Favourite wedding and why?

[Pasde]

My wedding is gong to be a FORTNIGHT before my cousins. And there are just some uncanny similarities. I fear people are going to compare and would be devastated if my cousin’s was preferred.

We have tonnes of food and a free bar.

What was your fav wedding and why?

TIA!

@Pasde

I love really good speech’s not just the best man. We paid for a master of ceremonies who came prior to the wedding day to go though the speeches with all of us so they were unique but covered everything.

I have recently really enjoyed a brides speech and a maid of honour’s speech. If we were getting married now I would love my wife to have done one.

It’s the emotion and love I remember and money can’t buy that enjoy your day xxx

Short ceremony, no speeches, no seating plan so you could sit next to friends, good music and free bar. Basically a party 🤣

My own, because I married the love of my life! But also because it was small, very relaxed, plenty of food, separate play area for the children if they wanted to use it, quiet seating areas as well, no music or dancing because we're not into that - only about 4 hours long, perfect!

I should add.... I'm autistic, it wasn't a first wedding for either of us and we just wanted a celebration with our nearest and dearest, not a showy party.

My favourite weddings have had little to do with the food, drink, music or venue. They have been ones where I have known lots of people.

I have been to some lovely weddings where I only knew a few people. For example at one I only knew the bride, at another I only knew the bride and groom, and at a third I only knew the groom and his parents. I think at all those I was offered a plus one, but I didn’t have anyone obvious to take, so didn’t.

I enjoyed all three, but the ones I have enjoyed most are family weddings or weddings I have gone to with a group of friends.

Venue included 2 nights accommodation in a mixture of tepees and shepherds huts, night before the wedding we all joined in BBQ and karaoke/dancing
Big camp style breakfast next morning - wild swimming in lake, ceremony was late afternoon so plenty of time to get ready
Low key informal ceremony - children welcome - followed by afternoon tea
In the evening live music and pizza wagon
There was loads of outdoor space and the free bar went down well

My two most enjoyable weddings were worlds apart.

One was a lavish no expense spared stately home sort of do, sit down meal, canapes, bridesmaids and all the touches.

One was a budget quick cermony then local hall ceilidh 'knees up', no bridesmaids, no canapes or favours etc.

Both were lovely because they considered their guests.

Sit down meal at the 'naice' do was great and enough. Buffet at the evening. Bar wasn't extortionate. It wasn't miles away from everyone. Photos only took an hour or so and drinks and canapes flowing freely.

Cheaper do they put on transport for people at the end of the night. They left the buffet out until people had stopped going up to it and kept replenishing everything-nothing ran out, everyone got fed. I didn't know anyone other than the B&G and a couple of friends so I took a friend as a plus one who was made very welcome. Bridesmaids did a great job. Bride made her own cake.

Everyone happy at both, nobody too drunk, hungry or bored.

I may have enjoyed the cheaper one slightly more but only because there were several bottles of champagne on the table and nobody else liked it (hic).

Just realisedI said no bridesmaids-I meant no bridesmaid DRESSES! The cheaper one had bridesmaids but they all wore what they wanted. At the posh do they attended mainly to the bride and staff did other things. At the cheaper one they did all the clearing up, replenishing of the buffet, glass collecting etc. The only staff were bar staff.

My favourite wedding was the wedding where it all went wrong. So many things happened to go wrong - and it was still a brilliant day!

My favourite would be the most relaxed - not in a church, no official photographer, no sit-down meal, no dress code... Nip off to the register office, back to the pub, a few drinks and snacks, then everybody go home. I hate all the unnecessary fuss, planning and expense.

For me, best weddings I've been to have been down to great guest attending and vibe

Cant buy that..

Free bar

Lots of nice food at a reasonable times. I hate weddings where I need to leave home at 9.00am then have to wait until 3.00pm to be fed because i cant eat at lunchtime as that's when the ceremony is on (especially annoying for parents with young kids). Then served a tiny portion of crap food. If you are expecting people to stay in the evening then evening food should be provided.

Lots of waiting around - if I'm waiting 2 hours so you can have 600 photos taken you can feed and water me in the interim.

Food & alcohol 😁

Best wedding I ever went to was where they had organised activities for the children. The couple getting married didn’t have children of their own and wouldn’t have thought of it, but if was offered by their venue so they signed up for it due to the number of children attending. We all attended the service, then when we were enjoying drinks and canapés this lovely lady came round like the pied piper luring all the children away with promises of fun. She delivered them back to us at the beginning of the sit down meal, by which time they were wearing personalised jewellery they’d just made, then she collected them again before the speeches, and brought them back for the disco at the end. Honestly it was just amazing. We all had a wonderful time.