"The Groom Objected Himself And Broke Down Crying": 17 Stories Of People Objecting During Weddings That Have Me Shocked
You know that moment in movies when there's a wedding and the minister is like, "If anyone objects to this union, speak now or forever hold your peace," and then inevitably something super dramatic happens?
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Like, for example, Shrek comes running in?
Well, redditor u/AustinMakesStuff asked the AskReddit community, "Has anyone ever been to a wedding where someone actually objected, and if so, how did that go?" It turns out that yes, some people actually HAVE objected to real-life weddings, and the stories are outrageous. Here are some of the best ones:
1."My auntie's fiancé was already married (a lady stood up waving a marriage certificate) so the wedding didn't go ahead. The reception was on a long boat so we still went to that. The fiancé went back to their home country to sort it out and never came back."
2."I had a friend who was a minister, and the subject came up if he asked the question during ceremonies he officiated. He laughed and said no way. He basically tells the couple not to include it because it only invites a moment of anxiety at best, misery at worst. His best story (and one of the reasons he stopped including the question) was a couple where in the lead-up to the wedding, the couple was obviously in love. The bride to be was very smiley and happy. [But on the] day of the wedding, she’s stone faced..."
"He knows something is up because he’s never seen her like this, and he asks if she is ok. 'I’m fine.'
Right before the service, he asks again. 'I’m fine.'
He gets to the question, 'Does anyone object to this union?'
The bride reaches over, grabs the maid of honor, shoves her into the bride’s spot, and says, 'You’re screwing him, you marry him.' And then stormed out of the church."
—u/FDS_MTG
3."My uncle was getting married. Small, just a handful of family and a minister. I was videotaping. My grandmother was not into it at all. With each line spoken by the minister, she had a cutting, sarcastic response. I could not believe it. It was so unlike her. When that part came up, she said, 'I object. But does it really matter? They are going to do it anyway.'"
"The minister just ignored her and proceeded, business as usual. They were divorced within a year."
—u/jamesshine
Lifetime
4."I know a guy that was the videographer at a wedding where the groom was the one that objected. When the priest asked if anyone objected, the groom broke down crying and said that he couldn't go through with the wedding. Apparently, he had gotten a stripper pregnant, and felt like he had to marry the stripper instead of the bride."
"He got pulled into a side room by the officiant, his father, and the father of the bride while everyone else (including the bride) stood around awkwardly. A few minutes later, the father of the bride came out and told everyone that the ceremony was over and the wedding was off, but that everyone was welcome to go to the reception and enjoy the food. My friend didn't stick around for the reception, so I have no idea how it all turned out. But apparently, the bride was understandably not taking it well."
5."Groom found out that bride was cheating two days before the wedding day. He spilled the beans while exchanging the vows."
6."At his rehearsal dinner, a co-worker's mother's toast included that his soon-to-be wife was a 'damn dirty whore who wasn't good enough' for her son. Folks [were] not happy. At [the] wedding, which I attended, his mom started to say something at the 'speak now' part but was silenced by her daughter. Mom left and didn't see the rest of the ceremony. Everything about that poor guy was drama."
—u/nebelhund
Warner Bros.
7."A woman, in her 20s at the time, objected to her mom marrying my uncle. So, she started yelling, 'Mom, don’t marry him!' during the ceremony. The ceremony proceeded, and some family on the mom’s side led the daughter away to quit interrupting. I don’t blame her — my uncle was a lying, lazy bastard. The marriage didn’t last."
—u/Rabies182
8."My grandmother objected at my sister's wedding. My sister was a Florida-based Italian Catholic and somewhat conservative individual who fell in love with a progressive New York Jew. My Nonna said it wouldn't work. ... She was worried about it changing her granddaughter. My parents managed to get her away from the wedding, and it continued. My sister is now neither Catholic nor conservative, so my Nonna was absolutely right."
—u/Tink2013
9."A friend of mine has a band that plays lots of weddings and other parties. They were hired for a birthday party that turned out to be a surprise wedding. The guy surprised his GF with a proposal and wanted to have a wedding ceremony then and there. She said no and left."
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10."My mother passed away about 15 years ago. Five years later, my dad married my now stepmother. It was an outdoor wedding on a beautiful sunny day, and during the spot where they usually ask if anyone objects, a big gust of wind came out of nowhere and knocked over some tables. Afterward, multiple people came to tell me that wind gust was my mother objecting, which I like to believe was true."
—u/Gbuphallow
11."This was in America, and the wedding was in a Buddhist temple. Parents of the groom stood up and objected because they didn’t believe the bride was of the same class. They spoke in another language, so most of the English-speaking guests didn’t know they were objecting. My husband was the best man, and those closest to the couple knew this might happen. The Buddhist priest said he would handle it if the parents tried anything. After the parents spoke for a while, the priest said to the groom, 'You’ve heard what your parents had to say, what do you want to do?' The groom replied, 'I want to marry my bride.' So, the priest asked the parents to leave."
"At this point, the rest of the guests are clueing in that this was not a nice part of the ceremony, and that the parents were actually objecting, so, as the parents walked out, some of the guests were berating them, saying things like, 'You should be ashamed of yourself' and 'How could you do that?' And even though the groom was not happy with his parents, that was very hard for him to hear.
That was 30 years ago. The couple is still married. They have two beautiful, successful children. After the groom’s mom passed away, the groom’s father came around and was involved in their lives until he died."
—u/Bayou_Mama
12."The mom of one of the bridesmaids got up and yelled, 'Yeah, I object: You fucking stole him from her!' While pointing at the bride. I’ve known the groom for a long time and by proxy the bride. I am still very good friends with them. I have never seen her more infuriated than at that moment. The bridesmaid got up from her chair and was like, 'I’m so, so sorry. Let me get her out of here.' The bridesmaid and the bride’s stepfather escorted the woman out of the wedding, and it continued."
"That bridesmaid and groom [had] interacted for a bit on Tinder. Went on a couple of dates and realized they didn’t click that way. That was the extent of it. The bridesmaid was friends with the bride since high school. They met through the bridesmaid. They hit it off really well. Dated for four years and decided to get married."
—u/Husbandaru
Disney
13."I was the best man at my bestie's wedding. Someone that we... tolerated in our friend group objected and said he was in love with the bride and that he was the only one that could make her happy. She had been nice about his feelings until then and reminded him in front of the entire ceremony that he A: couldn't hold down a job because he had too big of an ego, B: didn't get along with her friends because they all had something they were working on (a book, a career, a trip, a volunteer job), and he had nothing so he constantly tried to downplay their accomplishments on purely presumptuous ideas, and C: his idea of sex was, 'Blow me and I'll finger you. 'Night, hun.' She was way more thorough and more cruel, and it was a hysterical five-minute ordeal. He had it coming for starting shit at her wedding. He got up and left. I was pretty sure he was crying as he walked away, but no one went after him. It was both brutal and hilarious."
Some of the stories weren't really objections, so they had a happy ending. So, let's finish it out with four of those stories:
14."When I was a kid, my deeply religious aunt had her wedding at a local church. During the 'objecting' part, lightning struck very near the church. I remember to this day how the following thunder was so loud, that the fancy windows of the church started rattling. Well, the timing of the strike was very unfortunate for my uncle because my aunt took this as a sign of a god objecting to her marriage and called the wedding off on the spot. Needless to say, they married on the same day a year later and this time without 'objection from a god.' They are still married to this day."
—u/Jecmenn
15."One of my cousins is married to literally one of the kindest and coolest dudes I have ever met. Before the wedding, her little sister (the little sister was about 9 or 10 at the time) was saying how 'she’s marrying my best friend.' At the wedding, when the priest dude asks if anyone objects, the room is dead quiet, and all you hear is a little girl whisper, 'I do.' It was honestly really adorable, and we all laughed, and my cousin’s husband and her little sister are still best friends."
16."Not quite the question as asked, but too funny to not share:"
"Priest: 'Any objections?'
Father of the bride: lets out the hardest, loudest, most complex-sounding sneeze I've ever heard in my life, completely with involuntarily saying 'ACHOOOOOO.'
Mother of the bride, hammered on champagne: 'For fuck's sake, Jerry!'
It took a good five minutes for everyone to regain their composure."
—u/ibiacmbyww
17.And finally: "I objected. I took giving my sister away literally. I wasn't the brightest 3-year-old."
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