What have your wedding disasters been?

No horrors yet, still in the early days...

... But wait, someone cut their balls off? Did I read that right?

Got my dress from china- no problems at all with the dress but with myself! Was a size 10-12 when I ordered it now I'm a size 8 unintentually! So I literally just for it backfr the seamstress yesterday so now it's a perfect fit!

Both the MOH and BM dresses needed letting out at the back a the BM had a health issue where weight seems to cling to her middle and bum so a standered dress had to have more lacing up loops added and the slit made longer, it's now perfect! The MOHs dress was perfect but in her weight loss her body has changed and now the fabric is funny at the back so her dress is undergowin the same as the BM's!

Getting the cake tins from my friends aunt has been a nightmare... Still haven't been able to make the practice cake and have 23 days to go!

I made my table plan way to early so have had to fix it a few times! ( stupid me really)

im sure there's lots more but I'm tired and can't think of many!

I'm sorry WHAT?!?!?

Oh gosh! How awful for everyone involved! No horrors so far but it's still fairly early days so not counting my chickens yet!

Well we've been married for just over a year now but my wife being a bit of a dab hand at all things green decided she'd do her own flowers. We'd have flowers everywhere basically cos she loves flowers.

So she ordered them from the wholesaler's to arrive on the Friday so she could spend Fri & Sat doing them all ready for our wedding on Sunday. To cut a long story short the courier with the delivery simply vanished. No-one could find him nor get hold of him. It didn't arrive. Thankfully the wholesaler's went the extra mile and cobbled together just about enough of the flowers she'd ordered along with a few slightly different ones and couriered them for a Saturday morning delivery at their expense. This threw us back a day basically so our already busy day became absolutely manic!

My teenage daughter was responsible for taking the traditional Chinese wedding dress to the venue on the day so my wife could change into it for the Chinese tea ceremony. Guess what??? She forgot. Left it in the house! Thankfully one of our friends raced home to get it during the speeches.

Oh and lastly I need to practice what I preach. My wife & I had a choreographed first dance which we had kept secret from everyone. My friend who is also my usual videographer was videoing it for us and one of the things I always ask my customers is to tell me if they've planned any surprises. He'd asked me and I had lied to him (oops!). So come the first dance he was completely caught off guard, in the wrong spot and with the wrong lens! ? My bad! The dance went well though! ?

Despite the minor disasters, it all ended well and it was still an amazing day!

Ruby - what a nightmare at the time but in perspective an amazing story to tell the grandchildren!

Yes balls!!! Hope the poor guy is ok.

Omg losing the wedding ring for a bit must have been a nightmare, hope I don't get that one on my list!

Wow Lizzy! Poor guy. Did the wedding on the day still go ahead?

Nothing too disastrous yet.

OH's friend said he would learn a Manics song and play it live on guitar for my bridal entrance and has just pulled out which is very annoying.

I had a potential dress disaster in that I can't walk in it, but as it is a velvet handfasting dress, putting a hoop in made it worse as the material isn't heavy enough, so it looked ridiculous. Luckily I have had the front of the dress taken up just enough that I can walk so crisis averted!

I'm not sure if this fits the 'disaster' category but my OH and I decided that we would like to get our wedding rings handmade. We have, since November last year, paid the person we asked to make our wedding rings £990.00 and have never received or even seen our wedding rings. It would now appear that this person is going out of business and has agreed to cancel our order but cannot, apparently, repay our money. So we have issued court proceedings this week.

Luckily we still have quite a bit of time before our wedding but this is a MAJOR dent in our wedding fund :o(

Another thing is that I have been doing Slimming World and am now at - or under! - target and I have lost another stone since we bought my wedding dress. My mum is constantly panicking that it won't fit me because I've lost too much weight and now I don't know whether to stuff my face or carry on the way I have been! Ha ha ha!

xxx

Nothing that compete with someone cutting balls off but. ...

Venue decoration delivery went awol amd replacements only arrived at 8pm the day before the wedding

Bridesmaid discovered she allergic to tit tape when her skin painfully flared up. Thankfully I jad broiggtr her party dress so she changed after the photos

Make up artist took so long that I ended up being late and was in such a hurry I forgot to look in a mirror.....didnt see myself until tog took full length pic and showed me

Best man took so long getting ready that hubby didnt get time to do his own hair as he was looking after our son

Venue sat guests down for dinner before tog had taken group shot so she had to get them all up again

My daughters had black hairbands on their wrists for the whole day. I only found out when I saw pics that guests had taken of us walking down the aisle.

MIL ignored arrangements for her to take our son upstairs when he woke from sleeping in buggy. I had to csrry him upstairs in my very tight dress while she danced with my boss. I know he is my responsibility but she had offered to do this and it was midnight....she was hardly missing out on the dancing and I could jardly walk in my dress let alone climb stairs. Hubby was putting up cot so had no idea I was struggling so much

Couldnt find my lovely bridal flats so spent the evening dancing in the black and flower pumps I wear for work.

Written down it looks like the day was a nightmare but everyone had fun and in my mind it was still a perfect day

Our biggest disaster was and is that our wedding won't be legal! Long story..........

We naively assumed that as British citizens we could come home and get married in the UK no problem. Booked our flights, booked the church, booked the reception, sent out Save The Dates in October, having been assured that as British Citizens resident in a comonwealth country we could give notice here in NZ and marry in England. Then in January the vicar said that she wasnt very happy with us not giving notice in NZ as she didn't think it was legal......I confidently assured here I'd done my research with the British Consulate and there was no problem.....I was wrong!

By now it's february, and we discover that we can't afford the time off work to give notice in the UK, but we have a full wedding booked for August. So we decide to go ahead and have a blessing ceremony, then get married legally when we get back (it was important to us that our families share the first step of our marriage together so we wanted the UK ceremomy to be first). We run this by the vicar, and she says no, she's not willing to bless a marriage that hasn't yet happened.

Well, that's ok becaue my uncle's a minister and he is willing to do the ceremony, we just need the church building because its got a lot of family history, its near the reception venue we've booked in North Yorkshire and my uncles own church is down in Cardiff. Minister says no, she won't allow anyone to perform the ceremony in her church.

So now it's the end of March (did I mention that among all this the flipping vicar was rubbish at returning e-mails and phone calls, and needed lots of time to 'consider our requests' before saying no!! causing further delays), and I have no church, no legal marriage, but booked flights, reception and guests for a wedding in August!!!!

Luckily at that point a second local vicar stepped in and offered us his church. So my wedding still isnt legal, but at least I have a wedding. We'll do the legal bit when we get back. Plain sailing.......

Until OH had a nervous breakdown in May!........

He is much improved. I am hoping for no more disasters. Lost luggage will NOT be appreciated.

Yorkshirekiwi, that definitely sounds like a nightmare but hopefully all your bad luck is out the way and it will be plain sailing from now on!

3 weeks before the wedding my friend who offered to make our cake pulled out - cue lots of last minute panicking and ringing round to sort an alternative.

On the actual wedding day, the only thing was that we ran out of food. We opted for a buffet rather than a sit down meal and either we had some greedy guests or the hotel under-catered, either way there wasn't enough food and my husband and I didn't get a scrap to eat! Oh well, almost celebrating our 1st anniversary and I look back and I don't care!

I'm sorry to interrupt people's disasters but I REALLY need to know what that poor man did to cut his own balls off - I mean, just, wow!!! And oww ? Sorry..

Nothing so far that I can think of! Fingers crossed. I did buy and send back several off the peg dresses but that's been more a pain than a disaster.

Happened to all my bridesmaid dresses. The color i chose wasn't the one they used so we had to do a lot of compromising because it was too late to make another batch. The best part about all the wedding disasters is, its really the best memories after the wedding. Its mostly what we recall. Good luck. Don't get too stressed. It will still work out fine. Breathe!

Wow - I was totally distracted by the b*lls and had to google... Was it this one in Essex?

http://www.brentwoodweeklynews.co.uk/news/10681609.Wedding_delayed_in_Brentwood_after_man_cuts_off_testicles/

Poor man. At least the wedding party weren't there at the time and the bride was oblivious during the service.

It sounds to me as though the vicar did a cracking job to hold things together and only have the wedding delayed by 30 mins,

I'd be impressed with that!

My dress alterer accidentally took my dress in twice (didn't mark off that she'd already done it), making it a size that Victoria Beckham would have problems fitting into.

My veil arrived with a lipstick stain on the ribbon & a faulty comb (the company fixed it after I sent it back)

I got an 'excellent condition' white coat from ebay (as I'll only wear it once) - the back's covered in orange splatter stains EWWWWW!

I didn't notice my M&S suspender belt wasn't adjustable - also couldn't find knickers to match the colour! So got a brand-new-with-tags suspender belt from ebay - it arrived without tags and with the belts hanging off..

The priest (my partner's catholic) said my baptism certificate isn't proof I'm a christian because the church only signed it & didn't stamp it!, that I need 'catholic proof' that I've never been married & divorced (what?!) and my OH needs to prove he's not a criminal because he's not English! (This priest isn't even English!!!) - Left Catholicism and went with C of E instead!

My bridesmaids aren't happy with the length of the dresses and are going to 'find their own', but I don't know when or what colour they'll get so can't match they guys' cravats or bouquets!

My oldest friend and one of my best friend's can't get days off work to come

We've discovered some of our things have gone missing & the only person who could have taken them is one of our new friends (who's invited), but there's no proof so we can't uninvite her!

My mum's made our favours but they've melted

I hope that this will be all!

My diy photo frame fell off the washing machine and cracked on one corner - managed to superglue it back together and re-glittered and it doesn't show unless you know it's there!

One of the old dears I go crafting with has invited herself to the ceremony - she's not even invited to the evening!!! She says she is just going to stand outside and watch us go in and come out. I live in fear that she will post photographs on facebook even though all the attending guests have been asked not to. Also she will notice that I have invited the lady who runs our card classes - this could cause issues. She's a nice enough lady but..... honestly!!!

One of my guests has been in a diabetic coma for several weeks, came out of it, then broke her ankle getting out the car - she isn't sure she can make the wedding. Another friend fell down the stairs - I think my wedding is cursing my friends!!!!

Compared to some disasters (YK, pleaaaase don't let anything else go wrong!) mine are very minor so I nearly didn't post them at all - but hey, I love a bit of attention seeking ?

That's not good, glad you have time to fix it.

Not quite the same but we went to a wedding fayre ages ago and got details of a local lady who makes bespoke wedding rings, thought great, made an appointment, talked through everything, back in February, had a couple of follow up appointments, she didn't seem overly enthusiastic at what we wanted , and kept trying to push her own ideas on us. Anyway we had our final meeting at the beginning of April. And that is the last we heard. We are now 4 weeks from the wedding and as far as she knows, we have no rings. Luckily we got a bad vibe from her and bought them from the Jewellery Quarter back in June but she doesn't know this! We hadn't given her any money though thank god, but she has done herself out of £1k of business!

Ugh, I'm not a man, but that story makes me feel uncomfortable!!

No disasters here yet (finger's crossed)!

HA HA! Same! A lady at work said she would just sit at the back of the chapel so she can see me then leave afterwards. Problem is, she told me the week before someone did that to her on her wedding day so she felt she had to invite them to the whole day so I know she is just fishing for an invite.

I think this is maybe a generational thing because my mum and a lot of the older women that I work with will do this. They don't expect an invite to anything afterwards and are genuinely just going because they're excited to see the person get married and they feel like it shows they're supporting them by going along. My mum's from an Irish working class background and I think they're just really relaxed about things like this. In fact, now that I think of it, the Italian side of my family do it too! I've been to weddings in Italy where wee old Italian women who don't know anyone turn up to the wedding ceremony for a wee nosy. Maybe it's a Catholic thing?

I know it happens a lot with church weddings, it did at my first one. And yes, elderly Catholic ladies are particularly prone. Our wedding however is in a mansion in the middle of a park, and it will take the lady in question a good half hour in her car to get there. She can't come in, , not even to sit at the back as we are at maximum capacity. It seems a little pointless really! Ah well, there's no arguing with elderly ladies is there!!

Yes that's the one, my OH grew up in Hutton and it's a lovely church up a long windy path, it really was one of those 'you couldn't make it up'stories when my bridesmaid text me and told me about it. The vicar was a lovely fella too, but we ended up moving so we were considering changing our church anyway.

Oh lord...

Not too bad from this side (so far!) Our humanist officiant cancelled with just over four weeks to go. The problem was we are getting married in Austria and ALL of the (handful!) of other humanist-y officiants were busy (almost EVERYONE here gets married in church). Plus, the ceremony needs to be in English...

But... it's all worked out. We met some people who offered to do it, bt, although lovely people, just weren't 'right'. It occured to us that a very good friend of ours would be just perfect for the job - we asked and she said yes! Too be honest, I like this idea better than the original one, the lady who cancelled did us a favour

My dressmaker told me that a recent bride of hers was contacted by her venue three weeks before her wedding to check some details and it transpired that they had put her down for the wrong month... And the venure was already booked for the date she was planning for... nightmare... It worked out though!

Wow - I'm intrigued to know how they got around that one!

I found a ring I'd fallen in love with, got offered an amazing price if I order it & pay in cash (literally saving over 50%!), so thought I'd order it as my weight doesn't fluctuate very much so I can assume it'll still fit by the wedding...

Then I was diagnosed with "significant" endometriosis and advised to try to conceive within the next year if I want a family, otherwise I risk having to have repeated surgeries which are likely to affect my fertility. So now there's a very good chance my ring will no longer fit by the wedding - and it's not exactly the easiest design to resize! Just going to have to try to avoid massive weight gain if (hopefully when!) I get pregnant, and hope I shift the weight afterwards.

I actually thought the balls was a typo for bells!!! Lol!! Just read the article!! That is definately a story you couldn't make up!!

only had one "biggy" so far (touch wood and fingers crossed and all that!!) and that is that the factory reading my surname (white) instead of the dress order (Ivory) and making and sending my dress in the wrong colour! Replacement dress still hasn't arrived with 5 weeks to go and I know I've gained weight so I'm starting to get panicky.......

Ahhhhhh omg how crazy is that. When is your dress due in?

They said mid-august. which they have assured me is enough time for alterations but I will be phoning them on Tuesday to see if there's any news!