Shuttle bus driver accidentally takes wedding guests on 40-minute detour to another county, guests have to step in to save the ceremony: 'An uncle took a video of the fiasco'

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Isabella Penn
Jul 21, 2025 1:00 PM EDT

On your wedding day, no matter how well you plan, something is bound to go off-script. Maybe the weather doesn't cooperate (my cousin's wedding got canceled because of a literal tornado), or the best man's speech turns into a stand-up routine that no one asked for. Sometimes it's just your run-of-the-mill family drama bubbling up right around cake-cutting time. Whatever it is, there's always one unexpected plot twist. But for this poor bride, I'm guessing "shuttle driver kidnaps half the guest list, including the groom's parents, and drives them to another county" wasn't on her wedding bingo card.

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  • What was supposed to be a simple shuttle ride through a scenic state park turned into a full-on 40-minute detour in the completely wrong direction. The driver ignored directions, calls, and common sense until one brave guest took matters into their own hands and basically commandeered the whole operation just to get people to the ceremony.

    And unfortunately, that wasn’t even the only shuttle disaster of the night. The second mess came after the reception, and somehow, it was even worse.

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  • "Wedding shuttle driver kidnapped our wedding guests"

    I want to preface this by saying my wedding was awesome and everything else went really well, which really highlights how terrible this vendor was.
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  • For context, our wedding was in a state park in a stone pavilion. The challenge with this location was that the pavilion had very little parking, so we decided to have a shuttle service. The
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  • other complication was the road to the pavilion goes through a one-lane, 10' tall tunnel. My in-laws offered to coordinate and pay for this vendor, so I wasn't involved in most of the communications but I did make sure the shuttle
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  • company knew about the tunnel and confirmed they had a shuttle that would fit. The plan was for the shuttle to pick people up at the hotel, pick a few more people up at a larger parking lot in the state park at the
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  • bottom of the hill, and then take everyone through the tunnel and up the hill to the pavilion. Fast-forward to our wedding day: my partner and I spent what felt like hours getting photos taken, and then we
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  • looked at my phone and realized it had been hours -- where were our guests? Our day-of coordinator let us know that our shuttle driver had gotten lost but was now on his way.
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  • But he didn't just get lost. After our ceremony, which started an hour late from waiting for all of our guests, we learned that the shuttle picked people up at the hotel and state. park parking lot and then
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  • DROVE EVERYONE OUT OF THE PARK and into ANOTHER COUNTY. Luckily, I had sent everyone maps ahead of time, so everyone told him to turn around, but he didn't until one of our
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  • wedding guests went up to the driver and very firmly told the driver he had to go back and directed him. An uncle took a video of part of this fiasco, and it's one of my favorite wedding "gifts." (And yes, someone
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  • else got out of the shuttle to help the driver get through the tunnel because he tried to drive into it at an angle). After the reception, the shuttle was supposed to come back to take
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  • wedding guests back to their cars or to the hotel. But the shuttle was late, and our poor coordinator was trying to figure out what was going on this time. It turns out that the shuttle company sent a
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  • different driver with a different shuttle, and this shuttle was a HUGE BUS that obviously wouldn't fit through the tunnel, so the driver just parked in the big parking lot. At that point, a few of our guests decided to walk down the
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  • hill, but most of the guests were ferried to the parking lot/shuttle by our parents, who drove up and down the hill about ten times to get everyone down to the parking lot. This vendor was sooo incompetent, and I feel
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  • terrible for our guests, but it's also pretty funny. Anyone else have a transportation vendor who brought people to the wrong place?
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  • Edit: Wow, I didn't know my title would be so controversial lol. I called it. that because that's what the guests on the shuttle jokingly referred to it as.
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  • The driver left the state park and drove them 40 minutes away (on the highway!) instead of staying in the park and driving for 3 minutes up a hill. Several guests told him he wasn't going the
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  • right way, but he insisted that he knew the area and knew where he was going and ignored the wedding coordinator's calls (she ended up calling guests we knew were on the bus to find out what was happening). It wasn't until
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  • my friend was very firm with him that he begrudgingly agreed to turn around.
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  • metaljane666 At my best friends wedding, the shuttle driver picked up the grooms parents and some other guests and took them to a different, wrong venue nearby.
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  • The grooms parents had never seen the venue so didn't know they were in the wrong place. They all went straight into someone else's wedding, which was soon to start, before they noticed the guests
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  • that were there were not on theme, as my friend's wedding was in costume lol. A bunch of guests signed the wrong wedding guest book too! Lmao. The driver
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  • was informed and got everyone to the correct venue, late. Wedding had to be held up because it was the freaking grooms parents. on that shuttle!
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  • potsieharris I recently went to a wedding in New Orleans where they shuttled us to the French quarter after. Three to a seat on
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  • this bus and no AC. The condensation was dripping down the walls and windows ... It took forever to go what our local friend said should be 10 minutes. At last I saw the
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  • hotel we were aiming for... Only to watch as we drove past it and away... It turned out the driver was new and lost and we spent 45 minutes
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  • driving around in this sweatbox while she tried to figure out how to get the other way onto a one way street. And then like 2 minutes before we disembarked she goes "Oh, y'all hot?!" and turns on the
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  • air... Blasting us all with cool comfort that we could have had all along... Misery.
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