'The cake collapsed in the middle of the ceremony': 20+ Wedding guests who attended the worst weddings ever

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Remy Millisky • Writer and Editor
May 7, 2025 11:00 AM EDT

These weddings couldn't have gone worse, and no one remembers it more than the guests who watched it all unfold! 

The more weddings you go to, the more you get the feeling that when you've been to one, you've been to them all. They all start to blur together: all the ceremonies sound the same, the meals are all similar, and you may even spot the same guests at each event. Weddings can be really fun if you enjoy dancing and partying, but a bad wedding feels like it drags on and on. Some people have lengthy wedding ceremonies even when the weather is inclement (like when it's 100° and humid, do you really want to make 75 guests sit around in an un-air-conditioned party venue?). Other people had bad luck with their food choices. There are plenty of ways a wedding can go wrong before the couple even says "I do," so check out all the stories below. 

Next, read about the CEOs who ran companies into the ground with their bad decisions: "He fired the guy who owned almost all the patents." 

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    Stopped right in her tracks!

    nevermindaboutth... Funniest one I ever heard of was when the Bride, for a laugh, when asked the "do you take" question. She said no, just for a giggle. The vicar stopped the ceremony de d. Said "ok" and refused to marry them.
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    They had to go through all the pre-marriage stuff again. and get married some 6 weeks later.
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    CuteMegan01 Well the tornado at the outdoor reception was kinda bad
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    Hoorayforkate128 The wedding was at a barn in the middle of nowhere. The food was brought in from the city, about 45 minutes away..Fried chicken, mac and cheese, I don't remember what else. But fun enough wedding. We get back to the hotel which was maybe a ten minute drive.
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    The bride is throwing up in the parking lot. Okay, maybe she had too much to drink. A couple other people throwing up in the parking lot. Well, they are young, that happens at weddings. Then I get upstairs and it hits me. I swear I threw up for three days. If I had d d that would have been fine with me. Worst food poisoning of my life.
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    I found out after the fact that pretty much everyone was sick in some capacity. Good times.
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    Ultimatelee Grooms Aunt got drink and spilled all the details about the groom actually being in love with his friend who coincidentally was also attending the wedding. Awkward to the extreme
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    sos_abba it wasn't at the wedding but at the after party her brother proposed and the girl he proposed to said yes cause she was put on the spot then afterwards called him out for it and they broke up
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    You see videos of this sort of thing, to see it in real life would be such a treat

    Free-Attention-9... The cake collapsed in the middle of the cerimony. It was a sign!
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    Ishnula I was a kid, bit into a bitterball fresh from the deep fryer, the thing being hot enough to burn skin made me throw it, on the brides wedding dress. Now I had a burned mouth and saw the stain on her dress and started crying. The bride being an absolute
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    champion that is was comforted me, grabbed a dress fold, and folded it over the stain like nothing ever happened. She's the kind of person I'm striving to be.
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    imapersonmaybe At a friends wedding, the bride's aunt collapsed on the dance floor and they had to call 911 to come get her. At another friends wedding his aunt got completely plastered, fell and broke her hip, also a 911 call and hip replacement surgery.
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    Top_Mix6261 Certainly not the worst, but at my own wedding it stormed so violently as the guests walked from their cars into the church that no umbrella could keep them from getting absolutely soaked. I'm talking drenched.
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    A lightning strike took out the power, so the mics/audio system didn't work. You couldn't hear a thing that the pastor or anyone said. Also the church had no AC and it was the middle of summer in 100% humidity. My sister, the maid of honor, fainted at the altar both from the heat and locking her knees (don't lock your knees!!!). Luckily my uncle
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    caught her and she made a quick recovery. Alas, the show went on, the sun eventually came out for the reception (still insane humidity), everyone drank the venue out of booze and my husband and I are still happily married 15 years later
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    NewRiver3157 Funniest. It was a long religious ceremony and the crowd, other than bride and family, was a bunch of heathens. It was in the hottest part of the summer. Some southern Baptist preaching fire and brimstone in Rhode Island of all places. The father of said bride had seen to getting the groom. and his dozen men
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    snookered as all get out the night before. Those boys were typically pretty good at getting themselves sauced. He added an impressive new level. Somewhere halfway through the hour long ceremony, groomsman who looked exactly like Robert Plant, face plants! No warning. Just falls flat on face boom. He's young. Shakes it off. We managed to endure and get to the good part.
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    The wedding is at a summer camp. Dinner is a clam bake. Guests change into shorts and tees. We start playing volleyball and what not. Faster forward to mealtime. My boyfriend clinks a glass. He thinks his drink brother is standing to make a toast. No. He is asking the room if they have any tums or Rolaids. He rubs his belly for
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    emphasis. The chair that was stuck to his belt loop, falls loudly to the floor after he makes his speech. The bride's grandmother may need smelling salts.
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    saltynotsweet1 The groom fainted. Twice. Then, after the wedding was over, the bride gave her purse to her mother to keep. it safe. She didn't realize her keys were in the purse, so she had no way to drive to her own wedding reception. They had to call a taxi. Like, at what point do you just call it off and go home?
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    m. All a couple of the groomsmen burst out into laughter when the father of the bride started crying while "giving his daughter" away. I was one of the groomsmen but not one of the ones laughing. The thing is, the father of the bride was this burly, gruff military dude and there was something about seeing this
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    guy we'd basically all always been afraid of crying while "Butterfly kisses" played over the speakers that caused a couple of dudes to lose it. I felt bad because it was an a hole thing to do.
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    Any_Cow_3379 The groom was on his phone the entire time. I flew Mexico for the destination wedding with my kids, and he chose one of the most expensive hotels, and he looked bored at his own wedding. Leading up to the wedding, he claimed he was sick and had the hotel staff getting him cold towels and checking on him. Drama king. Up until
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    the ceremony, I and the rest of the bride friends were hoping she was gonna back out. I was her MOH.
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    BaconReceptacle Well there was the fight between the groom's familly and some cousins that showed up. But there was a far more interesting wedding I went to where the father of the bride gave a long preachy speech that focused almost 90% on how his daughter was "an obedient child". I mean, you might mention that point in
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    the context of showering praise on someone, but this was specifically a speech about obiedience...to him...to her soon-to-be spouse, and obedience to God. It was over the top. And to put the cherry on top, when the preacher presented the new bride and groom, somebody lit off fire crackers ON THE ALTAR INSIDE THE CHURCH! There was smoke everywhere.
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    Monotonegent Rained at a beach wedding. So Romantic
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    jaysornotandhaw... I went. And very quickly noticed I was the only adult there without a partner or date.
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    Brief_Reflection_... Bride didn't show up. Everyone waiting in a huge church, including the groom waiting at the altar for 30 minutes. Then bride's father came in and announced that she had decided she didn't want to get married. But as he'd already paid for the reception all the guests should go ahead with the party.
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