To ask what's the worst wedding you've ever been to?

[WashingMatilda]

I've just come back from a really gorgeous wedding. It was one of those joyous, real life affirming ones IYKWIM.

However, during the speeches I randomly remembered a wedding I went to years and years ago where the grandmas wheelchair was left without its brakes on at the top of a big flight of steps outside the registry office. She rolled forward, all the way down, cracked her head open on the slabs, ambulance took her off on blue lights, and the bride spent the reception scrubbing blood out of her train poor bloody woman. It was horrific. (Nan fine in the end)

What's yours?

The one where the grooms girlfriend turned up at the reception.
The one where the groom made a pass at me in front of his new wife and my DP, and then suggested swinging...
The one where the groom admitted to multiple people he was only marrying her for the visa.
The one that was in her family house back garden and the brother of the bride called 'Time' at 8:30, though most of the guests had already left.
The one where even the band got pissed off and left early, saying keep their fee.

All the same wedding.......

DH's brother's wedding.

He got married in a horrible Travel Lodge type hotel.
His wedding was down in the basement which was tiny and where there was no natural light. The buffet was served in a corridor. The whole day was poorly timed so there was lots of waiting around in the dingy basement.

Meanwhile, upstairs in the hotel's other more expensive function room was a huge gypsy wedding which looked and sounded like an absolute scream.

I don't think I have been to a bad wedding but I went to a wedding when dd1 (nightmare baby) was 3 months old, she cried through all of it, the service and the reception. It was a nice posh meal and I was really looking forward to eating what I had ordered but when we went to sit down there was no where to put dd, no space for a pray or a high chair, so I sat down with her on my lap, screaming, crying and wriggling around, everyone was tucking into their lovely food, no one offered to help me with dd and I ended up sat outside in the garden with her sobbing to myself whilst every one ate their food, when I came back in the food was gone . The actual wedding was lovely, I just wish I got to see more of it.

I have also been to a dry wedding, it was hard to sit through the long boring speeches without a drop of alcohol.

The one where it turned out the bride had been shagging the best man for the last year, The best man declared all in the church. They didn't marry, but the groom still had the wedding reception- It was a very awkward day!

The one where we didn't get fed, like nothing offered at all. They had bottles of wine/cava around but only food was a cake. Yes I'll come to your wedding for 14 hours of the day and not eat a mouthful of food.

Oh my goodness, I enjoyed reading all of these posts. My most memorable wedding was one where I went to a friend's wedding and I was wearing the most gorgeous dress. I was up dancing at the reception and there was hardly anybody on the dance floor.

Everyone was looking at me and a couple of people were pointing in my direction and I just assumed they were admiring my dress!!...Wrong!! There was, at the back of my dress (dress was quite short), hanging from the hem what looked like a black belt!!

It was actually my bra!! It was a strapless bra and had managed to unclip itself and slither down and the eye clip had attached itself to my dress hem..The only person who would point it out to me was my boss!!!...He said.."your belt is hanging from your dress" but once he unhooked it, he realised what it was and I don't know who was more mortified!! We all actually had a good laugh!! My husband went mental and accused me of embarrassing HIM, because everyone now knew I had no boobs to hold this wee bra up!! LOL!!

I divorced him 1 year later!!..Not because of that, but because he was a prize GIT!!....

T...XXX

Why would it be a problem if a wedding was on your birthday? Don't go if it's that much of an issue. I can't say I thought about my entire guest's birthdays when I arranged my wedding.

Oh my God, KeepServingTheDrinks are you me? A few years ago I spent my birthday at a wedding and they had split up less than 9 months later. I was annoyed anyway but that just about put a tin hat on it.

Two different ones that were in the middle of nowhere but no one mentioned that it might be difficult to come by a taxi until it was actually time to leave. Although on both those occasions arrangements were made by stbxh so somewhat his fault for not checking! When my friend had similar wedding she made sure everyone knew to book cabs in advance and I made sure to do so!

Have also been to a ridiculously crowded one while pregnant and got buffed around the room.

And to one where we had to wait between ceremony and evening do, mumsnet fave.

I went to a lesbian wedding where the father of one of the brides in his speech joked about how he really shouldn't be here because when she was 12 she had a boyfriend. It was utterly cringe. He said nothing loving or caring about his amazing daughter and instead made a load of bigoted jokes. What made it worse was while doing the thank yous after the speeches said bride thanked him, adding 'one day Dad I hope you'll be proud of me, the way I am as you.' It really choked me up at the time and even now I feel desperately sorry for her that she didn't get love and support from her family.

Mine was the worst for the couple and family but the rest of the guests had a great time. In Ireland the best man got too drunk and in his speech explained how it could of been him up there as they had shagged (him and the bride) but there was no chemistry. It was before the couple got together but it all kicked off and all guests apart from bridal party going to the local while the families tore into each other. The couple are still together but now live in London.

I went to a wedding where the bride was determined to have photos taken at a 'local' beauty spot. It was a very hot day and the whole wedding party had to walk the mile and a half through the moors to get there (no road access) including mums with babies, the elderly and one person in a wheel chair. No one had been warned so people were hobbling in high heels, dripping with sweat in their formal outfits and no-one had water or sunscreen for this 3 mile round trip.

The bride and her Mum had a volatile relationship to the point people were surprised the Mum was invited, we thought it was the bride making peace but far from it. At the reception the Mum was seated with the photographer and band, not with the family or other guests and was not mentioned in the speeches whilst grooms Mum was praised to the sky and given a beautiful bouquet. It was totally embarrassing.

The one where the bride (who we'd never met before) started slagging off the groom to my DH (his friend since childhood) saying how he was a pathetic excuse for a man who hadn't contributed enough financially to the wedding.

Then there was the wedding where we all knew the marriage wouldn't last (it ended a year later) where the mother of the groom caused a huge scene just before the bride was about to walk down the aisle because her son hadn't bought her a gift (as in hadn't bought the mother a gift, not the bride!) It became so hideously uncomfortable as the day went on that one of my friends got ridiculously drunk and started shoving sugar cubes down my cleavage during the speeches.

Oh, and then there was the one where the speeches were before the meal and went on for over an hour so that we were all ravenous and fidgety. The groom's best men were obsessed with football and rambled on about it for aeons, barely mentioning the bride. My husband, who despises football, was knocking back the whisky and ended up so drunk that for some reason he poured it over my feet and then started licking it off in front of a room of 150 people! He claims to have no recollection of this...

One about 30 years ago, so before mobiles and easy communication.
Bride to be was an ex school friend ( with a very expensive present list included in invite) we were all just out of uni, my bf of 4 years wasn't invited but i ( very stupidly) assumed that most of our mutual school friends would be there.
They weren't, i knew literally no one other than the bride and her parents, the photos took 90 minutes and we had to hang around in the freezing gardens whilst they took place with a solitary glass of fizz.
Not awful in the way of many of others tales, but bloody boring and lonely.

Worst and funniest was when their wasn't enough room in the cars so two ushers hopped into car boots to the reception!

The families then fell out at the pub reception and we just hung around in a hostile atmosphere sharing a few sausage rolls.

Ex dh had met them on his train commute and it was all family except us!

You win but I went to one wedding once where I had to do my own washing up! I kid you not!

Worst one was one I was bridesmaid at. The bride was a family friend, similar age to my sister but not a particularly close friend of hers, and 12 years older than me. Apparently, when I was 5 I had told her that I would be her bridesmaid when she married and she remembered that, so, ten years later, made it so.

My sister was happy enough not to be asked (didn't expect to be, seeing as they weren't close) but was not happy that I was near the centre of attention and she wasn't. So she chose the reception to tell my mother she had been raped and blame my mother for it (somehow). It turns out, as she later admitted, that it hadn't been rape and that she had willingly had sex with the person involved. It was all a story to get everyone's attention on her. Appalling!

(And in case anyone is worrying, there is no doubt that she wouldn't have been believed at the time. She was, wholeheartedly.)

Very funny thread, lol!

Many years ago my DF was asked to be best man for an old friend, for his (second) marriage to someone he had met abroad. My DF didn't actually meet the bride until the day of the wedding as the friend kept putting things off probably realised DF would try and stop him.
During the service, when the bride was kneeling in front of the vicar, her off-the-shoulder dress was slipping down dangerously low. Her bridesmaid kept pulling it up, but the bride kept pulling it back down. We couldn't see the view from the front but all we could see were the vicar's eyes, which seemed to be coming out on stalks!
At the reception afterwards, which was in the garden of the groom's very old house, one of the guests tried to go up the narrow & crooked stairs to use the bathroom and fell backwards, hitting her head on a radiator at the bottom of the stairs. An ambulance was called but when it arrived, it caught fire, so another ambulance was called for, together with a fire engine to put out the first ambulance. This was all causing complete chaos on the narrow road outside their house, so a passing off duty policeman stopped to direct traffic.
You couldn't make this stuff up!

Eeeh not sure I can top these!

Worst was probably an evening do but there was no atmosphere...at all! There were hardly any people there, no-one danced. Just not very exciting!

Went to a colleagues wedding one year where the ceremony was at 10am...we didn't eat until about 6pm at the reception..everyone was absolutely hammered!

Have also made a pact with DH that any weddings we go to from now will be child-free for us-recently went to our best-mans wedding (was lovely, simple, elegant and low-key!) but DH was an usher and so 3 months pregnant me was sat at the back trying to bribe 18 month old with biscuits. As soon as the bride came in he started screaming blue murder, managed to vacate the room and spent the next half an hour chasing him around in 6 inch heels. He then threw up everywhere (I hadn't brought the change bag) and a random woman kindly gave me a packet of baby wipes to clean us both up. I have never wanted a glass of wine more in my life 😫 Poor DH had driven too and we were sat with a group of our childless friends who started buying shots and having a great time...we sat with our diet cokes feeling very depressed! I have a friend getting married next year and have already started asking both sets of grandparents about babysitting!

The one where DH had to step in as best man at the last minute because the grooms father was busted and sent to prison. The bride was absolutely vile, and had the nerve to tell me I shouldn't have had a prawn canapé when I was pregnant... she was also pregnant and took regularly fag breaks throughout the day

Just remembered one where me & ex-bf who was best man, had to drive 7 hours (M25, Friday night) to get there, in a dirty old-fashioned b&b. The wedding was an evangelical Christian affair in a stone-cold Norman church in November. Not only was it freezing, but there was a sermon, and a happy-clappy sung Q&A type thing from the minister - audience participation required ("When I sing God is Great, you sing Hallelujah!). This was great for the members of the happy clappy church who were present, but for friends and family (the majority) it was horribly awkward as no-one wanted to sing back and it went on for aaaages.

The reception was terrible (a rugby club), no atmosphere and again freezing cold. The bride had taken a dislike to me (no idea why, I'd only met her twice and always been perfectly pleasant and friendly), would not make eye contact with me or speak to me, just talked around and over me. I've never felt so invisible.

At the evening party, the groom and all his horrible boorish friends got really drunk and were bouncing around the dance floor to 90s Brit Pop like they were at a festival.

That was embarrassing to watch but kind of find.

It got worse when one of these horrid men accidentally kicked a kid of about 7 in the face with his stupid dancing as the child was walking across the dance floor and gave the kid a nose bleed.

It was topped though when the groom got so bladdered that he projectile vomited on the dance floor, covering a middle aged woman (no idea who she was) in his half-digested beef dinner and about 12 pints of Carling.

I used to sing in a choir and we were invited to a forest wedding.
We were told by the wedding planner that we needed to arrive at 1pm for a tech run through and that there would be an entertainers tent with refreshments where we could relax.
We got there on time, went to find the wedding planner who said "I haven't got time for that rubbish"
Warned us not to speak to any wedding guests and to park our mini bus out of sight.
We weren't given a slot just told to wait until we were called and we're finally called at 6pm!
No tent, no refreshments(not even a cup of tea or a glass of water)
We sat in our minibus in the middle of the forest for five hours!!
Funnily enough we've refused all requests to sing at weddings since then.

Laughing at the posters who were offended that the B&G dared to have a wedding on their birthday, seriously?! 😂

Not mine but a colleague at work recently went to a wedding where the groom was punched in the face by his own father and half the guests disappeared outside to smoke marijuana!

Waitress dropped a full gravy boat on the mother of the groom's immaculate pastel pink outfit!!

Is anyone reading these praying not to find their wedding on here! These are great!
I haven't got anything to add..Nothing too bad happened at my own wedding..Apart from someone stole our bag of sweets from our candy cart -Still bitter 4 years later-
But I am enjoying reading them!