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Did you have any bloopers during your wedding? (embarrassing, cultural, etc)

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MrsBugi

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I can recall 2 memorable "bloopers" from our wedding day.

Blooper #1: We had a traditional Chinese tea ceremony with his relatives and mine. Beforehand, we gave everyone who didn't already have them traditional red pockets. A few of his relatives asked what they were for and we gave them a brief explanation and said that it was customary to include a "small gift"/"well-wishes" for the couple. We did the tea ceremony, served the tea, collected the red envelopes, and opened them later. 2 of them were empty (I guess his relatives still didn't understand what they were for!), 1 of them had a $5 canadian bill in it and one had a literal note written inside of it wishing us well. 😛

Blooper #2: My husband had a little too much to drink on his wedding night and stumbled up the stairs to our room after the reception. I gave him a big glass of water to drink so he wouldn't be hungover the next day and went to the bathroom to take a million and one bobby pins out of my hair. When I came back, I found him passed out on the bed with the glass of water spilled all over him, the bed, the sheets, etc. I soaked up as much water as I could with the towels and tried to push him out of the "wet spot" but he wouldn't budge. After a few minutes I gave up and passed out on my dry side of the bed... it was a very romantic first night as husband and wife, to say the least!

Can you recall any bloopers from your wedding? Embarrassing moments, cultural misunderstandings, etc.?
 
MrsBugi said:
Blooper #1: We had a traditional Chinese tea ceremony with his relatives and mine. Beforehand, we gave everyone who didn't already have them traditional red pockets. A few of his relatives asked what they were for and we gave them a brief explanation and said that it was customary to include a "small gift"/"well-wishes" for the couple.
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Wedding presents not enough for you huh? D:
 
Barfo said:
Wedding presents not enough for you huh? D:
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It was tradition, not a money-making scheme.

My parents gave us each $20 in the red pockets... it's symbolic more than anything else. Are you Chinese? Giving us an empty red pocket was kinda funny because it meant they weren't wishing us any luck... I thought the note was cute and the $5 Canadian bill was a funny gesture from his father.
 
Not during the wedding but it reminded me of something with the first wife.
I was going into the Army and was in a hotel in San Fransisco the day before we shipped out. The Army puts two soon to be soldiers up in the room and then takes them to the airport the next day.

The wife and I get there and I check into the hotel room. My roomie has not checked in yet. Wife s going to drop me off but first goes to the room with me. We go to the room and the first thing you notice is a mirror along the back wall that extends into the bathroom area. There is a wall there separating the bathroom from the sleeping area/door into the room.

We are in the bathroom and I am standing and she is kneeling. She is speaking into the microphone.
All of a sudden I hear noise and I look into the mirror and see my roomie and his parents enter the room. They look into the mirror and see us.
Everyone was embarrassed but it wasn't as awkward as I would have thought.
 
oldsmoboat said:
Not during the wedding but it reminded me of something with the first wife.
I was going into the Army and was in a hotel in San Fransisco the day before we shipped out. The Army puts two soon to be soldiers up in the room and then takes them to the airport the next day.

The wife and I get there and I check into the hotel room. My roomie has not checked in yet. Wife s going to drop me off but first goes to the room with me. We go to the room and the first thing you notice is a mirror along the back wall that extends into the bathroom area. There is a wall there separating the bathroom from the sleeping area/door into the room.

We are in the bathroom and I am standing and she is kneeling. She is speaking into the microphone.
All of a sudden I hear noise and I look into the mirror and see my roomie and his parents enter the room. They look into the mirror and see us.
Everyone was embarrassed but it wasn't as awkward as I would have thought.
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When I first read this I was like, why would your wife have a microphone in the bathroom? That doesn't make any.... ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. 😛

Your roomie AND his parents?? Did they slowly back away out of the room and into the hallway? (beep... beep... beep)
 
Wife dropped her candle when lighting the unity candle. It almost rolled off the table, which probably would have set the carpet on fire. Then she did it again when we were taking pictures between the wedding and reception.
 
We were buried instead of being married. The pastor who had the old hymnal memorized asked everyone to turn to page so and so. The hymnals had been recently republished and the page he had them go to for the wedding ceremony was for the burial of the dead.
 
I zoned out in the middle of the ceremony, and was brought back to the moment by an elbow in the ribs. It was when I was to do the "repeat after me" part and I wasn't saying anything. I panicked and couldn't remember what I was supposed to say and I didn't hear the minister when he was talking, so all I could do is mumble a couple sounds so he could pick up with the next line.
 
oldsmoboat said:
Not during the wedding but it reminded me of something with the first wife.
I was going into the Army and was in a hotel in San Fransisco the day before we shipped out. The Army puts two soon to be soldiers up in the room and then takes them to the airport the next day.

The wife and I get there and I check into the hotel room. My roomie has not checked in yet. Wife s going to drop me off but first goes to the room with me. We go to the room and the first thing you notice is a mirror along the back wall that extends into the bathroom area. There is a wall there separating the bathroom from the sleeping area/door into the room.

We are in the bathroom and I am standing and she is kneeling. She is speaking into the microphone.
All of a sudden I hear noise and I look into the mirror and see my roomie and his parents enter the room. They look into the mirror and see us.
Everyone was embarrassed but it wasn't as awkward as I would have thought.
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that is pretty win

I bet she was so embarrassed she couldn't get out a word

Was she choking on embarrassment?
 
When I was in 2nd grade our class attended my teacher's wedding and after she was 'officially' married and was walking back up the aisle I waved and yelled "Hi Ms. [insert maiden name]!" in the middle of the organs playing and everything.

EDIT: :cookie: for Gothgar
 
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oldsmoboat said:
Not during the wedding but it reminded me of something with the first wife.
I was going into the Army and was in a hotel in San Fransisco the day before we shipped out. The Army puts two soon to be soldiers up in the room and then takes them to the airport the next day.

The wife and I get there and I check into the hotel room. My roomie has not checked in yet. Wife s going to drop me off but first goes to the room with me. We go to the room and the first thing you notice is a mirror along the back wall that extends into the bathroom area. There is a wall there separating the bathroom from the sleeping area/door into the room.

We are in the bathroom and I am standing and she is kneeling. She is speaking into the microphone.
All of a sudden I hear noise and I look into the mirror and see my roomie and his parents enter the room. They look into the mirror and see us.
Everyone was embarrassed but it wasn't as awkward as I would have thought.
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I just died laughing. "Speaking into the Microphone?" That is fucking ace.
 
Dealing with my in-laws crying because they didn't want their son to marry me because I wasn't from the right culture, and having to do a family-only pretty much joyless ceremony because of the fact that both my parents-in-law would have had a nervous breakdown dealing with an actual wedding, American traditions and (God-forbid) people wearing jewelry, women with uncovered heads, etc.
 
AreaCode707 said:
Dealing with my in-laws crying because they didn't want their son to marry me because I wasn't from the right culture, and having to do a family-only pretty much joyless ceremony because of the fact that both my parents-in-law would have had a nervous breakdown dealing with an actual wedding, American traditions and (God-forbid) people wearing jewelry, women with uncovered heads, etc.
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What culture are your in-laws?
 
My in-laws were pretty "country-western redneck," but they were relatively cool about some of my friends...however, on the wedding day, that cool was severely tested when 6 members of one of the 1% motorcycle clubs showed up on their Harley's, dressed in full "party regalia," or when some Black friends showed up with huge afros and dashikis...my best man, who had just gotten out of jail...showed up with hair down to his shoulders...plus, there was a few "hippies" who came to pay their respect and party. 😛

Quite an eclectic group of friends I had back in the day. Sadly, many of them are gone.
 
Took me about ten stomps in front of a couple hundred people LOLing to break the glass (made personalized provided by FIL)...either the wood platform I was on wasn't good for it and/or my father in law provided an extra thick one for shits and giggles.
 
After the ceremony, everyone filed into the hall where we were going to have dinner and dancing. We had hired a guy to make and show a "slideshow" (really a video) which we had seen and approved, just before we were introduced for the first dance. We were standing in an attached AV room (so we could see into the hall and watch the slideshow).

He started showing someone else's slideshow.

It probably showed for all of 20 seconds before my sister-in-law alerted the guy, but it felt like forever standing in that room, trying to figure out what to do and wondering where our slideshow was being shown at that moment.

It turned out he had 3 slideshows on one tape and just had set it to the wrong place on the tape.

MotionMan
 
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