The night before the wedding, my husband and I check into the hotel. We go downstairs to see the venue. I eagerly open the door, excited to see the ornate 12 foot tall Christmas tree at the end of the aisle. Instead, there is a cheap plastic piece of c**p tree that’s like 5 feet tall with five ornaments.

You see, my mom suggested my husband and I get married in front of a Christmas tree (it was a Christmas themed wedding) instead of under an archway. We loved this idea. She had me select a tree and decoration package from a tree rental company.

When I called my mom in a panic asking if this was the tree she had rented, she started gaslighting me. She told me she was never planning on renting a tree. That I imagined it. That I was spoiled for thinking she would pay for that.

I hung up, cried my eyes out, and called my dad. My dad ended up going to Lowe’s, purchasing a 14 foot fake tree, and decorations. He decorated it all by himself and it looked fantastic. While he was setting it up, my mom had the nerve to tell him I was a brat (and other, much worse names) and she even hinted that she did it all to “get back at me” because of a petty argument we had like a month beforehand.

The wedding was beautiful. Especially the tree. However, that was definitely the worst thing that happened. I think the reason being, it was a turning point. I knew my mom had issues, but I never thought she would let her issues impact something as big as my wedding day.

EDIT: My mom was only involved in the decorations aspect of the wedding. She was not in charge of anything else, nor did she pay for anything else.

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I had a big ol’ white train that was long enough to drag behind me on the ground, and it was beautiful in every picture, until, as I started actually walking down the aisle, I could feel it detach itself from my hair and stay at the aisle threshold.

And, like, everyone’s standing up and turning around to look at me so I can’t be like HANG ON A SEC, DO-OVER, I GOTTA HAIR THING, so I just walk forward, and the train must’ve been caught on something because it pulled my head back and I am trying to walk forward and it’s pulling at my hair, and my about-to-be husband thought I was tearing up at the sight of him. But no. It was the huge chuck of hair this train ripped out of my head. As it detached from my head. Like a booster rocket.

It was pretty in the pictures though.

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Y'all have got me beat but I'm sharing mine anyway.

My mom showed up in a white dress.

It was knee length and very tight -- probably a size too small.

I ignored and and never mentioned it.

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I was talking to a guest when someone bumped into her from behind. The (red) wine she was holding spilled onto her hand, but thankfully nowhere else.

Her reaction? To SHAKE the wine off her hand, spattering red wine down the front of my wedding dress. She then had the nerve to blame the person who bumped her rather than just, you know, apologizing like a normal (decent) human being.

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Multiple guests asked if my FIL's date was a prostitute.
She wasn't.

She also blamed me for ruining activities the night before.

My mil wouldn't leave us alone on our wedding night, after the reception.

Our wedding photos sucked.

My stepmother told my husband that the rest of my family didn't care about him. And if he wanted pictures taken of him he should ask his mom since he was her family.

My stepmother was also incredibly racist to one of our guests the entire reception dinner.

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My husbands best man didn’t show. We talked to him the morning off and he said he was getting ready. About a hour before the wedding he said he was on his way. He never showed up I paid $290 for his suit hair cut and his shoes and he didn’t even show! They have been friends for over 15yrs. He didn’t call or speak to my husband for 2 months and when they finally talked he didn’t apologize or give any excuse.. it’s been 3 months since we got married and he hasn’t even offered to pay me back for any of the stuff I paid for.

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My dad hooked up with a family friend the night before & spend the officiant money so I had to dig through gift cards to pay him.

My self proclaimed MOH told me that what my hair looked like didn't matter but hers had to look good.

Our caterers tossed our dinner plates while we were having pictures taken & boxed everything up before we were done so we didn't get to eat the food we paid for.

One of the groomsmen got pissed at me that I wouldn't let him have a bachelor party with strippers so he was tossed from the wedding party.

There was to be no alcohol due to 3 of 4 parents are alcoholics, but MIL boyfriend was pouring freely from the trunk of his car.

The girl my husband cheated in me with refused to leave me alone and caused me to get 2nd degree burns from a curling iron on my back.

The evening ended with hubby falling asleep as I tried getting out of my dress alone.

All in all my wedding sucked & it didn't get better

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We had a shuttle bus from reception to hotel. My husband's out of town step- cousin and his girlfriend took shrooms and were tripping balls on the bus

My husband's sweet grandma (shes like the grandma from happy gilmore) was also on the shuttle and did not know why they were behaving that way, and she was afraid and upset by it. She sat quietly on the shuttle crying to herself while he was hollering. I found this out years later, I was sad for her

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I got completely wasted. We left out reception and did what you do on your wedding night. I then ate our wedding cake, which was red velvet.

We had to be up at 3 am the next morning to catch a flight for our honeymoon. A couple hours of sleep was not okay for the amount of alcohol i consumed. When i woke up, i was throwing up repeatedly and thought it was blood.

Ended up in the ER, missed our flight and cruise. After a couple hours there, the Dr. asked if I had eaten anything with red dye and I very defensively said no! All my husband said was “….our wedding cake”

I was too drunk to remember eating that red velvet cake. We got our cruise changed after 5 hours on the phone with the cruise line. We ended up having a great honeymoon and we have a hilarious story tell now!

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Mil cut in to our wedding dance then my mum turned it into a ring o roses because she didn’t want to be out done. Then sil smashed her husbands face in in the car park of the venue.

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My mother was going through a phase where she bought all these outlandish clothes and got a weird haircut. She thought she looked very stylish and Avant garde, but she looked ridiculous.

Meanwhile my mother-in-law helped me put together my little punch and Cake wedding and did everything my mother should have done

At my wedding my mother strutted in thinking that she would be the center of attention but somebody laughed at her within her earshot. So my mother threw a fit and stormed out breaking up the party and ruining my reception. The wedding was very homemade so the Bridesmaids and my mother-in-law cleaned up everything. My mother got a lot of criticism for not at least helping pick up a few things. But she was headed out for some some romantic trip with her new husband.

My second wedding was also Homespun and done by my new mother-in-law. It was lovely and everybody had a wonderful time.

My mother was not invited nor did she ever find out the event occurred.

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two things: we had a grazing table, ran out of food. when we got back from pictures i ended up having to eat peanut butter sandwhich (i being the bride)

2)had our wedding in my home country. mil and fil flew in for it. they sulked half way through wedding and went back to their air bnb which made my husband want to go after them. later that evening they were around for the reception and dinner. i was talking to a friend about moving back to my home country permanently (husband 100% on board). said that there really isnt anything for us in husbands home country. meaning jobs, etc. fil heard me say this and was immediately offended. wouldnt accept my explanation, he heard half a conversation. they ended up flying back early into a miserable winter to have xmas alone.

my fil is a very difficult person, i felt bad for my mil.

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Lots of people were late, including my photographer, which meant I lost out on getting a ton of pictures I had planned for and wanted.

My caterer 'forgot' items for a hot tea/coffee bar, which we had already set up. They also forgot the punch we ordered.

My mom hated her hair and makeup and freaked out and cried in the bathroom.

My great-aunt told me a story about how she screamed so loudly on her wedding night that her husband had to cover her mouth. She said this loudly at a table of other elderly family members and then went on to ask us about our wedding night plans.

I was also still on my period during all of this and the week leading up to it was one of the most stressful of my life. We didn't even get to eat our wedding food as we were so busy so we had to get Mcdonalds later that night. Should have eloped!

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My dad left after the ceremony to go smoke weed with my uncle. Missed the group photos. Returned and he had changed out of his wedding attire and was in holey jeans and a t-shirt. I asked him to go home and change again for the father daughter dance.

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The caterer started getting in my face as soon as we got to the venue (literally before we even got into the building) and I almost cried and ruined my makeup. This was after she kept calling me while I was getting my nails done the day before despite me saying I’ll call her back after my appointment. Thankfully my mom and my husband saw her getting in my face again about how much water I brought (which, btw was enough, the two cases my brother went out to get were leftover), so my husband pulled me away to hug me and cheer me up while my mom yelled at the caterer. Did not hear a peep out of the caterer for the rest of the night

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My husband lost his ring and, despite me telling him to just leave it, we spent like an hour of our time we were supposed to be taking pictures looking for it. We found it in the car, the photographer left as he had put in his time, and at that point my mom came over looking dejected and said, “We didn’t even get any pictures together.” Now I feel sad and guilty every time I think of my wedding day or look at my weddings pictures.

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My brother who was in my wedding party came late and cracked out of his mind on meth & coke. It was heartbreaking.

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My sister had an intimate 100 person wedding. Invite specified no children, but a certain family (that we barely knew) from our church crashed the wedding and brought their terribly misbehaved children with them. Their children were a nuisance on the dance floor and even got in the way of the bouquet toss (what do you know an 11 year old’s the next to be married) 🙄

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The groom was barely there ‘cause he was more worried about arranging alcohol and getting drunk with his friends. And wasn’t even there for the ceremony at the end when the girl leaves her family. It was a south Asian wedding. My mother was busy a*s-licking her boss so she was hardly in any family pics. My aunt who’s a professional MUA didn’t do the makeup I wanted. I looked all right but really didn’t want to match my outfit. Aaaand the food got over and I didn’t get any at the end of the night. Also my husband didn’t get in touch with the photographer I wanted, so we ended up getting a c**p one.

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Our DJ was horrible.
When announcing us he forgot our first and last name. Then for the rest of the night he continued to call my husband by a different name which happened to be my ex boyfriend’s name. We tried to leave a bad review and he contacted us. His excuse for not knowing our names was he had only known us for a few months… he then deleted our review.


Our photographer was also trash. We took our family photos on stage, she insisted that she’d be able to edit the lighting. She never did. We also never received an entire album of photos. Her excuse was she was going through a difficult divorce.

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My dad showed up p**s drunk angry at me that he didn’t know what he was supposed to do.

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I got a migraine and had to go home barely 2 hours in.

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The priest refuse to go forward with the wedding one week before because I was french speaking and my wife dutch speaking. We live in Belgium and the wedding was in the Dit6ch speaking part of the country. Only one text was in French. So we had few days to find a new one. It was.' challenging and stressful

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My husband's then 15 year old son came and sat front and center all night with a perpetual pout on. Then after sneaking some liquor he started making crude comments about my breast size ( large and my gown was halter top).

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My younger daughter didn’t come because she was upset with us.

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-Photographer, friend of my husband, bailed a few days before the wedding. Leaving us to scramble & use the new venue’s expensive photographer who took HORRIBLE pictures. My bridal pictures have a gas station in the background 😑 I hate my wedding pictures

-My alcoholic father got wasted, even after he promised he wouldn’t drink, embarrassed me during the father daughter dance & also gave an equally embarrassing slurred toast

-My husband’s friend gave a drunken speech starting with “So u/mrsrizzle never really liked me…” and then proceeded to go on about how he was the true best man and was super butt hurt that he didn’t get to be part of the wedding party. He also wrote this same whiny s**t on our group wedding card

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My maid of honor told me last minute she wasn’t coming after having to cancel the bachelorette party too

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Our photographer was about 40 minutes late; spent most of the time arguing with her newish second shooter (who we suspect was also her GF); and only took about 200 photos, about half of which weren't good. Thankfully she was pretty inexpensive, but I'm still a little bitter we didn't get very many good photos.

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The Priest’s 5 minute lecture about not throwing confetti. When I rolled my eyes he finally moved on.

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Our venue was an historic home and our caterers set the fire alarm off. Fire Trucks came and we had to evacuate 5 mins before our ceremony started.

Once we got back on track with the wedding, my FIL stood up and interrupted our ceremony as we were exchanging rings (we’re interfaith and there was some confusion on what ceremonies were happening).

My heart was pounding straight for an hour throughout that whole ordeal.

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Wow, these answers are really putting mine into perspective. I loved my wedding but looking back I often do feel a bit of embarrassment about certain aspects. Could've been much worse, though!

1. We didn't anticipate how much traffic there would be and had expected to just hail a few cabs. I was 30 min late to the ceremony and it took us an hour to get to the reception.

2. The officiant had never officiated a wedding before and didn't practice his speech. He's a friend of my husband's and while I like him, I wish he had put more effort into the ceremony. It was very short and a bit awkward.

3. I stepped on part of my dress and ripped it. It wasn't noticeable during the wedding, luckily, but it meant I couldn't resell it as I had planned. Not really sure what to do with it! It's just sitting in my closet.

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Two of my bridesmaids were almost late because they were starting to get ready at their house rather than at the venue.

I had two maids of honor (my sister and my best friend), and neither prepared a speech for me so I had a half-assed improv speech from my sister after my husband had a tear-jerker speech from his best man. It was ok, but it still sucked that nobody put the effort in on my behalf.

My dad was expecting to do a speech, but my father-in-law (who was functioning as the DJ) forgot to give him the mic. My dad's too nice a guy to speak up, and my husband and I were distracted and anxious.

I had a borderline panic attack after the ceremony because I actually hate attention. Thankfully it was discreet and only my husband could tell.

Just some minor hiccups in an overall busy day, but at least nobody had a medical emergency or anything. My father-in-law went to a wedding where the grandmother of the bride or groom fell and hit her head and died en route to the hospital.

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Didn’t happen at the wedding, but my photographer died the morning of my wedding. I found out the next day. I was only told he was in the hospital.

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My first wedding I had 2 big issues.

1. My period started randomly and very unexpectedly and I had blood on my dress. Thankfully we got it out but God that gave me a heart attack.

2. My husband was 20 mins late to our wedding cause his sister threw a temper tantrum about going (she was 15) and they brought her dressed looking like she was a hobo (very stained and dirty pink t-shirt with a butterfly on it and ratty torn up Jeans also with stains) and with her hair in very large noticable knots and stuff in it (it looked crusty and oily). She doesn't even have autism or anything to justify this behavior.

Then if it counts my wedding night was just as bad. My husband went to cook dinner and set our home on fire and he broke our oven and cost us a S**T ton of money. I also ended up nearly needing to get stitches from when I went and broke the glass (there was no hammer to break it and I had a rapidly growing fire so I punched it) and badly cut myself when I went to get the fire extinguisher from the appartment laundry room.

We divorced a year later when I found out he cheated on me for our entire relationship.

Should have taken the issues as a warning.

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My mother booked an awful DJ who kept playing sh**ty music that emptied the dance floor. He ignored our first dance request and put something else on - I walked off the dancefloor until he changed it. Then he made us do a final dance to Leo f*****g Sayer (I’d had s few drinks by then do we just went along with it - hissing „We’ll find this funny in a few years“ to each other*). At the end of the night he said „See you at the christening“. Like, I’ve just spent all evening dancing with my two children a*****e.

We do, in a „OMG what a wanker that DJ was!“ kind of way.

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I sprained an ankle 2 days before. Badly. But I dropped the crutch for the whole ceremony (from entrance to exit) in my wonderful heels. And proceeded to dance the night away, barefoot. Next day my feet was purple.

My ankle didn't fully recover for 2 months after

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My wedding was amazing and I had no idea this happened until someone told me long afterwards. At the time, one of my best friends absolutely hated a newer but very good friend of mine. New Friend decided to confront Old Friend using two mutual friends as mediators and ask why Old Friend hated her.

Now when I was told this my first thought wasn’t “wtf why would you do that at my wedding” (that came later) but rather “oh god why would she ask her that?” Because my Old Friend is the most savage person I’ve ever met and she has no qualms with laying out the harsh truths. She had always been polite to New Friend because she’s honest, not an a*****e, but when she literally asked for it. . .old friend unleashed. A mutual friend described it to me as “she demolished her entire life and every last aspect of her personality to an atomic level.”

New Friend, to her slight credit, just said “okay,” and walked away to have a mental breakdown in private. I’m just glad the worst thing was something 98% of my guests didn’t know about.

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We had a tiny wedding with under 10 guests including witnesses. One of the guests made plans to come kinda last minute (wasn't invited originally, but really wanted to come after someone spilled the beans and was pretty close to my husband anyways, so we agreed). They showed up with 2 more guests who I had never met, including a kid who looked bored and uncomfortable the whole time

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It happened during a pandemic lol

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