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As 2024 comes to a close and Americans can’t wait to see what 2025 will bring, 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 guests and more shared their personal stories — while etiquette experts and others weighed in with professional opinions and advice.
There were many stories to choose from, but here are five that stood out over the past year.
Which of them surprises the cake the most?
1. The couple charged guests to attend the wedding day
The couple married in New York on June 24, 2023, but their unusual choices for the wedding day 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 was a full day of activities throughout the city, as they described in their video.
The couple pictured in front of the bus above charged guests $333 each to attend a “wedding experience” in New York. (REEM photo)
The two whittled down their guest list to just 60 people.
“They chose 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 went to Hudson Yardsmovie theater and One World Trade Center for dancing, food and merriment — with occasional photo shoots, Nova Styles said in the videos.
2. The disappointed bride made lemonade out of lemons
An anonymous woman in the Bay Area found herself with a non-refundable wedding venue and annulled wedding – so she did the next best thing.
She donated the space to Parents Helping Parents (PHP), which 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 to support the bride’s sibling who has special needs,” said Maria Daane, PHP’s executive director.
A California bride has donated her wedding reception venue to a charity that helps children and adults with special needs and their families. The group held a “Ball 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 reported.
The party, called “Ball for All,” was complete with food, music, dancing and a photo booth.
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Daane said she received a phone call from the bride’s family two weeks before the scheduled wedding.
PHP has evolved rapidly. Within three days, the event was planned down to the catering, Daane said.
The participants were treated to a night of dancing and food. (Parents helping parents)
“I guess weddings get canceled now and then, but I’ve never heard of one turning into a party for people with disabilities and their families,” Daane said.
“I feel grateful for people’s resilience and kindness – that this bride could do something so generous and thoughtful despite her own grief 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 of one’s life.
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Neil Crossley, father of daughter Amy Totty, who married in Yorkshire, England in 2024, had awkward moment captured on film.
At Totty’s wedding, Crossley walked down the aisle – without his daughter.
Neil Crossley, pictured here, walked down the aisle without his daughter in the serendipitous moment caught on video. (SWNS)
He said there had been a “miscommunication” and he thought he had been instructed to start walking.
Crossley eventually turned around, brought his daughter and continued with a much more traditional march down the aisle.
Guests can be heard on video laughing at the awkward moment, which Crossley said he later mentioned in his speech to the father of the bride.
His daughter was especially delighted by the whole confusion.
Crossley walked his daughter Amy Totty, pictured here, down the aisle for the second attempt. (SWNS)
“I especially appreciated it because I was trying really hard not to cry and he helped me pull myself together,” Totty said.
She added: “It was a special moment that none of us will forget.”
4. The hungry guest took matters into his own hands
The Reddit user who was kicked out of the wedding reception after drunkenly ordering pizzas to supplement the empty buffet, he got the last laugh after discovering the bride’s father had 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 groom was kicked out of the 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 a 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 get their first plates.
“To my surprise, when they called us, there was nothing left,” he wrote.
Adorable_Distance_15 and other hungry guests then ordered four large pizzas and several chicken wings on the spot.
“Now you have the courage to ask us to share.”
As the pizza ran out, trouble began. The man, who turned out to be the bride’s father, asked if he could have one of the remaining two slices.
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“Then I took two slices, put them on the plate and started eating, then I looked at him and said something like, ‘No, you and everyone at your tables had way more than your fair share of the buffet and you ate it all that’s why we ordered food in the first place, and now you have the nerve to ask us to share it,’ he wrote.
A Reddit user (not pictured) said another party will be planned to make up for the failed reception. (iStock)
These comments kicked the man out of the reception – but after emotions cooled, the bride’s father apologised.
To make up for the problems with the wedding reception, the father-in-law planned to throw a “post-wedding party” for everyone who attended the original wedding, plus other people, according to a Reddit poster
5. The bride and groom put their guests to work
The couple who informed their wedding guests that they will be put to work on that particular day, a horrified Reddit user described his actions as “crass, disgusting, disgusting.”
Earlier this year, Reddit user “joyousfoodie” posted about her cousin’s upcoming wedding, which she described as a “semi-destination wedding” that would be relatively small.
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Although the woman said she was okay with the location and size of the wedding, several aspects of the upcoming wedding worried her.
“I just found out that wedding guests send ‘congratulations’ to people [who] they are not invited to get married soon and ‘you are in our hearts on this special day’ before the wedding,” she wrote.
“Their excuse is for ‘curiosity and thought about them,'” joyousfoodie wrote, “but what I don’t understand is why send this before the wedding?”
The action that prompted the Reddit post, however, was a text from the couple stating that “everyone has a role to help set up.”
The couple texted: “Everyone has a role to help set up.”
“When the ceremony is over, the wedding party will go for a photo shoot, while the guests set the tables for the reception,” the woman said in her text.
The couple never asked the guests if they would be willing to help and “just dictated [to] people what to do,” the Reddit poster said.
The couple claimed they couldn’t afford to hire help to prepare the wedding, but a Reddit poster said the couple “went on a trip” instead of saving up for their big day.
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Other Reddit users told “joyousfoodie” to skip the affair altogether.
“Then you decide you’re sick and you don’t go. They’re terrible hosts, and frankly, it’s disgusting,” said user “byteme747”.
Another Reddit user was a bit more blunt. “The only reason I would go to this is morbid curiosity,” wrote “Obrina98”.
