'Bride had a complete emotional breakdown because... the napkins she ordered were a little too blue-ish': 15+ Wedding planners explain the biggest wedding flops they've ever witnessed

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Jun 8, 2024 5:00 PM EDT

Bridezillas and groomzillas, your wedding planners haven't forgotten the way you acted. In fact, probably everyone at your wedding reception still remembers, according to these absolutely wild stories. 

On the r/AskReddit page, u/joshgetsitdone had a question for the wedding planners of the world: "What is the biggest bridezilla moment you've witnessed?" Of course, a lot of people who answered the question were witnesses rather than wedding planners, but a few wedding planners shared their craziest stories too. Some people had to deal with grooms who were too inebriated to stand. Others were bridesmaids dealing with brides who couldn't decide on what dresses the group should wear. In most cases, the friendships were damaged or destroyed by these crazy bridezillas and groomzillas. 

Every couple wants their big day to be absolutely perfect, but even the most well-rehearsed ceremony in the world can't be 100% perfect. People are people, and to err is human. The pressure is high for the couple to have their perfect day, and sometimes that pressure builds up until they unleash on everyone around them. Check out the stories below. 

After that, this dude has played the same Father's Day prank on their dad for nearly two decades, by simply giving him the same exact gift over and over and over (with no plans of stopping!). 

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    Wedding planners of reddit, what is the biggest bridezilla moment you've witnessed?
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    Antyok My sister threw such a fit at my mother during the wedding dress search that my father offered her a blank check to "elope so we don't have to put up with this." She declined. And divorced the guy a few years later.
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    MorallyC... I had this client book me for a day-of two weeks before the actual wedding. I regret taking it to this day. She had no transportation planned to take her home at the end of the night. I asked her repeatedly what her plan was and she told me she just wouldn't drink and planned to drive to her honeymoon spot. She never told me where it was even though I kept asking.
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    Fast forward two weeks. A massive tornado just went through the D.C./VA/MD area the day before her wedding and power lines and trees were blocking every entrance to the highway to her wedding in the boonies of Maryland. I got up early to deal with the issues at the venue, like no electric on a 100 degree day. I get a call from her around 6am saying she realized she needs transportation now. Fine, I'll find it. One last question, where is this mystery honeymoon spot.... oh hours away in West Virg
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    Maryland based limo company and beg them to find someone to drive into the Maryland countryside at 11pm and then take them to West Virginia. Finally someone relented and I called the bride to tell her the price. Complete. . Meltdown. Well guess what, you request that at the last minute, you're going to pay whatever they want to charge you. The wedding itself was a complete shitshow. The bride hated her hair and makeup and made it very well known to me,
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    even though she had personally booked the stylist. As it was 100 degrees and blazing July sun, the original unshaded area was going to be terrible for the ceremony. I suggested we move it for her comfort and the comfort of her guests to the beautiful area with a centuries old tree. She refused, but as guests arrived they did nothing but complain. I decided to and moved the say ceremony to make everyone happy. It was a one hour traditional Jewish ceremony and in no good mind would I let people su
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    After the ceremony, I had to wait outside the bridal suite while the couple had a bedding ceremony. Something I never want to witness again. Said ceremony went way over thus extending cocktail hour and shortening the reception. The bride freaked out that she lost out of dancing time because of it and blamed it on me. At the end of the night during clean up, the MOB started throwing decor in her car rather than let my team do the load out. As soon as she left, I noticed my emergency kit was no wh
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    found. I called the MOB and she claimed she never saw it, even though it was next to the decor we had started to pile up. The next week I get a call from the venue saying they saw a car throw a bag out of their window onto the steps of the venue and then speed away. Alas it was my bag and I had to drive over 90 min to go fetch it, even though the MOB and bride lived super close to me and had my address. To top it all off, I got heat stroke and my poor assistant had to drive us home at midnight.
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    rumpie I have a GROOMZILLA! Not a planner but I am the office manager/assistant for a photographer during weddings - I go along with her on wedding days to be an extra set of hands and help gather everyone for portraits. Bride and groom were doing a 'first look' (which I highly recommend!) before the ceremony - how that works is the bride comes up behind the groom, taps him on the shoulder, he turns around to see her in all bridal, they smile and kiss, and
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    get couples/wedding party/family portraits out of the way before the ceremony, so you're free to spend more time enjoying your reception instead of ducking out to take pics. It's great because you get up close picture of the grooms reaction to seeing his bride, which is harder to get in a church/ceremony. Everyone stands up when they see the bride, and if you miss the shot, there's no recreating that look on his face.
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    ANYWAY. So they're doing their first look in downtown edited out for privacy, and the groom has been on a party bus with the groomsman for a few hours while she's getting ready in the hotel. They are all HAMMERED, like couldn't focus their eyes when I went to grab the groom for the first look. I asked him to please set his beer down for the pictures, and he rolled his eyes but complied. She comes up behind him, already trying not to cry and smiling big as the sun. She taps him on the shoulder, h
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    her, his eyes immediately search for the beer, which he set on a window sill. He reaches around her, grabs the beer, and takes a long drink while FINALLY looking at her. He put the beer down. Burped. In her face. And said "you look nice" before spinning around and heading back to the bus. I followed after him as the photographer is standing there stunned, and I'm like "Hey, Mike, you still have a bunch of portraits to take before we get the guys off the bus..." and just as he turned around to an
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    chest. He grabbed it and whipped it into the middle of a very busy street and stormed onto the bus. She follows him screaming, I follow behind her but I can't get around her without stepping on the dress. Another drunk groomsman is coming back on the bus, trying to get around both of us, bumps me aside, steps on her dress, ripping part of the train and sending both of us stumbling backwards. He dodges the falling bride, I don't, and I kind of catch her and keep her mostly upright but we
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    both tumble off the bus. I can feel her dress ripping more in my hand as she's trying to right herself. The guys on the bus are all laughing hysterically. Including the groom. I have tears in my eyes because I just landed on my tailbone and my palm is scraped from breaking my fall. All I'm thinking is 'dont touch the dress, don't get blood on her dress, just get her standing up.' Groom tells the bus driver through his laughter "Just go. Just go man, she can meet us at the
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    church." I meet eyes with the bus driver and I just kinda shake my head no, and the groom sees me. her, she's not paying you, I am. You want a $100 tip? drive." Bus driver left. Bride is hysterical. I drove her to the church. They still got married an hour later. I drank myself silly when I got home that night. Just checked FB, still married 3 years later.
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    [deleted] Last weekend a bride strides into a gorgeous rented chapel 4 hours early, while 30 ppl are praying, in her super short makeup robe, freaks out because a 1 table was not set up at that moment, picks up a chair in front of everyone and throws it at a trash can. Yep.
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    snailisland Bridesmaid, not a wedding planner. The bride had a complete emotional breakdown because the purple monogrammed napkins she ordered were a little too blue- ish. She also spent the last half of her bachelorette party crying and complaining that not enough people were there.
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    KMKPF My cousin married a vapid idiot. The night before the wedding at the rehearsal she figured out the flower girl had the same shoes as her, in a much smaller size. She flipped her at 9pm and made the mother of the flower girl buy different shoes for her before the ceremony. That's what happens when you buy your shoes from Payless. Not much of a selection in white.
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    kahlzun Not a wedding planner, but at my sisters wedding, part of the the reception was held indoors, in an area which isn't wheelchair accessible. My disabled wife and i had to miss out on that part of it. We found out about it on the day, minutes before that part of the wedding was due to start. A little while after, we realise that there actually is a way to get into the area, we just need to go through an inside room which had been set up with tables for dinner. I found my sister and asked t
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    to ask the staff to let us through. Sister forbade us from going through the room, saying she didn't want anyone going into it until it was dinnertime, essentially leaving my wife and i sitting alone. outside while she and her friends had a chocolate fountain & open bar. I came about THIS || close to giving her a loud piece of my mind and bailing on the wedding.
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    Sloane Peterson Bride's sister became pregnant six months before the wedding and the bride had a of a meltdown saying her sister had done it on purpose to steal her thunder. Threatened to kick her out of the wedding, nearly tore that family apart. Christ.
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    anonymousmousegirl I work at a bakery and part of my job is to help pair couples with the correct designer for their cake. One bride wanted a cake large enough to feed 500 and she wanted it to float. This multi- tiered cake was going to be filled with fresh berries and custard, covered with buttercream and fondant, and decorated with edible flowers and more fresh fruit. And she wanted us to somehow defy the laws of gravity/physics and make it float.
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    Apparently, she had seen a floating cake in an anime show and decided nothing else was acceptable. When I told her we can't make floating cakes, she threw her coffee on the floor and cried that we were ruining her wedding. Her fiance ushered her out the door and I never saw either of them again.
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    MrsPottsBetch I'm not a wedding planner but my friend is getting married soon. She planned this huge wedding with 8 bridesmaids/groomsman and when she tried to arrange for the bridesmaids to get together and pick out bridesmaids dresses two of them couldn't make it on the day she picked, she was so upset that they couldn't come on that particular day that she sent out a nasty text to all the bridesmaids and cancelled the big wedding and now is having a destination wedding with just her fiance an
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    gildedheart Not a planner but was going to be in a wedding as a bridesmaid. The bride-to-be took us (the maid of honor, another bridesmaid, and myself) out to pick out dresses. The bride's mother and the groom's mother also came at her insistence. We (the bridesmaids) arrive at the dress shop only to find that the bride, her mom, and the groom's mom had already picked out the dress she wanted us to wear for the wedding when they'd bought
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    her wedding dress a few weeks prior. Ok, that's fine in theory, but we had been under the impression we'd get to pick our own dresses. Whatever, it's her wedding. But when we try the dresses on, we realize that it doesn't really look good on two of us because we're all different frames and sizes. We come out and show the bride and two moms, and the moms are in agreement that this dress really doesn't work. The bride, however, is very upset that we don't all
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    magically look great in the same dress. She starts making snide, subtle comments about our appearances. She started implying that we'd need to lose weight to look good in them, and telling one of the other girls how she'd need a push up bra to look "normal." The moms ignore the bride's attitude and flag down an employee to help us find some alternatives. We're in a small city, so their selection isn't the best, but the employee finds at least half a dozen other dresses that
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    come in the color the bride wants. We try them all on, but because we vary so much in body types, most of them don't look good on one or all of us (strapless ones look bad on the girls, the long dresses don't fit right one the short ones, etc.). The bride continues to make comments about our bodies. Finally, the last dress we try on is generic enough that it looks fine on all of us. The bride doesn't like it because it doesn't make us look enough. To make matters II worse (in her eyes) the dress
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    pockets. She absolutely does not want her bridesmaids having pockets. At this point, every single one of us is happy with this choice except her. She reluctantly agrees to let us pick that dress but is very clearly not happy. So then we go to pick out shoes. The bride tells us we will be wearing the same shoes as her, but in a different color. Weird, but again, we try not to argue with her. When we try them on, though, there is a snag in her plans. I have very small feet (technically a 3 in kids
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    some size 5 shoes will fit). The heels she wants are sky high and strapless. When I put them on and try to walk, my feet keep slipping out. They're also open-toed, so I can't really stuff the front, like I've done in the past. To top it off, just standing in them to try them on, I find the front is absolutely killing my feet. I tell her this, and she watches me try to walk in them only to have them flop off. Her mom asks if they come in a smaller size, but they're fancy stripper shoes, so no, th
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    The bride's solution? "Once you start to wear them, your feet will swell and they'll fit then," and walks off. The bride's mom assures me that "we'll figure out something" and buys all of our dresses and shoes as condolences. I never got to know how that would have worked out though because the bride and groom simultaneously cheated on each other, so they called off the wedding. The bride didn't even have the nerve to tell me herself; I had to hear it from the maid of honor.
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    We are no longer friends, and it's sad to me now that this wasn't even the reason why. I can't believe I let someone treat me, and other people she called friends, like that.
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    wailing_banshee Not the bride, but the groom and his entitled, godawful family. The groom is an but his mom takes the cake. At one point during the reception, the mother of the groom keeps out where the newlyweds are, when are they coming, why are they taking so long, what will we do if she dies of hypoglycemia since she's so hungry already, when I keep telling her that they're just having their photos taken, prepping for the reception, sending out more
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    appetizers on their table so she could eat; basically telling her that everything's going fine without actually saying "can you please off? I'm working". Turns out the mother of the groom harassed most of my staff saying the same over and over, and even if we sent out food for them, she refuses to eat since she wants to take a family photo first with the newlyweds.
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    CaptCanukinUSA Not a wedding planner but worth the highlights: ⚫ the bride fired the first wedding planner • the bride fired the maid of honor (the one who set the couple up together) and brought her back a few weeks before the wedding ⚫ the bride fired the MC (groom's best friend) and kicked him out of the wedding
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    the bride told the groom he didn't have time for a bachelor party with only 3. months left before the wedding and flipped out when he was kidnapped for a bachelor party the groom had a few conversations from his friends telling him to reconsider two bride's maid nearly boycotted the wedding; they were the bride's sisters
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    ⚫ the best man had a shirt on under his tux that said "don't do it" which he revealed at the reception • one of the speeches was from a sibling who talked about how he looked up to his brother and learnt from his mistakes The best part was they she insisted and got them on a television show recording the whole wedding process and it was drama filled they way it was filmed. but didn't have anything of the above in it.
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    MrsRossGeller It was an outside ceremony at a golf course, with an inside reception. About an hour to the ceremony the skies went dark, and storm clouds began rolling in. I tell my outdoor brides we need to call the wedding no later than 30 min in advance so we have time to move guests indoors, as well as any other items (flowers, etc). In this case the bride had a beautiful indoor location that was easily used for both ceremony and reception. Which is why there was no tent.
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    I suggest to the bride that she move her ceremony inside. She says no. She wants it outside. I show her the clouds. "Its seattle, she says. There are always clouds ". Well yes, but these are storm clouds and you have 200 people sitting outside on a golf course... She won't budge. No amount of reasoning is helping. 20 min to ceremony it starts to get windy. Nothing big yet, but this is just more signs that wet weather is upon us.
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    She still won't reconsider. Several guests are seated outside. Many hover inside the reception area because its cold out now. I tell her this. Tell her last call. Warn her what happens if it rains during the ceremony. She still wants it outside. The Ceremony begins. It starts to sprinkle. Bridesmaids are getting wet as they walk down the aisle. Shoes are sinking into the grass. Guests are looking worried.
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    The Bride walks down the aisle just as big wind gusts begin. Rain starts to fall in earnest. Guests try and use umbrellas but it is just too gusty. We aren't even five minutes into the ceremony when the heavens suddenly open and it POURS. Guests start screeching and start moving inside. Ceremony is still happening for the bride, but guests are bailing. Musicians grab their instruments and head inside.
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    The bridal party continue to stand there like nothing is happening, much like the band on the Titanic. There are maybe 20 guests left. Everyone else has bailed. It is an open downpour; anyone left is just soaked. Officiant is rushing now; though there isn't really anyone left to witness vows. Before they got to the kiss, the lightning began. At that point they finally bailed.
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    The bride and bridal party spent the reception looking like. drowned rats. The bride was just ruined. Runny makeup, hair smushed. She had rashes on her skin from being wet all night. Wet lace and heavy ball gowns are not easily worn wet. All the decor that was meant to move inside following the ceremony was ruined; thousands of dollars on flowers and centerpieces down the drain. Literally.
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    And in the end, hardly anyone witnessed the ceremony at all, and they didn't even get to finish. Bad bride.
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    abyg9 Not a wedding planner and names have been changed. "Sarah", was horrible to her mother "Dora" during her whole wedding process. Dora took the terrible abuse like a champ. From Sarah having tantrums over the dress. To Sarah wanting her mother to dye her hair the night before the wedding. Dora paid for over half of the wedding and tried to calm tensions between Sarah and suppliers. She did all this with the patience of a saint, after all Sarah is her only daughter and
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    the first of her kids to get married. Then my wedding day comes, I am marrying Sarah's brother. I wanted to get hitched but my husband wanted a wedding, so we compromised and had a small wedding with only 10 people including us. Sarah shows up late and is being a to my family, a guests and a I to our to Dora her mother. So finally after 20 minutes of her making a spectacle of herself.... Sarah then loudly starts complaining how the
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    professional photographer doesn't know what she's doing...Dora has had enough she holds Sarah's hand softly and very loudly in front of all our guest and family says in a sweet voice"You were a bridezilla at your wedding do you also have to be a at your brother's wedding?" Sara's face dropped she left shortly after the ceremony and did not sign our wedding book.
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    I later found out she told my husband the day before our wedding not to marry me. She got divorced shortly after my wedding due to her being unfaithful. She was miserable with that man and now is a lot nicer and I can genuinely say that I like her now. I feel she was awful because she was not happy with her ex- husband and didn't want my husband to be as unhappy as her.. She projected her feelings thinking that we were in the same situation.
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    [deleted] Late to the party, but our wedding venue booked two wedding parties on the same day. No problem, they said we wouldn't overlap, we didn't particularly care anyway.
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    Towards the end of getting our photos done, photographer says to me we're being moved to another part of the garden because this other party was inside and the bride did not want to see another bride on her big day. We didn't give a at the time as we were genuinely just very happy to be married, but what a
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    ThePotatoCouncil It was my brother's wedding, and I was one of the bridesmaids for my sister-in-law. We were taking all those cutey, typical pre-wedding photos between the bride and her bridesmaid, and her and her parents, when we realised that only the bridesmaids transport had arrived, and that the car for her and her dad was stuck somewhere.
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    She called up to find out what was happening, proceeded to scream at the poor guy who was stuck somewhere in the middle of no- where. Her skin erupted in a red sort of rash that was visible on her chest, and her arms, and she screamed that she was not going to get married if she couldn't go in the car she paid for. Half an hour went by. No car for her.
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    We suggested she just come with us? We had a volkswagen c2 wedding decorated van, and had plenty of space for her and her parents. Her response? "No, I can't turn up this late to my wedding. I'm not getting married!" After a tense 10 minutes, she got in our van, and we continued with the wedding day.
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