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Savvy May 2019

Your rude guest story?

Kim, on May 31, 2019 at 11:01 PM Posted in Married Life 0 14
I got married last weekend, and for the most part everything and everyone was great! But one thing that happened has been bugging me. My wedding was child-free. The only kids there were my niece and nephew, and they were in the wedding party.

However, one couple we knew brought their 10 year old son. I know it probably wasn’t a mistake, because I addressed the invites specifically to them, not him, and to rsvp, they needed to go online and search their names and it would say the specific number.

Plus on my wedding website, where they had to rsvp, it said that we could not extend invites to anyone under 16.

But they still brought him. He wore tattered jeans and a messy t-shirt. Thankfully a few people didn’t show so he had a place to sit, but what would have happened if he didn’t? And I felt so bad for the people I had to tell no kids to, especially a friend with an 8 month old. And this may seem petty, but considering all of this, they didn’t even get us a card or congratulate us.

Thankfully there was so much going on that it didn’t bother me at the time, but it irks me now.

So I’m wondering what your rude guest stories are?

14 Comments

Latest activity by Future Mrs. Polar Bear, on June 6, 2019 at 9:22 AM
  • Nykole
    Expert October 2019
    Nykole ·
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    Not married until October, so no story yet... BUT whoa rude! I can't believe the nerve of some people.

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    Master July 2019
    Hannah ·
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    I'm impressed with how many levels of rudeness. Like, not only do you ignore the no kids rule, but you don't even have the decency to at least clean the kid up?
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    Expert October 2019
    Sara ·
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    Wow, I can’t believe people would do that (but also kinda can based on some other stories I’ve read on here lol). I was at a wedding with my FH for one of his friends and as soon as the bride walked out and down the aisle this one lady blurted out “OMG FAIRY PRINCESS”. The girl looked beautiful but it was just way too loud and awkward (and personally I don’t wanna be called a fairy princess on my wedding day lol). I later found out the woman was the groom’s aunt.

    Oh and can’t forget to mention girls/grown a** women who wear white to someone else’s wedding 🙄 every time I see that I just can’t believe it. (My grandma actually did this at my aunts wedding)
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  • Cher Horowitz
    Master December 2019
    Cher Horowitz ·
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    Oh my word, as if! The nerve of some people irks me to the core. Sorry you had to deal with this!

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  • JuneBride2018
    Devoted June 2018
    JuneBride2018 ·
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    My cousin text in a group message to me, my mom, dad, and aunts and asked had anyone received an invite. They only received a Save The Date. Now I don’t really get along with some of my dads side so her texting that in a group really irked me. None of them responded to my invitation to my bridal shower and didn’t show bother to show up. Not that I cared. So I told her in the group you could’ve text me instead of a group and no one responded or showed up to the bridal shower so I assumed no one would show to the wedding so there wasn’t point in extending a wedding invite for you not to respond. Mind you she text in this group on the last day to say if you were coming or not. This was all petty because she knew the deadline date because my cousin had already told them. She comes to the wedding and gives me a half congratulations and a half hug before leaving. They were upset because no one from my dads side was in the wedding. Why would you be in the wedding if we barely talk or you talk about me all of the time.
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  • Gloria
    Super March 2019
    Gloria ·
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    My rude Guest story is :Guest inviting their family members to my wedding people that I have never met people that my husband has never met .we had a couple invite their grown children and your children’s plus one ,I was so mad it was ridiculous ... the only good out come was that after the wedding my husband called them out... for now on that particular couple will not be invited to any of our functions because they don’t know how to come by themselves
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  • Formerbride
    VIP June 2019
    Formerbride ·
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    My grandmother wore white to my mom's wedding. She also refused a corsage and carried a bouquet....some people 😒.

    I'm getting married in 2 weeks and I hope I don't have too many rude guest stories lol. I do have to say that before I came on here I never heard of people trying to bring uninvited guests to the wedding! I don't know why you would bring your child AND dressed inappropriately, when they are not invited.
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    Master January 2019
    Cassidy ·
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    Not as bad as this, but I had a couple bring their ADULT child to our wedding, uninvited and they didn’t mention it. We also had a guest not show, we knew ahead of time though, so he had a plate and chair.
    I looked over at the end of our ceremony and saw him, I was livid. My husband thought they wouldn’t come to the reception. But who was right by the door when we arrived, the uninvited guest! 😡
    when i was getting bustled, by husband gave him his piece of mind and told him he’d be the very last person to sit down so that he didn’t take anyone’s seat. My DOC caught on to the situation and used the extra place setting to make sure he had a spot. Uninvited guest had the balls to come up to my husband while we were eating and said hey man they actually did have a seat for me.
    Mad as I was, I didn’t let it ruin my night.

    Then I had my cousins and their spouses come up, also while we were eating and say they had to leave because they had to take their new puppy out. The didn’t even eat. Drove an hr+ to come the ceremony and cocktail hr, the buffet was open and they didn’t even eat! Literally wasted my money, my mom was pretty mad about that too. At least stay and eat! (We has good food too). One of them didn’t even give us a gift or card or anything. You waste my money and don’t give a gift, I haven’t spoke to them since.
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  • Lizbeth
    Devoted May 2020
    Lizbeth ·
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    This is why I wanted to make it obvious NO CHILDREN because if you put the parents names they will think it's them and the child... Because that's how parents think! 🙄
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  • Tina
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    I've not had my wedding yet but the process has been something else. I love wedding planning. But the RSVP thing.. omg. Ppl have said they are coming plus 3 or 4 which is just the most bizarre crap I've ever encountered. And others haven't even acknowledged the invite .. today's the deadline and I'm so glad bc I promise I am not calling andre reminding not one person about Rsvping and I'll just use the extra money for our honeymoon. Lol. Ppl are on another level of rude anymore.
    Sorry that happened. I just wish they had enough respect to ask if they could bring their child or at least dress him appropriately. Sheesh
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  • Alejandra
    Super March 2019
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    Our wedding had 2 "rude" guests, one was my hubbys cousin who showed up to our wedding (mind you he is a grown man with 4 children) wearing torn jeans with red, yes bright red Jordan tennis shoes with an all red matching shirt and wait it gets better, a matching all red baseball cap (insert face palm). When I asked him what happened he told me that he didn't realize our wedding would be this fancy, ugh, My worst one, as I was standing waiting for my song to start for my walk down 3 terraces of stairs as I made my grand entrance I look to the side to see my cousin pulling out a stroller from her car (kid-free wedding), my initial reaction was to yell at her to leave lol, I mean come on what better moment. My Mom who was walking me was waiting for me down at the main terrace, my sister (maid of honor) was down at the 2nd terrace where she'd walk from and I was alone with my 18 year old cousin who has really turned into a remarkable young man and my hubby's cousin who would walk me down the 3 terraces. I was beyond nervous so much that I forgot my bouquet (yes I know) so imagine seeing a 1 year old being strolled into your wedding after having sent that same cousin a text about wedding info 3 days before including the no kids rule.

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  • Courtney
    Master December 2019
    Courtney ·
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    Wowwww! So many levels of rude here.

    Our wedding isn't until December, but something similar to this happened at a friend's wedding. She got married in her hometown because it was more cost effective for the wedding to be there then to make 100 people come to us. The groom's family showed up in their Sunday best while her family shows up in plaid shirts, ripped overalls, and stained fishing hats. No lie, there is a Larry the Cable Guy wannabe ruining one of the pictures of me coming down the aisle.

    The groom's family came early to help and stayed late to pack up after the couple left. Her family? They complained that the cake wasn't be served fast enough. They then promptly ate then left. It was a Sunday in June, where else were you going?!

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    Melle ·
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    I am not yet married but i've seen people bringing extra guests at other weddings before and that is so beyond rude!


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    Future Mrs. Polar Bear ·
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    I'd be irked, as well.

    We drove 12 hours to get to were we were getting married at. I had an entire itinerary laid out for each day that any of our guests would be with us (guest were just our parents). Day One...we didn't realize the town was having their annual old car event so we got slammed with traffic once we got to town. My husbands parents said, Oh no worries were flexible on dinner plans. So were like ok, we think we can still make original time but now we wont stress about it.

    We get my parents settled into their cabin, get us settled into ours, and text my husbands parents tell them that were leaving to the restaurant in a few minutes. They text us back, "Oh we already ate. Your dad hasn't eat anything all day so we got something."

    My husband was pissed. What happened to being flexible? Why didn't you eat all day? We were still on time. So after my husband called his mom and had a few words with her, they ended up coming with all of us, but just got drinks (way too many drinks).

    The next day after our wedding his parents didn't want to drive down the couple of miles to our dinner choice (that was planned months in advance, the whole itinerary was) so there like why don't we just eat here (at their hotel)? I was pretty firm, No. We will pick you up on our way, and we did. The whole time she was like " this better be good pizza" blah blah blah.

    It's not her day, it's my husbands and mines. If she didn't like our venue choices she could have not come. She was so rude. After dinner she was like that was soooo good.

    Yea...we know.... LOL

    We didn't drive 12 hours to our wedding to not get what we wanted, ha! Plus, we don't go to TN often and we wanted to get to our favorite spots, and they all have really good food, and not crazy expensive. My parents loved it all, ha!

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