Blake Lively's burnt dress, Princess Diana's spilled perfume and more celebrity wedding disasters

After tying the knot in 2012, Blak Lively accidentally burnt a hole in her Marchesa wedding dress with a sparkler during their reception. "Florence Welch was singing and they brought out these sparklers, and I'm watching her sing," Blake explained in an interview with Vogue in 2014. "I look down and my wedding dress has a big burn mark from one of the sparklers. Right on the front." But the show must, and did, go on.

Good Charlotte star Benji Madden reportedly dropped his ring when exchanging with Cameron Diaz. Luckily, their guests found it hilarious, and the couple wound up laughing, too.

If Andrea McLean's wedding with Nick Feeney has taught us anything, it's to not make a joke out of the wedding objections. On Loose Women, the TV presenter recalled the moment their guest, celebrity photographer Nicky Johnson, accidentally halted the vows with his joke. 

The mother-of-two told her fellow panellists: "It isn’t a joke this whole objection thing. Nicky Johnson, I'm going to out you again. He was not only the photographer at the wedding but he was a witness, and he objected in a jokey fashion at my wedding.

"The whole grounds were holt and the registrar said: 'Stop the ceremony. It's a legally binding ceremony and you have objected.'" Andrea went on to say: "It all got very edgy and there was a bit of awkward tumbleweed. He was told even though he was joking, he was still objecting the ceremony."

Rumour has it that Princess Diana was ready to walk down the aisle in 1981 when she accidentally spilt her perfume, Quelques Fleurs, down the front of her puff-sleeve wedding dress, which stained the fabric.

According to her makeup artist Barbara Daly in the book Diana: The Portrait, she attempted to clean the dress to no avail, so Diana hid the mishap by placing her hand on that part of the fabric as though she was holding up the front of her dress to walk.

However, her wedding dress designer Elizabeth Emanuel exclusively told HELLO! she had contingencies in place for this very scenario. "We made an overskirt in case anything was spilt down in front of the dress and we had a parasol made in case it rains."

When Jessica and Eric married in July 2014, Jessica was so nervous that she ended up calling Eric Jessica. Apparently, the slip-up happened more than once, but she eventually made it through…

Her late Majesty, then Princess Elizabeth, looked beautiful in a Sir Norman Hartnell wedding dress and Queen Mary's Fringe Tiara when she married Prince Phillip in 1947 – but she was left "alarmed" over a last-minute mishap with her headpiece.

While attending an exhibition of Princess Kate's wedding dress in 2018, she admitted: "The catch, which I didn't know existed, it suddenly went. And I didn’t know it was a necklace, you see… I thought I'd broken it… We stuck it all together again, but I was rather alarmed."