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While many disastrous scenarios inevitably run through your mind before the big day arrives, one of these is probably not someone objecting to you and your fiancé's union. But thanks to a recent thread on Reddit, it seems that what we long thought of as a rhetorical question isn't so rhetorical after all. At least, not according to these people.

On the Ask Reddit page, OneInAZillion asked the community this question: "Redditors who have objected at weddings or seen someone object, what happened in the next 5 minutes?" Surprisingly, a good number of people had a harrowing story to tell. But before you read on and get worked up by the (slim) possibility that this may happen on your own wedding day, keep this professional's comment in mind. "As a measurement as to how often this happens: I work weddings and have attending somewhere north of 300 weddings," Star_Tropic wrote on the thread. "I have never seen nor heard of this happening at any event I have worked. Nor have I heard of other industry professionals that I'm in contact with experience it."

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Now that you're feeling calmer, here are a few of the most cringeworthy stories we found.

"When the pastor got to the part 'or forever hold your peace,' the bride said, 'Yes, I'd like to say something.' Then she turned around to her guests and said, 'I'd like to thank my maid of honor for sleeping with my fiancé last night.' With that, she threw her bouquet and stormed off. The story even made it on the radio at the time." -PTSDPillowGuy

"I was a waiter for a venue that had a lot of weddings. We typically watched the wedding ourselves from the second floor and waited for everyone to come up for the reception. A guest for the wedding arrived a few hours early, so he sat in the restaurant and had a few too many drinks. He yelled, 'DON'T F*CKING DO IT (bride's name here). HE'S AN A**HOLE.' There was the typical gasp by the crowd, then it was just silence as people from the bar escorted him out." -ParoxysmAttack

"I was at a college buddy's wedding when a drunken childhood friend of the bride tried to stand up and profess his love for her. The bride's father immediately stood up and tried to haul off said drunken guy by the ear, except he was so pissed he pulled too hard and partially severed the guy's ear... The dude screamed like a small girl [and] a few people even applauded." -ilickvarts

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