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! "

We were invited to a "good friends" wedding miles and miles into the wilderness- like 5 hours in the car
invited to the ceremony and eveing only
the ceremony was about 30 miles away from the evening venue.
we had to have our dinner at one of those god awful side of the motor way "pubs"
by the time of the evening event, the bride had changed into jeans and trainers

swore id never go to another wedding unless it was all day AND they put on transport

Not the worst when compared to many here (!) but we were invited to one where the church part was at 12 noon. B&G insisted that everyone had to wear black tie, and hats - they would be giving prizes for the best hats 🙄

When the ceremony was over, it became clear that some guests had been invited for the meal, but the rest of us were expected to clear off, and then reappear at 8pm for the afterparty! So they had got 150+ people to get dressed up in black tie and come to the church, only for about 75% of them to have to entertain and feed themselves for 4-5 hours while the B&G & ‘selected’ guests had the wedding breakfast. DH & I got a burger and then went home. No, we didn’t go back for the afterparty.

We were invited to the ceremony, then the evening do....so had to find something to do for about six hours in the middle. Very weird. Wedding was lovely, but frankly was why I decided to invite everyone to the whole event.

Then another evening do, but the wedding had been massively delayed so with all the evening guests turning up an expecting buffet and drinks the meal and speeches were still ongoing. There were a load of people waiting outside and the day guests weren't ready for the next bit. I think the idea had been to do the speeches, then have an hour gap, then start the evening but somehow it had run 2 hours late....

@NamechangeFML @DuchessofAnkh22 Interesting how we all had similar experiences! This is evidently A Thing, not inviting people to the whole day. I’m Irish and in my experience guests fall into one of two categories: either a ‘full day’ guest or an ‘evening-only’ guest. I’ve only come across these split invites since I’ve been living in the UK, though maybe I haven’t been to enough Irish weddings of late to know how it’s done now. The split invite is awful!

I can’t believe she was able to forgive this and marry him anyway. I would not be able to forgive the hurt and humiliation of being jilted at the altar

A Thursday evening wedding and party afterwards.
The couple believed that all of their guests would get taxis and have booked the next day off of work. Of course everyone, us included, drove and was working the next day. That was enough to make it really flat. But the space the couple had booked was also VAST for only about 50 guests, making it feel like a total washout.

It was the first wedding of any of our friends, and I wouldn't bother going to a split event again.

Also made me hate "evening do's" as anyone who has been there all day is fed up and ready to go home, the B & G are worn out, and it leaves the evening guests feeling like 2nd class citizens!

Moral of the story; they should have organised it themselves or at least had some input and not allowed MOG to organise it all.

The one where no one was dancing and a bit po faced in the overly brightly lit room and the band was clearly getting a bit grumpy so the lead singer made a few grumbled comments. Luckily I think me and DH were among the very few people who actually heard him, I giggled, he was funny with it but not really appropriate.

Or of course my own! Where my H kept buggering off and disappearing, refused to dance even for our first dance together and his side were all a bit standoffish.

My lot had a whale of a time thankfully. I am now divorced lol.

Hand on my hearty, I once went to a wedding where the Vicar's speech before the vows went like this:

"It is a sad fact but you are 8 times more likely to be killed by a spouse than by a stranger. I've been married for several years and there has been ups and downs. In fact, I think if I'd have known back then what I know now I might not have been married at all. Therefore, XX and XY are going to need the help and support of everything gathered here today to strengthen and succeed in their new marriage..."

I could not stop shaking for laughing. Made worse when, after the service, every guest I spoke to mentioned how 'moving' the vicar was.

I have been to a Moroccan wedding and it was nothing like that!! The bride did change outfits a few times and there were a few weird bits but otherwise it was a familiar format of ceremony / dinner / booze / disco. Main thing I noticed was the men went to the bar and chatted while the woman had a dance floor just for them which was so lovely just to be able to dance like a nutter with no men sidling behind on the floor. DH was thrilled not to have to dance 🤣

Anyway worst wedding was the one where there was way too much free alcohol and so many of the guests had emotional dramas / break ups by 11pm 🤦‍♀️

I went to my two bosses wedding. I didn't like them but had to go. They had a small team at work and only invited me from work (God knows why!) and I had to keep it secret.

They were an unlikeable couple, the bride was NC with her Mum because the Mum didn't approve of the marriage (something like 25 year age gap between them) and they employed a bouncer to keep her away. They had hardly any friends, and the ones they did have - none of them knew each other.

They splashed out on a country house hotel, really posh food, chocolate fountain, wedding favours - the lot. But it was dismal and cheerless.

I resigned from my job about 3 months later ... they were awful people!

It makes me sad to say, though, that my worst was my Dad's wedding to his new wife when I was about 19. I genuinely was happy for him and genuinely love his wife and think she is truly wonderful. But the day was at a posh-ish large old house and they had loads of guests which meant they were super busy with each other and with their friends. I don't think they realised but by mid evening they'd not really spoken to me once. Then my Dad came up and I was pleased to think he might just spare me a couple of moments but all he said was "I'll pay for your room and you can settle up with me later". This threw me because, in my inexperience, I hadn't realised paying for my room was required. He hadn't said and I was a student who didn't get any parental help to pay for uni and had already scraped money together to pay to get there and for an outfit.

I remember just slinking up to my room and sitting in the bath, sobbing.

I was almost certainly unreasonable in my expectations but I was just so green I didn't know better and never had the confidence, back then, to try and brush it all off.

Anyway, I never told them and wouldn't dream of it. When they reminisce about the day, I just try to find really positive things to say, like how lovely the venue was etc.

Miilkywhitemoonlight:
She arrived at her wedding in an old white cord cortina with a sagging ribbon. Photographer was a work mate who took their photos in a graveyard. Bridesmaids dresses did not match . Brides bouquet was a dirty small bridesmaids posy that had had curtain net wrapped round it to make it look clean .

That sounds quite cool actually

It's a toss-up between my nephew's, which had none of the essential details arranged like the photos were round the corner and most of the guests didn't know. They and we all turned up at the reception over an hour before they were expecting us. And my uncle's in a dark, freezing church with no music.

A good friends wedding. The grown brother was his best man, he had brought along his newish girlfriend. My friend asked me to keep an eye on her as she didn't know anyone. I was happy to. She was genuinely lovely.

Anyway about an hour after the ceremony all hell broke loose, an usher (another brother of the groom) stormed up to "new girlfriend and told her to leave right now before someone hit her. The poor woman was in shock, she has no idea what was going on, the best man was in the bar being restrained by his cousins, all very horrible.

Anyway it transpires that his 14 year old daughter (from a previous relationship) had gone to him in tears after the ceremony. She claimed that new girlfriend had whispered in her ear, "when me and you dad get married I won't ever let You see him again"

Now I had been with "new girlfriend" pretty much all day. She had barely spoken to the daughter. The daughter just wanted a drama and her dad believed every word she said.

Swore id never go to another wedding unless it was all day AND they put on transport
The only trouble with that would be if you wanted to leave early and the return transport was only booked for a certain time. Had that on a holiday evening excursion-freezing cold, not much to do, and we had to hang around for hours waiting for the coach.

A relations wedding. It was a posh over the top affair with a harpist, huge floral designs, a satin carpet to walk down, all pretentious shit . Longest and boring wedding ever. The father of the bride harped on throughout his speech at the cost of the wedding and how grand the venue was and how glorious the grounds were. Marriage lasted a few years if you're lucky.

One where they groom got so drunk he was carried out like a corpse by pallbearers…..

I've been to several

1. The one where the brides relatives refused to attend, so her side of the church was made up of workmates, friends (and relatives of friends, like me. She was my sisters friend primarily). Groom had about 8 brothers plus partners and kids, suits, uncles , the whole tribe.
2. The one on a Sunday in a posh country hotel miles from the nearest village where we couldn't afford more than a couple of drinks and couldn't pop to the village stores to get more as we'd arranged lifts to the venue.
3. The one where the whole place smelled of sewage. On the hottest day of the year.
4. (Same groom as no 3 but 2nd marriage). MOB got roaring drunk, wet herself, and had to be physically carried by her sons back to her room.
5. The one where the evening buffet consisted solely of a large cheese (I think it was stilton) and crackers.

Every Danish wedding.

The meal goes on for what seems like years. There is 'entertainment' between the courses that is anything but entertaining. Guests prepare songs which is nice if any of them can sing anything resembling the tune and if they are actually about the couple. Ive no time for shitty internet downloads that have 16 verses. Do it properly or piss off.

If the bride or groom gets up to go to the bathroom all those of the same sex rush up to kiss the remaning half of the couple.

Theres usually a man with a keyboard playing mood music.

I just decline wedding invitations now.

Farking hell!

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