As 2024 draws to a close and Americans look forward to all that will happen in 2025, here’s a look at some wild wedding stories that made people laugh, cry and even cover their mouths in shock the past year.
Brides, grooms, wedding party members and others shared their personal stories, while etiquette experts and others offered their professional opinions and advice.
There were plenty of stories to choose from, but here are five that stood out this past year.
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Who takes the cake as the most surprising of them all?
1. The couple charges guests to attend the wedding day
A couple got married on June 24, 2023 in New York City, but their unusual wedding day choices didn’t go viral until over a year later.
Kareem (“Reemo”) and Nova Styles each charged guests $333 to attend the “wedding experience,” which amounted to a full day of activities throughout the city, as they described in their video.
A couple standing in front of the bus above charged guests $333 each to attend the “wedding experience” in New York City. (REEM photography)
The two have whittled down their guest list to just 60 people.
“They chose us,” Nova Styles says 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 Wervena movie theater and One World Trade Center for dancing, food and merriment — with photo shoots along the way, Nova Styles said in the videos.
2. The betrayed bride made lemonade from lemons
An anonymous woman in the Bay Area had a non-refundable wedding venue and a canceled wedding – so she did the next best thing.
She donated the location to Parents Helping Parents (PHP), an organization that 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, was providing 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, as well as their families. The group held a “Ball for All”. (Parents help 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 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 got a call from the bride’s family two weeks before the planned wedding.
PHP went fast. The event was planned right down to the catering within three days, says Daane.
Those present were treated to an evening full of dancing and food. (Parents help parents)
“I can imagine that weddings are canceled every now and then, but I have never heard of a wedding party being organized 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 a person’s life.
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Neil Crossley, father of daughter Amy Totty, who married in Yorkshire, England in 2024, had a 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, started walking down the aisle without his daughter, in a chance moment captured on video. (SWNS)
He said there was a “miscommunication” and thought he had been ordered to walk.
Crossley eventually turned around, picked up his daughter and continued a much more traditional march down the aisle.
Guests can be heard on video laughing at the awkward moment, which Crossley later said he referenced in his speech to the bride’s father.
His daughter especially got a kick out of the whole confusion.
Crossley walked down the aisle with his daughter Amy Totty, pictured here, on his second attempt. (SWNS)
“I especially appreciated it because I was trying really hard not to cry, and he helped me control myself,” Totty said.
She added: “It was a special moment that none of us will forget.”
4. Hungry wedding guests took matters into their own hands
A Reddit user who was kicked out of a wedding reception after drunkenly ordering pizzas to replenish the depleted buffet, he had the last laugh after revealing the bride’s father 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 subreddit “r/AITAH,” 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 had recently attended his friend’s wedding, which had about 70 guests, “mostly family.”
However, the bride’s family ate all the food from the buffet before all the guests could get their first plate.
“To my surprise, when we got the call, there was nothing left,” he wrote.
Cute_Distance_15 and other hungry guests then ordered four large pizzas and some chicken wings to the venue.
“Now you have the nerve to ask us to share.”
When the pizzas ran out, the problems started. A 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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“I then took the two slices, put them on my plate and started eating them, looked at him and said something like, ‘No, you and everyone at your tables had way more than your share of the buffet and ate it. ‘ This is the reason we ordered 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 planned to make up for the botched reception. (iStock)
These comments got the man kicked out of the reception, but after emotions cooled, the bride’s father apologized.
To make up for the issues with the wedding reception, the father-in-law planned to host an “after-wedding shindig” for everyone who was at the original wedding, plus other people, according to the Reddit poster.
5. Bride and groom put their guests to work
A couple who informed their wedding guests that this would happen put to work on the special day, their actions were described as “tacky, sticky, sticky” by one shocked 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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Although the woman said she was okay with both the location and size of the wedding, several aspects of the upcoming wedding did concern her.
“I just found out that the bride and groom send ‘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.
“Their excuse is out of ‘curiosity and thinking of them,’” wrote joyousfoodie, “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 stating that “everyone has a role to help set up.”
The couple texted: “Everyone has a role to help set up.”
“Once the ceremony is over, the wedding party will leave to take photos while guests set up the tables for the reception,” the woman said in her text message.
The couple never asked guests if they wanted 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 set up their wedding, but the Reddit poster said the couple “went on a trip” 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 not going. They’re terrible hosts, and honestly, it’s gross,” said user “byteme747.”
Another Reddit user was a bit more blunt. “The only reason I would go here is morbid curiosity,” wrote “Obrina98.”
