Weddings are stressful occasions at the best of times but for some people, it can all-too-quickly turn into a nightmare.
With families and people coming together from all walks of life - including the dreaded in-laws - it's no surprise some of us have been to weddings that were called off on the big day.
Reddit came together to share those nightmare ceremonies where joining in holy matrimony took a turn for the worse.
- Betrayals don't get much worse than this:
"I worked at a bar when I was at university. Two guys came in dressed to the nines. I asked what they were doing that day and they told me the wedding they were going to was cancelled.
"The maid of honour had been sleeping with the groom. One of the other bridesmaids had known about it for some timeو but decided the best time to tell her was the morning of the wedding."
- There is such thing as too many candles:
"Not called off, just relocated.
"The bride wanted everything to be lit by candlelight as it was much more romantic. Well of course something (wall hanging or tapestry of some sort) caught fire, set off the fire alarm, everyone has to evacuate the church.
"The ceremony was continued and finished in the parking lot with a couple of fire trucks in the background."
- Some things you just shouldn't leave to the last minute:
"In 6th grade, my entire class went to our teacher's wedding.
"My teacher was the bride, and about 3/4 of the way down the aisle when the groom decided he couldn't do it. He walked off to the side and at first my teacher and her father didn't notice and kept walking, smiling radiantly. There was about a minute of really solid confusion (last minute cold feet? bathroom emergency?) before everyone realized what was going on. My teacher was whisked out of the church and an announcement was made that there was not going to be a wedding.
"This happened the second or third week of June; she didn't come back for the last week of school. Ugly situation."
- This man broke a promise:
"My mom's friend was dating a man with a drinking problem. When he asked her to marry him, she said she would marry him if he never has another drink again. He agreed to give up alcohol for her.
"The night before the wedding, his friends threw him a bachelor party with alcohol and he drank. When he walked down the aisle he was staggering a bit and she noticed. "Do you take this man to be your lawful, wedded husband?" "No, I don't."
"They paused the wedding, went to the back with the priest for a counseling session. The priest came out and sent all the guests home."
- And this groom has a murky past:
"My cousin was getting married and about 15-30 minutes before the wedding started she was told that the man she was going to marry was arrested and had been on Washington's Most Wanted because of stuff he either did with a 14-year-old or was planning to do with a 14-year-old, he was like 23-26, he ended up in prison for whatever it was he did, and right after she told everyone, the back porch had broke right under her and her friends. It wasn't much of a drop, like 6 inches, but that's when she burst out in full blown tears.
"It was a very awkward day and honestly if I wasn't there to witness it I wouldn't believe it either."
- When a wedding and a funeral collide:
"My wedding was close to be called off, since my husband's grandfather was close to dying. Everybody told us, to go through with the wedding anyways, so we did. My husband's grandfather ended up dying close to the moment we said "I do" and my father-in-law got the call from the hospital shortly after we left the church. They told all of his family, but not us about it.
"So we had a lame ass wedding with everybody grieving but saying "it's nothing" when we asked why nobody was dancing. We got condolences the morning after and congratulations on his funeral. I could still cry when I think about all that stuff. It was four months ago."
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