Random... but did you have any uninvited wedding guests?
I had a cousin bring a "plus one" (cross country!) that wasn't invited (I have 27 cousins, so it adds up).
Some friends of the family brought all of their teenage kids, whereas only one (my friend) was invited.
In retrospect, I should have invited these people I guess... I was young and trying to stick to a limited budget ($8000 for 140 guests.... yeah.)
watermelon / 14467 posts
My mom invited the whole church the week before my wedding. I guess people were asking why they didn't get their invitation, but we had a limited budget and didn't invite everyone (both of us have large extended families). She just had the pastor announce it. It was mortifying.
wonderful pomelo / 30692 posts
No, but we had a tiny wedding of only 35 people and everyone knew it!
persimmon / 1364 posts
Oh yeah. I had someone bring a plus one from another country and Berger even mention it. The kicker is that they needed to apply for a visa so this wasn't a spur of the moment decision. PLUS they were staying with my parents so they just showed up at their house with an additional unannounced person.
I had a co-worker bring an uninvited plus one and it was another coworker that was specifically and purposefully not invited. Sigh. There were a bunch of others as well. All in all I think we had about 10 uninvited guest (out of 150 that attended)
pomelo / 5129 posts
For our actual wedding, there was one. We moved our wedding back at the last minute because DH's landlord asked him to move out. So we had a small (30 people) ceremony with just our immediate families. One of DH's friends wanted to come and sat in the back. He didn't come to the lunch afterward, so it didn't matter. It's only awkward now because the best man ended up marrying that guy's ex wife.
For our reception, the invite list was so huge, I doubt I'd know if anyone uninvited showed up. I was more upset by the no call/no shows (I think we counted 20 who RSVPed yes and didn't come)
kiwi / 656 posts
@avivoca: what DID you do?!?
We give everyone a plus one as a matter of course (we were lucky we could afford to do so!) so we didn't have anyone who wasn't invited. I was surprised that one friend brought someone he was just friends with. They ended up falling for each other at our wedding and are now married, so it's kind of a cute story! I was way more annoyed at my SIL bailing on our wedding 2 days beforehand. I'm still annoyed 6 years later so I probably need to let that one go. Hah.
watermelon / 14467 posts
@PawPrints: @MrsBucky: I just let it ride. At that point it was clear that this was the Mom show and I just kept quiet so i could get out of there without anymore fighting. But I was mortified. 10 years later, I can't even remember if anyone extra showed up.
But I do remember her giving away all of the leftovers from the reception to our extended family. I'm still pissed off about that.
eggplant / 11861 posts
@DesertDreams88: Yes a bridesmaid invited a guy at the bar the night before and he truly thought he was going lol
pear / 1728 posts
I'm honestly not sure - I didn't really keep track of who was/wasn't there the day of the wedding. It's also possible I've just forgotten 
nectarine / 2210 posts
@FaithFertility: I had the exact same thing happen. Turns out he showed up and caught the garter!
pomelo / 5573 posts
Several. We invited my husband's aunt and uncle from England - they brought their adult daughter, her husband, and their two year old (to our adults only wedding). We also had a couple of crashes from the other wedding at our venue - we realized there were some people there neither of us knew (we met in university so we had all the same friends). My friend Mike went up to them and asked how they knew us, they tried to bluff, and he was like "no. Get out."
honeydew / 7235 posts
No!! We had about 185 people. I would have been so mad! And yeah, what do you do, do they just add another plate and place at a table?!
Also, impressive you'd did a big wedding at a great price!!!
persimmon / 1005 posts
Yes! Two wedding crashers who used to work with my husband and googled our wedding website to find the ceremony and reception information. They then tracked my husband down at the reception to ask why they weren't on the seating chart. Also, one of them caught the bouquet.
pomegranate / 3355 posts
No. But I did have a relative ask if their son could bring a date. I said no bc we were already at Max capacity. Looking back I should have just said yes bc we had 5-6 no shows and even though they had just started dating at that time they are now married
honeydew / 7917 posts
Sort of. I had no say in the people my in-law's wanted to invite and never had a list. I divided the tables up and let them assign seats for their guests. It was a mess, and I had to add an extra table last minute. Of course those last minute guests arrived late, and I had an empty table for most of the night.
persimmon / 1005 posts
@Mrs. Oreo: Yes! People have no manners and no shame! I'm just finally now able to sort of laugh at it and not be steaming mad and we've been married for 8 years.
pear / 1718 posts
Not uninvited, but I wish they were: DH's Aunt hand wrote on their RSVP "Chris (her son) and his girlfriend are coming, even though their names weren't written on the invite"
No shit their names weren't on the invite. They don't live with you, I sent the invite to their house! Also, Chris definitely received the invite because he returned his RSVP himself. WTF. So she thought it was okay to invite people herself?
pomegranate / 3272 posts
I guess sort of. I had to invite my maternal grandma's sister though we're not close and I'm not a huge fan. Well, she can't see all that well so I also invited her daughter (my mom's cousin) as her date. Turns out, my great aunt couldn't go and so my mom's cousin wrote that she'll bring her husband. I'm very much not a fan of her husband. In fact two men live in her house and she's only married to one of them. Long story that I don't even want to know the answers to. Either way, they came and took a ton of pictures at the wedding but refused to give me any. I"m really creeped out by why they wanted to take and keep a ton of pictures
pomelo / 5258 posts
No uninvited guests. I had a tiny wedding at my grandparents' place with immediate family only. My mom wrote an email to my extended family members telling them to stay away that day. I have no idea why she thought that was necessary or a good idea. I would have welcomed anyone that showed up I just needed to draw the line somewhere between 2 and 200. Everyone stayed away but I know it's still a sore subject years later.
pineapple / 12053 posts
Nope. We got married in a off the beaten path kinda travel place so no randoms. I did give an old friend a plus one because she had a BF, but then they broke up and she asked if she could bring another old mutual friend of ours and I said yes because otherwise she wouldn't have known many people.
pineapple / 12566 posts
No, but there were only 7 of us (DH and I included!) and we didn't tell many people we were getting married, so we sorta eloped.
wonderful pea / 17279 posts
No, we had a very small wedding- 14 total including us. My aunt threatened to bring her husband and I not so kindly told my mom to remind her my aunt was her plus one.
honeydew / 7504 posts
Not for the reception, but one of my bridesmaids' mothers showed up at the wedding ceremony. I realize the ceremony is not invitation only, so technically anyone can show up, but it was so awkward. The parents of all my other bridesmaids were invited, but I have a long-standing history of issues with this woman, so we did not invite her. We dismissed our guests by row (rather than do a reception line), and I was furious to reach that row and there she was. Luckily she did not try to come to the reception.
pomegranate / 3768 posts
No way. I would have been pissed if anyone brought any uninvited guests. Weddings are expensive!
pomegranate / 3350 posts
Not really but one couple refused to come unless we allowed them to bring their kids. We only didn't invite the kids because there wasn't enough space for everyone to bring them. This was DH's family so we said ok but I felt bad for not inviting friends kids.
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