Bride and Groom Are Furious After Wedding Guest Orders Pizza and Wings to the Reception When Food Runs Out

Calculating how much food and how many drinks you'll need at your wedding can be difficult to nail. At one such event, which a guest discussed in detail on Reddit's subreddit “Am I The A------?" on July 27, 2024, the bride and groom served an insufficient amount of food, so not everyone was able to grab a bite. Instead of spending the rest of the celebration with a rumbling stomach, one of the guests took matters into his own hands by ordering pizza and wings to the reception, which the bride and groom weren't too happy about. Now, the attendee is second-guessing his decision and asking the internet for their thoughts.

In his post, the Redditor explained that he and his wife were invited to his friend’s nuptials, along with 70 other people who he says were “mostly family.” After the ceremony, the couple took their seats at the reception, where they were greeted with two bottles of wine and bread and butter at their table. "Then the food came out, it looked really good, the food was setup for buffet," he recalled. "I was half buzzed and looking forward to getting some food in my belly.”

Drunkenly awaiting his turn as the other tables before him were called up, the man noticed the family of the bride reaching for large helpings and even going back for seconds. Assuming there was enough food to go around, the man brushed it off. Once it was his table's turn to make a plate, however, most of the food was gone. “To my surprise by the time we were called there was nothing left, I asked if there was more coming out and apparently that already occurred," he continued. "So We grabbed the little we could and went back to sit down and ate the scraps. We were all still pretty hungry, and a bit pissed off so we kinda bashed talked that the first few tables ate all the food."

During the conversation, someone mentioned they could go for pizza, and shortly after, the guest put in an order. "So that is what we did, we all pitched in and ordered 4 large pizzas and some chicken wings from a local pizza joint close to the venue so it didn't take long to be delivered," the Redditor shared. The hungry guest said he proceeded to take the pizza order back to his table and eat. Other guests began to inquire about the pizza, and the group shared with their starved counterparts. Eventually, word spread to the bride and groom, who were extremely displeased with the guest. They pulled him to the side to discuss the situation.

Things escalated even more once the guest denied the father of the bride a slice. According to his post, he told the bride's father, "No, you and everyone at your tables had way more then your fare share of the buffet, and ate all of it. This is the reason we ordered food in the first place. And now you have the nerve to ask us to share." The father of the bride's face "went red," and the bride was "even more ticked off." Eventually, the groom asked the guest to leave. 

After the wedding, the two friends met up to rehash the happening, and the groom agreed that his in-laws were in the wrong. “He brought this up with his wife, and she said that apparently because the in-laws paid for the alcohol and the food they felt entitled to eat what they wanted, she was really mad at them, and reamed them out for tainting her special day," the Redditor wrote. "He also said alot of the other non-family guests started to leave soon after we left because they too were hungry. They still had fun celebrating but it did kinda put a downer on their special day. Out of 70 ppl about 30 left."

In an edited message beneath his original post, the Redditor said the father of the bride was planning to host an "After Wedding Shing Ding" with all 70 of the guests to make up for the food debacle. “He also wanted to personally let me know that there will be 50 large pizzas from the same joint I ordered from, that is his way of adding some humor to the situation, I think its pretty funny,” the wedding guest added.

Reddit, however, wasn't letting the food dilemma slide. Among the 3,300 comments, most agreed that the bride's family was in the wrong. “No, for a wedding buffet always order more than what’s needed,” one person commented. “The in laws ATAH. You could have handled it better with the pizza but half the freaking people there didn’t get food, that sounds like more than a ‘big people got seconds’ problem.” Others agreed. “NTA,” another user decided. “There is no reason other tables should've had seconds before you had firsts. I can understand miscalculating how much food would be needed, but they didn't even try to triage.”