ceremonies

[Witchy Cowgirl]

As my husband and I just celebrated our anniversary, I was wondering if anyone had any interesting stories about weddings or handfastings they attended or been in. Like...................

I was once a bridesmaid, and we carried boquets with crystals bells in them. During some long prayer, I started gettin hot and I guess I locked my knees. The last thing I remember was the blue carpet gettin smaller and smaller.....I passed out. One of the groomsman picked me up and carried me to the back. My hand locked on the bouqet and I was told the bell chimed all the way back up the aisle. The bride never knew what happened!:rotfl:

[MidnightSun]

I was a flower girl at my aunt's wedding when I was 4. The flowers were glued into the basket, they weren't supposed to be thrown. Me and my twin sister ripped the flowers out and threw them out anyway..lol. Also, my sister tripped over the carpet :) We almost stepped on the Brides Maid's dresses too :) LOL, and we were stomping on bugs before the reception :) hehehe :)

[Faery-Wings]

Midnight- Oh no LOL!!! My daughter and son are flowergirl/ring bearer in a wedding in three weeks. Now you are just scaring me! :eek: :ahhhh:

My son was a ring bearer at my BIL's wedding, when he was not even two. At the rehearsal, he walked down just perfect. The flower girl was not at the rehearsal, so her mom had the kids practice many times before the actual wedding. When it came time to have him walk down the aisle for real, he was like "no more of that!" I had to drag him down by the arm, and he dragged the pillow on the floor behind him. We called him Monkey Boy. :p

[Silver_Alhena]

Well, i'm going to be a bridesmaid for the first time next year.
Despite not having stayed in contact for 18months, my friend remembered our childhood promise to each other :D

Man, I'm so excited already, but due to the amount of wee cousins myself and the other bridesmaid and maid of honour have to keep an eye on, (not to mention the practical joker of a best man!) there has been my self imposed rule of not drinking until the end of the reception. (the bride would kill me if i got drunk!)

besides, i can't dance or sing at the best of times, so I don't want to make an idiot of myself on the dance floor, or do karaoke (I've been banned twice that's how rubbish I am)

Hmm...getting tipsy now sounds much more appealing....

Anyone got any more horror bridesmaid/flower girl/wedding party stories...I'd love to hear them:)

[Desert_Shadow]

September 19, 1987: My wedding day.

It was lovely! Fall wedding, outdoors, waterfall, bubbling brook.
My future husband's cousin was the minister performing the wedding. I was a nervous wreck.
My daughter was my maid of honor. I came down the carpet between the chairs of guests. The minister began the ceremony.
For some reason, he got my name wrong. He called me Virginia.
No one said anything. Alittle further along, he again referred to me as Virginia. My future husband reached out and put his hand over the book the minister was reading from. to stop him. He informed him of my actual name. However, my case of nerves was so bad, I started to laugh. It is said that laughter is infectous, and it certainly was that day. My daughter stared to laugh, the guests started to laugh. It took a little time for the mirth to subside. I, however, could not stop completely. Throughout the rest of the ceremony, I was shaking with subdued laughter. It was so bad, all the guests were snickering beacuse my wedding gown was shaking during the whole time.
The minister swore it would be the last time he performed an oudoor wedding. Why he blamed it on the out-of-doors, I still do not know.
Afterward, during the reception, half the guests informed us that they too, for some reason had thought my name was Virginia.

[Wyrdsister]

Hehehe! Does your name even sound like Virginia?? :T
Wyrdsister

[Armitage]

At a friend of mine's wedding, all of the friends of the groom disappeared before the dinner was to start and came back with ridiculous hats on. One had a horned helmet, one a sombrero, one a knight's helmet, etc. .

[LunaWitch]

I love the funny hats story. That's cute. :)

My only real gripe on my wedding day was my so-called DJ.
We had asked him to play rock music mostly at the reception
(we both hated pop music and typical wedding reception music)
but this nut decides to not only play old rock music but wouldn't allow requests (which I said, if anyone asks you to play something, just play it, I don't care)
he also didn't play any fun songs during the cake eating, the garter and flowers throwing etc.
He also played the wrong wedding song when we were "introduced". We stood there staring at him like, hello? we didnt even pick that song!
Then the best was while everyone was eating dinner, he decides to eat too (which was fine) except, he leaves Pink Floyd the Wall album on all through dinner. Let me tell ya, when your grand parents start looking around when "dirty woman" is playing, ugh! That ticked me off so much! I nearly lost my mind with that guy, needless to say, I ended up caving in and telling the guy, look, play typical music for the rest of the night, cause you obviously can't handle special requests.
And ya know what the moral of this longass story is?
Just let the DJ play typical music or get a band.
The rest of the night went so well after that... chcken dance and all :D

[MammaStar]

I got one straight out of Jerry Springer!!!

Last October, my kid bro's best friend got married. I didn't attend the "church" part, cause it was in NYC and Eshallet couldn't get the whole day off, so we blew the ceremony off and headed to the reception. Well, I missed all the fireworks, it seems that the bride's brother (and a groomsman) decided that his sister's wedding would be a PERFECT time to tell his long time live-in girlfreind (the mother of his child AND a bridesmaid as well) that he was leaving her for another woman. I was told that she looked at him, threw up and fainted. My brother, the grooms brother, and the brides eldest brother told him to get the F***out and not even bother going to the reception.

The reception is progressing along, no problems. It's getting late, nearing the end. Eshallet and I step out for some air (you know how stuffy weddings can get) when I hear the bride screaming at the top of her lungs....I race down the hall to see my brother and 6 other guys pushing the wayward brother out of the hall. It seems that hurting his girlfriend & sister earlier was not enough. OH NO!!! he had to SHOW UP, with the bimbo. It was terrible. I felt so bad for the bride, and believe me, she isn't one of my favorite people, but everyone woman deserves a beautfiul wedding day.

[brittallis]

My sister is getting married this weekend and I am a bm and my daughter is the flower girl. It is my first time being a bridesmaid and I am almost as nervous as my sister. The following happened on my wedding day:

It started out great. Went to get the nails done and the hair. I went to the church and put on my dress and my flower girl told me that I looked like Cinderella. I was glowing!!! Then I got to the doors of the church. Thank god there was a bathroom to my right because I ran in there w/ my dad trailing behind me and just let it all go. Once I finally got my stomach settled I started crying and couldn't stop. My dad took my bouqet and stuffed toilet paper around it so that I could dab my tears once I got down the aisle. Eventually, I made it to the altar. And my sister and I got the giggles. The priest had to tell us to be quiet, but we couldn't. During the reception, I drank to glasses of champagne and since I am not a big drinker got a little tipsy. I fell over the ring bearer who was sitting by the lights the dj had swirling around and knocked the child, the lights and myself over while my dress ended up over my head because of my underskirt. Anyway, everything was fine until after the reception when we went to leave. They had put shaving cream and vaseline all over the inside as well as the outside of the vehicle. While we were pulling out, of a convenience store to get something to take w/ us to the hotel. My husband foot hit some vaseline and ran into the convenience store managers brand new explorer in front a police officer. I can honestly say I will never forget one bit of my wedding day!!!!

[Cinnamon Girl]

My own story is not nearly as dramatic as some of the ones that have been on here (especially brittallis!). My husband and I had what you'd call a 'whirlwind romance' and decided to get married on little more than a whim and in the space of less than six weeks from when we decided to do it. Well, I wanted to elope, I was never one for weddings. But no, my mother-in-law didn't want to miss her baby boy getting married so we had to have a ceremony. We had it outside, so that's one thing I got my way, but we had a Baptist preacher perform the ceremony (my husband's wish, since he and his family are Baptist) who was a family acquaintance. Well, the guy kept forgetting/messing up his lines and didn't mention (as I requested) those family members that were not there in person, but in spirit (none of my family were there due to geography and finances). To this day, I don't think I ever actually spoke the words 'I take you ... to be my husband' ~ he just left that out!

Turns out the camera we were using to take photos didn't wind the film properly so we have only a handful of poorly taken shots.

I will say this for my mother-in-law ~ she put a hell of a lot of work into it, it just wasn't to *my* tastes. But like I said, I never really cared much about a wedding so I guess if I had I would have taken a more active stance. I think I was more overwhelmed than anything else. :woah:

[Desert_Shadow]

Hehehe! Does your name even sound like Virginia?? Wyrdsister
No, doesn't sound anything like Virginia. Seems I ran into a lot of people who could not remember my name. They called me almost anything that started with a V. Virginia, Valerie, Victoria, and one poor guy kept calling me Venus. So I unofficially changed my name. There are still old friends around Glenwood Springs, Colorado who know me as "George". :lol: