Wedding Planners Are Sharing Their "Bride Must Never Know" Stories And I'm Clutching My Bouquet

Ignorance is bliss.

As beautiful as they can be, weddings are often very stressful ordeals! There's the menu, the seating arrangement, the dress, the COST! So many things to worry about.

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Thankfully, there are glorious angels sent down from above who disguise themselves as wedding planners to handle all the stress that comes with weddings.

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However, as equipped as these humans are, even wedding planners have had to deal with some shit that have left their feathers ruffled.

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Recently, Reddit user waytoomanyfandoms asked the wedding planners of Reddit what their best "bride must never know stories" are. Lemme tell ya, these tales are something else.

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Here are some of the most wild stories:

1. The time when the groom forgot the rings:

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"The groom forgot the rings so one of the groomsmen was sent in a taxi to retrieve them and they were handed to the best man as the bride was walking down the aisle."

—glastonbury13

2. The time when the caterer was fired for being high:

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"The bride and groom were delayed getting introduced at the reception. The bride thinks it’s because we were letting people get seated, but really it was because her father-in-law was running around setting up their cupcakes because the catering company had to fire an employee on the spot for being high."

—smellykellyx3

3. The time when the dates got messed up:

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"I am a wedding planner who just got married this past month. I messed up the date on my own wedding day. Yup, I do this for a living and I missed that the date was wrong on MONTHS of emails. My cake was delivered to the venue the day before my wedding. Moral of the story: never be your own client."

—HeyItsTheShanster

4. The time when the cake fell apart:

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"The cake people decided the best way to hold together a three-tier wedding cake was by using bendy straws instead of metal rods as supports in the cake. BENDY STRAWS. This wasn't even a small, podunk operation. It was a local chain company that many people have used and recommended. One of the cake tiers slid off and the bakers had already left the venue, so the wonderful catering company and venue staff did their best to put it back together and used extra roses to hide the damage."

—MrSunshoes

5. The time when the wedding planner had to tackle the mother of the bride:

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"Even though the mother of the bride had been uninvited, the horrid beast still showed up. She was stomping up the hallway, wearing — I kid you not — a wedding dress. She didn't even make it to the reception hallway. The WEDDING PLANNER JUMPED HER LIKE A SECRET SERVICE AGENT! I don't even know where he came from. One moment, mean lady, next moment, wedding planner silent-ninja strike! He dragged her out so fast that us maids and the groomsmen didn't even have time to even gasp. To this day, the bride and groom don't know."

6. The time when the flowers froze:

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"The wedding was in the middle of winter and not in our town, so we picked up the flowers the night before and left them in buckets of water. I didn't realize this, but temperatures that night dropped to -12°C! The next morning when I went to retrieve the flowers, they were frozen solid in their buckets. Luckily, when I got to the venue, the wedding planner grabbed every available hair dryer and had me, my father, and himself defrosting the flowers before the wedding. To this day, my wife still doesn't know."

—criminalsunrise

7. The time when grandpa went missing:

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"The bride's grandfather wasn’t there for the ceremony. He got lost after insisting he knew the way and didn’t need to follow anyone from the hotel and ended up not making it in time. He made it for the reception and the bride never noticed his absence in the audience during the vows."

—kaybeaner

8. The time when there was a typo on the invitations:

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"The save-the-dates and invitations were very intricate and time-consuming. I was so focused on them looking good that I didn't notice that the bride's name was misspelled on over 60 of the STDs. Luckily, I caught it and fixed it before I sent them out!"

—TechniChara

9. The time when grandpa got sick:

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"Our grandfather had a mild stroke right in the middle of the vows. He's usually pretty loud and a touch belligerent, but it became obvious something wasn't right while we were having the formal photos done. With barely a word, the wedding planner booked a taxi for my parents to take him to the hospital nearby to have him checked over quickly, promising to keep an eye on us kids. Gramps ended up being just fine, and even jokes that it was the only way of getting out of giving a speech. The whole situation was dealt with with such professionalism and care, and made what could have been a nightmare so much less stressful."

—SevasaurusRex

10. The time when the guest wanted a plus one:

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"The night before the wedding, a guest asked if he could bring his girlfriend. So, the night before and the day of, I moved around the seating plan and ordered an extra plate of food. It ended up being all for nothing because neither of them showed up."

—half-past-shoe

11. The time when the brides had the same dress:

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"Back in 2006, I worked at a large venue in a major city that had upwards of five weddings a night. One night, all four brides were wearing the exact same dress from David's Bridal — the popular one with the apple red trim. Two of the brides didn't care, but the other two brides were upset that the other one was wearing their dress, so I spent most of the evening making sure they didn't run into one another."

—mrsproffessormdesq

12. The time when the groomsman was late:

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"One of the groomsmen — who also happened to be walking the bride down the aisle — couldn't get out of work the day of the wedding. He ended up arriving 15 minutes before the ceremony and the bride was none the wiser."

—Genghis_Chong

13. The time when the groomsman was missing:

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"The groom was an hour and a half late to the wedding because the best man got drunk and passed out the night before and was nowhere to be found."

—geckosrus

Do you have any stressful wedding stories? Let us know in the comments below!