Wedding hell?

mwa

Ooooh I love this thread!

We had an awkward family of 2 adults who insisted on bringing their 2 older children as they couldn't find a babysitter so we grudgingly said OK, our day doo consisted of a sit down meal and cost 60quid a head so this family (DH's work mate) came to 240, yep you guessed it they didn't show ont he day and of course we had to pay grrrrrr

Both my MIL, step MIL and own mother ALL wore cream head to toe!!!!! :rotfl:

My MIL 'accidentally' punched me in the face when she threw the confetti:eek:

My BIL was caught by his wife snogging another guest in the gardens and proceeded to punch him in the face, he had blood running down his shirt:eek:

It was a great day and our marriage is brilliant, although we're still paying it off now and will be for anotehr 18 months (5 years of paying for one very expensive day!)

Taadaa

mwa that sounds like a proper soap opera wedding

FatVonD

BIL and SIL got lost on the way to the wedding with all the buttonholes in their car

BIL and SIL accidentally left all our champagne at home

SIL wore a floor length red satin dress (my wedding dress was red)

My ever so slightly tipsy best friend (who was our witness) got a bit over excited and kissed us both before we'd kissed each other

DH drank 16 pints of cider and was too hungover to get the flight for our honeymoon

KateBob

neneromanova wrote: »

Please tell me his bride didn't turn up wearing her dress aswell!

Yep she did, but since they had a registry office do it was a blue trouser suit so was perfectly acceptable. I presume his bride to be knew all about the clash of dates just like him.

The day was fun packed for that side of my family!

His sister is a hair dresser and had decided to do my and my bridemaids hair as her present, only to find out she was expected to do her SIL2B's hair too that day.
It ment she ended up doing our hair really early before her brothers wedding and then rushing back afterwards to finish it off.

I must have been feeling very generous that day as I asked my photographer to take some photo's of them on the day as they didn't have any taken

As I say the only real shame is the marriage didn't last

Looby_-_Lou_2

One of our evening guests decided it was an opportune moment to tell anyone who would listen that my sister's (now ex) boyfriend had recently been arrested for downloading child !!!!!!.

As not even my poor sister was aware of this it put a bit of a dampner on the evening - just glad we didn't find out until we got back from our honeymoon.

Sad thing is he features in quite a few wedding photos so I very rarely get the album out.:(

fannyanna

Not really wedding hell but I thought I'd share....

SIL offered to make our wedding invites for us. She didn't quite get round to completing them though so despite me chasing her up a few times I ended up having to make them myself otherwise we wouldn't have been able to invite our guests. She then charged me - I wouldn't have minded so much if she's actually finished them.

Hubbies family (particularly his Nan) kept bugging me before the wedding about his daughter being my bridesmaid. I wasn't having bridesmaids and as mean as it sounds even if I had wanted bridesmaids she'd be the last person I'd want. She was sent to the wedding wearing a white bridesmaid dress. Plenty of our guests understandably presumed she was my bridesmaid. I was (and still am - yes I know I'm a bitter old cow :rotfl:) furious.

anmarj

ermm possibly his family. Everything was about them and how they wanted it (traditional came a swear word in my opion!) when we were deciding where to get married OH said that it would be expected that we would get married in the church. I ended becomming the bride to be from hell and OH did not help by turning around and saying I had a point but not stand up to his family. His brother had to be best man, they complained about the times that they had to leave his parents house, forgetting that the bus which we used had to go from one end of the town to the other to pick the bridesmaids up and then go back for me all for a 1pm start. as is happen the best man and his family were late making me late! I made it clear to OH if I heard the word traditional one more time from his side, nobody but us and our two best friends would be present:eek: Even on the day at the reception his mum muttered the word and I had to tell her that "we" had decided we did not want the cards read out no matter what the tradition was.

should say that my mother decided she would try and shove confetti down my dress outside the church and start an arguement at the reception with me!

marywooyeah

I lost my job 5 months before the wedding so had to scrabble around a bit to keep in budget but managed it.

My MIL was going to be my maid of honour, all the bridesmaids dresses were planned around the style she wanted. 2 weeks before the wedding my OH told me while we were walking round wilkos that she was worried about having her photo taken, and loads of other stuff which basically led me to ask "So does she not want to be MOH then?" - she didnt even have the decency to tell me herself and when I text to ask she sent one back "thanking me for being so understanding". I'd even sourced a pair of discontinued shoes in a size 3 for her which took me 2 months to find. She said she didnt want to be the centre of attention (which she wouldnt anyway as she wasnt the bride!) or have her photo taken.

Then 7 days before the wedding she threw a massive 50th birthday party for herself with all the relatives, where she was obviously the centre of attention, and told me she'd be upset if I didnt come. She then turned up to the wedding wearing the same colour as the bridesmaids and happily posed for photos.

My mum turned up the day before 2 days late and told me she was staying at my house, so the night before my wedding I slept on the sofa while she had my bed, then she left in the morning at 9am leaving me alone with my son for 3 hours until my remaining bridesmaids (another one had dropped out some time before) arrived around midday.

My dad didn't leave london for nottingham until 10:30 (wedding was at 4) and came in to my house, walked past me having my hair done to use the loo before going to the church, barely even said hello.

For what was supposed to be the happiest day of my life, I certainly felt lonely and stressed out by all these events. thankfully once we got to the church everything went well. there was a hurricane which ruined our honeymoon - but that's a different story!

marywooyeah

fannyanna wrote: »

She was sent to the wedding wearing a white bridesmaid dress. Plenty of our guests understandably presumed she was my bridesmaid. I was (and still am - yes I know I'm a bitter old cow :rotfl:) furious.

thats awful! I don't think its wrong to be angry about that at all they basically forced you to have a bridesmaid you said you didnt want! I feel sorry for the girl being used by the family like that too.

System

Wow, reading this thread makes me realise how lucky we were! No big dramas, and all the little dramas were either headed off by attentive and thoughtful family or so minor that they just added to the memory of the day.

All the flowers were delivered to the house I was staying at, when we were only supposed to be getting the bouqets and the button-holes. I had barely been made aware of this before my BIL and aunt had arranged to drive the rest of the flowers over to the reception.

The classic car was supposed to come with two big, black umbrellas in case of rain. It was August, so they obviously didn't double-check. Of course, it was pouring with rain and there were no umbrellas to be seen in the car. My dad texted the best man on the way to the church and told him to have the ushers ready and waiting outside with umbrellas for me and the rest of the bridal party - luckily, pretty much every guest had brought an umbrella, so there were plenty going spare!

My step-mum was driving my bridesmaids (my SIL and two sisters) to the church. They left before me, and then dad got a frantic phone call from my step-mum - she was lost and stuck in traffic! They arrived about five minutes after me in the end, but while we were waiting (me outside, guests inside) the vicar made a wonderful point of telling the congregation that the bride was on time for once - but the bridesmaids were running late. It was definitely a talking point for the guests.

Then we had the fact that it rained the whole day - and not just showers, but full-on pelting it down rain. No drama from this, but lots of "The rain hasn't dampened our spirits..." in the speeches!

Our families really pulled through for us, as well. With divorces on both sides and one step-parent each, you never know what's going to happen (despite reasonably amicable relations between all parties), but everyone was lovely. Oh, and there's also the fact that my entire family is tee-total while DH's family drink like fishes. I was expecting something to go wrong on that front, but I was pleasantly surprised!