Redditor u/reddit_userr asked the community, "What is the worst thing you've ever seen happen at a wedding?" And with more than 17,000 responses, it's safe to say weddings are a breeding ground for drama.
Here are just a handful of the submissions:
1."Divorced father of the groom started up about how much better his new wife was compared to his old wife, during his speech. He went on and on about the qualities of Asian women vs white women. I've never looked at my shoes so hard in my life."
-- u/Vadersballhair
2."Friend's wedding. The bride's nephew (about seven, I think?) was the ring bearer. Instead of sitting at the front after he made it down the aisle, he decided to do karate moves in front of (and sometimes behind) the couple during the entire ceremony. He's in almost all their photos."
-- u/rose-bradwardine
3."The sister of the bride, who wasn't invited, showed up drunk and got into a fight with the bride, until the father of the bride broke it up by putting the sister in a choke hold and dragging her out of the venue. The bride was surprisingly fine afterwards Source: I'm a wedding caterer."
-- u/paulsmith4908
4."One of my wife's coworkers got married this past summer. Her father passed away from a fatal heart attack the morning of the wedding but her family insisted and convinced her to go in with it, so she did. It was awkward as hell and nobody in the building made it through without crying, even the minister."
-- u/chipmunksyndrome
5."I worked weddings for a living and once saw the best man get loaded, give a speech, and profess his love of the bride and how they had slept together two nights before. Open bar: 1, best man: 0."
-- u/cjbeck71081
6."Went to a wedding of someone from my church a few years back. When it came time to say the vows, he pulled out a sheet of paper and read on for like five minutes, getting really intimate and pouring his heart out to her. It was kind of awkward. But the icing on the cake was her response. When he was done, she just giggled loudly and awkwardly and yelled out, 'Ditto!' That's it. That was her wedding vow. So freaking awkward."
-- u/FutbolMasta
7."Bride's step-mother and mother got into a fight. Step-mother bit the mother. Wedding went to a screeching halt."
-- u/PM-ME-ELEPHANT-JOKES
8."There was like an 8-year-old boy who had loads of confetti in his hand, so I didn't think much of it. Turns out he thought it was sugar paper and ate all of it. He then proceeded to projectile vomit everywhere through the middle of the ceremony. It was one of the funniest and most disgusting moments of my life."
-- u/theorangepanda99
9."After arriving 45 minutes after the ceremony was to begin, during the ring exchange, the groom gets this blank look and says he didn't know he was supposed to buy her another ring. SIL slipped off her wedding band and handed it off to the preacher."
-- u/jlmccuan
10."I was at a wedding where one of the bridesmaids had gotten married a month earlier and thought it was a good idea to change out of her dress into her wedding dress for the reception. We in the wedding party told her to change back. She decided to stand at the head of the buffet line and tell each and every one of us as we came through the line how she felt -- 'F-you, I f-ed your husband, you're a c.' It goes on and on. Booze was involved, so you can imagine how it was. She refused to change out of her wedding dress until one of the other bridesmaids locked her in the bathroom and told her to change, or it was going to get physical. She changed and left not long after. The rest of the reception was a fantastic time."
-- u/hillbillytendencies
11."For the bouquet toss, a middle-aged guy forced his middle-aged girlfriend out onto the floor, then stood by her so she couldn't leave. The bouquet was caught by an excited little girl. The guy proceeded to yank the bouquet out of the little girl's hands, gave it to his middle-aged girlfriend, then ran off the floor cheering loudly to high-five one of his buddies. The little girl ran away crying."
-- u/xjrob85
12."Was at a wedding this summer. The groom's family absolutely tore their son/brother apart during the speeches. They didn't say one loving thing, and went on to talk about all the mistakes he made during this life. The worst thing they brought up was how he was responsible for a car accident that put someone in a coma. I was cringing."
-- u/haveagreatsummerHAGS
13."I went to a wedding in a huge manor house on a cliff overlooking the ocean. The house was lit up by big floodlights on the floor, pointing up at the house. When it got dark, some guests ran inside to the bar/dancefloor and shouted at people to come outside and look. A man and a woman, who met for the first time at the wedding, were having sex below one of the floodlights but didn't realise that their gyrations were being projected 50 feet high onto the side of the house! A perfect shadow of two shaggers. They were very embarrassed when they found out."
-- u/Taucher1979
14."We were partying in Puerto Vallarta, and there was a beautiful wedding going on at the hotel next door. A friend of a friend was pretty drunk and decided to sprint for the wedding. He hopped the wall, blasted through the seating arrangements, then body slammed the like, 6-foot-tall wedding cake. He spent the next two days in a Mexican jail, and will forever be a fucking prick in my heart."
-- u/CrookedToast
15."At my wedding (I'm Australian), we were getting to the speeches part of the night, but they were waiting for me to come back from the toilets. The meal had not quite agreed with me, and I was dealing with the consequences. My buddy, who was being MC, was currently stalling the 110ish people and decided it'd be funny to come find me...wandering mic in hand. He enters the toilets and asks how much longer I'll be. I didn't know he had a mic, and that everyone was waiting for me. So I replied quickly back with an angry, 'FUCK OFF CUNT, I'M DOING A SHIT. I'LL BE DONE WHEN I AM FUCKING DONE"... Much to the horror of the people in the next room."
-- u/DamagedAnalPassage
16."Brother and sister-in-law thought it would be fun to have their dogs walk down the aisle after their flower girl spread the flower petals. The dogs thought mid-way down the aisle was the perfect place for a shitting photo-op on the white runner."
-- u/Vealophile
17."The wedding ceremony for Lance and Vickie was ending when the priest said, 'I now introduce you to Vance and Licky, husband and wife.'"
-- u/cbdoulos
18."I was an attendant in my best friend's wedding. Her father walked her down the aisle, and while he was not visibly drunk, he had a hard time walking behind her to sit in the pew. He stepped on her dress, ripping it from her back down to her ass (her thong was red). They had to stop the wedding so that she could find safety pins."
-- u/3Suze
19.Lastly, "My husband's brother had a seaside wedding. Our almost 2-year-old was the ring bearer. He passed off the rings to the best man (dad), then toddled away...off the cliff. It was prob a 60-80' drop to the beach below, but he luckily got caught up in the bushes, and my husband snatched him up. He was buckled into his stroller after that, kamikaze kid."
-- u/Kessalia19