Random Wedding Planners Are Sharing Stories Of Weirdest Couples They Ever Met (21 items)

• (#1) Not Cool At All

  From Redditor u/standrightwalkleft:

  As a former caterer and venue manager I've certainly seen my share of crazy. Like the mom who insisted on serving chicken, but then said our (brined) chicken was raw and swore up and down for months that we were trying to poison her. I was never able to convince her to just switch to the f***ing short rib!

  But the selfish couples are the ones who really make me sad. I had one couple book an old barn for their wedding. The ceremony was out in a field, cocktails on the ground floor of the barn, and reception up a narrow staircase on the 2nd floor.

  THIS B**** booked a non-accessible venue knowing that one of her guests uses a wheelchair. He showed up to this venue 1.5 hours outside the city and was basically only able to attend the cocktail hour. We served him and his wife a nice private dinner on the ground floor and made them as comfortable as we could. They were super nice but you could see the sadness in their eyes

  They thanked us for dinner and left without saying goodbye to the couple.
• (#2) Poor Guy

  From Redditor u/AloopOfLoops:

  I had one wedding where the bride told the groom aloud at the altar "I'm not really that in love with you.... but I think you'll be a good husband."

  The look on his face..... He tried to laugh it off and told her to hush but he was tearing up as they walked away.
• (#3) Reuse And Recycle But Maybe Not Like That

  From Redditor u/anoukdaae:

  Oof. I had a couple whose last name, in another language, literally means "Penis." Which was actually really fitting, because they were epic d-.... words for that. Yup.

  The guy would hit on me, all the female waitstaff, and even the company's owner's mother (who was 65) whenever his fiancee left the room. Not just harmless flirtations, I mean like legit vulgar propositions.

  That wasn't even the worst part though. They had this request that we save all the bottles of beer, wine, and liquor from the event because the husband and his groomsmen were going to melt them down and make dildos out of them in various styles to be used on the bride after they were married.

  I just... that was the last wedding I helped coordinate. I left that company as soon as that wedding was done.
• (#4) Would Not Recommend

  From Redditor u/badjuju824:

  Former wedding coordinator for a very small, very high end company. You can make a LOT of assumptions just on observing someone’s wedding morning.

  Most memorable - Not “weird,” but “terrible in all ways.” Also possibly “socially inept.” This bride and groom were clearly both so rich and so entitled their entire lives that they didn’t know how to function properly. The bridal party suite (in a penthouse hotel room in downtown Chicago) was silent except for a comment here and there from the bride’s mother about it being a big day. The bride complained about everything - the mimosa being strong, the water being room temp, the bagels being bagels instead of fruit, everything. She didn’t respond when I asked her questions, and instead looked at a bridesmaid with annoyance to answer for her. The groom’s suite was trashed with liquor bottles and they were walking around in boxers 5 minutes before photos. I told them we had 5 minutes, and the groom drunkenly responded “hey, HEY, I’m pretty sure I’m really important today. It’s not going to happen without me. And it’s not happening in five minutes.” And then the guys decided to slide down the back stairwell banister instead of take the elevator to the lobby. One of the groomsmen didn’t go with them and told me I “really needed to take control of the guys otherwise why were they paying me?” OH and, and groom’s mom came into the suite with her dress, which showed almost all of her t*tties, and said “how do I look boys?!” They all hooped and hollered for her. I had to stifle a laugh. 0/10 would not recommend.
• (#5) Why Are We Even Here?

  From Redditor u/loritree:

  I worked at a tux place. I was measuring a groom and his best man. The whole time the best man was saying awful things about the bride. Finally the groom said something along the lines of “oh well, that’s what divorce is for.”
• (#6) Crying Face Emoji

  From Redditor u/rabidentertainment97:

  I’m not a wedding planner but I manage events at the facilities I currently work at and we had a wedding where the groom wore a three piece tux, all white, with banana yellow converse and a banana yellow bow tie; his groomsmen wore all black with banana yellow converse and ties.

  Throughout the wedding service the groomsmen would hold up emoji signs reacting to things that were happening (each holding up puke emojis when they kissed).

  When it came time to get the rings the best man acted like he had lost it when suddenly a man in the audience stood up and threw a frisbee with the ring taped to it to the groom (they were all avid frisbee golfers). The frisbee was also their guest book signed by everyone who came.

  The thing that saddened me is it seemed the bride really did not want to be marrying the groom. One of her bridesmaids came to me before the wedding asking for any snacks for the bride because she felt like she was gonna throw up from crying so much.

  I hope the best for them in the future but it was all a little hard to watch.
• (#7) Who Knew That Was A Thing?

  From Redditor u/a_garzon3:

  I bartended a wedding of 2 transspecies people. She thought she was a pony. He was a centaur. They were pretty adamant.
• (#8) Save It For Halloween

  From Redditor u/hititandquitit_:

  I've had a few weird couples for sure. The one that comes to mind first is one that is getting married later this year. The bride and groom are around 19-20 and they act like children. Like the bride literally will only talk in a baby voice to her parents who hover over everything. They also picked to go with Spider-Man and Beauty and the Beast as their theme. Yes they want both to be depicted and not in a fun adult interpretation of it, but in like wanting to use party supplies that you would use for a kid's birthday.

  My venue also rents out a fog machine that can be used for the first dance. We had this one groom that was obsesseed with ninjas and wanted to try to "hide" in the fog and jump out and do crazy karate moves and such. It was weird.

  Those are the only ones that stand out to me, but I've definitely dealt with a lot of weirdos.
• (#9) Was Her Wedding The Superbowl?

  From Redditor u/AloopOfLoops:

  I had one girl who wanted the guests to pay for the expenses she needed 900$ per person.

  I don't think she got a single yes to her invitations. She asked me to lower my costs. At that point I kindly asked her to get another person to help her. I don't know what happened after that. Maybe she canceled the thing.
• (#10) It's Not About You, Debra

  From Redditor u/mustachlewitz:

  Not the newlyweds but the parents of the bride at a wedding I coordinated my first year of business. I had not been warned of any family drama until the bridal party was walking in the door for the grand entrance and I hear the bride and sister (?) repeating, as if hyping oneself up, "f*ck you Debra". Debra is the brides mother and I get a crash course of her style of crazy.

  There are no planned speeches for such reason. However the mother of the groom takes it upon herself to give a toast. Understandable but there is a schedule for a reason in these settings. So the father of the bride soon after approaches the DJ for the mic so he could give a toast. Poor bloke looked like a deer in the headlights, unsure what to do. Obviously it's a normal request but again, he had been warned about the mother, not the father right?

  Wrong. The father barely got five words out before the mother took the microphone from him and launched into a (very narcissistic) speech about how it wasn't easy being a doctor's wife and it was so hard to conceive the bride. I've never in my life heard nor expect to again hear the word placenta used in a wedding toast. Eventually the mic was cut and we got it away from her but it was after the bridal party and family had tried and failed to use normal social cues to intervene.
• (#11) Control Your Parents, Please

  From Redditor u/measureinlove:

  Ooh I’ve had some good ones.

  I had the groom who wanted the minister to do the “speak now or forever hold your peace” thing, at which point the groom would reveal the gun holstered on his belt by lifting up his suit jacket. I nixed that immediately. The bride was perfectly normal and sweet and I honestly worried that she was in an abusive relationship.

  Then there was the father of the bride who was a very strict Presbyterian and was hosting a dry wedding for 225 guests and reprimanded me for using the words “cocktail hour.” Like, yes sir I understand there will be no alcohol served at this wedding but it’s still called cocktail hour. He also wanted 225 prime ribs served in 20 minutes which was impossible with the size of our kitchen. He was a condescending a******.

  Then there was the mother of the groom that pretty clearly didn’t like the bride, and didn’t want to pay one penny more than she had to for the rehearsal dinner (which turned out to be a rehearsal luncheon). She decided on a deli buffet menu (make your own sandwich style) at $13 per person. Didn’t even splurge for the $15 per person version which would have gotten her some potato salad and desserts. She also liked to call me on my cell phone at 7:30am, well before I was in the office. I stopped answering her calls until she would call my office phone.

  All in all though most of my couples were perfectly normal and nice. I honestly had more trouble with parents than I did with couples.
• (#12) Oh No

  From Redditor u/BribeMeWithChocolate:

  Oooh! Not a wedding planner, but attended a wedding of this super-rich acquaintance.

  It was a large venue to accommodate around 1500-2000 guests (pretty common in my culture). The theme for all wedding festivities was - don’t ask why - 50 Shades of Grey! Right from calling each other “My Mr. Grey” and “My Ms. Steele”. Right from masks to fans and colour themes, the entire place was decked up following that theme.

  Not to mention, as you enter the venue, there was a pictorial depiction of their journey set to the same theme! I have some great memories explaining this to my super conservative parents!
• (#13) To Name A Few

  From Redditor u/bdaniell628:

  Had one couple who left to "She Thinks My Tractor's Sexy" - her a tiny thing in a pink gingham dress and he about 6'1" in overalls with no shirt

  One couple, very young, who wanted to do the dance they had learned in ballroom class but could only do it to Santana's Smooth

  One couple, again very young, who had nine bridesmaids in floor length hot pink gown with matching elbow length hot pink gloves and matching hot pink Converse. And they served pink lemonade to drink

  One couple who wouldn't let me play any songs but the ones they requested which were all hardcore rap and most of their guests were 60+ year old white people.
• (#14) Like Comic Con Without The Fun

  From Redditor u/BFoert:

  I was away on own my honeymoon when this wedding happened. I did all the planning with this couple though and thought they were a little reserved, but overall very nice. As my staff slowly filled me in once I returned I was sure they were joking. Turns out it's all true.

  During the rehearsal the mom prompts some petty jealousy between the bride and her two sisters, who were both bridesmaids. They literally escalated to a physical fight and no one could quite figure out how it happened.

  Day of the wedding and the ceremony goes okay. There's some fantasy elements thrown in, but nothing we weren't used to. Fairy type accessories and nerd culture references in the vows.

  The bridal party makes their entrance to the reception and somehow the sisters slipped bathrobes over their dresses without anyone noticing until they were walking in. They walked in stone cold, no dancing, no smiling, and went straight to their seats. The bride and groom entered immediately after them and most guests were still trying to figure out what was going on and the cheers for the newlyweds wasn't full swing. Just what the sisters wanted.

  The bride's family apparently left shortly after dinner, which the bride refused to eat. Things got better after that. Still a little weird though.

  The groom pulled out a katana for the cake cutting, which had never been discussed in planning meetings or prepared for. He disappeared and returned swinging it.

  And to top it off the bride changed into a Batman unitard for the grand exit.

  I really thought my team and conspired to come up with a crazy story until I spoke to the photographer who confirmed everything.
• (#15) Two Psychopaths

  From Redditor u/BFoert:

  I had a couple who were born in America, but both sets of parents had emigrated from India. The couple had already been married for 7 years, but had a civil ceremony. They were now giving their moms the big wedding with all the traditions. The game plan was: Hindu ceremony, cocktail hour, western vow renewal, cocktail hour, reception.

  He was such a groomzilla; worse than any bride I ever dealt with. I could go into plenty of examples of why they were a weird couple, but one moment sums it up.

  It was August and scorching hot. Hindu ceremonies are long and theirs ran longer. During the first cocktail hour the couple was changing for the western vow renewal. It was time to start this second ceremony and the guests had been outdoors for two hours and counting. The bride said she needed 20 more minutes do redo her hair. The groom demanded I hold open the dressing room door and he started screaming at her to get her a** out here and just tearing into her. And. She. Started. Laughing. Hysterically. As I stood there between them, holding the door, wondering how the hell they'd already made it 7 years together.
• (#16) One Major Man-child

  From Redditor u/FederalSelf6:

  Although he wasn't a groomzilla, one groom was weird to say the least.

  Bride was in her late twenties, groom was is in mid thirties. From what I understood, they've never been in relationships before, or at least not serious ones. They were in a long distance relationship and never actually lived together. Since the groom was living in another city, consultations and communication were done with the bride only. She seemed a little awkward, although generally nice and easy to talk to.

  When I got there, the groom was very stressed. I figured it was the normal pre-ceremony stress and he would warm up to me later, but nope! Once we got to the reception venue, I wanted to chat with him and check if everything was ok. I can't remember what I said exactly, but it was something like "Hey! I could tell you were very stressed before the ceremony! How are you feeling now?".

  For some reason he took it the wrong way and refused to talk to me for the rest of the evening. He asked his mom (remember, he was in is mid thirties) to tell me to leave the reception because he didn't like seeing me walk around while doing my job. After asking the bride if that's what she wanted too, she reluctantly agreed and asked me to come back later. I ended up sitting in the hallway for 30 minutes like a child until he gave me the permission to come back to complete my job...

  He also refused to do couple portraits after the ceremony. The bride managed to convince him at first, but after 10 minutes he was done and refused to cooperate. Needless to say, they ended up with very few good photos!

  Something tells me he grew up very sheltered and didn't know how to act with people, but who knows! I have no idea if they're still together. One thing is sure though, I will never work with them again haha!
• (#17) It's A Scam

  From Redditor u/orangustang9:

  Not particularly a wedding planner, however I was a wedding photographer at one of those cheesy wedding chapels on the strip in Las Vegas. The story I remembered most was this couple who got married it was business as usual. We didn't think much of it, had the service and took the photos. We told them to return the next day for photos. The next morning we get a call from the groom we will call "James" saying that his new wife "Emily" threw him out of the car last night and left him on the side of the road. We come to find out James wasn't an american citizen so he essentially paid Emily I believe 10,000 dollars so he can start the process of becoming a citizen. He was now asking if he could annul his wedding after being scammed out of 10k. It's fairly common you'd go online or even to other chapels to "shop" around to compare prices and the types of wedding packages other chapels offer so a few months later we see Emily on another competitors wedding website with a different guy!! So we assumed she was making this a business marrying dudes for money and leaving them high n dry. I wish I had some more resolution to the story however that's all I have on my end...Other than that you encounter a lot of interesting walks of life doing elvis theme weddings/ceremonies with the occasional costume themes.
• (#18) Not Sure What That Was

  From Redditor u/John6233:

  I'm a chef for a caterer/event planner, US based. We coordinate everything for the couples (unless they choose not to). We always learn the crazy stuff about the couple direct from the person who has been meeting with them for months and is coordinating the night of. Or we saw it first hand if it happened at the wedding itself.

  One couple got married in a gorgeous old venue. No alcohol (VERY odd), no music, no dancing. The couple had their actual first kiss after the vows. They barely looked at each other the whole night. A waitstaff found the officiant's wife crying on the floor "not knowing if she could keep doing it". She pleaded for a drink, which we didn't have because it was a dry ceremony. Then she disappeared for a while. We think they might have all been in a cult. But that info wasn't relevant to the booking so we can't know.

  Honestly that is just the first one that comes to mind. After seven years doing this you see some weird s***.
• (#19) Can You Feel The Magic?

  From Redditor u/livingmayhem:

  I was a wedding coordinator intern at a local banquet hall once summer. The actual coordinator on staff would work with them for months then I’d typically help out with the rehearsal and ceremony/reception the next day. We had one couple that we knew was going to have an interesting ceremony. We knew she was going to have elements around the hall that were woodsy and natural because she liked fairies, and also their best friend was going to marry them and it was his first time. They show up to rehearsal and she’s in full fairy wings and she confirmed that, yes, she was going to wear them in the wedding. Sure, whatever. We start getting a ceremony order together. Groom is super awkward and won’t give a straight answer, barely even looks us in the eyes. Bride has somehow failed to inform us that her parents are divorced and haven’t spoken to one another in years. Great. That eventually gets worked out and they walk down the rehearsal aisle to the poor guy officiating. We tell the officiant he can practice what he wants to say or just skip it and cut to the ring exchange. Homeboy pulls out a stack of papers and proceeds to read a 25 minute speech. Bride looks like she wants to ascent to another plane and the bridesmaids are barely containing themselves. They were nice and their wedding day was great and frilly and warm. Oh, and the officiant had them do their vows while he twirled a wand with streamers on it. What a weird weekend.
• (#20) That's Dedication

  From Redditor u/happykidhozzah69:

  My cousin's friend (who watched anime regularly in her college years) is a wedding Planner.

  She once told me about this couple who planned to have a sailor moon/hunter x hunter (never watched either but i recognized the anime) themed wedding. She said they were lovely, But the wife had the classic Sailor moon cat's moon tattooed to her forehead.
• (#21) Great Scott!

  From Redditor u/vhsfiend:

  I met this couple who was so obsessed with the movie Back to the Future. They rented the original Delorean from the film and the groom entered the ceremony inside the car.

  The really weird part was they named their child Calvin. Calvin was the name Marty had he went back in time in the 1950s.

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