “Don’t”. Totally threw me and whilst I was able to brush it aside and get on with the job at hand, I’ve never really forgotten it.”
Massive eye roll
“She wore white and spent the entire time talking about her own upcoming wedding. Her second wedding.”
Time to do business
“My uncle went around taking photos and getting people’s names and addresses to “send them the photos”. A month later, he sent out photos, printed on an advertisement for his fly by night “prepaid legal” business, along with hard sell marketing material.”
Excuse me?
“The day before my wedding. My husband’s female roommate texted him saying she “didn’t think she could come to the wedding because she’d be in such emotional pain and would miss him so much.” Instead, she said she’d be sitting at home, watching rom-coms, and eating Ben&Jerry’s. I kid you not.”
Everyone was in the wrong
“I had a destination wedding and paid for people to come. People only stayed about an hour at our reception and took off to do tourists stuff. My husband and I spent the majority of our reception alone. We paid out a lot of money to make sure people had fun and they all left. 10 years later and it still bothers me.”
Unrequested advice
“Mother in law showed up 30 minutes late, told my wife she looked terrible, made negative comments the whole time. Been working on a nice jig to do over her grave ever since.”
The opposite of the life of the party
“She got super drunk, gave a speech during the ceremony where she was apparently “channeling” my dead mom, whom she had never even met, saying how “proud” my mom was of me. Then later, during the actual reserved time for speeches, she again, uninvited, shared the story of when I met my husband and how I actually wasn’t interested in him because I was trying to get with his friend at the time.”
What a great friend
“Skipped my bridal shower and bachelorette party, but found time to go (uninvited) to the club with my husband, his friends, and her boyfriend, who was a groomsman. Came to my wedding dressed as a h-oker and congratulated me by saying she thought it would be her getting married first.”
Fighting and being late
“She deliberately took forever to get ready and started a fight with her boyfriend (My husband’s best friend and best man) right before the wedding. They showed up late because of the whole thing, which caused our whole wedding ceremony to be 20 minutes late.”
Scary threats
“Not mine but my friend’s brother’s rather religious wedding. Bride’s mother makes a speech and says deadpan “if you hurt her, I will slit your throat” in her speech, at the wedding where her daughter is marrying the nicest guy.”
No one has heard from her since then
“At my cousin’s wedding. Her best friend kept jumping into every picture she could and she’d stick her middle finger up at the camera in every picture. And then she tried to make out with the groom.”
Apparently being the bride doesn’t matter
“My new Mother in law wouldn’t let me be in some photos because she wanted “only real family members”.
Didn’t even congratulate the bride
“Got outrageously drunk, fought with their significant other, didn’t spend time with any of the wedding party, created unnecessary drama with family members, never said congratulations. Yeah, my brother-in-law is the worst!”
Uncles should do better
“He made a scene about how his doctor had misdiagnosed his “mental illness”(he doesn’t have one. He loves attention and claims he has every disease/disorder under the sun) for years, how he was going to sue them, etc. He literally stood up and made a speech about it.”
