Wedding Horror Stories- What's the worst you've seen?

Oh these are great!

There seems to be a theme here. For those who don't see it, it's "wedding etiquette matters." Be nice to your guests and don't hire friends, and you'll have a good wedding.

@Awkward that is really it. For example, if my cousin had invited me to their wedding, I probably would have declined since it was out of state and we aren't close. And I would have sent them a nice gift and well wishes. When I saw them at Thanksgiving maybe I'd bring them a bottle of champagne. Instead, they irritated our whole family and ended up with a dick shaped bowl from me.

I made the desserts for my sister's wedding (it was a literal nightmare, I have so many regrets) and she requested 200 mini cheesecakes for the guests and 2 8inch cheesecakes for the wedding party. A guest cut into one of the larger cheesecakes before the cake cutting. I rescued the remaining larger cheesecake for pictures but I was PISSED

My friend who I love didn't have enough seats for everyone at the reception. She only had seats for 50% of the guests because she wanted people to mingle. My FH and I stood all night.

Oh these are great to read hahah.

I have yet to attend a horrible wedding, but following for more laughs!

@CuteNickname I cannot stop laughing at "ended up with a dick shaped bowl", that is awesome, I don't know what's funnier, that you gave it to them at all, or that they tried to be gracious accepting it, I don't know if I could keep a straight face during that one.

I just read a story in another one of my groups. A bride is marrying another woman who has very conservative, extended family members that are "morally opposed to their same sex wedding."

She just learned that some of those family members are "compromising" by planning to show up to their reception for free booze and food, but not their ceremony to watch them marry the person they love because jesus or the bible or some bullshit.

I've been pissed about it all day and I don't even know the brides!

Thank god I've not attended a wedding like any of these! Omg these stories are so priceless though!

@Katie: that sounds exactly like the wedding I was going to share! I wasn't a guest but I was at the hotel for another function where the wedding took place. We were down at the bar and kept hearing a commotion and just in general "activity." We saw a bride in her dress and her bridesmaids and the bride looked so miserable. She and her girls were hanging out by themselves in the bar, the bride crying. We somehow later found out the groom had gotten very drunk, made a big scene, got sick and had to be carried to their hotel room where he passed out. I remember feeling very sorry her!

At another wedding I actually attended, it was overall a decent wedding except it was a buffet where none of the waitstaff regulated the portions so by the time my table was called they were literally out of food. That's when I learned that guests will eat a whole lot more at weddings than normally so keep that in mind when determining how much food is "enough."

Wow...seriously! I went to a 5th wedding of a friend that was self catered, not enough food, no seats, and the brother of groom didn't like the music people were dancing to so put music on louder that he preferred.

Wedding of one of FH's good friends. FH was an usher and had to take off all day Friday for a noon rehearsal and then a rehearsal dinner which I wasn't invited to. On the day of the actual wedding, there was a 4 hour gap in between the ceremony and reception, so we just went to a nearby coffee house and read rather than driving all the way home and back. The reception was at a family friend's house in an older neighborhood with only street parking. Luckily FH realized this and dropped me off then made the 1/2 mile walk back after parking.

The reception was BYOB, and while the food was good, there wasn't any real announcement to when dinner started, so by the time people ate, it was mostly cold. They purposely didn't have enough seats to encourage people to mingle. The bride and groom came back to the reception in jeans and t-shirts, but didn't tell anybody this was their plan, so all their guests were still in their dresses/suits. And last, but not least, they are part of a comedy troupe who all wanted to give speeches. So we sat through 50 minutes of speeches consisting of only inside jokes while hungry and sober. That was a rough one.

I'm following this simply because it's making my day better.

@emilee it really was great. Just the day before, the bride had told me about how she had just quit her job and was starting an eBay business. Her plan was to sell other people's unwanted goods. Like, people were just going to donate stuff to her to sell, and she would make enough to live off of. Their whole life was just a big mess...they were looking for handouts from the family. So when she opened the bowl, she started immediately turning it over and checking it out, probably thinking about how much she could get for it. The best part was that you really couldn't tell it was from Target. It could have been some sort of special handmade thing. Or it could have been cheap junk. I also gave them two hideous mugs with their first initials. Good luck offloading those guys!!

I'm a terrible person. Actually I'm usually really nice. I just didn't feel they deserved a real wedding gift.

I have been to more bad weddings over the last few years than good.. I am making my mom promise me mine wont be as bad.. but the first wedding we went to was in June and was outside in a park. It was cute until it was all self-catered food and it was all cold and TWO HOURS LATE. Everyone was starving and crabby. Then it was so cold that a lot of people sat in the cars until the first dance and then left. oh yeah and they had a family member sing and play guitar.. it was horrible lol.

next was my FHs brother. The ceremony was pretty, but the wedding was planned the same day as another family member so majority of people didn't come. The food was good, but that's it. Most people left at 9. The DJ was horrible and literally didn't entertain anyone.. it was also freezing because it was in a tent..

And we went to a semi-dry wedding. The step-dad of the groom brought in a few cases of beer because of all the WI guests that traveled to CO for this wedding. lol it was awkward, but I had to drink to stay sane .

We have not stopped laughing at that gift here at work.

We are looking for one for the grad student banquet as a prize!

@Nonna, it was basically this product. The one that I happened to stumble upon at the local Target happened to be shaped like a shaft with balls. http://www.target.com/p/natural-root-wood-bowl-medium-threshold/-/A-14152270?ref=tgt_adv_XS000000&AFID=google_pla_df&CPNG=PLA_Dining+Shopping_Brand&adgroup=SC_Dining&LID=700000001170770pgs&network=g&device=m&location=1023416&gclid=CPqj7NKU2dICFVVWDQodrJINZg&gclsrc=aw.ds

Thank you CN, no one wanted to Google it!

I have yet to attend a horrible wedding. But a funny story: I once went to a wedding where the officiant forgot to tell everyone to sit back down after the bride walked down the aisle. That ceremony was literally 5 minutes though. We all thought it was funny how we were all awkwardly standing the whole time.

I don't have a bad wedding story (thank goodness!) and I've been to a fair number of weddings. The worst incident was my cousins wedding in August and her ceremony location, a church, did not have AC and everyone was sweating for the 1.5 hour ceremony. Gross.