Wedding hell?

Mrs_De_Bris

When I married Mr De Bris one of my bridesmaids had been steadily putting on weight as the wedding approached. On the day of the final fittings her dress had to be let out again. The lady in the shop warned my sister in law (her mother) that the dress had been let out as far as it could.

By the time we were being photographed outside of the church the side seams of her dress split and there were two gaping holes. Sister in law was furious about the dress splitting and was wanting to hassle me about it. My older brother told her "nah it's because your kids a porker" big argument followed and they refused to go to the reception..then big brother who had given me away announced in his speech..Sorry our other brother, his wife and child have left, but hey at least we will all get a shot at the cake now!

Kaz2904

Just remembered more things! Our wedding was a church wedding. The year I got married, it had 3 weddings. The vicar still managed to double book us :eek:. We didn't know until my bridesmaid was chatting to the sister of the other groom (who also happened to be the 3rd wedding that year) at work and they were both saying "No, our wedding's at 1pm!" they both raced home to let us know and we phoned the vicar in panic! The other bride was a bit of a bridezilla and was wanting loads of time to sort everything. DH and I had to keep saying no to the ridiculous times she was suggesting we got married. We were the first ones to book and had booked over a year previously. In the end, we managed to get them to go at 12.30 and we went at 1.30.
I had to send ushers down from our house to get the guests from the first wedding to leave the car park so I could walk down to the church. This took ages because they were all chatting as we all knew each other from childhood (small village!). They then had to go back down and tell everyone from our party to get into the church as they weren't going to get a glimpse of me walking down to the church they'd have to wait until we got in there!

On the way out, the photographer laid my train out and got DH and I to stop to pose for photo. Vicar picked up my dress and threw it round and said "There's no time for that, pictures outside!" And stormed off down the aisle :eek:. Bridesmaid then stood on my veil on the way out of the chair and nearly ripped my head off. My work mates were crying with laughter as I was hissing "Get off my veil!" She did and then the usher was standing on my dress. If I hadn't had DH's arm, I'd have landed flat on my back!

When my bridesmaid got married, the florist delivered the bouquets and she started howling because they were wrong. Cue me frantically ringing around and trying to get them back to get it sorted- phew made it!

GobbledyGook

Weddings definately bring out the worst in people.

We had a small wedding in terms of numbers. Think we had 40 people in the end and no more at night. We booked a big house and we all went away for the weekend.

I had my cousin as my only BM and her daughter (my god-daughter) as my only flowergirl. MIL's sister pestered for her granddaughter to be a flowergirl, but I'd never met the child as they live miles and miles away and she was only 18 months old. My husband was fuming when they turned up with the little girl in a white flowergirl dress with a burgundy corsage. Aunty-in-law was fuming that I hadn't told her my colour scheme had changed from burgundy to royal blue so thankfully she just looked like her parents and GP's were trying to make her a FG rather than looking like one.

The people delivering the fish made a huge mistake and delivered halibut instead of salmon so the people who ordered the salmon were in for a surprise :rotfl:

The hair dresser got the wrong day and for some reason thought we were getting married on the Sunday. So I ended up doing my BM and FG's hair and my own.

My dress was the wrong colour - I ordered white and they delivered ivory, but TBH I left all the worrying to everyone else. I wasn't that bothered, I just wanted to get married. It's why I put my foot down on a huge wedding and silly expensive food choices. It was lovely as it was, I didn't see the need to spend extra money on 'stuff'. If ex H had had his way he'd have spent a fortune.

nlw_2

Idiophreak wrote: »

Feel really bad for you. It's sad when people are given the honour of being a bridesmaid and don't take the responsibility at all seriously. Fair enough, they may be skint etc - but they should *always* cover the cost to the bride. The more damning issue here, however, is that they clearly didn't give a **** about organising the thing. At least it sounds like your OH has some better friends than you do.

I got my own back when I was Chief bridesmaid to my Chief bridesmaid, I was just as disinterested as she was for mine! Funnily enough since then we haven't really bothered with seeing eachother, only a few texts now and again. But after her attitude at our wedding I'm glad I don't have much to do with her!

Her boyfriend went on my husbands stag do, and said how brilliant it was. Unfortunatley his friends & best man done exactly the same to him what my bridesmaid's done to me and really let him down for his stag do. He was really upset and my chief bridesmaid came moaning to me about how his friends have let him down and she's really upset. I piped up maybe you know how I felt then! :eek:

From a bridesmaid point of view their wedding issues were...
Bride bought a dress way too early and lost lots of weight, she paid more for alterations than what the dress was worth.

It rained so the food planned for outside had to be brought inside and served on platters, so the inevitable happened if you were near the door you got as much food as you liked, if you were at the back of the room you were lucky to get anything. It was a free for all!

The cake had previously been ordered with a relative of mine who had made my cake, brides mother decided to cancel it and get her friend to do it. The friend stacked the cakes on top of each other whilst the icing was wet, resulting in the cake collapsing a small bit and uneven bumpy icing.