The Worst Wedding thread for fun!

I don’t think I’ve ever been to one that was terrible aha.
But I’ve been to plenty of weddings that had ridiculous amount of gap time in between where I don’t know what to do with myself during.

I went to a wedding before Covid at a barn venue. The ceremony was outside in the blazing heat, and they had invited a friend to play his violin, but he only knew happy birthday, so that was playing over and over as the bride walked down the aisle. The bridal party had been taking tequila shots before the ceremony and were all blasted. Then, mid-vows, the junior bridesmaid bends over, pukes, and passes out. They had to stop everything to clear here out of the area, but the charm of the ceremony was really ruined.

Then we went to the barn while the bridal party was taking pictures. They had one passed hors d'oeuvre of clam chowder (in a hot barn with no AC), a box of crackers, and a jar of pickles. They also had one bar with a two kegs. For 150 people.

After a really terrible hour and a half, we finally get to sit for dinner, which wasn't bad. But I get up to go to the bathroom and find out that there is ONE outhouse with no lock and no lights. I had to have my mom come with me and hold the door. Of course, the beer ran out before dinner was over, and we all were glad to go home.

To make a bad event worse, the couple registered for two international honeymoons and nothing else. They explicitly stated on the invitations that they wanted money for these two honeymoons. After the truly awful experience and the money grabbing, I nearly took the money out of their card.

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I had this happen to me too! I sat in the church parking lot for two hours talking on the phone to my mom haha

We went to a wedding a couple years ago for my wife’s coworker. It was on their family farm and they didn’t bother to cut the grass or treat for bugs in the ceremony area, so we were basically swarmed with bees and mosquitos. The reception was inside a barn with a gravel floor and we had to pick up our own ceremony chairs and carry them to the barn. It was BYOB so 1/3 of the chairs were occupied with coolers. They had Italian for dinner which consisted of overcooked spaghetti noodles and marinara sauce. It took so long for the couple to take photos that the caterers had started packing up the food without realizing that the couple hadn’t eaten yet. The dessert table was completely emptied during cocktail hour. Then for speeches they literally passed the microphone around the entire place and let anyone who wanted to speak, do so. It. Was. Awful.

View Quoted Comment Okay I’m cracking up thinking about the violinist playing happy birthday on repeat lol

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It still cracks me up to this day. Truly the gift that keeps on giving

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All bad, but as a guest, I think a long train of speeches would have been the thing to truly put me over the edge

My FH's cousins wasn't that great, actually there are 3 weddings I have been to that have had some not so great times. The first one to start was my FH's cousins. I should start by saying that we live in WI and they live in way upstate NY by the Canadian border. First I cannot stand having weddings during holiday weekends, they had theirs during Labor Day weekend so flights were expensive so we drove, 17 hours one way. I got car sick too. But the wedding itself was outside in 90 degree weather and the bride was an hour and 45 mins late for the ceremony. So I got sunburned and I was hungry. Then we get to the reception place only find out they have a cocktail hour but no food. I went up to the room and made a sandwich. Then went back down and had some dry food. The bar was completely cash, where I'm from they normally have wine and beer available for no cost and liquor you pay for. So that was not a good one at least for me.

The second one was my cousin's, I was 16 and standing up in her bridal party. She and her fiancee got into a screaming match during the rehearsal. So that painted a picture of how the rest would go. I think the worse part was she slipped on the dance floor and hit her head because she got plastered.

The final one, was when I was still really young but can still remember it. The wedding was for my grandma's nephew. I went with my grandma, my parents were at a golf event and came later to pick me up. The food was inedible, like the chicken was still pink in the middle; the rolls were rock hard. At that time I didn't particularly care for their other option (you know being 10 or so not liking everything). When my parents came to pick me up, I begged them to take me to McDonald's I was so hungry. They were like didn't you eat, I was like I tried to but it wasn't good. The proof came when the bridesmaids came as we were in the parking lot with their own bags from McDonald's. That convinced them that I was being honest about the food.

I’ve played violin at tons of weddings and something goes wrong at all of them but they’re beautiful, it’s fun, and I enjoy doing it. But here are two of my most stressful ones.

1) The bride called me on Wed. saying if it was raining they would do it at their indoor plan B location. On Sat. morning it is raining. I am driving to the indoor venue a few hours early and the sister/moh calls to tell me they are going ahead with the outdoor location and my violin and my friend’s 200 yr old cello will be fine under a basic umbrella. I nicely tell her that’s not going to work and she yells at me and hangs up on me. We get there and no one is there. Venue staff pretend to look for a tent for us to play under knowing they don’t have one. We are completely soaked already. We can’t find the actual ceremony location bc it turns out there are about a dozen other weddings going on there that day. We walk back to the entrance, music stands and cases soaked. 10 min before start time the bride and wedding party show up. A friend thankfully tells us there’s no way you can play, just go home it’s completely fine. The bride is gorgeous. We tell her we’re sorry and she says she knows we can’t play and it’s ok. Her beautiful white satin dress is getting soaked in mud and her elderly grandmother is trying not to slip. We left after that.
2) This was a beach wedding. It was incredibly windy and lightly raining on and off. We did have a tent! But it kept flying away. Eventually the cellist finds some balloon string to tie it to a bench. We’re all set. The bride is an hour and a half late to come out of the beach house. The grandmother and her escort walk out and go back inside five times bc the bride still isn’t ready. We played Minuet in G eight times in a row bc we thought they were starting. We were out there for 3 hours. Guests were out there about 2 hours. Gnats were biting everyone. We had bug spray but it didn’t repel because they weren’t mosquitoes. We used it anyway bc it was at least soothing on our skin. Children were screaming the whole time bc of the bites. Guests and bridesmaids were sneaking over to us to borrow our spray when the bride wasn’t looking. The preacher told everyone if they had anything to say about this union, say it now, seriously, don’t be running y’alls mouths after today. Not in a funny way, clearly there was drama. We finally got to leave. When I got home I was covered in red bites including my scalp under my hair.
A few other mishaps...-not practicing the unity knot and they couldn’t do it -moving forward with an outdoor ceremony where the sky was black and it starts pouring during the processional. Ceremony was 5 min, you couldn’t hear anything they said, and guests were soaked. -forgetting the unity candle/tree planting- nbd but it happens all the time-not realizing there’s no piano in the church basement for your reception so the pianist just leaves -Taking morning June outdoor pics in tuxes in the south and then a groomsman faints during the ceremony bc he’s overheated -the preacher talking for 5 min during the ceremony about how God created sex and its beautiful and they rated high on their sexual compatibility scale in premarital counseling while mob almost falls on the floor in horror and the wp is cracking up-the bride and groom arguing about what music to choose literally up until the ceremony starts and having to just pick one -one of the other violinists was inexperienced and started playing the recessional before the kiss -the preacher forgot to show up -idk what happened but there was a black streak down this girl’s train -backyard wedding where all the guests had to go move their cars and circle around bc neighbors were calling cops for parking on their curb
I haven’t been to many as a guest but I would say my least fav one was where all the food was vegan and there was no alcohol. I know people do that, I get it. But it wasn’t good, I was so hungry, I hadn’t seen this guy in five years and I went bc he asked me to play, and I just wanted to go home. There was an hour of speeches bc they let anyone have the mic. It was mostly the groom’s friends saying they can’t believe she married him. Funny the first time. After an hour super awkward.

View Quoted Comment My dad always says he hates long weekend weddings, but thank you for explaining why! I never considered the flight cost issue because I haven't been to one.


Also, there is a lot of this brides being wildly late nonsense going on. I think at some point doesnt the MOB just have to get the bride out there, perfect hair and make up or not?

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I know I was irritated. The thing that got me, was the wedding in NY we never got a thank you note. Which is a huge pet peeve of mine. I know I was so uncomfortable after getting sunburned. Then having to ride home for 17 more hours to get home, while having my shoulders hurting wasn't great. I know another pet peeve is people being late for me, I'm very organized and much of my job you have to be on time. So being late isn't something I do much of.

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Oh my gosh, these all had me cackling. "The preacher told everyone if they had anything to say about this union, say it now, seriously, don’t be running y’alls mouths after today." "-the preacher talking for 5 min during the ceremony about how God created sex and its beautiful and they rated high on their sexual compatibility scale in premarital counseling while mob almost falls on the floor in horror" "It was mostly the groom’s friends saying they can’t believe she married him. Funny the first time. After an hour super awkward."

I went to one wedding where everyone was encouraged to make a joke about the bride and groom, and every joke was about how they get in fights in public. It was so so so awkward.

View Quoted Comment Yikes that doesn’t sound like a good wedding game

I went to a wedding a couple of years ago, where the bride and groom had a best man, a groomsman, maid of honor and bridesmaid each give a speech. The groomsman drank a ton before the speech because he was really nervous. He ended up repeating his speech because he couldn't remember where he left off. During the speech, the groomsman mentioned how the groom said the bride seemed so laid back. They met via a dating site so this was before the met in person and the groomsman asked him if he was sure the bride wasn't actually a man. Because he said his speech twice, he basically implied that she could have been a man twice. It was so cringe worthy and they ended up cutting the mic.

View Quoted Comment Lmao I know. Like, why do you even own a violin if that's all you can play??

This thread has made my day

I’ve luckily only been to one really bad wedding, unfortunately it was for my cousin and his marriage ended up in divorce. The location was beautiful, it was set to happen in front of this gorgeous lake, but it was early April in Connecticut so still a bit chilly. They told us the dress code was semi-formal, even casual. The ceremony had no chairs and I had a pair of really nice bright pink heels on, so I decided to change into a pair of moccasins I had in my car for the ceremony. My fiancé was wearing a pair of dressier work boots. The photographer made a comment about our outfits that we didn’t appreciate. Then the ceremony starts. The song they walked down the aisle to was this godawful song I’d never even heard of, it sounded like screeching, and they decided to have everyone carry balloons instead of flowers or literally anything else. So the bridesmaids and groomsmen were fighting the whole time to hold their balloons because again, early April in Connecticut and it was windy. The officiant starts talking in this cartoon like voice because that is apparently what they wanted and he spoke like that through the entire time. My cousin’s vows were ridiculous, he said “we’re getting married, let’s make babies” and that was it. Then we had to stand around for 10 minutes waiting for them to “fight” to see who could make it Facebook official first when the area we were in had no service. Again...in early April in Connecticut. So we were a tad cold. The reception wasn’t terrible, they got food from a local grocery store which wasn’t too bad, they bought cheap wine and beer for people to serve themselves. But then the photographer who insulted my fiancé and my outfits was all over me because of my shoes. He probably took more photos of my shoes and my fiancé and I than he did the bride and groom. It was actually borderline creepy minus we got some nice photos of us out of it. It was definitely interesting. But hey, look at the photo we got! I actually got this framed and it’s hanging on my wall 😂.

I went to a wedding where the bride and groom kept leaving the room every 20 minutes or so. It was odd, but then the entire wedding party started leaving, too! Turns out they had their own drinks that they were keeping in their car, so they kept leaving to refill their glasses. Meanwhile, it was a limited drink menu for guests. Yes, the wedding party was all very drunk by the end of the night.

One of my bridesmaids takes the cake for this one. She got married in a Baptist church and had the reception in the church hall. No dancing was allowed. So, for a “first dance” a relative sang during the ceremony and they awkwardly swayed...but not too much bc Baptist church. Then the reception, her uncle was the “DJ”. He just played an iPod
Playlist and made bad dad jokes the entire time. No alcohol, no dancing. It was terribly boring. Fortunately, she will even sAy looking back she has many regrets about her wedding but just hadn’t been to many at that point to know better. And they’re still happily married which is what matters anyways

I’ve been to some pretty good weddings. But I have to say one of the worst ones was an old friend of my FHs. It was at some dingy place in a small town back where he grew up. The brides father was dressed in jeans and a union workers T-shirt. I think he was drunk, but he took his teeth out and put them right on the table he was sitting at and left them out and continue to drink his beer. Also, it was a cash bar but almost all of my FHs friends from where he grew up didn’t bring cash so my FH and I ended up paying for all of their drinks. Once it was over we left and went to this really fun karaoke bar with people. The food sucked But nevertheless we still made the best of it and just laughed and we ended up having a really great time seeing people.