How about some humor- Worst wedding you've ever been to!

I once went to a wedding where the “bar” had box wine that you had to “pour” yourself. So basically, they had the box hanging over the edge of the table, you put your clear plastic cup under it, and pushed in the little button to dispense the wine. No bar tender. Nothing. It was... odd lol.

I was a bridesmaid in a wedding in Aug once. it was about 100 degrees and the bride had us in full length thick ballgowns and the ceremony was outside under the sun during the hottest part of the afternoon, and i had just had surgery on my face the week before due to an injury and was still recovering. i almost fainted standing up there. i felt so ill afterwards, i don't even remember the reception!

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That sounds like my Saturday night, lol!!!!

To answer the question: Anytime I have to drive into Minneapolis or St Paul and pay to park then walk three blocks to get there. I don't mind paying for a drink at the wedding, but could you please pick a venue where people can park for free?

A time where there was not enough seats, people had to stand and eat.

Back in the 70's "kidnapping the bride" used to be a thing - No, don't take me away from the wedding I planned but thanks for asking.

Man, y'all have been to some bad weddings. I can definitely say there have been some weddings where I wasn't super impressed but nothing to where I felt like I just wasted my whole night this was awful. The one thing that made me upset about a most recent wedding I went to is that it was really difficult to see. The ceremony and the reception where in the same space and so you watched the ceremony at a circular table. It wasn't the end of the world, but it was still not very impressive. There also wasn't a circumstance of weather or anything... so it was just different.

My cousin’s destination wedding on a Thursday, also the night before my birthday. There was some family drama between her and my grandma that basically exploded. Oh, and there was open seating too (which is not good when half of the family doesn’t get along).

Luckily, I have not been to many awful weddings. However my least favorite wedding did not have enough food and had the worst DJ ever! No one was dancing the entire night which is so unusual for my crowd. It definitely reaffirmed how important a DJ is!

Two weddings stand out to me. The first was my cousins. I was in the wedding, middle of June hot as can be in a big bright red ballgown. Got motion sick from sitting sideways in the limo (first time riding in one). The bride got drunk and hit her head on the dance floor when she fell over. The groom punched one his best men in the face. The second was a year ago at my FH's cousin's wedding. We traveled 17 hours in a car to get there. Once we get to the ceremony venue it's outside. Again super hot outside, no water but FH's relatives had plenty of beer. I ended up getting sunburned on my shoulders, because the bride was an hour and 45 mins late to the ceremony. Get to the hotel to check in before the reception, I am starving so I made a sandwich because I didn't know what time dinner would start because the invite didn't say. Go to cocktail hour, they have no food at all out. Finally they make their entrance. They serve a salad with dressing on it, can't eat it because it's an Italian vinaigrette not my cup of tea. So still hungry. Finally dinner is served, I had prime rib it was good but super dry, no sauce; my FH's nieces didn't like their mac'n'cheese so they gave me a cup. I literally put it on top of my steak so I can eat it. During this time I finished my glass of water on the table they never brought out any water. When I went up the bar everything was a cash bar. When they served dessert they had no coffee or anything unless you paid for it. To top it off we got no thank you card after the wedding and FH gave a money gift.

View Quoted Comment One of the rooms at our venue was set up like this and I wanted to like it because the space was beautiful (and less expensive lol), but I couldn’t help but worry about how at least one or two guests at each table would have to turn their chair completely around in order to see. Was definitely a dealbreaker

We went to a wedding for my FW's coworker and it was unpleasant to say the least. To start off, they sent invitations that indicated that it was BYOB. There was no RSVP card or wedding website, so my FW contacted the couple to see how we should RSVP. They said we didn't need to. Okay...? They had it on their family farm. I have nothing against rustic weddings, but this was beyond. The grass in the ceremony area was awkwardly high and they didn't spray for bugs so everyone was getting eaten alive while we sat in the 90 degree heat. My FW is also super allergic to bees and they were everywhere. Ugh. Then we had to carry our own seats into the reception barn (garage??) It had a gravel floor and was pretty unpleasant with heels. Their dinner was spaghetti, which is great, but it was literally spaghetti noodles with marina sauce, that's it. The bride and groom took so long to join the reception that the caterers had actually started tearing down the buffet before they got there. I suppose this was wrong on both the caterer and the couple. They had a "dessert bar" but it was gone before the cake cutting and we didn't get any dessert. Not a huge deal. Then when speeches started, they decided to pass the mic to every drunk relative that was there. It took probably 45 minutes to get through them all. Then they did a money dance. Okay...I think that's all.

So the wedding that comes to mind actually wasn’t that bad, it just had some “interesting” aspects. The way the venue was, you walked into the bathroom but it had stairs you had to go up to be able to pee. I enjoyed the open bar, so this was a little bit of a challenge and all of the old ladies were using the one handicap stall. The other “interesting” part was just for me-i have to eat gluten free and they did a great job of trying to accommodate me (no complaints about that!), but their attempt was to give me French onion soup without the bread and cheese, so just onion broth. Again, kudos for trying, but I was STARVING and enjoying my alcohol so I was a little flabbergasted 😉. It was a gorgeous wedding though!

Wow that does sound bad. I've never really went to a bad wedding. I was only miffed by one where she split everyone up in terms of seating. So if you came with your family like me (my parents,me and my brother) she split me and my bro into separate tables and my parents at another table. It was based on age range apparently. I know people do kid tables but that was kind of ridic. No one followed her table assignments.

I went to a wedding where the bride wanted us to provide food for 150+ people. (It was potluck) we did go and opted to give them a nice gift rather than provide food and just eat before. I ended up feeling so bad for her. Out of the 150 that said they were coming 20 showed up. There was no dj and not a ton of food. Everything was super unplanned and you could tell she was not happy. It made us feel so awkward being there.

Let me start by saying I absolutely adore these people and even if the wedding wasn’t to my taste, their ceremony had me tearing up and I was happy to be there.

Aesthetic only, the worst wedding I went to:

Was a slum looking bar with boarded up windows and graffiti.
The ceremony space was in a “church” the size of a closet with no heat.
“Cocktail hour” was inside a gift shop with people hustling us to buy stuff.
It was winter, pouring down rain and muddy.
The reception was going to be a an outdoor space next to the bar...IN WINTER. The tables looked lovely, though.
Because of the rain they moved the reception inside the bar. There were patrons there staring at us.
The food was cold and not enough for everyone to eat.
Bar was “out of” everything to make any cocktails, also out of most bottled beverages. Canned beer it is.

Despite all of that, I felt honored to be part of their day and witness their vows, but that was the worst guest experience I’ve had.

It wasnt a bad wedding, a little disorganized maybe...coworkers of my DHs, now friends of mine as well. But they forgot to put our invite in the mail after weeks of telling us they'd get it. DH was a GM in this wedding btw.
I wasnt invited to the rehearsal dinner which ended up being ok, h didnt make it to it because of his work schedule.
They just told him to show up like 20 minutes before the wedding. I'm not sure they ever did too many wedding party photos at any point! We went to find the groom when we got there so H could ask where he needed to be, but the groom had just gotten back because he had to make the like 30 minute drive home to get the escort cards. The centerpieces weren't all finished either, not a big deal.
Ceremony and reception held in the same room so guests were seated at the dinner tables, which was fine until one of the girls at my table decided she needed super blurry zoomed in photos of the ceremony and kept her phone in the air the whole time.
Said guest was also caught stealing toilet paper and tampons from the venue....she's an entirely different story though.
I was also less than impressed with the music selection. They didn't play a single slow song for guests to dance to until like 9:30p! Plus some rap music that was just not really wedding appropriate.

I haven’t been to many weddings. The last was was nice just very cramped and the DJ didn’t announce when things were happening so it was hard to figure that out - and we were the last table to go up and they had run out of some of the food.

T he worst was a wedding where my ex was a groomsman - I hung out with the bride and groom a handful of times - he didn’t want to dance at all with me (no surprise he’s an ex) and I sat alone all night at their dedicated singles table (awkward). The wedding was in a museum and the ceremony was rushed and you couldn’t hear, dinner was inedible slip of Mexican food, which how do you mess that up?! and there was no bar - just water. The bride and groom even left 3 hours (found out after we left) before the end of the party and cut the cake without telling anyone! So it was a surprise when the DJ announced cake was being served and then we had to leave. Horrible mess and not worth my time going. Ended up going downtown to a few bars by myself after for food and drinks.

Wow a lot of these are way worse than my bad wedding experience. I've been to a lot of weddings as a child, and can't remember specific details about them.. but this one for a distant 3rd cousin last year was a miss for me. First of all, the ceremony was perfect. Super beautiful venue. Comfortable seating outside with perfect weather. The ceremony was just the right length, all very nice. Then we went to cocktail "hour" which ended up being very long.. It was clear that they didn't do any pictures before hand which is fine, but I just don't like extra long cocktail hours. I think they get boring and you can only chat for so long.

The worst part is that they didn't serve any booze until AFTER dinner. So we had a 2+ hour cocktail time with only lemonade and water. For dinner they had a pasta bar catered by Hyvee which was delicious but I would have loved to have some wine with it.. When they did open the bar everyone went to get a drink FINALLY. The line was super long and congested since we were waiting for so long! Also all they had for beer options was palm breeze and bush light.. that's it for alcohol. Dinner was great, dancing was fine, but the wedding ended at 9pm. It was still light outside?! To me, that's way too early.. Once dinner was over it was only like 2 hours to really enjoy drinking, socializing and dancing. We drove like 6 hours to have a good time and 9pm was not enough. Overall, it fell short for me.

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Thats bad haha We are doing a DIY bar technically (we have bartenders but provide all the alcohol and mixers) and that was my thing I told FH he wanted to do cheap alcohol to save money. I was like uhm no.... We can do some cheap some higher end to give everyone a mix of choices!

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This venue reminds me so much of a place where I grew up called AOH (Ancient Order of the Hibernians) They had a hall type thing in the back but when you went to use the restrooms there weren't stairs but there were ramps that you had to walk up. It was so strange lol

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Awe thats sad :/ I hate to say it but sometimes people just can't afford weddings and they need to understand that. Its too hard to rely on people to bring stuff like this to your wedding.

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This gives me such anxiety. I hope my DJ does good. our wedding is a DW so I never got to meet my DJ in person. He had very high reviews and seems to be great via email communications but still a little nerve racking.