Bachelor Party Horror Stories — There’s A Good Reason The Wedding Is Off

Stripper Fun

"Bachelor party in Vegas.. Bachelor hooks up with a girl, gives her his cell phone number so they can continue the party that night.. Bride to be is sitting at home with the iPad getting all of the iMessages from the girl. She canceled the wedding that day."

Mixed Company

"The bachelor party and the bachelorette party were being held in the same hotel in New Orleans (I tried to get them to do separate venues but nooooo. the group discount would cover an extra day in Carmel.) They begin at 8pm and collide drunkenly at about 3am. It was some kind of drunken fistfight-cum-orgy and everyone was so ashamed the next morning they called it off. Good News Everyone! They made up 6 months later and got married. They picked something simple, like their back yard this time."

Anchorman Style

"My cousin runs a popular upscale marriage venue and always tells the story way better than this so here is a rough overview. The groom's mom was a heavy drinker and got belligerent when she drank so understandably the bride wanted the groom to try to limit her drinking. The afternoon before the wedding the bride arrives to see groom's mom smashed with the groom himself giving her beers. Next thing my cousin knows (she was there to oversee preparations) the bride and groom are in a straight up fist fight which leads to an Anchorman-style street fight between members of both families in the parking lot.

"Apparently they recently scheduled a new day for it. I can't imagine the tension there."

Wedding To Funeral

"I used to work at an upscale wedding venue. Two weeks before a huge, expensive wedding, the groom's father dies, so they ask us to turn the wedding into a funeral instead.

"They were a lovely couple, and it was really awfully sad when it happened, but I still use it as my go-to answer for ‘describe a time when you delivered outstanding customer service' type questions in job interviews."

The Wedding Lie

"Friend invites me to his wedding. He and fiance are fairly poor, have lived together for years.

"They're both semi-disabled (his is PTSD, hers is physical) and on fixed incomes, and live in a somewhat expensive area.

"They have three gift registries (Target, Macy's, Crate & Barrel) and a HUGE invite list over 300 friends/family members. All the stuff on the registries is standard stuff like towels, coffee cups, flatware, etc.

"Anyway, people fly out, get ready for wedding, two days before wedding is Bachelor party and friend gets drunk and admits that she's not really his fiance, they are just roommates and they have no intention of getting married they just needed the stuff. They're going to cancel the wedding tomorrow and keep all the gifts."

"Had to protect him from getting his ass kicked by about two dozen people. Then had to have the fiance come clean to everyone since he was too hungover.

"They ended up returning most of the gifts to people but a surprising number of people let them keep the gifts. As his grandfather said, ‘If you needed these things that badly to lie like this, you must have been very desperate.'"

Some Alone Time

"A female childhood friend was going to get married. All was well, these two people have been together for a long time. They are like two peas in a pod, they live their lives together, great communication skills. Two nights before dude gets drunk and feels like they need to ‘unburden' themselves of any potential baggage. She agrees.

"Apparently within four or five seconds of sitting down the guy tells my friend that he hasn't been seeing a therapist twice a month, but that instead he had been going out for two hours twice a month for some alone time. She doesn't like being lied to, but she says okay. He then continues this by saying that he met a woman one day at a bar and they've been having a ‘physical not emotional relationship, but I cut it off last month because I knew it was time to grow up and take our relationship seriously'.

"They had been together for a long, long time. She dropped his ass right then and there. Couldn't hardly blame her over some st like that."

Secret Life

"Not bachelor party related, but close. Girl was set to marry guy. The week leading up to the wedding, guy gets busted in a child prostitution ring. He said he didn't know she was underage and that he was under a lot of stress due to the wedding. Girl, didn't buy the BS. Needless to say, wedding was off."

Last Minute Murder

"In the early 90's my friend's brother was getting married. The night before the groom and best man decided they should kill the ex-boyfriend of the bride. They did, they got caught, and the wedding was cancelled for obvious reasons.

"As far as I know, the two are still serving time."

Trashy Bride

"A week before his wedding a friend of mine walked in on his dad having sex with his fiancée. The next day in a fit of rage he trashed their room and in the process found explicit love letters between his recently married best friend (and best man) in her underwear drawer. The letters were as recent as the past week. The wedding was cancelled. Whenever I ran into him at a bar I made sure he never had to buy his own drinks."

Addicted Bride

"The day of the wedding the bridesmaids discovered a bunch of heroin and syringes in the bride's bag. Groom was pissed, called off the wedding an hour before it was set to happen, but still let us enjoy the food and bar that had already been paid for at the venue. He dodged a bullet and I got drunk for free. Win-win."