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As 2024 comes to a close and Americans look forward to everything that will happen in 2025, here’s a look at some crazy wedding stories that made people laugh, cry, and even cover their mouths in shock. last year.
Brides, grooms, wedding party members and others shared their personal stories, while etiquette experts and others weighed in with professional opinions and advice.
There were plenty of stories to choose from, but here are five from last year that stood out.
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Which takes the cake for being the most surprising of all?
1. A couple charged guests to attend on the wedding day.
A couple got married in New York City on June 24, 2023, but their unusual wedding day choices didn’t go viral until more than a year later.
Kareem (“Reemo”) and Nova Styles charged guests $333 each to attend the “wedding experience,” which amounted to a full day of citywide activities, as they described in their video.
A couple shown standing in front of the bus above charged guests $333 each to attend the “wedding experience” in New York City. (REEM Photography)
The two reduced their guest list to just 60 people.
“They picked us,” Nova Styles said in a TikTok video. “They ‘hashtag’ trusted the process by purchasing a ticket to attend our wedding.”
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After the wedding ceremony, the guests headed to Hudson Yardsa movie theater and One World Trade Center for dancing, eating and having fun, with photo shoots along the way, Nova Styles said in the videos.
2. The betrayed bride made lemonade out of lemons
An anonymous woman in the Bay Area found herself with a non-refundable wedding reception venue and a canceled wedding, so she did the next best thing.
She donated the location to Parents Helping Parents (PHP), an organization that provides support to children and adults with special needs, as well as their families.
“The bride’s family shared that our agency, Parents Helping Parents, provided family services in support of the bride’s brother, who has special needs,” said Maria Daane, executive director of PHP.
A California bride donated her wedding reception venue to a charity that helps children and adults with special needs, as well as their families. The group performed a “Dance for Everyone.” (Parents helping parents)
PHP decided to use the already paid for space to host “a party for people with disabilities from 0 to 100,” Fox News Digital previously reported.
The party, called “Dancing for Everyone,” came complete with food, music, dancing and a photo booth.
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Daane said he received a phone call from the bride’s family two weeks before the scheduled wedding.
PHP moved quickly. In three days the event was planned down to the catering, Daane said.
Attendees enjoyed a night of dancing and food. (Parents helping parents)
“I imagine weddings get canceled from time to time, but I’ve never heard of one becoming a community party for people with disabilities and their families,” Daane said.
“It makes me grateful for people’s resilience and kindness; that this bride could do something so generous and thoughtful in the face of her own sadness is inspiring,” she added.
3. The bride’s father forgot something very important
A funny story from England showed that mistakes can happen to anyone, even on one of the most important days in a person’s life.
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Neil Crossley, father of her daughter Amy Totty, who got married in Yorkshire, England, in 2024, experienced an embarrassing moment captured on film.
At Totty’s wedding, Crossley began walking down the aisle to the altar, without her daughter.
Neil Crossley, pictured, began walking down the aisle without his daughter in an accidental moment caught on video. (SWNS)
He said there was a “miscommunication” and he thought he had been told to start walking.
Crossley finally turned around, went to find her daughter, and began a much more traditional march down the aisle.
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Guests can be heard on video laughing at the awkward moment, which Crossley said he later referenced in his speech as father of the bride.
His daughter especially liked all the confusion.
Crossley walked her daughter Amy Totty, pictured here, down the aisle on her second attempt. (SWNS)
“I especially appreciated it because I was trying so hard not to cry and he helped me put myself together,” Totty said.
He added: “It was a special moment that none of us will forget.”
4. A hungry wedding guest took matters into his own hands.
A Reddit user who was kicked out of a wedding reception after he drunkenly ordered pizzas to replenish the depleted buffet has had the last laugh after revealing that the bride’s father apologized and planned a replacement party.
“AITA for ordering pizza at my friend’s wedding because there was no food?” asked user “Adorable_Distance_15” in a post on the “r/AITAH” subreddit, an advice forum.
A very hungry wedding guest was kicked out of a reception after ordering pizzas because the bride’s family ate all the food on the buffet. (iStock)
In the post, the man said he and his wife recently attended his friend’s wedding, which had about 70 guests, “mostly family.”
The bride’s family, however, ate all the food on the buffet before all the guests could go and eat the first course.
“To my surprise, when they called us there was nothing left,” he wrote.
Adorable_Distance_15 and other hungry guests ordered four large pizzas and some chicken wings from the venue.
“Now you have the nerve to ask us to share.”
When the pizzas ran out, the problems began. A man, who turned out to be the bride’s father, asked if he could have one of the two remaining portions.
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“Then I took the two slices, put them on my plate and started eating them, then I looked at him and said something like, ‘No, you and everyone at your tables ate way more than your share of the buffet and ate the whole thing. This is the reason we ordered food in the first place and now you have the nerve to ask us to share,'” he wrote.
One Reddit user (not pictured) said another party would be planned to make up for the poor reception. (iStock)
These comments got the man kicked out of the reception, but after emotions calmed down, the bride’s father apologized.
To make up for the problems at the wedding reception, the father-in-law planned to throw an “after-wedding party” for everyone who was at the original wedding, plus a few other people, the Reddit poster said.
5. The bride and groom put their guests to work
A horrified Reddit user described their actions as “tacky, tacky, tacky” to a couple who informed their wedding guests they would be put to work on the special day.
Earlier this year, Reddit user “joyousfoodie” posted about his cousin’s upcoming wedding, which he described as a “semi-destination wedding” that would be relatively small.
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While the woman said she was fine with both the location and size of the wedding, several aspects of the upcoming wedding did concern her.
“I just found out that bride and groom are sending ‘cards’ to people (who) are not invited to let them know they are getting married soon and ‘you are in our hearts on this special day’ before the wedding,” she wrote.
“Their excuse is ‘curiosity and thinking about them,'” joyousfoodie wrote, “but what I don’t understand is why send this before the wedding?”
However, the action that prompted the Reddit post was a text from the couple saying that “everyone has a role to help set up.”
The couple texted: “Everyone has a role to help set up.”
“Once the ceremony is over, the wedding guests will come out to take photos while the guests prepare the tables for the reception,” the woman said in her text.
The couple never asked guests if they would be willing to help and “simply dictated to people what to do,” the Reddit poster said.
The couple claimed they couldn’t afford to hire help to organize their wedding, but the Reddit poster said the couple “went traveling” instead of saving for their big day.
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Other Reddit users told “joyousfoodie” to skip it entirely.
“That’s when you decide you’re sick and don’t go. They’re being horrible hosts and frankly it’s disgusting,” said user “byteme747.”
Another Reddit user was a little more direct. “The only reason I would go to this is out of morbid curiosity,” wrote “Obrina98.”
