'She invited all of her previous husbands because she enjoys drama': 15+ Wedding guests tell the funniest and most awkward wedding-day dramas they've ever witnessed

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Remy Millisky • Writer and Editor
Feb 29, 2024 5:00 PM EST

You can't expect everything to go 100% perfectly at a wedding. It seems like every couple has at least one funny story from their special day. They may not find it funny in the moment, but their guests will never forget it. 

Some moments are funny because it's not appropriate to giggle during the wedding ceremony. Everyone is trying really hard to be serious and solemn, so when anything remotely silly happens, the audience just bursts out laughing. Later at the reception, people imbibe a little too much. That leads to things like Uncle David face-planting on the dance floor, or one of the bridesmaids deciding dance on a table and then tumbling to the floor. 

The people below have certainly seen their share of funny and awkward wedding moments. They answered u/cdlrosa's question for the "wedding attendees of Reddit," and the question received over 400 answers. You can check out some of the funniest and most cringeworthy anecdotes below, like the dad who forgot the bride's name as he was giving a speech, or the mother of the bride who was so mad she started pulling up grass with her bare hands. 

Next, these jobs were the worst of the worst, according to the employees who had to go there each day. 

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    Wedding attendees of Reddit, what's the funniest or most awkward moment you remember from a ceremony or reception?
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    neg9 My dad was the best man at this one wedding. During the reception, when he was about to give a speech, he forgot the bride's name. He spent a good ten seconds hastily whispering to himself random names of girls that could possibly be the wife.
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    Since he was holding the mic, everyone in the room could hear it. To others, it sounded like a long list of the groom's past girlfriends.
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    Liamtoh I'm a photographer and I recently did a wedding where the mother of the bride was an extremely religious woman. She was already unhappy that it wasn't in a catholic church and they weren't having a mass, so when someone made the comment that the couple's children
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    wouldn't be christened catholic, she went mental! The reception was outside and she flipped a table full of food, smashed someone else's camera on the floor and then proceeded to get on her hands and knees and start ripping up the grass with her bare hands. It was one of the funniest things i'd ever seen.
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    tsim12345 At my cousins wedding the grooms family made comments to the brides family about how they didnt help pay for anything, so naturally... The brides parents starting throwing money at the grooms family and writing them huge checks yelling 'hows that?' 'Happy now?' Very. Very. Awkward.
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    + [deleted] I attended the bar at a wedding where one of the male guests found it to be just the right moment to propose to his girlfriend. The girlfriend started to cry and yelled out apologies to the bride as she bolted out of there.
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    Protip: Never propose during a wedding, it's supposeed to be the bride & grooms day.
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    [deleted] My aunt had her third wedding about a month ago. She invited all of her previous husbands because she enjoys drama. Turns out one of them went to the same high school as her new hubby. They spent most of the ceremony catching up and he didn't pay much attention to my aunt.
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    StChas77 • At my wedding, two ● of my groomsmen got lost on the way to the reception (a mile and a half away, mind you) and didn't show up until there was about 45 minutes left.
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    • At a friend's wedding, I was a groomsman and there was a host of things that went crazy wrong. The most memorable was a mix up with the buses that were supposed to bring guests to the offsite location, so a dozen of us stood around waiting for the ceremony to begin with no guests in attendance. When
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    they finally arrived some 30 minutes later, we had to rush the ceremony because it was in the middle of a field and dusk was approaching and there were no electrical lights. • At my sister-in-law's reception, the DJ went totally 'off- book' and played music that wasn't on the approved
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    playlist. Imagine expecting a nice, fancy dinner with light jazz and getting Jay-Z pumped so loud you can't talk. • At my youngest sister's reception, the DJ forgot to introduce the best man and maid of honor, then screwed up the order to the point where the toast was nearly forgotten.
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    • At my wife's cousin's wedding, one of the bridesmaids feigned having a fainting spell during the ceremony because she disapproved of the woman her brother was marrying. She later got drunk, and at the end of the reception, she
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    stumbled into the desert table and pulled a chocolate fountain on top of herself. Those are the most memorable.
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    TheGreaterest At a wedding. The groom during his speech was making an analogy about his love for his new wife being like a tree. He says somethibg about being so excited to plant his seed in her and the entire congregation burst out laughing.
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    Whoistcmt I am so happy I finally can tell my story. I am a wedding photographer in the summers and I work for a very prestigious company. Usually very high-end weddings and everyone goes all out. One of the newer (older?) traditions/gimmics is to
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    'Saber' a bottle of champagne for the newlyweds. The tradition started back in Napoleonic times and was supposed to be a gift to the Groom on his wedding day and a symbol that he wasn't mean to 'stay and savor' the drink, but to enjoy the night and catch up with the troops as quickly as possible. Thus, the speed/un-re-sealable nature of 'sabering' the
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    bottle. What does this involve, you ask? You freeze the top 1/3 of the bottle neck, and take an ACTUAL SWORD and cut down the length of the bottle, which hits the lip, cracks it, and shoots the cork/top of the bottle across the room in a very silly display. We generally charge $250 for a sabering. I'm pretty good at it.
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    Well, this particular wedding we had a sabering for a very .. stressful family. Bridezillas is a lie. The brides are never crazy, its always the bride's mothers. And this woman was driving us INSANE. If you pay $5-10k for a wedding photographer/videogr apoher/etc, I get it.. you want top-notch- quality. But don't be a about it. We know how to do our job. I
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    know what shots work, and what looks good. Just sit down, and let us make the night m agical. Anyways. The sabering comes up, usually at dinner and everything was set. My partner at the wedding was up to do the sabering, and after explaining the above story, swishing the blade about a bit, the
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    bottle was struck, and the cork flew across the room. Now... we tell people, and position the demonstration away from people so they won't get hurt by flying glass/cork. This particular bride's mother decided I wasn't take the 'right angle' of the shot, so she got up with her point-and-shoot and
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    decided to take a picture facing the bottle. I assume you've all gathered; but the poor lady got smacked right above her eyes with an accelerated wine- cork/glass-bit.
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    No blood, no problems, but she was absolutely as embarrassed as you could be, and started berating my co- photographer. A brief private explanation of "Don't be an idiot" didn't help, and we ended up with the most vague bad review I've ever had online.
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    I have plenty of good stories from weddings; but I figured I'd share my favorite first! Thanks for reading.
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    Scrappy_Larue A small reception of maybe 30 in a private area of the restaurant. Much of the serving was done by a single, great waitress. When she was carrying in the 3-tier wedding cake, she not only dropped it - but fell hard into the mess. Once we knew she wasn't physically hurt, the laughter began. We're all half
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    drunk and hardly wanted cake anyway. Everyone found it hilarious but the poor server. She was crying her eyes out - both from embarrassment, and ruining that special moment. That all ended well by the end of the night - as she surely collected $1000 more in tips than she ever would have without the cake incident.
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    Purdue Boilermakers. Was at a wedding that my GF was the maid of honor in. Bride's drunken mother comes up to us at the reception and said (to our faces), "you two aren't meant for each other. Things will not last." Getting married in August. Guess who isn't invited? :)
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    ● [deleted] My wife and I planned our reception so that the DJ would announce us, we'd walk in, and go straight to the dance floor with everyone watching, taking pictures, and blowing bubbles with little bottles we'd left on the tables.
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    And it all went according to plan, until the DJ's equipment quit working just as we got to the middle of the dance floor and assumed our dance poses. We just... stood there... everyone watching... Never get a DJ from Craigslist.
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    Kdub07 I was a groomsman in a wedding recently. The brides mother was the made of honer and gave the most awkward speech I've ever heard. She spent ten minutes telling everyone in the wedding about how her daughter met the groom. Apparently it was thru match.com. Everyone knew this.
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    What she then said was apparently while they were dating she(the bride) was also seeing 4 other guys that were also on match. For months. We did not know this. I think she was trying to make the point that he was the best of them and what not but it just did not come off that way. There was just silence. No clapping. Silence.
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    Brancher Welp, I've got this one. My really good friend was getting married and since I'm a pretty dependable friend (he thought) he asked me to be the Announcer, basically I was the guy with the microphone. Well first off I at public speaking but my friend didn't know this he just figured since I was outgoing I
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    would do a good job. So after the ceromony everyone walks over to this big shelter where the reception was being held. It was my job to introduce everyone in the wedding party and then play the song for the bride and groom to share their first dance. So I read off the names on the list, stuttering a little bit as the wedding party walks in and does
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    their funny dumbass dance that all weddings seem to do now. Then it gets to the Bride and Groom and I'm supposed to say Mr and Mrs. Johny Justmarried! but instead I said the brides last name instead of the groom. That was my first mistake. Second mistake was I started playing the song that was
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    supposed to be their first dance together as I started announcing the wedding party so after I introduced the newly weds the song was nearly coming to an end but they had started dancing because I told them to when I should have started the song over.
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    So the song played for about 10 seconds then ended and everyone was dead quite and stared at me, the wedding was outside in a field and you could literally hear awkward crickets chirping. So their first dance together lasted only 10 seconds and it was my fault. I wanted to die at that moment.
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    CrossFox42 My friends carried out a non traditional wedding where for the most part it was pretty traditional however what made in non- traditional is the fact of unity sandwich. They seriously built a sub sandwich in the middle of the ceremony and expressed what
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    condiments meant as a symbol of love then ate the sandwich. Also the best man's speech was Never Gonna Give You Up in soft spoken word
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    [deleted] Using children under 7 in the ceremony. I have seen a %100 failure rate for it, always with a crying child that is frightened by everyone staring at them as they move down the aisle. Gender equality too, boys and girls cry equally at the sight of an entire crowd turning to watch them.
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    prunepicker I was the maid of honor in my brother's very formal wedding. It was in a huge church with a very long center aisle. We all walked down the aisle without incident. The problem came when the minister asked for the groom's ring. He opened a large Bible and wanted me to set the ring on it. The ring was stuck to my hand. I
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    kind of tapped my hand against the Bible and the ring came loose, bounced off the Bible and rolled halfway up the center aisle. Nobody made a move to pick it up. So I had to walk up and get it. I swear that aisle was a mile long. I know my face was bright red.
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    When I finally got back to the altar the entire wedding party completely lost it. We were all laughing so hard we had tears in our eyes. The minister was which only made us laugh more.
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    [deleted] I'm probably too late for the party here, but my ex-brother-in-law walked down the aisle at his wedding to Kenny Chesney's song,. "There Goes My Life". I had never heard it before the rehearsal. He chose the chorus, mind you, where our protagonist proudly proclaims, "There goes my life. There goes my future, my everything.
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    Might as well kiss it all good-bye. There goes my life." I was the maid of honor. I stood next to his two crying sisters and put on the happy- for-my-sister show of life. It was my such a bizarre experience. Everyone at the wedding who was close to me asked
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    me privately just what that the was all about. It was so sad and weird I can still barely believe it really happened.
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    ThomasRiddle I worked at a country club in my teens. A really nice wedding with a corner table of fringe family members. During the wedding dance or whatever the its called one of the undesirables played pokemon at full volume on her gb.
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    BabyBuddahBlues · My niece (4 at the time) was a flower girl at her aunt's wedding (my brother-in-law's sister). She was in the room with the brides, bridesmaids, and mothers of the bride and groom getting ready. So, the bride is all ready to go--make- up and hair done, dress on, veil on.
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    Everyone is fawning over her and dabbing at their eyes. The bride leans down to my niece and cheerily asks "so, how do I look?" no doubt expecting to hear "beautiful!" or "you look like a princess!" making everyone softly chuckle blah blah blah. But the bride, minutes before walking down the aisle, gets a resounding "you look HILARIOUS!!!" The bride's face falls. My
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    sister, who was a bridesmaid, tries to hold back laughter and stammers about how my niece had just learned the word and has been using it all the time. The bride tries to laugh it off, but looks like she's trying not to cry. Eeesh!
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