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! "

I really need to know the story behind the wedding shooting 😱😱😱😱

@Neverreturntoathread oh gosh that sounds much better.
The 'ceremony' part was right at the end after the bride had fainted in her huge dress.

I did notice nearly all the men left and came back at the end to pick up the women. No dancing and no booze.

The groom's mum also turned up wearing a sari with her stomach on show because (in her words) she knew how to dress 'ethnic' 🤦‍♀️

The henna party the night before was a lot more fun.

Oh well this thread is doing my '3 weeks until our wedding' anxiety no end of good

I'm stunned by some of these posts. I've been to some weddings better than others, but I don't think I've ever been to a 'bad' one.

We are also about three weeks away and I desperately do not want to feature on this thread. I'm sure we'll feed people enough, were not going to disappear odd for pictures for ages and hopefully nobody will get shot. (wouldn't be entirely surprised if a crazy ex turned up mind you!) Fingers crossed!

@clarasara .. Too much alcohol !
Shot him in the leg with an air rifle , didn't even get arrested 🤯

Was offended by something in the speeches
Left and then reappeared hours later and shot his own brother , a very long time ago but police not called , didn't come to hospital , nothing !!!

Best pals again 3 weeks later after operation on leg

It was a sign 🙄 happily divorced a few years later

The sister was actually scarier

Mine. Shouldn't have bothered.

One where the couple are loaded and have no kids but guests were in a random barn on a working farm. It rained all day and was cold (even in July) and there was a paid bar, awful food and music from an iPod with dodgy speakers! It just annoyed me that they wouldn’t fork out for anything special yet we had to pay for two nights accommodation at a nearby hotel. Even the flowers were literally picked from the side of a road.

another in NE england (I live SE england) where we ha a church service then there was only food provided for family. We had to get a bus in to a nearby town and ended up in pizza express. Had to wait ages as it was very rural. Then had to come back for the evening do. Groom made an embarrassing speech and it was all very random. Again two nights in hotel but didn’t get any food and paid for own drinks etc.😂

One I went to when I had only been with now-DH for about 8 months. I had never met the bride or groom. It was a very posh do. The groom was a city banker and the wedding was full of extremely loud, arrogant men who worked in the city. DH got v. drunk and disappeared off catching up with old friends. A group of the city-types asked me to take their photo then shouted at me when they didn't like the photo I took. The father of the bride (whom I had never met) gave a speech that lasted 45 minutes. I used up all possible resources of small talk and ended up hiding in the toilets. I have now learned never to go to weddings where I don't know anyone.

Mines similar. Bride was interested in venue for photos but couldn’t afford it. I was actually an evening guest (one of her closest friends back then) and there was a few dozen people in a huge room. Most people were evening guests and had driven. No one was drinking and no one wanted to dance. Music was VERY loud and everyone was really bored.
bride seemed annoyed but I don’t know what she expected. Everyone was literally clock watching until it was a decent time to go home.

@Tinyleopard Congratulations!

BRB, just going to email our venue, double the food and halve the time

Shall also make sure the BM frisks all the guests for firearms on the way in

Ex dh's auntie, 3rd marriage. At the reception bride & groom had a massive barney over some alleged infidelity on grooms part. I tried to calm it down & get them to cut the cake. Bad idea She tried to stab the groom, knife tussled from her, groom legged it, bride managed to get the knife and aimed it at him & it embedded in a wooden beam in the venue. Doooinggg! They divorced quite soon after this.

Congrats to you too! I'm sure it will be fab

One where I only know one other guest and they ended up not coming due to illness, so I didn't know a single person except the bride, who I obviously only saw for all of a minute because it was her day and she had loads of guests to chat to. Bride very kindly put one of the bridesmaids in charge of keeping me company but I'm pretty shy and the whole thing was socially excruciating. Plus I was driving so stone cold sober.

We went to a friend's wedding a few hours' flight away. A two day wedding, so three nights in a hotel, plus outfits, a gift, and three days babysitting by my parents. Cost about £1000 in all.

After the wedding meal in a nice restaurant we were all told to put in enough money to cover what we'd eaten. None of the wedding party even bought so much as a round.

It was so embarrassing for them, and I've never felt the same about them since.

Wedding in middle of February in a venue in the middle of nowhere with beautiful grounds. Chucked it down all day and the venue really wasn't designed for all the guests to be indoors so we were in the main dining room trying to cram ourselves in around the tables and mingle. They did a welcome drink and then didn't open the bar (one of those supply your own bar/booze places) so expected guests to wait 3 hours without drinks until the meal started. The mob caught a group of us checking Google maps to see if there was a pub nearby and convinced the couple to open the bar before their guests all deserted. The caterers set the wedding cake up under the overhead heater so the icing melted and the cake collapsed like the leaning tower of Pisa. Groom and best man did a 45 minute speech EACH! truly unbearably long. Then instead of wedding favours they got someone to come and give all the guests a dance lesson. We really just wanted them to get a DJ and let us dance like a normal wedding

Reception was in the grounds of a scout hut. A few paper decorations from the pound shop hung in the trees. Everyone was very stoned and drinking white lightning. I didn't know anyone other than DH. We camped and it was shit.

Another bad one I went to - quite lavish wedding in Surrey, lovely venue, food, music, all beautiful etc. Can't complain about that.

But several of us booked rooms in a B&B they'd recommended and when we got there before the wedding - it was absolutely filthy and disgusting. Rooms above the roughest pub you can imagine.

So we had to spend a few frantic hours finding alternative accommodation (which luckily we managed to do).

Friend from uni’s wedding. Most of the guests were friends of parents and average age of 60+.
EVERYONE did a speech, all the usual plus bride, father in law and some random uncle. They were all long and boring.
bride and groom spent weeks preparing a playlist of all the music they liked (goth/indie). No one danced, lots of confused pensioners. Bride was bad tempered about it especially as we wouldn’t dance (only a handful of people in their 20s).
room was very expensive and terrible and I had awful period pains.

We were invited to a wedding where the reception was a "tea dance". We were given a cup of tea, two sandwiches and a fondant fancy. The sandwiches were cheese or corned beef. Then they gave everyone a glass of wine for the toasts, most people thought that there would be a refill, so drank it down on the first toast. No refill.
They'd clearly spent a lot of money on the bride's dress and flowers, so the catering was a puzzler.

The one where they served different food for men and women (recently!) the women's dessert was a really horrible prosecco jelly, and my SIL is tee total anyway so wouldn't touch it, whilst the men got something delicious. I was also 8.5 months pregnant, we'd had to come in 2 cars so I could leave early to pick up our eldest as it was one of those "to give you a break no kids are invited" type dos on a school day, but because it was so rubbish everyone left half an hour after I did so we could have gone together!

Also one with an excruciating father of the bride speech, full of terrible one liners, insulted his wife, his new son in law, and even the father of his grandchild (the bride's ex) in the most explicit terms whilst said grandchild was sat right next to him, poor lad. Luckily the rest of the wedding was OK but that was an uncomfortable half hour of embarrassed pity laughter.

The one that was otherwise fine, until the father of the bride speech which was 20 minutes long and about how disappointed he was in his daughter. And not in a "you picked a rubbish husband" way. He laid into her looks, her performance at hockey in secondary school, her exam results, everything. The punch line was meant to be that hey at least she'd found a husband despite all that. But it wasn't vaguely funny. She cried. It was awful, my poor friend

I went to one where we had to wait two hours while the photographs were being taken. I thought that was a bit much.

i was a most unwelcome bridesmaid (it was a political invite-i am the only close female relative of the groom) - night before the wedding stayed with the groom-plan was to get to the bridal party early morning to get ready with the other 5 bridesmaids and the bride- only come the morning groom got several 'last minute orders' that i had to help with, so there was no way i could join the bride until about 30 minutes before we had to leave- rest of the bridesmaids and bride in one big room getting final touches to hair/makeup- i was directed to a box room and told -oh there's no time to get you ready, just put your hair in a pony tail you'll be fine!

(rest all had tumbling curls artfully arranged around flower crowns -it was the 80's!- my crown was popped on my head like a child's nativity halo)

totally ignored for the rest of the day, was told only needed to be in one large group photo, (loads of informal photos taken with grooms relatives, by them) had to smile throughout the day to not spoil the groom's day

have never had any kind of relationship with the bride since-despite several attempts to break the ice with her- she goes to bed early (eg 30 minutes after i arrived 'to give you guys time to catch up' )

Worst for me was my Ex's sister's wedding. The wedding itself was fine, but I was very unhappy with him and knew we were on the verge of a split. (I think he knew it too but put on a jolly facade.)

I went because I didn't want him to have the constant "Where's Pickle" questioning but in hindsight it was a terrible mistake. I spent the whole day chatting to his relatives who lived 300 miles away, so I barley knew them. They were all so SO happy to meet me (Ex had been single a long time before me and was much older- he was 37 I was 22) and worst of all I was cajouled into loads of photos. It was all super super awkward and in the end I just got extremely drunk.

I also went to a lovely, low key wedding in a village hall, loads of fun, lovely food, free booze- but the best man's speech was nearly an hour long. Started off ok but slowly began to become more and more about in jokes with the grooms mates. Only one table was laughing and everyone else was bored. I went out to the toilet at one point and found a group of evening guests waiting mournfully in front of the not yet open bar as it had over run. Oh and the speech also heavily implied that the bride's brother shagged a prostitute on the stag do.

Oh God, that's awful, poor girl!