I mean... If she clearly stated "raspberries could kill me" and the caterer still fed her raspberries, it's not the bride who should sue, it's the district attorney's office because it's very close to a murder attempt.
I was accosted by a HUGE swarm of ladybugs right as I entered the church. I walked down the aisle intentionally trying to shake my skirts a little extra with each step. It was so funny. No one noticed but my maid of honor and father because it happened at the last second going in and we were the only ones there. I have this image in my mind of the aisle behind me strewn with rose petals and confused ladybugs but I was too happy to check at the time. I've heard a single ladybug landing on you is good luck. Married 25+ years. I love ladybugs! ;)
My wedding was supposed to be outside on the beach, it STORMED so we had to have it in the condo lobby. They were ok with it. I heard it’s good luck to have rain on your wedding day. Married 11 years.
My daughter was professional latin ballroom dancer, so at her wedding everyone was expecting something spectacular for their first dance. However, her husband, by his own admission has :" no sense of rhythm and 2 left feet " and she refused to show off because it wasn't about her but them as a couple. She choreographed a simple slow dance , comfortable to do for him, beautiful to watch and general consensus was that THEY looked amazing on the dance floor.
One of my favorite makeup RUclipsrs is a ballroom pro, I was surprised that their wedding was a private ceremony, just them, officiant, & witness, and def no dancing. I have a feeling she didn't want to make the day a dance showcase either. My family is not dancey lol, my father daughter song was Sixteen Tons! (He's gone now but dancing to a labor movement song at my wedding was so us, one of my fave memories, rabble rousing is a long tradition on my dad's side).
The issue of the bride and groom not getting a nice meal at their own wedding is a really common problem. They're shaking hands, hugging well-wishers, running to the bathroom, cutting the cake and doing that photo op, perhaps changing into their reception outfits, etc and they often don't get to the buffet table until dead last. I worked for a caterer years ago who had seen this happen way too many times. So when we'd bring the food to the event, she'd fix the bride and groom beautiful plates herself before we did anything else. A sampler dessert plate, mains, an appetizer plate and make them look beautiful. Then she'd cover them and set them out of the way. Only then would we get the signal to set out the buffet. All staff knew that you do NOT touch those dishes and protect them from anyone who didn't get the memo. When the time came for the bride and groom to relax and enjoy their meal, they'd be served properly, as if they were at a restaurant. Their slice of cake would even be tucked away the second the cake cutting was done. (And the top layer would be packaged to go home. Tradition.) That ended the disappointment of only eating scraps off the buffet at their own wedding.
it helps also if the Wedding Coordinator and/or MOH and Best Man understand it is their duty to capture the couple at some point and force them to sit and eat, possibly in an entirely different room.
so well thought out, I get social anxiety just thinking about all those people (and germs, yeah one of those, sorry) but one thing I always think about is how exhausted the couple has to be and thinking they go to eat and there's nothing? I'm newly diabetic. That made me upset bc when you're on the go, you push it to the limit, that would have made me cry so bad! Thank you for sharing bc it made me feel so good knowing someone understands what that might feel like, you don't have to be diabetic to have low blood sugar and feel tired, irritable, or emotional, we've all been there. Some people plan for years! I'll never understand the selfishness of people. Great wedding planner, now I understand why people pay them a lot of money. 😂❤
That’s awesome. The place where I had my reception tossed our leftover food in the garbage along with part of my cake. After the owner cussed me out before my wedding over four chairs.
This is so true. At my wedding, I was 6 months pregnant so the hunger was real! Was up at 6 to decorate and get ready, Nerves had me skip breakfast and the ceremony was at one so figured I'd just tough it out a bit longer. It was nearly 3 by the time ceremony, photos, signing the certificate and mingling with guests was done. I was so HANGRY but trying to keep a smile on my face. I sat down, someone brought me a plate and as soon as I stabbed my fork into it, the officiant comes over and tells me it's time to cut the cake (all other guests had eaten at this point). I nearly growled I was so hungry and just said no, it's my wedding and I'm taking my turn to eat. People made speeches while we did so. When I was done, I agreed to cut the cake. We were out of there and headed to our honeymoon a little after 4. Everyone was so eager to go that I didn't even get to dance (which anyone that knows me, knew I loved it, went to all school dances and was on the dance team). It's been 14 years and I'm still a little salty about it and now my husband and I feel too awkward to dance with each other in a fun romantic way - so we just dance in a silly fun way with our 5 kids, which they did NOT inherit their skills from me 😂 it's interesting but we have fun. I get a little bummed thinking back, but my marriage is strong and we decided for one of our big anniversaries we'll do it better as a vow renewal.
I think that I was the only calm one at my wedding. I turned around and my entire family had left leaving me and my Granny alone in the house. This did turn out to be a very treasured memory of me and Granny together as I assisted her getting ready for my wedding before the rest of my family came back to get us to the church. After my new husband and I were thrown out of our reception at 1am, I went back to the house for my luggage and found Granny there alone again. She was so pleased to be able to assist me get ready for my honeymoon night. Another treasured memory.
i'm sorry, but if ANYONE of my family came to my wedding and took 4 (FOUR) servings of my favourite desert and there wasn't any left, AND wasn't willing to share it, i'd definitely pull a 'i'm the fucking bride, hand it over'
AS YOU SHOULD? the op begging for THEIR FAVORITE DESSERT at their OWN wedding?! absolutely not even if i was just in earshot i’d be shaming the dessert hoarder to hell and back. “you should’ve gotten to it quicker” yea there actually would’ve been some left at the time they went to the bar if you weren’t such a greedy scumbag. wtf
Our flower girl tried to bite people, barked at cars and kicked her skirt off. Lola The Chola was the most gangsta dachshund that ever lived. So grateful that the photographer was able to get a few good photos of her before she had to go into timeout ❤️
The worst thing that happened at my wedding was me getting married to the most evil douchebaggiest human being imaginable. I'm divorced now, and I've met the love of my life. I'm so happy 😊
Hey! A similar thing happened to me! Hoping I get those divorce papers soon so I don't have to pay for it 😂 How to ruin a wedding: having to get divorced!
My worst thing was when we went out to get sunset photos, my grandmother started giving away our centerpieces. Not just the flowers, the boxes we built after treating the wood to weather it for over 6 months. So while we're taking photos we're watching our guests leave in large groups. Apparently they assumed the wedding was over since people were taking the centerpieces. So my grandmother effectively ended our wedding hours early....
I have rheumatoid arthritis, and was having a major flare on the big day. All my joints, especially my wrists and elbows, felt like they were on fire. When we were doing pictures after the ceremony, the photographer grabbed my left wrist to "get into the right position for the photo" and I screamed in pain. Fortunately, my husband stepped in, explained the situation and got him to back off. Otherwise, I might be in prison, waiting for that elusive parole hearing date.
Jesus…I was a photographer for several years and would always ask if I could adjust body positions for that reason (along with making sure people were comfortable).
In my country Nigeria, brides mostly dance down the aisle so everyone will be praising you for your performance not knowing you've just been attacked by an army of jealous spinster crickets.
On Saturday my husbands cousin got married (were british) but her Nigerian step father gave her away...and they danced down the aisle, it was so much fun. Then I got very drunk cos whenever I went to the bar, he was at the bar, always go to the bar when uncle ty is there, he insists you drink "properly"
@@pablodelsegundo9502 definitely, I’m in the UK and there was an amazing beautiful Nigerian after wedding dance in the grounds of a public park and it was the most beautiful scene I’ve ever experienced of a wedding and they were wonderful people who just wanted everyone to enjoy their day". I’ve never seen anything like it and it was just how everyone’s wedding should be.❤️. Just wonderful and I’ll never forget it.
Mine wasn’t horrendous but more hysterical. I lived in a block of flats (apartment building for non UK people) and I lived on the 10th floor. I was in my wedding dress, with my parents waiting for the lift/elevator to get to my floor as the wedding car was waiting downstairs. Well, the lift never arrived and so I ended up walking down 20 flights of stairs, my dad holding the front of my dress, me holding the sides and my mum holding up the back to prevent it getting filthy on the stairwell floors. We laughed our heads off all the way down and still do 14 years later! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Omg yh, when you live in a high rise...i have witnessed similar things when the bloody lifts stop working which is bad enough going down stairs if you're on 10th or higher,( luckily we were only on 8th!) but going is the real challenge. Funny memories though.
I “saved” myself for marriage, and when my husband and I got married, we were sooo exhausted, we didn’t really do much that night. My mom casually asked about how the night went and I casually said that we were tired so didn’t do much. The next day, we had a post wedding ceremony and all of my friends, neighbors etc were coming up to me at the party and whispering “oh, I’m sorry he couldn’t get his thing up”. I have never shared a secret with my mom since. 13 years of wild sex with my husband and still going strong!
Oh wow, that wasn't nice of your mother. But also, I'm curious. You guys that save yourselves, how can you know if the sex is wild if you actually have never tried anything else? How do you know it's not mediocre? My first boyfriend was someone I stayed with for 6 years, we moved in together after 2 years. He was my first and I thought we had really good sex. Then we split up (10 years ago) and I've had other relationships since, and I know now me and my first boyfriend actually had really bad sex, because now I know how good sex actually feels like
@@LinneAzalea you don’t know and some people struggle- but if everything else is working out in the marriage than it’s not enough to require a divorce (unless one sex starved and it’s ruining their life). In this case, It’s encouraged that they try new things, “work on it” and see a sex therapist. If they can find a way to make it work, they do! The way I see it is a means to an end- I am married so that I can spend the rest of my life with my best friend (husband) and build a beautiful family and life together. Sex is only a hiccup along this road. To be clear, I didn’t have 13 years of wild sex right away! I actually had a hard time finding pleasure in it for a long time! We worked reallllly hard to get where we are now- happy with amazing sex!
@@LinneAzalea such a nasty manipulation tactic. Stop trying to sow discord, sex is good when it feels good. Also comparing a partner should auto-divorce people.
@@LinneAzalea but that’s exactly the point - it doesn’t even matter if you could have “better” sex with someone else when you’re genuinely enjoying the sex you’re having with that one person. I don’t know if my husband’s and my sex is good by other people’s standards and I couldn’t care any less. I think it’s a wonderful pleasure and obviously work in progress and I’m not planning to find out otherwise
My grandma was awful at my older cousin’s wedding last year. My cousin (groom) was the first of her grandkids to get married. I will be the second next year when my fiancé and I tie the knot. The first sign of trouble was getting her there. The wedding was in Shreveport, LA and we live near Nashville, TN. She lives near Columbus, OH so we took her down with us. She was insufferable the whole ride there. Then comes the actual wedding the next day. She makes a scene bc she didn’t get to sit in the front. She makes a scene bc she didn’t get to sign the guest book. She pretends to loudly cry in the middle of the ceremony. She starts clinging to the father of the bride. She then clings to the groom’s brother, my oldest cousin. This cousin is single and looks like Thor. Tall, blonde, and ripped. She refuses to let him go. My sister asks her if she can dance with our cousin bc our cousins are like brothers to us. Grandma YANKS HER BY HER HAIR in the middle of the dance floor during the reception. And then during slow dances, she tried to yank my fiancé (then bf) away from me. Several months later, she grabbed him by the face and tried to forcibly kiss him but that’s a story for another day. And that is why my grandmother will not be invited to my wedding.
I’m sorry- loading up a “take-home-plate” at a wedding is SO RUDE unless you’ve specifically been invited to by the couple. I have a family member who hoards food like that and we’ve had to put the smack down more than once. Taking a box of food when the bride hasn’t had any is such bad manners. Also- a lot of these situations could’ve been avoided if people just grow some balls and communicate CLEARLY AND HONESTLY with guests and family. No, you can’t bring your baby here, it’s a party for grown ups. You’ll need to either stay in or find a sitter. No, you cannot take this cabin that we paid for. You’ll need to find other accommodations. We’d really appreciate it if you don’t take all the cheesecake- the bride hasn’t even gotten any yet. Say it firmly, with a smile. Then thank them for coming.
A similar thing happened at the wedding of the elder brother of my college bestie. It was a two day event. A couple was invited along with their son (maybe 4 or 5 year old). During the music they insisted on nursery rhymes. On day two the family had arranged for a bus to transport all the guests to the reception venue. The couple tried to delay everything because their kid was asleep. They could have easily joined us later but instead asked to postpone the reception. So enetitled.
It's honestly common gesture to take home food in my culture during big occasions but they were offered by the host/family of the wedded after the event
Our wedding was small and simple. Family and close friends in the church my husband grew up in. The preacher was reading from 1 Corinthians, love is kind, love is patient, etc. We get to love is not irritable and hear my husband's cousin, who is also a close friend, snicker in the back of the church. That snicker quickly turned to open laughter that spread across the church like wildfire! Everyone is laughing because my beloved is notoriously gruff. I'm just staring at the preacher struggling to maintain a straight face when I feel my beloved's hands twitch, turn to look and see that he has turned purple in an attempt to contain his laughter! I lost it! It was a solid five minutes before the uproar settled down enough to continue with our ceremony. Still going strong 23.5 years later!
I used to be a caterer, catered many weddings. One that stands out was one where 125 people rsvp'd and confirmed. 2 entrées, chocolate fountain and only half the guests showed up. I felt so bad I sent them home with a bunch of leftovers. I mean they paid the full amount so I felt I had to compensate them somehow. I bet they found out who their real friends were.
And yet, when one or two guests RSVp and don't come, you can count them as a**holes, but when half or 80% of the guests don't show up, you must wonder if it's not the couple who has a problem.
@@ameliecarre4783 that might be true, although they seemed like perfectly nice people. And if that was the case, why would those people confirm they were coming? If I didn't really like someone and got invited to their wedding, I would just not reply or confirm a no. Even if I didn't like them, I wouldn't just be a no-show. I think they need better friends.
I recently attended a wedding for which the invitation arrived in February for a July nuptials. I wondered if the people who declined/didn't come had closer relatives/friends whose invitations came in the interim. Five months is a long lead time, even for a wedding invitation.
When helping my daughter secure the venue for the wedding reception, I recall the coordinator telling us, invite 400, prepare for half that number. I was skeptical, but did as she instructed, only catering for half the invited number. We had very few leftovers and everyone was served, some twice! Always listen to the expert :)
First off, thank you Charlotte! Every single member of my immediate family has at least one anaphylactic allergen. So the story about the caterer infuriates me. Moreover I work in medical and I can’t tell you how furious I get when I find out that the patient is there to see us because somebody at a restaurant or catering company screwed up and gave them something they we’re allergic to. So again thank you Charlotte for telling this person to sue and for sharing the message that food allergies can be fatal and should be taken seriously. So many people randomly dismiss it and it can literally kill someone.
True stories from my wedding. -The woman who did our cakes called in tears from the reception before we got there. She had baked the cake prior, thawed it to decorate it, froze it again then thawed it to bring to the reception that morning. It collapsed. It had molded. We used the bachelor cake. She sent us a hand written letter of apology the following week in which we feared that she might actually take her life as a result (she didn't.) - Father in law, big drinker, bought cases of booze for an open bar. As a result: -- Future sister in law kept paying a dollar to dance with me and eventually felt me up. -- Two fights broke out after we left involving in laws and friends. This resulted in 3 arrests, a broken windshield when someone attacked another's car with a champagne bottle -- Friend of ours fell on the floor dancing and one of the bridesmaids proceeded to mount and dry hump him. - 2 people spent the night in jail. - At least one divorce can be attributed to the event. - Cops set up across the road from the center and just started pulling people over for DUI as they left the parking lot. Fortunately this all happened after we'd left. Her dad called us on our honeymoon and I watched my wife cry as she got the stories.
That last bit: that's why we had our phones off during the honeymoon. My grandma asked me beforehand what I'd do if a parent passed or some emergency like that. Honestly? It's ten days (the funeral would probably have been after our return); and also, what good does it do me to know - are we gonna cancel the rest? Are we gonna keep enjoying the honeymoon with that knowledge. Nah.
I'm a bit confused with who's story this is,, also very amused, lmao; About the cake though: you where lucky it collapsed as all that freezing & thawing?! mmm having been in the business , not a good idea to eat it in my opinion ( do or don't tell cake lady?!).
My dad was walking me down the aisle, our arms linked, as I held my Bible and my bouquet. Keep in mind, we're both very introverted, so our minds were more or less focused on making it all the way down to the altar as quick as we reasonably could. I felt beautiful, radiant, and so excited to be getting married to my wonderful husband. We're about halfway there when I realized that my foot has gotten tangled with my dress. I panic, because I don't want to stop to fix it and make everyone think I'm trying to make a break for it, but I also don't know how to discreetly untangle my foot from 3 layers of dress. During all of this, my dad has carried on at his speed walk pace, having remained blissfully unaware of my issue. At this point, I notice my grooms expression turn from one of adoration to amusement as he and everyone else in attendance realize what's going on (still minus my father). I try to stagger the last few feet to the end of the aisle without tripping as I hear whispers of "she's caught on her dress" from the attendees. Finally, I make it to the end, and my sister and best maid of honor in the world rushes over to fix the skirt, somehow making it look as though she's only fixing the train (my savior). My dad still had no clue until after the ceremony.
The allergy situation is actual grounds for a lawsuit. They can sue her for medical bills and probably the cost of the whole ceremony. *Edit* I did some digging for you guys on the original post. She never did mention her allergy to Raspberries to the caterer, but she did about the little ones nut allergies. If the kids ate the nuts then yes there would be possibilities that the police could have been involved at that point and arrested for whatever 3 charges they wanted that would cover an malicious attack to cause an allergic reaction. However for the bride since she ordered a recipe that didn't contain her allergy, raspberries, she didn't mention her allergy. Of which the caterer changed and unknowingly added the allergen into the recipe. In this case with the bride no arrest could be made because as OP kinda clarified she only knew about the Littles' allergies and not the brides. As of this it is a Lawsuit and no arrest could be made, at most, they could have called the cops to tell the caterer to expect to have to go to court. Unfortunately though with this information I found... this probably wouldn't hold up in court.
Yep, I'd sue the shit outta that caterer. To blatantly ignore allergy related requests, and then to change the wedding cake unannounced, which led to ANOTHER allergic reaction, that moron shouldn't be allowed to prepare food for anyone ever again.
The bug stories are exactly why I will be getting married in the Winter. I have always loved the idea of an outdoor wedding but that’s just a huge no for me.🤣
I knew someone who worked security for a wedding and told me an older couple, second marriage, lived out of town but rented the hall for the convenience that most invited guests lived closer to that particular city. After the catering was set up, adequate for the number of guests invited, the DJ was waiting for guests to arrive before starting the music. After an hour, the bride and groom were asked if the guests got the right date and location since nobody had yet shown up. After two hours, the guests at the hall were the DJ, security, caterer team , hall owner and married couple, probably a dozen people in all who ended up eating and dancing with the couple for about 45 minutes ending the event very early and taking many leftovers home.
One week before the wedding, I called the hotel/venue to add a few rooms to the block we already had reserved. When I called, the receptionist exclaimed, "OMG! We've been trying to contact you. We're no longer a hotel - we're corporate housing and CAN NO LONGER DO YOUR WEDDING!!!". One week... that's all I had to find a new place to block all of my guests' rooms, find a reception hall, move the caterer/florist/DJ, etc.... I should of eloped especially since we were divorced 3 years later... Even the Universe was telling me, "Girl... no."
I would almost have done the same - but not slap them on the floor, just demand them back and not give her ANY desserts to go home with because she didn't deserve any! Plus I would have eaten as much of that cheesecake in front of her (out of her box) as I would have been able to.
7:42 this hits way too close to home for me, not from a wedding but a 'graduation' party. My mother decided when I graduated we would wait until my younger brother was back home so then "everyone would be there and it would be better." She said. TWO. YEARS. LATER. Still no graduation party, and by then I didn't care and didn't want one. Welp, my younger brother was finally home, and my mom decided to have a surprise party for 'me' ( this is where I add I have anxiety, and a surprise party is my idea of hell ) and invited a bunch of family members and got a big cake. Only 3 family members showed up out of the 30+ she invited, she then proceeded to tell me all the excuses they gave for not coming ( all while I slowly got more and more depressed and angry because the party was never for me to begin with it was for HER to make herself look good in front of my younger brother ) "It is 2 years after the fact, why would you have a party??" one said. "I thought you weren't having one?" said another, " I thought this was for ____ not ___". So I got to sit there at what my mother said was 'my' graduation party, all while she tried to show my younger brother the neat things she bought, asking him if it is good, and he just keeps giving me the 😬 face and cringing. Later that year I went to a family xmas party ( the LAST one I went to ) and while sitting next to my mother had people asking her "why would you have a party 2 years after the fact? Nobody is going to go to that!" so I chimed in and said " Yeah, thanks for punishing me for my mother's stupidity, it was a party I didn't even know about but, thanks for not showing up and being a bitch, good job."
11 days before the wedding a major mudslide completely covered our venue. Completely, like they gave up and rebuilt elsewhere. We were relocated to a nearby venue with a large herd of goats on the steep hillside behind. The ceremony was awesome with plenty of background bleeting and goat kids hopping around. It’s been 26 years now, still married and love the goats!
God... at my wedding we did this beautiful candle ceremony which was supposed to represent the flame of our love or whatever. We both burnt our fingers lighting the thing and ended up with matching burn marks. Our marriage didn't make it to the first anniversary so the flames of love really had spoken! Also my new MIL went around telling everyone it wasn't actually our real wedding and we would have a bigger better one later. She did it because she always needed everything to be "the best" and appearances were very important to her. She seemed to be the only one who felt our wedding wasn't up to her standards and so went around telling that lie which was news to me and my new husband. When I heard about it I asked who exactly was going to be paying for this lavish 2nd wedding we were apparently going to have, and the answer was not her.
Different situation, but similar thing to your MIL. My ex-best friend's mom didn't believe my first boyfriend & I actually were boyfriend & girlfriend. She thought we were always just friends. Granted, we were friends for several months before actually dating, but still, it was kinda insulting, TBH.
There's a certain subsection of the food service industry that hear "I have allergies" and thinks the person is simply being picky. They're the worst and they should be charged when someone has a reaction because they're too much of an ahole to respect their CUSTOMER'S wishes
the thing is that even if someone is being picky, their wishes should still be counted for. you dont get to decide what goes into someones ordered food if youre making it from scratch. but yeah these are the types of people who will give you real milk instead of soy/almond milk just because they think youre being fussy and they belive themselves to be better than you. lowest of low.
This is one of the main reasons I never eat at restaurants or have a take away,, too many allergies/requirements and I don’t want to come across as fussy by wanting to double check everything that is in the food
There was a case in England not long ago when the manager of an Indian takeaway was actually sent to prison for causing the death of a girl allergic to nuts. When ordering the food, she had specifically and very carefully asked which foods did not have nuts because she was seriously allergic. They assured her that the food she had picked did not, and even labelled it as ‘no nuts’, knowing full well that it did contain nuts. She had a severe anaphylactic shock and died in hospital. The judge on sentencing said that a prison sentence was just because they had been aware of the situation and deliberately ignored her needs.
I don't understand why people who have serious allergies don't carry an EpiPen. If it's bad enough that your throat will swell shut, you should always have it just in case.
@@Jane-yg3vz epi pens are very expensive, $650-$700 for a 2 pack without insurance. I'm pretty sure nobody is just choosing to not carry one, especially if they have severe enough allergies to need one
Lemme add my mom's story. One of her friends was entrusted with dropping off my mom's side friends invitations to the post office. (My dad's friends were all decided and sent earlier). None of my mom's friends showed up to the wedding. My mom thought her friends didnt like her enough to come so they were estranged for years. 30 years later, one of said friends invited my mom to stay at her beach house and finally spoke about it. It turns out, none of their friend group got an invitation, and the friend entrusted with them said that my mom's wedding was "close family and friends only", so they all thought my mom did not like them enough to be considered close friends. They were both devastated realizing what happened.
@@heelrunner That is terrible. After witnessing multiple marriages in my family and extended family, I have learned to never trust just anyone with any responsibility. Either get a professional or be 100% sure of the people who are helping. My parents lost their wedding pictures because two of dad's nephew damaged all the negatives.
My oldest sister, widowed at 42, remarried 4 years later & ruined her own wedding. First the flowers she had ordered were not in the church. Next her groom looked at the minister as he spoke his vows, after she had ordered him to look at HER repeatedly beforehand. After the ceremony, she found all the flowers she’d ordered in the kitchen of the church. She went into “meltdown” - her lifelong word for a full-blown toddler tantrum - at age 46. Another sister corralled her in the ladies’ room where she continued to roar, foam & tear at her dress. She threw her diamond rings in a toilet. The attending sister had to tackle her to stop her from flushing & then in her fancy clothes had to fish the rings out of the potty. Finally, on to the reception. Several guests had their children with them. Bride announced “no children allowed” &, since nobody had made babysitting arrangements, they had to leave with their kids. She had place-card seating. All her friends were up front close to the bridal party table. All the grooms invitees were tucked away in remote corners. She swaned around - table to table - never going near the outcast groom’s friends. Not even an hello. Fast forward 20 years. They’re still married. I’m standing in line with her husband, waiting to pick up a meal to take home to her. Out of the blue, he says to me, “I started hating her on our wedding day. It’s only gotten worse.” All I said was, “Wow.”
I had to stop my Italian Great Aunt from walking out of my sisters wedding shower with a toaster because "she already got two and didn't need a third." 🤣 Pointed to the receipt taped to the side and then had her walk it to my sisters car. Had to play security as all my Italian family after I saw another Aunt shifting through the gifts.🤦 I guess they thought they were favors. 💁
Lol these make me glad I got married in my peaceful backyard... second marriage for both of us. First marriage was ALLL the nonsense. This time was just family, a close friend did the ceremony and my precious (now 15 yr old) stepdaughter walked me down the "aisle" ❤️ I let her pick her dress and help me choose mine. It was a lovely day ☺️
This is heartwarming and also heartbreaking. I wish I got to have that special time with my dad’s fiancé but she sadly passed away soon into the wedding planning.
My dad ministered 2 of his friends' wedding. A month before the wedding, the caterer backed out, as well as the DJ, both of whom were family members. Day of the wedding, the bride asked if I wanted to come to their Airbnb and get ready with the wedding party. It was then that she pulled me aside and asked if I minded being the "DJ". All I would have to do was press play on an iPad when it came time for her to come down the aisle. I agreed, despite being anxious, because I wanted to help. Fast forward to the venue. Groom comes up to me, frantic, asks if I had the speaker. "what speaker?" Apparently, someone was supposed to give me a Bluetooth speaker to play the wedding song on when the time came. No one had. He gets a bit snappy with me, but my dad gets him to back off and then calms me down from having a panic attack (I have anxiety btw). Turns out one of the guests had a speaker, so they let us use it. Safe! So I spend some time fiddling around with the iPad and speaker, making sure they connect properly and making sure everything is charged. So, it's go time. I sit in the back of the pews to make sure that the bride can hear the music, and so that I'm out of sight. My dad gives the cue and... Nothing. I'M OUT OF WIFI RANGE!! That's right. The venue's Wi-Fi didn't reach to the actual outdoor area they were getting married at and the bride didn't download the song, so when I hit play, nothing happened. I begin to panic. Like full on can't breathe panic attack. My dad came to see what's wrong and I tell him the dilemma. So, we start walking backwards toward the main building to see when I will get back into range. I was in the parking lot before it would connect. Now it's time to test the Bluetooth range. How far away from the iPad can I get the speaker before they disconnect? So my dad grabs the speaker and walks back to the seating area, placing it on the last pew where I'd been sitting. I check the iPad. They're still connected, thank god. So I crank the volume all the way up, and my dad does the same on the speaker. I cross all my fingers and toes, wait for the signal again, then hit play. IT WORKED!!! I watched the wedding from the parking lot, crying my eyes out as I came down from the adrenaline rush of the panic attack. Afterward, at the reception the bride got drunk and couldn't stop giving me hugs and telling me how amazing I was for working things out. Most stressful wedding I've ever been to.
Here is my wife and I's messed up wedding. My wife is from Wisconsin and I was from Philadelphia PA. We where together for several years and had moved from Wisconsin to Philly for a couple years before I asked her to marry me. We where having a small almost exclusively family wedding in my brothers yard. Her mother and brother and several other of her relatives said they where coming. She had called them just a couple days before and they said they would be on the way soon. So the big day comes and we have not heard from her family, Her brother was meant to walk her down the isle. She was frantic, she couldn't get a hold of anyone and well the wedding is about to start. left with no other choice, she asked my oldest brother to give her away and we got hitched. We had a slightly bigger reception with more family and friends scheduled for the evening. My wife franticly calling thinking the worse may have happened. She finally got a hold of them that evening at the reception, they had never planned on coming all along. several sisters, brothers and her mother just ghosted her after saying they would be there. She was an emotional wreck. We have been married 25 years together over 30 and she doesn't speak to any of them anymore.
@@JamesOpr that is so messed up. Did they ever give an excuse as to why they did this? Not that it would have really mattered in the end. It's so cruel to pretend that they are coming. It sounds like they wanted to really hurt her and honestly I don't blame her for cutting all contact. What a betrayal.
@@lily5952 If they had she has never told me. Eventually I kind of insisted that we visit her mother, and in turn her sisters and as well. Unfortunately that visit happened shortly after her brother passed. She kept in touch with her mom after that but when her mother passed no one told her till after the funeral. I know it sounds unreal but I promise you it is all true. But we have each other and we have hit all the vows but death do we part. She is my rock as much as I am hers.
I was 25 and didn’t know wtf I was doing planning my wedding, lol! The limousine didn’t show up to take us to the reception, but a groomsman pointed at his wife and yelled “Babe! We’re a limmo!” Put the just married banner on their SVU, stopped at a liquor store on the way and she grabbed champagne and cups, and popped the cork between her legs in the lot, and we laughed the whole way! Then there was a mix up with the caterer and we had no one to cut the cake, but my mother in law’s friend was a caterer and she jumped up and cut the cake for us. It was a blast, we figured it out, and we’ve been married 12 years and counting. 😘 Weddings are amazing if you remove the pressure! It’s about the marriage, not the wedding.
Similar to the last story - when we had the scan for our second baby about 13 years ago, we found out we were having a boy. We told both parents, and within the hour my husband’s sister had it on FB along with what his name was going to be, like it was her news to share!!! I freaked out and she had it down soon after, but then didn’t speak to me for ages because I’d called her out on her sh1t (that’s her typical pattern of behaviour). She still lives her life on social media, which is why she now too gets news last!
My mom occasionally talks about her disaster of a wedding reception. -Her friends decided to decorate/prank her car by putting little bows all over it and she had just got it painted red, so when all the bows got taken off, there were little pink squares all over the car. -They had also filled the car up to the roof with round cereal, (think corn pops) so when she opened the car door they all spilled out and the people who owned the parking lot she was in came out and yelled at her to clean up the mess she made. She did, still in her wedding dress mind you, but she couldn't get all the cereal out of her car and maggots' ended up infesting it days later. -The only thing her husband insisted on during the wedding planning was to pick the first dance song, she was so excided to see what he picked and didn't find out what it was until the DJ called them up for it. It was "Used to love her" by Guns and Roses. (Look up the lyrics if the title isn't enough to convince you how bad of a choice it was for a first dance song, much less a wedding.) -She also couldn't find her husband for the first dance, so she went to the bathroom in tears, only to find him there kissing one of her bridesmaids. When she asked what the heck he was doing he simply told her to shut up and that it was his last day of freedom. -When she eventually managed to get him on the floor for their dance, they danced for about five seconds before MIL drunkenly pushed her out of the way proclaiming loudly she was dancing with her son. -Oh and, the person who was video taping the whole thing forgot the cap on the camera, so no picture, just sound. My mother ended up divorcing him less than a year later because he was abusive and she has been in several long lasting relationships since, however she has stated she is never getting married again. The boyfriend she's with now did get her a ring and kind of asked her, (it wasn't a down on one knee thing, it was more like a promise if she ever changed her mind) she told him if she's still alive and they're still together by 2040, she'll consider it.
@@alexshaw8167 a lot of the times it’s your own family. yes its possible to not invite your terrible family, but if you aren’t completely estranged from every single one of them this becomes extremely difficult. i’m sure they didn’t want them there
At my wedding our original cake fell before we had a chance to see it. My elderly neighbor who was a retired baker made it for us, free of charge. She felt so bad that she went back home during our ceremony and made a quick one tier cake. She arrived with the cake right after we finished our first dance. It was adorable and delicious. But that wasn't the worst part. My aunt, who invited her co-works to my wedding without our permission, gave all the leftover food and cake to them. My husband and I barely ate during the reception do to all the picture taking and other wedding shenanigan's. We only had one bite of the cake for the pictures. But all and all we've been happily married for 7 years.
I'm glad you're still married, but I'm mad for you about your aunt inviting people without your permission or at the very least letting you know, then giving them all the leftover food!
At my second wedding, my MIL's best friend wore a white lace dress. In addition, she got up multiple times during the ceremony to "fix" my train (I had 3 bridesmaids who did that just fine). Finally, directly after the ceremony, my new husband and I were having a private moment away from everyone in a completely separate room and she barged in to take pictures (we had a professional photographer). She left a bad taste in my mouth!
The weird thing was that it was not MIl but the bff of MIL. Either MIL brought her in to do the dirty work and not be blamed or she got some issues of her own.
I don't remember any big mishaps at my wedding. I remember telling people weeks later when they asked about the wedding "well if anything went wrong, I still don't know about it." Nine years later, that still holds true.
I agree. Charlotte, you got me thru my convalescence with Covid. You're beautiful, talented and oh-so-funny. You're like a pretty and younger version of Carol Burnett during her Variety Show heyday. I hope you marry the man of your dreams and will share with all your fans snippets from the activities leading up to your wedding and the actual wedding. You will be a beautiful bride.
A couple at my church got married around 6 years ago (they’re divorced now). I offered to make cupcakes instead of a sheet cake, as it would make it easier to serve, and the wedding cake. I asked how many guests replied that they would come. The groom said that he had invited 150 people from his AA and Narcotics Anonymous groups. I told him that it didn’t mean that 150 people would show up. I asked the bride. Same response. So, I made over 200 cupcakes (for just in case, plus because of everyone from church that would attend). Another lady from church was making the food and she had been told the same thing as I was told. Simply because the couple expected all 150 people would show up even without confirmation. Only 2 people out of the 150 people that they invited from their groups showed up. Two. And, because this couple couldn’t afford much, the other lady and I did everything out of our own pockets. Very frustrating all around. We had tried to get them to confirm the invites, but they believed that since they had invited 150 people, all would show. We tried to get them to understand otherwise, but they wouldn’t hear any different.
I had my wedding at my home because we had a huge beautiful place with a creek that ran through it, it was gorgeous! The one thing that was shitty though was my Aunt saw a really cool yard ornament of mine and the witch stole it! My mom stole it back from her eventually but that was the end of my good relationship with her.
My grandmother invited one of her SILs to both her daughters' weddings. She stole some small jewelry and removed pillows from underneath the heads of sleeping guests and then blamed my dad for the latter. Drama ensued. But grandmother still cannot cut her off
My wedding was outside in a courtyard of a beautiful stone church that was built in 1908. During the ceremony, a few bees decided that they really liked all the fresh flower bouquets we were holding. I've been told that at one point one was crawling up the back of my dress under my veil, and my sisters (also bridesmaids) said they were trying to land on their bouquets and some even walked on their hands! The minister snapped his binder closed trying to get one that was buzzing around his head during the ceremony and everyone laughed lol. At the time, I was just praying I wouldn't get stung because I'm allergic to bees! They didn't sting me, and now it's a really funny memory. The most common comments I get about my wedding are 1. The bees. and 2. How much fun our wedding was :)
Honestly, if I were the bride with the bees, I would want the pictures. That would be hysterical, not getting stung but just the essence of a ton of chaos in one photo. 🤣
I’ve been to a few authentic Indian weddings. And I’ve seen Indians taking the food/desserts from the reception home in Tupperwares or the catering people will provide the take out containers if you ask them. The best wedding I went to was where an uncle of the bride asked the dessert bar to pack up 6 containers of ice cream (Indian weddings serve ice cream for desserts not a cake) for him to take home. Found out from the bride later that the ice cream melted by the time he got home (1.75hrs car drive home). He called her and her mother and complained about the ice cream melting. He didn’t take the 6 small containers he took 6 9lbs tubs of ice cream. No one at the wedding got any ice creams. Needless to say he was not invited to the bride’s brothers wedding a year later!
7:25 Here in Mexico, the "itacate" is quite common in parties (even weddings) . Itacate is food to go... . Also the "recalentado".... Which means "reheated". Sometimes they invite you to the "recalentado", to come the next day/morning to eat again the leftovers of the party/wedding. In the "recalentado" the are also some "hangover remedies". Quite fun... :)
In some parts of my country, Romania, due to the fact that the wedding night is such a big party for everyone, the following day is like a second party with leftovers and traditional sour soup (ciorbă) ....and more party, pple expected to leave towards the lunch or dinner, depending on the good time 😂😂😂
We had an amazing reception with a ton Of delicious food! However….there was ONE item that wasn’t necessarily fancy but was an homage to our relationship which was several Chick-fil-A nuggets trays. It’s a long story but we ordered 10 trays of nuggets to be mixed in with the other fancy foods. The one thing I wanted was Chick-fil-A nuggets because it meant something to my new husband and I. When I was saying goodbye after they said the nuggets were gone I saw plates and plates and plates of an eaten nuggets or half eaten nuggets in the trash. Everyone had filled their entire plate with Chick-fil-A nuggets and didn’t even leave a crumb. As silly as it was, it was so sad to me because that was the one thing that we requested to represent our years long dating relationship that started when my husband was 14 years old and could only afford to take me to Chick-fil-A for dates. Despite asking my family and the caterers and everyone else to please save me a few nuggets to represent how we started, I didn’t get a single one and was so sad to see how many were in the trash. I know it doesn’t matter and I know in the scheme of things it’s just a small insignificant thing but at the time it made me so sad
6:00 Ok so not only should the poisoning caterer be sued but also should be charged with attempted/involuntary manslaughter. How horrible to almost die on your wedding day. What was this caterer’s problem?
My best friend and her late husband are HUGE outdoorsy people. My BFF is a barrel racer and her husband loves hunting and often takes his dog out with him and uses him to help look for the deer/ducks/hogs etc. Naturally they wanted to incorporate that in their wedding somehow. So my best friend rode her horse down the aisle. Well they had practiced with the horse before and she (BFF) thought things would be fine. They had a wedding arch in the shape of a V. I don't know WHAT the horse was thinking but when my BFF's dad opened the gate to let her out she barreled full speed toward the arch and started making the same route around and through the arch pillars that she does when barrel racing! We were CRACKING UP! Towards the end of the ceremony my BFF's husbands dog (who was the ring bearer) was sitting beside his owner being real patient and good...that is until it was time to release the doves. Bless his heart before he (BFF's husband) could even comprehend what was happening the dog went BERSERK and started chasing the doves all through the pasture (luckily the husband let go of the leash super fast or else he'd have been dragged around by the dog)! Later my best friend and her husband said they should've been paying more attention to the animals because looking back they'd both shown signs something was gonna go haywire (no pun intended). My BFF said before the ceremony when they were riding down the aisle she DID have to hold onto the reins a little tighter cause the horse kept trying to gallop. And her husbands dog HAD been periodically eyeing the bird cage so obviously he was waiting for something to happen too. Hands down the most HILARIOUS things I have ever seen at a wedding!
There's an incriminating photo of me taken right after the ceremony at my wedding where I'm wild-eyed and thinking, "Holy shit. What. Have. I. Just. Done?!" For context, I was super young (23) and never wanted a ceremony/reception, and would have preferred just going to the courthouse. My mother pressured me into having a big wedding because "I was her only daughter," which really translated to, "You're getting the wedding I [my mother] really wanted." When buying my wedding dress, for example, by the time I had tried on 10 dresses, I was hot, irritated, overwhelmed, and seriously considering throwing myself into traffic. I begrudgingly put on number 11 and although I specifically stated I DID NOT want a strapless ballgown, my mother started crying happy tears so I admitted defeat and ended up with an effing strapless ballgown I hated. My husband-to-be (who was 10 years older) was also very pushy and he was behaving in ways that I can now identify as abusive. By the time I wanted to bail on the entire thing, my parents had already spent a ton of money so I felt like I had to go through with it or I'd be disappointing my mother. The wedding was beautiful, of course, and it was wonderful to see my extended family, but I absolutely hate being the center of attention and could only feel dark sense of dread. Seventeen days after we got married, my husband and I both ended up in jail for 48 hours for domestic abuse because he tried to strangle me to death and I gave him a bloody nose trying to get him off me. I lasted 5 more years with this man. I've been happily divorced now for 4 years and have a good life. Listen to your gut ladies, and don't let anyone bully you into a wedding (or marriage) you don't want. 🖤🥔
Similar thing happened to me. Everyone loved my husband because he was so nice and kind to everyone but to me in private. When I finally left him I didn’t even have support from my family because they couldn’t understand what was wrong with me for leaving such a saint.
The worst thing I remember happening at my wedding was that one of my friends from out of town never showed and didn’t call (this was before cell phones). Turned out she was in the emergency room with a debilitating migraine, so of course I understood. But this has a sad epilogue - because we lived so far apart, we actually only met in person one time. I lost the pictures from her visit in a basement flood. She passed away last year, and since she couldn’t make it to the wedding, she isn’t in my album (which survived) and I have no pictures of us together.
Two of my groomsmen's wives (who weren't invited due to not getting along) got into fight outside the chapel right before I walked down the aisle. My husband's family did an excellent job not letting me find out until after the ceremony, even though it was a huge ordeal for everyone else, I was oblivious. We still have fun telling the story 16 years later.
My caterer (best mans wife) got into a fist fight with my Sister in law at the after party... I had no clue till much later, found out she had been sniping at my SIL all day over her wearing a scrunchie to my wedding... Quelle horreur!
@@terramarini6880 LOL! Oh, no, how gauche! Boy, some folks don't believe in pulling your hair back, huh? And a scrunchie can be so much classier than an ordinary elastic if the material is nice.
My SIL makes a great chocolate cake. I somehow didn't get a piece of the one she made for +30 people. My aunt somehow had a huge slice "to go". When I was asked to take it to her car I ate it! And said straight up "That was my piece." She couldn't argue.
The allergy one is so scary, infuriating, and sad! Thank god for the epipens and the doctor relatives! That poor girl! I hope she gets to have a do over reception one day
I'm going to go with" the s*** wedding=great marriage" because I had one of those sisters that had to be the center of attention and started a huge Family Feud to do so during wedding planning and at the wedding itself. Fortunately my partner kicks ass and we've been awesome. Celebrated 10 years on Aug 1st
Aww, congratulations! Sorry you had to deal with that on your wedding, but i’m very glad everything worked out in the end! Unfortunately the complete opposite happened in my family, two of the groomsmen got into a fistfight before my uncle’s first wedding and one of them showed up to the reception with a black eye. That was just one of the things that went wrong that day, and sure enough, it was probably an omen because that marriage was very toxic. Luckily, my uncle got married again to a absolutely INCREDIBLE woman that I am now close with and see as an aunt, and they have now been married for 5 years and have a child together. And their wedding was absolutely beautiful, with nothing going wrong that I could see.
It _is_ a common superstition that if you have bad luck at your wedding, you'll have good luck in your marriage, but maybe it's a regional thing. Congrats on 10 yrs!
In Austria we have this saying too. So glad our caterer didn't listen, and brought tons of meat and next to no vegan options, when half my guests were vegan. At 70 Euros a guest, and food being the only thing I genuinely cared about, other than my husband. So effing glad!
The one about the bees has always been a fear of mine since I have a moderate allergy to any yellow-striped insect with a stinger and wings. Whenever I would go to weddings I would sometimes fingers crossed that I could at least sit inside, I've been diagnosed with this allergy when I was in Pre-K, and so far all of the weddings I've attended were ones without any of those creatures around and are where I can have a seat inside.
I have been to several weddings, the one thing I hate is when the couple is pulled in multiple directions and barely get to eat. I became a unofficial "dad " of a couple from my work. I had the privilege of being " dad " to the young man. The young lady as well. When they got engaged, I had the privilege of walking her down the aisle, sitting with her mother. Before the wedding ended, I ordered some basic food... burgers and fries for the wedding party because I knew they would have no time to eat at all. They were all relaxed and able to enjoy themselves; with their blessing, I kept certain things moving, like the receiving line, helping the MOH collect all the gifts in the MOB's car for security reasons, getting mothers with small children, elderly, those with mobility issues first through the buffet line, communication with the planner with the dances, and finally making sure the new couple got to sit down with their meals. Anyone who tried to get them to meet or do whatever, I and the mom told them after they are done eating. I suggest getting the wedding party food before the guests pull them every direction...its their wedding, they are not there to be master and mistress of ceremonies.
The last story reminded me of this. While not a wedding but for a death in the family. One of my aunts posted to Facebook asking for prayers because her husband's mother (my grandmother) just passed away. Turns out she posted it so fast that they hadn't been able to notify everyone yet and my grandmother's sister found out of her passing via Facebook. Isn't social media just fabulous.
Unfortunately, I can relate to this all too well. My egg donor, posted my Grandfather's passing on Facebook before half of our family had any clue what was happening, quite a few of us were devastated and very traumatized cuz my Grandpa was an amazing man that was loved by everyone that knew him. In fact I STILL don't speak to her over the incident.
When my father died, I waited until my kids woke up in the morning to tell them; my oldest said “I know, I saw it on facebook.” I hadn’t even thought of that! I don’t do facebook, because every time I thought about making an account, facebook did something to piss off the whole world 😆🤣 so I just stayed away!
@@karennaylor7138 wish I had Facebook when my grandpa (dad's side) died, for me my uncle (mom's brother) came to "babysit us" because mom and dad went to visit grandpa in the hospital. He then said he's taking us to the amusement park to play so I slept through the ride only to wake up next to my grandparents house where they had the funeral (we do funerals at homes in our religion). Oh and I was 12 years old so death wasn't a taboo and I was definitely traumatized by the fact I was getting taken to play in a park only to arrive to my grandfather's coffin in his living room.
Ahhhhh! I can relate to some of these! When I was married the first time, my then hubby and I would totally dance in-sync. Yet, we wound up having NOTHING in common. Today, my beloved husband and I can’t dance to anything together, no rhythm. But we have so much in common and get along better than peas and carrots! This fact always cracks me up! Have a lovely day, Charlotte!!
Here's a story that not only ruinrd my wedding reception but also definitely ruined my BIL soon to be wedding. During my reception my soon to be SIL was beyond sloppy drunk this is on top of showing up wearing an outfit from Hot Topic (from the 90s) a half shirt with pleater black pants and chuck Taylor sneakers mind you this was a formal event, she then jumped in my arms and tried to French kiss me in front of not only my family but my in-laws, after falling off of me she went on to try and kiss 4 others men and women after that she was caught doing the deed with one of the guests on my side of the family in the bathroom by my husband's grandfather (mind you she did most of this in front of her soon to be husband, my husband's brother) let's just say they never got married. Edit: I'm still with my husband going on 22 years 8/26 and now his brother is happily married to a wonderful women with 3 children.
My mother brought, as her plus 1, my ex fiancé who she adored to my wedding. Then took her to the reception where she'd introduce my ex as her daughter and my new wife as the girl her son just married. Needless to say, we weren't happy with that, but chose to ignore it. Then my ex came up to me, I thought to congratulate me only to whisper that she just realized she lost me forever. O.O All I could say was, "you did that a while ago."
That is what they say though; "The worse the wedding, the greater the marriage". Mine was pretty stressful: bridesmaids showing up late to hair appointment, groom's cake falling apart on the way to the reception (he insisted on a croque en bouche), a rouge bridesmaid, stolen shoes, kids at a 'no kids wedding', ect. It's been 6 years, and we're still doing good. PS- your hair looks amazing! 😍
I'm single, so no personal wedding stories, but my siblings weddings went pretty well. The closest we came to disaster was when my sister's groom nearly passed out due to emotions. He stayed upright (barely), but afterward I learned that I was not the only person who had a plan in case he went down. The entire group of six of us (1 MOH, 2 bridesmaids, 1 best man, and 2 groomsmen) were prepared to dash in if need be. Great minds think alike. At my brother's wedding the bouquet toss was kind of funny. When the bride threw the bouquet, all but one person (not me) dove as far away as possible. The one gal who stood her ground really wanted to get married, everyone else had reasons for not wanting to catch it (in my case, my broody aunt and my mother would likely have tried to arrange a marriage for me). The weddings were 16 and 14 years ago now and both couples are still happily married and I am still contentedly single.
I went to a wedding, with my grandparents, of people I didn't know. When it was time for the bouquet toss, the people at the table we were sitting at pressured me to participate. Of course, I caught the bouquet. I was standing at the back and not making an effort to catch it. One of the bridesmaids was really upset. She said she was supposed to catch it. I tried to give it to her but she said it didn't count. A little girl sitting at a table near by said she wanted it, I gave it to her.
When I was 9, I was at my aunt wedding. Everyone besides me knew that one of the groomsmen promised that he'll marry his girlfriend if she will catch the bouquet. Everything that I knew - my dad jokingly said to me that my older sister (she was 17) shouldn't catch it. EVERYONE stepped back. Aunt threw the bouquet straight to that girl's hands. And I caught it right before she touched it. My aunt was furious. That girl was devastated. Her boyfriend was happy as ****. That couple was supposed to drive us home so it was a fun ride. They broke up 4 months after that wedding - I think I saved them both, because he was a moron. Fun fact: it was 13 years ago and still not even one single girl from the wedding got married. Guess they still waiting for me😅
To be fair I would probably want those pictures of the bee sting cacophony. Whether I’d post them or not depends on how revealing they were, but after getting over the embarrassment I would want the ridiculous memory, even if it was just a photo I kept in my drawer.
In my 20s I had what I thought was a close group of work friends and friends from hs. I had a birthday at a bar and no one showed up. My twin that year had a birthday party I wasn't allowed to go to because she wanted my ex and his wife to go. I've never had a birthday party since and I am petrified of it happening if I ever end up getting married. I empathize with the story where no one showed up. That is such a just awful feeling in general but to have planned a wedding and have that happen..... I cried hearing that.
I really like your channel! I have been married 28 years so have not been on the dating scene for a long time (my wife does not like me dating). I enjoy the look on your face as you read the stories. Thanks for the fun content.
The bride at 4:50 I hope all her orders/requests are in writing so she can have a proper lawsuit against that caterer. DON'T TAMPER WITH FOOD! Nuts is a very common allergy, they still did it. Bride ordered a specific cake and they still didn't make it how she wanted which put her in anaphylaxis. Lawsuit 100%.
The woman/friend who was supposed to sing at our reception came up to us when we arrived to the reception to tell us she couldn't sing because she hadn't prepared anything and had other events leading up to this that kept her busy. Something she could had mentioned the prior day.
Mine was an absolute sh!tshow. It started the night before, when we had the wedding party (including my mom and step dad as well as my husbands) come out and stay at a big house on the property where we were having the wedding. My mom, who I’ve never had a good relationship with, shows up and immediately starts causing problems. After unpacking she can’t find her car keys and starts accusing everyone of stealing them, most of all my husbands best man, that she ended up burning on the back of the neck with a lighter that she was “playfully” teasing him with. Fast forward to the next day where she wakes me up on my wedding day to tell me that she thinks she is going to leave my step dad. Among other things, a friend that I was going to pay to do my hair and makeup arrives so late that I have to do it myself. The person doing our flowers was also extremely late, takes forever to set up, and arrives with huge over the top arrangements when I just wanted something simple (for example I am petite and my bouquet was so huge that it took up my entire torso). On top of everything my husbands step dad (who’s family owns the property) announces that we won’t be having a reception at all claiming he never knew about one (even after planning it with him and telling him we hired a dj) and wants everyone to leave the property by 6pm. Thankfully the dj let us have the reception at his house but this caused everyone to drive an hour and a half back into town to get there. I also never got the first dance that I imagined or the dance with my dad because it was mostly just friends that drove to the “reception”. My husband and I are still happily married but our relationships with our families are definitely strained.
Worst thing that happened to me was after a perfect day me and my husband get home to his best friends girl friend aggressively attacking me on Facebook messenger. She thought I did something I didn't do and almost ruined the boys friendship. All because I changed my mind about letting her do my make up about a week and a half before the wedding due to other problems that occurred to make me realize she was a not so good person. The wedding night i was put into a full mental breakdown and my mom had to come calm me down, my husband was beyond livid. Spent my whole honeymoon on edge and worried about my husband and his buddies friendship due to the phsyco.
My husband was a 5th generation police officer (his dad, cousin, grandfather, and uncle were cops) and other family members were in the police academy at the time too. My MOH’s underage sister somehow got alcohol and was drunk in a room full of cops. I was thankful no one made a scene about it. My uncle also made a code word at the bar so his family could use it to put their drinks on his tab. The code word got out and he ended up paying for the drinks for half the reception. 😂 we’ve been together for 14 years now
I think you and your honey had a cricket blessing… glad you folks took it as a good sign 🪧 and it brought laughter and light hearted Vibes to your wedding 💒 to a happy and filled with love marriage 💕✨
Thank you once again for getting my mind off all the BS I'm going through!!! I cannot say how much I love you enough! It just doesn't matter what kind of mood I am in what I'm going through whatever it is you never fail to make me laugh !! I love you Charlotte please never stop making videos💕💕
Right before work! I had just checked and started get pouty but said "Hey Charlotte deserves a day off too!" And then here you go working hard to bring us joy! ❤️
Lol I always check and think the same thing.... Charlotte needs a break but I do miss her when I don't see an upload. I hope she realizes how special and beloved 💖 she is to us all!!!! Also hope you're having a great day 😊
I walked down the isle with flowers made from the basket in the ladies BATHROOM!!! My bridesmaids had nothing!! My Aunt, who made my amazing cake and my flowers, was stuck in traffic because of a car accident on the interstate! They were at a stop for over 2 hours! They completely missed the wedding but got there in time for pictures!!
Well, our wedding wasn't the kind where you have a huge number of guests. It was held in a temple and only church members who have received a recommend can go inside, so our plan was to have a reception back home after the honeymoon. But out of the several siblings of mine who had these recommends, and their spouses, only one brother and one sister showed up, along with my parents. Oh, also my husband's ex-step-mother (complicated family) and two of my old Sunday School teachers who I honestly never thought would really care enough to make the effort since I was a 14-year-old brat when I was in their class, so that was really sweet of them. But yeah, that's my family. I was the youngest of nine and clearly the magic was gone for attending family weddings, or maybe I'm just not that important to them. Kinda wonder how many went to my sister's even though she was married a year after I was. But worse than that was that my husband's ex-stepmother was a bitter old woman with no joy to be found... and was the type of old fart who just had to have her say and expound her great and grand knowledge. Well, my dad also had this old fart habit. We were married in a town I didn't know well and so when we decided to go out to eat after the wedding and before everyone went their way (and more importantly, we went ours, winky face) I had no idea where to go. I was more of a Pizza Hut type back then and didn't know any nice sit down restaurants in town. So my brother recommends the Olive Garden. Yeah, whoo hoo, but I'd never been there, so what did I know? And don't worry, I wasn't sitting in an Olive Garden in a wedding dress, just a regular dress I'd brought along. But yeah, butthead wanted him some of those infinite breadsticks (I mean, fair) so off we went where I got a plate of something sloppy and gooey looking that I couldn't choke down if my life depended on it because I was so nervous. This is where the two old farts come in, because they OF COURSE got talking about politics and each just had to have the last word in rumbling old person speak while my brother, the king of ADHD, kept throwing out little prompts to get them going again every time they started to lose steam or my mom managed to reroute the conversation. A-hole. My brother, that is. So there I am with my new husband, a nervous wreck, listening to two old porridges exchanging, "Well, actually..." conversation about who the crap knows what anymore, just waiting for everyone to finish eating and shut up and let us go learn to be married people a little bit... but when it's time to go, my husband finds out his ex-step-mom's plane doesn't leave for four hours and instead of doing as SHE ASKED HIM TO and dropping her off at the airport, where let's face it, people chill for that long all the time even if security wasn't as high back then, well... my husband who was still unable to let anyone down due to years of them gaslighting him in alternating shifts, insisted she wait with us in OUR BRIDAL SUITE. So we sat for two hours watching reruns on tv waiting until it was a reasonable time, by his standards, to drop her off. I'll say this... as much as I dislike his family, that was on him. She tried to talk him out of it and I'll bet you anything she would much rather have sat four hours in an airport than with two nervous newlyweds for two. The good news is we've been married 29 years anyway, and he doesn't really talk to his family anymore. Went full no contact years ago which I thought was a bit much but also can't really blame him for. One too many broken promises by his dad and he just gave up.
Unfortunately I have to confirm that you are right about buffets in Italy. I have never seen a dessert buffet at a wedding here, but years ago I sang in a choir and the after-concert buffet was regularly ransacked, once there were autumn decorations with pumpkins and onions and people took away those too.
Just gotta say Charlotte, thank you. Today I really needed a pick-me-up as today would have been my Dad's 64th birthday and didn't feel that smiling would be a thing that happened. I have gotten nothing done all day because I have been binge watching your videos and now...wait for it... giggling my face off. Thank you Wedding story - Small, very local, very low key wedding that hubby and I planned ourselves with no coordinator. I forgot completely about the cake until the DJ called for the caterer (who was one of my best friends) to bring it out. I panicked, ran for the kitchen and told her I forgot to get it ready. She looks at me, turns me around and literally puts her foot in my ass and says "get out of my kitchen". She prepped the cake, coordinated with the DJ to make a splash of it and totally saved it with a fancy Vanna walk to bring it out. I still haven't cleaned the footprint out of my dress because I love the story and she is still one of the most beautiful humans I know.
At the Italians weddings I went to as a child, there was always a Noni or two guarding the buffet. You got your leftovers, but if you took too much--ma don! Smack with the wooden spoon.
I was second shooting a wedding a few weeks ago and we brought the bride and groom out into a field to take one last sunset photo before we clocked out… there were so many grass hoppers and they jumped into her many layers of chiffon and we spent a lot of time pulling them all out. She was mostly drunk and just laughed the whole time. It was hilarious.
Not my wedding but my brother’s wedding. It was a stressful day, he forgot to tell us that close family will be taking pictures at 9:00 am, so we got there late. After that, we got to the church, everything was going smooth until my grandma had a heart attack mid vow telling and my dad, who’s a doctor, was trying to save his mom and crying. I was some sort of groomsmen and I wasn’t able to see the disaster, thank god, but since I am autistic, I was having a meltdown because of the “plan changes”. After that, we head to the venue and I had to say hi to every guest because my dad was at the hospital with my grandma and my mom was helping my brother with something. Was not that bad at the end, I ate pizza.
At my cousin’s wedding, a stink bug flew down the bride’s sister/matron of honor’s dress. Right down the top. She was trying to subtly turn and get it out without interrupting, because it was coming to the vows. The bridesmaid next to her quietly asked what was wrong, she tells her. Bridesmaid spins MOH around and it full view of the entire wedding, reaches into MOH’s cleavage, removes the bug and flicks it away. Completely stops the wedding cold and MOH has to explain what happened. Didn’t ruin the wedding in the slightest but has become family legend.
I have celiac and when a restaurant feeds me gluten when I specifically tell them I can't have it I usually don't go to that place ever again. Places that don't take allergies and intolerances seriously just make my blood boil. AND I've had people tell me that my celiac is all in my head. -_-
I watch every single one of your videos. My poor fiance has to deal with me going to him after hearing every wedding horror story that could definitely happen to us at our upcoming wedding, "what are we going to do if XYZ happens!?!?" Thank you for these, they're making wedding planning a lot funnier!
We all have that one friend who says something along the lines of “why do I always find out everything last?” And this is why. “Because Don, we don’t need everyone else to know just yet…”
I had to laugh at the Italian desserts comment. I went to a friend’s wedding with another friend who never had been to an Italian wedding. When the homemade cookie trays came out ( with bags for the guests so no one pulled a ziplock bag out if a purse ) I took a bag and filled it up. My friend was agast and said I was being rude. The groom came over ( our mutual friend) and said” it is rude to take only one cookie”! 😆 love Italian weddings
Holy Canoli! These stories hit all the emotions! Sweet, cute, funny, and then that last emotion! Full blown scorched earth for the horrible situations that many of the couples ran into! What a rollercoaster ride!!! 🎢🎢🎢
A storm started an hour before my wedding. Thunder, lightning, flooding, you name it. I got married in 2020 so people that were overseas weren't able to travel so we set up a live stream but the lightning took out the Internet right as I was walking up the aisle. So our overseas guests weren't able to watch it live. Then we weren't able to take our wedding photos on the beautiful grounds of the place we had our reception. But it was still a wonderful day. I wasn't stressed or anything.
I’m italian. I had a mystical experience in a wedding of a relative in Sicily years ago. There must have been 400 people, luckily only half of them arrived. In spite of everithing, there were many of us and I only managed to get a tiny piece of cannolo in time. The rest of the dessert…gone. Not even the confetti remained. A kiss from Italy 😘
The bride that almost died because of the caterer made me so so mad. I really hope the bride sued. I kinda wish there was a follow up on that story.
Same!
I hope there will be/is one also 👍
The caterer should lose her business.
@@websurfer4672 I sure hope so and be charged!
I mean... If she clearly stated "raspberries could kill me" and the caterer still fed her raspberries, it's not the bride who should sue, it's the district attorney's office because it's very close to a murder attempt.
I was accosted by a HUGE swarm of ladybugs right as I entered the church. I walked down the aisle intentionally trying to shake my skirts a little extra with each step. It was so funny. No one noticed but my maid of honor and father because it happened at the last second going in and we were the only ones there. I have this image in my mind of the aisle behind me strewn with rose petals and confused ladybugs but I was too happy to check at the time. I've heard a single ladybug landing on you is good luck. Married 25+ years. I love ladybugs! ;)
Ladybugs mean very good luck 🍀 🐞 glad you guys are still doing so well! 💕
Ladybugs are good luck, and you can make wishes with them! Probably one of the few insects I wouldn't mind swarming me. 😊 🐞
I LOVE this! I love ladybugs too, cute little things and they eat aphid pests that kill plants. May you have many more years of happiness!
My wedding was supposed to be outside on the beach, it STORMED so we had to have it in the condo lobby. They were ok with it. I heard it’s good luck to have rain on your wedding day. Married 11 years.
Omg that sounds like an omen!
My daughter was professional latin ballroom dancer, so at her wedding everyone was expecting something spectacular for their first dance. However, her husband, by his own admission has :" no sense of rhythm and 2 left feet " and she refused to show off because it wasn't about her but them as a couple. She choreographed a simple slow dance , comfortable to do for him, beautiful to watch and general consensus was that THEY looked amazing on the dance floor.
I think I like your daughter, Katrina!
@@alicewilloughby4318 Thank you. She had her priorities right.
One of my favorite makeup RUclipsrs is a ballroom pro, I was surprised that their wedding was a private ceremony, just them, officiant, & witness, and def no dancing. I have a feeling she didn't want to make the day a dance showcase either. My family is not dancey lol, my father daughter song was Sixteen Tons! (He's gone now but dancing to a labor movement song at my wedding was so us, one of my fave memories, rabble rousing is a long tradition on my dad's side).
The issue of the bride and groom not getting a nice meal at their own wedding is a really common problem. They're shaking hands, hugging well-wishers, running to the bathroom, cutting the cake and doing that photo op, perhaps changing into their reception outfits, etc and they often don't get to the buffet table until dead last.
I worked for a caterer years ago who had seen this happen way too many times. So when we'd bring the food to the event, she'd fix the bride and groom beautiful plates herself before we did anything else. A sampler dessert plate, mains, an appetizer plate and make them look beautiful. Then she'd cover them and set them out of the way. Only then would we get the signal to set out the buffet. All staff knew that you do NOT touch those dishes and protect them from anyone who didn't get the memo.
When the time came for the bride and groom to relax and enjoy their meal, they'd be served properly, as if they were at a restaurant. Their slice of cake would even be tucked away the second the cake cutting was done. (And the top layer would be packaged to go home. Tradition.)
That ended the disappointment of only eating scraps off the buffet at their own wedding.
it helps also if the Wedding Coordinator and/or MOH and Best Man understand it is their duty to capture the couple at some point and force them to sit and eat, possibly in an entirely different room.
so well thought out, I get social anxiety just thinking about all those people (and germs, yeah one of those, sorry) but one thing I always think about is how exhausted the couple has to be and thinking they go to eat and there's nothing? I'm newly diabetic. That made me upset bc when you're on the go, you push it to the limit, that would have made me cry so bad! Thank you for sharing bc it made me feel so good knowing someone understands what that might feel like, you don't have to be diabetic to have low blood sugar and feel tired, irritable, or emotional, we've all been there. Some people plan for years! I'll never understand the selfishness of people. Great wedding planner, now I understand why people pay them a lot of money. 😂❤
Thoughtful service. I thank you on behalf of every hungry bride. 😅
That’s awesome. The place where I had my reception tossed our leftover food in the garbage along with part of my cake. After the owner cussed me out before my wedding over four chairs.
This is so true. At my wedding, I was 6 months pregnant so the hunger was real! Was up at 6 to decorate and get ready, Nerves had me skip breakfast and the ceremony was at one so figured I'd just tough it out a bit longer. It was nearly 3 by the time ceremony, photos, signing the certificate and mingling with guests was done. I was so HANGRY but trying to keep a smile on my face. I sat down, someone brought me a plate and as soon as I stabbed my fork into it, the officiant comes over and tells me it's time to cut the cake (all other guests had eaten at this point). I nearly growled I was so hungry and just said no, it's my wedding and I'm taking my turn to eat. People made speeches while we did so. When I was done, I agreed to cut the cake. We were out of there and headed to our honeymoon a little after 4. Everyone was so eager to go that I didn't even get to dance (which anyone that knows me, knew I loved it, went to all school dances and was on the dance team). It's been 14 years and I'm still a little salty about it and now my husband and I feel too awkward to dance with each other in a fun romantic way - so we just dance in a silly fun way with our 5 kids, which they did NOT inherit their skills from me 😂 it's interesting but we have fun. I get a little bummed thinking back, but my marriage is strong and we decided for one of our big anniversaries we'll do it better as a vow renewal.
I think that I was the only calm one at my wedding. I turned around and my entire family had left leaving me and my Granny alone in the house. This did turn out to be a very treasured memory of me and Granny together as I assisted her getting ready for my wedding before the rest of my family came back to get us to the church. After my new husband and I were thrown out of our reception at 1am, I went back to the house for my luggage and found Granny there alone again. She was so pleased to be able to assist me get ready for my honeymoon night. Another treasured memory.
That’s a lovely memory.
Really lovely. Hope she and you have been doing well. :)
i'm sorry, but if ANYONE of my family came to my wedding and took 4 (FOUR) servings of my favourite desert and there wasn't any left, AND wasn't willing to share it, i'd definitely pull a 'i'm the fucking bride, hand it over'
Yup 👍
as you shoulddddd
It's gonna be a war for me because nobody takes my favourite dessert at my wedding and then lives happily to tell the tale
AS YOU SHOULD? the op begging for THEIR FAVORITE DESSERT at their OWN wedding?! absolutely not even if i was just in earshot i’d be shaming the dessert hoarder to hell and back. “you should’ve gotten to it quicker” yea there actually would’ve been some left at the time they went to the bar if you weren’t such a greedy scumbag. wtf
It was 4 (FOUR) servings of cheesecake ALONGSIDE SLICES OF OTHER THINGS TOO !
Our flower girl tried to bite people, barked at cars and kicked her skirt off.
Lola The Chola was the most gangsta dachshund that ever lived. So grateful that the photographer was able to get a few good photos of her before she had to go into timeout ❤️
Lola the chola I can't 😂
I'd love to see that, HAHAHA.
Omg I was like "that makes sense since is probably a 5 year old" not even considering that it was a dog lmao
@@JustMe-hg5bq Oh, that’s fantastic!!! Love it!!! 🤣
🤣🤣 that’s hilarious !
The worst thing that happened at my wedding was me getting married to the most evil douchebaggiest human being imaginable.
I'm divorced now, and I've met the love of my life. I'm so happy 😊
Hey! A similar thing happened to me! Hoping I get those divorce papers soon so I don't have to pay for it 😂
How to ruin a wedding: having to get divorced!
I at least hope he paid for the wedding.
@@pablodelsegundo9502 well, he paid for the divorce, he finally filed last year, 7 years after we separated
I love this so much, thanks fir the inspiration ❤️ real love exists
Same for me.. me put me in hospital on honeymoon. I issued divorce proceedings within a year after a few other beatings.
My worst thing was when we went out to get sunset photos, my grandmother started giving away our centerpieces. Not just the flowers, the boxes we built after treating the wood to weather it for over 6 months. So while we're taking photos we're watching our guests leave in large groups. Apparently they assumed the wedding was over since people were taking the centerpieces. So my grandmother effectively ended our wedding hours early....
Wow
I have rheumatoid arthritis, and was having a major flare on the big day. All my joints, especially my wrists and elbows, felt like they were on fire. When we were doing pictures after the ceremony, the photographer grabbed my left wrist to "get into the right position for the photo" and I screamed in pain. Fortunately, my husband stepped in, explained the situation and got him to back off. Otherwise, I might be in prison, waiting for that elusive parole hearing date.
Jesus…I was a photographer for several years and would always ask if I could adjust body positions for that reason (along with making sure people were comfortable).
In my country Nigeria, brides mostly dance down the aisle so everyone will be praising you for your performance not knowing you've just been attacked by an army of jealous spinster crickets.
Hahaha I love this!! That sounds like so much fun!
Nigerians have the BEST weddings. Y'all get the gold medal for nuptials. (Silver goes to India.)
On Saturday my husbands cousin got married (were british) but her Nigerian step father gave her away...and they danced down the aisle, it was so much fun. Then I got very drunk cos whenever I went to the bar, he was at the bar, always go to the bar when uncle ty is there, he insists you drink "properly"
I never knew this, it's genius!
@@pablodelsegundo9502 definitely, I’m in the UK and there was an amazing beautiful Nigerian after wedding dance in the grounds of a public park and it was the most beautiful scene I’ve ever experienced of a wedding and they were wonderful people who just wanted everyone to enjoy their day". I’ve never seen anything like it and it was just how everyone’s wedding should be.❤️. Just wonderful and I’ll never forget it.
Mine wasn’t horrendous but more hysterical. I lived in a block of flats (apartment building for non UK people) and I lived on the 10th floor. I was in my wedding dress, with my parents waiting for the lift/elevator to get to my floor as the wedding car was waiting downstairs. Well, the lift never arrived and so I ended up walking down 20 flights of stairs, my dad holding the front of my dress, me holding the sides and my mum holding up the back to prevent it getting filthy on the stairwell floors. We laughed our heads off all the way down and still do 14 years later! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Omg yh, when you live in a high rise...i have witnessed similar things when the bloody lifts stop working which is bad enough going down stairs if you're on 10th or higher,( luckily we were only on 8th!) but going is the real challenge. Funny memories though.
OMG! Did you say walk down 20 flights of stairs? They would to have brought the wedding to me! I'm exhausted just thinking about it! 😳😳
Aww thats a sweet memory 💗
Okay but I probably would have freaked out for a second. I like that y'all kept your cool!
Have mercy! 20 flights? I would have needed an ambulance waiting at the bottom!
I “saved” myself for marriage, and when my husband and I got married, we were sooo exhausted, we didn’t really do much that night. My mom casually asked about how the night went and I casually said that we were tired so didn’t do much. The next day, we had a post wedding ceremony and all of my friends, neighbors etc were coming up to me at the party and whispering “oh, I’m sorry he couldn’t get his thing up”. I have never shared a secret with my mom since. 13 years of wild sex with my husband and still going strong!
Oh wow, that wasn't nice of your mother.
But also, I'm curious. You guys that save yourselves, how can you know if the sex is wild if you actually have never tried anything else? How do you know it's not mediocre? My first boyfriend was someone I stayed with for 6 years, we moved in together after 2 years. He was my first and I thought we had really good sex. Then we split up (10 years ago) and I've had other relationships since, and I know now me and my first boyfriend actually had really bad sex, because now I know how good sex actually feels like
@@LinneAzalea you don’t know and some people struggle- but if everything else is working out in the marriage than it’s not enough to require a divorce (unless one sex starved and it’s ruining their life). In this case, It’s encouraged that they try new things, “work on it” and see a sex therapist. If they can find a way to make it work, they do! The way I see it is a means to an end- I am married so that I can spend the rest of my life with my best friend (husband) and build a beautiful family and life together. Sex is only a hiccup along this road. To be clear, I didn’t have 13 years of wild sex right away! I actually had a hard time finding pleasure in it for a long time! We worked reallllly hard to get where we are now- happy with amazing sex!
@@LinneAzalea such a nasty manipulation tactic. Stop trying to sow discord, sex is good when it feels good. Also comparing a partner should auto-divorce people.
@@LinneAzalea but that’s exactly the point - it doesn’t even matter if you could have “better” sex with someone else when you’re genuinely enjoying the sex you’re having with that one person. I don’t know if my husband’s and my sex is good by other people’s standards and I couldn’t care any less. I think it’s a wonderful pleasure and obviously work in progress and I’m not planning to find out otherwise
@@sarahcece Thank you for your honest reply! I understand it much better now
My grandma was awful at my older cousin’s wedding last year. My cousin (groom) was the first of her grandkids to get married. I will be the second next year when my fiancé and I tie the knot. The first sign of trouble was getting her there. The wedding was in Shreveport, LA and we live near Nashville, TN. She lives near Columbus, OH so we took her down with us. She was insufferable the whole ride there. Then comes the actual wedding the next day.
She makes a scene bc she didn’t get to sit in the front. She makes a scene bc she didn’t get to sign the guest book. She pretends to loudly cry in the middle of the ceremony. She starts clinging to the father of the bride. She then clings to the groom’s brother, my oldest cousin. This cousin is single and looks like Thor. Tall, blonde, and ripped. She refuses to let him go. My sister asks her if she can dance with our cousin bc our cousins are like brothers to us. Grandma YANKS HER BY HER HAIR in the middle of the dance floor during the reception. And then during slow dances, she tried to yank my fiancé (then bf) away from me. Several months later, she grabbed him by the face and tried to forcibly kiss him but that’s a story for another day.
And that is why my grandmother will not be invited to my wedding.
Good LORD sounds like the Grandma 👵 from hell. I'm truly sorry 😢
Could grannie be early Alzheimer’s? It would fit.
I live in Nashville. Hi!
I’m sorry- loading up a “take-home-plate” at a wedding is SO RUDE unless you’ve specifically been invited to by the couple. I have a family member who hoards food like that and we’ve had to put the smack down more than once. Taking a box of food when the bride hasn’t had any is such bad manners.
Also- a lot of these situations could’ve been avoided if people just grow some balls and communicate CLEARLY AND HONESTLY with guests and family. No, you can’t bring your baby here, it’s a party for grown ups. You’ll need to either stay in or find a sitter. No, you cannot take this cabin that we paid for. You’ll need to find other accommodations. We’d really appreciate it if you don’t take all the cheesecake- the bride hasn’t even gotten any yet. Say it firmly, with a smile. Then thank them for coming.
A similar thing happened at the wedding of the elder brother of my college bestie. It was a two day event. A couple was invited along with their son (maybe 4 or 5 year old). During the music they insisted on nursery rhymes. On day two the family had arranged for a bus to transport all the guests to the reception venue. The couple tried to delay everything because their kid was asleep. They could have easily joined us later but instead asked to postpone the reception. So enetitled.
It's honestly common gesture to take home food in my culture during big occasions but they were offered by the host/family of the wedded after the event
Our wedding was small and simple. Family and close friends in the church my husband grew up in. The preacher was reading from 1 Corinthians, love is kind, love is patient, etc. We get to love is not irritable and hear my husband's cousin, who is also a close friend, snicker in the back of the church. That snicker quickly turned to open laughter that spread across the church like wildfire! Everyone is laughing because my beloved is notoriously gruff. I'm just staring at the preacher struggling to maintain a straight face when I feel my beloved's hands twitch, turn to look and see that he has turned purple in an attempt to contain his laughter! I lost it! It was a solid five minutes before the uproar settled down enough to continue with our ceremony. Still going strong 23.5 years later!
This is a cute story!
I used to be a caterer, catered many weddings. One that stands out was one where 125 people rsvp'd and confirmed. 2 entrées, chocolate fountain and only half the guests showed up. I felt so bad I sent them home with a bunch of leftovers. I mean they paid the full amount so I felt I had to compensate them somehow. I bet they found out who their real friends were.
Oh that poor couple.
Actually RSVPed? Holy mackerel. I bet they spent the weeks after their wedding writing people off instead of writing thank-you notes.
And yet, when one or two guests RSVp and don't come, you can count them as a**holes, but when half or 80% of the guests don't show up, you must wonder if it's not the couple who has a problem.
@@ameliecarre4783 that might be true, although they seemed like perfectly nice people. And if that was the case, why would those people confirm they were coming? If I didn't really like someone and got invited to their wedding, I would just not reply or confirm a no. Even if I didn't like them, I wouldn't just be a no-show. I think they need better friends.
I recently attended a wedding for which the invitation arrived in February for a July nuptials. I wondered if the people who declined/didn't come had closer relatives/friends whose invitations came in the interim. Five months is a long lead time, even for a wedding invitation.
When helping my daughter secure the venue for the wedding reception, I recall the coordinator telling us, invite 400, prepare for half that number. I was skeptical, but did as she instructed, only catering for half the invited number. We had very few leftovers and everyone was served, some twice! Always listen to the expert :)
We were given the same advice. We invited 150 and over 200 showed up! We still had plenty of food, though, thankfully.
First off, thank you Charlotte!
Every single member of my immediate family has at least one anaphylactic allergen. So the story about the caterer infuriates me. Moreover I work in medical and I can’t tell you how furious I get when I find out that the patient is there to see us because somebody at a restaurant or catering company screwed up and gave them something they we’re allergic to. So again thank you Charlotte for telling this person to sue and for sharing the message that food allergies can be fatal and should be taken seriously. So many people randomly dismiss it and it can literally kill someone.
True stories from my wedding.
-The woman who did our cakes called in tears from the reception before we got there. She had baked the cake prior, thawed it to decorate it, froze it again then thawed it to bring to the reception that morning. It collapsed. It had molded. We used the bachelor cake. She sent us a hand written letter of apology the following week in which we feared that she might actually take her life as a result (she didn't.)
- Father in law, big drinker, bought cases of booze for an open bar. As a result:
-- Future sister in law kept paying a dollar to dance with me and eventually felt me up.
-- Two fights broke out after we left involving in laws and friends. This resulted in 3 arrests, a broken windshield when someone attacked another's car with a champagne bottle
-- Friend of ours fell on the floor dancing and one of the bridesmaids proceeded to mount and dry hump him.
- 2 people spent the night in jail.
- At least one divorce can be attributed to the event.
- Cops set up across the road from the center and just started pulling people over for DUI as they left the parking lot.
Fortunately this all happened after we'd left. Her dad called us on our honeymoon and I watched my wife cry as she got the stories.
I need to hear more about the divorce this caused. What a mess lmao
How horrible!!! My condolences....I hope you and your wife weren't the divorcees.....
I’m not going to lie - when I started reading this, I totally thought it was from the bride’s perspective… but I also didn’t read the name…
That last bit: that's why we had our phones off during the honeymoon.
My grandma asked me beforehand what I'd do if a parent passed or some emergency like that.
Honestly? It's ten days (the funeral would probably have been after our return); and also, what good does it do me to know - are we gonna cancel the rest? Are we gonna keep enjoying the honeymoon with that knowledge. Nah.
I'm a bit confused with who's story this is,, also very amused, lmao; About the cake though: you where lucky it collapsed as all that freezing & thawing?! mmm having been in the business , not a good idea to eat it in my opinion ( do or don't tell cake lady?!).
My dad was walking me down the aisle, our arms linked, as I held my Bible and my bouquet. Keep in mind, we're both very introverted, so our minds were more or less focused on making it all the way down to the altar as quick as we reasonably could. I felt beautiful, radiant, and so excited to be getting married to my wonderful husband. We're about halfway there when I realized that my foot has gotten tangled with my dress. I panic, because I don't want to stop to fix it and make everyone think I'm trying to make a break for it, but I also don't know how to discreetly untangle my foot from 3 layers of dress. During all of this, my dad has carried on at his speed walk pace, having remained blissfully unaware of my issue. At this point, I notice my grooms expression turn from one of adoration to amusement as he and everyone else in attendance realize what's going on (still minus my father). I try to stagger the last few feet to the end of the aisle without tripping as I hear whispers of "she's caught on her dress" from the attendees. Finally, I make it to the end, and my sister and best maid of honor in the world rushes over to fix the skirt, somehow making it look as though she's only fixing the train (my savior). My dad still had no clue until after the ceremony.
That one's kinda funny. Power to your MOH!
The allergy situation is actual grounds for a lawsuit. They can sue her for medical bills and probably the cost of the whole ceremony.
*Edit* I did some digging for you guys on the original post. She never did mention her allergy to Raspberries to the caterer, but she did about the little ones nut allergies. If the kids ate the nuts then yes there would be possibilities that the police could have been involved at that point and arrested for whatever 3 charges they wanted that would cover an malicious attack to cause an allergic reaction. However for the bride since she ordered a recipe that didn't contain her allergy, raspberries, she didn't mention her allergy. Of which the caterer changed and unknowingly added the allergen into the recipe. In this case with the bride no arrest could be made because as OP kinda clarified she only knew about the Littles' allergies and not the brides. As of this it is a Lawsuit and no arrest could be made, at most, they could have called the cops to tell the caterer to expect to have to go to court. Unfortunately though with this information I found... this probably wouldn't hold up in court.
It is grounds for arrest! It is considered assault or even potential attempted murder!
I would sue
I hope she did.
Yep, I'd sue the shit outta that caterer. To blatantly ignore allergy related requests, and then to change the wedding cake unannounced, which led to ANOTHER allergic reaction, that moron shouldn't be allowed to prepare food for anyone ever again.
As a ex food handler card holder, she can go to jail for knowingly adding food that someone is allergic too.
The bug stories are exactly why I will be getting married in the Winter. I have always loved the idea of an outdoor wedding but that’s just a huge no for me.🤣
Omg I know my skin would be crawling
I knew someone who worked security for a wedding and told me an older couple, second marriage, lived out of town but rented the hall for the convenience that most invited guests lived closer to that particular city. After the catering was set up, adequate for the number of guests invited, the DJ was waiting for guests to arrive before starting the music. After an hour, the bride and groom were asked if the guests got the right date and location since nobody had yet shown up. After two hours, the guests at the hall were the DJ, security, caterer team , hall owner and married couple, probably a dozen people in all who ended up eating and dancing with the couple for about 45 minutes ending the event very early and taking many leftovers home.
One week before the wedding, I called the hotel/venue to add a few rooms to the block we already had reserved. When I called, the receptionist exclaimed, "OMG! We've been trying to contact you. We're no longer a hotel - we're corporate housing and CAN NO LONGER DO YOUR WEDDING!!!". One week... that's all I had to find a new place to block all of my guests' rooms, find a reception hall, move the caterer/florist/DJ, etc.... I should of eloped especially since we were divorced 3 years later... Even the Universe was telling me, "Girl... no."
for that girl with the cheesecake, I would've probably grabbed her whole box of desserts and slapped them on the floor.
...and stomped them into the ground...
Like Rachel and Chandler when they're stealing the cheesecake from the lady downstairs 🤣🤣
I don't know why she *asked* for them back. I'd have demanded it.
I would almost have done the same - but not slap them on the floor, just demand them back and not give her ANY desserts to go home with because she didn't deserve any! Plus I would have eaten as much of that cheesecake in front of her (out of her box) as I would have been able to.
Why ? Just grab the box and keep it for yourself, no need to destroy the cakes !
7:42 this hits way too close to home for me, not from a wedding but a 'graduation' party. My mother decided when I graduated we would wait until my younger brother was back home so then "everyone would be there and it would be better." She said. TWO. YEARS. LATER. Still no graduation party, and by then I didn't care and didn't want one. Welp, my younger brother was finally home, and my mom decided to have a surprise party for 'me' ( this is where I add I have anxiety, and a surprise party is my idea of hell ) and invited a bunch of family members and got a big cake. Only 3 family members showed up out of the 30+ she invited, she then proceeded to tell me all the excuses they gave for not coming ( all while I slowly got more and more depressed and angry because the party was never for me to begin with it was for HER to make herself look good in front of my younger brother ) "It is 2 years after the fact, why would you have a party??" one said. "I thought you weren't having one?" said another, " I thought this was for ____ not ___". So I got to sit there at what my mother said was 'my' graduation party, all while she tried to show my younger brother the neat things she bought, asking him if it is good, and he just keeps giving me the 😬 face and cringing. Later that year I went to a family xmas party ( the LAST one I went to ) and while sitting next to my mother had people asking her "why would you have a party 2 years after the fact? Nobody is going to go to that!" so I chimed in and said " Yeah, thanks for punishing me for my mother's stupidity, it was a party I didn't even know about but, thanks for not showing up and being a bitch, good job."
11 days before the wedding a major mudslide completely covered our venue. Completely, like they gave up and rebuilt elsewhere. We were relocated to a nearby venue with a large herd of goats on the steep hillside behind. The ceremony was awesome with plenty of background bleeting and goat kids hopping around.
It’s been 26 years now, still married and love the goats!
God... at my wedding we did this beautiful candle ceremony which was supposed to represent the flame of our love or whatever. We both burnt our fingers lighting the thing and ended up with matching burn marks. Our marriage didn't make it to the first anniversary so the flames of love really had spoken! Also my new MIL went around telling everyone it wasn't actually our real wedding and we would have a bigger better one later. She did it because she always needed everything to be "the best" and appearances were very important to her. She seemed to be the only one who felt our wedding wasn't up to her standards and so went around telling that lie which was news to me and my new husband. When I heard about it I asked who exactly was going to be paying for this lavish 2nd wedding we were apparently going to have, and the answer was not her.
Different situation, but similar thing to your MIL. My ex-best friend's mom didn't believe my first boyfriend & I actually were boyfriend & girlfriend. She thought we were always just friends. Granted, we were friends for several months before actually dating, but still, it was kinda insulting, TBH.
There's a certain subsection of the food service industry that hear "I have allergies" and thinks the person is simply being picky. They're the worst and they should be charged when someone has a reaction because they're too much of an ahole to respect their CUSTOMER'S wishes
the thing is that even if someone is being picky, their wishes should still be counted for. you dont get to decide what goes into someones ordered food if youre making it from scratch. but yeah these are the types of people who will give you real milk instead of soy/almond milk just because they think youre being fussy and they belive themselves to be better than you. lowest of low.
This is one of the main reasons I never eat at restaurants or have a take away,, too many allergies/requirements and I don’t want to come across as fussy by wanting to double check everything that is in the food
There was a case in England not long ago when the manager of an Indian takeaway was actually sent to prison for causing the death of a girl allergic to nuts. When ordering the food, she had specifically and very carefully asked which foods did not have nuts because she was seriously allergic. They assured her that the food she had picked did not, and even labelled it as ‘no nuts’, knowing full well that it did contain nuts. She had a severe anaphylactic shock and died in hospital. The judge on sentencing said that a prison sentence was just because they had been aware of the situation and deliberately ignored her needs.
I don't understand why people who have serious allergies don't carry an EpiPen. If it's bad enough that your throat will swell shut, you should always have it just in case.
@@Jane-yg3vz epi pens are very expensive, $650-$700 for a 2 pack without insurance. I'm pretty sure nobody is just choosing to not carry one, especially if they have severe enough allergies to need one
"Stop making excuses for crazy people"
Words to live by oh wise one
No, sometimes you need to excuse crazy people.
Lemme add my mom's story. One of her friends was entrusted with dropping off my mom's side friends invitations to the post office. (My dad's friends were all decided and sent earlier). None of my mom's friends showed up to the wedding. My mom thought her friends didnt like her enough to come so they were estranged for years. 30 years later, one of said friends invited my mom to stay at her beach house and finally spoke about it. It turns out, none of their friend group got an invitation, and the friend entrusted with them said that my mom's wedding was "close family and friends only", so they all thought my mom did not like them enough to be considered close friends. They were both devastated realizing what happened.
Wow your "friend" wasn't one for that at all 😲👎
I don't understand... why didn't they get the invitation? Did she not mail them? Did something go wrong? Did the friend deliberately exclude them?
oh no, what a psycho
Sorry if it was unclear. Yea the friend never mailed the invitations.
@@heelrunner That is terrible. After witnessing multiple marriages in my family and extended family, I have learned to never trust just anyone with any responsibility. Either get a professional or be 100% sure of the people who are helping.
My parents lost their wedding pictures because two of dad's nephew damaged all the negatives.
My oldest sister, widowed at 42, remarried 4 years later & ruined her own wedding. First the flowers she had ordered were not in the church. Next her groom looked at the minister as he spoke his vows, after she had ordered him to look at HER repeatedly beforehand.
After the ceremony, she found all the flowers she’d ordered in the kitchen of the church. She went into “meltdown” - her lifelong word for a full-blown toddler tantrum - at age 46. Another sister corralled her in the ladies’ room where she continued to roar, foam & tear at her dress. She threw her diamond rings in a toilet. The attending sister had to tackle her to stop her from flushing & then in her fancy clothes had to fish the rings out of the potty.
Finally, on to the reception. Several guests had their children with them. Bride announced “no children allowed” &, since nobody had made babysitting arrangements, they had to leave with their kids.
She had place-card seating. All her friends were up front close to the bridal party table. All the grooms invitees were tucked away in remote corners. She swaned around - table to table - never going near the outcast groom’s friends. Not even an hello.
Fast forward 20 years. They’re still married. I’m standing in line with her husband, waiting to pick up a meal to take home to her. Out of the blue, he says to me, “I started hating her on our wedding day. It’s only gotten worse.” All I said was, “Wow.”
I had to stop my Italian Great Aunt from walking out of my sisters wedding shower with a toaster because "she already got two and didn't need a third." 🤣 Pointed to the receipt taped to the side and then had her walk it to my sisters car. Had to play security as all my Italian family after I saw another Aunt shifting through the gifts.🤦 I guess they thought they were favors. 💁
Lol these make me glad I got married in my peaceful backyard... second marriage for both of us. First marriage was ALLL the nonsense. This time was just family, a close friend did the ceremony and my precious (now 15 yr old) stepdaughter walked me down the "aisle" ❤️ I let her pick her dress and help me choose mine. It was a lovely day ☺️
Your day sounds absolutely perfect, simple and cosy, an intimate ceremony for you and your loved ones. Fantastic ☺️
I have all the feels! 🥹 So sweet! I’m happy for you! (My stepdaughter picked out my wedding ring. It still warms my heart thinking about it)
This is heartwarming and also heartbreaking. I wish I got to have that special time with my dad’s fiancé but she sadly passed away soon into the wedding planning.
@@questionmark9819 it really was 🥰..... I guess I realized that the marriage was what I really wanted yknow?
@@amberjohnson4820 awwwww 😍😍😍 I love that SO MUCH!!!!
My dad ministered 2 of his friends' wedding. A month before the wedding, the caterer backed out, as well as the DJ, both of whom were family members. Day of the wedding, the bride asked if I wanted to come to their Airbnb and get ready with the wedding party. It was then that she pulled me aside and asked if I minded being the "DJ". All I would have to do was press play on an iPad when it came time for her to come down the aisle. I agreed, despite being anxious, because I wanted to help. Fast forward to the venue. Groom comes up to me, frantic, asks if I had the speaker. "what speaker?" Apparently, someone was supposed to give me a Bluetooth speaker to play the wedding song on when the time came. No one had. He gets a bit snappy with me, but my dad gets him to back off and then calms me down from having a panic attack (I have anxiety btw). Turns out one of the guests had a speaker, so they let us use it. Safe! So I spend some time fiddling around with the iPad and speaker, making sure they connect properly and making sure everything is charged. So, it's go time. I sit in the back of the pews to make sure that the bride can hear the music, and so that I'm out of sight. My dad gives the cue and... Nothing.
I'M OUT OF WIFI RANGE!!
That's right. The venue's Wi-Fi didn't reach to the actual outdoor area they were getting married at and the bride didn't download the song, so when I hit play, nothing happened. I begin to panic. Like full on can't breathe panic attack. My dad came to see what's wrong and I tell him the dilemma. So, we start walking backwards toward the main building to see when I will get back into range. I was in the parking lot before it would connect. Now it's time to test the Bluetooth range. How far away from the iPad can I get the speaker before they disconnect? So my dad grabs the speaker and walks back to the seating area, placing it on the last pew where I'd been sitting. I check the iPad. They're still connected, thank god.
So I crank the volume all the way up, and my dad does the same on the speaker. I cross all my fingers and toes, wait for the signal again, then hit play.
IT WORKED!!!
I watched the wedding from the parking lot, crying my eyes out as I came down from the adrenaline rush of the panic attack. Afterward, at the reception the bride got drunk and couldn't stop giving me hugs and telling me how amazing I was for working things out. Most stressful wedding I've ever been to.
At she was happy and expressed her gratitude ❤🎉
Here is my wife and I's messed up wedding. My wife is from Wisconsin and I was from Philadelphia PA. We where together for several years and had moved from Wisconsin to Philly for a couple years before I asked her to marry me. We where having a small almost exclusively family wedding in my brothers yard. Her mother and brother and several other of her relatives said they where coming. She had called them just a couple days before and they said they would be on the way soon.
So the big day comes and we have not heard from her family, Her brother was meant to walk her down the isle. She was frantic, she couldn't get a hold of anyone and well the wedding is about to start. left with no other choice, she asked my oldest brother to give her away and we got hitched.
We had a slightly bigger reception with more family and friends scheduled for the evening. My wife franticly calling thinking the worse may have happened. She finally got a hold of them that evening at the reception, they had never planned on coming all along. several sisters, brothers and her mother just ghosted her after saying they would be there. She was an emotional wreck.
We have been married 25 years together over 30 and she doesn't speak to any of them anymore.
They didn’t want her to be happy. Thank you for loving and protecting her🥰
@@theempresss I thank god every day for her.
@@JamesOpr that is so messed up. Did they ever give an excuse as to why they did this? Not that it would have really mattered in the end. It's so cruel to pretend that they are coming. It sounds like they wanted to really hurt her and honestly I don't blame her for cutting all contact. What a betrayal.
@@lily5952 If they had she has never told me. Eventually I kind of insisted that we visit her mother, and in turn her sisters and as well.
Unfortunately that visit happened shortly after her brother passed.
She kept in touch with her mom after that but when her mother passed no one told her till after the funeral.
I know it sounds unreal but I promise you it is all true.
But we have each other and we have hit all the vows but death do we part. She is my rock as much as I am hers.
I am so sorry... but so happy you two are happy together!
I was 25 and didn’t know wtf I was doing planning my wedding, lol! The limousine didn’t show up to take us to the reception, but a groomsman pointed at his wife and yelled “Babe! We’re a limmo!” Put the just married banner on their SVU, stopped at a liquor store on the way and she grabbed champagne and cups, and popped the cork between her legs in the lot, and we laughed the whole way! Then there was a mix up with the caterer and we had no one to cut the cake, but my mother in law’s friend was a caterer and she jumped up and cut the cake for us. It was a blast, we figured it out, and we’ve been married 12 years and counting. 😘 Weddings are amazing if you remove the pressure! It’s about the marriage, not the wedding.
Similar to the last story - when we had the scan for our second baby about 13 years ago, we found out we were having a boy. We told both parents, and within the hour my husband’s sister had it on FB along with what his name was going to be, like it was her news to share!!! I freaked out and she had it down soon after, but then didn’t speak to me for ages because I’d called her out on her sh1t (that’s her typical pattern of behaviour). She still lives her life on social media, which is why she now too gets news last!
My mom occasionally talks about her disaster of a wedding reception.
-Her friends decided to decorate/prank her car by putting little bows all over it and she had just got it painted red, so when all the bows got taken off, there were little pink squares all over the car.
-They had also filled the car up to the roof with round cereal, (think corn pops) so when she opened the car door they all spilled out and the people who owned the parking lot she was in came out and yelled at her to clean up the mess she made. She did, still in her wedding dress mind you, but she couldn't get all the cereal out of her car and maggots' ended up infesting it days later.
-The only thing her husband insisted on during the wedding planning was to pick the first dance song, she was so excided to see what he picked and didn't find out what it was until the DJ called them up for it. It was "Used to love her" by Guns and Roses. (Look up the lyrics if the title isn't enough to convince you how bad of a choice it was for a first dance song, much less a wedding.)
-She also couldn't find her husband for the first dance, so she went to the bathroom in tears, only to find him there kissing one of her bridesmaids. When she asked what the heck he was doing he simply told her to shut up and that it was his last day of freedom.
-When she eventually managed to get him on the floor for their dance, they danced for about five seconds before MIL drunkenly pushed her out of the way proclaiming loudly she was dancing with her son.
-Oh and, the person who was video taping the whole thing forgot the cap on the camera, so no picture, just sound.
My mother ended up divorcing him less than a year later because he was abusive and she has been in several long lasting relationships since, however she has stated she is never getting married again. The boyfriend she's with now did get her a ring and kind of asked her, (it wasn't a down on one knee thing, it was more like a promise if she ever changed her mind) she told him if she's still alive and they're still together by 2040, she'll consider it.
Woahhh that’s alot! Your poor mom ❤️🩹. I would be traumatized too f that!
All these stories have one common theme: a bad crowd. Stop associating with rotten apples and people will stop having their weddings ruined
@@alexshaw8167 a lot of the times it’s your own family. yes its possible to not invite your terrible family, but if you aren’t completely estranged from every single one of them this becomes extremely difficult. i’m sure they didn’t want them there
Dude. Between the song and snogging the bridesmaid, she should have immediately gotten an annulment. Yikes.
She better than me, he would've had to leave in a body bag and me in cuffs
At my wedding our original cake fell before we had a chance to see it. My elderly neighbor who was a retired baker made it for us, free of charge. She felt so bad that she went back home during our ceremony and made a quick one tier cake. She arrived with the cake right after we finished our first dance. It was adorable and delicious. But that wasn't the worst part. My aunt, who invited her co-works to my wedding without our permission, gave all the leftover food and cake to them. My husband and I barely ate during the reception do to all the picture taking and other wedding shenanigan's. We only had one bite of the cake for the pictures. But all and all we've been happily married for 7 years.
Dang, who the heck does she think she is 😲
Hope you don't have to spend any time with that cow...
I'm glad you're still married, but I'm mad for you about your aunt inviting people without your permission or at the very least letting you know, then giving them all the leftover food!
At my second wedding, my MIL's best friend wore a white lace dress. In addition, she got up multiple times during the ceremony to "fix" my train (I had 3 bridesmaids who did that just fine). Finally, directly after the ceremony, my new husband and I were having a private moment away from everyone in a completely separate room and she barged in to take pictures (we had a professional photographer). She left a bad taste in my mouth!
The weird thing was that it was not MIl but the bff of MIL. Either MIL brought her in to do the dirty work and not be blamed or she got some issues of her own.
@@ashlynadventures912 I wonder if the bff had something for the groom
@@websurfer4672 I had that feel too. Mrs Robinson style
She wanted your husband. 100%.
Why? I hope he doesn't get in trouble.
I don't remember any big mishaps at my wedding. I remember telling people weeks later when they asked about the wedding "well if anything went wrong, I still don't know about it." Nine years later, that still holds true.
That's a sign of excellent family/friends putting out fires and taking care of you.
I'd love having photos of the bee incident. Candids of accidental moments are my favorite kind to look back on.
I hope we can see Charlotte's wedding someday...🤗she will be a beautiful bride, and a very funny one too lol.
I agree. Charlotte, you got me thru my convalescence with Covid. You're beautiful, talented and oh-so-funny. You're like a pretty and younger version of Carol Burnett during her Variety Show heyday. I hope you marry the man of your dreams and will share with all your fans snippets from the activities leading up to your wedding and the actual wedding. You will be a beautiful bride.
A couple at my church got married around 6 years ago (they’re divorced now). I offered to make cupcakes instead of a sheet cake, as it would make it easier to serve, and the wedding cake. I asked how many guests replied that they would come. The groom said that he had invited 150 people from his AA and Narcotics Anonymous groups. I told him that it didn’t mean that 150 people would show up. I asked the bride. Same response. So, I made over 200 cupcakes (for just in case, plus because of everyone from church that would attend). Another lady from church was making the food and she had been told the same thing as I was told. Simply because the couple expected all 150 people would show up even without confirmation. Only 2 people out of the 150 people that they invited from their groups showed up. Two. And, because this couple couldn’t afford much, the other lady and I did everything out of our own pockets. Very frustrating all around. We had tried to get them to confirm the invites, but they believed that since they had invited 150 people, all would show. We tried to get them to understand otherwise, but they wouldn’t hear any different.
Yeah it’s called Anonymous for a reason!!🙈
Omg 🤦♀️
😳
I guess the church was all set for coffee hour sweets for a while, right? 😁
I guess it says what’s needed about church people?
I had my wedding at my home because we had a huge beautiful place with a creek that ran through it, it was gorgeous! The one thing that was shitty though was my Aunt saw a really cool yard ornament of mine and the witch stole it! My mom stole it back from her eventually but that was the end of my good relationship with her.
My grandmother invited one of her SILs to both her daughters' weddings. She stole some small jewelry and removed pillows from underneath the heads of sleeping guests and then blamed my dad for the latter. Drama ensued. But grandmother still cannot cut her off
This is what kids do in the sandbox.
"I like your bucket, so I'm gonna take it for myself."
My wedding was outside in a courtyard of a beautiful stone church that was built in 1908. During the ceremony, a few bees decided that they really liked all the fresh flower bouquets we were holding. I've been told that at one point one was crawling up the back of my dress under my veil, and my sisters (also bridesmaids) said they were trying to land on their bouquets and some even walked on their hands! The minister snapped his binder closed trying to get one that was buzzing around his head during the ceremony and everyone laughed lol. At the time, I was just praying I wouldn't get stung because I'm allergic to bees! They didn't sting me, and now it's a really funny memory. The most common comments I get about my wedding are 1. The bees. and 2. How much fun our wedding was :)
Honestly, if I were the bride with the bees, I would want the pictures. That would be hysterical, not getting stung but just the essence of a ton of chaos in one photo. 🤣
I’ve been to a few authentic Indian weddings. And I’ve seen Indians taking the food/desserts from the reception home in Tupperwares or the catering people will provide the take out containers if you ask them.
The best wedding I went to was where an uncle of the bride asked the dessert bar to pack up 6 containers of ice cream (Indian weddings serve ice cream for desserts not a cake) for him to take home.
Found out from the bride later that the ice cream melted by the time he got home (1.75hrs car drive home). He called her and her mother and complained about the ice cream melting. He didn’t take the 6 small containers he took 6 9lbs tubs of ice cream. No one at the wedding got any ice creams. Needless to say he was not invited to the bride’s brothers wedding a year later!
What a bummer for everyone! I love ice cream tradition!
7:25 Here in Mexico, the "itacate" is quite common in parties (even weddings) . Itacate is food to go... . Also the "recalentado".... Which means "reheated". Sometimes they invite you to the "recalentado", to come the next day/morning to eat again the leftovers of the party/wedding. In the "recalentado" the are also some "hangover remedies". Quite fun... :)
In some parts of my country, Romania, due to the fact that the wedding night is such a big party for everyone, the following day is like a second party with leftovers and traditional sour soup (ciorbă) ....and more party, pple expected to leave towards the lunch or dinner, depending on the good time 😂😂😂
@@arrriadna This sounds fun
We had an amazing reception with a ton Of delicious food! However….there was ONE item that wasn’t necessarily fancy but was an homage to our relationship which was several Chick-fil-A nuggets trays. It’s a long story but we ordered 10 trays of nuggets to be mixed in with the other fancy foods. The one thing I wanted was Chick-fil-A nuggets because it meant something to my new husband and I. When I was saying goodbye after they said the nuggets were gone I saw plates and plates and plates of an eaten nuggets or half eaten nuggets in the trash. Everyone had filled their entire plate with Chick-fil-A nuggets and didn’t even leave a crumb. As silly as it was, it was so sad to me because that was the one thing that we requested to represent our years long dating relationship that started when my husband was 14 years old and could only afford to take me to Chick-fil-A for dates. Despite asking my family and the caterers and everyone else to please save me a few nuggets to represent how we started, I didn’t get a single one and was so sad to see how many were in the trash. I know it doesn’t matter and I know in the scheme of things it’s just a small insignificant thing but at the time it made me so sad
This is extremely inconsiderate. On the bright side, congratulations on finding the one person
6:00 Ok so not only should the poisoning caterer be sued but also should be charged with attempted/involuntary manslaughter. How horrible to almost die on your wedding day. What was this caterer’s problem?
My best friend and her late husband are HUGE outdoorsy people. My BFF is a barrel racer and her husband loves hunting and often takes his dog out with him and uses him to help look for the deer/ducks/hogs etc. Naturally they wanted to incorporate that in their wedding somehow. So my best friend rode her horse down the aisle. Well they had practiced with the horse before and she (BFF) thought things would be fine. They had a wedding arch in the shape of a V. I don't know WHAT the horse was thinking but when my BFF's dad opened the gate to let her out she barreled full speed toward the arch and started making the same route around and through the arch pillars that she does when barrel racing! We were CRACKING UP! Towards the end of the ceremony my BFF's husbands dog (who was the ring bearer) was sitting beside his owner being real patient and good...that is until it was time to release the doves. Bless his heart before he (BFF's husband) could even comprehend what was happening the dog went BERSERK and started chasing the doves all through the pasture (luckily the husband let go of the leash super fast or else he'd have been dragged around by the dog)! Later my best friend and her husband said they should've been paying more attention to the animals because looking back they'd both shown signs something was gonna go haywire (no pun intended). My BFF said before the ceremony when they were riding down the aisle she DID have to hold onto the reins a little tighter cause the horse kept trying to gallop. And her husbands dog HAD been periodically eyeing the bird cage so obviously he was waiting for something to happen too. Hands down the most HILARIOUS things I have ever seen at a wedding!
There's an incriminating photo of me taken right after the ceremony at my wedding where I'm wild-eyed and thinking, "Holy shit. What. Have. I. Just. Done?!"
For context, I was super young (23) and never wanted a ceremony/reception, and would have preferred just going to the courthouse. My mother pressured me into having a big wedding because "I was her only daughter," which really translated to, "You're getting the wedding I [my mother] really wanted." When buying my wedding dress, for example, by the time I had tried on 10 dresses, I was hot, irritated, overwhelmed, and seriously considering throwing myself into traffic. I begrudgingly put on number 11 and although I specifically stated I DID NOT want a strapless ballgown, my mother started crying happy tears so I admitted defeat and ended up with an effing strapless ballgown I hated. My husband-to-be (who was 10 years older) was also very pushy and he was behaving in ways that I can now identify as abusive.
By the time I wanted to bail on the entire thing, my parents had already spent a ton of money so I felt like I had to go through with it or I'd be disappointing my mother. The wedding was beautiful, of course, and it was wonderful to see my extended family, but I absolutely hate being the center of attention and could only feel dark sense of dread.
Seventeen days after we got married, my husband and I both ended up in jail for 48 hours for domestic abuse because he tried to strangle me to death and I gave him a bloody nose trying to get him off me. I lasted 5 more years with this man.
I've been happily divorced now for 4 years and have a good life. Listen to your gut ladies, and don't let anyone bully you into a wedding (or marriage) you don't want. 🖤🥔
I’m so sorry that happend to you🥺 i’m glad you are out of that marrige and happy again; props to you❤️
I'm shocked you stayed with him for 5 years. After he tried to kill you within a month!
@@uma4158 Domestic abuse is a hell of a drug
Life can really be a difficult lesson. My sympathies to you in going through that awful marriage. May you be happy and healthy from here on out! 😊
Similar thing happened to me. Everyone loved my husband because he was so nice and kind to everyone but to me in private. When I finally left him I didn’t even have support from my family because they couldn’t understand what was wrong with me for leaving such a saint.
The worst thing I remember happening at my wedding was that one of my friends from out of town never showed and didn’t call (this was before cell phones). Turned out she was in the emergency room with a debilitating migraine, so of course I understood. But this has a sad epilogue - because we lived so far apart, we actually only met in person one time. I lost the pictures from her visit in a basement flood. She passed away last year, and since she couldn’t make it to the wedding, she isn’t in my album (which survived) and I have no pictures of us together.
But at least you have her in your heart and head, your memories of her will never fade. 💓
There's artist that can Photoshop a photo for you. Best luck
Two of my groomsmen's wives (who weren't invited due to not getting along) got into fight outside the chapel right before I walked down the aisle. My husband's family did an excellent job not letting me find out until after the ceremony, even though it was a huge ordeal for everyone else, I was oblivious. We still have fun telling the story 16 years later.
My caterer (best mans wife) got into a fist fight with my Sister in law at the after party... I had no clue till much later, found out she had been sniping at my SIL all day over her wearing a scrunchie to my wedding... Quelle horreur!
@@terramarini6880 LOL! Oh, no, how gauche! Boy, some folks don't believe in pulling your hair back, huh? And a scrunchie can be so much classier than an ordinary elastic if the material is nice.
@@BeeWhistler That scrunchie didn't spend a second in my head, never even noticed it, was just happy to have her there.
My SIL makes a great chocolate cake. I somehow didn't get a piece of the one she made for +30 people. My aunt somehow had a huge slice "to go". When I was asked to take it to her car I ate it! And said straight up "That was my piece." She couldn't argue.
The allergy one is so scary, infuriating, and sad! Thank god for the epipens and the doctor relatives! That poor girl! I hope she gets to have a do over reception one day
@6:20 "To Go Boxes are out on the veranda!" ... When the greedy ones go out on the veranda, lock them out of the party.
I'm going to go with" the s*** wedding=great marriage" because I had one of those sisters that had to be the center of attention and started a huge Family Feud to do so during wedding planning and at the wedding itself. Fortunately my partner kicks ass and we've been awesome. Celebrated 10 years on Aug 1st
Aww, congratulations! Sorry you had to deal with that on your wedding, but i’m very glad everything worked out in the end!
Unfortunately the complete opposite happened in my family, two of the groomsmen got into a fistfight before my uncle’s first wedding and one of them showed up to the reception with a black eye. That was just one of the things that went wrong that day, and sure enough, it was probably an omen because that marriage was very toxic.
Luckily, my uncle got married again to a absolutely INCREDIBLE woman that I am now close with and see as an aunt, and they have now been married for 5 years and have a child together. And their wedding was absolutely beautiful, with nothing going wrong that I could see.
It _is_ a common superstition that if you have bad luck at your wedding, you'll have good luck in your marriage, but maybe it's a regional thing. Congrats on 10 yrs!
@@clairepettie That's been true for me, but we didn't get instant results... there was definitely a learning curve!
In Austria we have this saying too. So glad our caterer didn't listen, and brought tons of meat and next to no vegan options, when half my guests were vegan. At 70 Euros a guest, and food being the only thing I genuinely cared about, other than my husband. So effing glad!
I feel like the caterer could probably be sued for attempted murder for deliberately ignoring what people were allergic to ngl
I feel like there could even be grounds for charges against her, child endangerment or even attempted murder!
Same
Is it possible to give a minus 1 million on a Yelp review? Aside from the lawsuit that's what the caterer deserves.
I hope they did sue
That’s not grounds for a lawsuit. Lawsuits apply to civil law. This was attempted murder. It’s a criminal case that needs to happen.
The one about the bees has always been a fear of mine since I have a moderate allergy to any yellow-striped insect with a stinger and wings. Whenever I would go to weddings I would sometimes fingers crossed that I could at least sit inside, I've been diagnosed with this allergy when I was in Pre-K, and so far all of the weddings I've attended were ones without any of those creatures around and are where I can have a seat inside.
I have been to several weddings, the one thing I hate is when the couple is pulled in multiple directions and barely get to eat. I became a unofficial "dad " of a couple from my work. I had the privilege of being " dad " to the young man. The young lady as well. When they got engaged, I had the privilege of walking her down the aisle, sitting with her mother.
Before the wedding ended, I ordered some basic food... burgers and fries for the wedding party because I knew they would have no time to eat at all. They were all relaxed and able to enjoy themselves; with their blessing, I kept certain things moving, like the receiving line, helping the MOH collect all the gifts in the MOB's car for security reasons, getting mothers with small children, elderly, those with mobility issues first through the buffet line, communication with the planner with the dances, and finally making sure the new couple got to sit down with their meals. Anyone who tried to get them to meet or do whatever, I and the mom told them after they are done eating. I suggest getting the wedding party food before the guests pull them every direction...its their wedding, they are not there to be master and mistress of ceremonies.
The last story reminded me of this. While not a wedding but for a death in the family. One of my aunts posted to Facebook asking for prayers because her husband's mother (my grandmother) just passed away. Turns out she posted it so fast that they hadn't been able to notify everyone yet and my grandmother's sister found out of her passing via Facebook. Isn't social media just fabulous.
Unfortunately, I can relate to this all too well. My egg donor, posted my Grandfather's passing on Facebook before half of our family had any clue what was happening, quite a few of us were devastated and very traumatized cuz my Grandpa was an amazing man that was loved by everyone that knew him. In fact I STILL don't speak to her over the incident.
When my father died, I waited until my kids woke up in the morning to tell them; my oldest said “I know, I saw it on facebook.” I hadn’t even thought of that! I don’t do facebook, because every time I thought about making an account, facebook did something to piss off the whole world 😆🤣 so I just stayed away!
I found out my father had died by voice mail.
@@karennaylor7138 wish I had Facebook when my grandpa (dad's side) died, for me my uncle (mom's brother) came to "babysit us" because mom and dad went to visit grandpa in the hospital. He then said he's taking us to the amusement park to play so I slept through the ride only to wake up next to my grandparents house where they had the funeral (we do funerals at homes in our religion). Oh and I was 12 years old so death wasn't a taboo and I was definitely traumatized by the fact I was getting taken to play in a park only to arrive to my grandfather's coffin in his living room.
@@smji5269
Oh, that’s awful! I’m sorry you had to find out that way! I guess facebook isn’t so bad for that after all
Ahhhhh! I can relate to some of these! When I was married the first time, my then hubby and I would totally dance in-sync. Yet, we wound up having NOTHING in common.
Today, my beloved husband and I can’t dance to anything together, no rhythm. But we have so much in common and get along better than peas and carrots! This fact always cracks me up! Have a lovely day, Charlotte!!
Here's a story that not only ruinrd my wedding reception but also definitely ruined my BIL soon to be wedding. During my reception my soon to be SIL was beyond sloppy drunk this is on top of showing up wearing an outfit from Hot Topic (from the 90s) a half shirt with pleater black pants and chuck Taylor sneakers mind you this was a formal event, she then jumped in my arms and tried to French kiss me in front of not only my family but my in-laws, after falling off of me she went on to try and kiss 4 others men and women after that she was caught doing the deed with one of the guests on my side of the family in the bathroom by my husband's grandfather (mind you she did most of this in front of her soon to be husband, my husband's brother) let's just say they never got married.
Edit: I'm still with my husband going on 22 years 8/26 and now his brother is happily married to a wonderful women with 3 children.
I'm sorry she wrecked your wedding, but she did your BIL a favor. ;) Bullet dodged.
@@BeeWhistler That was a bomb dodged and the best part is it's in our wedding video so we can never forget
My mother brought, as her plus 1, my ex fiancé who she adored to my wedding. Then took her to the reception where she'd introduce my ex as her daughter and my new wife as the girl her son just married. Needless to say, we weren't happy with that, but chose to ignore it. Then my ex came up to me, I thought to congratulate me only to whisper that she just realized she lost me forever. O.O All I could say was, "you did that a while ago."
That is what they say though; "The worse the wedding, the greater the marriage".
Mine was pretty stressful: bridesmaids showing up late to hair appointment, groom's cake falling apart on the way to the reception (he insisted on a croque en bouche), a rouge bridesmaid, stolen shoes, kids at a 'no kids wedding', ect. It's been 6 years, and we're still doing good.
PS- your hair looks amazing! 😍
I'm single, so no personal wedding stories, but my siblings weddings went pretty well. The closest we came to disaster was when my sister's groom nearly passed out due to emotions. He stayed upright (barely), but afterward I learned that I was not the only person who had a plan in case he went down. The entire group of six of us (1 MOH, 2 bridesmaids, 1 best man, and 2 groomsmen) were prepared to dash in if need be. Great minds think alike. At my brother's wedding the bouquet toss was kind of funny. When the bride threw the bouquet, all but one person (not me) dove as far away as possible. The one gal who stood her ground really wanted to get married, everyone else had reasons for not wanting to catch it (in my case, my broody aunt and my mother would likely have tried to arrange a marriage for me). The weddings were 16 and 14 years ago now and both couples are still happily married and I am still contentedly single.
I went to a wedding, with my grandparents, of people I didn't know. When it was time for the bouquet toss, the people at the table we were sitting at pressured me to participate. Of course, I caught the bouquet. I was standing at the back and not making an effort to catch it. One of the bridesmaids was really upset. She said she was supposed to catch it. I tried to give it to her but she said it didn't count. A little girl sitting at a table near by said she wanted it, I gave it to her.
When I was 9, I was at my aunt wedding. Everyone besides me knew that one of the groomsmen promised that he'll marry his girlfriend if she will catch the bouquet. Everything that I knew - my dad jokingly said to me that my older sister (she was 17) shouldn't catch it.
EVERYONE stepped back. Aunt threw the bouquet straight to that girl's hands. And I caught it right before she touched it.
My aunt was furious. That girl was devastated. Her boyfriend was happy as ****. That couple was supposed to drive us home so it was a fun ride. They broke up 4 months after that wedding - I think I saved them both, because he was a moron.
Fun fact: it was 13 years ago and still not even one single girl from the wedding got married. Guess they still waiting for me😅
To be fair I would probably want those pictures of the bee sting cacophony. Whether I’d post them or not depends on how revealing they were, but after getting over the embarrassment I would want the ridiculous memory, even if it was just a photo I kept in my drawer.
In my 20s I had what I thought was a close group of work friends and friends from hs. I had a birthday at a bar and no one showed up. My twin that year had a birthday party I wasn't allowed to go to because she wanted my ex and his wife to go. I've never had a birthday party since and I am petrified of it happening if I ever end up getting married. I empathize with the story where no one showed up. That is such a just awful feeling in general but to have planned a wedding and have that happen..... I cried hearing that.
You deserve better ❤!
I don’t know what part of the world you’re in but I’ll most happily celebrate your birthday with you!!🎉🥳🎈🎁
Awwww you both are sweet! Now I want to like happy cry lol
I really like your channel! I have been married 28 years so have not been on the dating scene for a long time (my wife does not like me dating). I enjoy the look on your face as you read the stories. Thanks for the fun content.
The bride at 4:50 I hope all her orders/requests are in writing so she can have a proper lawsuit against that caterer. DON'T TAMPER WITH FOOD! Nuts is a very common allergy, they still did it. Bride ordered a specific cake and they still didn't make it how she wanted which put her in anaphylaxis. Lawsuit 100%.
The woman/friend who was supposed to sing at our reception came up to us when we arrived to the reception to tell us she couldn't sing because she hadn't prepared anything and had other events leading up to this that kept her busy. Something she could had mentioned the prior day.
Mine was an absolute sh!tshow. It started the night before, when we had the wedding party (including my mom and step dad as well as my husbands) come out and stay at a big house on the property where we were having the wedding. My mom, who I’ve never had a good relationship with, shows up and immediately starts causing problems. After unpacking she can’t find her car keys and starts accusing everyone of stealing them, most of all my husbands best man, that she ended up burning on the back of the neck with a lighter that she was “playfully” teasing him with. Fast forward to the next day where she wakes me up on my wedding day to tell me that she thinks she is going to leave my step dad. Among other things, a friend that I was going to pay to do my hair and makeup arrives so late that I have to do it myself. The person doing our flowers was also extremely late, takes forever to set up, and arrives with huge over the top arrangements when I just wanted something simple (for example I am petite and my bouquet was so huge that it took up my entire torso). On top of everything my husbands step dad (who’s family owns the property) announces that we won’t be having a reception at all claiming he never knew about one (even after planning it with him and telling him we hired a dj) and wants everyone to leave the property by 6pm. Thankfully the dj let us have the reception at his house but this caused everyone to drive an hour and a half back into town to get there. I also never got the first dance that I imagined or the dance with my dad because it was mostly just friends that drove to the “reception”. My husband and I are still happily married but our relationships with our families are definitely strained.
Worst thing that happened to me was after a perfect day me and my husband get home to his best friends girl friend aggressively attacking me on Facebook messenger. She thought I did something I didn't do and almost ruined the boys friendship. All because I changed my mind about letting her do my make up about a week and a half before the wedding due to other problems that occurred to make me realize she was a not so good person. The wedding night i was put into a full mental breakdown and my mom had to come calm me down, my husband was beyond livid. Spent my whole honeymoon on edge and worried about my husband and his buddies friendship due to the phsyco.
I literally need more context for this story. What ended up happening? Did your husband's bf breakup with the girl?
What did the husbands bf do?
I’m invested, we all need more info, that’s some crazy bananas!
That's messed up. But you pegged her exactly right, and she turned around and proved it! Very much a not so good person.
What did she think you did??
My husband was a 5th generation police officer (his dad, cousin, grandfather, and uncle were cops) and other family members were in the police academy at the time too. My MOH’s underage sister somehow got alcohol and was drunk in a room full of cops. I was thankful no one made a scene about it. My uncle also made a code word at the bar so his family could use it to put their drinks on his tab. The code word got out and he ended up paying for the drinks for half the reception. 😂 we’ve been together for 14 years now
I think you and your honey had a cricket blessing… glad you folks took it as a good sign 🪧 and it brought laughter and light hearted Vibes to your wedding 💒 to a happy and filled with love marriage 💕✨
Thank you once again for getting my mind off all the BS I'm going through!!! I cannot say how much I love you enough! It just doesn't matter what kind of mood I am in what I'm going through whatever it is you never fail to make me laugh !! I love you Charlotte please never stop making videos💕💕
Right before work! I had just checked and started get pouty but said "Hey Charlotte deserves a day off too!" And then here you go working hard to bring us joy! ❤️
Lol I always check and think the same thing.... Charlotte needs a break but I do miss her when I don't see an upload. I hope she realizes how special and beloved 💖 she is to us all!!!!
Also hope you're having a great day 😊
Spot on!!! I needed some Charlotte time today!!
When the ❤️ notification after a long shift makes it all better!! Love our Charley Chaplin xo
I walked down the isle with flowers made from the basket in the ladies BATHROOM!!! My bridesmaids had nothing!! My Aunt, who made my amazing cake and my flowers, was stuck in traffic because of a car accident on the interstate! They were at a stop for over 2 hours! They completely missed the wedding but got there in time for pictures!!
Well, our wedding wasn't the kind where you have a huge number of guests. It was held in a temple and only church members who have received a recommend can go inside, so our plan was to have a reception back home after the honeymoon. But out of the several siblings of mine who had these recommends, and their spouses, only one brother and one sister showed up, along with my parents. Oh, also my husband's ex-step-mother (complicated family) and two of my old Sunday School teachers who I honestly never thought would really care enough to make the effort since I was a 14-year-old brat when I was in their class, so that was really sweet of them. But yeah, that's my family. I was the youngest of nine and clearly the magic was gone for attending family weddings, or maybe I'm just not that important to them. Kinda wonder how many went to my sister's even though she was married a year after I was.
But worse than that was that my husband's ex-stepmother was a bitter old woman with no joy to be found... and was the type of old fart who just had to have her say and expound her great and grand knowledge. Well, my dad also had this old fart habit. We were married in a town I didn't know well and so when we decided to go out to eat after the wedding and before everyone went their way (and more importantly, we went ours, winky face) I had no idea where to go. I was more of a Pizza Hut type back then and didn't know any nice sit down restaurants in town.
So my brother recommends the Olive Garden. Yeah, whoo hoo, but I'd never been there, so what did I know? And don't worry, I wasn't sitting in an Olive Garden in a wedding dress, just a regular dress I'd brought along. But yeah, butthead wanted him some of those infinite breadsticks (I mean, fair) so off we went where I got a plate of something sloppy and gooey looking that I couldn't choke down if my life depended on it because I was so nervous. This is where the two old farts come in, because they OF COURSE got talking about politics and each just had to have the last word in rumbling old person speak while my brother, the king of ADHD, kept throwing out little prompts to get them going again every time they started to lose steam or my mom managed to reroute the conversation. A-hole. My brother, that is.
So there I am with my new husband, a nervous wreck, listening to two old porridges exchanging, "Well, actually..." conversation about who the crap knows what anymore, just waiting for everyone to finish eating and shut up and let us go learn to be married people a little bit... but when it's time to go, my husband finds out his ex-step-mom's plane doesn't leave for four hours and instead of doing as SHE ASKED HIM TO and dropping her off at the airport, where let's face it, people chill for that long all the time even if security wasn't as high back then, well... my husband who was still unable to let anyone down due to years of them gaslighting him in alternating shifts, insisted she wait with us in OUR BRIDAL SUITE. So we sat for two hours watching reruns on tv waiting until it was a reasonable time, by his standards, to drop her off.
I'll say this... as much as I dislike his family, that was on him. She tried to talk him out of it and I'll bet you anything she would much rather have sat four hours in an airport than with two nervous newlyweds for two. The good news is we've been married 29 years anyway, and he doesn't really talk to his family anymore. Went full no contact years ago which I thought was a bit much but also can't really blame him for. One too many broken promises by his dad and he just gave up.
Unfortunately I have to confirm that you are right about buffets in Italy. I have never seen a dessert buffet at a wedding here, but years ago I sang in a choir and the after-concert buffet was regularly ransacked, once there were autumn decorations with pumpkins and onions and people took away those too.
Just gotta say Charlotte, thank you. Today I really needed a pick-me-up as today would have been my Dad's 64th birthday and didn't feel that smiling would be a thing that happened. I have gotten nothing done all day because I have been binge watching your videos and now...wait for it... giggling my face off. Thank you
Wedding story - Small, very local, very low key wedding that hubby and I planned ourselves with no coordinator. I forgot completely about the cake until the DJ called for the caterer (who was one of my best friends) to bring it out. I panicked, ran for the kitchen and told her I forgot to get it ready. She looks at me, turns me around and literally puts her foot in my ass and says "get out of my kitchen". She prepped the cake, coordinated with the DJ to make a splash of it and totally saved it with a fancy Vanna walk to bring it out. I still haven't cleaned the footprint out of my dress because I love the story and she is still one of the most beautiful humans I know.
At the Italians weddings I went to as a child, there was always a Noni or two guarding the buffet. You got your leftovers, but if you took too much--ma don! Smack with the wooden spoon.
I was second shooting a wedding a few weeks ago and we brought the bride and groom out into a field to take one last sunset photo before we clocked out… there were so many grass hoppers and they jumped into her many layers of chiffon and we spent a lot of time pulling them all out. She was mostly drunk and just laughed the whole time. It was hilarious.
At your “ma che cazzo fai?!“ I LOST IT. My Husband came to see what I was laughing about. 😂😂😂
7:03 I'm Italian and I rolled down from the chair. I WAS NOT EXPECTING THAT LOL I love you
Not my wedding but my brother’s wedding. It was a stressful day, he forgot to tell us that close family will be taking pictures at 9:00 am, so we got there late. After that, we got to the church, everything was going smooth until my grandma had a heart attack mid vow telling and my dad, who’s a doctor, was trying to save his mom and crying. I was some sort of groomsmen and I wasn’t able to see the disaster, thank god, but since I am autistic, I was having a meltdown because of the “plan changes”. After that, we head to the venue and I had to say hi to every guest because my dad was at the hospital with my grandma and my mom was helping my brother with something. Was not that bad at the end, I ate pizza.
At my cousin’s wedding, a stink bug flew down the bride’s sister/matron of honor’s dress. Right down the top. She was trying to subtly turn and get it out without interrupting, because it was coming to the vows. The bridesmaid next to her quietly asked what was wrong, she tells her. Bridesmaid spins MOH around and it full view of the entire wedding, reaches into MOH’s cleavage, removes the bug and flicks it away. Completely stops the wedding cold and MOH has to explain what happened. Didn’t ruin the wedding in the slightest but has become family legend.
I have celiac and when a restaurant feeds me gluten when I specifically tell them I can't have it I usually don't go to that place ever again. Places that don't take allergies and intolerances seriously just make my blood boil. AND I've had people tell me that my celiac is all in my head. -_-
I watch every single one of your videos. My poor fiance has to deal with me going to him after hearing every wedding horror story that could definitely happen to us at our upcoming wedding, "what are we going to do if XYZ happens!?!?" Thank you for these, they're making wedding planning a lot funnier!
For the first one, I'm pretty sure everyone hated the bride and was just taking revenge. Take that however you would like to take it.
We all have that one friend who says something along the lines of “why do I always find out everything last?” And this is why. “Because Don, we don’t need everyone else to know just yet…”
That seemed personal. 😉 Have you considered talking to Don about it? 😂
@@davidguidry657 Don is an example. Unfortunately, there is more than one actual Don in my life… 😂
I had to laugh at the Italian desserts comment. I went to a friend’s wedding with another friend who never had been to an Italian wedding. When the homemade cookie trays came out ( with bags for the guests so no one pulled a ziplock bag out if a purse ) I took a bag and filled it up. My friend was agast and said I was being rude. The groom came over ( our mutual friend) and said” it is rude to take only one cookie”! 😆 love Italian weddings
Honestly? Discriminating the way marriages happen in other WHITE countries and traditions is still racism
Holy Canoli! These stories hit all the emotions! Sweet, cute, funny, and then that last emotion! Full blown scorched earth for the horrible situations that many of the couples ran into! What a rollercoaster ride!!! 🎢🎢🎢
A storm started an hour before my wedding. Thunder, lightning, flooding, you name it. I got married in 2020 so people that were overseas weren't able to travel so we set up a live stream but the lightning took out the Internet right as I was walking up the aisle. So our overseas guests weren't able to watch it live. Then we weren't able to take our wedding photos on the beautiful grounds of the place we had our reception. But it was still a wonderful day. I wasn't stressed or anything.
I’m italian. I had a mystical experience in a wedding of a relative in Sicily years ago. There must have been 400 people, luckily only half of them arrived. In spite of everithing, there were many of us and I only managed to get a tiny piece of cannolo in time. The rest of the dessert…gone. Not even the confetti remained. A kiss from Italy 😘
Ok on the cheesecake one I’d have slapped the whole box out of her hands now none of us get cheesecake ❤️
Floor cheesecake. Bring a fork.