To ask about the worst wedding you’ve been too

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I’m planning mine and I could just ask for tips but instead I’m going to procrastinate and read stories.
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At the reception the families were mixed up at the tables.

It was a very expensive one. In a very posh venue but the bride was so stressed she was in foul humour and while the venue was ££££'s the staff were rubbish and too busy having their own fun to do a good job. There were 300 guests and the bride and groom didn't know many (friends of their parents, who were paying). Having said that the bride was beautiful and the marriage has been a happy one which is really all that matters.

The two best weddings I was at were smaller (approx 60 guests), the brides were very relaxed and both had a ball at their own weddings. Because they were smaller and more relaxed they got to chat with their friends. There was a sudden storm and power cut in the middle of one which the bride thought exciting and which made the atmosphere even better. I think that's the trick: don't get hung up on details, it's a gathering of your friends to witness your union: go with the flow, enjoy the day and being with your nearest and dearest.

Five hours between ceremony and dinner - stranded in a country house with people I didn’t know, killing time.

Food was awful- not enough and poor quality. DJ was beyond crap- cheesy music and just boring

Hot day lots of waiting around post ceremony before we went inside to venue (photographs, general faffing) and o my one drink each!

No opportunity to even purchase more. Gosh we were all in bad spirits by the time we got inside!

The one where most of the guests got food poisoning from the buffet.

To be honest most of them are dire these days. Starting from the obligatory hen dos and 90% of the Must do's. The weddings that seem to be a complete show off session with bridesmaids and flower girls all over the place out doing a royal wedding. Pomp. Long speeches. Standing around in the cold for ages. Long photo sessions. Awful food. First Dance. Discos. The best wedding I ever went to had 20 guests , a warm and friendly atmosphere, a lovely lunch and NO ONE fell out, before during or after. It was what it was meant to be, a celebration of a marriage, not a show performance.

The music at one was so loud that nearly everyone was hiding in another room (the bar) and were still struggling to be heard.

Another had music that no-one could work out how to dance to, so the dancefloor was empty.

No music, no alcohol; instead there were board games. The registrar was about 2 or 3 hours late; the bride had a screaming fit about it (which everyone heard). Just about everyone had left by 7.30pm.

On the plus side, the food was nice.

It went on for 12 hours - venue was the middle of nowhere, 20 mins from nearest hotel or 35 mins from our home. They had told us that they were putting on a coach to take people from church to venue, and from venue to home - it turns out it was to 2 drop off spots that they hadn’t mentioned and we had get a lift at 1.30am home from there. We get onto the coach to discover it’s a tenner per person and the B&G hadn’t actually paid.

Ceremony at 12, ended at 1, 45 min journey to the venue. We arrived at 2.15pm to all cram in a tiny room and no food. Food finally comes at 4.30pm, no starters and a slice of cold roast beef with a few carrots and potatoes. The groom cut his speech short to ask us to start passing half full wine bottles back to the waiters. The bar was a temporary set up and they refused to open any more bottles or put another keg of beer on from 10pm onwards in case we didn’t drink it all. We sat for 2 hours after that, starving and without booze, waiting for that pissing bus!

Country house hotel wedding. 3 hours between ceremony and food. Cash bar only, drinks were about £10 for a glass of bad white wine, £4 for a coke. We were starving, not enough chairs, it a boiling hot room. Finally get around to the meal and it was disgusting- congealed gravy and a fatty piece of meat.

Worst part of it all was that it turns out the bride and groom had the hotel charge more for the rooms to cover the cost of renting the venue.

Guests were left in the reception venue with no food or drink while the wedding photos were done, which took quite a while!

Dry wedding (Christian tee total folk)

reception in the church - 2 hour wait between service and being sat down - no snacks or drinks - awful (we all nipped to the pub for a pint and a pack of crisps!)

Country House hotel, mega showy, lovely outdoor space. However, it was pissing down all day. So, 5 hours of standing about after the ceremony while the photos were done until the meal. No seating, nothing to do, everyone crammed into a small space. Expensive, boring and ill thought out imho.

Been to a couple where it was a fancy venue but corners cut to make it as cheap as possible. It stands out a mile.
They were midweek as well. Just feel wrong.

Church wedding on a cold day and then about a three hour wait before food while the bride and groom dicked about having a long photo shoot and everyone else waited around, starving and freezing.

Looking through these replies, seems like other people think the same. It's the big gap between the ceremony and the meal where you're hungry and bored.

I have to really love the people getting married to enjoy a wedding.

Absolute worst: DJ (family friend of the groom) got steaming drunk and did an appalling job. B+G didn’t even notice.
Second worst: really long church service, trek to get to the reception, had to wait hours and hours for food as there was a delay. Family tension made worse by hangry guests. No drinks whilst people were waiting. Everyone bored to tears. 3 course wedding breakfast finally served and then 2 hours later the evening hog roast was served, which wasn’t touched of course. Music was unbelievably shite and everything finished at 11pm. They’re divorced now. His second wedding was marginally better....

My own. I had picked suppliers who really didn't pay attention - the photographer shouted 'can we have Crystal's family together now' and it took him several attempts to realise that no one knew who Crystal (the bride from his next booking, as it turned out) was. The evening buffet was served without the vegetarian option. Apparently they thought all the vegetarians had gone home. Not only were a good third of the guests veggie, so was I.

Very posh wedding, in a lovely venue but the speeches were done before the meal, and they went on for well over an hour. Everyone was starving and it just didn't work.

I think the hardest thing to get right, is the length of time between the getting married part, and the meal. Worst wedding are where the gap is far too long (and boring).

8 hours in the same event room after the ceremony (think lunch and dinner and disco is same room with staff cleaning up inbetween). Boring as hell. Cold food which took an hour between courses to serve. Over priced bar. More like an ordeal than a celebration. Couldn't wait to get away tbh.

Best wedding was small affair where everyone knew each other and there was no showing off/pretentiousness or trying to act like youre in Hello magazine

Dh’s cousin’s wedding. Dh used to be a photographer so was asked to take the photos. He broke his leg in the run up to the wedding but felt obliged to take the photos still as the couple didn’t have a lot of money (even though he was in pain and on crutches so couldn’t really hold the camera properly). Then after the wedding breakfast in a pub we were asked to pay for our meal.

Beautiful venue, outside. Stinking hot all day until the evening and the sun set and it was bitter cold. Coach early. If you missed that, one at midnight! We tried to call a cab but there was no mobile reception. The house was inaccessible (where the landline was).

We ended up begging a lift from the FOTB because we were so cold (had older DF with us).

These are people who booked flights to the WRONG London once. Very poor organizers.

The worst wedding I went to wasn’t wheelchair accessible so I couldn’t get into the venue! The bride and groom had been told there was a lift in the building, but hadn’t actually checked.