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

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I have a friend whose sister got married in the late 70's and her sister (the bride) and the groom were kidnapped and went to ride go-carts for hours. Guests were pissed and left and the Mom of Bride? Horrified and embarrassed. Going next door for a shot with the groomsmen? For ten minutes? Fine. Hours? No.

View Quoted Comment Oh my gosh hours??? Yeah I would be mad!

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Oh yes, and the bride and groom? They prided themselves on being the "fun and wacky" ones so they were like, "What was the problem??" It was a double wedding so maybe they thought no one would notice, lol??

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Omg! I just died reading this! That is freaking nuts! You definitely went above and beyond so kudos to you! You are a great friend. Sounds like that marriage was set up for failure from the get go. Hopefully your wedding is amazing you deserve it!!!!

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From your lips to every deity's ears!

I went to a wedding once in someone's front lawn! In a subdivision!

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You are my favorite person! You are killing me

The one that had the four hour gap (and no, not b/c they were Catholic but because they wanted that gap for photos at three locations), with the reception in a building that was being CONDEMNED by the city the next day (I didn't know they scheduled those?), with food that wasn't warm enough so they had all twelve attendants give a speech (surprise to them!) while someone was warming the food, only to have them run out of food anyways (I didn't get to eat).

Most weddings I have been to have been wonderful. However, there was another with an isolated incident where the photographer thought it was hilarious my 26 y/o boyfriend at the time was bald and decided to mock him and take close-up photos of his bald head at the reception. I felt this was so rude I wrote a negative review on yelp and the vendor emailed me directly to say I should cut her a break b/c her mother had been diagnosed with cancer the month before. No words.

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Wow. Why pay for a wedding if you don't want to actually attend

I was a wedding photographer for awhile so I've been to a good share of weddings. None of them were super terrible but I learned A LOT about what not to do when I got married one day.

1) Weddings in the middle of the summer and outside in Ohio with a long ceremony are a hard no. So hot and so humid. The one was so long I got sun burned and almost passed out because the bride wanted so many pictures and was so demanding we didn't have a second to take a sip of water to stay hydrated. This wedding convinced me to have a fall wedding at a place with nice weather AKA Vegas lol

2) One of the weddings was in this weird dark smelly dank old lodge type halls with club flags everywhere. The food was cold fried chicken, green beans that were so overcooked they were brown and baked beans. It was awful. And there was no alcohol and just a simple radio with some CD's that you could barely hear so everyone sat with their uneaten food bored out of their minds. Except for the groomsmen who kept going outside to smoke weed. They were having a ball. The couple wanted a huge wedding but couldn't afford it. You could tell. This wedding taught me to have a wedding that I could afford so we could make sure we at least had good food and a venue and alcohol and a DJ

3) One of them the bride had us show up at 7am and we didn't leave until after midnight. It was exhausting just photographing. I can't imagine how tired her and her bridal party were. The ceremony wasn't until 1 but they wanted pretty much every stereotypical pre wedding photo in every wedding movie that they had seen. They all looked tired for the ceremony and were dragging through the reception because they had all gotten to the venue even earlier than us. The guests were even exhausted because the ceremony lasted forever and then there was 2 hours of shooting after the ceremony so the reception didn't even start until around 5. I made sure we had a 4pm ceremony that was short and sweet with a reception directly after. Our reception was only 2 hours since we were in Vegas and we wanted our guests to enjoy the city instead of being stuck in a room. Everyone appreciated that so much.

4) One of the weddings was the reception of endless planned dances. You know the ones. The father daughter, mother son, bridal group etc. Like 1.5 hours of pre planned dances. So everyone was sitting there just watching other people dance. Meanwhile the bar was closed so people would pay attention to the dances. It was hard to watch. I could see the sheer boredom in all the faces. For our wedding we did our first dance and that was it. No other planned dances. I loved it. My mom was mad I didn't do a father daughter dance but I did that the first time around and frankly found it super awkward anyways.

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Omg that sounds like a disaster! When I did wedding photography we placed bets on some weddings on how long they would last lol. That was back in the day when the brides had to come in to the studio to pick out pics for the albums we were making them so we would see them for sometimes months after the wedding and there were times when they would call us and be like nevermind I don't want any pictures from what is now a huge mistake lol

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Uhg! Living in FL Its hot here pretty much year round and I was not having it. My best friend was married in March and it was so hot I was sweating so much I told myself right then and there if I got married ever it was going to be somewhere with better weather. 6 months later FH proposed and instantly I booked a cabin in TN for 2 months later to start wedding planning in TN for an October wedding. I did not want my guests to be dying. I've noticed this is a common trend in bad weddings, lack of AC/ Ventilation, not sure how people don't think of this from the get go. We are having an outdoor wedding and its in October in TN so weather usually in 60's/70's but the barn is temperature controlled so we have every weather scenario covered pretty much!

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It really blew my mind how many weddings we did where it was the middle of summer and either pouring rain or so humid the guests were all miserable. I knew it basically never rains in Vegas and Oct has the perfect temperatures with zero humidity so we were like yup perfect! I couldn't have asked for more perfect weather!

Oct in TN is going to be gorgeous with all the fall colors!

I will have to go through each comment because this is cracking me up yet freaking me out because I swear my party better be perfect. LOL

My cousin..Lord help me. His wife said if we were not there at 6 p the doors would be locked. So I broke my neck to get way across town. Made it there at 5:59pm. Sat there for HOURS on end with no food or drinks, not even water, waiting for the ceremony. My cousin comes out and gives a big speech about how "the devil" was trying to stop the wedding and how they just needed more time and had spent all this money on us being there. Mind you there was ZERO food because the bride made all the food and had it with her and I guess was on the way. The ceremony started at 8:53 pm. A zillion people in the bridal party and it took 27 minutes for them to all walk down the aisle. Then they exchanged vows which were all overly dramatic and directed towards the audience. People in the bridal party were getting restless, one was drunk as ever and he kept trying to hurry them along and keep from falling over. I drank some water out f the bathroom faucet by my hand and that was all I had after 3 hours of sitting there. Many people left right after the vows. I left so I could not tell you the rest. I am still mad at him about that too this day. LOL

With all these criticisms, I am glad we are eloping. We are getting married for us...not for the comfort of guests, or alcohol needs of guests!

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I wish we had chosen to elope.

I wanted a small wedding. I wanted my mom to be there... instead I'm ending up with a 70 people wedding (I don't consider that small)... family drama about who got invited and who didn't. yuck.

1. A racist groomsmen “detained” my husband (and I because I refused to let him question him) and called the local PD while absolutely annihilated because my husband refused to discuss his immigration status (he’s legal but...stop dude).

2. Pot-luck wedding from hell. My mom and multiple guests were hospitalized for food poisoning. She later contacted c-diff while still in the hospital. My mom had to miss so much work she couldn’t pay her bills and had to sell our home.

3. The “hands-out” wedding. Our college friends threw an extravagant Jersey-shore meets Bridezilla level wedding. The catch was there was an “opportunity” to “donate” everywhere. There was a wishing well, multiple dollar dances, QR codes on sticky notes around the venue, place cards, random signs, etc for their honeyfund and home fund. They did raffles for idiotic gift baskets no one wanted. They did a betting “pool” for who would win the god awful shoe game. They had a “pay what you can” cash bar (I asked a bartender what that meant. They had paid for a full open bar but the couple requested to do a pay what you can to recoup some of their bar expenses). They raffled off the garter and bouquet instead of tossing it. It was a mess.

One I went to I didn't even get an invite the bride saw me in Walmart the day before and she's like why don't you and your So come. She said we had to bring a chair and a dish. The only portable chairs we had we those large round one that's the legs fold...anyway we brought those. We were the only ones who brought chairs and it was a major eye sore. The reception was at a fire house there were no decorations besides plastic table clothes. I remember there wasn't much for food all I ate was mac and cheese. Super rushed and unorganized

The worst had to be my cousin's...her "reception" was at the bottom of a church. Very small...no DJ ( they used a boom box for music). No alcohol. Ham and cheese sandwiches were the only food.

Not a worst wedding or anything, but kind of funny. A wedding on a very hot day with a beautiful 3 layer cake, but then the cake just shrunk - the top two levels just disappeared and the cake got fat. Didn't tip over or anything, just melded into itself perfectly.

Every slice had more then one layer squished in it. I thought it was kind of awesome, everyone else was upset