Article help - Wedding mishaps.

Knot Annie

pinkpinot-that is a tad dramatic, right? i think  butter makes everything better and i would have prob licked it off being the classy gal that i am. 

dani-i totally remember your dress!

alix-i might use your photoshop technique with all of my fb pics. 

LesPaul- love those visuals!

tiffbot-love that story (and your sig pic)!

thank you for all of these. i loved reading them! 

krayzeechick05

My sister got married in a church and we did the reception downstairs in the basement.  It was raining all day the previous day and the day of so when we showed up to the church in the morning the basement was flooded.  We had to call people so they could try to soak out as much water as they could.  We ended up moving the cake upstairs and handed people their meals on the stairs so they didn't have to come down. By the time the reception was almost over the room was finally dried.  She didn't get to toss her bouquet or do the garter.

We also had to walk outside around the building to go in through the front but because it was raining so hard we sat in the foryer, and when every guest walked in they got to see all of the BM and the bride! Took the element of surprise away.

filaw

When my dad was giving me away, he stepped on my veil and it flew off my head.  Everyone laughed, my MOH got it back in my hair in a flash, and then we started the ceremony.  It actually turned out to be one of my fondest memories from the day.

cougarette

Our DOC forgot to put the funnel on the table for our sand ceremony.  We didn't realize until we moved over to the table to start pouring.  We tried to just use our hands as a funnel, but it got everywhere.  We laughed it off though.

H's aunt was drunk and at the end of the toasts she grabbed the microphone and started a weird rambling "toast" where she called H by his brother's name.

TurtlesAllTheWayDown

Our shuttle driver was supposed to make two runs from the hotel to our ceremony location. He left 20 minutes late for the first one, then didn't go back to do the second, stranding some of our guests. My husband AND father had to tell him to go back and pick up the rest of the guests and we started our wedding 20 minutes late because we wanted to wait for them. (They were all from out of town and had to travel to our wedding!)

TurtlesAllTheWayDown

Oh, a kid at my cousin's wedding stuck his finger in the wedding cake. My uncle was really mad about it!

leia1979

For my friend's wedding, we all showed up at the venue really early in the morning to set up. By noon, we'd moved to the bridal suite to have a quick lunch before we started hair and makeup. The bride remembered that she left her hair extensions at home maybe 15 minutes before the stylist arrived.

I called my FI, who drove to the bride's house, picked up the hair extensions, and drove the 20-30 minutes to the wedding site. He showed up gingerly holding a wire hanger with hair extensions hanging from it like it was a rabid animal.

The crisis was averted, but seeing FI with that hanger of hair was pretty funny. I can only imagine what that looked like walking through the lobby of a swank hotel.

psichick

we had an outdoor ceremony and it was about 85 degrees that day. three interesting things happened during the ceremony - one, a spider crawled down one of my bm's boobs. she was able to get it out without anyone noticing or freaking out - kudos to her! two - there were flowers tied up to the gazebo that started falling hal way through the ceremony. we couldn't help but laugh. three - we don't know if was the material of the shoes or the antibacterial stuff they spray in them, but every single one of our GM's right foot was on fire while we were outside. in the pictures some look like they're in pain haha

during the reception the fire alarm went off. they were on it quick though and got it turned off. some of our guests actually thought it was part of the song the DJ was playing and never even noticed!

abbalish

My whole wedding was one big mishap!

1) H was sick and missed the rehearsal/dinner.  His dad stood in for him at the rehearsal and at the dinner I had to go up and introduce myself to all his random family members who I had never met before.  Oh, and we had to call the paramedics for him at the end of the reception, but that one's not so funny.
2) I brought one of each of two different pairs of shoes to the venue with me, and my dad had to race back to my house to get their matches, setting off our alarm and getting caught in a rainstorm in the process, as we were taking pictures.
3) I printed out the wrong version of my vows which I announced to everyone at the ceremony.
4) My sister didn't realize we were doing a grand entrance into the reception and at the last second I grabbed her husband and had him stand in for her, he walked in arm and arm with the best man.

Really, the whole thing was a comedy of errors.

vixey

At a wedding I went to recently, the day of the wedding the best man was nowhere to be found.  He didn't show up for pictures and wasn't answering his phone, nobody could find him.  He ended up getting to the venue right before the ceremony started.

Turns out, he got picked up for a DUI after the RD the night before, had spent the entire time in jail, and was released just in time to go home, shower, and make it to the ceremony.

LP11509

I have a few.  I'm deaf, and our ceremony was in American Sign Language.  We had interpreters voicing for the priest, H and myself as we signed.  At the end when the priest announced us Mr. and Mrs. LastName, the interpreter accidentally misspoke and voiced "Laura" instead of "Lauren" for my first name.  I didn't know until after the fact and thought it was funny.  But the interpreter (who is a good friend of ours) felt SO awful, he went straight to the liquor store across the street as soon as he left the church. 

The heel of one of my shoes broke literally 1 minute after the ceremony was over.  We had just walked back down the aisle and were walking around the church to go in the back door for pictures, and CLUNK.  It broke.  My mom had to go home and get a change of shoes for me - so 1/2 my pictures have teal shoes and 1/2 have red shoes.

And the fuse blew on our DJ's equipment halfway through the reception.  Luckily I have awesome friends and they started a singalong.  Everyone got in a big circle, put their arms on each others shoulders and started singing Piano Man. The DJ was able to fix the equipment and the party kept going.  It was pretty awesome.

LP11509

Oh and at my aunts wedding about 18 years ago, I was the flower girl and one of my cousins was the ring bearer.  He had the actual rings on a pillow - big mistake.  Halfway down the aisle he got tired/cranky, sat down in the middle of the aisle, started screaming and threw the rings into the pews.  Luckily my aunt and uncle had a good sense of humor about it.

Cristine2011

Wow I'm loving these, mostly because you all seem to be able to laugh it off now.

I haven't had my wedding yet, but I invited my MOH to attend a bridal show with me and it was the first bit of wedding stuff we had done together. It turns out that she had contracted the stomach flu from her work and it decided to make itself known right then and there in the middle of the hallway at the bridal show. It took about an hour for her to stop throwin up long enough for us to get her from the bathroom  into the car so we could take her home.

kayakrunhike

My hair salon ended up being a total nightmare.  I had a bad feeling when the owner showed up with her kids and teacup Yorkie to my trial appointment because the babysitter bailed on her (not to mention had a fight with her ex-husband in the store in the middle of the appointment).  That feeling got worse when she called a couple weeks before the wedding, asking for our information again because a stylist left, and took the binder with all that information with her. 

The day before the wedding, she called to ask if we could come earlier than we schedueled because two of our three stylists suddenly decided to go on vacation for the weekend.  The owner arrived late (thank goodness she left the dog and kids at home), and then ended up having to redo two of my bridesmaids hair styles completely.  The final stylist was brand new, and had no idea what she was doing.  One of my BMs was practically in tears after her hair was finished.

I would have gone to another hair stylist if I'd had the money to go on another consultation, and I had hoped the situation wasn't as bad as I'd originally thought.  I learned my lesson- always follow your gut reaction when you meet a vendor.

bridal86

H got a flat tire on the way to the church and my uncle had to go pick him up.
Then, the grandmothers were lined up about to go in right on time, when the fire alarm went off.  The organist kept playing and everything went fine but it was still pretty funny and memorable.  We later found out that H's middle school cousin pulled the alarm!

CourtneyK12

I worked for a gated vacation community on Lake Erie last summer.  The place has a gorgeous gazebo overlooking the lake that people love to use for their nuptuals, and they have 2 huge covered verandas (also overlooking the lake) that are popularly used as reception areas.  To hedge against storms and nasty weather, the wedding venue requires that anyone booking an outdoor wedding also select another location on the grounds as a backup locale.  Normally, the staff would set up both locations if the weather looked iffy.

One particular bride was adamant on having her wedding outside - come hell or high water.  She refused to pick a secondary 'Plan B' location, saying that nothing was going to stop her from getting married by the water.

The day of her wedding, we had severe wind warnings, but her family went ahead and decorated the veranda the morning of her reception.  The winds got worse throughout the day, and by the time they were ready for their ceremony, it had gotten so bad that the wind blew all the table decorations off and we even had to chase some of the tablecloths! 

We didn't have a secondary venue set up, and we had no place to put the reception because the bride hadn't ever given us a secondary locale.  We ended up having to squeeze them in a un-airconditioned all-purpose room.  To add more to the horror, we didn't have enough event staff to move and set up all the tables and chairs quickly (normally it would have been done the morning of), but we couldn't let the family help because of liability issues.  All the guests had to stand by and watch for the half an hour it took us to move everything!

marriedfilingjointly

Tiffbot, that's hilarious.

This thread is living proof that no one can ruin your wedding. 

alixzafiris

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[QUOTE]In Response to Re: Article help - Wedding mishaps. : Ha! This happened at my brother's wedding. The priest announced them as Mr. & Mrs. SIL's Maiden Name. The whole room started chuckling, and then he corrected himself.
Posted by akhensley81[/QUOTE]

I'm just re-reading this now. Our officient dude kept calling me "Alice". Doofus.

Ready2BMrsWade

I was MOH in my sisters wedding and we had several near disasters. The first was that minister was coming from out of state the morning of the wedding and with 30 minutes till she was supposed walk the aisle he was no to be found!  Our uncle luckily was ordained and had the ceremony, ready to step in.  15 minutes to spare and the preacher showed up! Sis and BIL were very relieved.

 Another mishap the morning of (that no one told the bride till later) was that in the tiny, one stall bathroom in the very old chapel where they were getting married, the toilet clogged and overflowed all over the floor. Our aunt, grandfather and a cousin spent about 2 hours fixing and cleaning it up before the wedding. Another crisis averted! 

Then at the reception where I was to give my MOH speech I spend about 2 hours writing and had typed up to read because I get nervous, the paper with my speech disappeared from the head table! It was a song before I was to give the speech before I realized this, and I was freaking, silly I know, but I worked hard. Luckily it was discovered the FOG had seen the piece of paper and had used it to write something on, thinking it was just an extra blank sheet (why, I don't know!) It was found and I managed to not cry giving it. So no major awful things happened  and it was an amazing day but we had some things to laugh about for sure!