"It Was One Of The Most Egotistical Things I Have Ever Seen Anyone Do": People Are Dishing About The Tackiest Things They've Witnessed At Weddings, And It's A Whole Lotta Drama
Members of the BuzzFeed Community shared their stories about the most entitled behavior they'd ever witnessed at weddings, and we received so many wild submissions, we had to come back and give you more! Reddit users also spilled the beans on the tacky, cringy behavior they dealt with at weddings, so enjoy those painful anecdotes as well!
1."Instead of throwing rice (or confetti, or sprinkles, or anything like that), the bride and groom asked their friends to save all their empty Juul pods and throw those as they walked down the aisle. The friends obliged."
2."My cousin's wedding featured the groom driving a small tractor around the outdoor venue while the bride rode on the back to the tune of 'She Thinks My Tractor's Sexy' on repeat for about 30 minutes after their vows. The guests just hung out and waited, thinking it would be a quick jaunt and then we could enjoy some refreshments and food. Nope, it took, like, half an hour to make sure they got good pictures and videos. Then, it took even more time to get pictures of them sitting stationary on the tractor. It was blazing hot with no canopy or cover, and I was very pregnant, so I was especially miserable. He's not even a farmer. They live in an apartment."
3."In the 1980s at the Newport Beach Marriott, we specialized in weddings — sometimes as many as six per Saturday. We had a beautiful atrium with a 150-year-old Italian fountain and a rose garden. One Saturday, we had a huge wedding in the rose garden with 300 guests. The bride was in a room a few stories above the rose garden and was doing shots of tequila to get up the courage to walk down the aisle. The groom, best man, and preacher were all waiting for the bride to show up. Well, suffice to say, she got too much 'liquid courage,' came out on the balcony, stripped off her top, and started shaking her bosoms for all the wedding guests, guests at the pool, banquet housemen, bartenders, and servers to enjoy. Quite the spectacle. The groom had to go up and drag her off the balcony. He finally brought her down, dressed, and they got married and went to their lavish reception. Wild!!"
4."The pastor stopped SEVERAL times throughout the wedding ceremony to tell the bride how beautiful and sexy she looked, and how if he was young and unmarried..."
5."The couple saved their first kiss for marriage, and when the officiant said you may now kiss the bride, they stopped the ceremony and made a video blog at the altar about how they just got married and were going to kiss for the first time. Cringe."
6."The groom had been drinking way before the wedding even started, so he was totally out of it by reception time. He grabbed the mic from the DJ and proceeded to rant, mostly incoherently, for about 20 minutes on the dance floor. He would occasionally shout, 'It's my wedding! I can make a speech if I want!' in between berating his wife and saying what a downer marriage was. It got so cringy that the DJ finally had to wrestle the mic away from him and make him sit down at the table with his new wife."
7."For my wedding, we had only invited a few people. In the middle of our vows, someone I had not invited showed up and started banging on the unlocked door until someone opened it for her. She had a big attitude and a snarl on her face, and she kept her arms crossed until we finished our ceremony. When my husband, the two groomsmen, the two bridesmaids, and I got ready to leave for our afterparty, we were told we had to take our wedding crasher as well. I was not too happy with this. Needless to say, we piled into our cars, but by the time we got to our party, my groomsmen said they would not ride in the car with her because she fondled them in the backseat. At the afterparty, she tried to sit on the laps of both my groomsmen AND my husband. After getting rebuffed several times by her lewd remarks and tactics, she went out on the dance floor and danced with any willing person...but I wouldn't call it 'dancing.'"
8."At my cousin's wedding, they did the thing where the groom removes the bride's garter and tosses it to all the single guys. I guess none of the guys wanted to be the next one to get married because once the groom tossed the garter, no one grabbed it. It just landed on the ground a few feet in front of a crowd of motionless guys. The groom tossed the garter three times before one guy halfheartedly picked it off the ground. The bride wouldn't look at any of those guys for the rest of the night."
9."Most memorable: The bridal dance song was Eric Clapton’s 'Cocaine.' The marriage ended in divorce. Coming in at second place: The bride’s parents were ballroom dancers (and not very good). They made sure they were the only dancers on the floor for over half an hour. People were polite for the first song, but when they finally gave up, no one was watching."
10."One wedding I was in, no one was told until DAY OF that there would be no food served at the reception, only cake. The wedding cake was blue with penguins on it because the bride loved penguins. A friend of a friend had made the cake FIVE DAYS BEFORE the wedding. There was so much (dried out) fondant on it that it was nearly impossible to cut, and the cake was so stale it was impossible to eat. The bride literally threw a fit when she saw how many people were throwing away their slices of cake and became even more livid when people started leaving to go get food since there was no place at the reception site to get even a snack. To be clear, they HAD the money to actually purchase meals for the reception, but chose not to because 'people won’t notice there’s no food.'"
11."My husband’s friends didn’t like me, and boy did they show it at my wedding. At my rehearsal dinner, one of the groomsmen brought a woman with him who not only wasn’t invited, but who was the woman their friend group had tried for years to hook up with my husband. She tried to get his attention all night. Then, the wife of the best man and the wife of another groomsman didn’t show to the wedding, and they spent the evening calling their husbands asking when they were leaving. It got to the point where one almost missed the toasts because he was on the phone. They both left before the cake was cut. Then, another groomsman cut out early because he had made a date for the night since he was wearing such a nice suit — which I had paid for! By the end of the reception, only my friends were there. It was really sad for my husband, who had put up with these jerks his whole life."
12."I was asked to bring a dish if I wanted to attend the reception. In other words, it was a potluck, but we weren’t told that until two days before the wedding."
13."The bride showed up almost two hours late to her own wedding. It was in southern California in an open field with no water and no shade. She showed up and wanted to get married in her yoga outfit. The groom (my uncle) shut it down when she refused to change her clothes. I spoke with my uncle, and it turns out he had speculated that his fiancée was sleeping with her personal trainer. When she showed up in her yoga outfit, it was all he needed to call off the wedding. She ended up married to her personal trainer, then divorced."
14."The bride’s family paid for an open bar. At the end of the evening, the groom’s family ordered and loaded up trays of drinks to take to their rooms to party. It was so egregious that the bar manager came to ask the bride’s father if it was OK since they were paying by the drink. He just shrugged and said yes. Fortunately, he could afford it."
15."The pastor marrying the bride and groom talked about his marriage and his kids for 20 minutes. He was obviously trying to show them what marriage would be like, but he just talking about how his daughter, Kelsey, learned to walk, what his other daughter’s first words were, etc. And, he added that he and his wife make love throughout their house because 'that’s what you do when in love.' The bride and groom had to stand there holding hands for 20 minutes right in front of him as the other 150 of us had to hear about his sex life and his kids."
16."I went to a wedding where the bride went around to all of the tables with a big, gaudy bag so that people could put cash in it. In addition to their wedding gifts. They even announced it."
17."At my sister's wedding, the maid of honor, who was told to be at the venue a couple of hours before the actual event started to help with setup, decided to show up as the processional was starting. We had even delayed the start time by 30 minutes in hopes that she would show up, but she wasn't answering her phone, so we had no choice but to start without her. The venue was outdoors, so all of the guests got to witness her running full-tilt across the field to get into her place in line."
18."The groom tried to ‘prank’ the bride. When the wedding vows happened, he planned to say ‘no’ to the question ‘Do you take this woman as your lawfully wedded wife?' For some odd reason, he thought people would realize it was a joke and start laughing. Well, the result was quite the opposite. The bride started crying and had to be escorted out of the venue. Fortunately, they ended up getting married after all, but we had to wait for a full hour before the bride was consoled by her family and the actual wedding vows happened."
19."You could write a movie about my cousin’s wedding. It was a destination wedding at the top of Mammoth Mountain in July, however it was still cold with snow up there. Some of the guests were not able to handle the altitude and had to be brought back down and given oxygen. The day before the wedding, my cousin slipped and fell during rehearsal and broke her foot because she insisted on wearing heels and a heavy wedding dress in the snow. The day of, she was an hour late and wearing a cast and an ugly sneaker. There’s more. She's half-Mexican and half-Welsh, however her in-laws are very WASP-y and racist. I think they assumed she was Italian, and she just rolled with it. The food at the reception was Italian. However, before the reception, the best man and friends had a surprise planned for the bride and groom."
"The groom's friends handed out the lyrics to 'That's Amore' for us to sing to the couple once they made it back down Mammoth to the reception. We stood around in a circle and were all looking at each other like, 'This is weird.' When my cousin and her new husband entered the room, we all sang 'That's Amore,' which was led by the best man. After we were done, the best man raised his hand and yelled, 'How many Italians do we have here today?' The room was just silent for a good five minutes with everyone just staring at each other. My uncle, her father, walked up and snatched the microphone and started quickly saying in Spanish how he was proud of his beautiful and intelligent daughter. Then he said, 'Trick! I speak English.' After that, he shouted, 'How many Mexicans are in the room?' and there was a sea of raised hands. The groom's family went pale.
But wait, there’s more! The reception was set up with assigned seating. While most everyone was singing 'That's Amore,' someone else was switching the name tags around. On top that, there was a surprise guest. Someone sat my parents next to my mother’s brother’s recent widow. My uncle died under suspicious circumstances, and the coroner suspected that she had poisoned him, but there was not enough evidence. They had been married for less than a year, and he told us that he was planning to divorce her. He kept his money in a separate account and willed it to his sisters. Minutes after he was pronounced dead, she tried to have him cremated, however his body was recovered for autopsy by the police minutes before he was to be placed in the crematorium. Only a few days after his death, his widow quit her job and had plans to move out of state until she realized he had a will and she was expressly excluded. She sent letters to the family telling them to turn over their share of the inheritance to her and that she was destitute. She most likely murdered my uncle. My parents were in a civil suit against her, along with one other sister, and now she was seated next to them. Not only was it extremely tacky and upsetting, but it was against court orders. One of my cousins, who was also very upset this woman even attended the wedding, opted to switch and sit next to her to avoid a giant scene at her sister’s wedding.
My family is a piece of work. You really can’t make this stuff up."
20."We were well into the afternoon; everyone was dining, dancing, and having a great time when the music stopped. A woman in her early 20s had a microphone and started saying how honored she was to have come and how she had flown in from Australia (this was in the UK). She stated that she hadn't brought a gift, but would be handling that now with the gift of song. She then started singing Dido's 'Thank You' a cappella. Maybe this wouldn't have been too bad if she was good, but she was terrible. Her voice was awful. Everyone looked on stunned for about a minute until the DJ just played music over the top and took the microphone off her. Very odd."
21."My sister’s friend was marrying a Jehovah's Witness, and the day of the wedding, the mother-in-law fired the non-denominational officiant and replaced him with the pastor from her church. The entire sermon was about how the bride should be subservient to her husband and obey his every demand. It was awful. We called the groom ‘The Pallbearer’ because he was so somber and not fun. They divorced not even a year later, thank god."
22.Finally: "The bride and groom had their ceremony outside where there were no space restrictions, and they said that anyone who wanted to come to the ceremony could. But, for the reception, they said they had to limit the guest list to 100. So, what was their solution to get the numbers down? They posted on their wedding website and shared on Facebook that if you wanted to come to the reception, they wanted you to submit an essay saying why you wanted to come, what their friendship meant to you, etc. — basically justifying why you should be invited. They gave a deadline for people to submit their entries. The bride and groom said they would then read through all of the submissions together and pick who would get invited to the reception. It was seriously one of the most egotistical things I have ever seen anyone do."
YIKES. What's the worst behavior you've ever witnessed at a wedding?
Note: Submissions have been edited for length and/or clarity.
