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! "

During the wedding breakfast an old chap fainted into his food. Everyone thought he’d had a heart attack. It was awful!

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Probably the one where the reception afterwards had very few seats, we all had to stand with plates and glasses and try to also eat the buffet food (of which there was very little).
The FotB's speech was mostly about how fab his other daughter was, very little about the one who actually got married :(
There was nothing else after that - the B&G left, and so did we.
Thank goodness there was a group of us there, so we could still have some fun - but we felt mortified for the bride. :(

It was an amazing lovely wedding but a poor friend of the grooms who lived miles away who we didn’t know wife got appendicitis and rushed to hospital. Her lovely husband then stayed with us for 3 days as we lived next to the hospital we didn’t know him from Adam. Bet that couple won’t forget that wedding!

One where they only fed the bridal party and not the 40 odd guests, they had forgotten.

It was in a shitty village hall and nowhere to get food.

My brother's wedding. The reception was in the middle of nowhere so he hired a coach to take everyone from the church. Thankfully I declined and took my own car. The wedding was at 1.00, the coach left at 2.30, got there at 3.30. Then we all stood in the carpark of this roadside country pub while they gave speeches. Stood outside in the carpark drinking until around 6.00 when the party moved inside. The pub was cleared of all tables and it was just more booze and still not a crumb of food. I'm disabled and had to perch on a windowsill as there was nowhere to sit.

By 8.00 it was very clear that there would be no food, so as I had my car I decided to drive off to a McDonald's I'd passed on the way. The word got out and several other guests were asking to come with me or asking me to pick stuff up for them. When I got back brother noticed people eating Big Macs in the carpark and was furious with me for ruining his wedding.

I’ve heard this few times before, shocking, I don’t understand why people plan weddings they can’t afford, if you can’t afford to feed & water 100 guests don’t invite them.

Relatively new friend and me and DH got a last minute invite. Not one person spoke to us the whole time we were there despite us trying to make conversation. Bride and groom also didn't speak to us. It was excruciating.

We ended up going for a walk in the grounds during the night do and might have done something a bit naughty in a very quiet secluded spot. Didn't realise there was CCTV. Bride was absolutely furious!

One of the worst my DD I am afraid. Two guests did not turn as they got the date wrong another 2 guests also got the date wrong and had to leave early as it was work day next day. The wonderful groom now ex said that he was going to stop work which was highly paid, as it was too much for him, jobs were very hard to get in these days 25 yrs or so ago also they had a young baby.

Then to add insult to injury the majority of the guests left soon after 6.30 pm and we had shelled out £500.00 for a Wedding supper with 90% not taken, total absolute waste of money I said we did not need as much but was overuled!!

I also don’t understand the bad planning. Far enough issues can happen with a big event but if you’re inviting guests to turn up at 12 to the middle of no where and the only food is going to be at 6pm why don’t you ask yourself what are they going to eat before? It just seems so obvious.

*fair enough

An Irish/Italian one where the tone was set by the bride's mum who cried (and I mean cried, as in "My baby's gone!!!") throughout the whole thing. The service had to be stopped at one point since nobody could hear anything through her wails, but still she carried on

The reception was decorated by fights - groom with bride's dad, best man with bride's uncle, bride's mum with her own sister and so on until it became a mass brawl. It was so bad that police were called, who dragged a few off and left the rest to fight once more

The bride insisted on going home after just two days of the honeymoon because she "missed her mum", and the groom didn't return at all - turned out he'd been shagging the bride's aunty for months so he moved in with her instead

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Agree with this. Do they never try to imagine the guests' point of view?

My MIL did this on my hen do. Spent the entire time walking about losing her son until one of my friends took her aside for some stern words!

God knows why I invited her!!

*wailing not walking

We went to one of our friends a couple of years back and It wasn't the best experience 8 months pregnant and with a toddler in tow. The invite stipulated to go to the venue for the 4pm ceremony it was held in a popular city centre museum in November. Turns out the ceremony wasn't planned till 7pm bride and groom just wanted to make sure everyone was there on time. We hung around for three hours waiting. After the ceremony we were delighted to see a open top bus to take the guests to the reception (a twenty minute walk away or ten minutes in a taxi) we were on the bus for an hour and a half driving in circles (bride and groom wanted to get their money worth out of the vintage bus and drivers refused refused pull over or stop!) so we finally arrived at the reception at 9:30pm- soaking wet, freezing and with a grumpy hungry 3 year old. They had arrival drinks and speeches at 10pm. The meal wasn't served till 11pm and it was a insta worthy afternoon tea that doesn't really fill you up...guests were asked to leave at midnight. Never again!

DH and I were invited to the wedding of one of his work colleagues. We didn't really know the couple very well but were flattered to be included, especially as the wedding was to take place in a spectacular cathedral. The invitation mentioned an evening reception, which I thought was odd, as it meant there was quite a gap between the ceremony and the reception. We bought a present off the list and looked forward to the day.

The cathedral was packed, but while we were waiting for the bride and chatting to people we realised that there was an "A" list and and "B" list for the wedding - and we were on the B list. The A-listers went straight to the reception after the service, where they were served a slap-up feast. The B-listers had to hang around for hours before they could turn up for the evening reception, where we had to buy our own drinks.

Basically, the B-listers were invited to fill the pews (and contribute presents).

I have no problem with weddings where a new group of invitees come to enjoy the evening party, but to invite them to pack out the church and then go home, and not even offer them a drink is really bad manners.

Nothing like as bad as some of these, but one where the music later on was so incredibly LOUD! with nowhere to escape to, a sister in law and I had to go outside in the chilly drizzle in order to have any sort of conversation.

IMO there should be a decibel limit for wedding-evening music. And preferably a different area for it, so guests who aren’t on the dance floor can chat to people they maybe haven’t seen for ages, in relative peace.

I'm Scottish and I've never, ever met a person who would do this, or been to a wedding like this.

I wonder if it's more regional? Interesting!

My SILs wedding.
night before the actual wedding at the church rehearsal she shouted at her future MIL something to do with cupcake cases and lost it and said your not welcome tomorrow you fucking bitch.
then the wedding was a disaster, some sort of meltdown about a table plan resulting in the bride crying hysterically.
at 10pm I asked the DJ to stop playing and go home because everyone had left.

There's the one where the bride and groom had a physical fight (yes, punching, rolling on the floor, kicking) in the evening outside the venue, and, yes, she was in her wedding dress. They came back in after about an hour like nothing had happened, although her dress would never recover. She stabbed him a couple of years later (he was fine). That makes her sound like a psycho but they were both as toxic as Jonny and Amber.

Wedding reception held at a Toby Carvery after the formal church ceremony so guests had to queue with the general public for thier food. In the evening the bride and grrom sung islands in the stream together with the finale being baloons dropping from the ceiling on them. But the ballons weren't allowed to be above the stage so after the song ended they walked to the other side of the room in silence (about 15m away) and just stood under the balloons and waited for them to be released in a posed position.

My DH was the best man, I knew the bride and groom but nobody else. I turned up at the church sat by myself, went to the reception and was sat on a table with strangers whilst my DH was on the top table. Bloody miserable day trying to make small talk with strangers for 8 hours