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 🐱

@WheelieBinPrincess

‘Scran’ at a wedding in Liverpool. That’s what it said on the menu anyway, but we were the last table up and got half a ladle of watery stew and I shared a bread roll with DH.

No evening buffet and the cake was wheeled out to be admired but never served. Bar did a roaring trade in crisps and peanuts.

Do you mean Scouse? That's the local name for stew. Scran is just local slang for food. e.g. "scouse is good scran", or "he's scranned all me ma's scouse". Or "I've ordered a meal from Wu Tan Scran" (but that's the actual name of a Chinese takeaway near me and I've included it because it makes me LOL)

I went to a wedding in the US when I was living there for a year. Strawberry Jelly with vegetables (peas, carrots etc) in was quite a strange starter.

Also a wedding which was entirely veggie (not a problem for me as I love vegetarian food) where the main course could best he described as couscous Wellington - dry and not very tasty couscous wrapped in pastry. Why would you do that?

A second (v small) starter as the grandmother of the bride had decided they wanted a vegetarian meal so the one I’d ordered was given to them!

I think one of the problems is that wedding venues and caterers see pound signs and basically rip of the happy couple. The bride & groom aren't being cheap - they being ripped off.

I've been to several weddings where the way the bride and groom wax on and on about the amazing food they had makes me think we were at different weddings.

At a friend's recent big anniversary, DP made a wise crack about their 'dry' wedding - embarrassment all round. Other friends present who had also been to their wedding agreed. Our friends had no idea how awful the food and lack of drink (any fluids at all) had been for anyone other than the Top table.

@torquewench

Scran is not local slang for food. We say it in Scotland. It isnt local to Liverpool. It's just British slang.

Our friends had no idea how awful the food and lack of drink (any fluids at all) had been for anyone other than the Top table.
They must have been served the same food?

@fiorentina

A second (v small) starter as the grandmother of the bride had decided they wanted a vegetarian meal so the one I’d ordered was given to them!

The utter cheek! Some people never grow out of "yours looks nicer, I want it"!

@GreyhoundG1rl

Our friends had no idea how awful the food and lack of drink (any fluids at all) had been for anyone other than the Top table. They must have been served the same food?

When we booked our wedding food we were asked what we wanted to guests to have. I had no idea that it was a thing to have a two tier food hierarchy. We actually ended up with a hot buffet for everyone in the end.

Wow! I've never heard of this either. It sounds a bit shit, tbh

Many years ago my ex was best man at his best mate’s wedding. Beautiful little local church, bride looked (and was) lovely, then the reception was at the local working men’s club which looked like it had been kitted out for a 7 year old’s birthday party. Trestle tables with paper table cloths printed with balloons, paper cups and plates, some plain, some with balloons, plastic knives & forks. The main course was a tinned ham salad that would have been meagre in the 1970s - lettuce, cucumber, tomato with a piece of bread & butter, and pud was a dollop of Bird’s trifle in a paper case.
Was it supposed to be a retro kids party & they’d forgotten to tell us?

@Davygran

Many years ago my ex was best man at his best mate’s wedding. Beautiful little local church, bride looked (and was) lovely, then the reception was at the local working men’s club which looked like it had been kitted out for a 7 year old’s birthday party. Trestle tables with paper table cloths printed with balloons, paper cups and plates, some plain, some with balloons, plastic knives & forks. The main course was a tinned ham salad that would have been meagre in the 1970s - lettuce, cucumber, tomato with a piece of bread & butter, and pud was a dollop of Bird’s trifle in a paper case. Was it supposed to be a retro kids party & they’d forgotten to tell us?

That's how I feel about this craze for sweet trolleys, tbh. Particularly in cases where the actual food grownups might like to partake of has been skimped on.

@smiffy54

We went to my stepsons wedding last month, o had pasta with cherry toms and goats cheese. Very pleasant, but it was "abroad", lots of sea food, and the other guests were having some right fancy stuff. Most memorable, not a wedding but a posh meal with new colleagues in 1988, vegan at the time, I got sliced avacodo for starter, stuffed avo for main, and a whole avo for dessert.

😂😂

Room temperature Dominos

We went to a wedding that had a hot buffet that was served to you - various things in sauce, chicken, beef, salmon with rice and potatoes. We were on the last table to go up, DH was the last in queue. He held his plate up as the serve looked him in the eye and very seriously served him up 3 labels of sauce. No chicken, no salmon, no beef as it had all gone. No veg or rice and 2 tiny halves of over cooked potatoes. So DH ate sauce. He still brings it up any time wedding food is mentioned.

For me, it was a wedding where the bride and groom were promised a pizza truck as there evening food. The "truck" never appeared but 100 boxes of pizza did- the cheapest, crappiest supermarket pizza that looked like it had been microwaved. Thankfully I don't think the b&g noticed.

[quote TheWoleb]@torquewench

Scran is not local slang for food. We say it in Scotland. It isnt local to Liverpool. It's just British slang.[/quote]
Haha you'd better tell the locals then, as when I used it in Invergordon, Fort Augustus, Portree, Aviemore and Perth, (and also Derbyshire, North Yorkshire and North Wales) so far this year, no-one appeared to understand me and at least 2 people asked what I meant😉

@NotPersephone

I don’t add cream to mushroom risotto, just sometimes at the end when I’m using green veg. But I’ve always started with half a pound of butter and ended with plenty of Parmesan as pp says.

Sheesh, you’ll be telling me it doesn’t have wine in next!

Which makes it non vegetarian.

Parmesan is not a vegetarian cheese.

[quote Fluffycloudland77]@Prettybubblesintheair No, I gave 9 months notice I needed a suitable dish for them for the chef but they all decided to not be vegetarian that day 🤷🏻‍♀️

Christmas lunch is also an occasion to eat meat 🤨 but they’ll send back a starter with bacon in it because their vegetarian.[/quote]
Hmm righto…

@BillyJoe111

We were really honest with people at our wedding, told them we were broke so couldn’t buy any alcohol as the three course lunch in the pub for everyone had taken all our money (it was just a reg office, my dress was £5 from a charity shop, all the money we had went on feeding people).

we had everyone to ours first and we did a brunch - massive amounts of bagels, sandwiches, fruit, drinks before the reg office.

Then a late lunch and that was it. We had the back room of the pub and a little bit of the garden all eve, they could stick around and have a drink with us or go home or somewhere else no pressure we made that clear on the invite (we were in london, most came from elsewhere a few said they were looking forward to a night out elsewhere
after).

Didn’t stop people moaning on the day that there was no evening entertainment or food even though we made it clear there wasn’t going to be, we apologised when we invited people that we couldn’t afford to buy drinks and they would have to buy their own from the pub bar.

They were mainly all dh friends as i’m a billy no mates, some were so offended they were vile to him after and some never spoke to him again. One even sent him the receipt from nando’s and expected him to pay as they had been hungry in the evening

Lunch was a bit shit but you get what you pay for and dh wanted lots of his friends there so what can you do on a tight budget.

Sometimes there isn’t anything you can do to stop people moaning about a wedding!

This wouldn’t have bothered me at all, I admire your honesty. A friend of mine had her reception at a local pub, paid to hire the room only & told guests food was available but at their cost because they had no spare cash. Let’s be honest, if you care about the bride and/or groom you wouldn’t mind having to pay for your own meal if you want one, you wouldn’t want them to go into debt just to pay for other people’s food I’m sure!

[quote rookiemere]@Natsku agreed. I quite often pick the veggie option when out but lately there has been a trend for vegan cheese to feature

Sorry off topic [/quote]
Many restaurants are now conflating vegetarian with vegan and just offering a vegan dish. It annoys the living shit out of me because it’s lazy and most vegetarians like dairy.

I was booking a local restaurant the other day and noticed that their previously excellent vegetarian menu had been repackaged as vegan and only featured two dishes, neither of which I would want to eat (lots of roasted vegetables).

Just remembered another one. Travelled 300 miles with a 5yo to a friends wedding, she knew
I was vegan, wedding was very much on a tight budget and was pork on brioche rolls veggie option was quorn sausages (not vegan) and pudding was ice cream from the ice cream van and evening cheese and biscuits it was in a tiny village so no where else to go. Luckily 5yo was only veggie so she could eat.

No "meal" at all... odd bits brought out on trays which we thought were the hor d'oeuvres- we didn't take them thinking it would spoil the main meal but that was it.. we went to our hotel room totally starving!

Here in NI there is nearly always something served after the ceremony in the church hall. Tea or coffee sausage rolls sandwiches and the obligatory traybakes. Sometimes dh and I will stop and have a light lunch after the ceremony if we know the meal is not for a while. I feel really fortunate as I have been to lots of weddings and have never encountered any really bad meals. I am flabbergasted that people have actually not even been given any food at all. Here the buffet for the evening do is also usually very well stocked. I have even had chips and burgers. Not feeding people would be seen as something shameful here and you would be the talk of the town.

No meal at all! Just a grazing table. Also no plates or anywhere to sit down properly.

It was awful and I was starving.

I dont eat meat and are so fed up with feeling second class, weddings, nights out, festivals, it was getting better till the vegans revolted. CHEESE LOVER HERE. Sorry not sorry.