Yahoo News 17 Weddings Stories That Are Baffling, Wild, And Downright Shocking (If You Want My Correct Opinion)
Recently Reddit user SpankBankManager asked the community, "What's the worst thing you've seen happen at a wedding?"
And ohhhhhh my lordy, did these folks witness some wild events! Like, if I were to ever attend these weddings, I'd probably avoid getting married at all costs (not exaggerating here, people).
So, here are some truly shocking things that have happened at weddings:
Note: Some submissions were pulled from this Reddit thread by user u/NickWhite566.
1."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."
2."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, walked out the doors, and lo and behold, she was 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."
3."I saw a woman (the 'best friend' of the groom) get drunk and loudly confess her being in love with the groom. The wife even said, 'I fucking knew it, you bitch!' She was escorted out, and everything went as planned. The new wife looked SMUG. You could literally see the 'that bitch is FINALLY getting cut out' running through her head."
4."My cousin’s wife’s brother got super high and drunk at her wedding reception. He got upset about something and then decided he was going to drive home. His dad said absolutely not and took his keys away from him. They ended up eventually getting into a fistfight that made its way out into the parking lot, where the bride’s brother punched a car window out. The groomsmen then jumped in to tackle him, there was blood everywhere, they called the cops, and the bride’s mother was bawling. The bride’s brother ended up getting arrested, and the bridesmaids used their little Tide To Go pens to try and get blood out of groomsmen’s suits."
5."My S.O. told me about a wedding she attended before we met. It was a typical Finnish summer wedding. There was a band, a lot of people, and a lot of booze. The venue had a cloakroom with that low desk at the front. People left their drinks on that desk to go dancing. Children were attending, too. A seven-year-old boy had drank all the drinks from the desk and passed out. He was vomiting and completely unresponsive when the ambulance arrived. He spent the night at the hospital, and child protective services got involved. A 12-year-old girl had noticed the boy's state and informed some adults, who then took the necessary actions."
6."The mother of the groom was in floods of tears during the reception, accompanied by the groom's most recent ex. The groom had been shagging her during the engagement, unbeknownst to the bride. The rabbi awkwardly pulled the groom from the dance floor to come and comfort both his mother and his ex. The marriage didn't last."
7."The bride drank too much champagne on an empty stomach and threw up all over her dress when she was dancing at the reception. I felt so bad for her — she was distraught. She was so upset and regretted it so much that they organized a smaller 're-do reception a month later, but barely anyone came. She still gets upset if anyone mentions weddings now, and it has to be at least nine years ago. They're divorced now, but I don't think that had anything to do with it."
8."My relatives got married on July 7, 2007. Unfortunately, the venue took full advantage of this unique and special day and booked five weddings throughout the day. We were hushed during the cocktail hour so as not to interrupt a different ceremony that was taking place. You couldn't tell where one event started and the other ended. I know the family paid top dollar, and they certainly weren’t informed about it. The ceremony started at 5 p.m., but we weren’t served dinner until 8:30 p.m. — they never even brought bread to the tables. The severs were so rushed. It just didn’t feel special."
9."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."
10."I didn’t get to see it, but my parents went to a wedding where the bride walked up the aisle, stood up front, and calmly thanked her parents, his parents, and everyone for coming. Then, she thanked her maid of honor for sleeping with her fiancé the night before. She then walked out of the church. My parents said some people went to the reception because the parents of the bride and groom felt bad and wanted the people to at least eat. My parents just came home."
11."The bride was about five months pregnant. She had a shotgun wedding, as she already had a kid by someone else. Her religious family wasn’t about to see that baby be born out of wedlock, too. The reception was meant to be dry because the bride couldn’t drink, and it was in a church basement. The groom proceeded to get plastered between the ceremony and reception, and I don’t think the bride smiled once. It culminated in a drunk groom verbally fighting with anyone who was within a five-foot radius of him. I left at that point. I didn’t even know these people — I was my best friend’s plus one. Apparently, the marriage only lasted a year."
12."I used to have a friend who owned a small hotel which operated primarily as a wedding venue. They lived in one of the hotel rooms, so all of the events taking place in the courtyard directly outside their door could be heard very clearly. We were hanging out one night during a wedding and listening to the speeches, the most notable of which was the best man speech. He told the story of having a threesome with both the bride and groom at Burning Man and heavily alluded to still being in love with the groom. There were a lot of older relatives in attendance — the place went silent, and the wedding ended about two hours early."
13."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."
14."I had a boss who was engaged for close to two years as she planned this ridiculously elaborate wedding. Everything about the wedding was probably the most expensive option available and required very sizable deposits. The week of the wedding, the soon-to-be groom notified her uncle that he had never actually divorced his ex-wife and would not be going through with the wedding. Two whole years of effort and at least $50,000 spent was all for nothing."
15."A high school friend of mine had a shotgun wedding. Her brother was about to graduate, possibly valedictorian. He locked his knees during the ceremony and passed out face-first onto concrete (he's 6'1"). The blow knocked out three teeth and messed up his brain badly. He never fully recovered."
16."As the bride walked down the aisle, the organ player hit every note wrong. My friend told me, 'This is the only thing you will remember about this wedding.' That was until the bride's father (who was marrying the couple) introduced the newlyweds as his 'new son-in-law' and 'slightly used daughter.' You could have heard a pin drop."
17.And finally, "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."
Note: Some submissions have been edited for length and/or clarity.
