As 2024 comes to a close and Americans look forward to everything that will happen in 2025, here’s a look at some wild wedding stories that left people laughing, crying, and even shutting up in shock the past 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 many stories to choose from, but here are five that stood out last year.
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Who is the most surprising of all?
1. The couple requires their guests to be present on the wedding day
A couple tied the knot on June 24, 2023 in New York City, but their unusual choices for the wedding day didn’t go viral until more than a year later.
Kareem (“Reemo”) and Nova Styles each charged guests $333 to participate in the “wedding experience,” which was a full day of activities around the city, as they described in their video.
A couple standing at the top of the bus charged their guests $333 each to take part in the “wedding experience” in New York City. (REEM Photography)
The two reduced their guest list to just 60 people.
“They chose us,” Nova Styles said in a TikTok video. “They trusted the process by buying a ticket to our wedding.”
After the wedding ceremony, the guests left Hudson Yardsa movie theater and One World Trade Center for dancing, eating and merriment — with photo shoots along the way, Nova Styles said in the videos.
2. 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 venue to Parents Helping Parents (PHP), an organization that supports children and adults with special needs and their families.
“The bride’s family shared that our agency, Parents Helping Parents, provided services to the family to support the bride’s sibling who has special needs,” said Maria Daane, executive director of PHP.
A bride in California donated her wedding venue to a charity that helps children and adults with special needs and their families. The group held a “ball for everyone.” (parents help parents)
PHP decided to use the already paid for space to host “a party for people with disabilities ages 0 to 100,” Fox News Digital previously reported.
The party, called “Ball for Everyone,” included food, music, dancing and a photo booth.
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Daane said she got a call from the bride’s family two weeks before the planned wedding.
PHP has evolved quickly. The event, right down to the catering, was planned within three days, said Daane.
Attendees were treated to an evening full of dancing and food. (Parents help parents)
“I can imagine weddings being canceled every now and then, but I have never heard of it being turned into a community 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 in the face of her own sadness is inspiring,” she added.
3. The bride’s father forgot something very important
An amusing story from England showed that mistakes can happen to anyone – even on one of the most important days in life.
According to an etiquette expert, wedding guests can leave early under one condition
Neil Crossley, father of daughter Amy Totty, who married in Yorkshire, England, in 2024, had one embarrassing moment captured on film.
At Totty’s wedding, Crossley began walking down the aisle to the altar – without his daughter.
Neil Crossley, pictured here, began walking down the aisle without his daughter in a random moment caught on video. (SWNS)
He said there was a “misunderstanding” and he thought he had been told to start walking.
Crossley finally turned around, picked up his daughter and marched down the aisle in a much more traditional manner.
On video, guests can be heard laughing at the awkward moment, which Crossley later referenced in his speech as father of the bride.
His daughter especially liked the whole mix-up.
Crossley walked his daughter Amy Totty, pictured here, down the aisle on his second attempt. (SWNS)
“I especially appreciated it because I was trying really hard not to cry and he helped calm me down,” Totty said.
She added: “It was a special moment that none of us will forget.”
4. The hungry wedding guest took matters into his own hands
A Reddit user who was thrown out of a wedding reception After drunkenly ordering pizza to replenish the depleted buffet, he got the last laugh when he revealed that the bride’s father had apologized and planned a replacement party.
“AITA because I ordered 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 pizza because the bride’s family ate all the food from the buffet. (iStock)
In the post, the man said he and his wife recently attended his friend’s wedding, which was attended by about 70 guests, “mostly family members.”
However, the bride’s family ate the entire buffet before all the guests could move on to their first plates.
“To my surprise, when we called, there was nothing left,” he wrote.
Adorable_Distance_15 and other hungry guests then ordered four large pizzas and some chicken wings to the venue.
“Now you have the courage to ask us to share.”
When the pizzas ran out, the trouble began. A man who turned out to be the bride’s father asked if he could have one of the remaining two pieces.
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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 had way more than your fair share of the buffet and ate.” “That’s why we ordered food in the first place. And now you have the courage to ask us to share it,” he wrote.
A Reddit user (not pictured) said another party was planned to make up for the botched reception. (iStock)
Those comments led to the man being kicked out of the reception – but after feelings cooled, the bride’s father apologized.
To make up for the wedding reception issues, the father-in-law planned to host an “after-wedding party” for everyone who was at the original wedding and other people, the Reddit poster said
5. The bride and groom let their guests work
A couple who told their wedding guests that they would be bring to work On this particular day, her actions were described as “tacky, tacky, tacky” by one horrified Reddit user.
Earlier this year, Reddit user “joyousfoodie” posted about her cousin’s upcoming wedding, which she described as a “destination semi-wedding” that would be relatively small.
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While the woman said she was fine with both the location and the size of the wedding, several aspects of the upcoming wedding worried her.
“I just found out that before the wedding the couple sends ‘cards’ to people who aren’t invited that they’re getting married soon and that ‘you’re in our hearts on this special day,'” she wrote.
“Your apology is for ‘curiosity and thinking about her,'” joyousfoodie wrote, “but what I don’t understand is why am I sending this before the wedding?”
However, the action that sparked the Reddit post was a text message from the couple that said, “Everyone has a role to play.”
The couple wrote, “Everyone has a role to play in helping build it.”
“Once the ceremony is complete, the wedding party will leave to take photos while guests set up tables for the reception,” the woman said in her text.
The couple never asked guests if they would be willing to help, but “just dictated to people what to do,” the Reddit poster said.
The couple claimed they couldn’t afford to hire help to prepare for their wedding, but the Reddit poster said the couple “went traveling” instead of saving for the big day.
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Other Reddit users urged “joyousfoodie” to skip the affair altogether.
“Then you decide you’re sick and not going. “They are terrible hosts and honestly it’s disgusting,” said user “byteme747.”
Another Reddit user was a little more blunt. “The only reason I would go there is morbid curiosity,” wrote “Obrina98.”
