I've attended a lot of weddings thanks to the fact that I worked as a waiter throughout my university days to earn some pennies to ease the burden on my parents, and via that, I've attended countless parties during my undergraduate days. On one of those weekends when there was no gig, I and my friends decided to gatecrash a wedding ceremony happening close to our hostel, and our act at the event almost wrecked the wedding.
So my friends and I were used to having food in surplus at home, especially during weekends due to those parties we worked as waiters, but when that weekend seemed as though it was going to be boring without a job or food, we set out to look for which party was holding around us, and via our search, we discovered a wedding was holding not too far from our house.
As an experienced waiter, I know getting food from other waiters won't be easy, especially when you're gatecrashing and weren't invited, so another thing we took note of before returning home to prepare for the wedding was to identify the color of dress everyone wears at the event. Luckily, it was white, and most of my friends have white native attire, so we went home to get set for the party.
When we were done preparing and set out for the wedding, we all looked unique and mature in our matching white attire, to the point where we were Warmly welcomed by the bride's mother, who then took us to a table and instructed a waiter to serve us whatever we wanted. Luckily, our goals were already working because the plan was to be mistaken for some expected guest, and that was exactly how it worked out.
We had enough to eat and even collected more in our waterproof nylon to take home to feast on later. Apparently, we were mistaken for the groom's family, who came late to the party, and by the time they arrived, there wasn't enough food to go around for them, which led to misunderstandings between the groom's and the bride's families. I guess both families already had an agreement that the other family would do the cooking since the groom's family is coming from afar.
The argument was going overboard, and we can literally hear what they were saying. During their conversation, they even pointed towards us as part of the Groom's family that they've served. Realizing what we've caused, we immediately leave the place one after the other before we'll approached and questioned about who we are and the like.
Although that day we got home and laughed about what we'd done and how lucky we were, reflecting on it now, I felt bad and wished I could turn back the hand of time because I knew that would have caused a lot of damage Between both families.
That's about all I can say about my experience at a wedding that almost went Wrong, and it was written in response to a Hive Naija community prompt. You can read this post to get more information.
Thanks so much, have a blessed day ahead.