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?

I haven't been to a particularly bad wedding but there was one where a lot of the guests were invited to the church ceremony and the evening do but not the meal inbetween, which I thought was a little bit off tbh but the worst part was that it didn't make this clear on the invitation - which meant they turned up to the venue looking for their names on the table plan and had to be turned away by the groom....cringe.

Betty I'm going to one of those on Saturday! Grade B guest.
At least I know though.

Weren't invited to the evening meal so left hungry, thirsty, freezing and with a youngish baby.

This made it sound like you stole a baby to eat!

Can't compare to these but my cousins wedding where the father of the bride did his speech going on about all his daughters accomplishments right from her graduating from nursery up until her masters degree with every possible thing in between complete with a picture slide show.

He did not mention the fact she was marring my cousin once (mind you my cousin is a prize twat so didn't really blame him)

lying on the floor waiting for an ambulance while other guests danced around them Sorry but I laughed at that.
The imagery is just too funny. blush

It was an Irish wedding. Nothing was going to stop them us dancing. 💃🏻🕺🏻

Went to the wedding of an old school friend who I hadn't seen much in years. Mother of the groom (who was really one of the more objectionable people I've ever met) made her complete disdain for the bride completely obvious, and his whole family left about two hours into the reception. Both bride and groom proceeded to take a lot of coke. Both high as kites and smoking like chimneys - then began talking about how they hoped she'd get pregnant ASAP...

The one where we were invited to the evening reception and asked to be there by 7. The daytime reception was overrunning and we had to stand in a corridor until 9.30 as evening guests weren't allowed in until the speeches were done.

The worst wedding I've been to was at a private girls school. They hold weddings at weekends and school holidays. Beautiful setting. All was OK till mid ceremony we had to sing the song "on top of the world" everyone around me was cringing. The photos were amazing but the atmosphere was flat from start to finish. The food tasted worse then school dinners and the groom couldn't do his speech as he couldn't stop crying.

I might "win" this thread! I attended a friends wedding which started off with them asking me last minute to bring a projector with me, so I had to lug a heavy item in my evening dress on public transport. I didn't know why they needed until later that evening...
The venue was a modern conference building and the ceremony was held in a large dark rectangular room with a circular stage in the middle. There was a ramp up to the stage instead of an aisle. The couple got married under a spot light whilst the guests sat in the dark observing. the bridemaid's dresses were blood red satin! It was all very gloomy and sort of macabre.
The dinner was in another gloomy room. The took the projector I brought and used it to do a game. The couple had some guests from Germany and these Germans decided to do a German language test on the newlyweds who had met in Germany. It was so God-awful boring and not remotely funny and went on for ages and the whole room had to sit through it....
Finally when the language test was done and dinner was done and the long boring speeches it was time to dance! The dancing had barely begun when the mother of the groom died! She had a heart attack and died right in the room!

Even worse all the money the couple collected as wedding gifts was used to pay for the mother's funeral!

The marriage lasted one year....

The one held at an evangelical church. Brides family had always been very religious, groom was not in the slightest. Wedding was arranged as she was 5 months pregnant so the brides parents had faces on them all day at the grooms parents.
There was a 5 hour gap between ceremony and reception with no food or drinks offered- we went to a pub for lunch!
Reception had jugs of orange squash on the table instead of wine.
Disco was dreadful.

My dad's wedding to wife #2 was so bad I temporarily took up smoking again - all because I needed an excuse to leave the room for a while, went out and started bumming fags off my fellow mourners guests. Took me another six months to kick the habit once again, too - which was a whole two weeks longer than their marriage!

The last wedding I went too was a few months ago it was quite nice good food etc but the bridegroom was late 70,s on his third marriage bride was late 60,s he only invited me too make up numbers i knew he had come onto a friend of mine and i didn't really know anyone apart from the friends o came with but like I said the food was good ....

DH's cousins wedding which was uneventful until the best man's speech where he was so pissed he prattled on for 45 minutes, mainly telling in-jokes and his language was getting worse and worse (loads of children present). He then told his dad to "fuck off" after the Dad told him to sit down after he'd called the groom "a dirty cunt".

There was then a fight on the dance floor and 3 guests had to be taken to a&e.

My SIL. Not as bad as some but it was overseas and I had a two year old and a six month old. Dh spent the whole time taking photos and videos leaving me with kids and everyone's costs and bags. All the rest of the female members of the wedding party had makeovers except Me.
Our seats were tucked away in the corner and me and Dd2 hardly appeared in any photos.

O and my nephews wedding. The wedding was all about the bride and her family. Me dh and the eldest child was invited not the younger two.
So we paid a fortune for travel hotels and a babysitter.
Food was virtually raw.

Just the hanging around hungry type.

It was worth going purely to meet the extended family of ILs as there hadn't been a family event in years, and it was informative in how not to do it for our own wedding that was being planned.

Wedding was held in a small market town about 40 mins from the relatives we were staying with. 12pm service, full Catholic mass. So we had brunch at about 10:30. We had sandwiches in the car to help tide us over as we set off for the hour drive to a stupidly expensive hotel up the arse end of nowhere. The couple disappeared for a couple of hours for photos. By this point the few biscuits that had been put out were begining to be a distant memory, and milling around chatting with limited seating was reaching the tedious stage. Nowhere to go. Nothing to eat. No word on how long we had to hang around for. Wedding breakfast was served at 8pm after some sports match . Food was distinctly mediocre bog standard roast type. By the time the meal and speeches were over and we'd politely stuck around for the first dance it was time to face the long and winding roads back to civilisation before we turned into pumpkins and mice

Wedding rule #1 keep the guests well fed and watered.

Lowlights include:

Father of one of the best men who had a very public 'funny turn' during the speeches (not his son's to be fair!) and had to be rushed to hospital (fine but properly unconscious)

Father of the bride who ad libbed his speech because he wanted to be spontaneous. Generic 'lovely day / beautiful bride' struggling ad libbing. May as well have never met the bride for all the detail he missed out. Felt awful for her as she'd had a pretty bum deal from him as a dad.

My DB's where despite him and his wife being minted they spunked all the budget on the shit entertainment and naff all on the food. School dinner with no NO pudding!

My happy clappy Christian friends who couldn't afford to invite DH so I had to endure a totally sober wedding with an ex boyfriend and a monsoon almost preventing me from getting home.

A bride who was super super rude to me but fortunately I was shit faced from the free bar because DH hadn't invited her (pre him meeting her) to our wedding. Err my fault how??? There was only 2 courses neither of which I liked so I was absolutely arseholed. She did apologise several years later and says she didn't blame DH given her DH's reputation as a serial shagger!!!!

My own where me and quite a few guests had the raging shits from the salad (narrowed it down based on friends' meal choices). Marvellous.

DH was best man for old school friend. Not very good vibes. Couldn't work out why.
At the eve do the father of the groom punched the bride.
Do I win? What's my prize!

Most memorable wedding food was deep fried roast potatoes with tinned carrots and vegetable cooking water instead of gravy for a coeliac.

Oh and where DH was supposedly the best man but didn't actually get invited to the wedding which was held in secret in our home town when we then had to jet off to the other side of the world for a 'destination' wedding which meant chuff all because they were actually already married! And not even inviting him to the rehearsal bit on the morning of the non wedding so he looked a total wally when it actually came to the ceremony. And leaving 15 month old DD at home for the first time because it would have been ludicrous to bring her. Our room got given away to someone else and we ended up practically camping in a bit of scrubland. And then there was a thunder and lightening disaster putting out all the power to the venue at about 10pm. Shit. Just shit.

Car broke down on the way to a wedding. Called AA, called venue to say we'd be late and were told to go straight to the hotel and not even try to get to the ceremony (which was in a church). Finally got on the road about three hours behind schedule. Got to country house hotel in deepest rural countryside to find other guests only just arriving - the ceremony had over-run (by about two hours), due to the specially composed music taking longer than expected. I felt we dodged a bullet on that one...

Mine terrible groom, terrible soulless wedding, didn't feel like I could have anything I really wanted cos I was a fat, ugly bride (realise now that I was very depressed and the whole thing had been a huge mistake).

Went to a lovely wedding a couple of years ago, went to change my baby son when two male guests walked out of the babychange and I realised they'd been snorting coke off the changing table

Not a wedding I atttended personally, but my ex colleague came in to work with a bald patch. She explained that she had got into a fight at a wedding and people had been breaking chairs over each other's heads. Apparently she hasn't tried to break up the fight and someone has pulled a clump of hair the size of a fist out of the crown of her head!

My sister in laws was bloody awful. She was getting married in central London 2 hours from where we live. They arranged the wedding meal as a lunch just before the wedding - bride, groom, siblings plus spouses, and parents only were invited. The plan was to go straight from meal to registry office.
DD aged 4 was bridesmaid but was not invited to the meal and nor was DS aged 3. SiL could not explain how we were meant to attend the meal without our DC yet still have DD as bridesmaid But we were repeatedly criticised for not attending the meal. The only suggestion was for my parents, in their 80s, to come with us to London and lurk in London with our DC - then pass them over at registry office and head home themselves. A 4 hour round trip.
SiL had the 'reception' in a pub that was jam packed, (SiL just advertised it on social media it turns out rather than do invites and didn't ask for replies) and they
provided no food whatsoever. Family who'd travelled since the morning for 3-4 hours were starving. No one including us had realised there was no food for the afternoon/evening. The wedding was at 3. The reception was all evening and everyone went straight from registry office to pub venue. MiL criticised me saying that "obviously if you had given it any thought you should have brought sandwiches". Because obviously everyone takes a picnic to a wedding
Relatives who'd travelled for hours were eating packet after packet of crisps until the pub sold out. The only food place nearby was a kebab place.
To this day MiL still snipes about how we didn't make the effort to attend the meal. Never mind that we spent 8 hours in London unfed and trying not to lose the DC in a pub where everyone was packed in like sardines.
She heralds it as a triumph of an event. In reality everyone apart from her, her DH and her mother disagrees.

A friend and her dh flew to South America for a wedding in a language they didn't speak. Neither bride nor groom really spoke to them despite their huge effort to attend and during the night at their hotel a huge live sewer rat landed on their double bed and ran around their room. I am literally rat phobic so for me this sounds the worst experience ever!