Wedding nightmares that will keep you awake at night!

We all have our fears of what can go wrong when it comes to the big day.  We don’t want to send shivers down your spine but we will anyway.

Dude, where’s my rings?

This is the one and only time when going with the flow does not work out as you had quite pictured.  Getting drunk with your mates the night before your wedding doesn’t seem like such a good idea now as you are scrambling around a hotel room flipping mattresses looking for the wedding rings.

Wedding reception gone wrong

You always knew that the liberal amounts of alcohol provided at your party was a risky proposition. You just weren’t expecting all the fights breaking out and old feuds resurfacing.  Your wedding reception now looks like the outtakes from the Channel 4 documentary on gypsy weddings.  Deep down you knew that putting these people in the same room wouldn’t work but you were hopeful.

Alternative means of transport

Nothing gets the blood pressure rising like your wedding transportation arriving late and getting stuck in a colossal tailback of traffic.  There is also the issue of the car arriving to pick you up not being the one that you ordered.  As a result, you arrive at your own wedding in a car that looks like you have borrowed it from the local show room for a test drive.

Speeches that make you die inside

Wedding speeches can go wrong in so many worrying ways.  They can range from exceedingly long and sleep inducing to wildly inappropriate and outright abusive.  The thought of what skeletons might be unearthed in the reception dinner speeches is enough for you to wake up in cold sweats.  There is also the possibility of standing up to give your own speech and forgetting your lines.

‘Conceptual’ photography

Poses do not get more ridiculous than what you often see in wedding albums.  From silly images of people jumping in the air or running up a hill hand in hand to tacky recreations of Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffany’s.  There is also the issue of ‘feudal’ photography.  The tension is palpable and awkwardness reaches a new level when two people who aren’t talking are forced to take a picture together.

Forced impromptu dancing

For all those people with two left feet and severe social awkwardness, getting dragged into the middle of a huge dance party is like hell on earth.  All eyes are on you as you desperately put together a combination of awkward steps to fit into the cheesiest choreographed dance known to man that you never knew was happening.