Ever witnessed a moment that made you wince in sympathy or cover your face in secondhand embarrassment? Life, with its unpredictability, has a knack for throwing curveballs, and even the most meticulously planned weddings aren’t immune.
From the heartfelt to the hilariously unfortunate, here are five standout wedding tales that toe the line between ‘I do’ and ‘I didn’t see that coming!’
One wedding vendor tells how he watched a bride get drunk at her wedding and sit on another male’s lap for two hours while flirting with them. All the while, the groom sat by himself at the head table with a defeated look.
The pastor made the wedding about himself. He went on about his marriage and his kids for 20 minutes. He talked in detail about his daughter, how she learned to walk, her first words, and his wife.
This couple was obsessed with apples. They bought an orchard and took the theme to the extreme at their wedding, with apples everywhere. They even had an apple-shaped cake.
The five-minute length of the lively song, during which they merely repeated the identical actions, was particularly cringeworthy. Finally, there was no way to numb the agony because alcohol was unavailable during the wedding.
This couple decided to go through with a name change because they didn’t want their past to define them. As often believed. Yet, they only changed their name in the vain hope that they could escape their massive debt.