As 2024 draws to a close, Americans are looking forward to everything that will happen in 2025. Here are some wild wedding stories that made people laugh, cry, and even cover their mouths in shock. past year.
Grooms, brides, members of the wedding party and more shared personal stories, and etiquette experts and others offered their expert opinions and advice.
There were many stories to choose from, but here are five that stood out from the past year.
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1. The couple charged their guests a fee to attend their wedding.
One couple tied the knot in New York City on June 24, 2023, but it wasn't until more than a year later that their unusual wedding day choice became public knowledge.
Kareem (“Reemo”) and Nova Styles charged their guests $333 each to participate in their “wedding experience,” which they covered for an entire day across the city, as they explained in the video. activity.
The couple standing in front of the bus above charged their guests $333 per person to attend a “wedding experience” in New York City. (Photographed by REEM)
The two narrowed the guest list down to just 60 people.
“They chose us,” Nova Styles said in a TikTok video. “They ‘hashtag’ed and trusted the process of purchasing tickets to attend our wedding.”
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After the wedding, the guests moved on. hudson yardsa movie theater, and One World Trade Center with dancing, dining, entertainment, and photo ops along the way, Nova Styles said in the video.
2. The Betrayed Bride Made Lemonade with Lemons
When an anonymous Bay Area woman discovered her wedding was canceled because her wedding reception venue was non-refundable, she did the next best thing.
She donated the venue to Parents Helpingparents (PHP), an organization that provides support to children and adults with special needs and their families.
“The bride's family is grateful that our agency, Parents Helping Parents, provides families with services to support the bride's siblings who have special needs,” said Maria Dern, executive director of PHP. “I shared that I was there,” he said.
A California bride donated her wedding reception venue to a charity that supports children and adults with special needs and their families. The group held a “Ball for All”. (Parents helping parents)
PHP has decided to use the already paid space to host “a party for people with disabilities from 0 to 100,” Fox News Digital previously reported.
The party, dubbed “Ball for All,” featured food, music, dancing and a photo booth.
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Dern said she received a call from. bride's family Two weeks before the scheduled wedding.
PHP moved fast. Dahne said the event was planned within three days, right down to the catering.
Attendees enjoyed a night of dancing and food. (Parents helping parents)
“I understand that sometimes weddings are canceled, but I've never heard of them being turned into community parties for people with disabilities and their families,” Dern said.
“I am so grateful for the resilience and kindness of people. I am so impressed that this bride was able to act so generously and thoughtfully in the face of her own grief,” 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 the most important day of your life.
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Neil Crossley, father of daughter Amy Totty, who married in Yorkshire, England in 2024, captured the embarrassing moment on film.
At Totti's wedding, Ms. Crossley walked down the aisle to the altar without her daughter.
Neil Crossley, pictured, started walking down the aisle without his daughter in tow, but the fortuitous moment was captured on video. (SWNS)
He said he believed there was a “miscommunication” and that he was told to start walking.
Crosley eventually turned around and took her daughter with her, continuing the traditional procession down the aisle.
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Guests can be heard laughing at the awkward moment on video, which Crosley later mentioned in his father-of-the-bride's speech.
His daughter was especially shocked by the whole mess.
Ms Crossley walked her daughter Amy Totti (pictured) down the aisle for the second time. (SWNS)
“I was especially grateful because I was trying so hard not to cry, and he helped me calm down,” Totti said.
She added: “It was a special moment none of us will ever forget.”
4. Hungry wedding guests took matters into their own hands.
A Reddit user kicked out of a wedding reception for drunkenly ordering pizza to replenish a dwindling buffet gets the last laugh as the bride's father apologizes and reveals he was planning a replacement party. Ta.
“Is it AITA who ordered pizza because there was no food at a friend's wedding?” asked user “Adorable_Distance_15” in a post on the advice forum “r/AITAH” subreddit.
A hungry wedding guest was kicked out of the reception after the bride's family ate all the food on the buffet after ordering pizza. (St. Petersburg)
In the post, the man said he and his wife recently attended a friend's wedding, which had about 70 guests, “mostly family members.”
However, before all the guests could get to their first plate, the bride's family ate all the food on the buffet.
“To my surprise, there was nothing left when we were called,” he wrote.
Adorable_Distance_15 and other hungry guests then ordered four large pizzas and some chicken wings and headed to the venue.
“Now you have the courage to ask us to share.”
The problems started when the pizza ran out. 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 my plate, and started eating. Then I looked at him and said, 'No, you and everyone at the table have gotten far more than their fair share of the buffet. 'That's all why we ordered the food in the first place, and now you have the nerve to ask us to share,' he wrote.
A Reddit user (not pictured) said another party was being planned to make up for the failure of the reception. (St. Petersburg)
These comments led to the man being kicked out of the reception, but after emotions cooled, the bride's father apologized.
According to a Reddit poster, the father-in-law plans to give everyone who attended the original wedding and others a “post-wedding treat” to make up for the problems with the wedding reception. It is said that
5. The bride and groom have their guests do the work.
A couple who told their wedding guests that they would be working on their special day have been called “uncool, uncool, uncool” by horrified Reddit users.
Earlier this year, Reddit user “joyousfoodie” posted about her cousin's upcoming wedding, describing it as a relatively small “semi-destination wedding.”
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The woman said that while she had no issues with both the location and size of the wedding, she did have some concerns about the upcoming wedding.
“I just found out that wedding couples are sending 'cards' to people.” [who] “There was no invitation to say we're getting married soon or to say 'you are in our hearts on this special day' before the wedding,” she wrote.
“Their excuse is 'curiosity and thinking of them,'” joyousfoodie wrote, “but what I don't understand is why they would send this before the wedding. ”
But the action that prompted the Reddit post was a text from the couple saying, “Everyone has a role to play in helping set it up.”
“Everyone has a role to play in helping set up,” the couple texted.
“Once the ceremony is over, the wedding attendees leave to take photos while the guests prepare the reception table,” the woman said in a text message.
The couple never asked guests if they wanted to help, “just dictating to them.” [to] What should people do?'' one Reddit poster said.
The couple claimed they couldn't afford to hire help to prepare for their wedding, but a Reddit poster said the couple “travelled” instead of saving up for their big day.
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Other Reddit users told “joyousfoodie” to skip the incident entirely.
User “byteme747” said: “That's when you decide you're not feeling well and don't go. They're terrible hosts. Frankly it's awful.”
Another Reddit user was a little more candid. “The only reason I’m in this is out of morbid curiosity,” “Obrina98” wrote.
