Today in New Jersey: Cops Shut Down Wedding After 300 Guests Brawl

[steve2470]

http://www.thewire.com/national/2014/07/today-in-new-jersey-cops-shut-down-wedding-after-300-guests-brawl/375224/

Here's how to turn an immaculately planned dream wedding into a nightmare: Start a brawl that spills out into the street, requires multiple police departments to quell, and prematurely ends the reception.

A wedding at Jacques Reception Center in Middletown, New Jersey, erupted into chaos Sunday night, when about 300 people got involved in a massive, violent, and loud brawl that ended with two people arrested. Though the reception center boasts "the warmth and charm of old world Rome," the guests may have confused the setting for Sparta, dining more in hell than in celebration, as neighbors in the area told police they could hear the screaming from three blocks away.

"As officers from Middletown were attempting to gain control of the situation, approximately 300 people became involved in the altercation which consisted of fighting, yelling and screaming and people refusing to leave the area and returned inside to the reception," Middletown Police Department spokesman Steve Dollinger said in a statement.

In a report from local broadcaster News 12, police said they were greatly outnumbered by the wedding guests and had to disperse the brawl.


I wonder who caught the bouquet

[BKH70041]

1. "If anyone knows of any reason these two should not be wed, let them speak now...."

We had that part left out of our wedding just in case.

[badtoworse]

2. I read a similar story many years ago that started in a related (to the bouquet) way.

It seems they did the thing where the guy that catches the bride's garter belt gets to put on the leg of the woman who caught the bouquet. Someone thought he put it up too far and a brawl ensued. The newspaper article said the cops just pulled the paddy wagon up to reception hall.

[Xyzse]

3. Is it odd, that I wish I was in that party?

[unblock]

4. love is in the air...

oh wait. new jersey. forgot.

[PowerToThePeople]

5. Obviously there was no gun owner/conceal carry at the wedding

Or there would have been people shot to death.

[pipi_k]

6. Big misunderstanding there.

It was just a dress rehearsal for the next 50 years or so of family dinners and holidays.