Weddings are often said to be the most important day of our lives. While we love that sentiment here at Peacock and Bow, we also get the more unnerving side of things. Like, for instance, the big legal contract you're about to enter into, the daunting pressure, the cousin who wants to bring her boyfriend of two weeks! Mishaps are inevitable even at the most meticulously planned weddings, they just rarely make the Instagram edit.
So, in honour of Halloween, we decided to dedicate this week's Under the Canopy to a wedding fright fest to purge the fear and anxiety that nobody orders for their wedding day, but everyone seems to get in some measure. We've scoured the internet for the best/worst (depends how you look at it) wedding horror stories we could find. Wedding guests, bridesmaids, wedding suppliers and even brides and grooms have anonymously shared many a scary tale online. From fashion faux pas to disapproving MILs, here's our pick of the hair raising matrimonial mayhem. Read on...if you dare!
Wedding guest's horror stories
“I went to this blowout wedding where the diamond flew out of the engagement setting on the dance floor. The band-leader stopped the dancing, and 600 people were crawling on their hands and knees looking for the nine-carat stone (which was never found), and the bride was bawling, saying the marriage was cursed”
"A long time ago, I was invited to the wedding of a college friend. The invitation was very fancy, so we dressed up in suits to attend. I had a difficult time finding the place. We arrived and found out that it’s in a literal horse pasture. It smelled of manure and was an extremely hot summer day, so that made it worse. I was looking for the groom to offer congratulations and found him dressed in shorts and a T-shirt playing football with some buddies. The bride was nowhere to be found; they had already gotten married earlier in the day, and she was inside taking a nap. We had arrived a good 45 minutes before the time listed on the invitation. Anyway, for the reception, they set up a potato bar in the pasture and there were millions of flies covering the food. We excused ourselves and never saw or heard from him again."
Bridesmaid's beastly banter
"As a bridesmaid, I think photos should be more about the bride and the groom. But for this wedding, the entire bridal party had to be there during the whole photography session. First, we had to hike up a mountain in 100-degree heat (in our dresses, heels, and hair and makeup, no less) only to find out we had gone to the wrong spot. Even though most of us weren't in 90% of the pictures, we all had to just stand around and watch the photos while festivities were happening. I was sweating like mad and worse, I missed the opportunity to eat."
"My sister-in-law chose me and my sister as bridesmaids and on the morning of the wedding she had a lingerie party. It turned out that this “lingerie party” was also meant to be a place to share sex advice. The entire bridal party had been raised religious, and my sister and I were the only attendees who were married, we were the only non-virgins there to dispense advice. The other ladies drank a little too much at the lingerie/sex-talk party. Two bridesmaids fainted during the ceremony later that day.
Wedding venue owner's creepy catastrophe
"We had to repaint the walls of the banquet hall because someone punched a bridesmaid. There was blood splattered everywhere, but she wasn’t seriously injured, luckily. It turns out the bridesmaid’s ex was at the wedding with a new girlfriend, and the two women had a drunken scuffle."
The couple's worst nightmares
"The wedding venue stored ours and another bride and groom's gifts in the same room overnight and the other couple drove off with all our presents, claiming they were theirs."
"My mother, in the middle of the reception, proceeded to tell people I married the wrong person and named who I should have married — and yes, they were a guest."
Wedding suppliers' spooky stories
"I was working as the photographer at a venue that had two venues within the same building. That night they were both booked and both dinners were at the same time with the same caterer. Not only did it take two hours to get everyone served, but they also ran out of food for all the guests. As vendors, we just didn’t get food, and I’m pretty sure the guests just got offered extra bread and salad."
"I was a wedding DJ for many years. The wildest thing I have seen was this; The parents of the bride were divorced and the father was at the wedding with his significantly younger girlfriend. It was obvious that no one there really approved of her. During the reception, people were giving toasts to the new couple. The father then begins to give his toast, at which time he gets on one knee and proposes to his girlfriend in front of everyone with mic in hand…AT HIS DAUGHTER'S WEDDING. All of this was to the shock and awe of all attendees. It was dead quiet in the room…except for the ecstatic new fiancé."
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