Your wedding is supposed to be a joyful occasion but it only takes one miscreant to spoil the fun for everyone.
Here a dozen Redditors share what it was like when a guest tried their hardest to spoil someone's big day. These are the nightmare guests nobody needs at their church.
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They Had A Literal Blast
“Saw someone shoot someone at the reception.
Let me preface this by saying I come from a Mexican family and this wasn’t a huge surprise for anyone. My grandpa died last year and my dad and uncle got into a fight and both were arrested outside the hospital room he died in. This stuff is typical.
My cousin got married on Cinco de mayo 4 years ago and everyone was already drinking before the wedding even started. They get married and that’s fine but the reception after is where this happened.
I’m sitting with my brother having a good time and after a couple hours, we see a group of my family outside the hall. They are talking loud and excited about how high their respective pain tolerances are. I see my cousin pull out a weapon and all of a sudden we hear a bang. He shoots my cousin in the shoulder.
So at a wedding, I witnessed my cousin shoot another to.prove how painful it is. They held no Ill will toward each other and get along great. We took him to the hospital and said it was an accident and he didn’t press any charges.”
The Hotel Makes The Right Call
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“During my wedding, my uncle and his girlfriend drank heavily and did some illegal substances. I was slightly distracted that night but noticed she was switching outfits with various guests throughout the reception. I found out later she also tried to hook up with guests (male and female) in the venue restrooms.
At the end of the night, they started fighting and she refused to get into a car with my uncle. My father (uncle’s brother) convinced her to get in the car with him instead to take her back to the hotel. Midway through the ride to the hotel she started hitting my dad and jumped out the car mid-movement. Luckily she wasn’t hurt.
Later that night she went down to the lobby in only a hotel robe and started propositioning others (which my wife’s cousins witnessed firsthand as they were at the hotel bar). My uncle and she got into a screaming match in the lobby and my uncle got arrested. My wife’s family include a bunch of doctors and just good people in general, two of which got locked out of their hotel rooms because they thought someone was hurt in the lobby and they went to help. Nope, just my uncle and his girlfriend doing their thing. Welcome to the family!
Side note: they are now banned from every hotel in that chain in the country.”
Way Too Much Drama For Comfort
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“I was MC at a wedding where the groom’s family hated the bride. As the newly married couple were about to cut the cake, the groom’s younger sister rushes them like she’s about to lay down a sweet spear tackle on the bride.
The bride, who was about to cut the cake, has a big old knife in her hand and lifts it above her head like she’s about to stab the rushing sister in the back who’s now in full spear position closing the distance.
A lightning fast uncle comes flying across the floor and tackles the sister out of the way before any of the mess goes down. The sister scrambles to her feet and runs out the door crying hysterically. Everybody’s frozen and the room is dead silent.
So as the MC, I just step forward and say, ‘Ladies and gentlemen, please raise your glasses…the bride and groom.'”
They Couldn’t Wait For The Wedding
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“My sister was getting married at a destination wedding- my husband and I traveled a few hours to get there and the rehearsal dinner had a set amount of spots- my husband and I claiming two.
The groom had his best friend travel over a thousand miles to get there with his wife. After a last minute change in plans, their night opened up and suddenly they wanted to go to the rehearsal dinner, which they weren’t invited to.
My husband and I had friends in the area, so told them to go in our place and have fun since they traveled so far, they should go to the dinner (my sister asked if we wouldn’t mind doing that for them first- of course we agreed).
Cut to that night – got a voicemail from my mother yelling at me for not showing up with my husband. Next day I find out she made a scene after my sister’s soon to be mother-in-law took the podium to tell everybody present how my sister was a no good woman that she didn’t want to see with her son…
When I saw the soon to be mother-in-law before the wedding, she told me she did it all for me because she saw my mother so distraught at her daughter missing the dinner, she thought she’d take her mind off it but saying those things about my sister. Must have been a heck of a night.
They’re still together. Mother-in-law died a few years back.”
The End Of A Family Relationship
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“This was my cousin’s wedding.
A small back story, my two Aunts had a poor relationship after the death of a sibling and the inheritance was not handled properly.
Cut to my cousin’s wedding, and another of their siblings passed from a heart attack (mother of the bride) two weeks before the wedding. Aunt 1 we’ll call Betty, Aunt 2 Carol.
Betty did everything in her power to make sure my cousin had a good day, but Carol was a bit narcissistic. The two met in the bathroom and Carol began to cry to Betty about how ‘my sister isn’t here.’
Betty is a no-nonsense woman from a rough part of town in inner-city Philadelphia, and so naturally, she tells her sister to grow the heck up, this day isn’t about her, it’s about my cousin, and if she can’t handle that she needs to get the heck out. Carol did not like that.
Here’s where it got interesting… Carol married a man with Gigantism, my uncle ‘Tiny’, and they had a kid, who got the best of both worlds, his fathers height, but his mother’s health, and we will call him TJ. TJ is a very loyal dude, and his mother had gone to him and complained about Betty, so TJ confronted her. Now TJ is 7’2” and about 320lbs and is used to being able to intimidate most people with his size. Betty is about 5’3”, but as stated before, no-nonsense…
So this goes down at the reception before the bride and groom are introduced, and the hall is silent except for their yelling. A few uncles and cousins step in to try and calm the situation, and finally the crazy part:
TJ calls Betty a ‘nasty biotch’ and there is a notable chill that passes over the room… that’s the wrong move. Betty calmly walks to a table, drags a chair over, stands up on it to see TJ eye to eye… and smacks the living daylights out of him. The sound it made, my god. And all you hear is:
‘I DONT CARE HOW EFFING BIG YOU ARE! YOU COULD BE 10 FEET TALL AND 1500 LBS AND I’D STILL FIND A WAY TO KICK YOUR BUTT!’
She then gave him a napkin for his bleeding nose and told him to grab his mother and get the heck out of there. Which they did. To this day almost 10 years later and we have not heard from TJ or Carol.”
So Many Stories, So Little Time
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“I used to work at a wedding venue and worked over 200 weddings.
- Groom was clearly not at all liked by 99% of the guests (and apparently the bride). He spent most of the night trying to dance with everyone but his new wife and was ignored by pretty much everyone. No one wanted anything to do with him and was super awkward.
- Fistycuffs involving several guests including the bride. One of the guests jumped on the back of a guest (who was black – key part) and the black guy didn’t like it and shoved him off causing the fool to fall on the floor. Fool took this way too personally and started shouting at the dude for nearly breaking his ankle (no way did he almost break his ankle). Another dude pushes him back saying cool off and to take it easy. A couple of guests and the bride come over to help ease the tension. The fool takes a swing at the other guy and misses but the other guy drops him like nothing. Guests pick up the fool and try to take him away. The fool yells out ‘stupid [racial epithet that doesn’t bear repeating]’. Bride turns around and punches the fool square in the face and he gets knocked out cold. Everyone is just stood around thinking ‘oh my, this is one to remember’. Guy comes around and is loaded into a taxi. Everyone has a great time. Turns out the fool was the bride’s brother.
- The groom was caught in a compromising situation with the bride’s sister in the loo. This didn’t go down well.
- The bride made the photographer cry after the photographer took an ‘unflattering’ photo of the bride. I saw the photo and it wasn’t at all bad. The poor photographer spent the rest of her night avoiding taking pictures of the bride.
- Any and all heavily wasted brides or grooms are the worst. Once the bride was so trashed she went home with her husband’s brother by ‘mistake.'”
The Candle Thief Comes To Call
“This was at my own wedding. Part of our decor was those little candles in different kinds of candle holders. They were EVERYWHERE. The candleholders themselves were part of a HUGE collection that belonged to my mom.
My sister was planning to use them for her wedding too, which was only a few months after mine. We also had twinkle lights all throughout the venue.
Anywho, as the reception was coming to a close and my husband and I were going around the room saying goodbye and being congratulated by everyone, I started to notice that there were fewer candles than there were before, so I started walking around the room and, sure enough, most of the ones on the tables were gone.
I glanced out the door and noticed that some of the outer twinkle lights were off. Walked outside. Nope, not off. GONE. What on earth?
So I walked back inside and see one of my bridesmaid’s kids with an arm-full of candles, just walking out the back door. I walked my happy-self out after him, only to see his mother standing next to their car with the trunk open, where they were loading not only my flipping candles but also my twinkle lights, several centerpieces, and leftover bottles of bubbly.
I walked over and, in my best passive-aggressive tone said something along the lines of ‘Oh, thanks! You can keep a centerpiece for yourself as a keepsake and drop all the rest off at (mother in law)’s house!’ and started walking back inside, but ran straight into her husband, who immediately started berating her because she apparently makes a habit out of this.
The only reason why I asked her to be a bridesmaid was that her husband was the best man. Did I mention that the best man is also my brother-in-law?
Fast forward to after the honeymoon and my husband gets a call from her. She’s asking if I have any more of ‘those little jars’ so she can decorate some shelves in her living room. Turns out that she had also stolen some of the mason jars that were also part of the decor. Husband had choice words.
I haven’t heard from her in a while.”
A Free Bar Is Often A Bad Idea
“My friends got married and had a reception at a high-end hotel in Seattle. At the reception, everyone who had RSVP-ed got two free drink vouchers that were at their assigned seats.
About 50 guests didn’t show up, so the free drink vouchers were basically split up among the other guests and A LOT of them got very happy, indeed.
The groomsmen were doing backflips off the serving counters and screaming and hollering. One lady got so merry that she decided she was going to take the water pearl table decorations and throw them on the dance floor so it would look more colorful.
Another guest got so out of it that he became belligerent. He took his drink and dumped it into one of the candles on one of the standing drink tables. He then proceeded to try to flip the table over, but thank god it was bolted down. Since the table wouldn’t flip, he grabbed the tablecloth and pulled it and all the candles and drink glasses off and on to the floor.
He was asked to leave so what does he do on his way out? He backhands one of the woman guests and gives her a bloody lip, but he says it was an accident and he was only excitedly waving his arms around. Eventually, he leaves and the messy show CONTINUES!!!
By this time the bride and groom are both very merry and the groom is following his bride around screaming her name and saying ‘look at TONY’S JUNK!! TONY IS PACKIN’! YOU HAVE TO LOOK AT TONY’S JUNK!!’
I am Tony and I assure you, I am average size and the groom has never seen my manhood so I don’t know why he was doing that. To make all of that part extra awkward, he was trying to pull my pants down to show his bride.
After all of that goes down, I decide it is definitely time for me to excuse myself and leave. The next day I get a call from another friend who attended and he explained I was lucky that I left when I did because not long after, the groom was crying to his mom in front of his new bride saying ‘mom, did I just make a mistake?! What did I do mom?!’
The whole thing was a complete disaster, but they’re still happily married after 5 years. It will probably go down in my book as the most memorable wedding I’ll have ever attended.”
The Cabin Owner Was A Party Pooper
“Mine were the owners of the venue. We had grabbed tables out of one of their cabin basements for the guests because they didn’t supply enough. Cue them randomly starting to yell and scream and take the tables we just set up. (The wife said we could, the husband was a control freak and didn’t know).
We had started a fire in their fire pit with the family and the owners present. After the old timers turned in a few of us stayed up. The owner comes yelling and screaming at us that we didn’t pay for the firewood? Um, what? The same logs were burning.
Six other things like that happened. A malnourished puppy was found on the property and they didn’t want him in any of the cabins because of the fleas. We gave him some water and went to get a flea collar for them. The owner comes by and says to leave the dog be (like a 6-week old lab puppy) because it belonged to the neighbors. We asked all neighbors nearby. None claimed it. What a mean person. One of the bridesmaids ended up stealing the dog and giving it a good home after the dude grabbed it and hauled it off in a golf cart to WHO KNOWS WHERE and the puppy found its way back.
They told us we were the worst party they ever had. Right. If a family of Mormons was the worst party you’ve ever had, I’d like to meet whoever’s weddings you previously did.”
Memorable But For All The Wrong Reasons
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“I went to the trashiest wedding that included a keg in the middle of the dance floor that you had to pump into your red solo cup. Additionally, they had karaoke and the bride’s sister, who cannot sing, screeched ‘Wind Beneath My Wings’ as the first song. The second song was Nine Inch Nail’s ‘Closer,’ which has some seriously obscene lyrics (like ‘I wanna eff you like an animal, I wanna feel you from the inside…’)
When the keg ran out, the groom got on the microphone and encouraged the guests to walk down to the store and stock up.
Meanwhile, the groom starts dirty dancing with guests and the bride is sitting on a corner of the stage crying loudly. Later, she actually opened the gifts at the wedding like it was a children’s birthday party.
The food was pork shoulder, a bag of Wonderbread and a large bowl of peanuts that everyone just dipped their hands into. The heavily tattooed mother of the bride later started a food fight with the peanuts. The best man didn’t show up because he was too trashed at a bar located about 2 blocks away to walk.
Lastly, the brother of the groom proposed to his super embarrassed girlfriend during the reception and insisted a song be played for their ‘engagement dance’.
I barely knew these people but it was the most memorable wedding ever.”
The DJ Sees Everything Implode
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“I was a mobile DJ for years, did many, many weddings. The stories go on and on, my worst though, besides idiots wrecking my equipment, is the bride getting intimate with her ex-boyfriend in the handicapped bathroom and getting caught.
So we are about an hour into the reception, dinner is over, drinks have been flowing liberally (the bride had to change for ‘comfort reasons’), and off to my right down the hall is the bathrooms. They had two large bathrooms, men and women, and then a single private handicapped bathroom.
Well, evidently the bride’s ex showed up to the wedding uninvited, snuck in and got the attention of the bride who kept it on the down low with the help from another friend at the wedding.
So bride goes off, does illegal substances with the ex, and they go into the private bathroom, they think unseen and proceed to consummate the marriage without the groom.
Well, one of the groom’s friends saw them go in together and after searching all over, they eventually located the groom and bride’s and groom’s dads, outside talking together. He tells them, and they all rush to the bathroom and literally break the door down to find the bride and her ex in a terribly compromising fashion.
A fight ensues, ex-boyfriend gets his behind kicked by the father of the bride no less, crying and screaming everywhere, groom storms off shouting, ‘(brides name) is an effing ho’ and ‘I want a divorce.’ Many people leave but since I’ve been paid for the full night I’m still pushing the music.
Things get kind of sloppy. Cops come and separate the combatants, two arrests are made, father of the bride and the sister of the groom, one for beating the snot out of the ex (dad was/is a Marine) and the sister for breaking the nose of the bride with a lamp.
So the bloody-dress wearing bride storms out, the groom is getting sloshed with friends, two arrested, marriage seemingly over.
Yeah, great wedding.
My only regret is that when the groom was shouting ‘(brides name) is an effing ho’ that I didn’t play ‘I write sins, not tragedies’ by Panic at the Disco, sigh, it would’ve been perfect or I would’ve been punched too.”
The Wedding Present That No One Wants
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“I’m a wedding photographer. I have lots of stories, but my favorite was probably the time I watched a bridesmaid projectile vomit all over one of the groomsmen.
I raised my camera to my face and instantly realized I was the only one that thought it was funny. Uptight group.
I was on the party bus with them and we were on our way to the reception from the church. She was wasted and it was only 1 pm (not judging, but she was pounding drinks since 7 am according to the other bridesmaids).
She was swaying at the altar, being really crass during the getting ready portion of the day, etc. She kept telling crude jokes that just fell flat. It was like watching a child beg for attention.
Anyway, after I got off the bus I saw the bridesmaid screaming at the groomsman. I didn’t hear, but I guess he called her ‘a messy See-You-Next-Tuesday’ and gave her some real abuse before he got off the bus.
She fell asleep in someone’s car and wasn’t seen for the rest of the night.
I love my job.”
A Surprising Walk Of Disgrace
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“Was a server at a high-end golf club that had a ballroom they used for weddings. Witnessed A LOT of crazy stuff that no one would ever realize. The craziest story was at a classy wedding. Saw a cute couple come in very smitten about in their early 30s, were friends with the groom. Separately, a family came to the reception – Husband, Wife, and 3 pre-teen/teen kids (ranging from about 10-16) – typical upper-middle-class country club family, nearly perfect looking.
Later in the night, I went downstairs to the member-only women’s locker room as most the staff used that one during weddings since most visitors didn’t know about it.
Realized there was a couple messing around in the shower stall. Naturally, I ran upstairs to tell my girlfriends/coworkers. We all waited for the cute young couple to do the walk of shame upstairs so we could laugh to ourselves. Welp. The young cute 30-something walked up… and about 5 minutes behind her, her husband wasn’t her husband…. it was the Dad who came with his family… neither spouse had a clue whatsoever.
Both walked right over to their spouses who didn’t have a clue and each acted all lovey-dovey. We felt especially bad for the wife and kids of the lousy Dad….”