What's the worst meal you've been served at a wedding?

[Higgeldypiggeldy35]

I'm veggie so unfortunately have had my fair share of shitty wedding meals as the vegetarians often seem to get shafted but this one takes the biscuit. Fancy wedding, very expensive and exclusive venue, meat eaters had a feast and it looked amazing, I was served......a grilled mushroom, and it was cold. This place is probably £100 per head at the very least and the best they could rustle up for a vegetarian was a mushroom. So, make me feel better, what's the worst meal you've been served?
This is meant to be light hearted 🐱

@marcipex, the bride and groom shrugged?! I would have been mortified if my guest had no food! They don't sound like good friends!

I think it was the bride’s mother, I didn’t know her.

Bloody hog roast, with no vegetarian option at all.

@Higgeldypiggeldy35 not that they let on!

Dh was best man so we had inside info - and they paid an eye watering amount for it, over £100 a head...for two quarter triangle sandwiches, minus crusts, and 1 or two thin slivers of cake each (2 only if you were quick). Oh and about 8 brands of tea 🙄

I think the cost was just to cover the crockery which was stunning and clearly very expensive. My heart was in my mouth watching the dc (2 and 4) banging their China cups back on their saucer 🤦🏻‍♀️

Oh god the skinflints who scrimp on food, is there anything worse? My half-sister's wedding was at 11am and they served the meal at 5pm. No canapés or snacks, couldn't even get a bag of crisps from the bar. And then there was no evening food either, get that they were on a budget but ffs. Ditch the fucking jazz quartet and FEED ME.

@lannistunut, ah yes I've had a few of those. Like they think it's ok for us to just eat the side dishes or have a butty with just stuffing in it. Honestly how hard is it to provide one veggie option for your vegetarian guests?! Surely you like these people enough to invite them to your wedding! I was actually quite offended this most recent time to be given a mushroom.

I’m dairy free and have yet to attend a wedding where the dessert is not a plate of fruit.

@hoolihan agree!! Food for me is the best bit of the party.

The wedding meal was fish pie. That was it. I am intolerant to fish so asked for the veggie option. I was brought a plate of runner beans.

I'm not actually veggie, but have asked for the veggie options at a few weddings. One was awful. It was some sort of vegetable Wellington thing at a horrible golf hotel in Wales. Worst wedding meal I've ever had.

The nicest veggie one I've has was probably at a stately home type place in NI. It was a Thai curry with chickpeas and it was damned delicious.

Another non veggie dodgy meal I had at a wedding was at a friend's family's pile in the country. Beautiful canapés, gross main course. Again it was pastry based - chicken pie allegedly, but it was just dry chicken in watery sauce with a pastry lid. There were so many people at that wedding though. It's maybe not easy to cook a half decent meal for that many people.

@fizzypink at my brother's wedding the vegan dessert was an alpro chocolate pudding spooned into a glass bowl. I buy these alot from Sainsbury's so I'm 100% sure it was. It's such a cop out. There are so many options! I mean sorbet would be better than nothing or just fruit!

@Tornadotrinity ooh I'd be well happy to get a curry for a wedding meal!

The one where we didn’t get even a cup of water let alone food, or anywhere to sit (I was 8 months pregnant) because we were friends of the bride. The groom’s family did the catering and the hired the hall you see. That was fun.

@derenstar that's awful!!! Did you say anything to the bride?

@ghislaine oh that one made me laugh. Bet you weren't laughing at the time though!

The vegetarian option at my own wedding was inedible. We had gone to a huge effort to pick something for the veggies that wasn’t awful snd as most were in my family asked from the options available which they’d prefer and on the day it was terrible.
Thankfully we were forgiven because we had made sure there was loads of food and free wine at regular intervals plus we cut and ate the cake so nobody starved.

@Higgeldypiggeldy35 - no, we didn’t want to add to her woes - she spent much of the reception in her uncle's car in tears. We just made our excuses and left. She was a friend from uni, the marriage didn’t last unsurprising.

My cousin. He had a really expensive and pretentious wedding where everyone was complaining about the food. The main meals had no vegetables with them and three cubes of potato. We were all starving by the end of the night. The bride drank Prosecco and gin and the groom drank lager so that was the only alcohol available. We all had to stand outside for 90 minutes in the freezing cold while they turned the room around after the meal. I couldn’t believe they spent so much money on such a shit wedding.

I’ve been to a wedding where there was no food. It was split across the day, so the bride could rest, which is fine knowing her health conditions. Service was 11.30-13.30 ish. Reception for 7pm-10pm (again early finish, due to aforementioned health conditions). The majority of the guests had travelled 150+ miles to get there, abs we were not offered a single crumb to eat all day. No guidance on where to go/see/eat in the 5.5hrs in between either.

The break out party in the Chinese takeaway at around 8.30 pm was excellent though!

The worst wedding I've been to was vegan! It wasn't shit because it was vegan, it was shit because there was fuck all food and what was served came in strange, tasteless combinations.

The bride threw a shit fit when she discovered that lots of guests had nipped out to the local chipper and were eating fish and chips in the carpark...if she'd bothered to feed us, she wouldn't have had that problem.

But the worst actual wedding veggie meal I’ve had was roast chicken, without the chicken, and a field mushroom and slice of aubergine, stuck together with goat’s cheese.

The best wedding I've been to for food and drink was an English/Indian wedding - there was everything from curry to fish and chips on offer, free bar, incredible entertainment and breakfast the next day.

The worst was mouldy bread rolls and some weird lentil soup this is from 1pm to 11pm

My best friends wedding, I was maid of honour. She'd been really stressing about the catering, costs etc, and exclaimed in a joking (deadly serious) way that I had better be grateful because it had cost extra for her to add the veggie option on and I was the only veggie.
Except I wasn't and never have been vegetarian in all the time of knowing her. Christ knows where she got that idea.
So there I was with this grim veggie Wellington that was both sloppy and dry if you could imagine, tasting remarkably like fish whilst everyone tucked into a stunning looking roast.
Was most unamused and famished but can laugh about it now.

Some years ago we stayed at one of ‘The Hotel Inspector’ establishments, VERY expensive. However we thought a treat to ourselves. The hotel itself was mediocre but that’s another story. We were expected to order what we wanted for our dinner every morning?The food was OK but tiny portions. I asked for a cheese course one evening after dessert as I was still hungry. The waiter actually said he would look for some cheese that hadn’t yet been thrown away from other guest’s plates!

Sorry not a wedding!