What was the best wedding you went to

[ivykaty44]

AIBU to ask why was it so good? Free bar? Plenty of dosh in a posh place or is it something else that makes a great wedding?

Last November!

Small Welsh wedding, maybe 40 family & friends - nothing special or expensive.

it was brilliant because bride & groom were so in love, so happy, relaxed and spent lots of time talking with all us guests.

They were the only ones on the dance-floor at 10pm and they danced like they were the only ones in the room - it was gorgeous. :)

My best wedding was mine!
Small and intimate and chilled and romantic, filled with the people we love.

My best friend got married a couple of years ago and hers was perfect - she went for breakfast with her fiancé, he left. She got ready with all of us, wandered across the green from her home where she got married with probably 40 guests, then we all went to the pub for dinner where we had macaroni cheese and cottage pie and toasted with beer and danced the night away!

The best weddings are the ones where there is the minimal pomp and the most alcohol and fun and love, IMO 😍

It was very relaxed, the music was really good, the venue was great in that it wasn't just one big room but lots of different corners; a seating area etc. it felt very homely and relaxed. They found an amazing caterer so there were lots of yummy nibbles as the evening went on (not posh stuff - mini burgers, dips and pittas but really good delicious). The bride and groom weren't stressed just having a great time. The photographer mainly took natural shots and they sent a personal photo of each one of us with the thank you card which was lovely.

My own! Sorry to sound smug, but it was perfect. 25 of our nearest and dearest, candlelit ceremony conducted by my FIL (everybody cried), four course meal afterwards in a private room at an amazing Michelin star restaurant where everyone could order whatever they wanted - absolutely fabulous food, free bar, amazing wine and champagne - then the rest of the evening in front of a roaring fire after the restaurant had closed. It was wonderful, we adored every minute.

Mine then my sisters’ and brothers’ equally. But for non family weddings it was a couple who got married in a London members’ club. Don’t really remember the meal or the decor but it was just so fun. Open bar and a rave, and a massive buffet all night (bacon rolls, egg rolls, deep fried mac and cheese bites, cake, mini sweet and savoury pies). I had the best time at that wedding.

My best mate.
Smallish. No frills. Church then we had the village hall for the day and night. Food prepared by the friends of the Mother of the Bride.
Mid evening bride and groom left for their honeymoon and left us to party.

The groom's parents are experienced dancers and taught us loads of dances Their mates were in a band and provided the music. Learnt to rock'n' roll and jive, danced with everyone in the room and laughed all night. Also drank far too much free alcohol.

Best weddings are the ones about love.

My best friend got married in a private members club in London - quite intimate with amazing food and a lovely happy atmosphere.

The party had an amazing music selection, her family were amazingly welcoming, there was a free bar nearly all night, bacon rolls at midnight, just fantastic.

Never danced so much in my life. I also got felt up by a random which was quite funny.

Amazing wedding.

(Best one apart from mine.)

Really hot summer day, it was the wedding of our Vicars’ daughter. Marriage in the church then picnic on the vicarage lawn. Children were playing and there were stalls like hook a duck and coconut shy etc etc. No alcohol whatsoever. They had a massive marquee on standby incase of inclement weather but it wasn’t needed. What a wonderful day we all had. This was back in 1996 and it is still talked about now.

Mine. I loved my wedding. It was very small, just close family. We hired a lovely little hall with a full kitchen, I prepared all the food myself in advance and we had 2 lovely ladies to do the last minute preparation and heating up, plus washing up and clearing up. Everyone mucked in as they arrived and before they left, we had another lovely lady to do a humanist service for us (we had already done the registry office thing). It was a merging of 2 sets of grown up children, their children and brothers and sisters and their children. Everyone got on, there were no upsets, there was no stress, and best of all I got to marry my DH.

The best weddings are ones where you can feel the love between the bride and groom and think yeah, they'll make it. Also plenty of food and drink helps.
Mine was the best though, church ceremony, traditional reception.

My and Dh’s, and then my brothers! Both big weddings.
Mine was part paid for by us, part made by me and mainly paid for between our parents. 160 guests- each of whom had contributed to our or our parents lives in wonderful ways. My dad took the service and married us. Hotel reception, wonderful speeches, lovely food, we set up a play zone for younger children. In the evening we didn’t have a dance- we had asked our siblings to compile home videos from our childhood which they narrated alongside, my lovely 6yo brother read aloud a poem he’d written with my dad, friends and family who are talented got up to sing for entertainment too. Loved every minute and everyone who was there, and was so glad to have had them all.
My brother had a similar number of guests but had a lovely rustic barn wedding, with platters of cheese, fruit and meats for a supper after service, time for photos, an amazing meal which was served in large dishes on each table which you helped yourselves to, fantastic speeches, and an evening of dancing, a cariacaturist, old photos pinned up to look at and plenty space and peace to talk. My favourite bit was that they had personally written a limerick describing each of their guests/how they knew them, and it was all in a book to read at the end.
We’re from the Scottish islands where smaller weddings are much more rare.. but the big weddings are fun and jolly and nobody is stressing about the little things. It’s a lot of money for one day, but the memories are priceless. We went into our young marriages feeling so overwhelmingly loved and supported.

My own! But after that, my best friend's. The day before we dusted out the ( normally unused and tiny) church and decorated it with bluebells. We had a fabulous ceilidh, I started as an eight month pregnant bridesmaid, we had great hymns, an international concert pianist who was also a guest played Chopin nocturnes at the church piano, the vicar was a bit drunk at the reception, children did dancing and skidsies on he barn floor, the groom did half his speech in his native Zulu, my mum and her mum made the cake, there was camping in a field and an impromptu gymkhana. I didn't want that day to end. Can't beat a crazy country wedding

A huge Indian wedding in Dubai. My Dad worked there at the time and it was a business associates daughter who got
married. I didn’t know them but I was over visiting as was my aunt and uncle and the father of bride insisted we all come .
The invites were hand delivered and were in a big decorative box filled With chocolates and fresh flowers.
It was in the ballroom of a huge hotel and there was approx 500 people, every table had their own waiter for the evening, every food imaginable, free flowing champagne all
Night and any other drink you possibly wanted from multiple bars, the decorations and amount of flowers were just amazing.
Had huge cameras like you see on shows going round the venue all night and showing on big screens the other 7 or so weddings
They had had across the world.
The dancing was amazing and everyone so nice and friendly.
It was like nothing I have seen before or
Will again, pure Opulence.

I’m getting married in Cyprus this June so hopefully that should take over as my most memorable x

I loved my own wedding, but my childhood friend's was absolutely fab. As kids, we always swore we would get married to each other, and then we lost touch when we were in our late teens (we lived in different countries by then and had been prolific penpals for years).

He got married at Warwick Castle, and while there was a lot of standing around, it was in such a lovely location and the event was professionally managed with tours, and a drinks reception whilst photos were being taken (free bar for that bit). DH was even ferried around the venue in a golf cart because he can't walk far. The food was great and the atmosphere was relaxed and fuss free.

To be honest, I'm almost always bored stiff at weddings. There's never anything to do for the 2 hours they are away having their photoshoot. The best weddings have something to entertain the guests between ceremony and dinner IMHO.

... I'll resist the urge to say my own was the best... Even if there was free food and drink and mini golf available for the guests...

Mine 45 of us in the place that DH and I met. Only people who we loved and loved us. We paid for or subsidised accommodation for 2 nights and provided dinner both nights - you have never seen so much food.

Started late afternoon, champagne and canapés immediately after the ceremony all in the same place, non stop food till midnight. Amazing DJ, everyone mingling and laughing and dancing. And a midnight pool party.

We still get people telling us how much they loved it (and reminiscing about the food) years later.

There was a ceremony and lovely meal for close family earlier. Then for the evening reception guests gathered by the river in Oxford and went by boat to a country pub near the locks on the canal. There was an Alice in Wonderland theme and a vintage vibe, both optional. Live music in a marquee included Celtic Rasta and guests from all over the world, of all ages, mingled and danced. The family had organised the food, huge containers of curries, salads and home made trays of cake. Old fashioned pub games such as Aunt Sally and Quoits on the field. Just such a lovely relaxed and welcoming summer evening with grannies and toddlers having as much fun as everyone else.

My friend's...and it was the best because there was a load of our close friends there and we had a ball catching up. Venue was fab too.