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 🐱

@judgerindersminder that's appalling!! So rude!

@acrossthepond55 that's awful. Did the groom apologise?

Sandwiches and crisps in a university's large common room (the couple weren't students though). The cake was also purely for show. Marriage didn't last!

The guest next to me had a false nail in his dinner

The guest next to me had a false nail in his dinner

We went to a wedding where the bride was a wheat-free vegan, so the food was vegan and wheat free. So was the meal. I had some sort of carrot Stew which was just about edible- but very blind and watery. DH had the alternative option, can't remember what it was but he said it was disgusting and didn't eat it.

I think the problem was the food had been cooked by friends of the bride and groom, who weren't vegan themselves and weren't used to cooking for 100+ people.

Historically stingy friends of DH who had lost a ‘vote for us to win a wedding’ comp but went on to have a reception in an awful pub. Buffet of just inedible food. Found myself in the travelodge at 3.30 in the morning raiding the vending machine.

@JudgeRindersMinder What cf, how rude of them. Did anyone say ‘well if that’s the case, I charge £50 per hour.’

Nearly every wedding or big venue (such as a ball) I go to they serve chicken breast as dry as the Gobi desert. Can’t stand it. Why can they never cook chicken properly en masse, pisses me right off. Even adding a sauce is pointless.
One wedding I went to with such low quality food the b and groom spent a fortune. We had to wait around while they took photos of the church opposite which they didn’t even marry in. No canapés or such like while we waited. Tbh, I was 8 months pg at the time, so standing in my feet waiting for photos was not my idea of fun. When the buffet came out in the evening, I thought I was seeing things and going around un circles as there was about four choices all laid out repetitively on the buffet table, like a Groundhog Day feast.
They’re divorced now, hey ho.

A golden buffet that was deep fried, breadcrumbed everything that looked like it all came from Iceland. Not a piece of greenery to be seen.

@foodtoorder

I often think my wedding was shit food. It was meant to be a vintage village hall wedding but I don't feel it was executed well enough. Basically buffet style but all on individual tables which was already laid on arrival. The saving grace was the tonne of cupcakes, scones, cream and jam as well as the pimms and ridiculous amount of wine and champagne per table. It makes me cringe and I wonder if others thought the same on the day. I would do it differently now.

@foodtoorder that sounds lovely! Why do you think it wasn't executed well enough?

A rich but tight couple served up a delicious meal of Haribo.

[quote Higgeldypiggeldy35]@acrossthepond55 that's awful. Did the groom apologise?[/quote]
Oh Lordy no! He was so in thrall to her (still is as far as we know) that she was beyond fault and could not possibly be blamed for anything.

There were any number of similar incidences involving the groom's friends and family, I was by no means singled out for her nastiness although I got more than my fair share. Her object, and she achieved it, was to alienate him from those who loved him. She's a classic narcissist and honestly treated him like shit. But he just couldn't see it. Classic victim of emotional abuse.

My DH eventually had a very frank chat with him about her 'affect' on him (friend) and on those who loved him and he was told that she was his wife and he would never choose anyone over her no matter what she did. DH and I chose to back away from them at that point and they (DH and his friend) haven't spoken in years.

I am veggie and went to a wedding where all the food was veggie so I had high hopes. The food was awful! The rice salad was the most disgusting thing ever, congealed mush dotted with hard peas. Grim.

Conference banquet. Savoury crumble for my dinner that had been made with wholemeal flour and oil, looked like sand and was as claggy in the mouth.

Inedible, I couldn't even vaguely work out what the contents were.

Pudding was a crumble again with different contents - the people at my table burst out laughing as the waitress went to put it in front of me and she actually said, "You're not going to be able to eat this are you?"

We were nowhere near a supermarket or even a small shop. By day 3 of the conference I was out in the grounds, trying to pick enough blackberries to give me even a small meal.

The worse was soup from a packet for starters and tinned fruit cocktail for dessert. I cannot even remember the main. This was DH cousins wedding and we had listened to them for over a year about how great the hotel was and how the food was amazing. They actually went to their room and counted the money they received as gifts as soon as they arrived at the hotel. Both got pissed and never came near DH side of the family.

Sorry - I've only just seen that this was about weddings.

The cake looked OK from a distance but we were expected to pay for it if we wanted a piece, in cash,

I've literally never heard of this before today. Is this a thing?

Beef that wasn't rare it might as well have been mooing. The rest of the food was covered in blood. I threw up after a few forced mouthfuls.

Hate queuing for good at a wedding. Just feels like a canteen.
The worst I’ve had is not nearly as bad as some of those posted .It was a winter wedding and there was snow on the ground. The venue was very expensive but there was no heat in the huge room. They decided to do speeches before the meal which I think is a good idea except that the groom chose 5 best men and each one made a speech!!! They were all half cut and the speeches went on and on. I was starving and cold and then the food was served and it was cold too. Roast potatoes were brought to the table and they were warm. I just didn’t warm up at all and got a big headache. In the evening bacon rolls were served……cold.

[quote Oceanbliss]@JudgeRindersMinder What cf, how rude of them. Did anyone say ‘well if that’s the case, I charge £50 per hour.’[/quote]
Sadly not, the guys were all only about 21 at the time, technically adult, but without the confidence that age brings you

Cousins wedding. They got married at 2pm on a Saturday...the "reception" was in the Community Centre and was off-limits until 8.30pm. We left at 8, as we'd taken my really quite ill Aunt and Uncle and she needed more medication (which had to be taken with food and she'd missed her early evening dose, so was in a lot of pain).
I don't think I've ever forgiven them for their thoughtlessness.
Oh, and apparently they were having photos taken...hence the delay.

Sorry, I also didn’t realise it’s about weddings.

An obvious powder soup. Leek and potato that still had bits of powder floating that hadn't dissolved.
It was lukewarm and by the time we ( last table) were served our starters the more important guests had already finished their dessert.
I'd have been highly embarrassed if that was my wedding.

My friends wedding, the caterers took the buffet back into the kitchen before everyone had finished eating. Friend went in to ask them to bring it back out. All the staff were stood around eating it!
That was one of many issues she had with the venue. She complained and got done money back.