Wedding mishaps...that made you laugh

In My Humble Opinion
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dasgupta’s thread about staying calm for his upcoming wedding had me curious about funny wedding mishaps.

We had a few things go wrong at our wedding - nothing major, and they either started out funny or ended up funny.

One I already posted in the thread…

My grandma lost her teeth the day before the wedding. We got her into an emergency dentist who fitted her with temps the day OF the wedding, so every pic we have from the rehearsal dinner and luncheon the day before the wedding, she’s missing teeth. My aunts and uncles were totally panicked; but I, as the bride, found it hilarious, and my grandma was proud of her missing teeth - she happily gave a huge grin if she saw a camera. I didn’t care if she had teeth; after all of her health problems that year, I was just happy she was there. I couldn’t have cared less if all of her wedding pictures were without teeth.

Another small incident that still cracks us up - we had an outdoor ceremony at a historical house in a museum. We were pretty much smack-dab in the middle of the city, so we had all kinds of traffic noises. My uncle, who was performing the ceremony, was giving a prayer, and we all had our heads bowed, eyes closed. Right in the middle of the prayer, an ambulance started going off. Loudly. And it got louder and louder. AND LOUDER. Until it drove right by the site, lights flashing, sirens wailing. ElzaHub and I were both fighting hysterical laughter by that point, and in our wedding video, all you see is the two of us cracking up during the prayer. Oops. :smiley:

One that wasn’t quite as funny the second it happened (because it HURT) - I tripped, went flying across the portico in my wedding dress, and broke my hand. Didn’t know it was broken at the time, so after the initial shock of falling at my own wedding wore off (okay, because it was embarrassing, but completely something I would do), we iced up my hand and I kept dancing, and we had fun…I probably had a bit more champagne than I normally would have since it kept the sting off my hand, too ;). Didn’t end up seeing a doctor until after the honeymoon, but was told that yes, my hand had been broken when I fell.

So…any other funny wedding stories?

E.

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We got married during the Christmas season, in a living room with a decorated christmas tree. The lights on the tree were controlled by “the clapper.” During the ceremony one of my uncles sneezed really loud and the the christmas tree lights went out. Would have been a good home video if anybody had been taping.

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I got none for you yet, but this is absolutely one to subscribe.

Actually, this is probably less of a mishap than just plain tacky, but at my sister’s wedding, the best man (her new husband’s older brother) had a very nice toast - where he thanks his brother and his family, said nothing about my sister, and announced that his wife was pregnant. So everyone toast his wife! Oh, and the happy couple, too.

He’s just that kinda guy. I’ve got lots of stories about him.

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I told this one in the other thread…

We were told by the reception hall people that they preferred not to have music playing as the wedding party was announced. We said that was fine by us, and they said they would instruct the DJ not to play anything.

So, the groomsmen and bridesmaids are lining up for the entrance into the reception, and we hear… the NFL football theme song. Duh duh duh dah dah dah, DUH! :confused:

Lots of puzzled looks on everyone’s faces as we entered. Lots of people came up to ask, “Why did you pick that entrance music? I thought you two didn’t even like football.” Which was true of course. I never did find out why the DJ picked that particular music, or if he was even told not to play anything.

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At my friends wedding in Arizona 20 years ago, they set up a video camera, which ran on batteries. There were desert thunderstorms going on all around, and they lost power in the church.

The video continued to record their wedding, punctuated by flashes and thunderclaps. Some of the timing is hilarious, and the already nervous bride is starting to freak out.

They get to the part where the minister asks “Speak now, or forever hold your peace”, and he pauses.

Cue giant flash & thunderclap.

Hilarious wedding video.

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My best friend got married to another one of my friends a little under a year ago. The cake topper was one of a bride yanking a groom back to the alter with her, while he attempted to run. My boyfriend’s daughter was the flower girl, and her mother, his ex, was there (we all get along). She’s a former caterer, so she was making sure everything’d run smoothly.

I see her gesturing frantically to the Tashaboy and myself, and we get up in the middle of the vows and go to the reception hall of the church.

“The cake topper is broken.” She said. I look over and the cake topper actually broke where the bride was yanking the groom - and the groom, in his plasticky haste, had fallen over face-first into the icing.

We actually pondered leaving it like that for pure amusement value, but the man she married was Hispanic and that side of the family would have thought it a bad omen, so the Tashaboy went over to the Walgreens across the street and bought some superglue. Everything was ready to go before they were even done reciting their vows.

~Tasha

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When my wife and I were married the ceremony was in her family’s church with both “their” deacon and “my” priest doing a double duty for the ceremony. The first time my priest named us (“We are here to witness the marraige of Mooch and …”) he forgot my wife’s name for about 3 loooong seconds. It seemed like forever. We both were so nervous anyway (about being in front of a crowd, not getting hitched) we could’ve passed out. Got to laugh about it at the reception though.

Also, the deacon was Scottish and my priest was Kenyan so many of the older attendees could not understand a word either of them said.

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The cake person delivered the wrong cake to our wedding. Despite the fact that I had, apparently, been to the cake lady’s office and had, apparently, approved a particular cake…I did not notice at the time of delivery that it was the wrong cake. The soon-to-be Mrs. Gaffer did, however, notice and later “questioned” me as to what kind of fool didn’t notice that the wrong cake had been delivered.

To which I had no answer other than that when one’s breakfast consists of Jim Beam in a water glass, all cakes tend to look alike. I figured she was just lucky that I didn’t start eating it right then and there.

I’m lucky that Mrs. Gaffer has a good sense of humor.

And…the guy who performed our wedding looked like a skeevy David Bowie and spent the entire reception picking up on one of the bridesmaids using lines like “You remind me of alot of my deceased wife.”

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Two:

One of my cousins was married outdoors in my aunt’s yard…a very nice yard BTW.

His dog had been carefully locked into the porch prior to the nuptuals. But one of the kids went in to use the potty and the dog got loose mid cerimony. Of course he wanted his master.

The dog was well trained, so my cousin, without looking down, snapped his fingers, and the dog obediantly sat next to him for the remainder of the cerimony.

About half the gathered friends and family got the giggles, which soon spread to the wedding party.

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At a cow-orkers wedding, the preist was really nervous, and kept loosing his place when reading from his “little book”. He was visibly prespiring and blushing.

Toward the end, he got totaly flustered, and started with the Porky Pig stuttering/stammering…Which got the giggling started…which made the stuttering all the worse…which then fed the giggling…

Finally he completely gave up with “J J JUST K K KISS HER ALREADY!” Which pretty much brought the house down.
It turns out it was his first wedding. Also, he had felt the calling while in prison. (no I don’t know any details) He was illiterate at the time and taught himself to read by reading the bible…so reading from the little book was a challenge that, combined with first time jitters, he wasn’t quite up to.

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At the wedding of one of my college buddies, they had the candle ceremony where the mother of the Bride lights a small(er) candle from a Unity candle to symbolize the Bride, then the mother of the Groom does the same thing from a separate Unity candle. Except both Mother of the Bride and Mother of the Groom lit the smaller candles from the same Unity candle.

Minor detail, noticed only by the nitpickers in the audience, not worthy of this thread.

Until . . .

Later in the ceremony, the Bride and Groom are each given an opportunity to light a small candle from the symbolic candles, then the two of them light the Unity Candle which will symbolize their marriage together.

Next, the Groom blows out his candle. In an effort to prevent the Bride catching her veil on fire, she had been instructed not to blow hers out, but have him do it. Well, when he blows out her candle, the Unity candle goes out as well.

Cue subdued laughter. Which gets worse when he is told “No big deal, just relight the candle from one of the symbolic candles” and he looks like he’s going to pick up a massive decorative symbolic candle to light the Unity candle with. Fortunately, the minister interceded again, and he used the smaller candle from before to light the Unity Candle.

Based on what happened at my brother’s wedding, I’ll tell the mother of the Groom(assuming I ever get married) to buy a 6 pack of dark men’s dress socks, to be handed out to any male members of the wedding party who do not bring a pair of basic black men’s dress socks. The groom had socks with a decorative pattern–Argyle, I think they are called. One groomsman had brand new socks. One had brand new socks which were purchased with a hole in the toe–so the groomsman’s girlfriend had to darn the sock before the wedding. And the “chauffer” wore white socks with his tux.

Not the end of the world, any of it, but something that we would try to handle differently the next time.

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I was attacked by biting flies during our wedding! They were biting around my ankles, and I thought it was just grass poking into me, so I just kept shifting back and forth and shaking my foot, trying to be inobtrusive, but when we got to the reception line, my mother exlaimed, “Oh my goodness, honey, your ankles are bleeding!” (I guess it’s not funny ha-ha, but funny strange.)

Other than that it was a totally beautiful outdoor ceremony. The birds sang, the sun shined, the wind wafted—and the frieght train barreled by about ten minutes after we finished. :slight_smile:

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Um…where is Bear_nenno when we need him? If you trust your search-fu, search up “Bear_nenno wedding” and prepare to be amused for a solid half hour.

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I read radiology reports for a living. My favorite wedding incident:

CT SCAN OF HEAD

Impressions: possible concussion.

Clinical data: caught bouquet, tackled at wedding

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I don’t remember any noteworthy mishaps from my wedding but this thread has enough for everyone.

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We were married by a JP in chambers. All of six guests. And a four minute ceremony. As its ending, the judge’s phone begings to ring. She finishes quick, picks up the phone and says “Hello…Marrying people, what are you doing?”

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I don’t know if it’s a mishap, but it sure did make us laugh. We got married by the town judge, who showed up in his best Loony Tunes tie. I thought that was an odd choice for performing a marriage, but hey, at least it wasn’t a funeral. We got a good laugh out of that.

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Another Unity Candle mishap…

At my brother’s wedding, Mom and otherMom came forward to light the little candles next to the Unity Candle. Now the Unity Candle is a drip-less candle; it’s basically a long wick in a metal candle thingy. Mom tries to pull out the metal Unity candle to light the little candle and otherMom stops her. Mom shoves the metal Unity firmly and all proceeds. Until the actual lighting. I’m singing *O Perfect Love * in the background when brother and bride take the little candles and, after gazing deeply in each other’s eyes, together light the metal Unity candle. Which then emits a loud sproing as it launches across the front of the church. And the entire congregation bursts into applause.

Never did finish that song.

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Ha ha!

Not really a mishap, but something that we still laugh about . . . We were married by (get this) the county family court commissioner (he was the only guy available that day) in a small courtroom, in front of about 20 guests. We greeted everyone outside as they arrived, then all filed into the courtroom to wait for Da Man. As he came in, the four of us principals (bride, groom, two attendants) approached the bench so enthusiastically (hey, we were rarin’ to go!) that the poor man actually JUMPED BACK. I wish we had it on video.

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At my mom’s last wedding, my little brother was the ring bearer. At 3 years old, and after being in the church prep-ing all day, he was getting cranky, so my grandma went by her house and got him some of his favorite snack: a baggie full of gummy bears to keep him quiet and occupied. It wasnt until half-way through the ceremony that hthey realized that he seemed a bit preoccupied. He still had the gummy bears; they were hidden under the ring-pillow-thingy and every few minutes his little hand would reach down, pop back out into his mouth, and he’d be a happy camper for a little longer. Everyone else was trying to figure out how to get them back discreetly, then gave up and wondered how they forgot to take them back before they started!

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I don’t know if this is funny, but to 2 couples married on the same day it wasn’t. My father has a 1936 Packard, a dual cowl phaeton. He rents it out for weddings and he usually does the driving in his chauffer’s uniform. He was busy one Saturday and asked me to fill in. The direction given to me were to be at the Parkland Lutheran Church at 2:30 pm and take the couple to the Tacoma Sportsman Club for their reception. I arrived at the church at exactly 2:15 and about 15 minutes later, a wedding party exits the church. While waiting a gentleman comes over and asks why I am there. I told him what I was told and that I was to collect $200. He gave me the money plus a $100 tip, the bride and groom came out a few minutes later and off we went. The groom wanted me to stop at a liquor store so he could by a bottle. He came out of the store and him and the bride sucked down a bottle of Jack Daniels in short order.

I delivered the couple to the Sportsman Club, they staggered out of the car, the whiskey taking it’s toll. I left but noticed a car pulling into the club with what looked like a bride and groom in the back of a white Cadillac convertible. I took the car back to my father’s and put it in the garage and went home.

Monday afternoon my father calls and asks me about Saturday. I told him then he told me that I never showed up at the wedding for which the Packard had been hired. The father of the bride for the wedding I was supposed to be at also told my father that I had delivered a just married couple to his daughter’s reception, not the one they were suppose to be at. I went to my father’s house and met with him and the bride’s father. What I did not know and was never told was that Parkland Lutheran Church has 2 chapels, a large one out front and a smaller one in the back by the church’s school. Yep, I was suppose to be at the small chapel, not the big one. I also found out that the couple I delivered to the wrong reception did not know where their reception was being held, it took them over 2 hours to find out. This was back in the early 80’s before cell phones and the reception site was suppose to be a surprise to the couple.