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 🐱

@BillyJoe111

I’ve been to a few weddings over the years that do buffets.

Caterers always say there will be enough, but NEVER underestimate the greed of some people at a buffet table. And the greedy ones will be the first in the queue with sharp elbows for second helpings leaving slim pickings for the rest.

Always over order. IME, catering companies vastly underestimate how much a person will take - no one will ever take 2 sandwich triangles and one slice of quiche.

Ain't that the truth... Greed is clearly in evidence the way some people pile their plates so high ..Do they not consider those behind in the queue?

I’m vegan (I have a dairy allergy)

At my sisters wedding I had 5 wafted thin slices of melon as a starter no main and 4 strawberries with three cubes of champagne jelly (That I didn’t eat as I couldn’t trust it was veggie friendly jelly)

My sister had arranged for me to have a special nut roast with roast potatoes and vegetables.
But when it was server it came out with a huge slab of goats cheese on top of it, they took it back to the kitchen, scooped the cheese off and brought it back out.
I explained I have a milk allergy, I can’t eat something with cheese on it, even if ‘most’ of it has been taken off.
They didn’t have anything else I could eat apparently.
Worst, all the potatoes were roasted in goose fat, and all of the vegetables were tossed in butter (and they said they didn’t have any more)

So I had bread and lots of wine.

But the part I am still, years later, not over is that they had an elaborate cheese board thing for the evening, I brought a load of dairy free cheeses for me, DP and DS (it was over £30 worth of vegan cheeses)
And the receptionist at the hotel stole them.

When checking in the morning of the wedding with my family my sister took the cheeses and asked them to put them with the other wedding cheeses. The receptionist went through them in the bag oohing and aching and explained she had a dairy intolerance and had never found a cheese she liked, we chatted about the cheese I had brought and she said she’d love to try them, I told her she was welcome to try whatever was left after the wedding.
It turned out she finished her shift soon after and didn’t want to miss out so decided to just help herself before the wedding and took them all home with her, the hotel staff called her after they couldn’t find them during the wedding and she admitted it, they said there was nothing they could do. 😠

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!

The evening buffet was just sweets. Not even good sweets either!

A spoonful of roasted vegetables. I have Crohn's disease and am very lactose intolerant. Bride and groom sent a cute little RSVP form out with a space to tick if veggie/allergies etc, which we duly filled in. When the wedding came, they had ignored all of that and all I got all day was a spoon of veg. It was in the middle of nowhere as well, so no chippy etc nearby. We left early!

Absolutely nothing...budget wedding, couple got married at 12pm at 3pm we were served a small pre packaged slice of cake and a coffee. The buffet wasn't opened until gone 9pm.

My 2 DD were both bridesmaids and had pretty much gone from the hair salon straight to the wedding.

If it wasn't for the local chip shop across the road from the venue the kids would have gone around 12 hours without food they were only 3 and 7 at the time.

Me and DP didn't have chips as we thought it would look really rude for adults to be eating chips at someone's wedding and were absolutely starving by the time the evening buffet was opened granted the evening buffet was huge one of the biggest I've seen so plenty to go around it was just the waiting for it that was the issue

At my sisters wedding I had 5 wafted thin slices of melon as a starter no main and 4 strawberries with three cubes of champagne jelly (That I didn’t eat as I couldn’t trust it was veggie friendly jelly)

I forgot the add.

The starter for everyone else was thin slices of melon, meats, I think it was prosciutto and something else, and cheeses with crusty bread.

So they just took out the meat and cheese and gave me the rubbish melon. They didn’t even give me extra.

The desert for everyone else was some kind of chocolate gnash pot, with strawberries and champagne jelly.
So again, I just got the sides.

A brown sugar pavlova it was rock hard and the spoon wouldn't go into it. My SIL had been boasting about this "delicacy" for weeks and it was awful!

We went to one where the reception was at McDonald's. Had to buy it ourselves too. Quite nice actually, it broke the mould and made it memorable at least!

@OnlyFantastic

Afternoon Tea.

Beautiful to look at and delicious. Dainty cucumber sandwiches with no crust, amazing, delicate slices of beautiful cakes. The most aesthetically pleasing meal I've ever seen.

Also totally inadequate as a 'meal' at 4pm for hungry guests who'd been out since 10. The amount of food per person was less than I'd usually give my 4 year old. Every plate was hoovered clean within 5 minutes and we were still starving. The evening buffet wasn't served till 8.30 and people were grumpy and hungry.

Been to a wedding just like this. As we walked into the room and the tables were covered with sandwiches and cakes (displayed nicely) everyone on my table thought it was a appetizer type of thing and the 'proper food' would be server later. No such luck. Also one of the people on my table was a celiac, so totally screwed. There was a hell of a lot of free booze on offer though - a very bad combination!

It didn't help build up my opinion of British weddings as the previous weddings I'd been to hadn't been great either/

Previous one, whilst not sandwiches was whole inadequate - it was worse food - was like food that's prepared to caterer for a mass d people even though it was for far fewer than a mass of people) and some of the food hadn't even been defrosted! There was also no complimentary drink offered even for the toast, no music and the bride and groom didn't greet any of their guests.

Before that the other wedding I was at in Britain offered haute cuisine. Not a lot on the plate - Dh and I were waiting for the plates vegetables that were listed on the menu only to sadly discover that the small balls on the plate were the vegetables. We had a family at our table who were all vegetarian and the said their (small amount of) food was cold. Rest of the wedding was amazing though, can't fault that at all - and then sandwiches were brought out on mass in the evening (for which there was a stampede!). In fairness to the groom he had told us at breakfast to eat well and make sure we were sated and we'd (all wedding guests present) had been out for a big meal the day before - just the wedding meal was sparse.

Prior to that the another wedding in Britain was similar - just not enough food severed up as the main meal (no meat to the horror of many guests - the place wouldn't serve it as it was owned by a vegetarian apparently) - and then cheese and biscuits offered at around 10.30pm. Now I like cheese and biscuits but they aren't a meal. The groom as Irish and hence close to half the guest were too - and if anyone knows Irish weddings one thing that's expected is to be feed (a lot!)

My dad-whos veggie
A plate of grated cheese and a single lettuce leaf
He hates cheese
Me-nothing-they did about 30 baked potatoes for 150 people
I had to run to sainsburys to feed me and the kids

I'm veggie and have had more than my fair share of rubbish meals but a stand out was mushroom risotto - virtually uncooked mushrooms, drowned in cream and dumped on top of cold, half cooked rice.

So basically if you're planning a wedding;
No hog roasts unless there's a veggie alternative
No deep fried beige buffet
No afternoon tea style unless it's plentiful
Make sure there's a proper veggie and vegan option

DH still rages about my cousins wedding. Food was the wrong side of mediocre, dry meat, watery mash, an over cooked goat cheese tart for the veggies, a chocolate torte far too rich to more than nibble at.

But the bit oh so mild mannered DH rages at - the chef came out to do a victory lap of the tables like he was some kind of celebrity, leaning on chairs and chatting to people in grease stained whites with a scraggly tea towel in the midst of the reception. It’s years, and he’s still not over it.

Wasn't a wedding , sorry, but my nanas funeral.
My mum paid for a buffet, yes it was really only family members.
The staff had laid out the usual, sausage rolls, dry sandwiches bit of salad and some spring rolls etc.
Loads left.
We didn't even get dessert, was laid out as the staff started to clear the table.
When asked what the hell, this was paid for! We were buying drinks at the bar. They said the buffet was for an hour before regulars came to the pub.
Mum said leave it out as the regulars could help themselves.
No the pub charges the regulars to help themselves!
We weren't even allowed a doggie bag

As a vegetarian also I was served the most salty bean cassoulet, it was disgusting I couldn’t eat more that one mouthful without a glass of water, I think he must of put a whole tub of salt in the dish.

The worst dessert was profiteroles, I like profiteroles but the cream in the centre had gone on the turn and it was like hot, sour milk inside, nobody ate them I heave thinking about them now!

At my sister's wedding all the food, hot and cold was served in cardboard boxes lined with tinfoil. There was greasy leakage everywhere and everything tasted of foil. For the caterer to not even lash out on disposable plates was shocking. It wasn't cheap either.

Years ago I went to a wedding where they served ham salad on paper plates with plastic cutlery, and that was it. Bride and groom cut the cake but it wasn't served to the guests.

And DH and I were invited to a wedding as evening guests and there was no buffet at all. Later we learned that the wedding had been just before lunch, there were drinks and very small nibbles after the wedding ceremony. There was then an announcement that the bridal party would be departing for lunch, and guests were told that they had some 'free time' before the evening reception was to start. People we're left scrambling around to find somewhere to get something to eat.

Another one with a buffet where there was nothing left when our table was called. I was 8 months pregnant and starving!

I ate all the mini cakes on our table (with the blessing of everyone else) and ate a whole tin of Pringles when we got back to our room. DH was drunk and snoring away 😂

My "worst meal" is a bit of a strange one.

Friend wedding. For legitimate reasons, no-one liked or approved of the bride, but we went out of loyalty.
Wedding breakfast was 2 hours late, because most of the guests didn't turn up. The venue had to rearrange the tables so it wasn't obvious and cause embarrassment.

Really delicious food and lots of it because we ate the missing guests food.

3 hours later at the evening do, again, none of the evening guests showed up, there was only 30 people in a place that catered for 150.
They brought out a gorgeous buffet.
Problem was, we were all still full from the wedding breakfast.

We tried to eat a couple of bits, but I felt sick from overeating.

It really was excellent food, shame no one was there to enjoy it.

I went to a huge Indian wedding in a very expensive London hotel... really lavish. Food was absolutely delicious but there was barely any of it. So tiny samosas were put on each table...so of it was a table of eight, there were exactly eight samosas. Delicious bowls of curry and rice were put on each table so you could serve yourself. Literally only enough for one small spoon each. I love Indian food and was gutted and starving! So much alcohol on each table though! I don't think it was the hosts fault as it seemed like a no expense spared type of wedding. I can only imagine the caterers fucked up!

@yumscrumfatbum

A vegetable lasagne served in half a pineapple. It was foul, sweet, acidic and cheesy at the same time.

I'm very sorry for your disappointment, but I'm afraid I'm sniggering away uncontrollably at this.

Friends wedding where the caterers were really slow serving everyone, we were the last to get ours, everyone else had finished dessert by the time ours arrived. Neither fish nor noodles are improved by sitting around getting cold. We had... fish noodles.
no attempt seemed to have been made to cook /dish up fresh, so the last to be served didn't even get them warm never mind hot. So fish noodles put on a plate and then about 40 minutes later put in front of you. Yum.

I'm allergic to cumin and chocolate. The "big UK bash" for friends who married abroad with nobody there except their parents promised to be fantastic from the invite and request for food choices. Except it turned out to be curry and chocolate cake only as that was what most people had ticked, and no alternatives available.

I was in hospital and ordered what I thought would be a safe option - an omelette. I lifted the lid to find an omelette smothered in gravy. Grim.

Midwife