Its often said that aweddingis the most important day of our lives.
So this October (spooky season!
From fashion mishaps to beauty blunders, here are their anonymous horror stories.
Illustration by Allie Sullberg
And as the saying goes: The worse the wedding, the better the marriage.
I wore a 1950s vintage dress to my City Hall civil ceremony.
It had lovely princess seams down the front and back that hugged my bodyunfortunately, a bit too tight.
Illustration by Allie Sullberg
Thank god for Photoshop.
I hired a string quartet for my ceremony and an entirely different band showed up.
I have no idea who they were to this day.
Illustration by Allie Sullberg
I even made a mood board explaining what it meant.
Bows, taffeta, fringe, kaftans, silk, capes, gowns, sequinsall welcome!
It just had to be black.
On the day of the wedding, I was pleased.
A freak hail storm struck suddenly during my outdoor mountain weddingrightas I began to walk down the aisle.
My guests sat and witnessed a wedding I never saw.
One of our tables caught on fire.Oof.
Good riddance, and fuck him!
Our priest got lost on the way to our wedding.
Thankfully, one of our friends had already been certified as an officiant and stepped in to marry us.
(Full disclosure: I wanted my ass to lookgreat.)
Well, I worked my body so much my butt did look amazing… but also bigger.
My butt hadliterallybusted my pants open.
It scared him while he was using his razorand he accidentally shaved a chunk out of his hair.
So he walked down the aisle with a surprise buzzcut.
She also took the cash and disappeared as soon as the ceremony started.
Our friend accidentally broke the brides tooth at my birthday party two weeks prior.
At my sisters wedding, the rabbi said my name instead of herstwice.
One of those times?
The takeaway: Get the money upfront!
Thank god for YouTube tutorials!
The father of the bride got so drunk at the welcome party and an ambulance had to be called.
To his credit, he held his own on the dance floor the next night.
Guests found out that the wedding had been canceled via a Venmo return of funds.
I went to this blowout wedding where the diamond flew out of the engagement setting on the dance floor.
I was at a wedding where a guest left their underwear in the bathroom.
I dont wanna know.
