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| Ryven 10/27/23 1:12:36 PM #2: | Day of wedding, the entire bridal party is smashed before they walk in. Ended up having to throw up a extra table so they could set their beers and liquor bottle down before the introductions. Usually the older people leave before it gets dark, the grinding was so awkward they left the second dancing started. The part where the best man takes off the brides garder belt is always weird to me, but this one had a definite "we've f****d before" vibe.
They only got worse, to the point the brides side was embarrassed. They were acting crazy too but the grooms side was violent. Plenty of "almost" fights, thankfully we always have a cop on duty so he stopped them before I had to clean up blood. Bride and groom were never near each other all night. I'm pretty sure someone f****d in my f*****g storage room. It barely lasted a year, and I think they only held it together that long because of the money put into it. Bonus story: Bride and groom were awesome, but their families kept trying to out spend the other in some "my d**k/wallet is bigger than yours" game. They got into a tipping battle over me. Left that night almost $300 richer. F**k yeah. ----- The guest list was over 300 people. The venue was an amazing barn in the middle of nowhere, minimal electrical power, no running water in the barn. There are multiple homes on the property that can be rented out. They rented the entire property for a week, and it was covered in campers, trailers, etc. The whole thing was a shitshow from planning through the reception. The live band didn't have enough power and we ended up powering them from one of the RV's generators (lesson learned here: let the venue talk to the band, don't get in the middle) There was no seating chart, and there were about 6 different caterers running food stations around the barn. Somehow a rumor got started that the wedding was at 5pm, it was actually at 4pm. So critical guests were arriving very late to the ceremony. On this crazy large property, there ceremony site was up a steep hill, so a shuttle van had been rented and was driving guests up the hill, 15 at a time. By the time the ceremony was ready to start, the bride was drunk, the brides dad was drunk, and the groom was drunk. There was a champagne station at the ceremony site, which was completely drained before the last of the guests were arriving at the top of the hill. The guests were pissed. The rest of the night....went how it went. Water was poured from gallon jugs with spigots. The bar ran out of most of the booze with a couple of hours to go. There was no propane in the heaters for the patio (this was in late fall; it was cold). I left at around 11pm (having arrived that day around 8am). I know the bride and groom had a stay-cation honey moon planned, so I didn't expect to see my boss at work for a few weeks (he's often traveling for work anyways). What I heard later from a coworker who helped at the wedding was that the marriage didn't even last the night. The groom was found (by the father of the bride) in the middle of f*****g one of the bridesmaids, that night, in the honeymoon/party house. The kicker is: more than half the bridesmaids were the brides sisters, so the odds are pretty good that he slept with one of them. Upon hearing all this, I kept my damn mouth shut. I haven't told a single person (save my husband, who was my assistant at the wedding). I had tried friending the bride on Facebook because I reeeeeally wanted to see the pictures (the photographer was incredible), but she hasn't accepted yet. I have not seen her at work since the wedding (she used to visit frequently), and my boss hasn't ever worn a wedding ring. ----- Video guy here. The groom and his groomsmen were doing lines in the bathroom while the photographer and I were trying to round the wedding party up. They were already SMASHED from the limo ride to the reception venue. That dude is a lawyer and had a 1 year old baby at the time. ----- I worked the front desk at a smallish Best Western. The bride's mother comes in early to coordinate with our banquet supervisor and leaves her purse in the banquet rooms after being specifically told not to leave it unattended because she had all the money for the various tips in it. Yes, it got stolen. Limo pulls up out front and bride rushes in and interrupts the guest I"m currently with and says "I need the key to my room now. The groom is drunk." Apparently, her brothers, who were groomsmen, decided to start doing shots with the groom at the church during pictures. He was passed out before the reception even started. Bride gets keys and 15 minutes later I see groomsmen traipsing into our breakfast area and coming out with trays of full coffee cups. I mentioned to our banquet coordinator that the bride's dress was lovely. She said yes, apparently it was one the bride had purchased 2 years ago for her wedding to someone else that didn't happen. Reception was supposed to start at 7:00 p.m. Bride finally walks into her wedding reception at 7:30 p.m. by herself. By herself. She did get a round of applause, though. Later on that evening, I had been delivering something to another guest and come back to the front lobby to a commotion. Come to find out, the bride and groom had gotten into an argument right out front and her brothers (aka groomsmen) had monkey piled on him to beat the c**p out of him. Bride is in tears at this point and the groom's daughter, who was 8ish was traumatized. 11:00 p.m. comes and it's time for me to go home. Right as I'm leaving, I get a call from a guest who says he can hear shouting. This guest is on the second floor of a 2-story property. I take a walk down his hallway and hear nothing. Go downstairs, and low and behold, there's a commotion coming from the bride and groom's room. Now, the guest who heard this was on the floor above them and 2 rooms over. The bride answered my knock on the door with puffy eyes and tear stained face, having changed into shorts and a Mickey Mouse T-shirt. I said "I know you've had a rough night, but I do need to ask you to keep it down just a bit." She responds, "That's okay. I've called my mother. She's coming to get me." --- 'We're not gonna make it, are we? People i mean.' 'It's in your nature to destroy yourselves.' ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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