What's the worst wedding you've been to/worse wedding experience you've had?

Oh, the other terrible wedding I went to involved the brides tata's coming out of her dress (all the way, not just a peek) and I was handed a cardboard box of clearanced wedding "materials" from walmart and told to "just decorate the space however you think is best." I wasn't even in the wedding, I was just a guest that happened to swing by to ask if they needed any help THIRTY MINUTES BEFORE THE CEREMONY.

I was asked to photograph one recently. Which I think kinda tells you how it was going to be. I am not a professional at all, photography is just a hobby of mine.

But we got there and Groom ripped his pants so ended up wearing jeans, When it was time for the ceremony no one was out sitting wear the ceremony was being held and one of the bridesmaids had to come and tell everyone where to go. Then the officiant said "this is a joke." because he has never done anything like this before and he just made something up online. The groom's father couldn't figure out how to play the music while the bride walked down the aisle. He got it to work after the ceremony was done. They had some drinks but no alcohol, it was BYOB. People were bringing their own coolers of drinks. The bride had to set up the cake out on the table because it was just left in a box on the table.

I could go on but it was just bad. It was a perfect example of what not to do.

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OH MY GOSH. How awkward.

Oh my goodness those are some hard to read stories here! I hope I'll never end up in a thread like this, going to follow for inspiration on what not to do!

Outdoor wedding in the middle of July... super hot and humid, wedding party in long navy blue dresses (they looked so sweaty!)... fried chicken that had sat out and got mushy and boxed stuffing/powdered mashed potatoes, homemade desserts, dirt floor so my feet were all dirty and gross (no warning about this prior), no assigned tables, folding chairs on dirt floor, worst wedding ceremony singer I have ever heard, not enough seats for the ceremony so people were standing... long list of things not to do!

The only good thing was the free booze. Thank goodness there was free booze...

Oh so many! Bad memories

the worst would be a horrific judge-y, holier than thou, cash-grab wedding.



It was a full on Catholic ceremony in a church. When you first walked in they literally had shaws for women to wrap around them because the couple didn't want immodest guests. I didnt take one but was later literally wrapped in one by a aunt who told me "God is watching" as she wrapped it around me. As atheists but supporters of the couple I wanted to walk out but stayed.



dk if all of y'all know the way Catholic masses work for weddings. Typically tithing isn't done in a wedding mass. The basket went around during the ceremony and my DH and I just went "Eh" and both threw in $5. During a lull in the mass the priest said the collection was a DONATION TO THE COUPLE. big eye roll there...

At the reception we were asked to remain modest with the ridiculous shaws. We were seated with like a random table with random people we didnt know despite knowing others at the wedding. My husband got grilled about immigration and how he is what's wrong with the US.


Also, it was a cash bar which wouldn't be as bad but the couple was intentionally trying to make money from it. The couple brought their own alcohol and was charging obscene amounts for alcohol ($10 a glass for like Barefoot wine and $15 for a svedka and soda). The couple auctioned off tickets for the first round of food which was ridiculous. They did the typical money dance. They did a Honeyfund jar. They auctioned off the garter. The gross thing that pushed me over the edge to leave was they asked that only "pure" women stand for the bouquet toss. I didn't get what that meant and stood up to go for it. The mother of the bride gave me and my immodest dress side eye and asked "Oh so you're a virgin?" Ugh we left gift and card in hand. Nope nope nope. Later we heard from the couple that 90% of the wedding was planned by the MOB and the MOG. I didn't really care though. If you can't have an adult conversation about etiquette and judgement with your parents, you have no backbone.

Most entertaining thread in a long time

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Not going to lie, I kinda want to see pictures from this.

Sounds like a "you have to see it to believe it"

YIKES

Went to a wedding where the brother in law stole some of the BYO beer, the piano player for the ceremony stole food from the kitchen, and a family member of the bride or groom started selling jewelry in the middle of the damn reception. Like damn near set up a booth at one of the tables to sell her product. Yep...craziest thing I've ever seen. The bride was pissed at the end of the night once she found out everything.

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"The gross thing that pushed me over the edge to leave was they asked that only "pure" women stand for the bouquet toss. I didn't get what that meant and stood up to go for it. The mother of the bride gave me and my immodest dress side eye and asked "Oh so you're a virgin?"

WHAT?!?!?!?

I would have walked out too. JEEEEZEEEE.

SMH, where do people get off?

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I agree! Makes me wonder what I should/could be doing to avoid these horrors.

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"Well, the groom's dad had passed away some years prior and to pay homage to him, the groom decided to dance to his mom with the same song as their first dance. Which would be fine, if it was a normal song. But this was a 1980's power ballad talking in graphic detail about making love to each other and taking each other's clothes off.

And to make matters worse, he starts. serenading. his. mother. to. the. lyrics."

Literally laughed out loud to this at my desk while at work. SO awkward!

So, I went to this wedding 3ish years ago? Still beyond the worst. We still talk about it at work. It was a co-worker, who is no longer in our department.

First off, he mentioned several times that the only reason to get married was for gifts. That should have been the hint as to what kind of evening this was going to be.

So we get to this venue, walk to the ceremony area and notice a large amount of people standing. There were only seats for about 1/3 of the people there, and no other chairs were being added. OK, well you know, no big deal at the time. There ceremony starts about 30 minutes late, by that time my feet were KILLING me. Ceremony is blessedly short and we all pile into the reception building.

No cocktail hour....which I am ok with forgoing, except that the bride and groom ran away for an hour to take pictures. So everyone was standing around awkwardly, no food, no booze, no music at this point. This also was a completely dry wedding, which none of us were aware of since we all (bride and groom included) go out drinking after work every other month or so. It ended up being super warm in the building so we go in search of some kind of refreshment. All we find is a 5 gal water station for 200+ people. OH! and the water station had a "Honeymoon" tip jar next to it. This is when I realized there were actually "Honeymoon" tip jars everywhere....ugh.

The "shake down" for money started shortly after that. People starting getting upset and leaving by that point. This was the first wedding I had actually seen guests take their cards back from the gift table...there wasn't a card box or anything. It got so bad, a mom or aunt or someone actually went through all the gifts and starting taking the cards off of them and away so guests couldn't take them back. This caused even more problems, because the bride and groom had no idea who gave what. Groom approached me a week later at work and said he got my card but wondered where my gift was *sigh*.

I am not totally against buffets. I have seen them work in large weddings...generally its when you have multiple stations so you can get through people quickly. Not at this wedding, they had 1 station for 200+ people. Took over an hour, and they had run out of a few things before the last people had been served.

FH and I left shortly after that, ended up stopping and getting food on the way home since we were still starving. This wedding was like a start to finish what-not-to-do for me.

Oh and other coworkers reported the honeymoon jars stayed empty all night, except for the water station one....it had used paper cups in it.

First and only wedding I have been to last September. I was the best man's date (my FH) and it was his cousins wedding. No one knew the timeline of the day except the MOB and the bride. Everything was running behind (not that we knew other than "we're late we're late!!!" and the photographer showed up at the venue, not the hotel for getting ready pics causing him to be late. the couple did a first look... in front of the whole bridal party, family, and bridal party dates. It was also the worst and least impressive first look I've ever seen, he looked at her, hugged her, kissed her. and then it was "PICTURE TIME!!!!". there were no tears excitement or any special fuzzy feelings. The photographers weren't being bossy or working from a shot list, so the bride was bossing everyone around making her seem like bridezilla. She didn't actually turn into bridezilla until a little later. There are even pictures of her with the most angry face you've ever seen! The ceremony was short, the reception was fun and nice, and the hotel was beautiful.

The worst part and bless her heart, her photographer just got back to her with pictures LAST WEEK after not being able to contact/find them for MONTHS.

DO NOT HIRE A CHEAP PHOTOGRAPHER THAT YOU DO NOT TRUST, and have turnaround time in your contract!!!!!

This is a good thread. I have a few wedding horror stories.

1. Phoeni,Arizona, in August, at 3:00 in the afternoon, on the 18th hole of a golf course. Phoenix is legendary for its heat so we’re talking **** with no shade. They didn’t notify anyone that it was outside so women wore heels and had to take a golf cart to the ceremony site. There was no water and we were waiting forever for the ceremony to start. I’m talking 30-45 minutes past time. They finally get the show on the road and you can’t hear anything because the microphones weren’t working. The flower girl and ring bearer were of course irritable so their grandparents let them roll up and down the sand dunes during the ceremony, in their underclothes, as they had stripped down and refused to put anything back on. All we could hear was their screaming and giggling.

Finally time for the reception and found out that the ceremony started late because the mother of the bride forgot the wedding rings at her house. By this point people were wilted and sunburnt. We only stayed long enough for a cool drink and to get over heat exhaustion before driving home.

2. I was a junior bridesmaid and the night of the rehearsal the mother of the bride was suppose to host the dinner. Around 7:00pm she calls the bride and tells her she can’t do it. Everyone was standing around trying to figure out if we should go to a restaurant or something but she says to just go home. Come to find out the MOB was still finishing the brides gown the night before the wedding!

Wedding day she is getting dressed and my mother, who was the maid of honor, was helping her but the dress was literally falling apart. All the bridesmaids are scrambling for safety pins to keep the thing together. By the time we made it to the reception every button on the back had busted and was held together by 6 safety pins. She had to wear her veil the entire night to cover her back.

3. I was a bridesmaid and the night before wedding the groom, maid of honor, and brides nephew got arrested. We spent the whole night before the wedding sleeping in the jail parking lot waiting to bail them out.

Self catered burgers and hot dogs wedding with the family bringing sides. Myself and a fellow bridesmaid had to get our hair done at 8am sonwe could get to the store to purchase the food day of. Spent the next 4 hours running around buying stuff for the wedding. Get there touch up make up/hair stand around waiting mob got flat tire wedding starting 3 hours late myself and other bridesmaid hasn’t eaten st this point(4pm) do ceremony then pics(hot mess friend photography) go inside to find that everyone started eating and there was no food left other than chips as hotdogs and burgers were still being cooked. Didn’t eat until 5p wedding was schedule to start at 2p. Bride and groom decide to eat for an hour before moving onto anything else. Every family member felt the need to make a speech. First dances done and cake cut at 7pm that’s when I cut out never even had a chance to actually dance at that point. I was 6months preform at the time but there was no alcohol provided invites went out and on separate slip stated BYOB and that the ceremony was “formal” no jeans allowed but guests would be allowed to switch to jeans for reception that was being held in same room. Oh and our “gifts” were the necklaces we were to wear in the wedding

Oh shoot and I forgot photographer (friend) was waiting on final payment to give pictures had them all downloaded to her laptop and never backed them up left her laptop in car and it was stolen out of her car so no pics of the wedding. Guess it should’nt surprise anyone that marriage didn’t last

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Everything about this is awful!!!

Oh man, I love these. Sometimes, people get so crazy and it makes a great story!

So I did not attend this wedding, but I saw photos and some close friends were there. FH and I were not invited until the week before as a B-list. Normally, we don't care if we are B-listed, but the wedding was slapped together so terribly, they didn't realize only 1/4 of the guest list rsvp'd yes. We were clearly the last ditch offer to go and get presents and make the wedding look bigger. Plus, we had our yearly trip to go on that weekend and it was a holiday weekend.

Before I go into detail, there's some pre-wedding stuff. I was friends with the bride, FH was friends with the groom. We both cut ties after a while because the bride became obnoxiously narcissistic and the groom worshiped her to the point of no return. They were flat out annoying.

Come engagement time, the bride babbled on and on about her wedding nonstop to anyone and everyone, regardless if you already heard about it 8x before. They had an 8 month engagement and everyone was thankful when the day finally arrived so they didn't have to hear another word about it. However, the bride clearly put more effort into talking about the wedding rather than planning it.


The date was set 3 months ahead on a holiday weekend, like i mentioned earlier. Many people rsvp'd no because of previous obligations on that weekend. Bride had a fit and they went down their b-list until they ran out of people to ask to come.

Her parents paid for the venue and severely overpriced photographer. The grandma made the cake, which was described as questionable. It was a potluck wedding, which was either not mentioned on their Facebook invite page or nobody bothered to bring any. The mob brought chips, but that was it. No alcohol was served as the bride was underaged and didn't want to pay for it. I dont think the bride and groom paid for anything except their cake topper.

The ceremony was in a rather pretty garden, but the rest of the venue looked like a dump. There are semis in the background of the ceremony photos. It was a bad attempt at a rustic theme, I think. There's a photo of the bride and groom in what I think was once a shed. There was some rusted tools, but the overgrowth of weeds and vines make it hard to tell.

Every single photo except for maybe 4 were of the bride. Most of the photos were a bridal photoshoot with a couple here and there of the bridesmaids in the background. A lot of the group photos looked poorly coordinated and awkward. There were no photos of the guests, reception, if there was any dancing, ext. Just mostly the bride. Like I said, she was super narcissistic at this point.

The wedding lasted maybe 3 hours. The guests that showed up left fairly early since there was no music, no food, no drinks (other than the flasks people snuck in). I almost feel bad! The bride loved her wedding and thinks it's the best wedding ever.

Some side details, she had a HoneyFund and threw a fit when only one or two people donated to it. She also threw a huge fit when nobody bought her expensive items on her registry. I believe the in-laws and her parents wound up paying for a minimoon and one of the registry items.

The bride also did not take into account of what her venue looked like when she chose colors. There was so much purple and a dash of really bright teal. Looked very... prom-ish. There wasn't much decor, so the colors only shined through the wedding party. It looked very odd. The wedding party also wore flip flops, which made me cringe and hope they had tetanus shots.

Sorry for the long post! It was an ettiqutte disaster from what I saw in the photos. I ran into one of the guests/bridesmaids right after the wedding and they told me about the brides fits and whatnot. It must have been awkward!

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If I was a worse person, I would share them. There was actually a girl from a season of The Bachelor there who was a guest and she livestreamed the whole thing.