Some of the awkward weddings I’ve done in the past had one thing in common: silence. The noise and hustle and bustle of your wedding day is supposed to make things exciting! Although working in silence is OK for me as the hair/make-up artist, I always thought about how I had wanted my wedding day to start off giddy and excited!
Here are some tips for bridesmaids and brides to make the bride’s“getting ready” part of the day fun and exciting:
- Opt to have the bridesmaids sleep wherever the bride will be on the night before. I really think this makes a great farewell for those single lady sleepovers and it makes the vibe more “OMG I’M GETTING MARRIED TOMORROW!”
- Play some MUSIC! Jam to Britney, Beyonce, Kelly Clarkson, Nelly Fertado, Fergie or whatever (those are some of my favorites!). Make sure you either bring a small radio or something to the hotel if you’re not sleeping at a home.
- Make small talk! Enjoy yourselves and chat!
- Don’t be grumpy! (even though you’re up at 7am)
“Hmpf… it’s not my wedding!”
- Plan ahead to have food/coffee readily available (designate a groomsman to help). Munching always calms the nerves and the bridal party SHOULD be eating something before the ceremony!
- A great bridal snack is sushi because you can just pop them in your mouth and won’t have to worry about ruining your lipstick! Opt for California rolls just in case the fish is bad or yucky.
- Opt for water instead of coffee. You might get really dehydrated from standing and running around.
- When the photographer isn’t around, take pictures with your own camera! Some of the best pictures are unprofessional candids!
From C’s own wedding: boob check!
Trust me… almost all the time, happy bridesmaids = happy bride!
What was the most awkward wedding you’ve ever been to? What made it so awkward? Have you been in a wedding? Was it fun?
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dahlia / 2942 posts
Haha love that picture. I would definitely have more fun being a bridesmaid if there was music and food and non-professional cameras.
guest
yes. let’s not talk about it. *awkward*
hydrangea / 61 posts
My old gymnastics coach’s wedding was on a farm. There was an green algae-covered pond in the background, a bouquet handcrafted from fake plastic flowers, and 50 smelly, wild cats running around licking themselves. The reception was in the basement of the farmhouse, where they served fried chicken from Walmart.
My family and probably all of the other guests were a little freaked out, but you know what, the bride was happy and a “down home” wedding was just what she had wanted. okay, whatever.
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So I attended my cousin in-law wedding and it was way awkward but fun surprisingly!
A lot of things went wrong! From her hair being a mass, runny make-up, the chicken song “accidentally” playing before she walked down, slide show starting to early, food put away to early, to the groom that was on the cake head falling off, oh his legs as well , both which they put back together with icing! lmao!! We danced all night though which was fun! They ended up divorcing a month later though. Needless to say I wasn’t surprised..>>.. no one was.
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LOL. on the last picture. i’ve actually never been to a wedding
dahlia / 2382 posts
I went a wedding of my mom’s friend. the planning was horrible…so was the food. We had to wait hours to eat & I had ONE alcoholic drink in the meantime that I sipped over the course of 2 hours. Because I hadnt eaten earlier expecting to eat when we got to the reception, I had a bad headache for days!! I wasnt drunk but drinking on an empty stomach is something I learned the hard way.
Not only that, Mom & I were OVERDRESSED….well really everyone else underdressed. We wore our best clothes & people showed up in dockers & flipflops…
orchid / 107 posts
At my friend’s wedding, the guests sat around waiting at the crowded reception site for literally three hours before the bridal party finally showed up. I know they were taking pictures, but really?
The food was all really soggy, the reception site was too crowded and too hot, the groom’s grandfather kept grabbing the mic away from the mc and saying stupid things, and the groom’s mother’s cousins kept getting up and singing stupid songs for everyone.
Oh, yeah. And there was no dancing or anything. It was the most awkward and annoying wedding I’ve ever been to.
sunflower / 487 posts
Haha! the boob check! I had to do that for my friend and hold her dress while she went to the bathroom =P we were an 40 min late for her wedding. >.<
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I went to my teacher’s wedding, which was absolutely beautiful and not at all awkward. Until we arrived at the reception. There were many other teachers there, drinking, dancing, and generally avoiding my friend and me. We didn’t know anyone BUT the teachers, until the bride introduced us to her new cousin-in-law, Mark… And they made us dance together, just to wrap up an incredibly awkward night.
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At the most awkward wedding I went to, the bride was drunk. I’m not sure about the groom. Actually, that was the second wedding I’d been to where the bride and groom had been drinking, but I don’t remember the other one because I was just a kid.
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Oh yes ive been to 2 awkward weddings the first isnt to bad I come from a family of rednecks my cousin Jeremy was getting married the wedding was gorgeous but on of our cousins wanted to take the attention off the bride and wore a white long gown her self! On to the reseption guests were outside getting high coming in getting drunk falling into the huge tubs of ice! As for my next awkward wedding my brother moved back home after a break up and my brother and I were always close even though we have a huge age difference well he wanted to rebound from the breakup so he started going out him and his buddy Dennis we weekend warriors at the bar from the way I understand this he met a girl who was drunk and dancing on the bar the bar wanted her to leave she wouldnt so he said Ill marry you if you go home well I guess they started meeting up often at the bar and sure enough his buddy dennis told me you have to stop him hes going to marry her and he doesnt want anyone knowing so my brother came home one night and we all left go somewhere he was talking about something I said I know something and I want to know if it was true so I said Dennis said your marrying a girl youve only known 2 weeks he laughed he wouldnt answer it sure enough a couple days later he came to my mom who went out and bought their rings we werent invited to the wedding he came over that morning had my mom iron his button down shirt and jeans and told us we could come to the reception at the local bar so we did and I met my brother wife for the first time in a bar I was 16 at the she made a wonderful impression my mom when she ordered a jeiger bomb for me snuck me in the bathroom to do shots and she got married in a black dress!
sunflower / 272 posts
The most akward for me, and the other two bridesmaids, was a catholic wedding I went to. Since none of us were Catholic we didn’t know about all of the rituals that they go through, or the fact that they sit and stand about a million times, which sucks in formal wear, high heels, and a freaking girdle!
Not to mention that we weren’t sure if we should be doing the whole Holy Ghost sign when the preist did or not. I am sure th video clips of us are akward and a tad bit funny.
sunflower / 272 posts
Oh and I almost forgot my other friends wedding in which they DJ played only what HE wanted to play, was rude to everyone including the bride and groom, and then packed up and left an hour earlier than he was supposed to. The bride, my friend, was pissed!
hydrangea / 88 posts
a few years back, my buddy asked me to go to a wedding and i went thinking, it’s just a normal wedding. WRONG!! two asians in an east-indian wedding; EVERY ONE in bright ass saris and I was in a simple, strapless black dress with heels. Not to mention, I’m 5ft 10 without shoes, I was the TALLEST person there, marking approx, 6ft1 with heels on. It was sooo weird PLUS I HATE curry with a passion so I basically ate fruit and that’s about it.
the guys were trying to talk to me about how long i’ve dated my friend (they didn’t buy that we’re just friends), if i’m from china (i’m korean), if I speak english (far better than them) and the women just gave me EVIL looks all through the night. Man…I can’t believe my buddy didn’t warn me, I might have worn something longer, covered and not black?? O_o
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I went to this wedding with my parents. It was at some country club and we got lost and showed up like 20 minutes late…then this old guy escorted my mom down the aisle and he was like: “We can’t sit your family together” so I ended up sitting with my mom and stepdad while half of the family was on the other side of the aisle.
Then we were completely underdressed. My parents were wearing formal shirts and dress pants and I had on these khaki courderoy skinny jeans (I thought they were cool at the time), a hot pink flowy shirt and Uggs. Everyone was wearing summer dresses and skirts except us.
At the reception, we had to wait like 3 hours for our food and had to sit at this table with a bunch of little kids and drunk parents…..and after we ate and people were dancing, some random old man asked if I wanted to dance with him…. :\
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I’ve been to a couple of awkward weddings. In one of them, there was a Master of Ceremony narrating everything and telling people when to clap and making jokes. I felt like we were in the audience of a live sitcom. Weirdest wedding I’ve ever experienced. Another wedding I went to, during the kiss… the bride just gave the groom a quick peck on the lips and then checked to make sure her lipstick wasn’t smudged. People talked about her for days after that. Then there was a wedding that I was in, and the bride was 4 HOURS LATE because she was getting her hair done! And it was an evening wedding so people started to leave after a couple of hours. Half the crowd was gone by the time the bride came in. Luckily it was a big wedding, so there were still a lot of people there.
Weddings are fun! I love going to them. I’ve been in 6. I have been a flowergirl, a jr bridesmaid, a candlelighter and I’ve sung in a couple.