As 2024 comes to a close and Americans look forward to what's to come in 2025, here's a look at some wild wedding stories that made people laugh, cry, and even cover their mouths in shock. last year.
Brides, grooms, members of the wedding party and others shared their personal stories – while etiquette experts and others weighed in with professional opinions and advice.
There were plenty of tales to choose from, but here are five over the past year that stood out.
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Which one takes the cake for most surprising of all?
1. The couple charged the guests to attend the wedding day
A couple married in New York City on June 24, 2023, but their unusual wedding day choices 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 amounted to a full day of activities across the city, as they described in their video.
A couple shown standing in front of the bus above charged guests $333 each to attend the “wedding experience” in New York City. (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 buying a ticket to attend our wedding.”
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After the wedding ceremony, the guests went to Hudson Yardsa movie theater and the World Trade Center for dancing, food and entertainment — with photo shoots happening along the way, Nova Styles said in the video.
2. The betrayed bride made lemonade with lemons
An anonymous Bay Area woman found herself with an irrevocable wedding venue and an annulled wedding — so she did the next best thing.
She donated the site to Parents Helping Parents (PHP), an organization that provides support to 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 in support of the bride's sibling who has special needs,” said Maria Daane, executive director of PHP.
A bride in California 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 All”. (Parents helping parents)
PHP decided to use the already paid for space to host “a party for people with disabilities 0 to 100,” Fox News Digital previously reported.
The party, called the “Ball for All,” was complete with food, music, dancing and a photo booth.
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Daane said she received a call from the bride's family two weeks before the planned wedding.
PHP moved quickly. Within three days, the event was planned down to the catering, Daane said.
Attendees were treated to a night of dancing and food. (Parents helping parents)
“I imagine weddings get canceled every now and then, but I've never heard of one that turns into a community celebration for those with disabilities and their families,” Daane said.
“It makes me grateful for people's resilience and kindness – that this bride can do something so generous and thoughtful in the face of her 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 of one's life.
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Neil Crossley, father of daughter Amy Totty, who married in Yorkshire, England, in 2024, had an awkward moment caught on film.
At Totty's wedding, Crossley started walking down the aisle to the altar – without his daughter.
Neil Crossley, pictured here, started walking down the aisle without his daughter in an accidental moment caught on video. (SWNS)
He said there was a “miscommunication” and he thought he had been instructed to start walking.
Crossley eventually returned, picked up his daughter and continued on a much more traditional march down the aisle.
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Guests can be heard on video laughing at the awkward moment, which Crossley said he later mentioned in his father-of-the-bride speech.
His daughter was particularly struck by the whole mix-up.
Crossley walked his daughter Amy Totty, pictured here, down the aisle at his second attempt. (SWNS)
“I especially appreciated it as I was trying really hard not to cry and he helped me compose myself,” Totty said.
She added, “It was a special moment that none of us will ever forget.”
4. The hungry wedding guest took matters into her own hands
A Reddit user who was kicked out of a wedding after drunkenly ordering pizza to replenish the meager buffet got the last laugh after discovering the father of the bride apologized and planned a replacement party.
“THE MOM 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 at the buffet. (iStock)
In the post, the man said he and his wife recently attended a friend's wedding, where there were about 70 guests, “mostly family.”
However, the bride's family ate all the food on the buffet before all the guests went for their first courses.
“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 some chicken wings instead.
“Now you have the nerve to ask us to share.”
As 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 two remaining slices.
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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 share of straight to the buffet and eat It's all why we ordered food in the first place and you have the nerve to ask us to share.
One Reddit user (not pictured) said there would be another party planned to make up for the botched reception. (iStock)
The comments sent the man out of the reception – but after emotions cooled, the father of the bride apologised.
To make up for the wedding reception issues, the father-in-law planned to throw a “post-wedding bash” for everyone who was in the original wedding, plus other people, the Reddit poster said.
5. The bride and groom put the guests to work
A couple who informed their wedding guests that they would be working on their special day had their actions described as “inappropriate, weird, weird” by a horrified Reddit user.
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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While the woman said she was fine with the location and size of the wedding, several aspects of the upcoming nuptials concerned her.
“I just found out that the wedding couple is sending 'cards' to people (who) are not invited that they are getting married soon and 'you are in our hearts on this special day' before the wedding,” she wrote.
“Exiting them is for the sake of 'curiosity and thinking 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 that said “everyone has a role to play in helping set up.”
The couple wrote a message: “Everyone has a role to play in helping set up.”
“Once the ceremony is done, the wedding party will leave to take pictures while the guests set the tables for the reception,” the woman said in her text.
The couple never asked 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 organize their wedding, but the Reddit poster said the couple “traveled” instead of saving for their big day.
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Other Reddit users told “joyousfoodie” to skip the affair altogether.
“That's when you decide you're sick and you don't go. They're terrible hosts, and honestly, it's gross,” said user “byteme747”.
Another Reddit user was a little more blunt. “The only reason I would go to this is morbid curiosity,” wrote “Obrina98”.
