Yahoo Lifestyle 21 Supremely Wild Wedding Stories That Prove These Occasions Are Farrrrr From Joyous And Magical
We wrote a post about some of the wildest things people have ever seen at weddings, and chat, their experiences were downright bananas.
Their stories inspired our BuzzFeed Community to share their own stories, proving that weddings aren't always joyous and full of bliss.
So, here are some of the wildest things people have ever witnessed at weddings:
Note: Some stories include topics of domestic abuse. Please proceed with caution.
1."I attended a colleague's wedding in a very old cathedral in the summer without air conditioning. It was super hot — probably in the nineties. First, a grandmother passed out because of the heat. Then, the little ring bearer threw up and passed out. They paused the ceremony but decided to go on with it anyway. When they got to the vows, the priest stopped and told the bride that she didn't have to go through with it. He always thought she should be a nun. She burst out in tears. The groom just blasted a punch into the priest's face. Right away, a bunch of other priests and assistants came out of a side entrance, and pretty much everyone in the audience under 40 got up."
"There was a bunch of shoving and a few more punches thrown from both sides before someone got everything under control. A different priest went through the vows in about five seconds, and everyone left for the reception in about 10 seconds.
The bride was crying the whole time, and the groom looked like he wanted to find the first priest and beat the crap out of him."
—Anonymous
2."Many years ago, my folks' neighbors had their only daughter’s wedding at a hotel. During the ceremony, the awning fell on top of the bridal party. During the reception/dinner, a waiter had a glass punch bowl break in his hands, and the punch spilled all over. A waitress behind him slipped in the punch, fell, and spilled a tray of food. Then, during the dance, a water pipe burst into the ceiling, and the band and dance floor were sprayed with water. Everyone said it was a sign. Their marriage only lasted about two years."
—Anonymous
3."My husband and I got married right after we both got our master's degrees and had quite a few friends from college at our wedding. During my husband's freshman year, he and his roommate both asked out the same girl who turned them down, but they all remained friends. Then, I came along in their junior year and went on a few dates with my husband's roommates. We didn't quite hit it off, but we became good friends, and I ended up dating my now-husband instead all through college. The girl who had rejected them both was FURIOUS that she now had to share their attention with me. She wore a beige dress that was COVERED in a white floral pattern to our wedding. She told everyone she could that if she hadn't rejected my husband before I came along, he'd be marrying her instead and that I was such a 'step down' from her."
"Luckily, my bridesmaids and girlfriends had my back and publicly called her out during the reception and demanded that she leave. She left crying, and we carried on partying without her."
—Anonymous
4."A guest showed up with an acoustic guitar. In the middle of the speeches, he asked the MC if he could sing a song for the happy couple, and the MC allowed it. This guy proceeds to sing a song that he 'was going to sing on his wedding day, but that’s not gonna happen…' and goes into this depressing song that was a metaphor for him being a tree and being 'chopped down.' Neither the bride or groom knew who he was. Apparently, he was a plus one to someone’s cousin. Imagine going to a wedding where you don’t know anyone, BRINGING YOUR OWN GUITAR, and performing during the reception? It was wild."
—Anonymous
5."I was a bridesmaid in a wedding where one of the other bridesmaids had feelings for the groom. She kept going on and on about how similar they were (apparently, this only started right before the wedding). I quietly offered to throw down, but my friend said to ignore her. The bride and groom had talked about it — I think they ghosted her after the wedding."
6."A friend of mine got his girlfriend pregnant, and they decided they should get married. The whole time they dated, it was very toxic. They argued all the time. He had many close friends and a very active social life, and she was the opposite. She had very few friends and a very boring social life. Many of the arguments they had were over his friends and the amount of time he spent with those friends. They both liked to drink, which made the arguments even more heated. Both families were well off, and the wedding and reception were held at a swanky resort in the Southwest desert. The dance floor at the venue was on an outdoor balcony overlooking the desert and nearby mountains. When it came time for their dance, they made their way to the dance floor while all the attendees circled around and cheered."
"About halfway through the dance, the groom pushed the bride away and screamed, ‘Fuck you, c*nt!’ He then takes his wedding band off his finger and throws it off the balcony into the desert darkness, and storms out to the parking lot.
They still ended up going on their honeymoon. The next day, his friends found his ring in the desert. They lasted about five years before getting divorced.
None of his friends were surprised at what happened — they were just surprised at how long it took them to get divorced."
—Anonymous
7."My husband's daughter had asked the groom’s sisters to stand up for her at her wedding. The sisters are conservative, and the bridesmaid dresses were a very contemporary, sexy, off-the-shoulder style and were rather revealing. One of the sisters was mortified when she saw the dress and said she could not participate. She finally and reluctantly agreed, but as she was standing in front of the church, she began to throw up and started to faint. My husband, who had walked his daughter down the aisle, ran over, cupped his hands and caught the mess. Then he helped the poor gal out of the church. The wedding carried on, but some of the magic was lost."
—Anonymous
8."I went to a wedding reception a few years ago, and a woman at another table had her hair caught on fire. She had long hair and reached over the table for something that was over a candle. She was fine, but the whole room smelled like burned hair."
9."The bride said 'NO' at the altar — she literally walked back down the aisle and out the door. The groom stood there for a moment and then went to a side room. The minister followed the groom, then came back and said that while the wedding was off, the reception would go forward since the food was already there. It was an awkward reception, and nobody stayed long after eating. Why did they 'want' to get married, you ask? The bride was pregnant, and they thought it was the 'right thing to do.' She decided that pregnancy was not a good reason to marry after all. She had the baby, and they ended up raising the child together (but in a romantic partnership)."
10."On the night of the wedding, I (the wedding planner) brought the bottle of champagne up to the room along with some other things we did for a wedding night. I quickly opened the door and walked straight in. The bride was bent over a chair with her wedding dress over her head, having sex with the best man."
11."The worst thing I ever saw at a wedding was when one of the catering employees dumped an entire tray of champagne on a wedding guest. The tray had about 15 full glasses on it. This was during the best man's speech...and spoiler: the catering employee was me. This happened around two hours into a six-hour shift, which then turned into the four most mortifying hours of my life. The lady I dumped it on was so incredibly nice, but her husband was not, and I seriously thought he was gonna beat me up at one point 😬."
12."I have helped out a friend with a few weddings. During one of the weddings, the bride and groom hardly talked the entire wedding. It was like they had nothing in common. Then later on, the groom pretty much fucked off halfway through and went home because (and I quote): 'He was tired.' So he just left his bride taking pictures with the wedding guests on her own. He never came back that evening, so she had to greet everyone off — about a year later, I heard they filed for divorce."
13."A few years ago, my cousin was getting married — the man she was marrying was 'perfect' for her. I was jealous because I wanted something like they had. Anyway, the day of the wedding comes, and her maid of honor (sister) and her soon-to-be husband were nowhere to be found. Well, she's waiting in the church, and one of the groomsmen came in with a handwritten letter from her fiancé. Turns out her sister and fiancé had been sleeping together for a while. She was pregnant, and they ran off to Vegas to get married — so, no wedding."
14."I went to the wedding of one of my husband's close friends, and everything was going wonderful until about three hours in. The bride's grandma was unresponsive. We were sitting right next to her table when she fell on the floor not breathing. Our other friend (an EMT) ended up performing CPR on her until the paramedics came (he said he felt her ribs cracking under his hands). The wedding promptly ended as the bride and groom went to the hospital with grandma. She passed away in the hospital that night after an emergency surgery."
15."It was my own wedding. We got married at 19 and planned the whole thing in less than a month (because for some reason, despite already having been together for five years at that point, we were like, 'We have to get married NOW'). I truly do not know why. It wasn't even a religious thing — just a dumb teenage brain moment I guess. Everyone got food poisoning from our cheap cake — literally everyone. We spent our honeymoon in bed throwing up. I got calls all day from people telling me they were also throwing up. We were too sick to drive home, so my new brother-in-law (who had skipped the cake) had to drive several hours to come rescue us from a hotel and take us back home. Truly a nightmare."
16."My (ex) best friend showed up with her teenage daughter wearing a white gown and told my new sister-in-law to 'go fuck herself' in front of my new husband. Then, she told my new nephew that he was greedy for asking to take cake back for his girlfriend who just had a baby."
"Then she invited herself to my honeymoon suite hours later, and she was drunk and cried about still not being divorced from her ex and remarried to her boyfriend.
Since I had to wait for a cab before I felt comfortable 'releasing' her, my new husband and I listened to her cry about her life until she was picked up. The cab took 15 minutes, and she stripped down to her underwear (in front of my husband) and got into my suite's hot tub while I quickly used the bathroom (to compose myself). I had to drag her out of my hot tub and send her to the cab soaking wet. Of course, we then needed confirmation from her boyfriend that she was home safe and sound.
She was 43 at my wedding. We still talk, but not as much, and she knows exactly why. She was jealous I was getting married, and she made the lead-up difficult. On the day of the wedding, she lost a friend, and I gained a backbone with her. Yaaaaay, lol."
17."At a relative's wedding, the groom's ex showed up and revealed he had a son the new bride knew nothing about. The child was conceived while the groom was in a relationship with his bride. The bride did know about the daughter he had fathered while they were 'on a break' with a different woman and thought that was the last of his infidelity. But, it turns out his other ex was also still his 'side-piece.' There was no question that the young boy was actually his son, either — he looked just like his dad!"
"They did still get married. The flower girl got to meet her new 'brother from another mother,' and they are still married a decade later. She complains she still thinks he cheats on her (he does)."
"That's a scene straight out of a bad rom-com."
18."It was my brother-in-law’s wedding (it was his second wedding because he had cheated on his long-time spouse with another woman from business school). As fate would have it, his second wedding was to this woman from business school. Understandably, her family knew nothing about his previous marriage or the extent of his infidelity (or that she was a 'home wrecker'). During the best man's speech, his best friend from childhood accidentally called his new wife by the previous wife’s name (not once, but twice). They both had to face the 'shame' of their past indiscretions to all of their family and friends on the night of their wedding."
"She rushed away, fuming, to hide in the bathroom, and the photographer, clueless, got a picture of her as an 'action shot.' It ended up being the cover photo of their virtual wedding album.
It was beautiful karmic justice and the wildest thing I’ve ever seen at a wedding. It was definitely the worst thing the new bride had also seen at a wedding, but if you make your bed, you gotta lay in it."
19."Mine was a wedding I worked at, and the bride had been on a cleanse to lose weight for the wedding. But at the reception, she ate everything and drank a lot and ended up getting super sick about an hour into the four-hour reception. Me, another bartender, a waitress, and the event coordinator followed her into the bathroom and tried to help her. Her mom had to run out and buy a simple white dress because hers was ruined. They played it off like it was an intentional outfit change so she could dance, but I think people knew. I think about her a lot — I still feel bad for her."
20."My husband played the trumpet at our church's Christian Education Leader's wedding, who happened to be a lesbian. He's played at weddings before, but this was his first lesbian wedding. Both women walked down the aisle with their designated family members. My husband accidentally ended the wedding intro song too early, as he ended it before the second bride walked down the aisle. It was so quiet as she walked down. My husband was so embarrassed about his brain fart. Fortunately, the second bride forgave us, saying that she was so nervous before the wedding that the silence gave the others in attendance something to focus on and not her. So, her nerves went away."
21.And finally, "The first wedding I ever attended as an adult was last year. I was a plus one to a friend from high school's friend who was marrying her high school boyfriend. For context, I literally didn’t know anyone there. I was just a date for a friend who needed one. The ceremony went well — it was a lovely wedding. Fast forward to the reception at this big estate type of house with a lovely garden and pool. The mother of the groom got absolutely drunk and was becoming increasingly intense as the night went on. It came around time to cut the cake, and the mother of the groom was nowhere to be seen. At the same time this is happening, we all hear yelling from outside, walk out the doors, and lo and behold, she is fully naked in the pool, borderline drowning. Her husband had to jump in to get her out while we all averted our eyes. It was most certainly a very eventful first wedding."
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