Worst wedding you've ever been to?

We have been to a LOT of weddings over the years - like probably close to 20 weddings. The one's that stick out in my head as "bad" had - 1) cash bar 2) ran out of appetizers during cocktail hour 3) a big unhosted gap between the ceremony and reception 4) No one danced, because the couple didn't dance - that's the worst!! That's happened at like 3 weddings I've been to. 5) Dry wedding, and many of the guests brought alcohol in flasks and poured their own drinks at the tables, very not classy.

Note: this was not all the same wedding, haha.

Future Mrs C. I recently went to a wedding that the bride and groom did the same thing, they mailed out invites and the groom ended up spending the wedding g money he had saved on their honeymoon. After the bride found out she sent nice univites out to the people they felt like cutting. We were still invited.

I was invited to rehearsal dinner but wasn't allowed to eat. They had a honeyfund and dollar dance, I had to stand in heels without food or anything to drink for 3 hours so the BP could take pictures before the ceremony (which fine to do, but why make me be there so early to stand around.. At least give me some damn water!), BBQ that had been sitting outside for 2 hours, and the bride was cussed me out for not letting my FH hang out with his brother, her husband (I was just sitting at a table?). They called me out to do the bouquet toss even though I clearly said I didn't want to, and I had to sit next to 6 people I didn't speak the same language as or know. It was cold, and outdoors. Then I had to help clean up after the bride and groom left at the end of the night. The groom has cheated on his wife multiple times since, but she only knows about the hook ups at the club. No one will let me tell her about the time he went to Mexico and fell in love with another woman. Not the worst wedding on this thread, but I was 100% miserable the entire time.

Mine fire hall terrible food, I was pregnant, paper tablecloths, and worst part my now ex was no where to be found during the reception. Turns out he was in the parking lot getting high. It was doomed from the get go...

Teired bar. Wasn't even subtle. Only 1 family (bride's maternal) got free drinks. Everyone else (bride's paternal and both sides of the groom's family) got cash bar.

So disgusting.

@LemonadeSprings- "unless our venue was actually on fire" hahahaha

This summer FH and I went to a dry, self catered wedding.

A friend I haven't seen in at least 7 years invited me to her wedding near my hometown. FH and I went because I felt bad not going. We didn't know anyone there. Dinner was self catered by family, and consisted of chicken, salad, green beans and a dinner roll and nothing else. I hate chicken, so it was veggies and salad for me. To make matters worse, the bridal party didn't come in until people were already done eating. And before the bridal party even finished their dinner, people were walking up and grabbing pieces of sheet cake. I don't know why, but that really irked me.

I was my cousin's MOH two years ago. We had to plan her wedding within a month. In that month's time we went to get our bridesmaids dresses and after ordering the dress shop the first time didn't order and we drove about three hours to pick them up. They had them the next week but screwed my dress and the groom's sister's dress up. Luckily it was same size just a different cut than suppose to be, this was a week before the wedding. We went out of state for her wedding (no invitations was mailed to us). Got through the ENTIRE ceremony and got to the "reception" that was held at a hotel's buffet. Bride and groom went in and left the rest of us (roughly 30 of us) outside and was like "oh you guys have to pay for your buffet". NEVER mentioned it to us once. Some we caught off guard and my mother and uncle pitched in to purchase everyone's $20 buffet. Needless to say they are still not over it.

I've posted this before, but we went to FH's friend's wedding. I didn't even know the couple at the time. We drove 6 hours round trip to be served rock candy and water. There was no dancing and the whole wedding and reception lasted about an hour. Talk about a waste of a Saturday

Prior to sending out STDs, the bride approached me and asked if it would be okay if she just invited me, and not FH (we weren't engaged, yet, not that it should make a difference). I initially told her that I would need to double check with him before giving her an answer. He was kind of indifferent about it at first, so we kind of just told her we understood to humor her. I felt like it would have been rude of me to tell her she was wrong. The odd thing was that she was friends with both of us. She was closer to me, but she had known FH longer. I think someone in her BP saw her guest list and told her that she technically was supposed to invite both of us, and she probably was stubborn and said "I don't care," so she was probably told that she needed to give me a heads up before sending me an invite for 1. I can attest that being told that your SO is not invited actually makes the situation worse.

So the wedding comes. We had decided I would go, as he's gone to weddings without me that I wasn't invited to, as well. They had a signature drink that was free, as long as the supply lasted. Everything else was a cash bar. No, the margaritas didn't last all night.

Next, I go to find my table with my best friend, who was there without her husband. We get to the table and find that there aren't enough seats for the number of people trying to sit there. The couple didn't include their head table on the searing chart, and the spouses of the BP members and their children (the FG and RB) had not been informed they were expected to sit at the head table. Since the tables had been assigned based on social circle, the four individuals with no seat assignments joined the table where all their friends were: my table. We were left with two people sharing a seat for quite some time before someone finally came and got the two husbands and two kids. And even when that happened, it became painfully obvious that there really weren't chairs for all of the guests. The couple had not counted the two children.

The RB had apparently learned at grandma's house recently that if you're out in the backyard and have to go potty, unzip and go! So he got caught with his pants down during the reception.

The RB also got lost during the reception, which was outdoors, on a farm, without a lot of fenced in areas, in the dark. The reception stopped to hunt him diwn with cell phone flashlights. He was okay. He had to go to the bathroom again, and had apparently learned his lesson from trying to pee outside the first time, and has attempted to go find the bathroom. He just didn't tell anybody or ask an adult to go with him.

I have been to a ton of weddings and none of them have come to close to being like any of these! They have all been quite lovely actually!

I ended up at a dry wedding for a cousin of FH (non-religious ceremony and neither person in recovery). My food was cold. They attempted to bake cupcakes themselves and produced the literal worst dessert I've ever tried to eat. The bride had planned no less than 5 "audience participation" games. She then was upset that people weren't dancing other than the kids. No "bride", your hot chocolate bar doesn't make me want to party. Maybe she could have not invited the pack of teenage girls she coaches and they could have served their families a glass of wine. FH and I gave a card and separate cash from his parents. It's been nearly one year, and do you think we ever got a thank you? Of course not!! But I bet she had (as her invitations had advertised) "The best day ever!!!"

I've been to some interesting weddings... They all were good overall, just bad details!

1. I was MOH for a wedding earlier this year where the groom very obviously did not want a wedding but the bride did. So he complained loudly about having to do it (they only had 12 people there INCLUDING them and it was a 10 min ceremony with dinner... Ended by 7pm!) He looked miserable the entire time on top of that, and his side of the family brought their big gulp cups to the ceremony and sat on their phones the whole time. Didn't thank anyone, didn't hug anyone, complained after one picture and said it was enough. To this day he loudly states he never wanted a wedding. The bride just takes it and now pretends she didn't want it either. Sad.

2. A wedding I attended a few years ago had a pastor that was an odd friend of the bride and groom and spend the whole ceremony making jokes about how the groom was smelly, and the bride was the best he would ever have but he couldn't say the same for her... Very distasteful jokes and they caught on with other guests who continued them throughout the evening. Maybe the bride and groom didn't mind them, but I and others (judging by others faces and reactions) found them to be offensive and disrespectful!

I worked for catering at Michigan State back in the day. It was the school's Hotel Restaurant majors. Anyway this couple got married and the bride got mad, because the cake wasn't how she wanted it, so she threw a tantrum and sent it back. Then everyone started eating it! Then she wanted it back and it was like half gone! OMG! I can't believe we did that now! Terrible, but we were all just laughing and got in trouble with the manager.

I really wouldn't call it the worst wedding ever. But my cousins ceremony was 2 hours long. Two. Hours. Then we had to drive almost an hour to the reception venue. Then the cocktail hour went wayyyy late because they took forever with pictures. It was probably 8 by the time we even got into the actual reception space for dinner(ceremony started at 4). But after that, it was a lot of fun.

TWO HOURS Melissa? Yes, I needed to yell because that is bat shit crazy. My family is Catholic so I'm used to ceremonies being on the longer side. I cannot even imagine what could have possibly taken that long.

The wedding was beautiful and I love the couple but they served chicken nuggets. Like not catered. Actual frozen chicken nuggets from the grocery store. As the main meal.

Potluck reception, ran out of food before everyone could eat and the only thing to drink was tap water

FH was in a wedding that had self catered CHILI and they made the BP, AND their SO's make the cupcakes for the wedding. The couple had an attitude when any questions were asked before hand, and when their online rsvping messed up.Had to park and walk half a mile to the actual wedding. Oh and needless to say it was dry.

Mass wedding at a mall. About 150 couples. Downtown Julie Brown was the emcee. Can't make this shit up.