Most newlywed couples look forward to their honeymoon. Finally, after months of busy wedding planning, they get to spend uninterrupted time together to celebrate their marriage.
But while many honeymoons are unforgettable, some go the opposite way. Arguments, excessive drinking, embarrassing mishaps, and questionable decisions can turn a supposed romantic escape into moments the people involved would rather keep to themselves.
Unfortunately for them, employees at their chosen romantic getaway destination may also witness their (mis)adventures and share those stories online. These accounts are both pleasant and otherwise, so be ready for quite a reading experience.
#21
I used to work at Yellowstone and the worst story I heard about, which happened a few years before I worked there, was a newlywed couple from Utah who wanted to get a photo near the upper falls. They climbed over the protective railing to get the shot and she fell over. It is discussed in the book, D***h in Yellowstone.
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#22
We rent out holiday homes on a weekly basis. That Saturday, the family that rented one of them didn't show up, though they paid the 3000 euros up front. No phone call or message to warn us of any delay. We tried calling them, no reply. In the end we concluded they must have had an accident on the way.
2 days and various attempts at contact from us later, I get a very embarrassed phone call: it turns out they were at their own wedding feast when they were supposed to arrive, in their home country 1000 km from there. They passed out at 5 am, slept through the next day and only found our messages the following evening.
The whole party just assumed someone else had told us they planned to arrive 2 days too late.
I'm glad they turned out to be just wed rather than d**d, but who the f**k goes on honeymoon together with their parents and inlaws?
2 days and various attempts at contact from us later, I get a very embarrassed phone call: it turns out they were at their own wedding feast when they were supposed to arrive, in their home country 1000 km from there. They passed out at 5 am, slept through the next day and only found our messages the following evening.
The whole party just assumed someone else had told us they planned to arrive 2 days too late.
I'm glad they turned out to be just wed rather than d**d, but who the f**k goes on honeymoon together with their parents and inlaws?
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#23
I don't work in a honeymoon location but I have watched a wedding proposal fail. At a zoo in Australia a man payed to hold an owl and have the opportunity to propose to his girlfriend. The woman didn't even seem interested in the man and in the end there was no proposal. The whole thing was incredibly awkward to watch, knowing what was meant to happen.
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#24
One time we had a couple who had just gotten married spend their wedding night with us before they were to fly out the next day for their honeymoon. We made sure the room was perfect, even comping them some champagne! Then, at about 1:00am, we got several complaints from the surrounding rooms that they were screaming at each other. Not ecstatic, "yea, baby!" kind of screams. More like "Yea, go ahead and cry, you f****n b***h!" kind of screams.
So, our protocol in such a situation is to call the cops for a domestic dispute. Turns out the guy had punched through our wall. He was arrested, and she spent her wedding night alone. Great foundation for a marriage.
So, our protocol in such a situation is to call the cops for a domestic dispute. Turns out the guy had punched through our wall. He was arrested, and she spent her wedding night alone. Great foundation for a marriage.
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#25
My brother used to work at a big restaurant/resort that would often do weddings. One night they were hosting a large dinner party for all the guests after the wedding earlier that day. Of course at that point everyone was pretty wasted so the groom ended up getting into a fight with one of the bride's distant uncles. I kid you not, the uncle ended up biting off the grooms finger and swallowing it so he couldn't reattach it. Everyone was freaking out and the groomsmen ended up beating up the uncle until he puked back out the severed finger.
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#26
Not me, a friend, and he wasn't the worker but would have made for a s****y start to someone's day.
On his honeymoon in Italy and decided to drink from a fountain. Later that night/early next morning, explosive s***s all through the hotel bed. Woke up covered in his own filth.
Wifey did the good d**d and bundled up the filth-ridden sheets into a foul heap in the middle of the bed, left a 5 euro note atop the heap and they both crept out of the hotel for the day.
On his honeymoon in Italy and decided to drink from a fountain. Later that night/early next morning, explosive s***s all through the hotel bed. Woke up covered in his own filth.
Wifey did the good d**d and bundled up the filth-ridden sheets into a foul heap in the middle of the bed, left a 5 euro note atop the heap and they both crept out of the hotel for the day.
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#27
Ah I got one. I wasn't there but my wife her cousin was the bride.
So the grooms brother was middle aged and autistic. It was also known to a few insiders that in the past he had been in trouble of "inoperative interaction with children". The groom told the bride this in privacy a while ago but of course she relayed this to her entire family over time so everyone knew.
So the big day comes and a few drinks in the brother gets a bit too friendly with a few of the family children. Nothing horrific, just making the kids feel uncomfortable, touching of the shoulder.
I am not sure what he did but a gasket broke with one of the kids dads and a fight broke out. Both family's are completely divided one side stating that the guy is a changed man and was just being friendly. The other that the creep shouldn't be allowed near children.
Wedding ends and is a disaster.
So the grooms brother was middle aged and autistic. It was also known to a few insiders that in the past he had been in trouble of "inoperative interaction with children". The groom told the bride this in privacy a while ago but of course she relayed this to her entire family over time so everyone knew.
So the big day comes and a few drinks in the brother gets a bit too friendly with a few of the family children. Nothing horrific, just making the kids feel uncomfortable, touching of the shoulder.
I am not sure what he did but a gasket broke with one of the kids dads and a fight broke out. Both family's are completely divided one side stating that the guy is a changed man and was just being friendly. The other that the creep shouldn't be allowed near children.
Wedding ends and is a disaster.
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#28

Working in a big hotel, we had a honeymoon suite. One day, a small fire broke out in a housekeeping closet on the same floor as the honeymoon suite....fire alarms and sprinklers go off on that floor. Fire Dept responds within just a few minutes, and proceeds to put 10,000 gallons of water on the burning embers (hey, they use really big hoses). Now we have 6 inches of water on the floor, so we are sloshing around. In the meantime, we are manually checking all rooms to insure that people are safely evacuated....not from the fire (it is out), but from the water. Knock on the Honeymoon suite door, no answer, walk back through the living room into the bedroom of the suite, there are the honeymooners going at it full swing. Alarms, smoke, fire truck, and sprinklers did NOT slow them down. I made the decision to just allow them to keep on going....I knew that they were safe. Upon departure, they never said a word about the fire.
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#29

I went to a wedding that was very nice bride looked beautiful venue was nice. mid way through the evening the brides step mother did this weird jig dance. Thought maybe to much alcohol.
Then at speech time the father of the bride starts looking for his speech makes a show of it then goes oh there it is. In walks a s******r in lingerie with a rolled up speech in her hands holds her while he gives his speech.
The bride to her credit doesn't get upset gives her speech then says. Now that's how you give a speech and hands the microphone back to the father. As a parent now I can't imagine what sort of an arsehole would do that to there daughter.
Then at speech time the father of the bride starts looking for his speech makes a show of it then goes oh there it is. In walks a s******r in lingerie with a rolled up speech in her hands holds her while he gives his speech.
The bride to her credit doesn't get upset gives her speech then says. Now that's how you give a speech and hands the microphone back to the father. As a parent now I can't imagine what sort of an arsehole would do that to there daughter.
4points
#30
Almost story: My husband and I got married in a historic inn, very small wedding. We had a suite, and the wedding was held in the parlor. After the ceremony we had about an hour before dinner, so everyone else cleared out and my new husband and I just collapsed on the sofa in our wedding clothes, exhausted from the nerves and relieved we'd made it through. We were just going to chill until heading over to the restaurant.
Suddenly we hear a key in the door and it swings open with no knocking or anything. In come two hotel workers whose task it was to put the room back together (stuff was moved around for the ceremony) before we came back to spend the night. They jumped about a foot when they saw us and looked horrified. They thought, when they saw the 30 or so people leave, that we were among them, and assumed the room was empty. They realized they could have very easily walked in on us consummating the union.
I bet they knock in the future.
Suddenly we hear a key in the door and it swings open with no knocking or anything. In come two hotel workers whose task it was to put the room back together (stuff was moved around for the ceremony) before we came back to spend the night. They jumped about a foot when they saw us and looked horrified. They thought, when they saw the 30 or so people leave, that we were among them, and assumed the room was empty. They realized they could have very easily walked in on us consummating the union.
I bet they knock in the future.
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#31
Did valet at a hotel in the south. Wasn't necessarily a honeymoon hotspot as a resort, but for some people, they loved the thought of a wedding in Nashville, TN.
One day, a co-worker was walking the bride and her family into the hotel. Took them all the way to the top floor to the Presidential Suite. Out of all the rooms, this was obviously the best one.
As he is unloading their cart, he decides that the sprinkler on the wall is the best place to hang the wedding dress.
And the rest is history. Before long, the sprinklers went off and from the top floor a waterfall was raging into the lobby.
Miraculously, he kept his job through all of that.
One day, a co-worker was walking the bride and her family into the hotel. Took them all the way to the top floor to the Presidential Suite. Out of all the rooms, this was obviously the best one.
As he is unloading their cart, he decides that the sprinkler on the wall is the best place to hang the wedding dress.
And the rest is history. Before long, the sprinklers went off and from the top floor a waterfall was raging into the lobby.
Miraculously, he kept his job through all of that.
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#32
I was bartending a wedding with a friend of mine, Sam. Everyone was drinking and seemed to have a blast. At the end of the night, when everyone left, sam and I, went around to make sure everything was locked. When I asked him to check the last window, he went running outside saying there was a fight. I walked outside to find all the groomsmen holding back the groom and his cousin from fighting but no one seemed to notice the cousin's wife straddling the bride while repeatedly hitting her head and screaming that the bride is a s**t. The whole thing ended when the police arrived and sent everyone home. Sam and I still laugh about it to this day.
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#33

For the short period I worked at a hotel the only Honeymoon story I picked up was the following. A young couple checked in and they asked for a quiet discrete room, fair enough. We put them in a far corner and they appreciated it (it was also close to a guest exit, the type where guests can swipe a key to get in and out privately). They had the room for 8 days (Oh my God) and the first two days were fine. They would come by the restaurant for meals since they were included in the price, we'ed see them run off at all hours of the day or night to do what ever, and even housekeeping was given a break because 6 of the 8 nights they had the no turn-down sign up.
But here is where the story comes to a point. On the third day they were there a family, father, mother, two kids, checks in. They had a two bed room and the way we were set up the singles were on one side of the hall, the doubles on the other. The person checking them in put them across the hall from the honeymooners. Two days after that (four into the honeymoon) the honeymooners call the front desk because people were shouting and fighting in the hall and just outside the exit.
From what I gathered after the police had to come (They were NOT listening to the managers requests) the honeymooners were being rather loud in their room and the other couple, the one with the kids, had grown stressed over the noise but instead of asking them to quiet down or calling us and asking for a new room (One wanted to the other didn't? IDK) they just began fighting and fighting and fighting. The manager moved their room, comped them a night, then comped the honeymooners a night because of the fighting.
TL;DR Honeymooning couple is having such a good time it drove a family to the point of screaming and fighting. Manager had to call the cops to stop the fight and comped a night for both the newlyweds and the angry parents.
But here is where the story comes to a point. On the third day they were there a family, father, mother, two kids, checks in. They had a two bed room and the way we were set up the singles were on one side of the hall, the doubles on the other. The person checking them in put them across the hall from the honeymooners. Two days after that (four into the honeymoon) the honeymooners call the front desk because people were shouting and fighting in the hall and just outside the exit.
From what I gathered after the police had to come (They were NOT listening to the managers requests) the honeymooners were being rather loud in their room and the other couple, the one with the kids, had grown stressed over the noise but instead of asking them to quiet down or calling us and asking for a new room (One wanted to the other didn't? IDK) they just began fighting and fighting and fighting. The manager moved their room, comped them a night, then comped the honeymooners a night because of the fighting.
TL;DR Honeymooning couple is having such a good time it drove a family to the point of screaming and fighting. Manager had to call the cops to stop the fight and comped a night for both the newlyweds and the angry parents.
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#34
Not my idea of a honeymoon hotspot by far but when I worked in an ER it was kinda weird that on several occasions newlywed couples came in because the guy had a foreign object (ie. vib***or/d***o) stuck to far up his a*s and they couldn't get it out. It was always hilarious to us.
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#35
In high school I lived in a tourist town and worked at a video store. One night a Mennonite couple came in and mentioned they were on their honeymoon. They rented Anne of Green Gables.
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#36

I'm the evening maintenance at a resort and we get a call that a room has a lightbulb out, cool something to do.
So I hop on my one speed golf cart and make way to the room with lightbulb in hand. I arrive to said room and I knock on the door and announce "maintenance!" I hear a man say "come in!"
So I grab my key card, swipe myself in, lo-and-behold the hairiest Russian dude and his smoking hot wife jump from the bed buttoning up their drawers wide eyed as deer in the headlights.
I 180°, tractor beamed my eyeballs to the floor, apologized and waited outside of the door.
Hairy the Russian opens the door and instead of going in to change the bulb I said "here you go" Just handed it to him and high tailed it out of there.
After long thought I came to the conclusion he had said "coming" but I misheard behind all of his chest hair. And his accent.
So I hop on my one speed golf cart and make way to the room with lightbulb in hand. I arrive to said room and I knock on the door and announce "maintenance!" I hear a man say "come in!"
So I grab my key card, swipe myself in, lo-and-behold the hairiest Russian dude and his smoking hot wife jump from the bed buttoning up their drawers wide eyed as deer in the headlights.
I 180°, tractor beamed my eyeballs to the floor, apologized and waited outside of the door.
Hairy the Russian opens the door and instead of going in to change the bulb I said "here you go" Just handed it to him and high tailed it out of there.
After long thought I came to the conclusion he had said "coming" but I misheard behind all of his chest hair. And his accent.
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#37

A couple came into my camera shop during the old days of film, and explained that they were honeymooning, and were concerned that their roll of pictures of the honeymoon just kept going for some reason. Like way past the 36 frames. When I told them there was no film in the camera, the honeymoon ended right there for the poor husband whose job it was to load the camera. If looks could end.....
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#38

I worked at a resort on Vancouver island, we also rented houses to families, this one couple on their honeymoon rented a 3 story house in the summer. They looked like a normal pair of people but boy, was I wrong.
Checking the house a week later to make sure they left, the woman had stuck used tampons in the drains and smeared blood on the walls, there were holes in every door and most walls, tv was smashed.
Everything went wrong.
Edit: wow this is my biggest comment yet! Please don't gild me I use mobile it's a waste
Edit: we'll darn, I thought 600 up votes was good... 980 and rising! Yay.
Checking the house a week later to make sure they left, the woman had stuck used tampons in the drains and smeared blood on the walls, there were holes in every door and most walls, tv was smashed.
Everything went wrong.
Edit: wow this is my biggest comment yet! Please don't gild me I use mobile it's a waste
Edit: we'll darn, I thought 600 up votes was good... 980 and rising! Yay.
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#39

A while back in the long long ago I work at a 4 star hotel, a couple came in for their honeymoon but they forgot to bring in protection and they didn't have any in their rooms and the public toilet on the first floor was out, so the guy asked me voice where he could procure himself some contraception, I told him I would get him some. I went to the staff bathroom got 4 four 2$ (yes we get them cheaper) and brought them to him he was so glad he gave me 100$ for tip.
Edit: Lol getting gold for this, it wasn't anything beyond what was my responsibility at the hotel at the time.
Also, yes we do have protection dispensers in nice hotel where I'm from, might be some sort of regulation from the city or whatever and they are very nice looking with expensive stuff in them.
Edit: Lol getting gold for this, it wasn't anything beyond what was my responsibility at the hotel at the time.
Also, yes we do have protection dispensers in nice hotel where I'm from, might be some sort of regulation from the city or whatever and they are very nice looking with expensive stuff in them.
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#40

I work at a high-end couples retreat which honeymooners often come to. I guess you would say its a more on the "best" side of the stories as everytime this certain couple would come to breakfast/dinner the quite attractive girl would be ALWAYS wearing see-through tops with no bra, and when I took food to their rooms on multiple occasions the woman would open the door in her underwear or be undressed under the covers in her bed. Ive had a few drunken honeymooners invite me back to their room for "drinks" but ive never taken them up on the offer, I like to keep my job haha.
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