Ring toss
I’ve been a wedding vendor (hair and makeup) for over 10 years now and I can probably start my own subreddit with the stories that I have. One that comes to mind happened a little over a year ago.
My team and I were on location at the hotel where the bride was staying, getting her all done up for her reception event. She had a big gap between the ceremony and reception and opted for an entirely different hair and makeup look than her ceremony.
After we were done, we started packing up, at least my team members did. I typically stick around for any last minute touch ups. Big mistake. This bride’s husband walks in, they start chatting, she looks at his finger and asks where his ring is.
He said something along the lines that it didn’t fit right and he was afraid he would lose it.
This girl starts screaming, crying and shaking, saying things like, “if you don’t want to wear the ring then I’m not wearing mine either” and “what’s the point of being married — should just annul this wedding.” She takes off her ring and flings it at him.
The groom walks out. At this point, I didn’t know what to do — her makeup was running, I had to either leave quickly or stick around and clean her up — but she was like a ticking time bomb.
Her mom was in the room and went up to her to console her. She lashed out on her mom.
Finally, her father comes in and whispers a few things to her, calming her down. And then I was asked to fix her up. I did my job, and then ran the hell out of there before another meltdown occurred.
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