Wedding Guest Fails...

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Hey Knotties! 

Have you ever encountered a serious wedding guest fail? Did someone at your wedding do something memorable (and not in a good way!), embarrassing, or totally outrageous? Share your stories here!

xoxo, 

KP

ashley8918

At my mom's backyard wedding 20+ years ago, a guest push her into the pool in her dress immediately post-ceremony! No pictures had been taken yet (except for the ceremony action shots) and she spent the rest of the night FURIOUS and in someones 2 sizes too large sweats.

kimberly0315

I used to flat with a woman who was a caterer and mainly did weddings.  One wedding she did ended really badly.  The ceremony went well and the reception started off perfectly.  When the groom did his speech he thanked his best man (his best friend) for sleeping with his new bride a couple weeks before the wedding and then walked out.  She said the entire place went silent for 2-3 minutes and no one moved!  The party wrapped up pretty quickly after that.  Never found out why the groom went through with the wedding or what happened after.

loveislouder

My best friend went to her sisters wedding, to another woman. Nothing, odd there. Until the (I'm sorry about my lack of terms here, someone correct me and please don't disown me if I'm offensive) other bride's grandma took the mic and drunkenly went on about how lesbians are as mythical as unicorns and this was a stint for attention. Eek.

KytchynWitche

One of my sister's BMs had her entire family invited to my sister's wedding. They RSVPd that all 7 of them would be in attendance, including BM's younger brother, who was then 4 or 5. The family came to the reception, checked things out, and ditched before B&G were announced. Without so much as a word to the bride, or even a "Sorry, we had to leave, tell B congrats for us!" message to be passed on.

That was pretty much a friendship-ender.

ETA: I found out over the weekend that the reason why BM and her family left is because she wasn't seated at the main table, only MOH (and the best man, obvs) was. She also hijacked my sister's kitchen tea from the MOH, and got some very raunchy games going which did not impress my sister's then-FI's extremely conservative family.

afox007

At my uncles wedding a drunk guest tripped into my baby brother knocking him into the pool. My mom obviously jumped in in her cocktail dress. I was worried she wasn't getting to him fast enough and jumped in after them both in my flower girl dress.

At another uncles wedding two decades later drunk me and the drunken dj (friend of my uncles) were talking shit to each other about the bride's bitchy 16 year old daughter and her baby. Didn't realize this girls aunt was behind us and she went ape shit and threw a glass of wine at me (not the contents the full glass).

sarawifenow

At my cousin's wedding (whom I was a bridesmaid for), a girl got REALLY drunk and came up to the head table and started yelling at all of the girls saying how she deserved to be a bridesmaid and not us. Then she told my cousin that she looked fat and started crying and ran out. I don't think anyone has talked to her since then.

ShesSoCold

My brother decided that the wedding of a family friend was a good time to tell his drunken girlfriend that he'd been sleeping with her best friend. She totally lost her shit - yelling and screaming and crying. I was 16 and somehow we got her into my car (after like an hour) and I had to take her home with her yelling at me about how big of douchebag my brother is. 

jenna8984

I was a bridesmaid last year and it was the most eventful reception. One bridesmaid spent the night in the bathroom crying that she was getting a divorce. One bridesmaid's ex was invited (still good friends with the B & G). So that bridesmaid was being a little too friendly with ex for current boyfriend's pleasure so they got into a massive fight and broke up mid reception. The bride told me to go outside and find groom for his mother dance. When I found him, he snapped at me "There is no dance because my bitch of a mother already left!" Alriiiighty then...

At my brother's wedding, he and his buddies got drunk and decided it would be funny to act like they did when they were 16 years old. So they huddled around a window (on the dance floor) and took turns peeing out the window! Who the hell does that?!

thisismynickname2

At a friend's wedding after-party, a bridesmaid slept with a groomsman. The groomsman was the bride's brother and the bridesmaid was engaged (and now married) to someone else.

NowIamMrsKlein

At a cousins wedding back in my early 20's there was a full out brawl for the bouquet toss. Being young and extremely single at the time, even though I completely hated the tradition I was goaded into standing up with the other girls for the toss. I was standing about mid crowd, trying to disappear when the bride tossed a perfect toss, right into my hands. Oh goody. Perhaps the mystery man of my dreams is now going to show up! (took him about 6 years to come into my life after this moment, bouquet tosses work! haha). Laughing to myself about how the person who least wanted to catch the bouquet ended up with it when suddenly. WHAM. I was seeing stars. Bridesmaid friggen punched me in the face and stole the bouquet!!! While im still standing there in shock trying to comprehend what happened, grooms brothers long term girlfriend decides that if the rules have changed and you can take the bouquet, then obviously it should be hers. So she attempts to wrestle it out of bridesmaids hands. And then it just got out of hand. The two girls were actually rolling on the floor at one point trying to win this damn bouquet. Needless to say both were single by the end of the night. And I spent the rest of the night getting poured free doubles by the cute bartender.

perdonami

SoontobeMrsKlein said:

At a cousins wedding back in my early 20's there was a full out brawl for the bouquet toss. Being young and extremely single at the time, even though I completely hated the tradition I was goaded into standing up with the other girls for the toss. I was standing about mid crowd, trying to disappear when the bride tossed a perfect toss, right into my hands. Oh goody. Perhaps the mystery man of my dreams is now going to show up! (took him about 6 years to come into my life after this moment, bouquet tosses work! haha). Laughing to myself about how the person who least wanted to catch the bouquet ended up with it when suddenly. WHAM. I was seeing stars. Bridesmaid friggen punched me in the face and stole the bouquet!!! While im still standing there in shock trying to comprehend what happened, grooms brothers long term girlfriend decides that if the rules have changed and you can take the bouquet, then obviously it should be hers. So she attempts to wrestle it out of bridesmaids hands. And then it just got out of hand. The two girls were actually rolling on the floor at one point trying to win this damn bouquet. Needless to say both were single by the end of the night. And I spent the rest of the night getting poured free doubles by the cute bartender.

SIB

You mean not only were you coerced to participate in the boquet toss and then subsequently punched in the face as a result, guests were expected to pay for their drinks? Wow, fun wedding.. At least the cute bartender took care of you. 

lightningsnow

At my cousin's wedding, that I didn't attend for personal reasons, my older brother's girlfriend got completely wasted. She hit on one of my other cousins and then fell over. She prefers to go commando so she ended up flashing most of the guests. Kinda upset I missed seeing that.

PrincessOfHavoc

Cousins wedding - Apparently the adorable little flower girl was recently potty trained, and since she had a dress on, well everyone needed to see her princess panties. Embarrassing for her parents, but hey, she was about two years old so it was cute and funny. But then, well, an aunt felt the baby was stealing her attention, so she was going to show her princess panties also. Only she forgot panties. Yes, I'm pretty sure she was full on drunk.

I still am baffled as to when weddings became an appropriate setting for public Pikachu peekaboo.

FiancB

Ooh these are juicy! No pikachu peekaboo here but at the last wedding I attended, there was this obnoxious bridesmaid that took every opportunity to show off and brag about how wealthy and successful she was. Example: the officiant's wife (a friend of ours) remarked that some older houses they'd gone by earlier in the day were cute, and this BM's husband said "if you think THOSE houses were nice, you should see ours!" etc. These people are lawyers while the officiant, his wife, my FI, and the groom are all teachers, so yeah it's pretty damn rude to shove SES in everyone's faces.

So at the wedding, Miller Lite was being served, which happens to be the officiant's drink of choice. The BM derisively snarled "Ugh! I don't know how anyone can drink that cheap crap!" So the officiant whirled around and told her that he had purchased stock in the company years ago and it paid off, so he's been drinking it ever since. 

It took her a bit for it to sink in but it was priceless when it did. 

edit: whoops didn't realize this is kind of old but whatever

elizabetheleven

@FiancB absolutely LOVE the office gifs!

More people need to post on this, hilarious.

The worst I have is at my cousin's wedding our other cousin got wasted at the reception and started dancing on a table. He was escorted out and then proceeded to throw fists. Interesting night to say the least.

Cookie Pusher

Look what I saw on Facebook!

@afox007 @mellowmarshmallow @TexasBride2014 @SarahBrideSoon @SoonToBeMrsKlein - your stories are in the article!

lkristenj

Did they tell anyone their stories would be used?

beethery

Nope!

NowIamMrsKlein

Nope. I was a little surprised. But a quick look at the terms of service showed me that anything you post here, TheKnot owns and can reprint and edit at their own discretion. You posting it means they can use it.

The Knot reserves the right to republish any material contributed by our readers. By posting a message, a subscriber expressly grants the right to The Knot to republish or sell the message as part of any edited compilation such as Knot News

Thought they would at least mention they were using the information for an article. Or something.

lkristenj

I figured they could do it, but why not be polite and give a little notice? Now I know to be highly suspicious when a KG posts a sticky with a question they want us to respond to.

lovesclimbing

Anytime a KG posts something asking a question, I know it's for an article/re-publishing. That's kind of one of those "of course" things about a forum linked to a company or brand (as opposed to something like the Treehouse that was just created by people for chit chatting and isn't linked to a brand or company in any way.)

FiancB

Yeah I assumed it was for an article. I seriously doubt that KP is particularly interested in our stories for the sake of getting to know us.

tlc9615

I was not there to witness this but my parents went to a cousin's wedding and the groom was apparently intoxicated during the ceremony. However, he continued to drink and spent the first part of the reception puking outside in the bushes. He pulled himself together enough to go inside and cut the cake. Well, once they started cutting the cake he got dizzy and fell INTO the cake. The cake fell onto the floor and they were not able to serve it!

ashley8918

Yeah, I don't think i'll be responding to these in the future. I don't like the thought of my posts being used in an article.

lovesclimbing

@ashley8918.  You really shouldn't post at all then. (And I don't mean that in a snarky or rude way.)  There have been times in the past where posts have been taken from random threads that members, not KGs, have started.  They can use anything on here.

I'm not worried because I make sure anything I post is generic enough or I change some of the non-important details to the story (e.g. I'll say it was my cousin's wedding, when it was really my friend's) so that people won't identify the story.

ashley8918

lovesclimbing said:

@ashley8918.  You really shouldn't post at all then. (And I don't mean that in a snarky or rude way.)  There have been times in the past where posts have been taken from random threads that members, not KGs, have started.  They can use anything on here.

I'm not worried because I make sure anything I post is generic enough or I change some of the non-important details to the story (e.g. I'll say it was my cousin's wedding, when it was really my friend's) so that people won't identify the story.

Okay.

I'm not "worried" either. I just don't like it.

AddieCake

I loved it when I got quoted in the magazine. I so seldom get to feel like a celebrity.

ohannabelle

ashley8918 said:

lovesclimbing said:

@ashley8918.  You really shouldn't post at all then. (And I don't mean that in a snarky or rude way.)  There have been times in the past where posts have been taken from random threads that members, not KGs, have started.  They can use anything on here.

I'm not worried because I make sure anything I post is generic enough or I change some of the non-important details to the story (e.g. I'll say it was my cousin's wedding, when it was really my friend's) so that people won't identify the story.

Okay.

I'm not "worried" either. I just don't like it.

That's a good idea, lovesclimbing. I should be more careful to disguise people in my posts.

And yes, anything posted on most websites becomes property of the website, so anyone who writes for a living or sells writing even every now and again should be cautious. Once you've given it away, you can't sell it. It no longer belongs to you.

novella1186

ShesSoCold said:

My brother decided that the wedding of a family friend was a good time to tell his drunken girlfriend that he'd been sleeping with her best friend. She totally lost her shit - yelling and screaming and crying. I was 16 and somehow we got her into my car (after like an hour) and I had to take her home with her yelling at me about how big of douchebag my brother is. 

lol that is hilariously awful

chocolateygabs

At a work acquaintance's wedding, the best man's toast came up. He told the wedding guests that we "might want to put our forks down" while he was talking. My colleagues and I thought nothing of it, that he just everyone's undivided attention, so I continued to eat. Turns out, the toast was about a summer festival that the couple and best man went to that was full of German beer and German food. They came back to the best man's apartment and the groom made the apartment so stinky and denied it the whole time. The smell was so bad that he left a window open in the living room where the couple was sleeping on an air mattress. He ended it sweetly by stating that he knew the bride was the one because there she was, all snuggled up with the groom even though nothing could dissipate that smell. However, he got to the end of his toast and we had all put our forks down by then. Everyone was silent and we all looked at each other just to confirm that the best man basically told everyone about the groom's awful farting. ETF: Paragraphs.