I once worked with a caterer who told this story. I always believed him because he just wasn’t the sort to make up tall tales. He was working for a caterer in Kent on a big Saturday night wedding reception. There was a giant ice carving on one side of the dance floor and a large, 3 tier cake on the opposite side of the dance floor. The ice carving had not been properly secured… it was a little shaky and eventuall fell forward, crashing onto the floor with enough force to slide completely across the smooth dance floor, into the cake table taking the legs out, causing the cake to crash on top of the ice carving in. Sure wish I had video of that one.

I deejayed a wedding reception where the bridesmaid got really drunk before time for her toast. The bride was friends with a woman who was a well known personality of a morning show on local radio. The bridesmaid had met ‘Vicki’, the radio announcer, at a couple of parties leading up to the wedding day. It appraently was very important to the bridesmaid to let everyone at the reception know that the bride was friends with somebody who talks on the radio. She told everybody that Vicki had been to the brides apartment, been to the mall with her, had ridden in a car with her, had shown them her dog, and had been to two parties in honor of the bride. Vicki’s name was mentioned at least 20 times in a toast that painfully rambled on for over 5 minutes. Before being led away by one of the goomsmen, she let everybody know what an honor it was to “be the bridesmaid for somebody so special that somebody as famous as ‘Vicki’ would care about her.”

There’s a banquet hall here that puts out a gourmet coffee station. On it are little chocolate cups filled with Bailey’s Irish Cream and others filled with Kalua. At one wedding reception, nobody was paying any attention to the coffee station, except two boys about 9 or 10 years old. They drank every single one of them. About 15 or 20 each. Talk about some hyperactive kids!

At one wedding reception I deejayed, the bride and groom didn’t get there until at least an hour after most of the guests had arrived. The wedding coordinator asked the bride if she was ready to do her first dance. She said yes and then turned around. Suddenly it became clear what had delayed their arrival. Her dress had about 30 buttons going down the back and they were all off by about 4. It took the coordinator 20 minutes to get her ready for that first dance.