Worst wedding you've ever been to?

My "worst" was actually a very nice wedding...unfortunately it was half way up a ski resort in CO and the rest of the family flew in from sea level (FL, RI, NYC, etc). They had trouble meeting the F&B minimum because the only ones not too sick from altitude to drink were the grooms bro-dude friends from CO. Also sadly, it turned out the bride was cheating on the groom and left him a few months later. We had a great vacation to CO and Yellowstone the following week though, and it was that trip where FH says he realized I was the one, so I'm not complaining!

The worst wedding I attended is one that I actually was a worker in when I was 18. The whole thing started with the wedding planner didn't know how to set the tables and centerpieces. We ended up changing the decorations three times that day! Things gets worse when the wedding planner tells us we can only serve ONE pizza rolls to the guest. Then for some odd reason the wedding planner pulls out one of those huge big blue trash cans and makes the fruit punch inside the new trash can!! They were low on ice and again we we were require to give only ONE ice cube to the guest. The biggest train wreck I've ever seen. I actually feel very sorry for the bride and family, I actually found out that they paid a lot of money for their wedding planner, but she was terrible. The bride was very disappointed, and her and Fh ended up leaving after first dance.

I'll give most annoying engagement/wedding on planet earth. My FBIL got engaged a year ago. Once engaged they had (no joke) three engagement parties with open bar at all of them. I was present at two of them. By then I had been engaged to the younger brother for 3 years. We were never given an engagement party by his family. There were 8 bridesmaids and 13 women at the bachelorette party. Including the MIL, aunt in law, her own mother, me etc. The bachelorette party cost each person up to $550 to $600 pp if you went to everything they booked. Wedding comes, it's a 4 day event, $200 a night to stay within 20 miles of the venue. FH is the best man, rehearsal starts over an hour late with an open bar so the actual rehearsal was full of drunk people and lasted about two hours. Then dinner so we ate two hours late. They invite the youngest brothers best friend from elementary (young girl) who had no one but me to hang around with during all wedding events. Poor child. The bartenders over pour every drink they gave disgusting margaritas. Every person was drunk, the uncle passed out on the patio. The finished 32 cases of 36 packs of beer and about the same in wine cases. Over three days! I graduated university with my BS in mechanic engineering the day after, the bride congratulated me by commenting on a picture with "thank you for the gift". The day they got back from their honeymoon was memorial day, they had a BBQ, that turned into a wedding gift opening party, talk about awkward and my FH was angry as hes a Navy veteran and thought it was extremely rude. Thats when the bride told my FH his BM duties were over. We thought that ended you know... at the wedding. And 4th of July was the day they shared the TEASER to the wedding video. FH again was mad. It was the most annoying and eye opening year of my life. And very hurtful when it comes to my relationship with the MIL. The bride has been called best daughter in-law the entire year while I've been engaged to the younger brother for as long as the married couple has been dating and still get called the girlfriend.

@Karen I meant the straying fiancé one. I just want to reinforce to that poor girl to get out NOW! It's so sad. :-(

Double post

Of all my cousins' weddings (I have a huge family) one stands out as the absolute worst. First, the bride was 3 HOURS late getting to the ceremony. Some guests even went to McDonald's and came back. The excuse that was given was that the bride lost her shoes, and one of her bm was still having her dress swen. When we finally made it to the reception location, we were told that there was only an hour left to use the venue, and all the food was ice cold. The bride and groom refused to pay for extra time. The worst part...my cousin divorced the bride 6 months later.

Texas. July. Outdoor ceremony. Outdoor reception for non-VIPs, indoors for VIPS. No room for everyone to sit inside during the entries, toasts, and dances, and so we all (non-VIPS) stood awkwardly for over an hour. Bride and Groom never came outside to thank us during dinner - they ate in a private room away from everyone else.

I've shared this before but the worst wedding I've been to was back in high school, the bride was just out of high school and the groom had just turned 21, it was a shotgun wedding and the ceremony was ok... ish.... they played 99 red balloons as they were announced bride and groom which was cool when I was 16, but now I'm like huh? Really? At a church? Everyone had to pay for their own meal at the reception and weren't notified before hand and it wasn't really a reception so much as a bunch of people that were just at a wedding shoved into a very small back woods diner/bar eating by each other. There were other people at said diner/bar that kept asking if it was prom. Bride took her dress off not even hallway through the reception and came back wearing gray baggy sweatpants and a red sweatshirt from our high school with our mascot on it. Groom and groomsmen got very wasted and all had to be driven home and it was just bad. Bad. Bad. Bad.

I was the MOH at my friends wedding two years ago, we actually no longer talk because of others things that went down. But, The wedding was the most unorganized I have ever been too. First there was no rehearsal or rehearsal dinner because the MOG was upset because she helped pay for a lot of the wedding and didn't want to spend more (no judgements there). On the day of the wedding one of the GM showed up not dressed because he thought it was the rehearsal, luckily he made it back to the venue just as he was supposed to walk out for the ceremony. Their DJ was the saving grace of the event, he stepped up and told everyone what to do and where to go, without him I doubt there would have been a wedding. The Bride and Groom were also so drunk that I didn't think they were going to make it through the ceremony. Also Their officiant said my name during the ceremony about 10 times(no joke) because I setup the couple, but it was very awkward.

I learned a lot of what not to do from that wedding.

I think the worst would've been the one where they invited a bunch of people. Invites and all we were sent out. Then they realized they didn't have enough room at the ceremony or reception for everyone so about half of the guest list was asked to please not come.

I could tell you but I'd have to kill you.

I wouldn't say I had any horrendous wedding experiences... Just "different."

I was dating a guy about 10 years ago, his brother got married while we were dating. "Real" wedding happened at Niagra Falls, and it went well. It was in some kind of hall that smelled like pool chlorine. When it came to saying "I do," the brother/groom said "Yup." When they had another ceremony closer to home, it was outside and chilly. The "reception" was all guests going to the family's camp in the woods for self-catered, with a keg and fire. But that's how the couple were. Relaxed and outdoors-y.

I was MOH about 4 years ago to a friend with whom I've lost touch. It was a small, family-only ceremony. The biggest snafu was that there was no DOC, so the BP did not know when to walk down the aisle. A friend was singing for the processional, and the song was over before the last BM, myself, and the bride made it to the aisle. Also, we were drinking mimosas from the time we woke up, so when it came to my toast, I was a wreck. Between stage fright and 7 hours of drinking, I cried, shook, and barely got the words out.

Last year, I was at a coworker's wedding where the DJ got drunk before the reception even started. He announced the groom's brother/best man as the groom then said the wrong last name for the actual groom. Also, there was no reception start time on the invite, so people (myself included) who did not make it to the ceremony were locked out of the hall when we arrived. The small foyer was jammed pack before the hall opened up the main bar (not where the reception was). We all paid for drinks while we waited to be let into the hall.

ETA: I've learned something from each wedding snafu though. Mainly having an actual start time listed for my reception.

CatsBoninCats - I think that is great! I wish I had the talent/ time/ resources to pull that off. I just think that this site can get hypocritical. How can someone say that it is rude to judge these weddings when the same offenses are regularly received with a horrendous response on the same website?

For one wedding I went to, the bridal party had apparently gotten drunk prior to the wedding, and they just about staggered down the aisle. Several guests were in jeans, and some people got ridiculously drunk despite it being a 10 in the morning brunch style wedding. This was no fault of the bride, but the guests were definitely off putting.

- There were no plates at cocktail hour and I was served hummus and ceviche. I ate my hummus off a napkin.

- A donation jar was passed around during dinner. Literally.

The weddings themselves was fine overall, but definitely the most side eyed wedding moments I've experienced.

This wasn't the worse wedding I attended but it was kind of annoying. We couldn't figure out where the alcohol was because there was no bar tender or bar. We finally found the beer in a huge trash can filled with ice when we were about to leave. It made me realize I want it to be very clear where guest can find everything at my wedding!

Ha my friend was just telling me about the WORST wedding which she said was fun other than this....

It was a rustic wedding in the middle of a pasture. It was a real farm so there was animal poop everywhere. The guests were warned to wear appropriate shoes; however, you had to take tractors to get to the wedding area. One of the elderly women in the wedding party FELL OFF THE TRACTOR... INTO POOP!! literally. She was okay and her friend (also elderly) was laughing hysterically. Everyone was okay.

That's the WORST! hahha just saying if you're going for a rustic wedding at LEAST clean the poop..

My sister's wedding last November. Her now husband was wasted by the time pictures started before the ceremony, he wanted to take pictures at the golf course with his clubs and his dress shoes nearly got into a fight with a golfer about it who kindly asked him not to ruin the green (later him and his GM snuck out of the reception apparently peed in it and then stabbed it with the end of their clubs), after that incident the groomsmen pulled out rifles to have their pictures taken with...keep in mind all drunk at a rather posh SoCal golf course and country club with rifles,cops called. And this is all before the ceremony. They spent 60 plus dollars on food per guest which I never got because I was dealing with vendors they hadn't paid. Had to write a check with her hair and makeup because she couldn't be bothered. Later that night he is so wasted that his family insists on driving them back to the hotel, on the drive back he vomits all over the backstreet of the car and on his sleeping niece/flower girl. We all get back to the hotel and he is passed out and has to be carried to their room. The wedding cost over 35,000 and all anyone can remember of it was his drunken antics oh and my sister complains that they didn't get many presents or cash, almost a year later she still complains about this.

The worst wedding I've ever been to was one of my high school friend's. First off the wedding was supposed to start at 4, I got there around 3:45. Most of the guests got to the church on time. The groom got there at 4:15 and the bride did not show up till 6:00 pm( no joke) nothing to eat or drink, some of the guests left. She came in and apologized that her makeup artist was late, she had issues with her dress, blah blah. The ceremony was okay......

When we got to the reception, the guests that did not attend the ceremony had dinner before we got there (buffet style) they probably ate once or twice because their was hardly any food left-- everyone did not get a plate. But there were lots to drink. The bride and groom did not mingle, they proceeded to leave right after the cake cutting and to make up for her tardiness she gave the remaining alcohol to the her guests. So guests were loading cases of beer in their car. It was hilarious!!

Have posted about this before, but once went to a wedding that was:

1. A Quaker Ceremony- lovely idea, but would suggest warning people in advance that you will be sitting in a circle until *anyone* including bride's ex-boyfriend could speak who felt moved to do so.

2. A dry wedding

3. Self-catered

4. Vegan

5. At a community center during the day on a Saturday so there were kids playing in the community pool literally right next to the hall with no curtains drawn so they kept coming up and pressing their faces to the window in their bathing suits

6. All of the music was contradances- again ok if that's your style, but would have been nice to be warned.

This was FBIL's wedding. I figure that there is truly no way ours can be worse unless our venue is actually on fire.