‘He sang to his mom instead of the bride': 30+ Guests Share Most Entertaining Wedding Stories

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Eleonora Bader
Apr 9, 2024 11:00 AM EDT

Usually, the most embarrassing thing that happens at a wedding is an uncle or aunt who recounts awkward stories from the bride or groom's childhood. Each tale is more cringey than the last, and everyone forces a chuckle to be polite. You could probably hear a pin drop during the speech. Nobody wants to know about the groom's weird acne or the bride's toothbrush that got stuck in her braces. Sometimes there's a family member who decides to sing an off-key rendition of 'My Heart Will Go On', complete with exaggerated hand gestures. Where is the escape route?

People who have gone through the weirdest, cringiest and most awkward weddings share it all in the hilarious thread below. From mac and cheese to photographers taking pictures of exes instead of the bride, there is something here for everyone. Next, check out this dude who refused to let a female mechanic touch his car because she was a woman.

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  • 01
    What's the cringiest thing you've seen a bride and groom do for their wedding?
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    loony-cat. They sang their vows to each other. Neither had a singing voice. Vows were generally bat si crazy, like submissive in the bedroom, and not asking about where she was going. The autotune microphones were a terrible idea. Their vow songs shared a chorus and it was awful and they expected the guests to sing along with the chorus. The vows singing lasted 20 minutes. Pure cringe. 31.8k Share
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    Strangerdanger8812. Invite all their facebook friends and expect 700people and like less than 100 show up 27.7k Share
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    -neverzen Long ago I worked at a banquet hall and witnessed a fully NASCAR themed wedding. During the reception they played the audio of the proposal going out over the PA at the track. It was fully unintelligible. BZZT GABBAGBGA MRRRY MEZZZZZ RROOOOOWWWVROOOM. Other highlights were the owner locking himself in his office to avoid the bride's father because he was threatening him to haggle on the costs. In the end we had to call the police because the bride in gown climbed over the bar to steal
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    ilikemrrogers I'm in the wedding industry. I've been to over 3,000 weddings. The singing-your-vows thing is never ever going to work out like you think it will. Never sing your vows. Never attempt to sing any part of your wedding. It will not go as you visualized it. A wedding day is not a good time for surprises. Don't surprise your bride with an unexpected part of the ceremony. Don't surprise your mom by the wedding itself (true story... the bride told her mom she was going to an engagement di
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    Jokes about × later are never funny. They make people uncomfortable, and it makes you look like an adolescent. There will always be crickets after you make the joke. If you are going to be late, communicate that to EVERYONE somehow. Have your SO, or your parents, or someone tell everyone you will be late. The staff needs to know, especially. If you forget the rings, don't stress it. It's a funny story. If you forget your vows, wing it as best you can (just don't sing). Ask the officiant for help
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    AndrewLBailey In-laws wedding and groom and all groomsmen were wearing a tux and a ball cap. The groom had a dip of tobacco in during the wedding and Is you not. His grooms cake was designed like a Copenhagen can. 971 Share
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    lilsebastian17. I was a photographer for a wedding where the bride was marrying a man with two kids from a previous relationship. I was in the bridal suite when the bridal party was getting ready and all of the bridesmaids had matching silk robes. The flower girl (groom's daughter) was there too. They asked me to take a group photo of the bridal party and one of the women in a silk robe was standing awkwardly to the side. I thought she was just shy or something so I waved her into the photo and
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    Apparently she was the groom's ex wife and was there to take care of the flower girl but WHY DID YOU GIVE HER A MATCHING BRIDESMAID ROBE! I wanted to crawl in a hole and "y 781 Share
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    ManOnThePaper Moon ⚫ At my cousin's wedding, they did the thing where the groom removes the bride's garter and tosses it to all the single guys. I guess none of the guys wanted to be next to be married, because once the groom tossed the garter, no one grabbed it. It just landed on the ground a few feet in front of a crowd of motionless guys. The groom tossed the garter 3 times before one guy halfheartedly picked it off the ground. The bride wouldn't look at any of those guys for the rest of the
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    _Kyla_ . My uncle not only brought up his daughters ex boyfriend in his speech but talked about their toxic relationship for a solid 5 minutes. I highly recommend preparing a speech before talking in front of a room full of people. 2.5k Share
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    S-D-J. Not the couple, the Pastor kept saying "Our Heavenly Father, Daddy God," while marrying them. Edit: thanks for the gold! For context it was a military wedding. It was just the couple and the pastor, it was live streamed on twitch, and the pastor was probably about 25. It was in Hawaii. He was wearing flip flops, and a lei made of fake flowers. 6.3k Share
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    yet_another_dave Oh lets see. Groom changed who his "Best Man" was and didn't tell the original BM until the start of the ceremony. Bride & Groom asked a guest to bartend the reception AT the reception Groom "dirty danced" with his step-mom (full hands ons). Bride & Groom hauled their wedding party up to do a choreographed dance to Meatloaf's 'Paradise by the Dashboard Lights' but didn't give them any pre- warning or teach them the dance. That song is 8.5 minutes long.
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    Wedding was at a scenic boarding school campus during the summer. Guests were told dormitories were complimentary to stay in. Guests were not told there would be no bedding provided or A/C in the building. Groom later emailed everyone who stayed in a dorm asking for money. Same Bride & Groom chose another friend's wedding reception as the right setting to yell at a 3rd pair of mutual friends for not including them in their wedding party. 4.9k Share
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    bashno. Requiring every attendee to bring a date because she didn't want "sad, lonely people on her day". Not my friends luckily but pretended to be a friend's date because she really wanted to see her cousin get married. 1.9k Share
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    Iced CoffeeAndBeer ⚫ Potluck wedding with no alcohol or music. Groom kept showing people his flask and bragging about it. Macaroni was only redeamable thing, when i went to scoop there was hair in it. Very sad. 629 Share
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    crunkasaurus_. At the reception, the groom and his groomsmen sung a god-awful acapella version of 'Stand By Me.' The worst part was he wasn't even singing it to his wife. He was singing it to his mum. "Oh darling, darling, stand.... by... me..." Chinese weddings, man.... 1.2k Share
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    kelgryffindor idk, but one of my favorite memories from years of cater waitering was this long Indian wedding where they had a LOT of random relatives get up to give a toast, everyone's giving these long speeches and then one uncle gets up, goes "i made him waffles once" and sits back down. I swear to god. bless that man, wherever he is toasts in general are usually terrible and full of cringe. just keep it short, sweet, and genuine. no one wants 15 minutes of inside jokes that are embarrassing
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    Theseus44. Dated a girl in my 20s and went to her friend's wedding in upstate New York. In the middle of the service the minister's cell phone rang, he answered, it was God, God wanted to talk to the groom, conversation lasted a couple minutes, then the ceremony continued. 14.9k Share
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    sunsetviewer The minister (or pastor?) used to date the bride and gushed about how wonderful she was. Told the groom if he ever d´d not to worry, he'd take care of her. I was shell shocked. I so wished I could think of a reason to ask the couple for a copy of the video of their wedding but couldn't quite find a legit one. 11.1k Share
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    Samhamwitch · I wasn't a guest, I was working the wedding. The bride got drk and sat on some other dudes lap for two hours and flirted with him while the groom sat by himself at the head table with a defeated look on his face. 28.0k Share
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    vixissitude. Not wedding but engagement ceremony. They reenacted a scene from an old romantic film, about two lovers in 1800s. In front of like 300 people. 8.9k Share
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    [deleted] It's a tie between my sister breaking her knee (seriously) at her own wedding dancing to the cotton eyed joe and my stepsister having her reception at an honest to god truck stop while 6 months pregnant. In her defense, the food was good but WOW was it weird walking through a gas station in formal wear. 11.4k Share
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    emmelinefoxley Giving horrible vows and speeches. A part of my family has the habit to use any family gathering as a moment to remember loved ones who died. That's not a comfortable habit for me but to each his own. However, it becomes very weird when wedding speeches and even vows start to include great uncles who d d more than a year ago, and the only people who actually knew him are my grandparents. Yes, the vows. And not even in an interesting way, but just "if only uncle Barney could have s
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    • My parents can only make joke speeches ⚫the uncle and his family make dry lists of things they do. For example, his wedding speech for his son was an 10 minute monologue about renovating the couple's kitchen. • One aunt can only boast about achievements their family members have gained, if there's no achievements, there's no speeches ⚫ the fourth is the one with the d th speeches. 5.0k Share
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    Andromeda321. At the beginning of the reception, we all had to stand up and sing the national anthem. To be clear, this was in another country I'd never been to a wedding in before, so I thought "ok maybe this is just a tradition I've never heard of before here!" Then I told this to other people, and they were all like "no, that's just really weird." Also, at that wedding the father of the groom ended his speech with what I'm sure he thought was an amazing joke, on how it's easier to build a bri
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    [deleted] Serve macaroni and cheese only to the bridal party. Everyone else got mashed potatoes. I was a hostess so I got macaroni and cheese, after tasting it there was no way in hell they would've broken the bank preparing enough for everyone. It was just really tacky because people were asking for it and I told them I didn't know much about it I am just following directions. 1.1k Share ...
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    gotyourhayneson⚫ I went to a wedding with my ex a few years back. It was one of his fraternity brother's wedding, and apparently the bride's parents were ridiculously conservative. So conservative that they have super- edited versions of every song the DJ played, including bleeping out the word "shots" from "Shots" by LMFAO. Also, it was a dry wedding, so this rendition of the song was almost too on the nose... 3.2k Share
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    reflectorvest . Oh I have two! 1. The bride decided to sing as she walked down the aisle. She was not a particularly talented singer, and she was singing over a Carrie Underwood song so we could all hear the original vocal track. She finished walking about halfway through the song and then stood there and sang the rest of the song at the groom and all we could do was sit there and watch. 2. (Different wedding) They began the wedding with the groom playing an out of tune guitar and singing to the
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    everyone else uncomfortable. That wedding also included a foot washing ceremony, and when the bride put her shoes back on she tripped on her dress and fell flat on her face. They hadn't done the vows yet and the ceremony stopped for 20 minutes to deal with the nosebleed she gave herself.
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    [deleted] When I was at a wedding of my parents friends, the groom tried to throw a decently sized piece of cake at the bride who moved out of the way, the cake ended up hitting my 76 year old grandma. We all had a good laugh. But we were all cringing at the same time at the missed cake attempt. 5.6k Share
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    toxictribe. Bride shows up almost 2 hours late to her own wedding. Southern California in an open field no water no shade. She shows up and wants to get married in her yoga outfit. the groom shut it down and when she refused to change her clothes the groom decided to leave her looking stupid and they never got married. EDIT: I spoke with my uncle and it turns out he had speculation that his fiancé was sleeping with her personal trainer. When she showed up in her yoga outfit it was all he needed
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    MKE_Links The ceremony also was the "Name Reveal". They changed their last name because they didn't want to be stuck to their heritage and didn't want anything to hold them back. Turns out they changed their name thinking they could erase their mountains of debt or at least hide from it. Turns out you can't live under two legal identities.... 24.4k Share ...
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    gigantoar⚫ This is my dads story. He went to his friends daughters wedding reception. Before coming in, the bride and groom had this whole scene of them looking for each other. The guests watched it on a giant screen inside. Update: I asked my dad. It was live streamed. They then entered through opposite entrances, met in the middle and did a little dance with their friends. They then had their first dance. 2.2k Share
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