Wedding hell?

anon123456

Haven't had the wedding yet but getting married in may

Only problems we are having is the guest list. I for cost reasons as am paying mostly myelf limited church wedding guests to 60 and reception to 100.

Now to the wedding i'm inviting (including me, all family and one friend, sad i know ) a total of 12 people. I asked Sam to write a list of people she wanted before telling her my limits and she came back with 185!!!!

I then told her to cut back and she took 15 off. She invited her entire office of 55 plus partners and kids and every member of her family including 20 from canada.

Let's just say the wedding was nearly cancelled. I told her with the exception of the family from Canada if i hadn't met them by now they weren't coming. We are now down to 56 and 98.

zoesmummy_2006

the worst thing at my wedding was the morning of, when the flowers were delivered-they hadnt done my soon to be mil's buttonhole!!!!!! i was about in tears fearing she'd think i had done it on purpose (she never did lol, laughed about it when i called her crying and apologising while getting into my dress). I had major arguments with the florists who were adamant i'd told them X number when I KNOW i had told them Y number, I had everything written down order wise what for who and had given them that piece of paper!!! They fashioned something together that was similar and the groom and best man picked it up en route to the hotel where we were getting married.

Seating plan was a nightmare, i'd just got it figured and set ready to take to the hotel when my dad rang to check that i'd put certain aunts/uncles/cousins on a seperate table from some friends they'd recently fallen out with-i was not happy!!!!!! Told him that if they couldnt put it to one side for a few hours on my day then i didnt want them there.

not that any of it mattered in the end, i had a great day. Shame he ruined it all by running off with the cliched younger woman. Oh well, alls well that ends well-its my birthday today and ive got home from being out to find my Decree Absolute on the mat!!!!!!!

Mrs_P_Pincher

We had the usual stuff before the wedding. The first of OH's friends that he asked to be best man declined, then OH fell out with his second choice two weeks before (they've not spoken since), so our best man was actually third choice - and knew it. Difficult. We invited a friend without his GF as they were on a break when the invitations went out and it looked final - they were back together by the time we got married, so neither of them came.

At the reception one of DSD's mates fell off a wall, so we had the ambulance and paramedics out and then he had two days in hospital and then the following day Mr P's XW took an overdose, so instead of going on my honeymoon I was dealing with DSD who had to come to stay, and Mr P's ex inlaws. Nice.

Pleased to say it calmed down after that.

Mrs P P

Jinx

The only strop was my mum when she tried to make me have flowers for the house (which I couldnt afford) and I kept saying Id think about it and she kept saying just order them while you are here..... grrr

Then I had to put my foot down about inviting friends and family Id never met - we'd been together 4 years by the time we married - if never met them by them, they aint important.

Then my mum nearly took my eye out as we stapled draped fabric into our sunroom (where we had party). Blinked just in time and the staple bounced off my eyelid!

Hubby stood on my train repeatedly as we were stomping around getting pictures done, it was like a bad comedy every time I tried to step forward only to get lurched back! He nearly got lamped with my bouquet! lol

Definitely less hassle/pressure 2nd time around

doodoot

Wow, I wasn't expecting more than a couple of people to post! :rotfl:

Totally forgot about my DB and his band charging us!

He said it would be £300 - there's 6 of them, so we were paying him too.:mad:

We kept quiet because we expected him to give us the cash back on the day - he's renowned for playing practical jokes, so we thought he would laugh at us for thinking he really expected paying.

Wrong...his band mates drank and ate as much as poss, played for exactly 1 hour, pocketed the cash then !!!!!!ed off.

When I paid him I literally threw the money at him...we've not spoken since.

As for the wedding cost, we were extremely MSE...approx total was around the £850 mark.

Marquees were borrowed, food was free (DH is a chef and his suppliers gifted us!) and invites were free off vistaprint.

Result!

Half_pint_4

In the run up to the wedding H2B fell out with his mom who said she would not come to the wedding and she would prefer it if he married somebody else. The argument was due to future MIL deciding that purchasing a log cabin had to be done the weekend that we had arranged for the ushers to go for their fittings despite this being planned weeks in advance. H2B had left it late anyway so there was no way his younger brother (11 at the time) could have gone the following week to be measured up so was told that he would not be able to be an usher if he was not measured that day despite us asking the shop if he could go the following Monday. We even offered to have him stay over for the weekend if necessary; no he had to have a say in the choice of cabin.

She turned up on the day dressed in black and white (blended in with the waiting staff) and refused to sit on the top table; no matter we had asked somebody who treated H2B like another one of her sons and had done for a long time. When giving out gifts we included her; when DH called her up she can be heard on the video saying "what do I want a present for I have not done anything". It would have been so easy to say "we know" as everybody knew her feelings towards the wedding especially her DS's choice of bride;)

When we got to the church realised the wine had been left at our house so somebody had to go back for it.

H2B had left the price tags on the bottom of his shoes so everybody knew that he had "splashed out" on a decent pair of shoes.:p

DJ cancelled one week before the wedding so H2B contacted Ed Doolan (as you can tell it was a while ago) and asked for a DJ. We found one and have used him a number of times since so we are glad in a way that the first one cancelled.

During the reception we noticed my MIL and partner had disappeared before 9pm. Her partner wanted to go and have his usual Saturday night drink down the local and told her she would have to find her own way home if she stayed. My dad offered her a lift home if she wanted to stay; no she was going to go home!!

On honeymoon DH went in the see with the wedding certificate in his pocket; fortunately it was not an omen of things to come. As you can see from my signature, we may not have health or wealth but we do our best to make up for it with happiness.:j

danlojo

danlojo wrote: »

I punched the usher full in the face and knocked him down a set of stairs because he got very drunk and started annoying everyone and ruining the wedding. All whilst I was still in my flowing white gown

...and the moral of the story is...don't p*ss the bride off.:T

Forgot to add that this numpty was supposed to collect truncheons from the local cop shop and forgot (we were both Police and wanted a guard of honour with truncheons). Unfortunately during the service we could hear a siren as the lads on duty raced them down. Said numpty collected them at the church door only to walk along the aisle and drop all the wooden truncheons on a stone floor whilst we took our vows.

The bus that came to collect the guests after the 'do' had been double booked but we managed to squeeze all our guests and the other wedding party on. Someone standing and smoking a cig on the bus set fire to the mother of the brides hair from the other wedding party. (1988 so you could smoke on a bus then!)

When he was due to get married he was cacking himself as to what I may do but unfortunately I couldn't make it. I did think about a bomb scare but I wouldn't have been there to see it so there was no point.

gratefulforhelp_2

Mother insisted I invite mad distant cousin, when I said no, she froze me out for months. I gave in and invited her, she disgraced herself by making desperately racist comments about one of our friends. Felt a load better when a ferret tried to run up her trouser leg, her face was a picture.

SIL had only one thing to do, turn a CD player on, the fuss she made you would have thought we'd asked her to play Hamlet to thousands.

tinksy

in the run up to our wedding my hubby lost his job two months before, then we were homeless and having to live with parents hundreds of miles apart due to not having the rent money with only one job, then his grandma died and mine tried to kill herself with 4 weeks to go.

Oh and my hair dresser cancelled 3 weeks before!

Taadaa

I will tell you what went wrong at our wedding.

My new husband made a speech. I wasn't bothered whether he did or not, but he insisted. I didn't give any thought to the content of the speech until he started it. He said lovely things about his family, and a couple of nice things about my family. So of course I wondered what he would say about me. Then he sat down without saying a word about me, us, or how we met. He turned to me and said 'I didn't say anything about you...I forgot!!'

How, in God's name, do you forget the bird in the big white dress sitting next to you?