Every wedding I have ever attended has been lovely. None majorly fancy, none extremely basic. Some more fun than others. All good-natured, happy for the couple, happy to see old friends again, happy to meet friends' dps and dcs. Interesting to experience the different wedding customs of different religions and countries. Never seen any fights or nastiness at all. Though did hear, after one wedding, that the bride's parents had given her what-for for excluding her own four nieces and nephews.
The first civil wedding I ever attended rather appalled me, as it was so dry and conveyor-belt-like, but the rest of the event was as lovely as any other wedding I've ever been to. And I have since been to lovely civil ceremonies, too.
I've made the wedding cake for a few friends. That's a scary responsibility. The first time and the last! that I used royal icing, i was so nervous of the cake being damaged in transit that I made the icing far too hard, and, it turned out, far too thick. The B & G couldn't cut it! They gave up on the cake-cutting photos and feeding each other ritual, and started the party, while the hotel chef brought out an enormous knife and a meat-tenderiser, and he and I tried to chisel our way into the cake.
I was so embarrassed to spoil things for them, I didn't know whether to laugh or to cry. I kept glimpsing the bride's face slipping into cat's bum. She did not look happy at all. Groom later told me that she was, indeed, upset at first, but she saw the funny side when the chef in his tall hat and whites, and I in my party frock and heels, were hammering away at the cake with such focus and sincerity. But she didn't want to embarrass me by laughing!
I do love a wedding 