The wedding was perfect except for...

Oh, you mean like all the late shuttles that force the venue to hold the ceremony and guests to sit in the sun for an extra 20 minutes?

No. Not once.

I once attending a wedding where everything was perfect... EXCEPT the groom got drunk and passed out on the head table about 2 hours after dinner. GM had to carry him to the car. The bride and groom both left - but the party continued.

I'd be an UNHAPPY bride if that happened..

Oh god. I can't even imagine! The last wedding I went to was literally perfect, except we ate dinner at 10:30pm. I've heard that's super common with Long Island weddings and they had plenty of appetizers at cocktail hour earlier, but I was so thrown off by it.

Ugh, Celia.. I am nervous about that. Do you have any experience with the shuttles from the Mahwah Hilton?

@Kristen, that's super common. A lot of my family is from NY and I have attended a lot of weddings there and the cocktail hours could feed an army and you don't get served dinner until 10:30 or 11.

My parents grew up in NY and I'm still working on changing their mentality about it.

Went to a wedding where everything was gorgeous. Great cocktail food and entrees until they got to the dessert. The cake was awful and the lemon sorbet served with it was horrific! I still cringe when I think of it.

The last wedding I went to was great... good food, good drinks, good people, but the DJ was awful. He sounded like a sports announcer and kept cutting off songs early. People in the wedding party had to ask him a few times throughout the night to turn the music down and tone down the way he was talking... he sounded like he was about to introduce a wrestling match.

I went to a wedding once where the caterer screwed up somehow and showed up without a serving staff. So 100 guests had to wait in line to be served a plate of food, one at a time. It was supposed to be a buffet. The bride was soooo upset and I felt terrible - it wasn't the bride & groom's fault. Their pregnant SIL actually got food poisoning because of issues with the food temperature (because it took so long for everyone to be served.)

Oh wow MzRosaLu, I would so much rather suck it up and hear karaoke over food poisoning, yikes!

Can the bride be 4 hours late? Went to one of those. They had the venue reserved for only so many hours so the reception was cut way short. I was just irritated because I showed up ON TIME and just about all the other guests were late. There were people still walking in 60 min. late. If the wedding were actually on time, they'd have missed it (maybe on purpose?)

Plenty. I have positive and negative things to say about every wedding. I had one friend who had a band and it was the best time I've ever had at a wedding. Her food was horrible, dry and no choices just here's the one choice of dry meat and cold overcooked green beans and they didn't have bought tables and chairs for everyone invited. People were standing, but the music was fantastic. Made it a serious party. The another friend had amazing food. My mouth is watering thinking about the steak but her music was the worst! The kicker is that when she and I were talking weddings she said "music was our priority everything else was secondary" eh, side eye...really? It was an entire wedding of wordless hipster techno. Awful for the other 96% of the guests who aren't into it.

The wedding was great, the wait time was fine and food was goo... but there was no microphone, so I couldn't really hear any of the speeches or vows which was sad.

A karaoke wedding actually sounds amazing to me... lol. I bet the bride and groom loved it and that's what matters!

My best friends wedding was lovely, we loved our BMs dresses, perfect day, great dj. Then the prime rib came out and it was this huge road kill bloody chunk of meat. *gag* no one liked it. At least the mashed potatoes and veg were good.

Many many years ago we went to a beautiful wedding and then headed to what we thought was a dinner reception ... to find out there was no food! It was at like 7pm and all they had was peanuts on the tables and wedding cake. And an open bar!!! I have never seen so many drunk people drinking on an empty stomach. We talked about it for years!

The last wedding I went to was very nice except one of the speakers in their ceremony told the bride to "submit" to her husband. You could see everyone making eyes at each other and it was/continues to be a topic of conversation. The speaker was clearly an inexperienced friend, the rest of his "speech" wasn't good either.

I have never been to a wedding were everything was perfect but the one I have the least complaints about was my youngest sister's. The food was delicious, the ceremony was sweet, there was no alcohol (no drunken weirdness) and no dancing (which I normally think is required). My sisters and I did a ton of work to make it happen but it was the most enjoyable wedding I ever went to. My wedding will cost more so I can have real linens and dinnerware plus booze and dancing but I think I need to quit stressing over it.

Usually it's not just ONE thing that goes south; it's many working together to create the perfect storm...

I've only experienced shuttles leaving the Hilton (my wedding was there), not arriving from them, but my best advice is to pad along the way (I want to emphasize that this is NOT a specific comment about them. Most shuttles will wait for the last late ass person to board, it takes a good 15 minutes to get them all on and off.

I always tell my couples to have their shuttle time as FIRM, to tell the shuttle to leave AT THAT TIME, and tell them to arrive a half hour before the ceremony. Most of the venues around here will offer coffee, water, champagne to early people so it's not a horrifying wait, but if you wait for your shuttle? That time is coming out of your cocktail hour.

By best friend's wedding was GORGEOUS! The venue was amazing (hidden away next to a river in Asheville NC), the music was good, the weather was great. The only problem was - I am vegetarian and she forgot to double check with her caterer that there were vegetarian options. She did BBQ, and read the menu thinking that I could eat the beans, cornbread, sweet potatoes, greens. EVERY item on their buffet had meat. FH and I left at the end of the reception starving and went straight to the local late-night pizza parlor!

EDIT - I was a bridesmaid, and had talked to her beforehand about my diet, she assured me there would be a veggie option for me and FH

All the guests arrived on time for the last wedding we went to EXCEPT for the MOB. She thought the wedding started later so everyone was well liquored up by the time it started almost an hour and a half late.