Note: Some stories were pulled from this Reddit thread by user u/viratrim.

Note: This post contains subjects of domestic abuse. Please proceed with caution.

"The reception was basically groom side and bride side, with barely any interaction. They skipped the first dance, and the cake cutting was just the bride and her bridesmaids for some bizarre reason. At some point early in the evening, half of the groom's wedding party disappeared, and the groom never returned. 

The bride got so drunk she peed in her gown. The bride's father loudly called the groom a horrible word I won't mention. They didn't last the year, and the bride hired me to do an event later in the year showcasing her new apparel line. Apparently, she got what she was after."

"I asked her if she wanted to try again later, and she said we should do it now. We checked the wedding plans together. They stated they didn't want a rehearsal for the ceremony, so we just went to the venues to see everything. The groom showed up at my office five hours later for the meeting, drunk, so I explained that we already had it, and he left very mad.

On the wedding day, the bride cried the entire morning, talking about how much she hated her MIL and how wild she was. I checked everything like I always do, I'm a little sargent when it comes to times and planning. The groom was nowhere to be seen, off with the rest of his family, while the bride was ready in her room with her bridesmaids, and her family was at the venue. But we couldn't start without the groom. 30 minutes later, I found the groom; he was at another venue, drunk and angry because there was no setup for his wedding.

I took him to the real venue, and we started the ceremony. The bride was crying (again) and wanted to put distance between them. After the ceremony, he blamed me for being drunk, and his mother yelled at me. The bride approached us to calm the situation. She got hit by the MIL, and the MIL didn't apologize; she actually told her it was her fault for being in a bad mood and that she deserved it.

Fast forward to the dinner, and the groom is even drunker, and the bride is nowhere to be seen. I searched for her to see if I could help. 30 minutes later, I asked the hotel staff if anyone had seen the bride, and they guided me to the front desk. She left the resort on her wedding night and flew back home the next day. The groom and his family were angry, and somehow, all of this was the resort's fault.

They asked for a refund after the bride, by phone the next day, told that groom she wanted a divorce and said it was because she 'didn't like the wedding.' Two months later, they were divorced, and the bride pressed charges against the MIL because, in the divorce hearing, she attacked her."

"Thankfully, the preacher gave him a mini lecture in the middle of the ceremony, while trying to make some veiled jokes to break the very awkward tension in the room. I remember telling my roommate later that day that they would be divorced in under a year. And they were — three months later — for all the reasons you might imagine."

"I pull up to the church, and she and the maid of honor leap out and go into the church. The best man asks if he still wants to go through with the wedding, and the poor schmuck says yes with the enthusiasm of a sleepy sloth.

I just wanted to say, 'No, dude. Don't spend the next few years with that witch.' But he was getting out of the car by then. I don't know how it turned out, but I am sure it wasn't good."

"I had half a mind to tell him that he didn’t have to get married if he wasn’t happy. Which I may have implied very gently. Not professional, I know, but she was kind of a monster, not just the day of, but even after. 

In my opinion, she treated her new husband poorly. Right after the ceremony, they were outside, and she was already yelling at him about something. I just checked, and they’re still married."

"Another time, the groom came from a wealthy family, and his wife's family was a bit rough around the edges. He seemed like an alright bloke; none of his family turned up to the wedding. Literally none. His speech was a bit sad, thanking the people who bothered to turn up..."

"He was chatting with someone near the dance floor, and she went over to get his attention. I saw her ask him to dance, and he completely blew her off. He didn't even stop his sentence — he just kind of shoved her hand away.

It was so sad. She was so crestfallen that she stopped dancing and went outside. We played to an empty room for another hour and a half."

"Within an hour, the trips to the bathroom started. Each time she went, the groom would not just flirt but aggressively hit on every woman in the ballroom.

The day of the wedding comes around. The groom got into a fight with a groomsman who shattered one of our glass doors that led into the courtyard. The bride got drunk and spent most of the night crying in the bathroom. The groom ended up hooking up with a bridesmaid in the limo, where he was caught by his mother, which apparently sparked the fight with his groomsmen.

They didn't even last the full honeymoon. The bride and her mother returned three days later, demanding a refund because they were having the marriage annulled."

"He was the worst. The main incident I remember, and which I think I strongly recommended against (or at least nixed), occurred during the ceremony planning. He wanted the officiant to ask the 'speak now or forever hold your peace' part, at which point the groom planned to look around menacingly while moving his suit jacket to expose the gun he would have in a holster.

I DEFINITELY nixed the gun, but I seem to remember him still doing the menacing look during the ceremony. I could just be remembering the rehearsal, though. In any case, I got big red flag abuser vibes from him.

I remember being so sad for her. She was one of the nicest brides I had worked with. I also found out that she had been pregnant before the wedding, but I believe it was ectopic, so she had to terminate it, and she was understandably devastated. It was just an all-around sad thing, and I felt like I could just see into her future of never leaving the small town where the club was and living with a potentially abusive jerk forever, and it made me so sad."

"They had their reception in a very fancy, well-known, expensive hall. The room was two stories high and huge with marble columns. It could have easily fit 300+ people, but there were fewer than 100 guests, which made it look strangely empty. There was no fun party vibe for the majority of the reception. The mood was more like an eighth-grade dance.

The dancing was the most awkward part. During the first dance, they kept as far apart as possible while holding each other’s shoulders. Both looked like they were being forced to be near each other.

Later, the groom danced with his friends, and the bride danced with hers. At one point, the bride and her friends made what I can only describe as a grinding line. Clearly, she had no problem being close to and grinding up on her friends. Then someone physically grabbed the groom and pulled him over to the bride. This guest pushed the two of them together, and they repelled each other like magnets. They were so uncomfortable being so close to each other. They didn’t know how to interact with each other. It was so bizarre."

"Eventually, I went to see the groom's mom to ask her to help stop them from drinking, explaining I couldn’t marry a drunk person, and his witness also had to be sober. She told me to relax and that there was no problem with it. Being able to call into question someone’s ability to understand what they are entering into is a very big problem here.

The bride turns up, sees the drunken incident going down, and is angry and upset, thinking the groom had to be drunk to marry her. Ultimately, it proceeded. I had to postpone for two hours to sober up the groom and his men. I was covered in snot and mascara from the bride sobbing into my shoulder. They didn’t even last three months."

"The wedding planner said they had a massive fight in the limo on the way to take pictures, which the bride's side of the wedding party was in no shape to participate in, so they skipped them. The photographer ended up doing a goofy shoot with the groomsmen, as they had already paid for the photos. The bride and bridesmaids sat in the limo drinking.

At the reception, the bride fainted, and the groom delivered an apology speech to the guests. Then, he took an Uber home alone."

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