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Ok, so there has been a lot of drama in posters'' lives lately... how about some laughs? What happened in your wedding or planning that wasn''t quite right but was hilarious in hindsight? Let''s lighten up this Monday!

Mine: I told my mom I wanted my Texas shower to be co-ed... I was envisioning a couples shower. Well, something got lost in translation. So now, M is invited... but he''s the only guy! He is expected to be there with 135 women!!! And suddenly he wants to get out of it... My mom says "It''s co-ed... M is invited!" Oops! I''m giggling at the thought of him surrounded by southern women!
 
OK, I'm not sure how funny this is, but it's some wedding weirdness for sure. When a friend of mine got married, she asked all of her guests to bring a stone with them and to whisper all their thoughts and wishes for the couple to the stone, which they would then collect in a basket and keep.

This might sound sort of sweet (if a titch weird) if it weren't for the fact that this is what some cultures, for example Ashkenazi Jews, do when they visit a cemetary: they put stones with their thoughts and feelings 'in' them on the tombstone of their deceased loved one. You might have seen this: cemetaries with piles of stones on the tombstones.

Wow! That's pretty romantic for a wedding, huh?

I'm pretty sure this must have been in the back of her head somewhere, but she somehow forgot the part about the stone recipients being deceased.

I pondered over whether to tell her, as some of her guests were Jewish and might have found it...errr... awkward. But nobody said anything and we just all brought our stones as instructed. Gave me shivers though. Glad I'm not superstitious!

By the way, this same friend and her then FI made clear that the only wedding gift they wanted was drums. A drum from each guest. Right! Why have fluffy new towels when you could have 25 drums?
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haha IG, that was funny!. Why did they want so many drums???

I don''t have any funny stories, at least not yet!.

I guess the only one were FI and I both had a funny reaction was when we did our tasting and everything was great until we tried the main dish (the paella). It was awful! we just looked at each other as soon as the fork hit our motuhs and we both did a "huh" at the same time...hehe. Not that funny, but one of those uncomfortable moments that you just want to start laughing out loud but can''t.

I gotta say though so far planning has been great! I haven''t really stressed out too much and feel like I''m moving right along, keeping on budget and having fun with it!. I''ve also been good about not over sharing all my ideas with my family and trying to keep them here were I know everyone is on the same boat! hehe.

I''d love to hear funny stories though! Good thread Sumbride!!!
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M~
 
Ohhhh
I actually just thought of something that I thought was REALLY funny! but it had nothing to do with me.

I will share though..hehe.

I always go to my local knot board and the girls there are truly great and helpful. Anyway, one day one girl posted about her Vows, she wanted to get opinions on what everyone thought of them. She had decided they would write their own vows because they wanted them to be ORIGINAL, be about THEM and express how they TRULY felt.

Anyway, me being the sentimental bride I am, I thought I would check it out.

As I start reading, I start laughing OUT LOUD.

Any Grey''s Anatomy fans out there?. I''m sure there are.

Anyone remembers Burke''s vows?

I''m sure you do, who could forget them??...

Well, this girl wrote exactly what Burke wrote, except she changed the part about being a "heart man". Everything else was the same!!!!!!!!!!!!

All other girls are posting "wow!!", "you made me cry", "wow, you are such a good writer", etc etc.

I couldn''t do this. I tried to be subtled and complimented the vows, but then asked if she was a Grey''s fan...and that maybe she would consider change them a bit, just in case there were any Grey''s fans out there!.

I wasn''t trying to be mean or rude, but seriously!!!!!!!!!. If I made my FI write his own vows and he came with someone else''s vows I think I would start laughing at the altar!.

Ok, maybe I am a little mean, I just thought it was funny and couldn''t help myself! hehe

M~
 
That is too funny Mandarine!! Imagine when everyone in the audience that watches the show thinks "hmm.. this sounds really familiar... wasn''t it on tv?" That''s the trouble with original vows... they need to be ORIGINAL! or so obscure that nobody will recognize it as plagarism when the officiant says "the couple has written their OWN vows..."

IG, that''s crazy! All those morbid rocks! And the drums!!!


keep ''em coming ladies... I know there must be more out there!
 
haha, I know!!!! That''s why we''re sticking to the traditional vows, they''ve worked for so many couples that we thought we would just stick to tradition...hehe.

I really couldn''t hold myself back...she never responded and I didn''t mean to offend her, but if I was a guest at that wedding I would have laughed (maybe not out loud) but it would have definitely been a hot topic during the cocktail hour...hehe

M~
 
losing the passport and having to cancel the honeymoon to Mexico the day before the wedding.... I think I win :) haha
 
Also my wife fumbled the part in the vows that states, "for richer or poor"..and she was like "for richer or..." and then there was a pause and she said "poor" i laughed so hard because that fits her PERFECTLY...she wants to have tons of money...yet we''re going into the ministry so we''re going to be poor haha
 
mandarine, clearly that gal didn''t see the episode of scrubs where the soon-to-be-groom (turk) gets "help" writing his rehearsal dinner speech from his future BIL. he starts reading it at the dinner, and everyone is just in shock or trying not to crack up b/c evil BIL gave him, verbatim, the love confession from When Harry Met Sally. Not a reaction I''d want to get from even one guest!! Probably good that you discreetly called her out on it.

We haven''t gotten far enough with the planning to have anything silly happen, but I''m positive that it will. My life is a sitcom like that. Kudos for lightening the mood a bit, sumbride.
 
I can never remember how traditional vows go but I think this is how part of the vows go: I''d have to take out or change the part where you say "I take so and so to be my lawfully wedded husband/wife..." because I''m so afraid of saying "awfully wedded husband." Kind of takes on a whole new meaning, no?
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hehe Zoe, I may have to take that out too!!! with my accent speaking English I will definitely mess that up!!!!!!!!!!!!

M~
 
Date: 6/25/2007 3:37:19 PM
Author: zoebartlett
I can never remember how traditional vows go but I think this is how part of the vows go: I''d have to take out or change the part where you say ''I take so and so to be my lawfully wedded husband/wife...'' because I''m so afraid of saying ''awfully wedded husband.'' Kind of takes on a whole new meaning, no?
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Now that is too funny...
 
I, the Bride, was paranoid about the rings being misplaced and was keeping them in a safe place til before the ceremony. An hour before the ceremony the question came "where are the rings?" I could not remember where I put them
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No matter how hard I tried, I just couldn''t remember.... My family frantically searched for the rings, even driving back home for a quick look. We ended up getting married with my maid of honor''s ring and my husbands brother''s ring!!!

Later that night I found the rings in my shoebox that held my wedding shoes
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My bf''s sister recently got married in this very old church, complete with organ. She, of course, wanted the organist to play as she walked down the aisle. During the rehearsal, everything went just perfectly - the organist played beautifully! Well, it apparently got to the organist''s head that we all just adored her playing. When the time came, she walked down the aisle with the organ music playing. When she reached the altar, she patiently waited for the player to stop at the correct time. The organist kept playing. She waited still as the bridesmaids got restless. The organist kept playing. As the bridesmaids started to laugh and the guests started to get antsy (we were still standing!!). The organist kept playing. At one point, someone finally went upstairs to tell the organist to stop. The organist kept playing! Ten minutes the organist played her walk down the aisle (and this is not a big church in the slightest sense.) The guests were starting to take a pool on when the organist would stop. It was the story of the wedding and reception - and yes, she thought that it was funny too...
 
My friend (who''s FI called off the wedding right after the invites went out, then managed to change his mind after my friend freaked out massively) got up and sang "I Will Survive" at her own wedding and we were all standing around thinking, "HUH?? Is that appropriate at your own wedding and isn''t it rather a bad omen??"
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They appear to be happily married...
 
One of the best I''ve seen was at a wedding FI and I went to in May.

The bridegroom is coming to the end of his speech and he is telling his new wife how wonderful she is, how proud he is that she married him - and then finished with

"I just want to tell you that I can''t wait to spend the rest of my life WITHOUT you"

I nearly died laughing. Poor man he couldn''t understand why the whole room errupted. FI has the whole thing on video and they are trying to bribe us not to put it on U-tube.
 
My favorite parts of our wedding were the goofs. Here''s my favorite. Because my FI was raised Presbyterian and I was raised Catholic, we decided to split the difference and get married in an Episcopal church so neither of us was very familiar with the ceremony. And I''d told my FI who is not much of one for big public displays of affection that I was going to plant a big, juicy kiss on him in front of everybody. After the rehearsal, my sister who was my MOH warned me that she was sure she''d forget to hand me back my flowers after the kiss so I would just need to remember to grab them before we walked back down the aisle. I said ''Thanks for the warning.''

Fast forward to the next day. Ceremony is going along quite well, very moving. At least back then, the priest in the Episcopal ceremony did not say ''You may now kiss the bride'' but instead something much more general. He says that general statement and what immediately pops into my head is ''Okay. Now I have to grab for my flowers.'' So as my brand new husband reaches in for the kiss, instead of planting the threatened big, juicy kiss, I turned around to grab the bouquet from my sister instead, then realized I''d forgotten something important and wheeled back around for the kiss, which wasn''t quite how I intended because by then, everyone was laughing including me. It still makes me laugh and that was almost 29 years ago. I''m so glad my wedding wasn''t perfect because those are the moments I remember and treasure.
 
At my wedding ceremony my dad almost forgot to give me away!
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I did things a little differently. I walked down the aisle with both my parents. After my parents exchanged hugs with my husband and me, my mom took my dad's arm and he was about to walk and sit down with her. Somehow my dad remembered. I think we whispered something to him. He did end up giving me away.
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We had rehearsed it and all but my mom was so emotional and wanted to sit down ASAP so I bet my dad's mind was preoccupied. It was funny and we all started laughing.
 
This happened at my future sister in law''s wedding which was 2 weeks ago. Her name is Jenna... and her husband''s name is Jonathan. The pastor has known them both for years but for some reason kept saying Johnna and Jenathan instead of jenna and jonathan. He said it SIX times in their ceremony. ugh. I thought it was funny... and everyone was laughing...I''m not sure if the bride found it funny though.
 
At my cousin''s wedding the groomsmen all stood in the front pew and one by one ''collected'' the bridesmaids at the top of the aisle and went to stand at the altar. This went off without a hitch at the rehearsal but at the wedding the maid of honour forgot all about her groomsman and just barrelled right on as the poor guy stepped out of the pew to meet her. She ended up headbutting him! At the reception afterwards the priest cracked a joke about needing to buy a stop sign for the top of the aisle for when the maid of honour gets married!!!
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