Tacky Wedding Horror Stories

Oh man, I have a good one, but I'll keep it short. The bride had NO idea what ettiqutte was and broke every rule except she at least wore a dress. Also, there's a lime between rustic and flat out garbage. She did not know the difference.

She had the photographer take about 90% of the photos of just her. She ignored guests for a huge photoshoot of herself. She has maybe 2 pictures with her husband and a small handful with other people.

She had a potluck and made her parents buy chips and make a very questionable cake.

She invited via Facebook

The entire area looked like they slapped it all together the day before. Very little thought was put into anything, despite the bride talking literally nonstop about her wedding for 8 months. Also, both sets of parents paid everything, she hardly paid for a cake topper. Hence the sad setup.

That's only a few things! I actually feel a little bad for her, but it's her own fault. She cared more about the attention than the wedding itself. But before I joined here to get a better ettiqutte idea, she really taught me a lot about what not to do and how bad things like potlucks and HoneyFunds look. Especially after her fit about how no one donated the the HoneyFund.

RZ she had a fit when no one contributed? Hahahahahahahaha lmfao so bad right now

Also, my parents wedding! My mom is a little salty still since her family is a bunch of drama llamas. My gma was supposed to make a large punch bowl and greet guests as they came in. She found out her ex husband (my mom's dad) was coming to the wedding and promptly dropped out the night before the wedding. Luckily, my other gma stepped up and helped settle my mom down and made the punch. The wedding otherwise went fine, but my mom found out after the honeymoon that my gma had underfed 6 month old me and wouldn't let my older sister feed me. She also hurried out the door and left before my parents even got out of the car. She didn't speak to my mom for 6 months.

All because my mom wanted her dad to walk her down the isle. Gma is still extremely dramatic if my Gpa is at any event for the family. I can't even imagine how my wedding will go!

@Jamie, oh yes! She made an angry Facebook post and bitched for a good week or two until her in-laws sent them to the nearest beach for the weekend. She got a nice house PAID FOR, but whined about the HoneyFund

It wasn't tacky, but I remember this one wedding where it was just a super uncomfortable ceremony.

First, the bride is super organized and wrote this lovely speech about how much she loved her DH, why she wanted to marry him, why he was perfect.

Her DH did not prepare anything. He just kind of winged the whole thing, and it was super obvious. He kept repeating himself and saying the same old generic crap. (I think at some point he said, I like your hair today.)

This is why I am against DIY DJ's. The bride had to annouce everything herself. ("Now we will move on to our first dance." "Guys I am going to toss the bouquet, can someone turn on single ladies?") She literally had an IPAD plugged into the sound system, with the thought that it would be a good idea to let people choose their own song.

Well, no song got played completely through, because every guest was pressing buttons on it. No one was dancing. It was really uncomfortable.

My uncle's first wedding 23 years ago was...wow. The dress code was "denim". My mom was told it was taking place at the bride's aunt's "big house in the country " which was actually a double wide. The groomsmen wore bolo ties. At the end of the ceremony the bride and groom rode off in a mule drawn carriage to the end of the street and back. Oh and the guests sat on hay bales.

Not tacky per se but cringeworthy for sure. I went to a wedding a few years ago where the groom had an unfortunate last name and the bride was pretty self conscious about it. The officiant kept cracking jokes about it during the ceremony and as a result the bride started to cry pretty hysterically. They had to pause the ceremony for a while until she could pull herself together. It was awkward!

My coworker told me about his parents wedding. They got married on New Years Eve (and rang in the new yr with their marriage celebration). It was a dry wedding, with a potluck and no dancing. I cringed so hard I damn near fell out of my chair when he told me.

I was in a wedding where: the bride was super insistent on guests contributing to the honeyfund, there was a dollar dance which people were super reluctant to participate in, no real seating arrangement, no day-of timeline (so no one in the wedding knew where to be and when), she made her mother help her into the dress and had the photographer take pics when her mother wasn't yet ready, and her sister's dress was at least 3 sizes too small so she had to wear a cardigan over it and it split (you could hear the fabric tear) as she was walking down the aisle. The last one wasn't necessarily her fault, but still...shit.show.

OMG, that gum chewing comment reminded me of the only bad one I have ever been to. In the early 90s, my friend asked his girlfriend of about 2 weeks to marry him because he "thought it was time to get married". They got married at a grungy bar, outside in the summer in the California desert. She was wearing his sisters dress, which was over 3-4 sizes too small and didn't zip up. When her dad was walking her down the aisle, she was talking to him the entire time and not paying any attention to the groom, while chewing gum. The groom was looking everywhere BUT at her the entire time. Then they tried to do a unity candle but the wind kept blowing it out. When it finally lit, the wind blew the entire thing over. Then we all headed inside the grungy bar for a cash bar, and I really don't think they had any food for anyone. They did have some great music though. lol Needless to say, that lasted about 6 months.

ETA: We were all about 21-22, so why he thought it "was time" to get married is beyond me.

So, I've only been to one American wedding. And before I say this, I 100% realize that that this could have been bad etiquette on my part and not the bride's. So, I'm saying this as an awkward story, not necessarily as one that calls someone out as being tacky... Anyway, I went to a southern Baptist wedding with FH last fall where there was no alcohol (understandable with the religion I guess), the reception happened in our university's ballroom (which meant our cafeteria catered it buffet-style... Chicken tenders, salad, fruit trays)... No DJ, just a Pandora station... But the awkward part was the dancing. They had their first dance and a father/daughter, mother/son dance, but when all of that was over and everyone was mingling, FH pulled me into the dance floor for a slow song and we were LITERALLY ripped apart by the MOH. I later found out that some Churches/beliefs don't approve of dancing, so the couple had the reception outside of the church in order to share their first dance, but didn't approve of anyone else dancing... Long story short, it was super awkward (for me anyway) and everyone just sat around.

I went to one which was the backyard of a bar. It was cash bar only. There were only appetizers enough to feed half the guest. The bride and groom got so wasted it was hard to watch. Also the maid of honor was giving lap dances to almost every guy at the party...... Very classy.

My uncles wedding a few years back was the worst I've been to. The ceremony was lovely. The reception...not so much.

First of all, the reception venue was 2 and a half/3 hours from the ceremony venue (destination reception?). Then, before we could enter the reception hall, we had to pay $30 for a meal ticket per person, as well as an extra $15 if you wanted to go to the bar. FH and I went, but chose not to stay after finding out we would have to spend close to one hundred dollars for us to eat and get a drink. We went to Taco Bell instead.

I did get a picture from that day though!

@elphaba, My offer to pay for a killer clown visit still stands ... as long as it doesn't visit me first!

I don't get the cash bar thing because I feel like people are giving you a gift and they shouldn't have to pay for their drinks too. So tacky!!! But my FDIL dropped a bomb on me that she is not paying for people to get drunk on her dime...so she now is going for a dry wedding. How about cutting back on some things and at least providing beer and wine??? We gave them a nice chunk of money that they are putting towards the hall and will barely pay for food but her mom and his parents which are divorced are barely helping. Thanks but I will have a cooler in our trunk and will look tacky if that is what they want or sometimes people don't show up either.

Self catered wedding held at a cafeteria...... interesting huh? Lol oh and then another wedding I went to had no chairs for people to sit on for the ceremony. My feet totally hurt at the end of it

@Tamara that's horrible! School cafeteria catering? No thanks. I can't believe the MOH ripped FH and you apart. Why did they get to dance though? So rude.

@Jessica omg if I didn't get to eat I would be so upset! Ah lap dances...classy.

I have a friend who did a money dance. She then walked table to table, with a few dollars pinned to her dress, trying to get more.

She also had a cash bar.

They served Domino's pizza, and chips and queso and made their bridesmaids wear $250 dresses in a hall with no DJ, no liquor, no anything.

Omg a dry wedding on New Year's Eve. I would get the fuck out of there.