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We only invited ppl who meant alot to us,and would be there to share our celebration...or so we thought.We had a few ppl who let the team down.Luckily I didnt find out til the next day or I would have been whipping some butts!!
DH's BOSS thought it would be funny to pee in a chair,and he watched my sis sit in it(she didnt know)while he laughed as she was like :confused: "my dress is all wet" while people felt it.Then my mum slipped on it and fell over:mad: His plan was to go into the homestead(we had hired it to get ready and stay there) and do a poo in the living room!!!!!!
And then another guy was sifting onto all the girls and going aggro at everyone at the end of the night.We had a wishing well,and someone put in a blank card with $5.No joke!
But the worst was MIL.
After the ceremony she stood round going "Yes,Im the mother of the groom" to anyone in earshot(like we care!!!!)Then for family/friends shots,I called out for all girls to jump in for a photo.She got all cut coz she "wasnt invited in" but my mum was:rolleyes: Not my fault ppl dont listen.Then she had the nerve to say the photographer rushed everyone.
After that she wanted a cup of tea,asked at the bar(yeah right like they have tea there!!)My bro said there was some in homestead,so she demanded he made her one.Then she complained to management that the milk was sour and demanded it be replaced(funny how it tasted fine when we had coffee in the morning)
She smashed a glass at speeches (LOL my bro screams out "TAXI!!!")
My bro was looking after Riley-he didnt want ANYONE else so she was cut about that then told them off coz he was STARVING and OVERTIRED.
Then she came up to me at like 8pm and told me she was leaving.I told her it was really rude to leave a wedding before the bride and groom,but I didnt give a **** she could do what she liked.Who wants to leave their sons wedding eary anyways??She stayed but not without hufffing at everyone "We arent ALLOWED to leave!!!"
She sat there with a b!tchy expression on her face all night,didnt speak to anyone,didnt compliment the bridal party-NOTHING.I could go on all day but this is already SOOOOO long LOL
Sooooo....anyone else?Is it just my unruly guests or do you have some stories?
Oscar's mum
14-05-2007, 16:26
My guests were disgraceful.
A few of the guys DH rides with decided it would be a great idea to take 'E's' a bridesmaid of mine left halfway through the reception to get her camera and didn't come back till everyone had left and came back high! My step father fell asleep at the table - the wedding was a morning wedding!!!!!!
My brother pretended to vomit everytime I kissed DH so every photo he is in he is pretending to puke - wouldn't have been that bad had he not been part of the wedding party:mad:
I have that many other things that my guests did but I would rather not remember.
ETA: I am the biggest anti drug person you will find too.
Some ex-friends stole my flowergirl brother's camera off the table, took it into the toilets, and took photos of their naked, mooning butts, complete with tackle on display.
They are ex-friends because of that incident - and when I called them to tear strips off them about it, they weren't even proud enough of their artwork to 'fess up. Shame that they were the only ones who JEANS to our wedding!
Seems that rude guests are everywhere - but I think your MIL and DH's boss take the prize...:thumbsdown:
I remember seeing your MIL's face after you told her that it was rude Chels, she was a sour cake the rest of the night! :shame: She acted like she was about 90 years old looking to beat Big Dog to bed or something
I hope I ws a good girl on the night :D Tried to keep my hubby in check, gosh his dancing was tragic :laughing:
My guests at my wedding were surprisingly well behaved! Usually SOMEONE in the family ruins special occasions :rolleyes:
punkbaby
14-05-2007, 16:41
We had a pretty quiet day at mums in the backyard with a spit etc and salads
Only my siblings, mum dad my nephews and my dhs parents and sister were there along with my mums other half and his mum with dhs best freind and his mum. THere were about 20 of us. I have differences with my sister but she was kind enough to film the day i said get anything and everyone if you can which she did. She said at the start of the day Yeh we hate each other but you were good for my wedding so i will be good for yours!! She was great so no complaints there!
Anyhow my SIL was another issue, during the speeches i hear her talking on her mobile (yes during speeches) saying I sooo dont want to be here i remember walking up to her and leading her to the door and saying ok see ya! The worst part is its on tape but i thought it was very rude of her to make it known she didnt want to be there and everyone else heard it too...on tape we can delete it but still i was furious!
My MIL and FIL all come up and said that they were very angry which was a suprise seeing shes the golden girl other than that it was a nice day :)
Apparently our wedding was lame as all we had was beer wine and baileys... i told everyone if they wanted something else to BYO which they did cant please everyone we had a great day apart from her nice and simple and didnt cost us hardly anything!
Yes Beth,you were a good girl!!As for your hubby...wellllll....LOL.He was a crackup,loved his dance moves!!!!:smiliedance:
Yes my MIL is a sour old cow
TeamAwesome
14-05-2007, 19:31
My guests were very good, we had several leave to go to a party before we left as we went to a BYO restaurant and we didn't supply any alcohol (have family members who are much better people by not being around it)
Shame about your MIL... mine likes to tell me from time to time I married DH's family so I'm "one of them" LOL
Some horrific stories here! I thought I had a badly behaved guest until I read about the urine etc! Yuck.
But my story is that my assistant from work came alog and got really really drunk. She ambushed both my DH's brothers and snogged them (with tongue!). One of them was married with 2 kids, the other single- but they were both terrified.:eek:
My feet were hurting so I kept resting them out of my shoes:o she came up as I was getting them back on one time and pushed me over onto the table and pulled the shoes off me and stuffed her big feet into my tiny white shoes!:no: I thought it was quite symbolic- you know...what I would do to be in your shoes etc. I think kissing the brothers was a bit like that too as she was always going on about my DH how sexy he is etc etc. She was always saying "Does he have a brother???" Yeesh!
Lets just say that things were a bit wierd at work when I got home from my honeymoon. But she had been so drunk that she didn't rememebr anything at all:rolleyes: .
MummyCharmzy
15-05-2007, 09:16
I'm just going to pretend I didnt read any of this.. okay? lol
No seriously, my dad got SO drunk at my engagement party he has offended two guests who will now not be attending my wedding because of comments he made... he tells me he will stay sober at the wedding, he better!!!
Chels - your DH's boss sounds like he's 15!!! eewwee :thumbsdown:
My wedding on the other hand......all guests behaved lovely, except for the bride & groom :laughing:
It was a casual reception in our backyard (mind you, that's really no excuse, but it is ours lol!!!) - I was drunk within 1.5 hours into the reception & later that night, DH was so drunk he smashed his head open on a wall!
We are very bad examples to our children, but hey, it was our day :laughing:
HelenHasTwins
15-05-2007, 09:57
:hugs: Chels, you poor darl, I agree you DH's boss sounds like a D***khead, what a idiot!!!!!
And I am soooo sorry you have a mother inlaw like that.........
Hope you have a had a wonderful honeymoon,as you sound like you need it:D
MonkeyMum05
15-05-2007, 09:58
Oh my goodness... they are some cracker wedding stories, lol!!
As far as I can remember, ours was hassel free... though we didn't have a bridal party or a proper reception... so I guess there was less opportunity for people to play up!
The only one that didn't behave was the surf... it was really rough, so when we went in for a swim after the ceremony, poor pregnant me kept getting knocked over :laughing: .
Tan-mumof3
15-05-2007, 09:58
OMG Chels i can't believe what your dh boss did that is so disgusting.
My guest were all well behaved except for 1 of dh's ex-friends (we no longer see him thank god).
He made rude comments about one of my bridesmaids to her parents, then he went and tipped beer over one of our groomsmen. He did this right in front of me i told him to bugger off then he came back at the same groomsmen again. I told dh to seperate them before i did. He was also cracking onto my aunty and when my cousin said something he pushed him ( this was at the end and we had left by then).
WTF is wrong with your DH's boss? Seriously, that's disgusting!
The only person that I thought would cause trouble on my day was going to be my MIL....she declined her invitation! My guests were great! My nana was a bit of a pain in the butt but that's just her, it wasn't anything special for my wedding day or anything and I just let other people deal with her.
We didn't have a formal wedding and no bridal party. No one even got drunk (we had so much alcohol left over it was ridiculous).
Gloominous
15-05-2007, 10:52
Definately going with the flow, what an idiot!
And shame on your MIL for trying to ruin your day.
The worst thing from our wedding was when DH's uncle pulled him and best man aside (lucky for him) and told him "this will be the worst day of your life and your biggest regret" A$$hole!!
Hi Chels,
don't worry MIl like to cause mischief. I spent ages agonising over place settings to all the In laws who like to drink were away from ppl they would upset, and as i walked into my reception almost freaked as she had helped them all rearrange themselves!!!! talk about being P.O...
Just smile, it's true once you are married you are stuck putting up with them for the rest of your life.....
kirsty
:eek: your husbands boss:no:
what's the deal with the wishing well though? was five dollars not enough? or did you just want to know who it was from?
i mean you can't tell people to only give you money if it's more than five dollars ( even if you think that:o )
:eek: your husbands boss:no:
what's the deal with the wishing well though? was five dollars not enough? or did you just want to know who it was from?
i mean you can't tell people to only give you money if it's more than five dollars ( even if you think that:o )
I just think its appalling rude to give someone $5 for a wedding present.I mean we paid $135 a head to have ppl there,hence why we only invited people who meant alot to us.So for someone to be that cheap,its like a stab in the back.
MonkeyMum05
15-05-2007, 20:46
I think it is rude to expect gifts... maybe the person who gave $5 was really broke that week... and embarrassed about it, which is maybe why they left a blank card? Just a thought... they may not have necessarily done it to 'stab you in the back'.
Gee what sort of Boss is that DISCUSTING :thumbsdown: so bad for the poor lady who sat in it OMG!!
About the $5, well we had a gift that was 1/2 a dinner set in a box marked H/P (guessing half price $10) and two people put in for it!!! I am still embarressed :p
One table at our wedding stole a gold label bottle of Jim Beam from behind the bar and numberous other drinks and were all plastered. Luckily we didn't get charged for it and didn't find out until the next day.
SpecialMumma
15-05-2007, 22:41
my weddings guests were all pretty good from what I can remember.
Step father was so totally drunk he slid down the wall giggling like a d*****head, and FIL and stepMIL didnt really speak to me at ALL, but other then that.. it all went pretty smooth.
Petty little things happened, but I didnt really give a rats *****.
Oh FIL was giving us $300 which we were so happy about, and over the moon, but found out the next day the bar went over tab so he thought hed just chuck it on there instead?? like WTF?!
oh and about 1/4 of them all left early, even before us. We just ended up staying and cleaning the reception cos everyone p'd off!
The few of us that were left just kept drinking and had a mini party instead.
I could prob sit here and ***** about little things because Im in an emotional mood but I wont. hehehe
All in all, our guests behaved pretty good:)
I think it is rude to expect gifts... maybe the person who gave $5 was really broke that week... and embarrassed about it, which is maybe why they left a blank card? Just a thought... they may not have necessarily done it to 'stab you in the back'.
No excuse.Ppl had like a years notice we were getting married,Im sure they could have saved up more than $5 in that time.I might sound rude,but I would NEVER go to a wedding,get dinner and alcohol all day/night and then give $5.I dont care who thinks Im rude-I think people who give cheap gifts are rude!!!!
Debster-I cant believe someone would give you a gift like that!!Thats worse than $5 IMO!
Oscar's mum
16-05-2007, 09:15
I went to my BIL's wedding with a card with $50 in it to go into the wishing well. I was so upset with the way the bride treated us - we were not seated with any of the family instead shoved down the back at a table of leftover people that I couldn't even squeeze my pregnant belly in behind the table to sit down.
Then when they were getting photo's they asked for all family and then excluded me and my SIL which was the grooms sister:eek: I went home and didn't even bother putting the card in the wishing well and kept the money too.
I went to my BIL's wedding with a card with $50 in it to go into the wishing well. I was so upset with the way the bride treated us - we were not seated with any of the family instead shoved down the back at a table of leftover people that I couldn't even squeeze my pregnant belly in behind the table to sit down.
Then when they were getting photo's they asked for all family and then excluded me and my SIL which was the grooms sister:eek: I went home and didn't even bother putting the card in the wishing well and kept the money too.
OMG that is so rude!!Why did they even bother inviting you if they were going to exclude you??:hugs: I would have kept the money too;)
We had one guest that didn't give us a present or put any money in the wishing well but it didn't bother us....we know he is flat broke and we were just happy that he could be there. I think $5 is meant as an insult though....seriously what is $5 going to do?
Mummy2Noah
16-05-2007, 11:17
I was lucky everyone behaved excellent!!!
MonkeyMum05
16-05-2007, 11:27
No excuse.Ppl had like a years notice we were getting married,Im sure they could have saved up more than $5 in that time.I might sound rude,but I would NEVER go to a wedding,get dinner and alcohol all day/night and then give $5.I dont care who thinks Im rude-I think people who give cheap gifts are rude!!!!
Debster-I cant believe someone would give you a gift like that!!Thats worse than $5 IMO!
Sorry Chels, I realise my post probably sounded a bit rude and I should probably hve kept my opinion to myself in this instance.
Do you think that maybe the $5 was a joke? Maybe someone who gave you a card and cash just put that one in aswell for a joke?
The money issue aside... your DH's boss sounds like a prize ******!
No excuse.Ppl had like a years notice we were getting married,Im sure they could have saved up more than $5 in that time.I might sound rude,but I would NEVER go to a wedding,get dinner and alcohol all day/night and then give $5.I dont care who thinks Im rude-I think people who give cheap gifts are rude!!!!
Debster-I cant believe someone would give you a gift like that!!Thats worse than $5 IMO!
I agree Chels. I gave warning of my wedding and even paid accomodation for most ppl, and some ppl didnt bother giving a gift. It was friends 'new' partners (we'd barely met) that drank everything they could get their hands on as we had an open bar, and didnt even bother wishing us a happy wedding-- no hello, no thanks for the invite, no card nothing. I don't think some ppl realise how much planning and money go into a wedding! It jsut shocks you more because you are a nice person Chels.:)
Thanks Kirsty:hugs: Youre a sweetie.
Monkeymum-its all good,Im just fiesty at times:devil6: Maybe it was a joke,but noone owned up to it.Anyways,I will get over it.At least I didnt discover all that happened til after the wedding so it didnt wreck my day.
Wedding guests aye,theres always one!!
SassyDiva
16-05-2007, 13:16
OH hun..... totally agree.... $5 for a wedding pressent... hellllooooooo.... just not on :shame: thats just as bad as no pressent at all. If someone was broke, at least put in a relly nice card with a special message :D
One thing I've gotta say, if u take those few people out of the picture - all ur mates from NZ and of course us Aussies :p were awesome. Was a great night. Yours is one of the BEST weddings I have ever been 2 :yes:
Well done on arranging such a beautiful day. XXX
taragirl
16-05-2007, 13:37
Is it possible the $5 was from a child who forgot to fill in the card. Their parents could have dropped it into the well for them (if they were not present.) It does sound like something a small child would do.
It sounds like it is still a definite issue for you
brookeme
16-05-2007, 15:23
Crikey the boss fella sounds repulsive!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
We asked for money (nicely) cos we had a house and 2 kids before we got married, and 2 people didnt give us anything.
It was one of the girls I work with. She has a thing about me that she thinks I am a spoiled brat, she indirectly tells everyone at work, clients and all. She repeats things over and over so you get the point that it is directed at you.:o I guess cos we had the works, horse and cart and marquee which was totally my dads idea, she thought she shouldnt have to waste her money on us. Well she pretty much told me that at work.
One young friend gave us $300.:eek:
Also 2 of my cousins had a punch up!
And the babysitter was asked to take my kids straight home to bed and she thought she would take then to her family party in their wedding clothes! If I wanted them to party I would have kept them at our wedding!:mad:
And the make up lady lied to us and told us that her mother had a stroke that morning and we saw them up the street like the next day!!
SIL had a dummy spit cos she couldnt invite a buddy! We had like 50 leftovers that we really would have loved to invite.:banghead:
SassyDiva
16-05-2007, 15:27
Is it possible the $5 was from a child who forgot to fill in the card. Their parents could have dropped it into the well for them (if they were not present.) It does sound like something a small child would do.
It sounds like it is still a definite issue for you
Heya... Just responding for my gal...
There were no children at the wedding (apart from the lil cutie Riley) and no parents of older children so thats not an option. And no I wouldn't say its a 'definate issue' for Chels.. It was an awesome day, she had an awesome time. She was just listing a few things that p'd her off, having a vent with friends thats all :D
Thanks Mel,love ya hun:hugs: Well whats the world coming to when you cant even vent anymore hey?
brookeme
16-05-2007, 16:21
Definately sounds like they were being sarcstic. Its pretty rude!! Some people are weird about giving people gifts/money at weddings, it makes me feel good to give them something, you do it cos you care!
There is always someone or something that will spoil an occasion!
One thing I've gotta say, if u take those few people out of the picture - all ur mates from NZ and of course us Aussies :p were awesome. Was a great night. Yours is one of the BEST weddings I have ever been 2 :yes:
Well done on arranging such a beautiful day. XXX
I second that one! Ive been to a couple of weddings and this one was the top of the list. :thumbsup:
The wedding was intimate and lovely.
SweetDreams
16-05-2007, 17:01
My SIL/MIL nearly caused our wedding not to happen by SIL refusing to attend unless her boyfriend was invited. So I'm like whatever invite him. Then it is filtered back through MIL (as is all conversations with SIL) that SIL will not come unless we also invite her boyfriend's WIFE. I said well I guess SIL isn't coming then!
Didn't that cause a barney. SIL didn't come then blamed her parents for not coming to pick her up on our wedding day (because they had nothing better to do than cater to her!).
At the wedding it wasn't too bad. DH's then-boss took a picture of DH in the toilet (over top of toilet door). Luckily nothing "vital" showed in the picture!
My SIL/MIL nearly caused our wedding not to happen by SIL refusing to attend unless her boyfriend was invited. So I'm like whatever invite him. Then it is filtered back through MIL (as is all conversations with SIL) that SIL will not come unless we also invite her boyfriend's WIFE. I said well I guess SIL isn't coming then!
I think I need to lay down after reading that one! :eek:
*Sparkles*
16-05-2007, 17:21
Ours was pretty uneventful, but one thing comes to mind.
It was at The Sheraton and was a black tie affair. One of our friends turned up in a T Shirt under his suit. So as soon as he took off the jacket he was just in a T Shirt and pants. I thought this was a bit disrespectful seeing as most of the other guests had hired a tux and it had the dress code on the invite.
*Sparkles*
16-05-2007, 17:47
Ok, I just read through the thread. It's amazing how badly behaved some guests are.
Re the $5 in the wishing well, that's the sort of thing I would do as a joke but I would have signed it from someone famous and good looking like George Clooney :laughing:
I would have given the normal card and money aswell though.
Tam-I-Am
16-05-2007, 18:33
Were my guests well behaved? Some of them were :p
My FIL got so drunk that he ended up sitting at his table crying for the entire night, and then leaving at about 8:30pm to go home (which, by that stage was a relief, TBH!) The problem was we'd hired a room at a pretty swish hotel for them - they didn't use it. There goes $300! :eek:
We had guests come from the UK, which was great, but they arrived a week before the wedding, and were staying for a week after. We had to hint, and then actually come right out and tell them that we'd like our wedding night at home by ourselves :eek: (we didn't leave for our honeymoon for 5 days after our wedding!) and even after we'd explained it to them, they were shirty with us that they'd have to go pay for a hotel somewhere! :eek:
That was about it really, nothing major, nothing enough to spoil the day (although the FIL stuff did upset my DH for an hour or two, but he got over it!)
I can't believe your DH's boss did that :eek: did your DH say anything to him?
As for the $5 thing well I do think it is rude, at my wedding we asked for money & 2 Uncles,1 Aunt & 2 Adult cousins put $25 in coins & $5 notes in a card & signed it from all 5 of them(& no they are not struggling) I had paid $130p/h for them so that was a little bit of a shock, one of my DH's long term friends put $10 in a card & a really beautiful note that he put a lot of thought into so that was really special.
All my guest behaved themselves so no horror stories there :yelclap:
OnceAMereHumanNowAMum
16-05-2007, 19:06
Chels the boss story is DISGUSTING!
And you're not alone on the MIL thing. It must be the worst day of their lives when their sons get married.
Glad you had an otherwise great day. :)
We too only invited close people to our wedding and it stil came to 110 people.
Our guests were quite good except instead of having a signature bear or a guest book we had a photo frame and people signed around it, one onw wrote on the actual timber trame, saying our marriage wouldnt last more than 2 years and then one of the children at the wedding copied it onto the matt board where everyone else had written, luckly we were able to make it look like 100 years on the frame but havent been able to do anything on the matt board itself. (kids writing a little hard to ready anyway)
Some of the family members (male) decided to dirty dance with my 80 yo granny which made everyone including her laught and got us some funny photos, a couple of guys decided to table dance with all the glasses stil on the table, supprisingly only have 7 glasses altoghter break.
As we had it in a marquee on the farm, we has a few vomit deposits on the outside of the tent the next day, well a few is an understatement.
The other thing that really buged me was that we went and took table photos as soon as we arrived so that we had a photo of all the people at our wedding and 2 people didnt appear in any photos which really made me cranky, but they they made a fool of themselves.
All in all our guest were pretty well behaved, after 3.5 kegs and 120 bottles of wine.
My guests were well behaved except my cousin came stoned, but thats the usual for him..when is he ever not stoned.
And I was told another male guest who I grew up with my whole life was going back and forth to his car to do a certain drug I will not mention. I was wondering why he was coming up to me and talking really fast that I couldnt understand him.
But other than that everyone was fine. It was a fantastic day and those 2 who were on drugs really kept to themselves and didnt make any scenes so I didnt have a problem at all.
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