‘The wedding got totally messed up by a duck’: Couple’s botanical garden wedding descends into disaster by a determined duck who bites the groom’s leg, sends the ring bearer scrambling and turns the flower girl’s petals into makeshift defenses

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Etai Eshet • Editor
Jun 2, 2025 4:00 AM EDT

Some couples worry about exes objecting at their wedding, but this guy's cousin's ceremony learned the hard way that the real threat isn't a past lover—it's a large, opinionated duck with zero respect for formal vows and an even lower tolerance for tuxedos.

Right on cue, with "speak now or forever hold your peace," in waddles our uninvited aquatic guest, quacking its objections at a volume that suggested it was either a close relative of the bride or owed the groom money. In a matter of seconds, this duck went from background wildlife to headliner, latching onto the groom's leg like it was auditioning for the next season of nature documentary: When Animals Attack: Matrimony Edition.

From there, the whole event spun out like slapstick on fast-forward. The groom, in a desperate two-step, tried to shake the determined fowl loose while the best man zigzagged across the grass, arms flapping in urgent duck-chasing semaphore. The ring bearer, evidently deciding discretion is the better part of valor, abandoned ship and dove under the cake table just in time to avoid a collision with the flower girl, who responded to the pandemonium by unleashing a petal barrage in the duck's direction, as if floral confetti was a secret weapon against poultry attacks.

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  • My cousin's wedding got totally messed up by a duck.

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  • This happened last summer, and I still laugh every time someone brings it up. My cousin (the bride) planned a beautiful outdoor wedding at a local botanical garden. She was very happy.
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  • Everything was according to her. The ceremony started, the music began to play, everyone was very happy, everything looked beautiful, until the organizer said,
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  • "If anyone has any reason why these two should not marry." Suddenly, a big duck entered, quacking loudly. It seemed to say that it had a problem with this
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  • was causing a commotion, it had attacked the groom and was pulling at his leg, and it actually bit the groom's leg. The groom screamed loudly, and hearing the
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  • scream, a 6 year old ring bearer ran away and hid on the table as if he was the chief of the area and was about to attack. The music didn't stop; it made the chaos
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  • even more humorous. The best man was trying to chase the duck away, and the flower girl was throwing flower petals at it to drive it off. The bride? She sat
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  • down and said, "I am not even mad. Anyway, this wedding is going to get attention because of the story of a duck, and finally the duck was bribed with a bread roll
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  • to leave, the ceremony resumed, and now there is a framed picture of the duck on their home wall with the caption, "Our real
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  • wedding crasher." Now they advise everyone that if you want to get married, it should be indoors.
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  • Ordinary Attention_7 I was at an outdoor wedding where the family dog kept. going into the woods adjoining the property and bringing out the rotting carcass of a de d bird, they would toss it into the woods, and the dog would bring it right back.
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  • Jeff 9891 In French, "being a duck" ("être un canard") with your significant other means sticking together excessively but in a cute manner. It is
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  • typically a way to lament about a friend not spending much of their time with your group of buddies anymore. This was a bird of good omen to me.
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  • Affectionate-Rule I was a bridesmaid in an outdoor wedding where a goat very loudly gave birth in the field behind us during the exchanging of vows The couple went back to the venue for their anniversary. and had a photo with the goat
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  • Auntie_Depressant I got married on a friends farm. He had lots of rabbits. One of our groomsmen has Tourette's, and despite being very medicated for the wedding noticed two rabbits... well, making more rabbits. In my wedding video
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  • you can hear when the tics start and he's repeating "rabbits "over, and over, and over. I didn't know about it until my oldest sister and her husband came up to me after the ceremony to tell me about it. Anyways, the only thing I had really asked of this friend was to not
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  • come near my dress carrying food/drinks that would stain my dress, so at least he did that
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