If you watch reality TV, you know better than to get within reach of a Bridezilla in full rampage mode. These people, on the other hand, didn't know better.
She Wasn’t Kidding
“Worked at a reception venue. One event really sticks out. Everything went well until the cake. Bride & groom go to feed each other, she does it very nice, he smashes it into her face.
Bride screams, starts bawling her eyes out & runs out of the hall.
15 or so minutes later the father of the bride comes and asks the dj for the mic. He proceeds to thank everyone for coming and says that if they would like to take their gifts on the way out the couple has decided to break up.
I’m sure there were issues leading up to the event, but the bride had told everyone (including the groom) that if he smashed the cake in her face, it was over. She wasn’t lying.” (source)
Save A DJ, Don’t Get Married
“I was DJing a wedding in a shabby little reception hall out in the middle of the sticks for a redneck bride and groom. The bride was wasted by the time I started playing my set (around 8pm) She came up to me right away and told me that I need to play the song Save A Horse Ride A Cowboy like every four songs, and I try to tell her that its a bad idea but she insisted, so I agreed.
About an hour into the night I play the song for the 10th time and people in the crowd start to boo. Please note that every time I played the song I passed it off onto the Bride by saying something like ” It’s time for a special request from the bride” as not to destroy my reputation. So people boo and start walking off the dance floor. Bride sees this and loses her s***. She runs up to the stage and demands the mic. “You dumb mother f***ers get back on this dance floor, or this f***ing thing is done!” she wailed into the mic. Her guests ignore her. She yells again and no one pays her any attention. She then marches over to the cake and gift table and flips it over, yelling “EVERYONE GET THE F*** OUT OF MY WEDDING”. Her guests who did not seem all that surprised end up leaving. I still get paid so in the end it did not matter to much from my end but wow… just wow.”
Karmic Justice
“I worked in alterations at a chain bridal store for a couple years. The amount of s*** I saw go down was ridiculous, but one of my favorite stories was the bride who refused to let me fit her in her gown because I have short hair and “didn’t want to be touched by a disgusting lesbian”.
When I assured her that I am, in fact, straight, she insisted I have my manager come out and vouch for my sexuality.
Finally, I put her in the dress and she bursts into tears and stars screaming at me about how I made her dress too tight and how she looked fat and terrible in it….and I just looked at her and said “ma’am, I haven’t altered your dress yet, this is a first fitting to see what sort of alterations need to be done.”
Justice.” (source)
Classy
“I work at a reception venue. Once had a bride snort cocaine off the bridal table then found her new husband in another room with a bridesmaid. Was the most interesting work shift ever. She threw her shoe through the window.” (source)
Sometimes You Don’t Want A “Bargain”
“Just a bride who cracked the s**** when I told her that her 2ft tall “_nut allergy-_safe chocolate mud cake” that she ordered 10 days before her wedding with sugar art flowers would cost $400. She left me a lovely review online talking about what a rip off I was. My friend who was at the wedding informed me that it ended early when the ambulance had to take the groom away as he entered anaphylaxis because the bride forgot to tell the second baker about the allergy. I don’t think she realized that nut-free chocolate is what was adding an extra $150 to her cake, because at that short notice I’d have to buy it retail not wholesale.” (source)
Penguin… Suit?
Tuxedo salesman here. Bride and groom came into the store to get tuxedos. She said “I need a penguin suit for my fiance.” Now I give this too much thought, as that’s not a particularly uncommon phrase. But then she pulled out a picture of a penguin and I had to match that. She made him get a tails jacket and black vest, spent over an hour figuring out what shoes looked like the most like flippers, and then made me special order a shade of orange bow tie that most closely matched the penguin’s little scruff thing. The 7 shades of orange we had were not acceptable.
She mentioned to me in our conversation that she made her boyfriend make a 300 dollar donation to the local zoo so that he could propose to her in the penguin tank.
Lady was crazy. (source)
A Pleasant Evening
“Worked at a big function suite in northern Scotland when I was at university. It was one of the few venues in the city, so we hosted a lot of wedding receptions (and yeah, the scots like a drink!). Most of the weddings were quite rowdy – ceilidh dancing, lots of drinking, loud LOUD voices, but this particular one gets really out of hand. The bride and groom were carried around above people’s heads on chairs for a bit, which was not a standard tradition but whatever, it looked fun.
They’re getting drunker, and rowdier, and then finally my shift is coming to a close (we were only booked ’til one) and I couldn’t wait to get out of there. Nope. Bride throws a MASSIVE fit, crying, screaming, this is her special day and it’s not finishing now, dammit. FOB hands us over CASH for the next two hours (not 100% sure how much, but hundreds) and we all get on with things. Party gets rowdier.
Finally, like an hour later, a massive fight breaks out and everyone leaves anyway, bride wailing and being pulled out by her equally drunk new husband. FOB demands a refund but it was past two by a little bit and cleanup would take us past three anyway, so he didn’t get one.” (source)
Don’t Bite The Hand That Pours
“Last summer I was working as a bartender through a catering company at a small wedding. Everything is going great with me alone at the open bar, there was a keg of bud light (classy bride) and two choices of wine, as well as some champagne. Towards the beginning of the evening I had poured myself a taste of each of the wines so I could, you know, do my job well. Later, when the champagne was popped the MOB insisted that I had a glass (she was a nice, tipsy lady and really liked me.) BIG MISTAKE though! While I’m cleaning up after most of the guests had left the FOB marches up to me and says rudely that he’s been watching me get wasted all night on the liquor they paid for! I calmly explain why I had a few sips of the wine and remind him it was HIS WIFE who insisted I had a glass of champagne. My coworkers and a few nearby party-goers back me up and he storms off. Bride comes up to me later and accuses me of the same thing and insists on pumping the keg and pouring her own Bud Light because “I’m cheating them.” Sure.” (source)
A Brisk Day
“I’m a violinist who plays in quartets at weddings.
One October, my group was to play at an outdoor wedding. It was 45F outside. The bride REFUSED to move the ceremony inside (even though there was a very nice facility to do so; this was at a fancy ass hunt club), even though we and her guests were freezing. Her poor bridesmaids wore strapless dresses with now shawls or anything to keep them warm! It was awful, and my group actually had to put in our contract that we will not play an outdoor wedding if it is below 55F, as it can ruin our instruments.
On top of that, the bride never thanked us, and apparently everyone got so drunk at the reception the venue kicked everyone out early. This is a venue that probably cost close to $10k to rent out for the day/night.
The bride and groom divorced like a year later.” (source)
And That’s Why You Always Make A List
“Former DJ – not that crazy, so I’ll keep it short.
I had the opposite of a Bridezilla – a woman for whom it was her second wedding that had zero f***s left to give about organizing or demanding anything. I played what I thought would be an appropriate song for a first dance with her new husband (because she didn’t even care to tell me that), and she stopped dancing immediately, walked over to my DJ booth, and told me to change it because it was her/her ex-husband’s song. WOULD HAVE BEEN NICE TO KNOW, LADY. I looked like the d-bag, though I would place the blame on her for not warning me about it or blacklisting the song. Awkward.
For those asking: Wonderful Tonight – Eric Clapton. I know it’s cheesy and horrible and trite – since it was an older (read: middle-aged) couple, I thought it would work.” (source)
Peace Out
“Very late to the party, as usual, but this wedding was a MESS.
Worked at a golf club that held weddings. Bride is crazy. Prior to the wedding had requested we tear out our landscaping to match her event and replace the carpet because she didn’t like the fact that it was deep green.
The newlyweds got into their first fight as a married couple over salad (over the fact that he didn’t look at her during their big entrance). proceeded to just not really interact for the rest of the event.
At the end of the evening, the bride’s family gets in the rental transportation, leaves, and the bus doesn’t return. The groom’s family (from out of town) was stuck without a ride or a clue of where to go. We call all the cabs in the area and end up driving a few people back to the hotel ourselves- we felt really bad for them. The bride went home with her parents, the groom left with his. Last we heard they were divorced within the year. good wedding cake though.” (source)
Everything In Moderation
“I was a wedding photographer for a fair bit if time. One bride took way too many antidepressants before the wedding. We went to the botanical gardens to take pictures of the bridal party. We were there for about an hour and she asked if we could take pictures under a particular rose arch. I told her “we did that, it was the first thing we did.” She asked about 5 or 6 more times before we left. We were supposed to go to a couple other locations, but we skipped it. We arrived at the reception location and she ran off the bus first and ran behind some bushes to vomit. She made it half way through her salad before she ran off never to return to the hall. The party ended after the meal with the groom standing at the door apologizing to all the guests as they exited.” (source)
Such A Nice Young Lady
When I was 16 I used to be a server at a banquet hall. During one wedding that I worked, the bride started screaming at the groom in the middle of the reception because she was angry that he took a break from dancing. He was very polite to her, and was trying to explain that he was just tired because it had been a really long day. But she continued screaming at him, and eventually he left for their hotel room. The wedding party came down for brunch the next morning sans the bride and groom. I casually joked about how they must have been too tired to make it to breakfast, and the party informed me that they had decided to annul their marriage. I think he dodged a bullet there.
Occupational Hazard?
I work at a large hotel/conference center and we see a ton of weddings. The Indian weddings (not native american, India Indian) are always pretty crazy. The bride of one of these weddings was sitting on her designated couch… thing… during the reception. They had scheduled a belly dancer to perform and during the middle of it the bride stands up and just runs over to the dancer and pushes her on the ground. She was mad because the dancer was “stealing the spotlight” from her, even though there were other forms of entertainment that did the same thing. Everyone knew she was just jealous of how the dancer looked and it was just sad.
It Really Wasn’t That Big Of A Deal
“Once turned up as an evening guest at 8pm (supposedly after the speeches and meal, in time for drinks and dancing) to discover that one of the courses had been the wrong thing, and the bride had ordered the kitchen to cook the whole meal again from scratch. By the end of the meal etc it was 11pm and there was barely enough time for even the bride and groom’s dance, let alone the guests. She basically destroyed her own wedding day celebrations over something so trivial. On the other hand, myself and the evening guests retired to the bar and had a great night. Imagine a bunch of friends that hadn’t seen each other in a while all go on a night out – only wearing evening dress, kilts etc.”