Strange things people do.

pirategal03

What's the strangest thing you've seen done at a wedding you've attended? Not just a crazy wedding tale from the boards, but one you've really seen in action.

pirategal03

I'll start --

A friend's "unity" candle had 2 wicks, so 2 flames on the center candle.

The candle must have known more about unity than they did, the marriage ended abusively 2 years later. 

[Deleted User]

Alligator wrestling.

SarahPLiz

HA.. I had to read that twice. I thought you were asking the craziest thing I've done at a wedding. I was contemplating telling the story about going riding out the backroads in a jeep with the bride's cousin. More than the jeep ended up topless...

But since you didn't ask that, I don't know that I have anything to share. The chicken dance and money dance are a part of the culture where I grew up, so they aren't strange to me. The only thing remotely disturbing was a tradition that had the best man dance with a decorated broom.. I can't remember the reason.

goheels05

Does it count if I saw photos of it from the MOB? 

A coworker's daughter let her photog place an ad in their wedding programs.  The ad contained info on how to help the bride and groom pay for their photos.

lyndausvi

We had one bride talk about her ex-husband in her speech to her new husband.  It was just weird and awkward.  This was the same bride who was 45 minutes late for her sunset wedding, then cried because it was dark out.   Umm, yeah... it gets dark here 25 minutes after the sunsets.  Can't really help  you when you ignore us when we tell you that.


Then we had one bride who looked miserable before the cermony.  After the 10 minute cermony everyone changed into t-shirts and cut off shorts for the cocktail party on the boat. It was just weird.    After the cocktail party the FOG got off of the boat, went over to the sea grape tree and pissed on the tree.  Now our boat has 2 VERY clean heads - you can eat off the floor they are so clean.  And our hotel is a luxury resort with plenty of bathrooms around.  Not sure why he felt the need to pee on a tree on the beach.

Then we had the couple who had a cocktail party before the ceremony (they had to wait until sundown.)  Problem was they drank 2 bottles of Patron.  Everyone including the couple were trashed for the ceremony.

lilgina64

Did they slur through their speeches?

The worst I've seen is a guest got drunk, got down on all fours and chased the bride around like a dog...barking and trying to get under her dress.

Oh and I was picked up by a Groomsmen at a wedding that  I was helping my god mother at.... He picked me up OVER HIS HEAD and then proceeded to dance with me up there. That was...special. I was 14.

lyndausvi

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[QUOTE]Did they slur through their speeches?
Posted by lilgina64[/QUOTE]

Kind of... they were 'tacking' up the aisle (sailing term).  They drank so much Patron that night, the resort ran out and DH had to borrow some from a friend's bar.  They then got sticker shock when the patron bill was $1800 alone.  

AmoroAgain

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[QUOTE]Does it count if I saw photos of it from the MOB?  A coworker's daughter let her photog place an ad in their wedding programs.  The ad contained info on how to help the bride and groom pay for their photos.
Posted by goheels05[/QUOTE]

NO WAY!!!!!!!!!!!!

AmoroAgain

Oh! And I have one! My aunt and uncle got married at this tiny church on a mountain in W. Virginia.  The pastor was drunk and said, "I now pronounce you Mr and Mrs Chadwick"

Their last name is Jones.

MyNameIsNot

I was a BM in a trashtastic wedding once.  She invited both me and my sister to be BMs because she had previously been in love with my brother.  The feeling was not mutual.  Anyway, she made random remarks about him through the whole thing.  (He had died before then and therefore wasn't invited.) 

My favorite part was her mother.  She wore a white dress.. with a black thong.  She also picked the flowers from the grounds (outdoor venue) and put them on the cake while everyone was getting lined up for the ceremony.

jkara525

My best friend had a string of random things happen at her wedding...electricity in tent went out, DJ called them by wrong names when introducing them but the worst was that her dad got rip roaring drunk and took his anger about the other incidents out on the poor caterer.  He literally beat the hell out of him.  In front of every guest.  This prompted the caterer and all his staff to leave so I spent the rest of the evening bar tending and other friends of mine bussed tables.  Good times.

One other one - I was at a wedding where the cake was about the size of bathtub and had every member of the bridal party represented on it with a "precious moments" figurine.  It was beyond tacky.

aMrsin09

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[QUOTE]In Response to Re: Strange things people do. : Kind of... they were 'tacking' up the aisle (sailing term).  They drank so much Patron that night, the resort ran out and DH had to borrow some from a friend's bar.  They then got sticker shock when the patron bill was $1800 alone.  
Posted by lyndausvi[/QUOTE]


There's a visual!  I'm surprised the officiant even did the ceremony if they were that tipsy.

MyNameIsNot

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[QUOTE]In Response to Re: Strange things people do. : There's a visual!  I'm surprised the officiant even did the ceremony if they were that tipsy.
Posted by aMrsin09[/QUOTE]

Good point.  Isn't that grounds for an annulment?

lyndausvi

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[QUOTE]In Response to Re: Strange things people do. : Good point.  Isn't that grounds for an annulment?
Posted by MyNameIsNot[/QUOTE]

come on.. it the VI.. I think the Rabbi was drinking with them.

Annie_Warbucks

My cousin had a halloween wedding which consisted of a short ceremony at our Catholic church and then a costume party reception. 

Instead of changing between the ceremony and the reception, some people wore their costumes to the mass. And we are talking about people in full monkey costumes, slutty red riding hood costumes, and star troopers costumes all bowing their heads to pray in this beautiful old cathedral. 

It was really really weird. 

aMrsin09

well you have a good point there...

SwedishChick2011

One wedding I went to the best man gave a speech about how when they were 23 (7 years ago), BM's dad asked the future groom what he wanted in life.  In the speech, BM said the groom said, "I want to own a house, and I want a wife to share that house with."  Sweet, right?  Except we knew that what the groom really said was, "I want to own a house, and I want to do a girl in the butt."  Really hope the bride never finds that out.

boydjess

I have a friend who is a very conservative Christian.  At his wedding he and his wife washed each others feet during the ceremony.  Imagine you are at the top of a beautiful mountain, the bride's in her dress, the pastor is talking about love and the couple starting their life together and then out comes a big wash basin, some soap and a wash cloth.  I think the point behind it was great, to show the way the feel about each other is the way Jesus felt about his disciples when He washed their feet, but everyone just thought it was a little strange!

JessAndTrav

I once saw "Bid on the Bride's Shoe."

Instead of the dollar dance, you were supposed to pay for her shoe. Once someone else bid, you were supposed to pass it. Meanwhile, she's limping around because she's only wearing one shoe.

Yeah, I made sure not to get that DJ.

smokeybailey

I don't know if it's strange, but at a girlfriend's wedding, instead of flowers, there were bottles of Cazadores on the tables.  One of the favors was a little cup on a ribbon that you wore around your neck.  Then you went around to each of the tables to meet people and do a shot with them. 

We ripped through all of the bottles before dinner was out.  Everyone was drunk-the priest, the tias, the bride and groom, everyone.  The MOH did a speech about how the bride was this great Azteca warrior and I can't even remember what.  It was half in Spanish and then half in English.

Then the party came to a close when we all decided to go swimming in the ocean-in our dresses, suits, hair, makeup, jewelry, etc.  It was a GREAT time.  The Bride decided that she didn't want to get her dress wet but the groom was actually swimming with the rest of us.  Someone was watching over me that night. 

Later I dived into the closed pool and chipped my front tooth on the bottom.  Good lord, I don't know what I was thinking.  That pool was only 3 feet deep and that bridge was pretty high over the pool.

jkara525

When I saw the "bid on her shoe" story I was reminded that my cousin did a whole cinderella thing during the cermony.  he met his wife when she was working for disney world and was dressed as cinderella so at the altar after the bridesmaids walked down the aisle he pretended to put a shoe on each of their feet.  when it didn't fit he looked to the doorway and magically the bride started down the aisle and when she got to the altar he put the shoe on her foot and guess what????? IT FIT!!!!
ugh.  cheesy and weird.  was very uncomfortable to watch.

[Deleted User]

The strangest was a toast at a wedding I was at. The brother of the groom told the wife that in their family the men are known for "taking it" when their wives slept.

I was thinking, is this a rape joke? It was really weird. I'm sure I was missing out on an inside joke, but I didn't think it was appropriate.

saschaduran

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[QUOTE]The strangest was a toast at a wedding I was at. The brother of the groom told the wife that in their family the men are known for "taking it" when their wives slept. I was thinking, is this a rape joke? It was really weird. I'm sure I was missing out on an inside joke, but I didn't think it was appropriate.
Posted by bearsfan[/QUOTE]

My husband always does this to me!!!

Smokey....I am afraid to hang out with you.  It sounds like if we do one shot too many, very bad things will happen.  Although it will not involve the ocean, as I am utterly phobic of cold water and can barely swim when it is 100 degrees outside and the pool is 90.

Lynda...our wedding drank all the Patron and they had to get more out of storage:) 

thesuninherhead

I got my good friend drunk before her wedding when I was a BM. I totally didn't mean to, but I didn't realise she'd had a glass or two before I arrived, so I perhaps slightly pressured her into another two... and let's just say that she giggled a little more than she should have during the ceremony... and I felt hideously guilty about that!