I was a wedding DJ for seven years. I DJ'd several hundred weddings, so I’ve seen a lot of stuff.

One horrible thing I witnessed — I introduced the best man to give his speech and hand him the mic, he starts out by saying (paraphrasing because this was years ago but pretty close to the quote) "well, there were a lot of things that I didn't agree with in this relationship when it first started, and that I still don't agree with because it's seriously messed up and unbalanced and the dynamic is too one sided … ” He's staring at the bride while saying this and proceeds to trail off, “but that's not why we're here today. We're here to celebrate the marriage between Jack and Ingrid. So I just want to say congratulations, best of luck to you guys.”

Everyone in the whole place was just looking around, glancing nervously at one another.

Afterwards the father of the groom or bride (I can't remember which one) comes up to me and says, "Thank you for not cutting the mic. I saw you looking at the head table and at us for direction and when you didn't get it, you didn't act. I appreciate that because I think it would have been even more awkward if he had just been cut off and didn't get the chance to at least come back to congratulating them."

It was the most awkward compliment I've ever received.

ARocketKnight

I was a wedding butler for two years and have worked a little over 100 weddings and these are some of my favorite stories. For those that don't know what a wedding butler is, my job entailed setting up/maintaining/cleaning and taking down weddings. As well as catering to people's needs regardless of what they were aside from food and drink. And if it was ever needed (which it was a few times) I was also security.

The most awkward wedding I ever worked at started out like any other wedding. There were roughly 120 people, the couple was nice, the wedding was to take place outside and the reception was to take place in a large refurbished barn. Everything was going smoothly until it was time for the speeches. At this point in the night I usually slip away to a somewhat secluded part of the reception to eat and listen in case anything goes wrong, but still close enough that people could find me. Well, the best man comes up to give his speech and by this point in the evening he was already pretty hammered.

It starts out normal — him talking about how he introduced the bride to the groom and the day they first met and whatnot. Everything seemed normal, granted he would go on and on about the bride at times, but hey, some people are like that so I mostly ignored him until I heard him end his speech with how it should have been him and how he still loves her. As soon as he said that everyone went silent and it got really awkward, someone eventually ushered him off stage and the only reason I didn't help was because I was doubled over trying not to burst out laughing.

Dragpon77

The worst wedding we ever had did not start out like most weddings — it started out bad and just got steadily worse. So, four weeks prior to the wedding the bride apparently fell down a flight of stairs and shattered her leg to the point that she needed someone to help her walk down the aisle and stand at the altar. At the rehearsal dinner, 40 of the 80 people scheduled to show up actually did. Which would sort of make sense if they lived across the country, or overseas, but everyone at the wedding lived under five hours from the site.

Add to this the fact that the catering company for the evening brought the wrong order and there wasn't even enough food for the people there. And to top it off the bride and groom had hired a somewhat well-known bluegrass band to come play at the rehearsal dinner and they never showed up. Now that's just the start of it. During the ceremony itself, it hailed the entire time and ended just as the ceremony did. It was a rather windy and chilly day, and usually the bride and groom spend a good one and a half hours or so taking pictures around the property because of how scenic it is.

But they asked me to cut it short so they could go to the tent reception and finally relax. I was driving them around on this little limo golf cart and the bride and groom jumped in the back and the maid of honor was there with them, but no one noticed that the bride's gown was hanging precariously close to the back wheel. So I start the cart up and throw it into reverse to make sure everyone is on and settled. As soon as I turn around and start to drive backwards I watch as the bride gets pulled off the cart and I end up running over her other leg. I immediately stopped the cart, jumped off and tended to her, but before I could help her up she shot up and lost it at the groom and maid of honor for not helping her.

She apologized to me about what happened and I was so stunned I had no clue what to say. I'm very used to dealing with angry people at weddings, especially inebriated ones, but almost all the time they are angry at me or one of the other staff. Anyways she calms down and I take them all to the reception that is already going down hill fast. So while I was away the catering company arrived and started setting up food when they realized they brought the wrong order AGAIN. And while they had enough food for everyone the only thing to eat at the wedding was grilled cheese and dessert. Not only that but a separate company was hired to bartend for the wedding and didn't realize the event would be taking place outside and so they didn't bring enough water for the reception and very quickly had to start cutting people off.

The reception continues, they have the speeches, the band actually showed up this time and everything was going fine until this one guest got super wasted. As she was carrying a full glass of red wine back to her table she tripped and dosed the bride. This abruptly ends the reception as the bride has the groom help her storm off and everyone slowly leaves about an hour before they were supposed to end.

Dragpon77

I've shared this before — and in the end it turned into a story to retell — but the pastor officiating my wedding had a heart attack, and my (now) wife and I caught him as he fell. We have a video of my wife, in her wedding dress, consoling the pastor's wife who was in tears behind the podium.

One of my groomsmen is an ER doctor and handled the situation well. And the pastor finally came back around. He was stubborn and insisted on finishing the ceremony (through the sound of sirens of the ambulance coming for him). Then my brother/best man passed out minutes later. Apparently he had put on the wrong collared shirt and it was too tight around the neck. At least the EMTs had something to do while the pastor finished up.

My brother spun and handed the rings off to the ER doctor/groomsman as he fell, and my wife and I just busted up laughing at that point.

KUARCE

My good friends were getting married. It was a medium-sized wedding — no more than 75 people, including the bridal party and groomsmen. The bride's sister-in-law was pissed off something mighty. It was a wedding and reception by a lake, and everyone knew the venue, so we dressed accordingly —shirts, comfortable trousers, sundresses and sandals.

The sister-in-law was dressed like she was heading out for an evening of dinner and dancing. Sky-high heels, tight dress and rhinestones everywhere. She looked gorgeous, but it was not comfortable and we were outside.

The ceremony was sweet, except for the words "freaking bugs ... freaking pine needles … stupid dirt … " that were being picked up by the small, yet apparently mighty, microphone up front.

Right after the ceremony, we walked over to the gazebo/picnic area where the reception would be. The sister-in-law started lobbing her high heels at her husband, screeching about what an awful day it was and gashed her husband's eyebrow open. While people were scrambling to get him napkins because of the blood and trying to get him into a car to drive him to the hospital for stitches, she decided to up the ante.

She said "I can't take this anymore!" and throws herself off of the dock in a dramatic swan dive.

The problem is, the lake at that point was only four feet deep, and marshy. So she just sort of bobbed along in the water because everyone was more concerned with her husband's eye/face.The sister-in-law's father just turned towards the lake and told her to get herself out of there.

They piled into two cars and drove off. It was surreal.

GroupGuide

My husband and I were invited to the wedding of a military buddy of his. We were running a little late, but weren't too worried. We got onto base and headed for the main chapel — there are three or four chapels on base. When we got to the main chapel, it was apparent that there was no wedding going on. We looked at the invitation again. It just said "Post chapel" and gave an address.

So obviously, this wasn't the post chapel that the bride had intended and I whipped out my phone to look up the address. We drove to that part of the base and found the place. It was some sort of administration building, definitely not a chapel.

We were confused, but we found a building with "Chaplain's office" on the directory so we figured we'd been invited to some sort of civil ceremony. The building was locked — we were thoroughly confused and late at this point.

As we were wondering what we should do, we saw an older gentleman in a tuxedo wandering around. He's pretty clearly in the same boat. Turns out he's the groom's father and he doesn't have any more idea what's going on than we do. After a few more minutes, a soldier arrives. He's the chaplain's assistant and he's looking for lost wedding guests (namely the groom's father). Turns out the bride put down the wrong address and the wrong chapel name on the invitation.

By the time we got to the wedding — which they had delayed because the groom's dad was missing — the bride was in tears. I felt so bad for her.

They finally started the wedding, and the chaplain gave an awkward sermon about "being clothed in Jesus' love" and lost his place several times. Finally, as the ceremony was over and the guests began to applaud, a bat fell down out of the ceiling and died. Craziest wedding I'd ever been to.

shelbyknits

My parents had a pretty disastrous wedding. I wasn't there to witness it, but my parents and their guests tell the stories all the time.

The wedding was in July. They were expecting a hot, sunny day but it ended up being a major downpour. My mother had a taxi scheduled to take her from her hotel to the church. Due to the rain, the taxi was super late. As my mother was waiting, in her wedding dress, she got hit by a car. She got knocked to the ground, but it wasn't hard enough to break any bones so she just walked it off. Unfortunately, her dress picked up a lot of the mud from her fall and a big chunk of lace was torn. It turns out the car that hit her was actually the taxi that was supposed to pick her up.

She finally makes it to the church, my father was in tears and on the verge of a nervous breakdown thinking that she wasn't going to show. Again, because of the rain, about a third of the guests didn't make it. The rest of the ceremony went ok.

At the reception, the hotel was understaffed due to the rain and the DJ couldn't make it so the reception consisted of guests sitting around in a silent room waiting for food. A plus one soon decided that she was literally dying of hunger so she went up and cut a slice of the wedding cake for herself before my parents had taken pictures with the cake or sliced it. On the positive side, later on they discovered that a restaurant in the hotel had a jukebox so the restaurant lets them move it into the banquet hall and they're able to pop in some quarters to get music playing.

It was a disaster at the time, but now they look back at it and laugh.

This was near Chicago around 40 years ago. They're no strangers to rain so I'm assuming it was some monsoon level storms or flooding ... I never thought to ask.

simplerthings

I went to a wedding with my boyfriend a few years ago. His friend was marrying a woman that NO ONE liked. She was awful. During the ceremony we could all tell that the best man was uncomfortable. As soon as the ceremony ended the best man burst into tears for about 10 minutes and had to excuse himself. You could tell he just realized that his best friend was gone forever.

We tried to cheer him up and reassure him that he and the groom would still be close, and that the bride wasn't too bad. Everyone present knew it was a lie and we were all just so depressed.

Later, the bride came and yelled at our entire group (all of her husband's friends) because we weren't dancing enough. We weren't dancing because they had no DJ, just a short playlist with the couple’s favorite songs being played on repeat. I think throughout the whole night we heard the playlist start and end about five times.

moonshinetime

They had practiced their opening dance — a tango — in a large room. The wedding venue was a long, narrow, small room.

It looked like this — one step forward in tango style, three steps forward but trampling in place due to guests sitting in their way, three steps backward trampling in place again and two steps back to reach the other side of guests and start trampling in place again.

And right in the middle of all this, the kitchen starts bringing out food — they hadn't served any food before so this was after complaints from most guests about being hungry.

I have video and photos (I was the photographer) of the couple trampling, with no guests watching them — not even the bride's mother, who was destroying a pack of fries with her back turned to the couple's opening dance.

Aeri73

The ceremony for my cousin's (the groom) wedding had the most obnoxious priest. I think he was related to my cousin or a long time family friend.

The whole ceremony became about him. Before every reading, he would explain what was about to be read for like five minutes, then after the reading, he would explain it again for another couple minutes before explaining the next reading. He gave terrible advice like "If you're having problems, don't talk to each other, talk to me. You have my number."

He mentioned multiple times how he had recently moved to Illinois — where the wedding was taking place. Even between the vows he had to throw his two cents in. After my cousin said "I do" he made some comment about "Oh, I thought you were going to do it with more gusto like when you're cheering for the Bears. I DO!!!"

At the end, he just had to mention himself one more time — "and by the power vested in me by the state of Illinois, which I am now a resident of, I now pronounce you man and wife.”. What could have been a 30-45 minute ceremony ended up taking 75-90 minutes.

SiN_Fury

The groom's sister got sorority-girl-wasted in the limo on the way to the reception. She stashed a brown paper bag with two fifths of Pucker under her chair for the Lord's prayer. She held my hand the entire time chanting "I need to pee.” She drank heavily all through the meal and then caught the bouquet. The guy that caught the garter had his head shoved up her dress while he was putting it on her.

Once he finally emerged from her cavern of drunk doom, he was bright red and ran away. She chased him around and literally flung herself at him to dance a.k.a grope him in front of everyone. She got bored with that and started dancing on the DJ’s table. The bride was mortified and in all but tears, so her brother picked up this drunk mess and tried to carry her outside.

This sent the redneck boyfriend into a rage and he picked a fight with the brother. The cops were called — I just sat there wishing I had popcorn to watch the mess.

Sweater_Puppies

At a wedding of a college friend of my husband, we learned from the women at our table at the reception that the bride — his old friend — had been in love with him for over a decade. We introduced ourselves while we waited for the bride and groom to arrive. They were horrified that we were there — and extremely worried. My husband had NO idea that she had feelings for him.

She bee-lined right to our table after the 'introducing Mr & Mrs' thing — ignoring her family and leaving her husband standing alone. She clung to my husband and sobbed — lifting her head to glare at me. She had to be pulled off of him. She repaired herself, then followed us as we tried to leave quietly — her parting shot was to stare at my chest and say, "Well I guess I know what I was missing all along!"

Her new husband was in shock and my husband was horrified and embarrassed — he was completely clueless and would never have gone to the wedding if he'd known she was obsessed with him. It was bizarre.

streamstroller

I worked on the banquet staff for a high-end wedding reception facility throughout college, [and I have] a few stories.

The bride, groom and wedding party got super drunk so we called them cabs around 1a.m. The cabs arrived but the bride was nowhere to be found. I was doing a bathroom check and stumbled upon the bride passed out in a stall with vomit all over her wedding dress. I don't think that dress will be passed down to future generations.

mr_purrfect

Our banquet facility was a part of a high-end golf course. One couple, despite our fair warning, wanted an entirely outdoor ceremony and reception as a "cheaper alternative" from having to book a banquet hall. Honestly most days it would have been fine, but right as people were asked to be seated there was a torrential downpour that lasted for about three hours straight.

Everyone was soaked (staff included) and a lot of guests straight up left. I felt bad but at the end of the day it was their choice not to have a plan B.

mr_purrfect

Had one wedding with a nice couple from a very religious family. Everything was very traditional and it was time for dancing so the DJ started with some slow songs like always but then he "kicked it up a notch" with some pretty vulgar and unedited rap/metal songs.

It turns out he was looking at the song requests for the wrong wedding. The looks of horror on some of the older people's faces was pretty priceless.

mr_purrfect

Had a group of guests close out the bar once and these two guys were both hitting on this super drunk girl pretty hard. Once the cabs showed up both guys were fighting over which guy she should "ride with" and a lot of yelling, pushing and shoving happened. Fortunately, my boss stepped in and called the police who broke it up and gave the girl a ride home.

Altercations like this were somewhat common so around midnight when we had a big wedding a police car would just come and sit in our parking lot for an hour or two and be available quickly if needed.

This started when there was a full out fight once in one of our lobbies, which included thousands of dollars in damages.

mr_purrfect

I was a DJ for about 10 years and I have seen a lot of bad things.

At one wedding, I was supposed to introduce the wedding party. The bus showed up around 5 p.m., and out of 18 people in the wedding party, only three made it off. The bride, the best-man and a bridesmaid.

The rest were so hammered drunk that they didn't stumble inside until almost 9:30 p.m. They missed everything. We couldn't have toasts, first dances, cake cutting, nothing because the groom was passed out.

By the time they did make it inside, almost everyone had left. The bride was pretty pissed off about the entire situation. Who could blame her?

skerley1979

[A] wedding I attended seemed like it was going great. Everything went without a hitch until the reception ended. The bride came up and told me that she found out the groom cheated on her the night before.

She never signed the marriage license and they just went through with it since everyone was there. What made this entire thing worse was they didn't return any of the gifts and then they split up the next morning.

skerley1979

My cousin,who is in her mid-40’s and married with two kids, got absolutely wasted at my wedding. Her husband couldn't make it so she came down with her two kids — kids did not attend the wedding as it was adults only. My dad, who was my best man, was so embarrassed by her behavior that he had to leave in the middle of the reception to take her back to the hotel.

After the reception, a bunch of my relatives all went back to the hotel and found my cousin's two kids alone in the hotel room (they were like 12 and 9 years old and they were fine) but my cousin was nowhere to be found. My 86-year-old grandmother went down to the hotel bar and saw her basically making out with some random dude. Grandma told her it was time to go to bed and my cousin refused, so grandma said it again and my cousin got up, shoved my grandma to the ground and started screaming for security to come arrest my grandma for who knows what.

Somehow they ended up getting her to bed and nobody was hurt or arrested.

This was over five years ago and I haven't talked to my cousin since. I never saw her crazy drunken antics but I am pissed that she embarrassed my dad and made him miss over an hour of the reception (and pushing grandma is never cool). And the thing is, this type of behavior came out of nowhere, at least to us. So it's not like we had expected or anticipated this particular cousin just going wild at a nice formal event. Just disappointing all around.

hangoverprone

When my dad got remarried, it was the worst event I'd ever been to. It started four hours late because the bride decided that she just had to have Olive Garden before the ceremony started. So she loaded up all these half-made-up bridesmaids into a couple cars and drove to Olive Garden, where we waited for like two hours for enough space for all of us.

We finally got back to the church and finished with the make up. None of the bridesmaids had matching dresses because the bride decided on a dress like a week before the wedding, so she told everyone to pick the closest thing they could find at the bridal shop. And the makeup guy was a friend of hers who claimed to be a runway makeup artist, but we all ended up looking like we were from a bad 80's movie.

So their ceremony finally starts four hours late with a bunch of mismatched bridesmaids in horrible makeup and giant hair. And two of the bride's friends just decided to stand up next to the bridesmaids like they were part of the ceremony too. At the reception, there was a guy with a guitar paid to sing and play. But one of those two friends decided she was going to be the main entertainment for the evening, and she grabbed the guy's mic and started singing in the most awful tone-deaf screechy voice I've ever heard.

Finally it was all over and we could leave, and I went to my car in the parking lot — someone had slashed my tires. All four of them.

NinjaShira

My cousin got married ages ago. She was a religious Jew and had apparently made 100% sure the DJ didn't play the traditional wedding march as it was made by an anti-Semite.

Strike 1: They played that song. There is a video of her looking FURIOUS as it began.

Strike 2: The rings didn't fit. Not like "this is tight" but like "I am a size 8 and this is a 4." Her finger started changing colors due to poor circulation.

Strike 3: The officiant got their names wrong.

Strike 4: The officiant took a step back on the dais … and there was no more dais. He took a nasty spill off the stage, mid ceremony.

My cousin and her husband have been together for almost 25 years now, so obviously these became funny stories to tell and not disasters.

my_Favorite_post

I went to my friend's wedding. It was nice and nothing huge happened but her 16-year-old cousin showed up in a poofy white dress with a lace pink shawl around her shoulders and a tiara. The bride could only try to grin through her teeth because her aunt and uncle assisted with paying for a huge part of the wedding but was I ever pissed off for her.

As for me, I plan on having mead as my 'wedding wine' (I used to work at a meadery and am still close with my old coworkers) but dear god I will make sure to have red wine there. My bridesmaids and even the groomsmen have agreed to be on "red wine duty" where if someone was to show up wearing something like that to my wedding they get splashed with it.

Ain't nobody gonna wear white to my wedding except for me and the flower girl (my fiance's daughter).

Novaer

I used to work special events at a golf course. I've witnessed my share of terrible things but there's a few stories that stand out.

The bride and groom are cutting the cake and she's being super particular about how they stand and how he smiles while everyone is standing around them. Then, once they finally take 100 pictures of the cake cutting, he picks up the tiniest piece of cake — which even a 2-year-old could fit in their mouth without trouble.

She looks him straight in the eye and informs him with a deadly serious look on her face, loud enough for everyone within 20 feet to hear, that she'll kill him if he messes up her makeup by smearing the cake on her face. We gave a lot of thought to buying him a Greyhound ticket and encouraging him to run for his life.

That_one_guy_2014

The groom and the groomsmen were drinking in the bar before the wedding. This is fairly normal, though normally it starts about an hour before the wedding. The groom and his buddies got there before lunch and proceeded to drink for a solid five or six hours before they even thought of getting ready for the wedding.

We were instructed to attend the ceremony in case the groom and groomsmen were unable to stand up for the duration of the ceremony (seriously, the bridesmaids had to pretty much carry them down the aisle as they walked in and back out). Then, at the reception, the groom missed literally everything besides the first dance (which was hilarious and just sad all at once) as he was hurling in the bathroom.

I think my favorite part was dancing with the bride and the mother of the groom because they didn't want to just end the reception.

That_one_guy_2014

My best friend from high school was getting married, and asked me to be the best man. They wanted their wedding to be outside next to a pond, and had gone ahead and planned everything ahead of time. Except two things happened that just made it unbearable:

First of all, there was an absolutely miserable heat wave that hit right at the time of their wedding. It was totally out of the ordinary for that time of the year in our area. Normally the high temperature should have been around 75 to 80F, but it was flirting with 100 on the day of the wedding. We'd tried to make arrangements to find an indoor place with air conditioning, but it just wasn't in the cards. There wasn't a nearby place that could hold everyone on such a short notice.

Second, the wedding planner was a terrible excuse for a human being. She insisted that she had to remain in possession of the rings, but then ended up being over an hour and a half late to the wedding. Nobody really knew what to do since she had the rings, the marriage certificate for the minister to sign, pretty much everything.

Eventually, nearly everyone at the wedding got up and left. The heat was unbearable, and nobody knew when the wedding would even start. By the time the wedding planner got there with everything we needed, she was completely unapologetic and it was basically just the wedding party itself still there on the verge of heat stroke. I felt awful for them, everything was really totally out of their control and still ended up being a terrible mess.

Danielrh9

I was a groomsman at one of my best friend's weddings. He had lost a sister to a car accident years ago and his family was pretty devastated. They made a big deal out of having flowers in memory of his sister, which was great, because we all knew her growing up. Anyway, the groom was a bit wound up on the way to the church, which was about 45 minutes away, and started drinking whiskey.

We all tried to keep him sober, but the only way we could do this was to get rid of the whiskey by drinking it. He was getting a bit out of hand and angry when someone would pretend to drink or try to spit it or pour it out the window. That sets the scene for our arrival to the church at like, 10 a.m. — four tipsy groomsmen and a groom that was drunk.

The mother of the bride takes all this in and makes some comment about how he should really be able to get over his sister's death and stop using it as an excuse to act irresponsibly. She was right of course, but the groom's mother heard this and punched her right in the face. It was pandemonium for a while but eventually everyone calmed down. The groom sobered up and the wedding went off fine. They are happily married with a bunch of kids 20+ years later.

tenthjuror

I actually went to a wedding about two weeks ago that could qualify as crazy or just white trash.

First, we get to the church all dressed in nice trousers, dresses and heels. We walk to the front of the church and the doors are locked. It is five minutes before the start time of the wedding, so we run to the reception hall door to make sure we aren't late and we can make it before we're seen. We walk in and immediately it is a mess. The maid of honor is wearing sweatpants and flip flops when she walks down the aisle.

I notice they're playing Bruno Mars' "Marry You" — this was the song she walked down the aisle to. I also see the groom is wearing baggy JNCO jeans from the 90’s along with chains and lots of gel in his already-greasy hair. She comes out wearing a snow white wedding dress, suited for her white trash man with a matching chain around her neck.

During the ceremony, the pastor laughs and can't continue with their vows, so the couple say "screw it" in unison and walk down the aisle. Not even pronounced husband and wife yet.

At the reception, she planned for 100 people and 10 people showed up. I ate out of politeness, but I found a roach in the meatballs so I refused to continue eating. There are more things about this weird wedding, but you get the picture.

Jaytothenuh

My friend and his fiance were getting married at the tail end of a summer that had had a lot of weddings. This wedding was the least likely of them to work — the couple had been constantly off and on, we all suspected she was a little crazy, and the group of us KNEW that he was.

However, this wedding did feature the best drama I've ever seen. The bride's parents had just gotten divorced, and the dad was going through some midlife crisis where he had started dating a fresh-out-of-high-school 18-year-old.

The father decided, in his infinite wisdom, to bring his girlfriend to his daughter's wedding. The mom, meanwhile, didn't know that the dad was even invited, and certainly didn't know that he was bringing a girl who was six years younger than his daughter. The stares back and forth during the ceremony were fantastic, as was the screaming fit the bride had yelling at her father and then again yelling at her mother at the reception hall for ruining her special day.

That said … the food was excellent.

MHaaskivi

This is funny. This happened to a good friend of mine and her husband. They've been married for over 30 years and are just as happy as can be.

The groom did not tell the bride what his full name was. She called him by his middle name because everybody does. At the wedding in the middle of the vows when the preacher said, "Do you take this man Gaylord Jesse," my friend in shock shouted, "Gaylord?"

Everybody giggled and the wedding continued.

At the end of the vows when the preacher says, "I'd like to present to you Mr and Mrs" and the couple happily marches down the aisle, my friend's brand new husband stepped on the train of her dress, tripped and fell down doing a forward roll down the aisle, hit his head on a pew, and almost knocked himself unconscious.

starchaser57

I went to a wedding once where I'm fairly sure the bride and groom intentionally caused a fight to break out during the reception. Near the end of the meal, just as the desserts were coming out, two guys on one of the tables near the head table started yelling at each other. Then they stood up and started pushing each other around, while the bride and groom yelled at the people around them not to intervene.

A few seconds later, waiters started pouring into the room with bowls of popcorn, right as fists got involved and a large part of the room started egging them on and chanting "FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT" — including the entire head table.

It didn't take long for more responsible adults to intervene and break it up, but the groom in particular looked ridiculously happy about it happening. From what I could gather, the fighters were extended family members who didn't get on, so I can only assume from them being seated together and the popcorn that it was entirely planned, if not by them.

NuklearAngel

It was held in the middle of a city in the groom's parents' backyard — the bride and groom also lived with his parents— in front of their garage. Astroturf was the isle. The ceremony was fine and brief but afterwards the bride and groom eventually found a seat on the ground and proceeded to smash ants with their hands. Then it was lunch time.

Everyone had to bring food because it was potluck style. We all ate the food we brought off of our plastic plates and had sparkling grape juice in plastic mini champagne cups. No alcoholic beverages were allowed because the bride and groom were 19 years old.

nochartforyou

She slapped me during the reception.

Her dress had this massive organza skirt. It was beautiful but utterly impractically designed. It took at least three of us to hold up her skirt so she could use the restroom.

On the second trip to the restroom, with all of us holding this dress up while she hovered over the toilet, she ordered me to wipe her.

She. Ordered. Me. To. Wipe. Her.

I declined.

So she slapped me.

The skirt was dropped by all parties while I shouted obscenities at her. She screamed that if I didn't do this for her, this friendship was over.

She tried to apologize years later, and seemed surprised when I was not interested in rekindling our friendship.

| isstronglikebull

2. Loose lips sink (relation)ships

Planner here — I’ve seen everything.

Bride invited her ex-boyfriend to the wedding because “he’s just a really good friend.”

During the reception, her husband of two hours went to the bathroom, and she plants a kiss on her ex. She notices that I saw and promptly reminds me to mind my own business.

Two days later I get a call from the groom who informs me that the bride is extremely upset with my “unprofessionalism” and wants a refund. She wasn’t happy that I “made a scene” by running outside to tell them about the bill, in an effort to save them from additional charges.

I asked him if he was aware of the scene she made when she kissed her ex-boyfriend on the dance floor while he went to the bathroom. He hung up.

| imabigdiva

The bride had me charged for fraud.

I'll explain. I was a bridesmaid for a pretty laid-back bridezilla. Her only request was that she had asked me to order items on her behalf from Amazon. I would place the order using her account, and have the items shipped to my house for storage.

I stored a giant pile of her wedding goods in my apartment for months. It was a huge inconvenience.

After the wedding was over she called Amazon and said that someone had hacked her account and used it to order wedding items. She got a chargeback on all the items on her credit card, and I got a call from the FBI.

Tina if you're reading this, that was rude. I thought we were friends?

(I had written proof, thank goodness.)

| carlywithak

4. Heart attack

The father of the bride had a heart attack.

As he was being carried out on the stretcher to the ambulance, the sobbing bride yells, "How could you ruin my wedding like this?!"

Really?

| Remberzz

She asked 16 girls to be bridesmaids. In the year-and-a-half between the engagement and wedding, all but six dropped out (three were her sisters).

She wanted 16 separate shades of blue and 16 different styles of dresses for each bridesmaid and then threw a fit when the store didn't have that many options.

She demanded everyone pay for a week-long bachelorette party in Vegas (including her share) and then got mad when some people opted out.

Her parents gave her a $20K budget, but she ended up spending $100K and demanding they pay for it. They took out a loan and they are still paying it off.

She wanted everyone to have the same shade of hair, so she asked the two blonde bridesmaids to dye their hair (they declined).

She paid for nothing for the bridesmaids but demanded that we purchase specific shoes, jewelry, dress, hair, makeup, etc. On top of that, she wanted us to stay an entire weekend at the hotel she was getting married at.

All told, costs for the wedding — not including a gift — were well over $2K per bridesmaid.

| hotelgirl985

6. Every rose has its thorn

My wife's best friend is a florist by trade. She gifts her services to decorate her friend’s wedding. Big cost savings. Wedding goes as planned and all is good.

Afterwards, the bride and her mom get annoyed at florist friend who didn't give a gift in the wedding card: "She didn't even cover her/husband's plate."

Let's conveniently forget the $1,000 in floral products gifted to the wedding. It's a rift that's never healed between them since.

| Hardatit

Tuxedo salesman here.

Bride and groom came into the store to get tuxedos. She said "I need a penguin suit for my fiance." Now I don’t give this too much thought, as that's not a particularly uncommon phrase. But then she pulled out a picture of a penguin and I had to match that.

She made him get a tails jacket and black vest, spent over an hour figuring out what shoes looked like the most like flippers, and then made me special order a shade of orange bow tie that most closely matched the penguin's little scruff thing.

The seven shades of orange we had were not acceptable.

| Arusso64

8. Liar, liar

The short story is that she lied.

She lied to the venue about the number of guests that were attending, effectively packing us like sardines.

She lied about having a "day-of" staff. That meant that all the groomsmen spent the day hanging flowers, running to get kegs and waters, pouring the champagne for guests, and setting up the entire venue the day before.

She lied to the hair and makeup personnel about the number of people who were obtaining services in order to get them to come to the site. This forced guests to get hair and makeup done in order for "the bride not to have to be charged extra."

She lied to the catering about the number of guests — this caused them to run out of food and alcohol.

All in all, I think her lies saved her $1,500, but cost her close friendships since her attitude toward the whole situation was indignation instead of being apologetic.

| yelloworchid

Bride was blonde. All bridesmaids except for me were brunette. She asked me to dye my hair brown for the wedding because she “wanted to be the only blonde.”

I suggested that instead I just give up my bridesmaid spot.

Thankful to this day that I said that. I heard the dresses and bachelorette party cost all the other girls more money than I make in a month.

| kmmurky

10. Meddling momzilla

How about momzilla? I was the planner for a wedding and had been working with the bride and groom. A few months into planning, the groom’s mom calls me to change the date of the wedding. I thought it was kind of weird and called the couple to confirm the change. NOPE! Couple did not know anything about the date change and said to completely ignore the groom’s mom and call them if she tried to get in contact.

| girlfridayfail

My first job out of college, my boss got engaged and asked me and three colleagues to be her bridesmaids. I had only known her for a short time, but I didn't feel comfortable saying no because ... well she was my boss.

In addition to being in a wedding for someone I barely knew, there were so many horrible things about this nightmare bridezilla wedding.

First, I ended up hosting both her bachelorette and her shower because no one in her life planned anything.

She showed up to her own shower an hour late, hungover, and wearing pajamas when she demanded that everyone dress for a luncheon.

She ordered our dresses from Etsy and they looked like seafoam green raw silk pillowcases with holes cut for the arms and head. They tied in giant bows at the back and we all looked like literal infants.

She wouldn't let us wear heels with said "dresses" because the groom was kinda short and we all had to buy new flats in a specific shade of gold.

She wanted us to wear our hair in a really ugly, extremely complicated updo — and said we would have to pay to have one of the hairstylists to do our hair (we refused).

The wedding was on a Sunday and the venue was far and inconvenient. No, it wasn't a long weekend.

The rehearsal dinner for this Sunday wedding was Thursday and started at 4 p.m., requiring everyone to leave work in the middle of the day.

She forced us to stay at an expensive hotel in the area the night before the wedding for no apparent reason and refused to pay for our hotel room.

| gabygygax

12. Bride's big day(s)

Bride had two weddings. Pretty different financial backgrounds between us.

She had one wedding in the local state where she grew up and one destination wedding a month later.

She couldn't decide which dress to get, so she bought three.

I was maid of honor at the local event and was supposed to be part of the destination wedding. Had to overdraw my bank account to attend and cover expenses; I was really in awe at all the extravagances.

It was a three-hour ceremony with two venue changes. "I want what I want!" and "It's my day!" still ringing in my ears just thinking of it.

She went into $60K of credit card debt for her perfect day(s) — she told me the day before that she had not informed the groom.

| gigatroness

My best friend just got kicked out of being a bridesmaid because she couldn't spend the $1,500 to go to the bachelorette party — all the other costs were killing her. The bride told her to take out a credit card to pay for it.

One of our friends made the best comment over the situation: "She (the bride) just did you the best favor ever kicking you out of the bridal party."

| awayfrommymind

14. 'Til death do us part

I worked as a bridal fitting assistant in a wedding dress shop.

Probably the worst I ever saw was a woman who claimed her fiancé had died so she wanted a refund. Then she came back in demanding the same dress back because they'd made up. Turns out he wasn't dead after all.

| hippiebanana

Went to a wedding in Cuba once (live in Canada) and after paying to fly and stay there and getting a suit (wasn’t wedding party, just a close friend), I only gave a $100 cash present (since the rest of the trip easily cost me $1,300).

The bride’s family had the nerve to email me asking why I only gave $100 as a present, especially since I had the privilege of seeing the wedding in person (was a guy just out of school at his first job less than a year).

| orswich

16. Call me 'Mom'

I recently attended my father’s fifth wedding in August of this year, of which I was not asked but required to be a bridesmaid. About 24 hours after the wedding, my new “stepmother” was screaming at me in front of the entire wedding party for not referring to her as my mother.

Keep in mind, my real mother is very much alive and we are very close.

| ConspiracyBarbie

I worked as a caterer and a wedding DJ for about 15 years.

I was DJ-ing a wedding in a shabby little reception hall out in the middle of the sticks for a redneck bride and groom.

The bride was wasted by the time I started playing my set (around 8 p.m.) She came up to me right away and told me that I need to play the song “Save A Horse (Ride A Cowboy)” like every four songs, and I try to tell her that it's a bad idea but she insisted, so I agreed.

About an hour into the night I play the song for the 10th time and people in the crowd started to boo. Please note that everytime I played the song I passed it off onto the bride by saying something like "it’s time for a special request from the bride," so as to not destroy my reputation.

So people boo and start walking off the dance floor. Bride sees this and loses it.

She runs up to the stage and demands the mic. "Get back on the dance floor, or this thing is done!" Her guests ignore her. She yells again and no one pays her any attention.

She then marches over to the cake and gift table and flips it over, yelling "Everyone get out of my wedding!"

Her guests, who did not seem all that surprised, end up leaving. I still got paid so in the end it did not matter too much from my end but wow … Just wow.

| itsalltruesteve

18. I do (but I don't want to)

When my friend was a bridesmaid, she received an astonishingly detailed itinerary of how to behave on the wedding day, with notes like "9:52 a.m.: Compliment the bride on how she looks on the most important day of her life."

On the actual wedding day, the bride repeatedly got angry with my friend for not adhering to the itinerary. This was after several months of the bride expecting my friend to be available at a moment's notice to take care of any wedding chores.

They haven't spoken since the wedding day.

| chestnutmoss

Caterer. Mother of bride found a single spot on a knife on a single setting. Demanded that the entire reception ($60K) be free.

She was not writing the check so she was shot down pretty quickly. But there was much rage.

| remorsefulsurvivor

20. Expensive taste

Picked $400 bridesmaid dresses. Destination bachelorette that cost over $1,200. Insisted on a super expensive spot for the bridal shower. Registered at William Sonoma.

I was a broke college student, but managed to pay for all this junk and give a gift.

| notatumor1990

She said from the start she was going to pay for makeup to be done on the day.

Two weeks before the wedding, said I needed to drive two hours to go buy a really expensive makeup brand for myself to wear, which I did, even though I was broke from Christmas shopping.

Then I was criticized for not giving a gift, despite being told “being a bridesmaid was gift enough.”

| ajlawford

22. The band played on

I'm a violinist who plays in quartets at weddings.

One October, my group was to play at an outdoor wedding.

It was 45 degrees Fahrenheit outside. The bride refused to move the ceremony inside (there was a very nice facility to do so; this was at a fancy hunt club), even though we and her guests were freezing.

Her poor bridesmaids wore strapless dresses with no shawls or anything to keep them warm! It was awful, and my group actually had to put in our contract that we will not play an outdoor wedding if it is below 55 degrees Fahrenheit, as it can ruin our instruments.

On top of that, the bride never thanked us, and apparently everyone got so drunk at the reception, the venue kicked everyone out early.

This is a venue that probably cost close to $10K to rent out for the day/night.

| breannabalaam

My brother's girlfriend works with a well-known local wedding planner, and had been working many weddings with this planner. She finally worked solo one day with this massive bridezilla (she found out that day).

The couple had hired her a couple weeks before the wedding and clearly had no clue what the job is supposed to be. When she showed up early in the morning on the wedding day (for an outdoor wedding down a hill from the house that was locked for hours), she was met with essentially an entire antiques market. The bride wanted a rustic Pinterest look, but had gone overboard and bought way too many tacky items.

The entire day was horrendous, with this planner working without eating until about 11:00 p.m. The bride had wanted a wedding planner AND a decorator.

After the wedding, she complained to get her money back.

| Anonymous

24. Bride's special ... year?

A bride once called having a meltdown because her friend got engaged as well and was planning to get married in the same year as she was ... Apparently it was her special year and not just a day.

She threw a huge fit that this girl was only getting married to "steal her thunder."

Yes, because no one else can have a life at the same time as you. Her friend's date wasn't even in the same month or season. Hers was in October and her friend’s was in June.

| sillykitty1990

Friend is a photographer. Does weddings. Got punched in the face by the groom because the groom decided that the photographer was "taking too many photos of the bride."

Weddings seem to bring out the worst in humanity.

| Anonymous

26. Callous and catty

My dad had the audacity to die six weeks before the wedding, and she couldn't understand why that superseded her wedding details for me. I met my husband at her wedding, haven't spoken to her since.

| Anonymous

My Dad remarried. Come the wedding day, his (soon to be ex-) bride stepped out of the limo, and pushed me away from her when I tried to give her a congratulatory hug (I was 11).

That part of the wedding threw me off, and sure enough six months later they were divorced.

| wishery

28. Seeing green (beans)

This was the most expensive wedding I had catered up to that point. Around $100K. The bride went absolutely crazy because she was given cut green beans as opposed to French-style cut green beans.

She was rude to everyone and spent the entire reception screaming at her new spouse. He looked miserable and beaten down at his own wedding.

Three months later, she never made the final payment on the food or the venue. Why? Because she couldn’t afford it — her divorce lawyers were costing her a fortune.

| Rachernobyl

Late to the party, but my ex-husband was the groomzilla. I didn't mind him being more involved than most men because it was my second wedding, but he ended up taking total control.

I chose my dress and that was it. The rest was him.

The one thing I really really wanted was live music at the ceremony; I had to beg for months. He finally relented, and then changed his mind during the ceremony.

It set the tone for the rest of our marriage, which only lasted a couple of years.

| countryblumpkin

30. Sassy sorority sisters

My sister had 10 bridesmaids. Most of them were her sorority sisters from college.

They wanted to plan an elaborate weekend for the summer, but most of them were still in school and unemployed.

When I asked “Hey, who will pay for this?” my sister got annoyed that I even asked.

| SashWhitGrabby

We weren’t allowed to talk directly to the bride ... like at all.

Her mom and maid of honor were the only ones allowed to talk to her.

| specialendeavor

32. Drunk in love

Wedding starts late because groom hit the bar during the day.

Bride is mad that her new husband is slammed before dinner, so instead of helping him sober up ... she proceeds to get super inebriated as payback.

It was a Tuesday.

| wasteddingo

We had to sign a contract vowing things like:

1. We wouldn't get any fake tans because no one was allowed to be tanner than her.

2. No false lashes, her lashes were to be the longest.

3. No teeth whitening done. Her "smile was to shine the brightest" (exact from quote from the contract).

4. $400 bridesmaid dress, $100 shoes and $250 rented jewelry we had to buy on our own, despite the fact her family was loaded and I was broke.

Looking back, I wish I would've had the courage to just decline. It was awful.

| accomplishedolive

34. Extending the guestlist

My best friend’s wedding shower was a nightmare.

Originally, she wanted to host a wedding shower for just 10 guests. My parents aren’t well off, but they offered to host it for her, since she had been a longtime friend of mine.

Three days before the shower, she told us that the guest list was actually going to be 45 people. When we told her that we couldn’t accommodate that many, she asked us if we were purposely trying to ruin her big day.

I dropped out of being a bridesmaid for her wedding and we never spoke again.

| Anonymous

My friend was a bridesmaid at her college friend’s wedding. One day when I visited her, I saw her fuming over a beige gown.

“What’s wrong?” I asked her.

“That’s what I’m wearing to K’s wedding.”

“Umm, okay. What’s wrong with it?”

“When we went bridesmaid dress shopping, she asked me what color I should pick for the bridesmaids. I told her to pick anything but a nude or a beige color because it would look really dull on us.”

I bet you can already see where this is going.

On the night of the wedding, K’s husband told my friend that K purposely picked a dull colour for her bridesmaids, as she wanted to look the prettiest that day.

| Sindhu Satish

After the ceremony we headed to the cocktail hour, and the wedding party stayed behind to take pictures. We had to wait for almost two hours for the bride and groom to show up (so that the reception could start).

Fortunately, there was an open bar. All of the guests (I’d say around 50 or 60) went to the bar and got a drink. One drink. (This is important.)

When the bride and groom finally arrived, one of the waiters approached her father and let him know that his deposit on the open bar had been met — did he want to close the bar or put more money down?

The bride overheard this and LOST IT.

She proceeded to stand up on a chair and start screaming at everyone there about how rude and selfish we were for taking advantage of the open bar.

Her dad tried to hush her by telling her it was okay, but she wasn’t having any of it. She picked up a bowl, threw it on the table, and yelled that each of us were going to chip in and pay for the drinks we had had.

So, we joined the majority of the guests — we walked up to the bowl, dropped a few bills in, walked over to the gift table, picked up what we had brought and left.

| Rhoda Engelauf-Allen

38. Skinny love

Between the time I agreed to be a bridesmaid and a couple of months before the wedding I lost some weight. She got angry at me because she wanted to be the skinny one and threw me out of the wedding party.

| Anonymous

Groomzilla story here.

During toasts, the groom took the mic and jokingly said, “Welcome to my first wedding!”

It was a cringeworthy moment and didn’t get a lot of laughs. Mostly awkward silence. I didn’t get a look at the bride’s face, but she must have been mortified.

Anyway, the groom was a real piece of work in other ways, too. They divorced after a few years.

| Dan Rosenberg

40. Toss the bouquet (and your hands in the air)

I work in a flower shop.

We had a bride and her mother show up at 9 a.m. They wanted to order a full set of flowers for the wedding party, and the wedding was scheduled for noon.

Yep, three hours from then, and they wanted them ready by the time they were done with their makeup appointment at the beauty parlor a few doors down.

All the flowers she wanted require at least three weeks to ship from our suppliers. The bride was absolutely gobsmacked that we didn't carry extremely expensive and highly perishable flowers at all times.

My boss told them that they would be limited to what we had in stock. The bride and her mom kept arguing that we should have those specific flowers in stock.

The bride started whining that we were going to “ruin” her big day. My boss told her she had ruined her own day by not ordering her flowers before her actual wedding day.

The mom tried chewing out my boss for her lack of customer service skills. My boss told her that she was welcome to try the shop down the street.

The mom said she'd do just that, and reassured the bride that she'd have her flowers done by the time her appointment was over. Both women stormed out.

I figured that was that, but my boss told me and the other girl to start on six simple boutonnières. Meanwhile she threw together a ribbon-wrapped bridal bouquet with some white roses that were nearly past their prime.

Sure enough, twenty minutes later the bride slunk back in and meekly asked if we were still able to assemble what they needed. We did. We also charged her a very large bridezilla tax — ahem, “rush fee.”

| Haceldama

My mom and I saw a great bridezilla freak out while shopping for my wedding dress a few years back. We were in a small, local shop when another mother-daughter duo came in.

The mother said they were here to pick up her daughter's dress, so the attendant looks her name up in the computer, frowns, and says, "Ma'am, you never bought the dress."

"What are you talking about?"

The attendant shows the lady the notes on her computer screen. "You said you wanted to think about it, and asked if we could hold the dress. We held it for two weeks, but when we didn't hear back from you, we assumed you didn't want it."

"Well, we want it now."

"It's been over eight months," the attendant explained, "We sold the dress a long time ago. But I can order you another one, and have it expedited here in a few weeks."

And like a volcano of entitlement, the eruption began.

"This is unacceptable!" The mother shrieked. "We have her alterations scheduled in two hours! The wedding is a week away! I can't believe you sold her dress!"

The bride, meanwhile, is slumped against the desk and sobbing.

My mom and I are just open-mouthed staring at this point. The attendant was trying to be diplomatic, but is clearly as baffled as we are. "Ma'am, we had no way to know you wanted it. You never called. You never put down a deposit. The dress isn't yours until you pay for it."

After some more screaming from the mother and wailing from the bride, they left. The shop attendant came back over to us and I asked her, "Does that kind of thing happen a lot?"

The poor lady was just deflated. "All the time," she said.

It baffles me to this day.

| Atomic_tango

42. Color clash

Wedding band member here.

Had a bride flip her lid on me and my bandmates because our instruments weren't white or salmon colored to fit in with the decorations, and she was saying we would ruin the photographs.

Even though I was playing during the reception and all the photos were already taken.

| OrbitalCheese

I once worked in a bakery and we had this bride freak out that her cake wasn't right, and proceeded to smash it to bits with her fists. The thing is, it was another couple’s cake. She smashed the wrong cake.

The cops allowed her to wash her hands before placing her in handcuffs.

| foxlust

44. No love for old blue eyes

The groom had planned and practiced singing a Frank Sinatra song to his new wife. During the reception, he took the mic and, with the band backing him up, began singing the song.

His new wife suddenly stomped across the dance floor and up on the stage, grabbed the mic from him and said, "I hate that song. I don't want to hear it." They divorced a year later.

| AverageJoe5555

When I worked at a fabric store, if I heard someone mention the word “wedding,” I would intentionally go to another department to work.

Without fail, every bride to walk in needed 25 yards of a discontinued fabric, she wouldn’t have the SKU (just a little sample piece), and it would take hours to resolve.

If you couldn't magically summon an identical product out of thin air, she'd flip out because her wedding was in three days and now there were no table runners.

After a while, you just stop feeling sorry for them.

| standbyyourmantis

46. T.M.I. bride

I was supposed to be a bridesmaid in a wedding of a male friend. I had tried to befriend the bride because the groom was a childhood friend.

She was a total drama queen.

She used our wedding chat to constantly discuss all of her problems with the groom — the ring was too small, they never talked about finances before getting engaged and now she's not sure he makes enough, can you get a prenuptial agreement for children you don't have yet?

I could write a novel about it.

Keep in mind that we were all friends with the groom long before we met her, but if we didn’t back her up, she’d say that we were "bad friends."

Eventually I was replaced as a bridesmaid, did not attend the wedding and do not speak to either of them anymore.

| notplus8

Bride and groomzilla story here.

They had an outdoor wedding with no back-up plan (in case of rain) on the shores of Lake Michigan.

It poured rain that day, but the happy couple requested no umbrellas because they wanted to be able to see the faces in the crowd.

Well, they were able to see the very wet and angry faces of people whose clothes were ruined while the bride and groom stayed dry under the gazebo.

| MajorMustard

48. It's not a competition

I was a bridesmaid and my husband was a groomsman.

The bride banned us from looking at, speaking to or dancing with each other for fear of “out-cute-ing” the happy couple. We'd been married for 5 years at this point.

We complied with her wishes, but the request alone was outrageous.

| themackeroll

She demanded that I grow my bangs out months before because, "I don't want anyone's hair blowing in the wind, it all has to stay perfectly still."

Also, I'm quite pale so she insisted I had to get a fake tan.

I originally bought a pale tan color to look more natural, but on the morning of the wedding she made me pile it on. It was pretty hot that day so subsequently, it stained my pale pink dress.

| gooperchickenface

50. Blonde ambition

I was a bridesmaid for a high school friend.

At the time, I had bleached my hair blonde, and it didn't turn out well. Before the wedding I had it changed back to my original color — the color I’ve had all my life (except for the awful month or so of bleach).

I showed up for the wedding ceremony, and the bride had an epic meltdown, because, “now all her bridesmaids wouldn't be blonde!”

Apparently, I wasn't asked to be a bridesmaid because she wanted me, just my blonde hair.

| rusty0123

I was the maid of honor.

She demanded that I come pull weeds out of her parents’ yard a day or two before the wedding because the reception was at her parents’ house.

I had already gone through multiple ridiculous requests the week leading up to the wedding, so this one I put my foot down and said no.

Got through the wedding. No longer friends. She did send a gift when I got married. A centerpiece from her wedding, that I had helped make.

| radiolyss

52. Shave the date

My sister-in-law insisted that I shave off my beard for the photos — a beard I've had for over 10 years, and will probably have on my dying day (I look like a toddler clean-shaven).

She was eventually talked down by my brother, who pointed out that in a year it would look like they had a complete stranger in all their wedding photos.

| nowadaykid

She was a typical bridezilla, but it was during the photos that it all went real crazy.

During one picture, her and the groom were taking a kissing pic and decided that all the bridesmaids and groomsmen needed to be doing the same.

Despite much objection, we all had to kiss these girls we didn't really know, and the whole thing was super awkward.

| sbashe5

54. Her goose was cooked

The hotel brought the wrong main meal during the reception, and rather than just shrug it off and get compensation later, the bride insisted they re-cook the whole thing from scratch.

For 100 people.

This essentially brings the reception to an end as now all the guests have to wait an extra three hours to get dinner, pushing back the speeches to the end of the night.

The evening guests waited in the bar all night, then went home without ever seeing the happy couple. There was no time for dancing.

| sizemattersnot

Last weekend, a bride walked into the church four hours early. 30 people were in the middle of prayer.

In her super short makeup robe, she freaked out because the church wasn’t set up for the wedding yet, so she picked up a chair and threw it at a trash can.

56. Don't step on my shoes

My cousin married a vapid dolt.

The night before the wedding, she found out the flower girl had the same shoes as her, in a much smaller size. She flipped her lid and made the mother of the flower girl buy different shoes for her before the ceremony.

I worked at a golf course that did a lot of weddings.

By far the worst thing that a bride did was send her guests to the reception venue with no food or drinks, while she drove around after the ceremony to take pictures.

People from out of town had nowhere else to go, so they would bring their kids or elderly relatives to a golf course clubhouse. Meanwhile, the wedding party didn’t show up for at least two hours.

One time, a bride and groom drove around for almost five hours after the ceremony and showed up inebriated, then threw a fit that roughly half their guests had left.

| soundslikesally

58. A spooky ceremony

My sister got married last year.

First, she got married on Halloween for no reason other than she got a discount on the venue.

So even though it's my favorite holiday, and our kids wanted to trick or treat, we all had to haul ourselves to her wedding — which was more than two hours away.

I am one of four sisters. She initially asked all of us to be bridesmaids, but ended up with one bridesmaid, because only one of us could afford it.

She wanted us to buy $4,000 dresses, with custom-made jackets and wanted us to throw her a bachelorette in Las Vegas.

| Anonymous

In her religion or culture or family (I don't really know) turtles were a symbol of good luck, and mere weeks before the wedding she came up with the idea to have turtles at the reception.

How you ask?

She wanted live turtles walking around the reception hall with lit candles glued to their backs. Lit flaming candles.

She saw no issues with this plan.

We tried to explain that the turtles could get crushed or stepped on, that it was cruel to glue candles to their backs and most importantly that a lit candle at ground level could start a fire.

She threw a fit of epic proportions.

We finally came to a solution of adding turtle themed things to the table decorations.

Because that wasn't good enough for our bridezilla, we teamed up with some local reptile wranglers to line the walls with giant aquariums that had live turtles swimming in them.

We had to have a staff for the turtles and extra insurance for the hall. But we pulled it off for the turtle bride.

| sarabeth616

60. A never-ending to-do list

Six years ago my childhood friend got married.

Her requests:

• Refused to "approve" any shoe I picked, after claiming I could, "pick any shoe I wanted."
• Dis-invited my parents after sending invitations.
• Required we buy expensive makeup to cover up our visible tattoos.
• No up-dos (I have long hair, this does not ever work out well. Ever.)
• No pedicures or full sets of acrylic nails.
• Demanded $3,000 in cash gifts for her honeymoon to Walt Disney World. She was offended when she realized no one was going to pay for that.

I ended up pulling out of the wedding and ended the friendship.

Their marriage lasted two years.

| rtasoiaa

I was a wedding photographer and encountered a momzilla.

The bride's mom comes up to me at the beginning and tells me not to take any pictures of the groom's family. She said that they didn't help pay for the pictures, so they shouldn't have any pictures taken of them.

I told her that's not how it works and that I didn't feel comfortable doing that. She bickered with me a bit, and then left in a huff. Then she came back and said, "Well, just don't take pictures of his mother."

I ignored her request, and after a few drinks they were all dancing together.

| zohso

62. Bride in the bush

The bride wanted an unconventional wedding.

As in, a three-day-long campground potluck wedding for which the whole family was expected to fly cross-country, from New York to California.

We had to bring our own tents, sleeping bags and a hot homemade dish that you'd have to haul across 3,000 miles.

We respectfully declined to attend.

Another happened at a wedding I was blissfully not invited to, but my boyfriend was.

The bride forced the groomsmen to buy $4,000 Armani suits, but "couldn't afford" a traditional reception. Everyone who wasn't immediate family got kicked out right after the ceremony.

It's incredibly tacky to be so inconsiderate to your guests.

| Anonymous

My sister-in-law was a bridezilla.

She wanted both a bachelorette party and a bridesmaids' weekend at the spa with multiple activities (chocolate making, fancy champagne bar and dinner) for which we were expected to foot the entire bill.

I was a poor graduate student at the time and couldn't afford to attend. Ended up getting fired as bridesmaid a week before the wedding.

| dahliafluffy

I'm going to a wedding this summer. Not only is it a three-day event that involves camping and staying at the site for that long, the bride is asking for help setting up and bringing stuff.

I will only be driving down for the ceremony.

I think it's pretty tacky to force your guests to provide free labor for your wedding.

| abqat

64. She wanted a free wedding planner

The bride wanted her bridesmaids (of which there were nearly a dozen) to not only plan her a shower and bachelorette, but also plan the wedding. Seriously.

Each person was given a task like, "narrow down and present top three photographers." Others were tasked with arranging the flowers, calling DJs and so on.

I was on the verge of tears about how stressed I was planning a wedding that wasn't even mine. None of my florists were acceptable. We live in a suburban area — there aren't that many to pick from.

Needless to say, the majority of us are no longer friends with this bridezilla.

| beachy5313

The bridesmaid dress she picked out for me was $2,400.

I couldn't afford it and gently told her so. I found a similar dress with fabric that was the same color, so I asked her if it was okay if I wore that instead.

She cussed me out, told me I was ruining her wedding, that her "vision" required me to wear that dress. She asked if I couldn't just open a credit card to charge the dress on.

When I told her no, she cut off all contact with me, claiming that if I was a "true friend" I would make the finances work. She's never spoken to me again.

| Anonymous

66. Not the time or place

The bride stormed out of her parents' house (wedding was on her parents' farm), in her underwear screaming about how the groom had ruined her life, she hated him, hated her dress, hated her hair, hated the whole wedding and how she was in love with Jeff (the groom's best man and cousin).

The wedding party just stood back and watched while the whole thing went down.

After a few minutes, I took a pizza box, rounded up my boyfriend and his sister and we decided it was probably a good time to head out.

We drove back to the hotel and stuffed our face with pizza.

| canadianmaplesyrup

I saw a marriage fall apart before it even started. It was the most embarrassing moment I have ever had the misfortune of witnessing.

The bride arrived at the wedding — which was a huge event. Massive church. 300 guests. Everyone was seated and waiting for the bride’s grand entrance.

Suddenly the wedding music starts and everyone stands. By unhappy chance, I was seated behind the groom.

He turns around and as the bride is within earshot he said, “What the heck are you wearing?” The bride looked at him, understandably annoyed, and they started to bicker. The priest had to intervene. Nobody knew where to look.

The bride suddenly took off her veil and threw it on the floor yelling, “Well if that’s the way you feel, this is over!” and marched out screaming, “It’s off! It’s off!” The groom was left standing there with a red face.

For a brief moment everyone just stood there motionless. The groom disappeared momentarily. He returned looking disheveled and announced the wedding was off. We all left utterly shocked.

The reception went ahead however. It had been paid for and the bride’s mother, who said it would be a shame for all the food and drink to go to waste as it had already been paid for.

Quietest dinner I’ve ever attended.

| Rhys Hoffmann

68. A dress for every day of the week

One of my oldest friends turned out to be kind of a crazy bride.

The bridal party was twenty people — ten bridesmaids, ten groomsmen.

We were basically the unpaid wedding staff. We set up and completely decorated the venue for a 200-guest wedding.

The bride and her mother didn't want to pay the venue staff who would normally do this. What did they spend the budget on instead?

Seven wedding dresses.

Yes, throughout the course of the very long wedding ceremony and reception, the bride changed into all seven dresses. No, it wasn't a cultural thing.

They were seven nearly identical white satin dresses.

| kochirachira

I was one of ten bridesmaids.

We were at a fancy venue, and it was a requirement that you use the catering staff in place. That didn't stop the mother of the bride from micromanaging in the kitchen.

We walk in, and she is yelling at the kitchen staff, telling them how they should be doing things. She sees us, and starts giving us tasks.

"Peel, chop!"

So there we are, sweating profusely, peeling and chopping.

Quick mental picture — I'm wearing a bridesmaids dress, with a fully open back and extremely deep V down the front. It was a garish purple color with a neon bustier underneath.

Impractical, unflattering and the absolute last thing I wanted to be cooking in.

| Anonymous

70. Unfashionably late

The bride was two hours late to her own rehearsal. This was very aggravating to all of the professional staff at the church who were required to be there.

It was equally aggravating to the restaurant staff who were expecting a large party at 7:30 p.m., that didn't show up until 9:30 p.m., at a place that closed at 10 p.m.

And then when I thought it couldn't get any worse, the bride was 90 minutes late for her own wedding because she was getting her hair done.

A full church, everyone waiting.

She finally arrives. Doesn't even apologize. Just interrupts everyone trying to talk to her to say, "Excuse me, but this is my wedding! I needed my hair to be perfect!"

| theicecapsaremelting

One of my "best" friends was getting married, I was to be a bridesmaid.

I was between jobs at the time so I ended up taking a temporary position at the company she worked for.

About halfway through the job, I got a great opportunity for a full time, permanent position in my field.

I couldn't afford to not take it, so I ended my temporary position with her company as gracefully as I could.

She took this as an insult and dumped me as a bridesmaid.

To spite her, I showed up to the wedding in a fabulous dress with a hot date. We went to the reception and drank/ate as much free stuff as we could fill ourselves with.

| rheabs

72. Pink-slipped

Bride told me what color dress she wanted me to wear — cotton candy pink (ugh). So I buy an ankle-length, chiffon cotton candy pink dress. Before I bought it, I sent her pics to confirm this dress was acceptable. She gives me the okay.

The day before the wedding, I'm helping decorate and I see the other bridesmaids' dresses.

They are above the knee, empire waisted and black with fuchsia waistbands (like what a tween girl would buy for a school dance).

The bride had no intention of telling me I had the wrong dress. She was just going to let me show up and look completely out of place.

Thank goodness the store had more of the black/fuchsia dresses in stock. Even though I am totally the wrong body type for such a dress — I'm 5'8 and very curvy, squeezing into a dress intended for a 15 year old.

It was bad.

| riversong42

The bride wanted two bachelorette parties. One that was raunchy and a secret from her mother, and another that was family appropriate.

We were to provide presents for her at both parties.

Then we were told that we needed to also bring her gifts for the bridal shower, and help pay for the cost of food and decorations for all three parties.

This was all on top of buying the bridesmaid dress, shoes and accessories. I had to tell her that I couldn't afford to put on all of her parties and supply a gift for each of them.

She then decided to cuss me out, call me selfish and ended our friendship.

It was horrible.

| Anonymous

74. Duking it out over digs

The bride wanted us to have that whole "mismatched bridesmaid dress" aesthetic without giving the bridesmaids (there’s seven of us) the option of actually choosing our own dresses.

What she did was choose seven dresses, send a photo collage of the dresses in a group chat and have us duke it out via text as to who would get what dress.

It was so awkward and hostile. I only know a few of the other bridesmaids, and I had no interest in arguing with strangers over text as to what dress I was going to wear. So I just kept quiet and took whatever was assigned to me.

Luckily I liked the dress I got, but the whole thing was like a bizarre social experiment gone wrong.

| catbiscuit

She wanted to have two bachelorette parties.

The first was in Nashville.

She cried and missed her fiancé the whole time, decided she hated country music and therefore Nashville, was upset that it snowed and finally sobbed and laid down in the middle of the street after finding out that her fiancé and groomsmen went to a casino for the weekend.

So we plan a second bachelorette weekend, this time to Chicago a month later.

We get there ... and she spends the whole time crying and missing her fiancé, deciding she hates snow and therefore Chicago and finally sobbing and laying down in the middle of the street because no one told our waiter it was "her special weekend."

| catsintinyshoes

76. Martyr of honor

I helped her plan her whole wedding, on a budget of around $3,000 for the entire thing.

• I made 120 lavender vanilla votive candles with custom lace and ribbon accents.
• I made all the bouquets/floral arrangements. She ordered about 500 red and white roses. None of them were de-thorned or trimmed down properly.
• I made the centrepieces.
• I hemmed all three of the bridesmaids outfits.
• I spent 60% of the weekend keeping her family from killing each other over petty arguments.
• And I took photos at the reception.

I saw her maybe three times after the wedding, and she hasn't called me in almost a year.

| jsqueaks

She wanted us to purchase matching necklaces and jewelry.

Sounded just fine and normal, until we found out it was tacky, overpriced garbage from her sister’s jewelry business (she was one of the bridesmaids too).

The sister had convinced the bride to wear her jewelry on her wedding day in order to promote the business — which included promoting it to us, of course.

I didn’t buy anything from her, but she really turned on the sales pressure. It was an awkward thirty minutes of her trying every sales tactic in the book.

Thankfully, the bride completely forgot about the idea and I found a similar necklace from Forever 21. Wore that to the wedding instead.

| horsetailfeathers

78. Beauty was a beast

I was a bridesmaid for a friend who was a consultant for one of those multi-level marketing beauty companies.

So on top of having to buy a very expensive dress, shoes and jewelry, and having to pay for all my own hair and nail appointments, she made us buy our own “beauty kits” through her company.

This included moisturizer, face wash, as well as an entire face of makeup for the big day and the brush kit to apply it!

We still had to pay her friend to actually do our makeup on wedding day, with this makeup we bought.

Oh, and did I forget to mention this was a destination wedding?

Yeah, needless to say I re-evaluated our friendship after the wedding.

| 1radgirl

I was maid of honor. I planned a modest bridal shower since the bride specified that she didn't want anything too extravagant.

Then one day I get a message from her mother, saying how rude it was that I didn't invite her extended family. She then invited about 12 extra people.

I was kind of annoyed, but whatever. I let her know that it was going to cost about $25 per person.

She then sends me a long Facebook message, saying that I was a horrible maid of honor because I wasn't footing the bill for everyone.

I explained that I was still a university student, and it just wasn't within my means. She wouldn't cut me a break, saying that I "didn't know basic etiquette."

It was such a nightmare, I never want to be a bridesmaid ever again.

| startissue

80. Spoiled rotten

Bride had three showers!

One for groom’s side, one for her side and one couples shower. Attendance and gift was mandatory for each.

Registered at top-of-the-line store only, with all designer items on list, nothing under $200.

Had to buy an expensive dress, dyed shoes to match and specific hair ornaments.

Wedding was at 4:00 p.m., bridesmaids had to be at her house at 8:00 a.m. so the photographer could get shots of every moment of prep for the day.

Bridesmaids got no lunch, no dinner. We had to wait on her, hand and foot. It was miserable.

Her and her husband are now divorced.

| whereeveriwander

I have red hair, I’ve been a redhead my whole life.

When I was a bridesmaid I was accused of deliberately being a redhead "just to be difficult," because all the dress colors the bride wanted looked great on her blonde bridesmaids, but terrible on me.

Then she got upset because my tattoos were going to be visible, despite the fact that her sister (and maid of honor) also had a large visible tattoo that no one ever said anything about.

Also, kinda like being a redhead, the whole time I’d known her I had visible tattoos.

I’m not quite sure why she asked me to be a bridesmaid.

| disloyalmouse

82. Jekyll and Hyde bride

I was so excited to be a bridesmaid for my best friend of 15 years, but the wedding process brought to light every negative quality she possessed.

Everything we did for her was never enough. Duplicates of parties that weren’t good enough, spending more and more money to bring her “vision” to life, accusing us of "ruining" her wedding.

I wish I dropped out. I regret it so much. I spent so much money I truly didn’t have because I wanted to give her a good experience and make her feel loved, but she was just so nasty about it.

It’s been nearly a year and we haven’t spoken. I never received a "thank you."

| vivagypsy

At my coworker's 400-guest wedding, she had the officiant make an announcement that no one was allowed to leave before the first dance (planned for five hours into the 15-hour-long wedding event).

She had an attendant stationed in the parking lot to note who did not comply, so that their friendship could be terminated.

| soundlife

My best friend's coworker is getting married later this year, and oh, man, this girl's got some problems.

She's very religious and "pure," which, if that's your thing, is fine. Whatever.

However, she told my friend last week that she doesn't want anyone at her wedding who was born out of wedlock. Which includes my friend, who is the daughter of a teen mom.

| babblepedia

Bride and groomzilla.

They had demands for specific gifts, followed by repeated online admonishments to "not buy gifts off the registry."

Apparently, the groom has expensive tastes, and any gift you tried to buy him would essentially be garbage compared to the stuff he prefers.

They selected completely inappropriate songs to play too early in the evening (when kids and older adults were still there).

While I get that they both wanted to get down and dirty at some point, you save the more mature songs for the end of the night.

You may love Dr. Dre, but Grandma doesn’t want to hear gangster rap.

| attheeolian

I was best man at my best friend's wedding. I was standing next to the couple at the reception and the bride was a bit loaded (groom was sober).

She said really loudly, "I'm not really that in love with you, but I think you'll be a good husband." The look on his face sucked all the joy out of me. He tried to laugh it off and told her to hush, but he was tearing up as they walked away.

I was so sad for my friend. They are still married after five years, but I never know what to think about them and I've never spoken to him about it.

| winkers

86. The return of the nerd

I bartend weddings so I get to see like about thirty a year, and probably the craziest thing I've ever seen happened just a few weeks ago.

It was the end of the night, the bar was closed and the bride is leaning against the bar.

Some really dorky guy comes up to her and starts telling her how he thought they always were more than friends, and how he always felt they had a deep connection.

As if to just shut this guy up, the bride pulls his face toward her, plants a big kiss on him, says, "There." And then walks away.

| philmorrisjunkie

My sister was sort of a bridesmaid-zilla. She was totally inappropriate at the wedding, at least.

For starters, she got completely loaded in front of her two young kids.

Then, she spent the night flirting with one of the groomsmen who had a girlfriend.

Somehow, it became my responsibility to drive her home. At the beginning of the hour-long drive from the reception hall to home, she got sick and threw up on herself.

The kicker? This wedding was in December, so I had to sit with the smell of throw-up for an hour because it was too cold to roll down the windows.

| khulling

88. Clear out your savings

It was a best friend of mine who was very frugal, so I figured she was going to have a reasonable wedding and bachelorette party. I had shared my monetary concerns with her too — that I worked and went to school and couldn’t take off much time. She didn’t have that many friends so it was only me and one other girl as bridesmaids.

She asked us to hand-make all her decorations for the wedding (I put in 15 hours a week hand-making decorations, all outside of working and going to school full time).

Then she planned a week long bachelorette party out of town, also asking us to foot the bill, not to mention our dresses. I wanted to find something affordable, but she picked designer dresses that we had to pay for ... never worn it again.

I spent nearly $1K on the whole ordeal, not to mention I did her hair and makeup for free for the wedding.

I just felt largely taken advantage of and unappreciated.

| SpectralShifter

Her wedding invitation was a big, heavy thing.

I RSVP'd via text, because I didn't know how long it would take for a mailed parcel to get to her. She freaked out that I wasn't doing it properly. It cost me $5 to mail it, but okay, fine.

I ended up getting a call shortly after she got my response telling me only my son and I were invited, not my husband. I asked why and she refused to answer.

I found out through a bridesmaid that the bride was embarrassed to be "marrying down." She was always the "hot one" of our friend group, and she thought her husband wasn't good looking enough. She decided to not invite any of the good looking husbands of her female friends.

| 2345pk

90. Bring your own flask

Went to a dry wedding because it went against the bride and groom's supposed "religious values."

The bride refused to let anyone bring alcohol, and the wedding was in the middle of nowhere.

The ceremony took place, and the reception was several hours later. There was absolutely nothing to do.

There was no entertainment, no food and no drinks. There weren't even tables set up so people could sit down.

It felt endless.

Five hours later, the bridal party stumbles in. They're completely loaded. They had alcohol for themselves. I guess those religious values only applied to her guests.

I grabbed my wife by the arm and we left.

| vlaed

I used to work at a bakery that did custom wedding cakes.

This bride's cake design included fresh flowers, so the day before the wedding, she drops off a bouquet and walks out.

My supervisor quickly noticed that her flowers were dying and looked terrible. The bride wasn't answering her phone, so we were at a loss. We use the flowers, but take pictures just in case she decides to complain.

The bride arrives to pick it up the next day. She literally screams in disgust upon seeing the cake. She yells at my supervisor saying that he ruined the flowers on purpose.

My supervisor tried to show her the photos he took, but it just made her even angrier.

She tried to pick up the cake and throw it on the ground, but thankfully her sister stopped her.

92. Tony who?

I attended a wedding in Las Vegas, and the bride really wasn’t handling the day well. Afterwards, we were all supposed to go to dinner at a restaurant in the Paris casino.

The bride was walking through the casino in her wedding gown when a man standing near the bar congratulated her and offered to buy her and her new hubby a drink.

She gave him an angry, “No!” Then kept marching along.

My jaw dropped. I asked her if she knew who that was. She didn’t.

“That was Tony Bennett,” I said.

She blinked at me.

“The singer?!” I said incredulously. “He’s headlining the casino tonight!”

She was really embarrassed after that and she finally started to loosen up and be nicer for the rest of the evening.

| markdraws

My mother in law is crazy.

Her favorite thing to do is make people deeply uncomfortable, and hardly anyone talks to her for that reason.

Anyhow, her one daughter had an outdoor wedding in 2002 — the summer when West Nile virus was all over the news.

So, to get attention, she threw a giant fit, and showed up to the wedding wearing a pith helmet she had brought back from Australia, in camouflage, with mosquito netting and refused to take any of it off. She is in all the wedding photos like this, the mother of the bride, looking entirely pleased with herself.

| Anonymous

94. Kicked out of the picture

At my cousin's wedding, the bride's brother's girlfriend was a bridesmaid. The rest of the bridal party were either close friends or family.

When it came time to take the wedding pictures, she made us take two of every one: One with the girlfriend and another exactly the same, except without the girlfriend. She wanted those extra photos as insurance, in case her brother and his girlfriend broke up. In her words, she "didn't want to look at pictures years down and see a stranger in all of them."

The girlfriend played along, but you easily could tell she felt really upset about it.

| Anonymous

I am currently in the throes of bridezilla trauma with my sister who is getting married in October. Here are just a few of things she has done:

• Told me over text that my younger sister and I were no longer allowed to be her bridesmaids because we weren't "enthusiastic" enough, referring to the fact that we have yet to buy her something from her outrageously expensive registry.

• Told my sister that she had to dye her purple hair back to blonde, because it'll "take away the attention that's supposed to be on me."

• I'm bisexual, and was ordered to bring a "normal" date or none at all — normal meaning a guy only.

She does all of this because it is "her year" and it's supposed to be all about her.

| syzgytooms

96. A glass half full kind of gal

A couple of years ago I attended a wedding of an old buddy. Wedding went fine, but the reception is where it went downhill.

The bride has a full glass of beer in her hand. She screams at her husband, "Get me another beer!"

He quietly says to her, "You have one already, so just finish that."

She gives him the most deathly-evil-wife-glare I'd ever seen, takes her full beer, holds it up in front of her face, turns over the glass and dumps the full pint out on to the carpet.

She stares at him and then says, "Now I don't have a beer, so get me another beer."

| doctorhypothesis

I was a bridesmaid in a bridal party and attended the wedding with my fiancé.

The bride refused to allow him to be in any of the informal friend and family photos, because, "Well, these things don't always work out, and I don't want to have guess who this person is ten years from now."

Well, it has been ten years and I am still happily married to that fiancé.

The bridezilla, on the other hand, has had repeated separations and is on her second divorce after an ugly breakup and a nasty custody battle. But hey, "these things don't always work out."

| randumname

It's not just bridezillas that the wedding party has to deal with — sometimes it's the grooms too.

Here, the traumatized bridesmaids and groomsmen of Reddit share the most outrageous demands they received during the weddings they’ll never forget.

1. The literal groomsman

The groom asked me to "keep an eye" on his tux for signs of dandruff. (He had a bad case of it at the time.)

I told him to choose a light-colored tux, but the bride insisted the guys wear black — a color that, of course, showed every particle of dandruff.

So I placed a small brush in my pocket, and every so often would "dust him off" as discreetly as possible throughout the day.

| Back2Bach

The bride bought us all matching earrings (the cheap, dangly kind from Claire’s, probably), and we were like, "Aw! Thank you!" being grateful for the gift. She said, "Yes, now all of you have to wear them."

My other friend, who was also a bridesmaid, whipped around to look at me knowingly, and that's when I spoke up to remind the bride that my ears weren't pierced (but that I was still grateful for the gift).

She made it clear that she did not care that my ears were not pierced and she used her trusted manipulation techniques to guilt me into trying to pierce my ears mere hours before the wedding.

I succeeded, albeit in painful and gory fashion. I had to go down the hall and ask her brother for his boutonnière pin; even he could not convince his sister that her day would still be lovely despite my lack of earrings.

So bride's brother and I went into the kitchen of the church and straight up "Parent Trapped" the piercings, which I actually performed entirely by my own hand.

I had to hold ice and napkins to my earlobes right up until walking out, since blood was still running from the backs of my ears.

Upon leaving that wedding, I 100% let that friendship fade into the background and we do not speak anymore.

| imhereforthekittehs

3. A culinary crisis

Got asked to stand up for a wedding during culinary school for a high school friend.

She wanted to know if I could help with dinner. I said sure and asked her what she wanted help with, figuring it was prep work.

No, she wanted me to handle the whole dinner. As in cooking for 200 people, as a 19-year-old having only done a year of culinary school.

She also wanted me to help pay for the food I'd be making, as their gift. She wanted me to make Caesar salad and potatoes au gratin and roast enough ducks for 200, by myself, and pay for about half of it.

I was learning how to be a pastry chef. I explained, and she just stared at me blankly. I told her I could do the cake easily enough, but she insisted she wanted a “real” cake, from a bakery.

I told her there wasn't any feasible way I could do it, not only because that's crazy, but because I literally wasn't trained to do it, and I got disinvited from the wedding.

They apparently served bagged salad, boxed potatoes and roasted chicken from Walmart.

| notasugarbabybutok

I'm a photographer, and my cousin wanted me to shoot their wedding for free as a gift to them.

Wedding was also on the other side of the country, and they wouldn't be paying for my flight or room. My pricing typically starts at a few grand and goes up.

I was still willing to do it until my cousin wanted me to also throw in finished prints, 350 retouched pics ... basically about $3,000 worth of photo work.

Suddenly I came down with a case of "something else to do that weekend.”

She still doesn't talk to me, and that's just fine. She never really talked to me before either, come to think of it.

| VictorianGasbubble

5. A risqué request

My girlfriend was a bridesmaid, and the bride wanted one of those pictures where the bridesmaids lift their dresses suggestively and the bride pretends to act all shocked.

None of the girls were really down for it, including my girlfriend. Not to mention, the groomsmen and family members were hanging around.

The bride got really upset because she saw the same kind of picture on Pinterest a few days earlier and wanted to replicate it.

She stormed off in the middle of taking pictures and didn't return for about half an hour, delaying the reception and the hungry wedding guests.

| iamb3comedeath

I am an American living in Japan. I'm young and look very much like the classic Caucasian of Asian stereotypes regarding Americans.

One day, one of my local friends told me that one of her friends was getting married and wanted to invite me to be a groomsman at the wedding. I had no idea who these people were — although I thought I'd met the bride once at a party.

It turns out that, at least in the part of Japan where I live, it's prestigious to have a foreigner attend the wedding. It makes you look like you have international connections.

I was happy to do it and I love anything to do with Japanese culture, so I attended. And since I don't speak much Japanese, I was able to feign (without outright lying) that I was good friends with the bride and groom.

My friend tells me I was a big hit.

Some foreigners here will actually rent themselves out to be guests at weddings or attend birthday parties.

| Rongorongo2

7. Best man … for life

In college I was a best man for a wedding where the bride demanded we all wear designer suits. I had to sell a guitar to afford just the rental. I had no money before, and after I had no money and one less guitar.

Then, at the reception, the groom pulled me aside and told me it was my job as best man to make sure their marriage went well. I was supposed to check in and help them with marriage stuff to make sure they didn't get divorced.

I looked him in the eye and said, “I can't be responsible for your marriage.”

He didn't talk to me from that second until just a couple months ago. Six years after his wedding.

| bearded_booty

I was assigned to make sure that the bride's perfectly well-mannered, calm, polite and downright delightful sister "behaved herself.”

The sister in question was a 40-something-year-old soccer mom who looked like the wildest thing she did was sampling grapes at the grocery store.

Through the reception, the bride kept making sure that I watched the sister like a hawk. You know, instead of dancing or enjoying myself.

I asked the other bridesmaids if they knew the backstory. Everyone knew the bride feared her sister's supposed outbursts. But no one had actually ever witnessed one in their 20+ years of knowing the bride.

| [deleted user]

9. The things we do for love

After my sister's engagement, she asked for my measurements, a photo of my tattoo and if I had any requests for the dress. I said that I needed to be able to wear a bra and if she didn’t want to see my tattoo, she should get a dress that covers it.

She ordered a dress two sizes too small, backless, with a deep plunge front that couldn’t be returned or exchanged. She said, "Oh, you'll be able to fit in it by the wedding, right?"

I lost 15 kilograms to fit in it in nine weeks. The dress made creaking noises as I zipped it. Why ask for measurements if you're going to ignore them?!

Oh, and remember my tattoo? It was sprayed with makeup until it looked like a giant bruise and the body paint ruined my husband's suit. The tattoo was of our mother on her wedding day.

She made me get a very dark spray tan (then complained it was still lighter than the other bridesmaids' tans) and dye my hair (it was an auburn, chin-length bob, but I had to have a brown updo).

I refused to pay $300 for a full set of hair extensions, so I had to wear hair pieces. They looked like dead guinea pigs.

She still brings up how I ruined her wedding video by almost falling over in the background. We had to wear six inch stilettos. On sand.

| shinyshinyredthings

My wife was in the bridal party of a mutual friend's wedding. The theme was a pop-culture mashup of video games, Harry Potter and Doctor Who.

The bridal party had to wear bridesmaid dresses in Hogwarts house colors based on a 50-question online quiz. Groomsmen also had to wear 10th Doctor converse sneakers (in their house colors) with their tuxes.

For that matter, everyone who attended was asked to take the quiz and come dressed in appropriate house colors.

Kinda ridiculous, but a fun wedding.

| ThatGrumpyGoat

11. Cheesin' for no reason

Bride wanted photos of the wedding party at every San Francisco landmark.

Four hours driving around, in a limo held together with duct tape, to cheese in front of each corny tourist spot.

She had a videographer along with us and wanted only the natural sounds recorded, so no one was allowed to talk.

I had to pick up my wife and two-month-old to bring to the church ceremony immediately after, since the bride left me little time (and no offer to pick them up during the photo session).

We got stuck in bridge traffic, so I was 10 minutes late for the scheduled wedding start time. The bride kicked me out of the wedding and drove around again to reshoot all of the pictures.

| GalantGuppie

I had a friend who was a bridesmaid, and the bride gave them a workout routine printed on pink card stock. "Sweating for the Wedding" to the extreme.

It had daily stuff to do, low calorie diet meal ideas, etc. I was shocked but I knew the bride and how vain she was.

The bridesmaid told me later that they all found out the bride had not made generic exercise sheets but individual ones. Each bridesmaid had specific workouts given to her based on what the bride thought they needed to work on. Never mind that the bride was not a trainer and didn't work in a gym.

I told her she needed to nope the heck out of that wedding.

| daniyellidaniyelli

13. What the bride wants

The wedding was in nine months. She spent the next five months giving me tasks like pricing venues, floral arrangements, etc. to plan this wedding. Both the bride and groom didn’t have a lot of money to throw around, so I asked if they had a budget in mind.

She sat down with me and started telling me about how she wants the groom in a baby blue velvet tux (from prom), bridesmaids all in purple and canary yellow chiffon dresses (eight bridesmaids in total), and the groomsmen in camo and royal blue.

She wanted a seven-tiered cake with "that white edible putty." She wanted a fried chicken dinner. And potato salad. Enough to feed 50 people.

She then told me that I, her maid of honor, would plan this wedding for her as my gift to them. Keep in mind that the question I asked was, “Do you have a budget in mind?”

After I asked again, she said I'd have to figure out all that money stuff.

I was working and going to school at the time. I told her I couldn't commit all that time and resources to this. She told me I was selfish and told me not to bother attending her wedding. She stopped talking to me and blocked me on social media.

| Sparky_Burns

The whole wedding was rainbow. Decorations, the cake, the favors, you name it.

I know what you're thinking, a rainbow theme wouldn't be too bad. You're wrong.

The bride had zero concept of hues, so there were neons, pastels and jewel tones all together in a small room. It was a multicolored circus, where we had the hideous fake bright blue and teal sunflower centerpieces mixed in with the soft mint green chair bows, and the violent hot pink, lime green and neon purple drapes hanging from the ceiling.

Never have I seen a grown man look so unhappy wearing a lavender waistcoat as I did when I was forced to dance with my matching groomsman.

And to make matters worse, despite having boning and full cups in our dresses, we all had to wear bras "to avoid slips.” After I got caught taking mine off and stuffing it in some random aunt's purse, the bride would check to make sure we were wearing them every hour.

Oh, and we weren't allowed to bring dates — which, once I got over the initial insult, was good because I would have died of embarrassment.

| canadienne_

15. Wedding weights

My best man had to hold a five-inch mini crown over my head nonstop for 40 long minutes of the ceremony — a feature of my bride's Greek Orthodox church tradition.

The maid of honor visibly outperformed him, with half as many right and left arm switches.

His shoulders burned for days.

| AWD_YOLO