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 went to a colleague's wedding where one of the other guests wore a white lace midi dress, which I thought was a tad insensitive. The bride and her mother shot her daggers all day.

There was the one where, as a child, I was a bridesmaid. The bride wanted me and the other two bridesmaids to have a bun with a fringe. I didn't have a fringe, so the hairdresser was asked to cut over in. All was going well until I passed out and fell off the stool I was sat on. I was left with a very short assymetruc fringe. And by short I mean Dave from Slade short (you young' us will need to Google!!)

To make matters worse, I then threw up in the church....in the middle of the aisle just before the bride and groom went to sign the register. The vicars wife had to clean it up whilst the register was being signed.

No- one asked me to be a bridesmaid again!!!

My best friends wedding. We are council estate raised and she married a very wealthy man. The venue was on a private estate with only Moet and OJ for drinks. Only time we went into the very grand house was to congratulate the wedding party. I gave her a hug and said congratulations my baby. Her response was to shoot me down with a very false posh voice....don't call me baby. Yikes. Ok. 20 plus years as besties. On that note i left, but not before taking a couple of bottles of champers back to my hotel. Never saw her again. Sadly that was the very night the lovely Diana was killed.

The one where the couple held their wedding at a restaurant owned by the groom and his family. All well and good until the waiters came round with the bill after the meal.
No discount, service added on top, the works. So the couple were essentially making money from their own wedding.
95% of guests left straight after the meal, after handing over hundreds of quid for the food and wine we'd assumed the couple were paying for...

A wedding I attended in a beautiful hotel where the groom's cousin turned up wearing a grubby tracksuit and spent the whole time harassing the female guests and waitresses. It all kicked off when he tried to chat up a 12 year old girl who was attending the wedding and a huge fight broke out which resulted in the police being called and all the guests were told to leave.

@caoraich Was this held in a county beginning with L by any chance?!

we went to a wedding reception in a friends garden. They were out in the sticks. It was meant to be hog roast and jacket potatoes.
There was hardly any food. A few of us had an apple for main course 😫

My cousins. We'd suffered a bereavement very recently so it was very raw and his new wife was just horrible to us - basically ignored us. Turned out my Aunt had said something brutally tactless by mistake and the bride took it out on all of us. So frosty my poor parents left early.

The only shining light was that the best man's speech was phenomenally inappropriate and very very funny (there was even a specially written sex song....). My Aunt is a very strict religious lady and she did NOT APPROVE at all. My dad and uncle were crying with laughter just looking at my Aunts face.

Where I'm from its an all guest event and no separate bits. So we had everyone for the whole event in the UK. They loved it.

It was small with only 30 guests, but it was brilliant.

Catholic service around the time of gay marriage being legal. Priest just started going on about how dreadful it was and that marriage should be between a man and wife and since we were all there we must all agree. I really wanted to heckle him.

So many of these are big fancy expensive weddings. I’m feeling better about my registry office followed by restaurant meal for a small group. It’s short with lots of food.

I feel compelled to point out that split weddings are not a British thing, they're an English thing.

The wedding at 11.30am where food didn't get served until 6pm sticks in my mind. No other food to purchase either. Bride and groom had four hours of photography and then did the speeches before dinner.

BIL's 2nd wedding (his first marriage is a whole other story which DH blames for the early deaths of both his parents). It was not long after FIL died and BIL had ransacked the house the day after his Dad died to to remove evidence of how much money he owed him so the subsequent distribution of the estate was a little fraught to say the least. DH wouldn't speak to his brother and I had to act as go between.
BIL was very surprised to see us and this was borne out when we got to the reception. Uncle was at the top table where his Dad would have been (and where you would probably expect his brother to be) but we had been seated round the corner with the next door neighbours by the kitchen door and as far away as it was possible to be, presumably so it wouldn't have been so obvious if we hadn't turned up.
I thought it was ridiculously funny but DH was not amused although we did have a hoot with the neighbours😂😂😂.
The worst thing though was the 'entertainment' where some actors pretend to be bar and serving staff and 'the manager' belittles them in front of the guests. It was excruciating and uncomfortable to sit through and so, so not funny.
We haven't spoken since. DH is much happier.

Nothing as bad as most of these!

DH was BM for his friend. I knew the Bride wasn't all that keen on me. I couldn't figure out why but frankly I didn't care all that much. DH and the groom were friends and she and I were pleasant to one another when we did things together. We didn't need to be the Ricardos and the Mertzes.

DH was sat at the top table, I was sat at a table where I knew no one. No real problem there, I didn't expect to sit at the top table and my 'tablemates' were nice chatty people. The bad part was that the bride kept pushing the (single) MOH at my DH! Insisting that he dance with her over and over, putting them together in pictures. If he came to visit or check up on me she came over and steered him away back over to the top table or wherever MOH was. She even had the temerity to mention how 'cute' they looked together. To me, his WIFE. It was embarrassing to DH, infuriating to me, and baffling to other people. I can only figure she had something 'nefarious' in mind.

She also told me (Coeliac) that I'd be 'fine' at the reception. Only to find there wasn't a morsel I could eat. I actually phoned for a takeaway delivery so I didn't starve.

I never did find out for sure what her problem was with me other than she sort of needed people to be 'impressed' with her and I wasn't. Shortly after she and DH's friend were married she 'absorbed' him into her friendship group and manoeuvered him out of his.

DH and his friends haven't heard from him in close to 20 years.

I'd argue they're a 'cheeky fucker' thing if anything? Does it need to be nationality based?

I've never come across one but there's absolutely no way I'd accept that invite.

I’m not sure they are. I’ve never heard of them before (and I’ve been to many weddings). Maybe a regional thing? But not English.

I’ve not been to many wedding but 2 stand out because of the food

my dad to my stepmum, I was full of a cold feeling rough church was freezing(December) daytime food was forgettable …evening only one option steak and cheese baguettes (I can’t eat cheese) asked for one without to be told not an option so I went hungry.

second my step bothers (yep to the above stepmum) made the effort to go to destination location, that the bride was from, early afternoon reception followed by ice lollies as everything was moved from ceremony to venue the a buffet where everything including the salad and bread included cheese. I was starving!! Also only red served with dinner, at this point my dad went and sourced a bottle of white at his own expense. Disco at 4 over by 8 then back to the very nice hotel when we indulged in bar snacks and tequila and we all had a great time, so much so that my dp lost his shoes 🤣🤣

This has floored me.
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Two hours seems speedy these days. Last wedding I went to the photos took about 3 and a half!
I may never bother again

I feel like I may have been a bridesmaid at this wedding 😂😂

@thinking123 poor woman! Did he ever find out that his daughter made it up? What happened?!

Haha that’s what I thought too!!

I haven't been to a whole bad wedding, just little bits of different weddings that weren't great.

A winter wedding where we were left for at least 2 hours while the b&g had photos. In a room with a marble floor, with no food, no drinks and no SEATS! I borrowed a friend's wrap for a bit as the men were okay with their jackets on (black tie event) but us women mainly had cocktail dresses on. We literally had nothing to do and not even anywhere to sit. My heels were killing me by the end

A wedding where the veggie option was plain gnocchi.

A wedding where tables went up to the buffet in a specific order. As seems usual with this approach, my table was the last to go up. At the buffet there was little left, no hot food as the bbq had cooked it and served it ages before we got there (it literally took about 40 mins from the top table going up for food until we got to go). No veggie option as this had gone out with the non-veggie instead of being kept aside for the people who were actually veggie.

Going to the ceremony but not the wedding breakfast. MoB was sorry but they couldn't have everyone. So my brother's new girlfriend, as his +1, who'd never met the bride (or any of us family) and would cease to be his girlfriend a few months later, could go but me, who was actually friends with the bride, had to do something else for a meal and hand around for 3-4 hours. I understand you can't leave a +1 out of just the meal, but when it means leaving out your actual friends, it made me a bit sad. I swore my wedding wouldn't be like that and invited everyone to the whole day.

You win! 💐