Wedding Thrillers Thursday!

hkiesling

A co-worker was telling me about an adults-only wedding he went to last weekend.  Several families decided to bring their children anyway, but "it was okay, because [they] brought their own food."  Yup, in the form of McD's Happy Meals sitting out on the table.  mmmmm french fries.

Anyone else have some horribly laughable stories?

kaylas16

Mine isn't even close to being that funny but last weekend I was at a small town wedding...and two guys were wearing baseball hats at the dinner.  To me that was ridiculous! And they were like dirty construction company hats so it was even more classy At least take your hats off for dinner boys!

shan87

I was in a wedding last weeknd and instead of taking more pictures during cocktail hour we went bar hoping in the limo.
I had no idea until I was in the limo leaving the church. - We all ended up riding a bull at the bar. Thank God my GF the Bride didn't but the rest of us plus the guys were forced to.

Bimbi284

I was at a friend's wedding a few years ago. This was way out in the middle of nowhere Hutchinson. Anyways, one of the groomsmen had a GF with him. She was dressed appropriately for the ceremony, then all of a sudden she shows up at the reception in a white wife beater (with bra showing through) and cut-off denim booty shorts!! Like...seriously hunny...what makes you think that's okay at anytime much less at a wedding???

beka0404

DISCLAIMER: I'm sharing this story, but I'm not trying to be snarky. Honestly. It should in no way, shape or form reflect poorly on the bride. She is a lovely woman and I'm only sharing this to illustrate how completely wackadoo my hometown is. (I should know: I now live in it as an adult.)

The scene: A friend from high school's wedding, 8-ish years ago, reception at our hometown community center, north of Mpls.

Background: Bride and groom had only been dating a few months. Bride gets preggers, groom moved out of his ex-girlfriend's house and in with bride and her parents. (Uh huh. My hometown is klassy.)

Inconsequential details that I can't help but mention: It was a "BYOB - Beer & set-ups provided" wedding, and it was right around the time that Burger King had light-up "Lord of the Rings" cups. (I have no etiquette beef with rural BYOB weddings.) Anyway, a number of the tables were... "tablescaped" with booze bottles in brown bags and light up LOTR goblets. Oh, and the mother of the groom had a righteous spiked-on-top/spiral-permed-down-to-her-butt fem-mullet. It was GLORIOUS.

The juicy part: Groom's ex-girlfriend shows up at the reception, wearing a skintight leopard print velvet dress. Bridesmaids ask her to leave. She throws hissy fit. Bride cries. (That part is sad.) Bridesmaids remove ex-GF from the scene because she tries to dirty dance with the groom.

The happy ending: Bride and Groom are still happily married and are the parents of three adorable kids.

kaylas16

Beka: OMG that is a fabulous story!! I can't decide my fave part of the story...but it might be your description of the groom's mother's hair... LOVE IT.  People are so amazing.

wittyschaffy

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[QUOTE]A co-worker was telling me about an adults-only wedding he went to last weekend.  Several families decided to bring their children anyway, but "it was okay, because [they] brought their own food."  Yup, in the form of McD's Happy Meals sitting out on the table.  mmmmm french fries. Anyone else have some horribly laughable stories?
Posted by hkiesling[/QUOTE]

 I literally am laughing out loud about this because my aunt sorta did this exact same thing at my cousins wedding just a few weeks ago.  My 6 year old cousins were invited but they "didn't like the food" the bride and groom had (which was perfectly appropriate for kids as well as adults - chicken, mashed potatoes, rolls, green beans, etc.) so she marched out of the reception and found a McD's and brought it back in! 

The only things that happened at mine were:
1.  We got crashed.  They were nice crashers, but were obviously not part of our crew.  Our DJ bounced them with my permission. So much for the policeman we supposedly had which I never saw.

2.  One of my parents' friends got really up close and personal with DH and did this really over the line sexy scarf dance with him.  He was uncomfortable and fled as soon as possible.  I somehow missed it.

3.  My dad decided that he was going to win the limbo contest by sliding across the dance floor on his stomach.  Took a running start too. 

4.  During dinner one of our guests was HOUNDING our DJ to announce the Twins score.  The DJ kept saying no but finally asked me when I had a spare second not greeting guests.  I told him if he asked again, he could tell the guest to go out in the lobby and check for himself.  Really?  You want the DJ to interrupt a nice sit down fancy dinner to announce the sports score?  I chalk it up to alcohol.  :)

I Want Cake

I don't have any good ones of my own, but a coworker had told me about a reception where they rented out a community center, but everyone had to bring their own food.  Yep, everyone had to go out to BK and get their Whopper and pay for it themselves.

One of my BMs recently went to her boyfriend's cousin's wedding in WI and all the groomsmen wore jeans and western shirts.  There was other stuff, too, but I can't remember it all.  It was a "country" wedding, but that doesn't mean that it couldn't have had an iota of class to it.

I went to FI's cousin's wedding in Kansas City and it was catered by the Hy-Vee.  Also, no music, no liquor, no dancing allowed.  Not so much a funny story, but worst wedding I've ever been to by far.  We all went out for steaks and martinis after the bride and groom left.