Wedding Horror Stories

TwinsRib

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[QUOTE]Last July my friends got married and the bride fell down the stairs of the chapel and broke her ankle and missed most of her own reception.  It happened after the ceremony, while she was walking down the stairs of the chapel.  Nobody knew what happened, and the rumors were flying. But I can beat that.  A decade ago a friend of the family's daughter got married.  The bride asked her little sister, who was fifteen, to be her maid of honor.  The MOH's heart stopped beating while she was walking up the stone steps to the church.  <strong>They found out later that she had a mitral valve congenital heart defect, but she died.</strong>  Needless to say, the wedding didn't happen that day.  The couple married a few months later in a private ceremony.  They named their first child after the deceased MOH. 
Posted by lizgoodman[/QUOTE]

Oh my gawd, that is so freakin sad! :-(

allisong23

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[QUOTE]. But I can beat that.  A decade ago a friend of the family's daughter got married.  The bride asked her little sister, who was fifteen, to be her maid of honor.  The MOH's heart stopped beating while she was walking up the stone steps to the church.  They found out later that she had a mitral valve congenital heart defect, but she died.  Needless to say, the wedding didn't happen that day.  The couple married a few months later in a private ceremony.  They named their first child after the deceased MOH. 
Posted by lizgoodman[/QUOTE]

Uggh. I had a friend growing up whose sister's boyfriend (who was about 21 at the time) dropped dead of a heart attack at the reheearsal dinner. I think they went through with everything the next day fir some reason.

lizgoodman

I know 

There's a lot more to the story that makes it even worse.  The girl had some severe learning disabilities and I think she was more excited about it than her sister the bride.  She talked about it for months ahead of time.  It was a day she looked forward to for a long time.  It's really sad that it couldn't have at least waited until after she got to enjoy the big day. 

lizgoodman

allisong23 - that's awful!  I can't imagine going through with a wedding after something like that.  But maybe it felt important to them, if the brother was really invested in the wedding planning, or something like that. 

allisong23

The family was kind of trashy, so nothing would have surprised me. A few years earlier, the future bride climbed a fence with some friends to get into a private pool. The cops came, so her and her friends had to climb back over the fence quickly to get away. She fell and broke her ankle. She got away from the cops, but didn't want to terll her parents what actually haqppenned. She told them she tripped over a curb. Her parents sued the city for negligence, and won some money.

Not that this makes the sister's BF's death any less tragic, but I can imagine them not cancelling the wedding so they would not lose out on the deposits.

Simply Fated

Oh wow... I'm not sure wich is worse, the sister dying or the bride bitching out her father all the way down the aisle. I want to cry for that father and for the bride of the sister.

I haven't had any experiences nearly as bad as that, but while I was working at a catering hall, the bride was being a major bitca, so the groom just took off in the limo.

polichik

I went to a gorgeous wedding in Vail, Colorado. The parents of the bride had chartered private gondolas to bring us all up to the top of the mountain (where people ski from during the summer), and the ceremony was supposed to be outside on the edge of the mountain. There were really high winds that day, so we had to go inside to wait for an hour or two while the coordinators tried to decide what to do.  They ended up moving the ceremony inside into this random room with these creaky folding chairs. I was so struck (in a wonderful way) by how the bride and groom really didn't seem to care at all. They had spent years planning the most lavish wedding that I ever attended, and in the end it really was about the actual marriage. I could see some brides freaking out or at least crying, but she was just beaming the whole time. It was one of the best ceremonies I've been to.

At another wedding of my childhood friend, the pastor/best man/groom's father (yep, you read that right) went off on this hardcore, patriarchal, Biblical sermon about how only Evangelicals have good marriages and how only 0.01% of them get divorced (blatantly untrue), and about how women should submit to their husbands and be their servants, just as we are Jesus's servants. My dad and I were sitting next to each other, and we had to work so hard to keep from laughing. I know that the B&G are religious, but they're not THAT religious. The father of the groom continued to steal the show, making a long-winded speech at the reception (which the FOB paid for, who didn't get to make a speech).

During the father/daughter dance, the FOB became really emotional and started crying... Not sweet, loving daughter crying, but CRYING crying. He left the room right after the dance, and I didn't see him for the rest of the reception. They're such a wonderful family, and I felt so sad for them. The B&G are happily married, but I always wonder about the FOG....

californiadreamin07

Well, I don't think anything I have can top ang's trauma or dying people, but here's what I have:

One of my BMs went to a wedding in Nashville.  She said that, after the wedding, a bunch of people went to the local bar (it was an afternoon wedding, but this was several hours after the reception ended).  The groom was there without the bride, who was by herself in the hotel room.  Just seems really sad.

I played a V-Day wedding back in high school (I play the harp, and much as I hate playing weddings {which I can explain if anyone cares to hear}, it's a great way to make some extra cash).  The B&G wrote their own vows, and insisted on using nicknames, both in the vows, and the "Do you..." part.  No joke, the G's nickname for the B was Muffin Butt.  I was sitting there, stuck between horror and the wild desire to fall over laughing.