Ruining a wedding

PGE1970

One of my pals was Best Man for a pal of ours. Rural wedding down the country.

He proceeded to entertain the congregation with tales of the groom including those of his "lively" past life.

Including this belter of a line which stunned the room apart from our table who were crying with laughter.....

"He never went to bed with a dog. But he certainly woke up with a few!"

JohnMcm1

JohnMcm1 wrote: »

Heard of a wedding where the best man and groom had to be put to bed before the meal.

Plenty of crazy best man stories. I found when I had to do the role, I was uber conscious that the spotlight was on me and made sure the bride and groom were looked after.
The only faux páis i made was signing the wedding book like I was signing an autograph. Apparently your supposed to do it slow for the cameras.

razorblunt

PhilOssophy wrote: »

You can never have a thread about anything wedding related on here without some misery guts posting "I hate weddings" zzzzzz

I'm sure many have ruined a wedding by being a miserable shet for a day!

Agreed.

That and “they asked for cash, how dare they, I have a perfectly good toasted sandwich maker in my garage from 1988 I wanted to offload” crowd.

razorblunt

razorblunt wrote: »

Agreed.

That and “they asked for cash, how dare they, I have a perfectly good toasted sandwich maker in my garage from 1988 I wanted to offload” crowd.

I would be interested to know,what presents people were planning to give at weddings other than cash in an envelope??

razorblunt

Deleted User wrote: »

I would be interested to know,what presents people were planning to give at weddings other than cash in an envelope??

A fruit basket as seen above.
Maybe some Nando’s vouchers and dvd box set.

Sebastian Dangerfield

Deleted User wrote: »

I would be interested to know,what presents people were planning to give at weddings other than cash in an envelope??

I always give cash, and would think reasonably generously by what Ive heard from other people. But something just fcuking irks me about being asked for it

Truckermal

Deleted User wrote: »

I was a plus one at a wedding where the bride's father collapsed and died just after the wedding party reached the hotel for the reception. Massive heart attack.

After the bride and some of her immediate family left to follow the ambulance to the hospital, there were some ugly scenes amongst those left behind because the groom's family wanted to continue on with the party because "it was paid for anyway" and the bride's family were (understandably) upset.

It was actually one of the saddest things I've ever seen.

Was that in Cork by any chance?

Odyssey 2005

There is a light wrote: »

Not all people that give gifts are cheapskates but most that do usually are. Some of them are obvious pass ons of crap they got as a gift themselves.

Thank fuk those days are gone. People would be showing up with Parkside Hoover's, kettle's and toaster's now

L1011

Deleted User wrote: »

I would be interested to know,what presents people were planning to give at weddings other than cash in an envelope??

When I was best man for a mates wedding, there was a decent amount of Waterford Crystal given - although primarily just envelopes.

One of them was a nice retro (made in Ireland, and not the super-super-dear few bits that are now) piece that could possibly have been a re-gift from someone elses wedding a few decades earlier, but the groom absolutely loves it and its pride of place on a sideboard under the TV in the living room now!


I know for certain that if I get married before my grandmother dies, there'll be a set of Waterford wine glasses (albeit probably alongside cash) in a bag on the day. Actually my mother think she has sets put aside for wedding gifts for the remaining unmarried grandkids, so maybe it'll be Made in Ireland stuff too.

Ash.J.Williams

razorblunt wrote: »

A fruit basket as seen above.
Maybe some Nando’s vouchers and dvd box set.

Friends dvd box set, can’t go wrong

3DataModem

cena wrote: »

Has anyone here ruined a wedding or been to a wedding that was ruined? Let us say, someone has stood up during the mass service and said that this person should not marry him or she.

A mate went to a wedding where the mother of the bride died as the starters were being cleared away.

He remembers distinctly the old lady at her table wolfing down her steak while saying "tsk its terrible wonder will they bring out the veg?" while the rest of the room was agog.

RubyGlee

I was at a small wedding a few years ago. Day was going great until the speech’s. The bride has a daughter from a previous relations and the bride and groom had a 1yr old son. A comment was made about the 3 of them being a beautiful little family now and the little girl was heard crying then asking was she not part of the family anymore. It was actually really sad and the bride and her two bridesmaid sisters stormed off to the comfort the child. The atmosphere dropped after that

Leg End Reject

RubyGlee wrote: »

I was at a small wedding a few years ago. Day was going great until the speech’s. The bride has a daughter from a previous relations and the bride and groom had a 1yr old son. A comment was made about the 3 of them being a beautiful little family now and the little girl was heard crying then asking was she not part of the family anymore. It was actually really sad and the bride and her two bridesmaid sisters stormed off to the comfort the child. The atmosphere dropped after that

That's just cruel and thoughtless.

RubyGlee

RubyGlee wrote: »

I was at a small wedding a few years ago. Day was going great until the speech’s. The bride has a daughter from a previous relations and the bride and groom had a 1yr old son. A comment was made about the 3 of them being a beautiful little family now and the little girl was heard crying then asking was she not part of the family anymore. It was actually really sad and the bride and her two bridesmaid sisters stormed off to the comfort the child. The atmosphere dropped after that

Aww poor kid...

lawred2

RubyGlee wrote: »

I was at a small wedding a few years ago. Day was going great until the speech’s. The bride has a daughter from a previous relations and the bride and groom had a 1yr old son. A comment was made about the 3 of them being a beautiful little family now and the little girl was heard crying then asking was she not part of the family anymore. It was actually really sad and the bride and her two bridesmaid sisters stormed off to the comfort the child. The atmosphere dropped after that

Nasty

ontour2

from behind the bar....

A family of four guests at a wedding; parents and two adult sons were sitting for the meal within earshot of the bar. There was a vocal argument about how they all thought that one of the others was bringing the drinking money for the evening. Due to a lapse in financial planning, it transpired that none of them had any money with them.

One of the sons decided to step up and resolve this financial predicament. Between the main course and dessert, he popped out and held-up the bookies at knife point. Fortunately the girl in the bookies occasionally worked in the hotel and recognised the linen napkin that he was using to cover his face and that the knife was the hotel's function cutlery.

Yer'man returned and ordered two rounds of drink before the speeches started. Shortly afterwards the guards arrived and we put two and two together quite quickly. The guards were concerned that their entry in to the function room may receive a negative reaction. Before the speeches were finished yer'man was back to the bar again. We told him that we were out of Budweiser and had to wait until after the speeches to get another keg. We also mentioned that one of the other bars in the hotel was having a '2 for 1' happy hour for another 5 minutes and if he hurried he would catch it. It may not have been his own money but he was still a sucker for a bargain. Needless to say there was no happy hour and the guards lifted him and he was gone before the speeches ended.

Technically it did not 'ruin the wedding' as he had left money on the table so the family kept drinking all night on the proceeds of crime and did not seem one bit bothered about where yer'man was.

lawred2

appledrop wrote: »

I think that's absolutely horrendous. My two favourite gifts from my wedding was a beautiful vase and lovely painting. Yes the majority did give us money but that's people own choice. Can't believe people would ask for money.

I've seen it done on a few occasions... It's getting more common

Funnily enough, as soon as I see that, I divide what I would normally give in half.

Leg End Reject

ontour2 wrote: »

from behind the bar....

A family of four guests at a wedding; parents and two adult sons were sitting for the meal within earshot of the bar. There was a vocal argument about how they all thought that one of the others was bringing the drinking money for the evening. Due to a lapse in financial planning, it transpired that none of them had any money with them.

One of the sons decided to step up and resolve this financial predicament. Between the main course and dessert, he popped out and held-up the bookies at knife point. Fortunately the girl in the bookies occasionally worked in the hotel and recognised the linen napkin that he was using to cover his face and that the knife as it was the hotel's function cutlery.

Yer'man returned and ordered two rounds of drink before the speeches started. Shortly afterwards the guards arrived and we put two and two together quite quickly. The guards were concerned that their entry in to the function room may receive a negative reaction. Before the speeches were finished yer'man was back to the bar again. We told him that we were out of Budweiser and had to wait until after the speeches to get another keg. We also mentioned that one of the other bars in the hotel was having a '2 for 1' happy hour for another 5 minutes and if he hurried he would catch it. It may not have been his own money but he was still a sucker for a bargain. Needless to say there was no happy hour and the guards lifted him and he was gone before the speeches ended.

Technically it did not 'ruin the wedding' as he had left money on the table so the family kept drinking all night on the proceeds of crime and did not seem one bit bothered about where yer'man was.

You win! :pac:

ontour2

from behind the bar.....

one of the groomsmen was given the job of thanking the guests for their presents..... which sounds fine however he was given the list of each of the guests and exactly what their present was. It was 30-40 gifts. e.g. Thank you to Auntie Mary and Uncle John for the €50 Dunnes voucher. Thank you to Joyce Ryan for the yellow IKEA lamp etc. etc.

He was only a young lad and could not read the mood change in the room so kept going.

It was a perfectly nice crowd but probably the most quietly catastrophic mood change I ever saw at a wedding. It was the band we really felt sorry for as there was absolutely nothing they could do to drag any joy back in to the evening. By the time the band finished, most guests were gone home or drinking in another bar in the hotel.

no idea whose idea it was or why no one else at the top table didn't stop it when it was obviously going wrong.

Toots

My sister in law was bridesmaid for a friend of hers who was from a very well-to-do family. She was the first child to get married in the family so the parents went all out, but in a good way - super fancy hotel, best of everything, and basically set it up so the guests didn't have to put a hand in their pocket all day.

They had a champagne and canapés reception when everyone arrived at the hotel, and it was an absolutely gorgeous day so it was held in the courtyard/garden bit. It was basically waiters going round with the trays of food and drinks, and the parents had said to the staff to keep people's glasses topped up.

The problem was that they underestimated how much people would drink, and because it was sweltering, people were drinking faster, and because the staff were constantly topping the glasses up, nobody really kept track of how much they were drinking. The end result being that half the guests were absolutely gee-eyed by the time they were called to the meal. Quite a few people (including one groomsman) didn't even make it to the meal - had to go to bed. My SIL said that it didn't ruin the day and everyone had a blast, she said it was the best wedding she's ever been at. Some seriously sore heads floating round the next morning though :pac:

monkeysnapper

partyguinness wrote: »

I have been to a few weddings in England and I can safely say they have all been as dry as a camel's belly. Absolutely dreadful. Usually on a weekday with finger food...

I rememebr one on a Wednesday...pizza delivery was the food. Help yourself to the slices in the boxes. The bride and groom were both teachers...too fcuking tight to spend any money. Then they couldnt understand and a bit offended why everyone was gone by 10pm "It's a Wednesdsay night. We work tomorrow." It ain't midterm break for us.

At least weddings in Ireland tend to be "all out" affairs.

Yeh I agree..... im originally from Wales and weddings are as dry and boring and over by midnight...... when my girlfriend ( wife now) went to our 1st wedding last orders were at 11 30pm and all finished at midnight ....

Our next wedding the food was bacon sandwiches and we had to drive an hour and half to reception in middle of knowwhere and a few hours later all over and drive back .... no accommodation....


Soooooo when all my friends/family came over to Ireland for our wedding they were absolutely astonished when we were still partying at 4am and party next day started 6pm till 4am the night after.

I did warn the Mrs that the presents would be very stingy but still managed to offend her no end to the 30euros in card .... one of my groomsmen put 10 euros in card....

Thats how you do it you dry bastards!!!!!

SCOOP 64

Going by the last 2 post all weddings in the Uk must be the same then.

Leg End Reject

ontour2 wrote: »

from behind the bar.....

one of the groomsmen was given the job of thanking the guests for their presents..... which sounds fine however he was given the list of each of the guests and exactly what their present was. It was 30-40 gifts. e.g. Thank you to Auntie Mary and Uncle John for the €50 Dunnes voucher. Thank you to Joyce Ryan for the yellow IKEA lamp etc. etc.

He was only a young lad and could not read the mood change in the room so kept going.

It was a perfectly nice crowd but probably the most quietly catastrophic mood change I ever saw at a wedding. It was the band we really felt sorry for as there was absolutely nothing they could do to drag any joy back in to the evening. By the time the band finished, most guests were gone home or drinking in another bar in the hotel.

no idea whose idea it was or why no one else at the top table didn't stop it when it was obviously going wrong.

That's as classy as the brides and grooms who open cards at the top table and count the money.

It just shows they've invited people for the money.

Porklife

ontour2 wrote: »

from behind the bar.....

one of the groomsmen was given the job of thanking the guests for their presents..... which sounds fine however he was given the list of each of the guests and exactly what their present was. It was 30-40 gifts. e.g. Thank you to Auntie Mary and Uncle John for the €50 Dunnes voucher. Thank you to Joyce Ryan for the yellow IKEA lamp etc. etc.

He was only a young lad and could not read the mood change in the room so kept going.

It was a perfectly nice crowd but probably the most quietly catastrophic mood change I ever saw at a wedding. It was the band we really felt sorry for as there was absolutely nothing they could do to drag any joy back in to the evening. By the time the band finished, most guests were gone home or drinking in another bar in the hotel.

no idea whose idea it was or why no one else at the top table didn't stop it when it was obviously going wrong.

Had somebody told the young lad to be so specific or did he innocently just read it as he saw it? Grounds for divorce if it was the grooms idea.. id simply cite the reason as he's an absolute moron

ontour2

Porklife wrote: »

Had somebody told the young lad to be so specific or did he innocently just read it as he saw it? Grounds for divorce if it was the grooms idea.. id simply cite the reason as he's an absolute moron

no one at the top table stopped him so it seemed to be intentional. Someone had to make this list and give it to him so could never really see how it was accidental. It is possible it was well intentioned....

Was a life lesson in 'Words have consequences'. Some people were angry, others embarrassed, others bitter/ envious. It was a nice crowd so it never 'kicked off' but the following 6 hours were painful and felt like 60 hours.

Conall Cernach

RubyGlee wrote: »

I was at a small wedding a few years ago. Day was going great until the speech’s. The bride has a daughter from a previous relations and the bride and groom had a 1yr old son. A comment was made about the 3 of them being a beautiful little family now and the little girl was heard crying then asking was she not part of the family anymore. It was actually really sad and the bride and her two bridesmaid sisters stormed off to the comfort the child. The atmosphere dropped after that

At a wedding that I was at the groom had a son from a previous relationship and a couple of children with the bride. When getting the photos taken the bride insisted on getting one of "just the family" and deliberately excluded the son. The groom's mother was livid and still doesn't talk to her now daughter in law. In fairness the groom must be some gob****e to allow that.

Leg End Reject

Why would you marry someone if you want to exclude their child from a previous relationship?Are some people really that insecure?

It's pathetic and bordering on child abuse to make a child feel less worthy or belonging. If you've an issue don't get into the relationship in the first place.

Leg End Reject

Leg End Reject wrote: »

Why would you marry someone if you want to exclude their child from a previous relationship?Are some people really that insecure?

It's pathetic and bordering on child abuse to make a child feel less worthy or belonging. If you've an issue don't get into the relationship in the first place.

Never underestimate how cruel and self serving some people can be.

Bradley Handsome Jugular

Bradley Handsome Jugular wrote: »

Never underestimate how cruel and self serving some people can be.

what ever about relatives/parents of bride/groom wanting a pic with just the kid related to em......very sh1tty and rude to unjustifible level


But the bride/groom to demand it,is horrendous,imagine living in that house.....think id sooner be single

fergiesfolly

English weddings....
Was at one several years ago where the hotel reneged on a deal to have a late bar and the security they hired to keep undesirables out were actually there to make sure we left. Rather unsavoury standoff ensued between grumpy Irish (and a few embarrassed English) and security staff.
We ended up at this really dodgy pub on the outskirts of town which one of the security guards recommended. Had two pints there and left after the vibe turned rather anti Irish.

Friend was at a wedding in North of England at a nice but rather old hotel.
There was a lift that went from the function room to the honeymoon suite.
Large ornate doors open and bride and groom step out to rapturous applause, except......
the lift stalled on the way down and bride and groom were trapped on board. The bride refused the offer to be hoisted through the ceiling of the lift for fear of ruining her dress in the filthy lift shaft.
Three hours later, the lift doors finally opened.... to an end near empty room. Most of the guests abandoned the function room for the bar and a lot eventually drifted off home.
The bride insisted on having the reception carry on, so 20-30 had dinner, listened to the speeches, watched the first (and last) dance and went to bed.
He later found out that the bride sent grateful thank you letters to all that stayed and rather vicious death threats to everyone else.

KevRossi

Wedding in Germany. She was German, he UK. She pulled up outside the church, asked me to call him outside, he did and she said she couldn't go through with it. As I was a groomsman and deemed to be the one who spoke the best English and German, I was told to go up to the front of the chapel and tell them in English, then in German that it was all off, but we could walk over to the reception and get some food. All the UK crowd promptly stood up and went straight away which I thought was funny.

Was at one in Ireland where he called it off the night before, no mobile phones, so we all showed up at the church the next day and he was waiting there to tell us it was off. About 30 people showed up who had no idea it was off, most having driven a fair distance, all in their finery. We had lunch in the hotel and headed home. Felt sorry for him as people kept arriving in dribs and drabs and he had to tell each group as they arrived and go through some awkward questions.

Was at one in Durham where the groom got a gift from his mates of a Newcastle United shirt, signed and framed. Later on that night a totally drunk guest got his hands on it, smashed it, ripped the shirt out, pulled his trousers down and started to wipe his arse and crotch with it. He got a hiding and was driven to hospital by the hotel manager. A lot of us stayed there for the night, we had flown over from Germany and there was a big Scottish contingent there. As the night wore on there were several scuffles. Most of the English crowd started to leave from 10 pm onwards and got a string of verbal abuse from the Scots when they were going. The Germans hadn't a bulls notion what was going on, they never knew of the animosity between the Scots and English.

Was at one in Croatia in 1994 where you could hear sporadic gunfire from the war about 10 km away. Every so often a MIL Mi-28 helicopter gunship would fly overhead to a nearby airfield for refuelling. Not ruined, normality for them, surreal for me.

KevRossi

Irish wedding in late 2006. Celtic Tiger job, 240 people at it. I was my then GF's +1. Brides family had a lot of land near a major midlands town that they sold off to developers and made a few million on it. Never had a bean before that. So they decided to go totally overboard with the wedding.

Speeches start. Groom's Dad keeps it short, less than 10 mins. Brides Dad pulls out a sheaf of cards and starts a 35 minute speech, never mentions the groom once. Then walks to another table and hands the mic to a local councillor, he speaks for about 20 mins, then hands it to 2 other councillors and a TD, they all spoke for 20 mins each. Barely mentioned the couple, most of it was gearing up for the 2007 election. Crazy stuff. Eventually the bride's Dad gets the mic back and is nearly in tears saying how much the family owes the politicians etc etc. and how the groom should count himself lucky (groom was fairly loaded himself, worked in medical equipment). Starts to say how grooms family never amounted to anything and were a known disgrace (grooms parents split up in the late 80's which was a big thing at the time). Eventually shut up after over 2 hours. We had the luck of being in one side of the 'L' shaped function hall so we could nip out to the jacks and for pints, others were not so lucky.

As the evening wore on the politicians got worse and drunker, one of them consistently went up to the band and told them what to play instead of the list the couple gave them. People trying to outdo each other in buying bottles of champagne. Bar manager was cute enough to keep saying 'I think we've only a couple left' so people kept rushing to the bar to get more. Bride and groom were largely forgotten in the dick measuring contest that it became. Very uncomfortable wedding, we were stuck there as we had a room booked in the hotel.

Beechwoodspark

JohnMcm1 wrote: »

Heard of a wedding where the best man and groom had to be put to bed before the meal.

I was at a wedding where the groom fell asleep from drink straight after the main course. Literally asleep head down on the table.

Lot of activity up at the top table, people fanning him down etc etc. Jugs of water being rushed up there. Hysterics from the bride.

He was Absolutely wrote off drunk.

He was always what I call a stupid drinker ie he used to drink stupid drinks like treble vodkas in a pint glass and got plastered drunk.

He was brought up to a bedroom slept it off and then around half 10 or so came back down to the wedding. He went around mingling with ppl and tried to laugh it off but there was this real awkward atmosphere.

His bride and the mother in law were like bulldogs chewing thistles over it

ontour2

from behind the bar....

All went well up to 11pm, which in hindsight was a miracle.

Step-father of bride pitches up at the reception desk to pay the bill. While the bill is being collated and the step-father counts out piles of cash, word gets back to the bride's father, who was also at the wedding, that the step-father was paying the bill. An argument ensues as the father demands that he is paying for his own daughter's wedding. To which the step-father replies that she is not really the 'fathers' child anyway, he was only the person picked to take the bullet 28 years prior. Still not sure whether the step-father was claiming her or just pointing out the loose moral compass of his current wife.

At this stage the argument was loud and there was a bit of shoving but no more. As we tried to calm the situation the son of the step father and one of the sons of the father arrived on the scene. The two lads in their twenties initially tried to separate their Dads but somehow ended up fighting with each-other.

Now neither of the lads were aware of this impending fight and had no training done. They were also both about 7 hours in to a drinking session. So after about 5 minutes they were wrecked and easy to separate. One was immediately put outside the front door and the door was locked. The second was so tired that we were having trouble getting him to his feet. Eventually got him to his feet, at which point we heard a massive crash. The bloke that had been put out the front door had punched through reinforced glass and put his hand in through the broken door pane to open the latch. He stepped inside looking like Arnie 80 minutes in to any film, blood pumping from his hand and dripping on the carpet. We are still propping up the other bloke, at which point he roars down at us "Will ya be careful, Davey has Asthma". Turns out the two lads were actually good mates.

Queue the perfectly timed arrival of the guards and our absolute delight to hand over the situation as we had absolutely no idea what our next move was. The guy who punched the window, to ensure we took appropriate care of the guy he was fighting with, had to have multiple operations to repair his hand.

glenfieldman

KevRossi wrote: »

Irish wedding in late 2006. Celtic Tiger job, 240 people at it. I was my then GF's +1. Brides family had a lot of land near a major midlands town that they sold off to developers and made a few million on it. Never had a bean before that. So they decided to go totally overboard with the wedding.

Speeches start. Groom's Dad keeps it short, less than 10 mins. Brides Dad pulls out a sheaf of cards and starts a 35 minute speech, never mentions the groom once. Then walks to another table and hands the mic to a local councillor, he speaks for about 20 mins, then hands it to 2 other councillors and a TD, they all spoke for 20 mins each. Barely mentioned the couple, most of it was gearing up for the 2007 election. Crazy stuff. Eventually the bride's Dad gets the mic back and is nearly in tears saying how much the family owes the politicians etc etc. and how the groom should count himself lucky (groom was fairly loaded himself, worked in medical equipment). Starts to say how grooms family never amounted to anything and were a known disgrace (grooms parents split up in the late 80's which was a big thing at the time). Eventually shut up after over 2 hours. We had the luck of being in one side of the 'L' shaped function hall so we could nip out to the jacks and for pints, others were not so lucky.

As the evening wore on the politicians got worse and drunker, one of them consistently went up to the band and told them what to play instead of the list the couple gave them. People trying to outdo each other in buying bottles of champagne. Bar manager was cute enough to keep saying 'I think we've only a couple left' so people kept rushing to the bar to get more. Bride and groom were largely forgotten in the dick measuring contest that it became. Very uncomfortable wedding, we were stuck there as we had a room booked in the hotel.

Give a clue to the politicians involved

DJIMI TRARORE

Anybody remember a story from a few years ago, a county "gaa star" getting married, holds up 2 honeymoon envelopes and hands them to his new wife and tells her they are for herself and best man who had been shagging for ages, I know the name of player but don't know if true

B!gD0g543

cena wrote: »

Has anyone here ruined a wedding or been to a wedding that was ruined? Let us say, someone has stood up during the mass service and said that this person should not marry him or she.

I did. I went uninvited to the wedding. I drank a lot. I puked on the dance floor!

B!gD0g543

Ubbquittious wrote: »

Kind of. Twas me that did the ruining. Won't go into any more detail than that. Great satisfaction from it though

I think I know what you mean my friend LOL Hope you had a great time at least!

Atlantic Dawn

Conall Cernach wrote: »

At a wedding that I was at the groom had a son from a previous relationship and a couple of children with the bride. When getting the photos taken the bride insisted on getting one of "just the family" and deliberately excluded the son. The groom's mother was livid and still doesn't talk to her now daughter in law. In fairness the groom must be some gob****e to allow that.

As a guest at such a wedding I'd have left right there and then if I was a guest of the bride or groom as that's a bloody disgrace. The groom staying with such a bitch would deserve excuminaction from his friends.

ziedth

Its amusing as cliché that it is in movies I have never heard of someone running in with a "i love you don't marry him" type thing..... I luckily have never seen anything near as bad as some of these stories. The worst was probably my own wedding (although thankfully it didn't ruin the day) but we brought up our wedding a year after we came into a bit of money so it was all very slap dash.

The band weren't in our top 5 picks for the day but would have been well known on the wedding circuit and we liked them live. Anyway, less than a week before the wedding I get an email saying "despite what you might have heard we are still together and will be at you wedding" i don't say anything to the wife as it was too late to do anything and they had confirmed. Anyway, long story short I ask around and I find out the 4 lads had an eastenders level row the previous week and had a full on fight in the pub and this was their last time playing together. They literally stood at 4 corners of the stage, didn't talk or acknowledge each other for the whole night. Maybe people were bing nice but nobody I talked to afterwards said they even noticed but I couldn't take my eyes off them for the whole night expecting either a fight or the wife to catch on and get upset over it. Luckily got away with it and I laugh about it now but it was a worry on the night.

deandean

I was at a wedding in Cork 18mths ago.
The band looked like they had never met each other before tonight.
None of them spoke English.
They had tablets set up on the microphone stands with the the lyrics and chords of the songs, and they did their best to perform.
I won't say the band ruined the wedding, but Jeez they were breww-tal!

Recliner

Worst one I was at, the father of groom during his speech veered of into the whole "800 years of oppression" rant against the English. 20 minutes of absolute bile, no one had a clue what was going on.
It was mortifying.

volono

Wanderer78 wrote: »

would you not see it as how messed up society has gotten in regards these events, that couples are nearly financially broken, before they even crack on with a mortgage and kids?

No one asked them, to have the wedding they did!!!. If they wanted a day that big, my god!!!, they should have been able to afford it.
If not, leave it off for a year or two, save up and do it then. Christ!!!!

Toots

I actually asked our priest if he'd ever had anyone object when they do the "speak now or forever hold your peace" bit and he said he never had, nor had he ever heard of it happening with any other priests he knew.

The night before my cousin's wedding her ex showed up at her family home in an attempt to win her back (they'd been broken up a few years at that stage). My cousin wasn't there - she was out doing some last minute bits, but my uncle ran him. Unbeknownst to my cousin, my uncle put the bridesmaids and groomsmen on the alert to keep an eye out in case the guy decided to do something mad like show up at the church, but it was all grand and no sign of him.

Weirdest part was he was the one who has broken up with her, and she had never seen or heard from him again after so it was completely bizarre that he rocked up at the house.

jmayo

Wedding related I suppose ...
The in-laws were invited to wedding in Dublin so up from the country for the day.
Days before satnavs so they had trouble finding church and were late at this stage.
Spotted church with loads of cars outside so quickly parked up and rushed in.
Of course they went far up the church and pushed in.
Herself was all done up with big hat and flowery dress.

Then it suddenly dawns on them that there is a coffin at the top.

They then had to get up and sheepishly walk back down the church out of some poor devils funeral.

Was at black tie wedding in one of those stately castle type places.
All very nice, but fecking hell you didn't get fed until near 10 o'clock.

The worst part was yer man went to one of those Dublin private rugby playing schools and the best's man speech was like something written by Ross O'Carroll Kelly.
And then the plebs amongst us thought after that hogwash we would get relief with the groom's builder/developer father's speech, but it was even worse.

poisonated

I know someone who was getting married and the groom was in the British army and was shot at by an Ira guy known as “the fox”. I’m sure that ruined the wedding.

Sebastian Dangerfield

I was at a wedding abroad whereby all travelling Irish guests were told the venue was a central venue with lots to do, and we should stay there. It turned out to be a ****heap in the middle of a forest, €70 in a taxi from where we thought it was. I genuinely think they got a discount for filling it, and there were blatant attempts to fleece us while there that I think they were complicit in.

There was nothing to do, and the ceremony wasn't til 5, so every Irish man and half the women ended up having breakfast and going to the bar. This is day 3 for most people. There was a barman with very little English who noticed they were tipping freely, so starts giving out a one shot bottle of Jager with every pint. I got there at 2 and everyone was ruined. 10 to 5, the bar is still full and half the place are still in jeans, and the bridesmaids are going crazy trying to round people up so the bride can do her dream walk down the hotel stairs with people in awe gasping at her beauty either side. She can wait no longer, so ends up walking down the stairs in tears while half the men push past her up the stairs to get ready, now the bar has been closed.

Church is no better - an Indian man with little English saying mass, so people start chatting among themselves, bar one gee eyed uncle, who gets down on his knees, arms outstretched like he's seen the blessed virgin, while they're saying their vows. It didn't get much better as the night wore on.

The next day we all broke free and got taxis to the city, which caused ructions as there was a dinner planned that we all thought was laid on by them, but they were actually expecting us to pay for as a contribution to their wedding "package" (in addition to gifts). Lots of people fell out in the months to come.

Odyssey 2005

Sebastian Dangerfield wrote: »

I was at a wedding abroad whereby all travelling Irish guests were told the venue was a central venue with lots to do, and we should stay there. It turned out to be a ****heap in the middle of a forest, €70 in a taxi from where we thought it was. I genuinely think they got a discount for filling it, and there were blatant attempts to fleece us while there that I think they were complicit in.

There was nothing to do, and the ceremony wasn't til 5, so every Irish man and half the women ended up having breakfast and going to the bar. This is day 3 for most people. There was a barman with very little English who noticed they were tipping freely, so starts giving out a one shot bottle of Jager with every pint. I got there at 2 and everyone was ruined. 10 to 5, the bar is still full and half the place are still in jeans, and the bridesmaids are going crazy trying to round people up so the bride can do her dream walk down the hotel stairs with people in awe gasping at her beauty either side. She can wait no longer, so ends up walking down the stairs in tears while half the men push past her up the stairs to get ready, now the bar has been closed.

Church is no better - an Indian man with little English saying mass, so people start chatting among themselves, bar one gee eyed uncle, who gets down on his knees, arms outstretched like he's seen the blessed virgin, while they're saying their vows. It didn't get much better as the night wore on.

The next day we all broke free and got taxis to the city, which caused ructions as there was a dinner planned that we all thought was laid on by them, but they were actually expecting us to pay for as a contribution to their wedding "package" (in addition to gifts). Lots of people fell out in the months to come.

There's a film in that !

Sebastian Dangerfield

Odyssey 2005 wrote: »

There's a film in that !

I have left out a lot of detail due to an irrational fear that someone in attendance will read it, and easily identify it. It was pretty unique!

shtpEdthePlum

Red Silurian wrote: »

I heard from the priest that did my wedding, he was conducting a ceremony a few weeks earlier and the groom had a bit too much whiskey that morning, legally speaking the priest couldn't marry them because it's the signing of a legal contract and you can't be under the influence

That's bollocks, if the wedding was planned for a year beforehand that is a tacit agreement that the contract was going to be signed. It would be next to nigh on impossible to prove he was drunk when it was signed. He was just looking for another fee the prick.