Worst wedding you've ever been to?

Formal wedding in cathedral followed by backyard potluck reception. There was no photographer, no DJ, no outside lighting (where a Pergo dance floor was.) The backyard had a pool and by the end of the night everyone was swimming in their clothes. It seemed more lake a post prom party. I had a blast, but it did not seem much like a wedding.

My FH says his sister's wedding was the worst one he'd ever been too lol. Rehearsal ran twice as long as needed, rehearsal dinner was super late then food wasn't even ordered when we got there. No thank you from the bride and groom for everyone being there, only the bridal party was on the open bar tab everyone else had to pay cash-only reason we were on the open bar tab was bc he was the bride's brother. Groom was wasted by the time the first dance. Groom ended up in emergency room for his wedding night. Food was cold. Lol we learned what not to do at our wedding.

Dry, self-catered wedding in a barn.

ETA: self-catered/potluck finger foods at a meal time

I feel like these threads are kind mehhhh because we're just ripping on people who can't even defend themselves...

If we're talking WW standards, I've been to some pretty horrifying events. Catholic ceremony with no overflow seating. Backyard, self-catered, outdoor wedding in October. (Midwest. Cold.), Self-catered wedding with 100+ guests and only one (warm) keg.

That said. I enjoyed every last one of them without judgement, (even now, after I've ~seen the light~) because I was so happy to be with my friends on such a special day.

Swin - No one has ever been able to successfully defended themselves for self catering or pot lucking on WW. It just becomes fuel for the fire.

Yeah, but at least they get the chance... Instead of getting posted about on some RANDOM website and how their wedding was "the worst wedding ever"- something I've NEVER called a self-catered or pot-luck wedding....

Last night this lady was telling me about a wedding she did the flowers for where the groom got shitfaced and threw a glass - like, a heavy GLASS glass - at the MOB's face.

The worst ceremony I have ever been to was a Catholic ceremony. The priest was super rude at the rehearsal and gave a speech about how the only people worthy to receive communion are Catholics who believe that it is the literal body and blood of Christ and he asked the groom to give him a count on guests who will be receiving communion. At the ceremony, I intentionally didn't take communion and the priest still ran out of communion wafers before the parents of the bride and groom could get any. His homily had nothing to do with love or marriage. He literally printed out a blurb about the saint of the day and read it. FH and I still talk about how bad that ceremony was years later. The reception was good at least.

Posting on behalf of my BM who attended her SIL's wedding a couple weeks ago: Groom called an Uber and left bride behind at reception because she was "taking too long" to pay the DJ for the extra hour HE wanted.

It gets better.

She goes back to my BM's in-laws house, which are her parents', and in the drunken sobbing the family finds out groom has an eharmony account. That she knows about. And she just married the guy anyway. So they all try to convince her to leave him and my slightly psycho BM signs up for eharmony to find him.

Lo and behold, he has posted a picture of my BM's three year old son to claim he's "good with kids" for these poor unsuspecting women looking for love. My BM loses her shit and the next morning calls eharmony, reports the picture and gets it taken down, then gets her new account canceled and refunded, and reports her brand new BIL as married.

It keeps going.

That day the SIL goes back to her new husband, who is livid that my friend's family was trying to tell her to leave him, and he demands she get an apology, to which FIL says "he is not my son in law."

But apparently the actual food and all was fine?

I actually met this couple at my BM's birthday party a year ago and he was so controlling the whole time telling her what she could and couldn't eat and kept yelling at her for drinking a single glass of wine. It was really awkward and we all thought she'd dump him ages ago.

I'm 31 years old, and I only been to one wedding, I was 5 years old. My mom was getting married to my ex stepfather. No one explained to me what to do, so I picked up all the flower petals off the ground, that were already there, and during the ceremony. I was loud, and mad that I couldn't sit with my Grandma and Grandpa, they made me stand with them the whole time. #SorryMom

My cousin's. 2.5 hours away. No plus one, despite having been with my (now) husband for seven years.

They kissed for the first time at the wedding and the pastor announced that it was their first kiss ever. It was uncomfortable.

Cash bar. Wedding was at 4. Sat for dinner at 6. Dinner came out AT NINE PM.

I left right after I ate and I wasn't the only one. And I took my card home with me. #notsorry.

My brother was best man at his first un-wedding ever... Groom was my brother's college wrestling buddy who was having a baby with the to be wife. Her family paid for the wedding and his the rehearsal. It was a church ceremony with a ball room reception. Got time for her to walk down the isle and she never showed.... She ran no one could find her. So the rest of bridal party and guests went to the reception and ate and drank and the groom went home with one of the caterer waitresses lol they have now been dating for a year or two! Can't even make this up lol

Edit: Wouldn't say it was the worst wedding ... My brother enjoyed himself. But it was the most not as planned un wedding lol

@Swin I feel like threads like this are necessary though. If people were giving names then yeah you have a point. No ones giving names though. So if I'm asking for some bad experiences to avoid for my wedding I would want to know some actual experiences.

@misstomrs !!!!!

@KarenP I feel like there's a different thread you should share that story on... Sigh.

Posting for myself, my cousin who had a 7pm ceremony followed by a dry dessert only reception. No dinner AND no booze. She just kept going on about the damn chocolate fountain like that made it okay.

@Cats, my BM said she took her card home with her too.

@Flighty, the craigslist one?

Brittny? Really, it's necessary to know not to marry a jerk who leaves you at the reception?

Or, Were you PLANNING on having kraft singles?

I think most of this stuff is obvious...

@ouradventurebegins: most on here know that my (former chef) husband catered the meats/veg entrees our wedding. We also ordered app trays/salads from our local grocery store and hired someone to serve.

We had a casual, 55 person backyard wedding and nobody has ever thrown it in my face...so...