"Glitches" at Your Wedding - Please Share
 

I loved reading about MicheleM's renewal of her vows. Besides having a beautiful wedding, she said there were a few "hiccups" which reminded me of my wedding. ;) I would love to hear about any glitches at yours or one you have attended...

I'll go first. I forgot my husband's ring and my dad had to leave the ceremony and go search for it. Ahhhh! :eek:

The preacher transposed 2 words in the vows and it confused my dh so much that he swayed and almost passed out...all I could think at the time was "he's going down!!" He recovered nicely, though.:D

Oh no, poor guy... glad he recovered! Did you capture that moment on video?

Yeah, but it wasn't as obvious to anyone but me. He was already a nervous wreck and when I held his hands during the ceremony, I remember thinking eewwwww because they were so clammy! Funny what we remember. :D

Somewhere, at some point, an entire rack of folding chairs crashed down! It was SUPER loud! Also, even though we were married at the end of Jan it was crazy hot in the church. Thank goodness we only had a 15 minute ceremony!

Thankfully, the ceremony itself went off without a hitch. Before and after were another story altogether.

Because the wedding and formal reception were at a tiny chapel with no alcohol allowed, we had booked a huge suite at a hotel for the ladies to get ready and for the 'real' party. When we got to the hotel, they didn't have our reservation! They had booked us for the day we actually reserved it. According to their records we had stayed with them 6 months ago. I turned Bridezilla, and it took the manager about 3 minutes to set us up in the presidential suite, lol.

One of my bridesmaids decided that she wanted to get ready at home and would meet us at the hotel and ride to the chapel in a limo. She showed up an hour before we were to leave, with her dress in hand and her hair dripping wet. The power had gone out at her house while she was in the shower.

Once we were all ready, we went down to the lobby, where the limo was supposed to be waiting. No limo! I wound up being 15 minutes late to the chapel because it never showed up, and we had to squeeze me and my gown into my dad's car and scramble to get my bridesmaids and flower girls a ride. The limo company fouled up their notes and only had us reserved for after the ceremony, and then they showed up late. Most of our guests had left or gone back to the suite, and we were still waiting at the chapel. I don't know what the coordinator said to the guy, but we wound up not paying a penny to the limo company.

Wow! What a memorable day that was, for all the wrong reasons! Glad the wedding itself went well:D

It is funny what we remember. Did you ever tell your DH he had clammy hands? :eek:

Oh goodness about the whole rack of chairs. I feel certain there were some wide eyes when that happened.

A few weeks before our wedding my husband and I sat down with the preacher to go over the wedding ceremony......the preachers part too. My husband and I were in our later 40's when we married....we already had our children and my beautiful granddaughter was our flower girl. Anyway, during the ceremony the preacher states "and God bless this union with children" ...... We look at each other and then out to all the peeps (with their eyes bugged out at that statement) at the wedding and just about die laughing. The preacher never missed a beat and continued with the wedding. We still laugh about this and wonder when I am going to get pregnant. Not!

Oh, yes, no question I told him! We had already lived together 7 years at that point. I was comfortable telling him anything (and making fun, too! ) I also dogged him about the almost passing out. He swears he didn't sway, but admits the transposing of the words flummoxed him briefly...:rolleyes:

I didn't want children at my wedding so of course the brats that were the cause of my decision were present. If you don't want children there SAY SO. Leaving them off the invitation doesn't seem to work.

When the rice throwing started one of them got right in front of me and threw his rice as hard as he could. Hurt like the dickens. THEN the other one stepped on my train and tore it1/2 off before the reception even started!

One more thing. My husband was adopted but he knew his birth parents and they were invited to the wedding. Unfortunately they didn't receive theit invitation. They were heartbroken and drove 200 mile just to sit outside of the church. I don't think we had an RSVP thing or we would have noticed their not responding.

I didn't see that thread about Michele's ceremony!!! Got to go looking and see if I can find it. I wanted to hear how it all went.

Loving the stories here. My wedding was glitch free thank goodness but one of my dearest friend's maid of honor fainted right smack in the middle of the vows!!! I was standing two bridesmaids over from her and began to sense motion out of the corner of my eye and was dying to look but didn't want to call attention(as if everybody couldn't already see what was happening). For the longest time she was just swaying forward and back, forward and back for quite a while before down she went! Everything just stopped while everybody crowded around and someone got her a Coke to sip on and a cold cloth for her face. Finally when she felt stronger, everybody got back into position and the minister started the final ceremony from the beginning. It was all being videoed with gorgeous lighting, beautiful effects here and there and little candlelight spots all about on the flowers and candles and and I felt so sorry for my friend, the beautiful bride, to have her and her fiance's big moment so spoiled as she was such a perfectionist about things. When they did the final cut of the wedding video, the video service just edited the fainting out and you never would know it happened. My friend that fainted still feels so bad about fainting but my friend the bride never gave it a second thought - at least to all of us.

When we pulled up to the church, a funeral was ending. I felt that this was an omen because, well, I am of Sicilian decent and that's what we think about such things. My father tried to convince me that this was good luck. I've been married 14 years so maybe he was right. But it didn't seem that way at the time, I was horrified.

I was at the hairdresser, when I got a call from my dad saying the florist called. Well I call them back to ask what the problem was....my flowers weren't ready!!! I got married in February and had ordered the flowers back in November the year before....'what the &*(^ do you mean you forgot to order them??? AND you have no idea what I ordered....I don't care if yo mama forgot and she don't speak good English, fly down south and get the freakin orchids and orange roses I ordered!!!!:mad::mad::mad: OMG I was soooo pizzed ....I was in tears! The make-up artist had just finished my make up, so you know that had to be re-done.....and my hair...good LORD that was another story!

I was growing out my hair and decided to give it a rest by putting extensions in it. What a mess...the girl that put them in had no idea what she was doing, it looked like a birds nest! So I show up at my daughters best friends house at 2am and all she could say was WOW, just Wow.
Go to my hairdresser after I had taken out the nest that was supposed to be my hair....she says its ok boo, I can fix it...."oh boy...sweetie I'm so sorry I can't fix this....its all broken off, I have to cut it" WHAT!!!!
I'm getting married in three months, how you gon cut it off...it aint gon grow back in time.....again tears.
She says 'boo boo, its ok, you know how we do...we can add some, if we need too (meaning add some hair)...hush now let me work some magic"
I had half inch of hair when she was done! All of my hair had broken off from the stupid extensions I had someone put in! We are talking about six inches of hair had to be cut...I had wanted my hair up bc I was wearing a tiara!...NOPE back to the store to change my headpiece, cause now I had no freakin hair!!!!!

In the end, the florist 'borrowed' the flowers from another florist....they had babys breath and the orchids, the white roses came from yet another florist....and my hair was a cap of curls that framed my face...it had grown enough that we didn't need to add any to what I had grown.

And the joke is after all of that...we are no longer together....:rolleyes:

aw man these stories are crazy- I can't wait to see what kind of things happen at my wedding in 3 months :p