Article help - Wedding mishaps.

Knot Annie · December 2010

Hi E!

We’re looking for wedding disasters and mishaps for an upcoming Yahoo article. Not so much “She left him at the alter” kind of thing, but more lighthearted like,” a leak in the wedding tent at the reception when it started raining” or “the baker tripped and drop the wedding cake.” (This actually happened at my brother’s wedding with his Elvis-themed grooms cake.) I’d love to hear your stories and appreciate your help in advance. Leave them below.

Thank you,

Annie

salt78 · December 2010

Not at the wedding itself, but my MOH threw up on our rehearsal dinner cruise because the waves were really choppy.

noodle_oo · December 2010

A recent wedding we attended had a pretty big mishap! The coordinator was supposed to make sure there were 14 tables of 10 seats each, but for some reason they screwed up and had 12 tables of 12 seats instead! Unfortunately the seating cards were alredy made up and no one figured it out until there were a bunch of guests milling around who couldn't find their tables (numbers 13 and 14!). The staff quickly added 2 more tables, but it was rather embarassing!!!

The same weddng also ran out of food at the buffet...

alixzafiris · December 2010

It reached 45 degrees Celsius (113F) at my outdoor wedding in August. We'd had a cool, rainy summer and totally hadn't planned for this one freak hot day. The groomsmen ended up driving into town and buying bags of ice and bottles of water and paper fans for our guests. Oops.

ETA: a note to everyone, if you're renting a classic car for the trip to/from your venue in the summer, make sure it has air conditioning... *face-palm*

Knot Annie · December 2010

Oh Salt, that's a good one. Your poor MOH. Sounds like a fun RD though.

danieliza1127 · December 2010

Oh hi! Well, I almost had a very serious wardrobe malfunction, if you know what I mean. We did a presentation of roses to our parents, and as I hugged my Step-Dad, a strap popped on my dress! Thankfully I had two straps on each side, because if I hadn't, everyone would have seen...well..everything! I just panicked for a second, put the strap back where it was supposed to be so it would look okay, and continued on. We finished the ceremony and afterward, I ran to the bridal room and my MOH pinned it back in place so we could get on with pictures. It was a freak out moment for sure, but thank God for those double straps!!

MeaghanandMichael · December 2010

On the way to the wedding rehearsal my husband got pulled over for going 40 in a 25mph zone. He looked at the cop and said, "no ticket amount is going to scare me more than if I am late for my own rehearsal and my fiancee notices!" The cop died laughing but still gave him a ticket, booo!

Stackeye210 · December 2010

Our first dance song cut off in the middle. Apparently the DJ didn't listen to make sure he downloaded a complete version of the song.

Also, our reception was at a city run golf course that doesn't turn their A/C on until a specific date. We had our reception before that date, on an unusually warm 87 degree May day. It got pretty warm in there and there was nothing the staff could do.

georgia_bride09 · December 2010

When I was MOH in my best friend's wedding in Illinois, a tornado siren went off RIGHT BEFORE the ceremony was supposed to start. We had to hurry down into the basement ahead of all the guests so nobody would see the bride, then we all (the bride, the MOB, and all the BM's) had to sit in a large closet while the rest of the guests filed into the larger room next door. We sat there for 20-30 minutes before it stopped and we could come back up. After we got everyone back into place, the wedding went off without a hitch.

A tornado had touched down a few blocks over. I don't think anyone was hurt, but it was a close call!!

arbolita · December 2010

Backstory: For some reason, after my H's dad married his second wife, he changed the way he pronounced his last name, and it adds an extra syllable. My H has never pronounced his last name this way.

At the wedding: We had gone over with our DJ multiple times how to say our last name, which is 4 letters and not difficult. Well, before he went to introduce all the parents/bridal party, he was checking with everyone to make sure he said their names correctly. Unfortunately, after he asked my FIL, he completely forgot or ignored what I had told him, and pronounced our last name wrong all night. I guess it's kind of funny now, but I'm annoyed that in all our videos from the wedding, you hear him saying the wrong last name.

LDYGTR13 · December 2010

My BM's and I were late getting to the venue - so one of my BM's called her husband, a GM who SHOULD have been in the same car with my FI. He gave us the run around saying that they were going to Mexico instead of the venue, etc. Then, when we finally made it to the venue, FI and another GM pulled up right next to us.

It was super important to us that FI didn't see me before the wedding, so I was PISSED at his GM that was giving us the run around. I slammed my fist on the dashboard and cursed on my way to hide under the dashboard. I ended up hitting it so hard that the glovebox in my MOH's car popped open and I broke it a bit trying to hide from the guys.

FI never saw me, but he ALMOST did - I would have probably killed someone lol

Knot Annie · December 2010

Dani, you almost pulled a Janet Jackson. Who thought to put two straps on your dress or was it designed that way?

Alix- I'm temped to ask about your makeup in this weather and how it held up. Every brides worst nightmare.

These are great so far. Keep them coming and thank you!

lyndausvi · December 2010

We decided to have our September wedding at a beach in NJ instead our home in St Thomas because of hurricanes (and it was closer to our families).

Sounds smart right?

Tropical Storm Hannah and her 60+ wind driven rains hit on our wedding day. No beach wedding for us. We had to move in under the tent, which btw collasped the morning of and we had to have pay extra for some guys hang around to make sure it didn't fall down at the wedding. Having a tent wedding during a TS was interesting. At least the open bar and great food helped people forget.

apparently St Thomas was beautiful that weekend, go figure.

alixzafiris · December 2010

Oh M&M you reminded me, we were driving to our rehearsal dinner (and had my MOH, a bridesmaid and a guest from the UK) in our rental car and rear-ended a car that cut us off (thankfully her car was perfectly fine) and smooshing the hood of the rental car. The cop let us off when we told him where we were headed but we still had the repair costs for the rental.

alixzafiris · December 2010

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/wedding-boards_etiquette_article-wedding-mishaps?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Wedding%20BoardsForum:9Discussion:3c07b613-a8d8-46d8-bd1b-dec8a9b3b581Post:3724e04c-b30d-4138-9edb-fa4983ac906d">Re: Article help - Wedding mishaps.</a>:
[QUOTE]Alix- I'm temped to ask about your makeup in this weather and how it held up. Every brides worst nightmare.
Posted by Knot Annie[/QUOTE]

Amazingly, it was perfectly fine (I had to blot shininess obviously but it stayed on) she primed my face and it was airbrush so it stuck like crazy. I did lose eight pounds though, my boobs had to be photoshopped back into the pictures at the end of the day ;)

georgia_bride09 · December 2010

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/wedding-boards_etiquette_article-wedding-mishaps?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Wedding BoardsForum:9Discussion:3c07b613-a8d8-46d8-bd1b-dec8a9b3b581Post:44ef7e12-e6be-46b3-834c-f97780a9c45d">Re: Article help - Wedding mishaps.</a>:
[QUOTE]Also, our reception was at a city run golf course that doesn't turn their A/C on until a specific date. We had our reception before that date, on an unusually warm 87 degree May day. It got pretty warm in there and there was nothing the staff could do.
Posted by Stackeye210[/QUOTE]

Our reception was also very hot. We didn't find out until day-of that the A/C wasn't very reliable at our venue, so instead of people dancing inside, everyone pretty much milled around outside. So much for booking a DJ! Luckily, the weather outside was gorgeous (early April) so nobody got too hot.

pinkpinot · December 2010

The GF of one of the GM stormed out of our reception screaming profanities because someone accidentally spilled butter on the GM's shirt. To make it worse, it was a DW and we didn't have a DJ so it was a very quiet, intimate dinner. I wanted to die. Who does that at a wedding, especially a wedding in Jamaica? Come on mon, be happy!

Night_Sprite · December 2010

This isn't my story, but my mom loves to tell it. They got married in the spring on an unseasonally hot day in April. It was so hot that the taper candles for their unity candle burned down in about 15 minutes. They had to pry them out of their wax pools on the altar to light the unity candle.

danieliza1127 · December 2010

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/wedding-boards_etiquette_article-wedding-mishaps?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Wedding%20BoardsForum:9Discussion:3c07b613-a8d8-46d8-bd1b-dec8a9b3b581Post:3724e04c-b30d-4138-9edb-fa4983ac906d">Re: Article help - Wedding mishaps.</a>:
[QUOTE]Dani, you almost pulled a Janet Jackson. Who thought to put two straps on your dress or was it designed that way?
Posted by Knot Annie[/QUOTE]

Thankfully it was designed that way! You can see them in this picture. This was after it had been pinned and fixed up after the ceremony. It was the strap closest to my H in this picture.

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Birdie1483 · December 2010

My friends who got married this past summer hired a limo to drive them and their wedding party from the ceremony to the reception. After the ceremony, they found out the limo guy had called to tell them that the limo had to pull over onto the side of the highway and caught fire. Needless to say, my friends and their wedding party ended up driving themselves to the reception.

akhensley81 · December 2010

I can't think of any major mishaps. But we had one major misunderstanding... We had 2 groomsmen stick us with their hotel bill. We got a call from the hotel on the Monday after the wedding, and they told us that when the groomsmen (2 brothers) checked out, they told the concierge that "the bride and groom said they'll pay for it."

Apparently, several months before the wedding, H had told these two that we could help them pay for their room if they needed. H totally forgot about that conversation... until we got the call from that hotel.

We couldn't get a hold of the brothers to see if they could help at all, so I ended up just going down there and paying off the room. When she gave me the reciept - on top of 2 nights at this nice hotel, they had ordered over $200 worth of room service and movies. Ugh!!

georgia_bride09 · December 2010

Oh! And I found out day-of that our baker "hadn't received payment for the groom's cake". So instead of getting the groom's cake we'd ordered, we got a sheet cake with a picture screened onto it, like you see at grocery stores. She worked with my caterer, so I blame them both for this not coming up before I found out AT THE RECEPTION.

A) My MIL had paid.

The baker had posted it to someone else's account.
C) The baker never called any of us to say she hadn't received payment.
D) When my MIL asked why she hadn't called, she said she wasn't "an ambulance chaser and couldn't keep up with that".

Needless to say, MIL got her money back and we've been NOT recommending this baker ever since.

She also messed up the wedding cupcakes, but I don't even want to talk about it. Worst vendor ever.

Beachy730 · December 2010

H got ready at his grandparent's house with the guys, and walked into a desk and tore a hole into the pants of his tux. But he didn't notice until right before the limo got there, so he had to frantically call the tux shop for a replacement pair, but luckily they got him a new pair in time.

marissa_claire · December 2010

My MIL injured her hip and went into shock. She left in an ambulance. It was mostly scary because when she was in shock it looked like she was dying. The party kind of died after that, which I didn't mind too much. I was just glad she was okay!

LesPaul · December 2010

My cake collapsed. It was a full sheet, with a triangular stack in the corner 3 layers high. The baker didn't reinforce the stack, and it slid off the cake all over the antique buffet where it was displayed. Fortunately we already had pictures, and it was delicious.
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opalsky007 · December 2010

We showed up to our ceremony venue three days before the wedding. They'd been doing construction and the place was a wreck--sawdust everywhere, piles of lumber, the pipe organ was sitting in pieces all over the room. We knew it would take weeks to get the place looking halfway decent.

Thankfully our decline rate was so high that we were able to squeeze everyone into the small chapel that we never thought we'd be able to use. It was a blessing in disguise, I guess. So three days before the wedding we changed to a different venue and started repurposing decor we'd purchased. It wound up being beautiful but was pretty stressful at the time.

marriedfilingjointly · December 2010

When our priest said "I present to you Mr. and Mrs. _____" he said the wrong name. It wasn't that he didn't know or forgot, he just misspoke--it was his first wedding and he was pretty nervous through the whole thing. We just laughed. He felt so bad about it but we assured him that it was fine and that most likely no one noticed. But whenever I run into someone I haven't seen since the wedding, they always say "I will never forget at your wedding you guys were announced as Mr. and Mrs. Clark."

waltzingmatilda13 · December 2010

Our ceremony was almost rained out. We planned on getting married on a deck outside our reception venue and when I walked in to get ready around 3pm the sun was shining with just a few clouds in the sky. I was tucked away into a windowless room and didn't know that it was suddenly cloudy, cool and windy 2 hours later. The GMs had to seat the guests and hurry them back inside 3 different times because it started sprinkling. The GM all rushed into my room with a minute to spare before the ceremony and we knocked it out. I caught one or two rain drops during the ceremony and mentioned to DH how nice it was that it didn't really rain. It wasn't until we were at the airport on the way to Mexico the next day that he told me we almost didn't get married outside because of the rain.

[Deleted User] · December 2010

My brother was a ringbearer like, 10/11 years ago (so he was about 6 years old), and he was with the groomsmen in the city. The wedding was about an hour away at our nearby hometown.

They had to get into other cousin's (locked) house to grab the rings, so to do this, one of them (cousin's brother) knew that the window was unlocked, so they'd have to pop it open from the outside. Of course they threw my brother in the window, being the smallest.

They were about half an hour from the city when they got a phone call from my cousin, the homeowner. Turns out, the neighbors called the cops on a bunch of guys in suits throwing a child in the window, and showed up at my cousin's house right when he got home from work.

My brother was nicknamed the runaway 6 year old burglar at the reception. It was funny!

akhensley81 · December 2010

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/wedding-boards_etiquette_article-wedding-mishaps?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Wedding BoardsForum:9Discussion:3c07b613-a8d8-46d8-bd1b-dec8a9b3b581Post:cd0aad12-6893-48e4-8443-9bdccd0f5e3d">Re: Article help - Wedding mishaps.</a>:
[QUOTE]When our priest said "I present to you Mr. and Mrs. _____" he said the wrong name. It wasn't that he didn't know or forgot, he just misspoke--it was his first wedding and he was pretty nervous through the whole thing. We just laughed. He felt so bad about it but we assured him that it was fine and that most likely no one noticed. But whenever I run into someone I haven't seen since the wedding, they always say "I will never forget at your wedding you guys were announced as Mr. and Mrs. Clark."
Posted by marriedfilingjointly[/QUOTE]

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.

opalsky007 · December 2010

Tiff, that sounds like something out of a sitcom. That's fantastic.

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