After all the talk about purse showers and dollar dances, I thought it'd be fun to post some interesting things that happened at weddings and receptions that we've been to. At our wedding, some of DHs friends *kidnapped* me. They stole me away and we drove around town while somebody collected ransom money. It was really fun and funny.

We went to my DH's cousin's wedding a few years ago. She "broke away" from the family and became a part of the religious group "Jews for Jesus". We thought, ok, we'll go. We had no idea what to expect. It was really odd...I had never seen anything like it. I thought it might have been like a Jewish ceremony6 (which I have been too) but it wasn't. And we all had prepared for a meal (it was after 5 when the wedding was finally over) and no food and only cold water to drink. REALLY weird (at least to me).

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The minister mispronounced one word in our vows. Instead of "a more steadily deepening love", DH and I continue to celebrate "a more studly deepening love." There was quiet laughter throughout the sanctuary and I'm happy to say he's still my studly love.

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Went to my co-worker's outdoor wedding about 3 weeks ago....
Her cousin was reading this really nice and serious poem/Bible verses. And out of nowhere this stray dog wanders into the ceremony and makes his way through all the chairs. Everyone is giggling and laughing--the girl reading was getting upset because she couldn't see the dog and thought everyone was laughing at her.

Then, the wedding party is going down by the river to take some pictures and the bride is walking down the path in her beautiful dress. All of sudden she screams "SNAKE", picks up the train of her dress and is running.

Later, the little flower girl hands her mother an empty glass and says " I need more punch, it sure is good!" Ummmm...the punch was an alcohol based punch! Needless to say--she didn't get ANOTHER glass of punch!

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The bridal party and families kept walking around ringing a loud and obnoxious cow bell.

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I am a catering manager for a company that does about 4-5 weddings per weekend...where to begin...

- the mother of the groom so drunk her family members begged us to not serve her any cocktails
- the wedding toast that ended I hope your marriage lasts longer than everyone else in this family (all of whom were divorced)
- the numerous cake smearing disasters
- the groom who was so drunk he puked then passed out in the men's room
- the dj that went to the men's room and didn't put any music on, dead air for about 10 minutes
- the numerous drunk brides (most don't eat their dinner but still continue to drink alcohol!)
- the Scottish wedding where all the groomsmen wore kilts...needless to say, it's true--they don't wear anything under them
- the granny who was drunk and fell down on the dance floor
- the JP who performed the wedding too soon after having some kind of facial plastic surgery (YIKES!)

I think I have seen it all, then lo and behold another wedding comes and someone does something crazier than the weddings before them. Never a dull moment that's for sure!

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we went to a outdoor wedding at the brides home and the neigbors chickens came walking up the isle right after the bride did. later when we were eating, there was 2 dogs across the road " bumping uglies" that was soooo funny!

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I think this is a cool idea. The bride and groom specified that it was to be a "flip-flop" wedding. Everyone wore their finery but flip flips were the footwear of the day. And as the vows were done and the wedding party started down the aisle each couple (bridesmaid/groomsman) danced. Whatever they felt like. Some polkaed, boogalooed, waltzed etc.
Very light hearted and fun.

I have always thought that if SO and I ever got married, we would have the music from the song C'Est la Vie by Bob Seger play as we left the alter. I just love the energy in that song and I would want everyone to get up and dance.

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Two things happened at my wedding. My husband and I were kneeling at the alter and the whole church started to laugh(the loudest was my mil) the preist was very upset and told me and hubby to ignore it. Well they had written on the bottom of my hubbys shoes in red nail polish HELP ME. Then when we were dancing to the last song people started throwing money at us. We have a picture of my dad bending over picking up the money. I guess he was trying to pay for the wedding. I was told this was a greek tradition and the man that started throwing the money was greek.

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About 18 years ago we went an authentic Greek Orthodox wedding. The entire ceremony was sung in Greek by the priest. DH's friend didn't tell us beforehand so we were quite surprised. The ceremony seemed to follow the basic wedding format so we were able to figure out what was going on even though we didn't understand anything being sung. I do remember that the church was very beautiful inside!

Probably the most interesting wedding I went to was a Lebanese wedding, the bride was from Lebanon. They had belly dancers at the reception and the food was soooo good!

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Worst one this summer- Bride & Groom with Best Man and Maid of Honor rode around in the limo for an hour before the wedding. They all came into the wedding drunk. Best man's toast, "Well, Man, I thought you were f----- but maybe she's ok". At that point, all the guests were placing bets on A. How long the marraige would last - (average bet 1.5 years), and B. Who would vomit first. (the groom). Awful! We left.

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when one of my sister's friends married in a deep woods country church - I knew it would be a little different but wasn't expecting the first song I heard to be "Please Release Me" and at the reception there was a bag of Lays Potato Chips just laid on one of the serving tables, as well as a Mr Coffee Pot sitting on a paper plate! And I thought I was cheap!

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Those are some funny stories. I went to one several years ago where the best man's toast ended w/ "And here's to honor. And once you get honor, stay honor." It's better if you read it out loud.

I was maid of honor at another wedding where (please Lord forgive me) the pastor sounded like Elmer Fudd. "Pwease pwace the wing on her finger." Oh my, by the time he was finished, the whole wedding party was almost doubled up in laughter-I know I was laughing so hard I was crying.

I worked in a catering hall all during high school and college and we averaged 5 weddings a weekend duringi prime season ....here are some of my favorites:


Bride and Groom get to the hall about 30 minutes after the rest of the bridal party but the church was only a few miles down the street. They had rented a horse and buggy to bring them to the hall and when they were 3 blocks away, the horse dropped dead in the middle of the road (this is not a country road, it is a 4 line main stree!) They had to file a police report before they were allowed to WALK the rest of the way to the ceremony!

Bride told new husband "do not smash cake in my face". What does he do? Smash cake in her face - she left the reception with her father and I was told that she never went on the honeymoon!

Bride and Groom are introduced into the hall and as they approach the head table and look at their beautiful cake, the bride screams. Why, you ask? The couple were white and the cake topper was an african american couple. Sad thing was, about 40 people took pictures of the cake BEFORE the bride and groom came in.

Bride and her guests are dancing a conga line and before we could stop them they entered the hall next store "for fun and to have them join in", little did they know it was a wake!

Bride and Groom went to feed each other cake and had asked the MOH and BM to stand at the cake with them for pictures. Instead of feeding each other, they smashed the cake into the MOH and BM's face!

I think I remember at least 10 wedding cakes being toppled by children who were not being watched by their parents. As well as we realized too late the ring bearer had been eating all the icing off the back of the cake. by the time we got to the cake, he had finished almost an entire layer of icing and then he proceeded to get sick, yes you guessed it - on the bride!

The jewish tradition is to have the ceremony at the same place as the reception and to take pictures in advance. Bride and Groom do all of their pictures, all of their guests arrive (200 of them) and are seated, they get to their vows and the Groom decides he doesn't want to get married so he leaves! Bride is in hysterics and her father starts yelling at the wait staff to hurry up and serve dinner. People didn't know if they should stay or what. he got on the microphone, thanked everyone for coming, told them to eat their dinner and have some drinks and then to pick up their gift and go back home. Very bizarre!

I know I have more but I just have to remember them!

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Love these stories....

Formal Church wedding with bride 7months pregnant and 3 of 4 bridesmaids in varying stages of pregnancy and 4th bridesmaid skinny as a rail - Groom is a redhead and has a purple (bright, loud purple) tuxedo

Wedding held at park - it is a quickie wedding (custody battle and marriage will help groom win) -it is a small wedding - they were not even going to have music but preacher asked if he could bring a cd player and at least play the Wedding March - quick, simple ceremony followed by punch and camoflauge cake including dolls on top dressed as hunters

Rec'd invitation but could not bring self to go - being held at couple's trailer with a covered dish reception

Cousin's wedding where her future FIL chewed out the preist because the church did not have kneelers (Catholic)

Wedding in small church with about 15 attendants for the bride- there were Maids of Honor, Matrons of Honor, Bridesmaids, Jr. Bridesmaids, Minature Bride, Flower Girl, etc., etc. Plus the matching set of groomsmen. They had about 10 songs - were not sure if it was a wedding or concert. Reception was at a seperate church -it was a hot day and they would not even serve anyone a glass of water until the bride & groom arrived- we waited an hour they never showed so we left because I was about to pass out from thirst.

Oh.....how could I forget my niece's wedding???

The place? Deer Camp
The fashions? Camoflauge (sp?) coveralls, and hunter orange vests
Everyone brought their lawn chairs. The keg of beer was right beside the preacher, and as soon as the "I dos" were over the preacher reached over and dispensed himself a red Solo cup of beer...then the reception was cut short because it was time for the hunters to go out and get on their deer stand.
*sigh* Good times, gooooood times.

I am so thankful that I couldn't be there for that one!

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OK- you want weird, I'll give you weird! How about a Druid wedding in a park in Oregon? They were piped in by a bag piper, the entire wedding party was standing in a circle, one of the guests whips her boob out to nurse a two year old in the midst of the blessing/praising earth, water, wind, fire. The wedding garments kinda looked like a hippie party on acid. I thought the father of the bride and his fairly new wife, would pass out when he saw the nursing toddler . (Heh, heh- He would have missed that little bit but considering he ws a high falutin country club type who thought he was better than everyone else- I nudged him and made sure he saw it---priceless!!)

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My daughter (40) leaves keys hidden in car and car not locked.
#1 She thinks her teen is sneaking out with the car during the night and rips open the car door hollering give me that ^*%% key....oops its a car thief that has pulled out of the driveway with the car and he reparks the car hands her the key and tells her "I'm sorry I thought it was my car".
#2 She went to Walgreens.Leaves car windows open and car not locked. She came out of the store and sees 5 police cars on the lot. As she approaches her car police come over to her. "Mam is this your car"? Yes! "Well this young man just robbed the store across the street and the workers over there were on a smoke break and saw him get into your car. Do you know him?" Nope never saw him before.
You would think she would lock the car and take the key! Nope.
She doesn't drink or do drugs so I can't figure out why she can't lock the car and take the keys.

Wow. How racist is that? I can't believe the bride screamed. Like it was the freakin' end of the world. Big deal. Who cares? Why is it sad that 40 people took pictures of the cake before the bride and groom came in?

This happend to my parents. It was an older couple and not either of their first marriage so they just got married at the justice of the peace and had everyone meet at a very nice local restaurant afterwards. We all thought this sounded great for the situation. Dinner goes well the bride and groom and guests enjoy their nice meal and drank many toasts then, the Bride and Groom just got up and left and let the guests sort out the bill. Many of the women had not even brought more than thier drivers licenses in their fancy purses and almost no one had cash. A few of the guest just got up and left when they realized what was happening leaving others to deal with their share.

This happened at our wedding. I don't know if it's done in certain nationalities or not. It was actually quite fun.

Our priest stuttered and we told him that if he did it during our vows we were gonna stomp on the floor to get him to stop stuttering. He had a GREAT sense of humor about it.

After our wedding, we were driving around in our limo and this old car pulled up next to us. DH motions for them to roll down the window. They do and he asks them, "Pardon me, but do you have any Grey Poupon?" I laughed so hard. Of course it didn't help that I was a "bit tipsy" from helping myself to the mini-bar.

When it came time to throw the garter and the asked all the single men to come up, my dad decided he wanted to be a part of it. What a nut

Under my gown, after we got to the reception, I had on my bunny slippers. I don't do heels so I couldn't wait to get them off!