“Of course, every horse took a sh*t about every five minutes.”

"I think maybe they thought of themselves as having a big storybook romance that everyone would want to read about and envy? But I'm very close with the family and followed the whole courtship, and it was really anything but storybook."

"She got married when she was 19. In the middle of the service, the reverend stopped and addressed the guests, saying, ‘The couple wants everyone to know how proud they are that they’ve never kissed, that all their dates were chaperoned, and they’ve never even held hands because their chaperones would sit in between them.’ 

Then the couple turned to the guests and just sort of stared at us, as if expecting us to clap or something. We just sat there quietly for a minute, and then eventually the reverend just went on with the ceremony. It was incredibly awkward and weird."

"100% this. I used to be a wedding cinematographer. Our job was to be in the background, capturing the day as it naturally occurred. We had a few instances of very controlling brides and mothers who wanted the perfect shot."

"Instead, the owl panicked, flew in a circle, shat on my dad, and then flew into the rafters. A ladder and a broomstick were required to retrieve the ring. Not so much ‘the couple’, but they had planned this elaborate romantic gesture and it backfired in the funniest way possible."

"Most of the bridesmaids and groomsmen did not know how to ride. Yet the wedding couple had planned out what amounted to choreography. Even ‘you go here and you go there’ is complicated on a huge animal you do not know how to control. 

Everything took way longer than it was supposed to, because the wranglers had to keep coming out to lead the horses. The bride had still insisted that the bridesmaids carry bouquets, so they could not use the reins correctly. And of course every horse took a shit about every five minutes. The photos really looked weird, because the wedding party was in typical wedding finery, but on horses. Everything looked really out of place."

"The bride’s family went ballistic and tried to beat up the groom. The police were called, and there were multiple arrests for assault. The marriage lasted three hours (technically it was never formalised because the marriage certificate wasn’t filed). But hey, at least there was cake!"

"They wore them for the rest of the reception and played the ‘Hot Dog’ song on repeat. It was a child-free wedding, and both of the couple were and are child-free."

"She also made everyone wait 60 minutes in the heat of August in southern Virginia while she finished getting ready. This was her third attempt at getting ready; she had left two other men at the altar."