Worst wedding you've been to?

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My worst wedding memory was when DH's cousin got married. He was reluctant to go, and said it might get rough....It did, rather! Drunk old Uncle Wilf fell down the steps and broke his leg, and the bridegroom had to be restrained from attacking his new MIL with a bottle of wine! DH's mum chided his brother for not going, saying "You missed a lovely wedding! "

Nowhere near as bad as some of these, but I went to my DCousin's wedding a number of years ago - my aunt and uncle (DCousin's parents) had split up when he was 18 months old due to his DM's extra-marital affair. My Aunt then moved on to the Other Man as soon as they'd split up and my cousin ended up being mostly raised by his dad and aunt (his mum's sister) as his Mum was too busy shagging her new man to look after her own child.

That's a bit of background to explain why we were so confused on the wedding day in question.

Other than the Aunt that helped raise my Cousin, the entirety of the rest of the family on the DM's side completely blanked my uncle and us. It was like the breakdown of their relationship was somehow his fault, even though she was the one that cheated and effectively abandoned her own child.

In fairness to my cousin's mum, she was actually pretty pleasant on the day - it was the rest of the family.

We spoke briefly to my cousin's maternal grandmother, who in those 5 minutes managed to throw in numerous derogatory comments about my uncle (that I quickly and politely shot down before my own DM wasn't as polite!).

I felt so sorry for my Uncle - it was his child's wedding but he was left on the sidelines and had to put up with people giving him a death stare throughout his speech (yes - father of the groom speech!). His new wife had decided not to attend, which I'd thought was odd when they told us, but given the "welcome" that my uncle (and we!) had received, it was totally the right decision.

Thankfully for my cousin, he didn't seem to pay any attention to it, and clearly adores his dad and made plenty of time for us too. He just either didn't notice, or didn't want to rock the boat with the other side of the family.

It wasn't a wedding but I got to go to Spain for free because the groom pulled out 3 days before. My family were going to go and had hotel plus plane. My uncle didn't want to take time off if no wedding so I took his spot. We had a really nice long weekend. The 'bride and groom' spent time with guests as some had come from really far away. They ended up getting married in a tiny ceremony 2 years later.

Other was a good friend. For some awful reason the venue started taking decorations off before the reception even ended. Bride and groom disappeared soon after the first dance without even saying bye.

My own - what a waste of time and money that turned out to be.

A dry one, no one danced and most people left really early.

Went to a family friends wedding. The brides sister had been shagging her bils brother but he didn't want to marry her so she had a quick wedding to someone else. She hadn't wanted bil's brother to be invited and had warned that there would be drama if he was. No-one thought she was serious and he was invited. She chucked a drink over her bil and her ex. Went for the ex causing the cake to fall and land on brides trail. Then police were called. There was a buffet and my dad was back and forth because the queue had disappeared. Everyone else was just shocked. The bride was sat on stage sobbing for the rest of the reception. The brides sister has 3 kids with her dh but is still shagging the ex. Bride does not speak to her sister, neither does her other sister (married to the bil).

This was a Muslim wedding so no alcohol involved that they could blame the behaviour on!

I would have been down the pub with the men 😂

The groom was a musician so the band were his friends, and absolutely top notch. However, they spent literally an hour tuning up around us before they played anything resembling an actual song. They were all so achingly virtuoso they had to bong various single notes over and over and over again to ensure their instruments were tuned to the nth degree, the bass aligned to the moon while the lead guitar was in Saturn, or whatever... 😂

@womaniswomaniswoman - the only place I’ve ever had a split wedding invite was in Scotland!

Worst wedding for me was one where the groom was shagging the bridesmaid and Friends style said the wrong name. To be fair to them the food was decent, prompt and there was no waiting around!

The only 'bad' wedding I went to was this really extravagant three day affair. It was just far, far too long, absolutely ridiculous in retrospect that they expected guests to take 3-5 days out of their lives for a bloody wedding and even more ridiculous that we agreed to go for it all. Everyone peaked on the first day and was just beyond knackered on day two. By day three you could see people just didn't want to be there anymore. The groom seemed worried like he could tell it had been a mistake, the bride was blissfully unaware! They're still married (happily to my knowledge), but I'd never agree to a wedding that lasts longer than a day again. Makes sense if it's abroad but a local wedding that long just screams egotistical.

Back alley reception in a random bar when the bride and groom are swingers and the other boyfriend / girlfriends where present while the IPod played “smack my bitch up”

When it was announced everyone started off being really enthusiastic about a champagne candlelit Christmas Eve snowy chapel wedding. (to be fair it was a stunning wedding)

As the day arrived everyone realised it was a logistical nightmare for every family there. The guests stressfulness thinking about all the arrangements they needed to be be making for guests, food and their Christmas day. The atmosphere was wildly unpleasant everyone was bickering and snappy. It was a child free event which seemed a good idea to be free of the kids for a few hours running up to Christmas but it overran massively ramping up the stress levels to tinderbox levels.

After the lovely wedding everyone decamped to the coaches to be shipped to the party venue. On arrival it turned out that they had a power outage, so the food was much less than expected and the whole venue was freezing cold. When it was discovered there had been a booking error with the coaches meaning they were not coming back until much later than expected (and no one could get a taxi for love nor money) there was near on a riot.

This really made me laugh sorry

Oops forgot to quote!

The one where the groom didn’t show because his idiot brother and mates put him on an overnight ferry to Scotland on his stag THE NIGHT before and he couldn’t get back in time for the ceremony… he made it back for the evening so and they got married a week later at the town hall instead of in church

definitely not the worst, but most excruciatingly awkward. lovely venue (riverside hotel), lovely catering, generally good vibes all round....

EXCEPT: for the celebrant's speech. 'When {bride} laid her eyes on {groom} for the very first time, she said 'that's the man I'm going to marry!'

...the bride had first met groom when he was dating her best friend, several years previously; and who was in the room as a bridesmaid. bride had - apparently - never shown any interest in groom until well after the break-up. those who knew, knew. just excruciating.

BIL and SIL's wedding in the back garden. Went on for hours in the sweltering heat, nothing to eat, nothing to drink and when we did get to eat the buffet had been sitting out for so long that we got food poisoning.

Incidentally it was a Mumsnet approved shoestring wedding and they're currently getting messily divorced after several years of being unhappily married. and fighting like cat and dog.

@LisaSimpson73

This boils my piss as well. One of the worst weddings I went to had Food sexism as well - it was just so pretentious.

Women had fish (bland). Men had beef (hearty).
Women had lemon tart (really sharp & acidic). Men had sticky toffee pudding & custard (looked amazing).

A lot of the women asked for the men's options but by the time it got to our table, they had run out. It pissed me off.

I have always said , you either give everyone an option or give them the same thing.

My nephew’s wedding was by far the worst one I have ever been to. It was held at 3 different locations.

We were told to be at the first location, for the service by 11.30. The bus bringing people to the wedding broke down, so the 10 minute service ended up having to go ahead at 12.15 (another wedding was booked in for 13.00) without a lot of the guests.

We then had to get the 10 miles to the second location for the wedding meal, which was supposed to be at 15.30. The hotel was pretty small, so we couldn’t even get a seat while we waited for the meal and, as they were now running late (the photographs took about 3 hours, at the nearby gardens!), we didn’t sit down until after 16.30! We were seated at the second last table, next to the children’s table, so couldn’t hear any of the speeches due to the noise. We had all preordered our meal, which was served lukewarm, dry and petty inedible (think it must have been ready to serve at 15.30, and just kept warm for over an hour). It was honestly the worst meal I have ever had in a hotel! We were rushed through the meal as the hotel was closing after we left.

After the meal we then had to travel 6 miles, to the third location, for the evening party. This location wasn’t really very big, but we luckily managed to get in quickly and grab the last free table! There must have been at least 250 people there and over 100 must have had to stand! We actually left after about an hour and descended on the local chippy as we were ravenous.

Oooh love these threads! Saving to gorge on after a shitty day at work -thanks OP! 💐

The bride fainted from overheat and overcrowding. Some relatives of the groom got into a stick fight with some of the guests or bride’s relatives I don’t even know. The bride’s mother left in a rage and refused to return. An old woman who didn’t speak English pushed me off a chair. Literally put her hand on my back and gave me a shove. I got tummy ache (not from the old woman pushing me) and went to lie down in a bedroom until it was all over.

Is anyone else fairly confident that their wedding went well, focussed on making sure the guests had a good time, and had positive reminiscences if the subject does come up, but still finding themselves reading these with the irrational fear they may recognise their day being described on here. and find out a decade after the event that half the guests got food poisoning, everyone hated the venue, and the DJ fish-slapped the father of the groom for insulting his music - and everyone's kept it hush hush from the bride since then?? 😁

One of DH's good friends got married and we only got invited to the evening do whilst all of our other friends got an all day invite. The 'day' part overran by an hour whilst we all stood in a lobby outside the function room. Then the bride and groom didn't speak to us at all, not even a hello. We had to buy our own drinks, which were extortionate. There was no evening food or even any food available at the venue to buy. We'd spent £100 on a present, having been sent a present list with our evening invite.

I refuse to go to evening only invite weddings now. It's clearly people just invited to bump numbers up and buy extra presents!