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Sunday Night: Question What is the worst wedding you have attended?

I know that a question like this can hit on touchy stuff, but I was just wondering if anyone would like to talk about the worst wedding they have attended. Here, it is not really to save others from horrific choices (I think most of the TK crowd has some sense) but it might be entertaining. I have one, and a second runner up:

1. Bride, wearing a very nice dress was drunk pretty much through out the event. BM's looked like streetwalkers, only with less fashion sense. They were in super short, super tight, orange sequined dresses - really. The groom smelled bad, again not kidding and was also drunk, though less so than the bride. The parents of bride and groom got in a loud four way argument at the reception, where the groom played grab ass with one of the guests. There was more, but we don't have all night.

2. Bride followed weeks of acting like a bridezilla stereotype from the depths of hell to a wedding where guests stood through a 45 minute ceremony, and a lot of people could not see because it was so crowded. MOH was almost in tears at the ceromony, not from joy but from being treated like sh-t for weeks. She threatened to walk shortly before the wedding, which had finally shut the evil bride the h-ll up. BM's were not in much better shape. Bride announced loudly after the vows and before the reception that her mom was dressed like a whore (mom was total MILF material, I think bride had a big issue with that). Reception was almost "cash everything" bu which I mean a charge for some "extra" food items.  Again, there was more but time is an issue...

Re: Sunday Night: Question What is the worst wedding you have attended?

  • The worst wedding that I didn't attend was my step-brother's wedding.  I couldn't go, because I got the invite on a Monday. For a wedding that was Thursday afternoon... 6 hours away. They spelled my name wrong on the invite (same name as my dad, i.e. his mom's current last name.) The invite only had an option to RSVP directly to the hotel.  They had a 'cash' bar, but I guess all of the money actually went to the B&G somehow? That came out later. 

    Then a few weeks after that, I got an invitation to the bride's "Backward Bridal Shower", completely with a cutesy rhyme about how they didn't have time to give her a shower before the wedding, so do it now, because she still deserves the gifts. (it actually said that.)  Oh, but "no gifts. The couple would accept gift cards to Walmart/Home Depot or prefer cash." yup. 

    The "at home reception" (not really, because-you know, they were already married and it wasn't a destination" was actually just a bring-your-own meat grillout at a county park.  Don't worry, though, they supplied the side dishes.
  • I like the "bring your own meat" part. Can't be spending money on feeding people meat!
  • NebbNebb member
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    Ive only ever been to four weddings other than my own, and they were all pretty classy. Other than a kissing game where guests had to tell stories about the couple and one doucher kept dropping F bombs infront of the couples grandparents and young neices and nephews, nothing really bad has happened.
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    [QUOTE]Ive only ever been to four weddings other than my own, and they were all pretty classy. Other than a kissing game where guests had to tell stories about the couple and one doucher kept dropping F bombs infront of the couples grandparents and young neices and nephews, nothing really bad has happened.
    Posted by Nebb[/QUOTE]

    <div>You are blessed! Between my dad's side of the family, the 140 million people I have met through my work, and just the whole cycle of lots of people getting married in their 20's and then again or for the first time in their 40's (my crowd, anyway) I lost track of the weddings a long time ago! I like them well enough, mind you it is just that the more weddings you go to the higher your odds of attending the kind SNL skits are made of...</div>
  • Two words: undercooked chicken
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  • @ Mrs. Jesse, considering wedding dresses start at 500 bucks, roughly and go way up from there I am of all this speechless that the bride let bad things happen to her dress and took it off 1/2 hour into the reception! Also, if you were going to get just any cake, what the h-ll why not at least head over to a bakery and pic up some ready mades in flavors you really like? -Sans hidious decorations, of course.
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    [QUOTE]Two words: undercooked chicken
    Posted by Wiscisbliss[/QUOTE]

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  • celticmysscelticmyss member
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    edited June 2012
    I've only been to 3 to 4 weddings as an adult, none of which were particularly memorable. Most of our friends eloped, got married out of state, or just didn't get married. 

    Reading these stories makes me wonder whether I am thankful I missed the drama or sad I missed all the excitement.
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    [QUOTE]Two words: undercooked chicken
    Posted by Wiscisbliss[/QUOTE]

    <div>oh no.</div><div>
    </div><div>My coworker just got food poisoning a few weeks ago from a wedding... along with all of the other guests that ordered the chicken.  </div>
  • I know what you mean Celtic. My appearance at wedding #2, where they were charging for special appetizer plates among other things was sort of fun to b-tch about within the family. We still enjoy it! My neice who is getting married at our place on New Years said something about it just the other day, and she was TEN when she attended. 
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    [QUOTE]In Response to Re: Sunday Night: Question What is the worst wedding you have attended? : oh no. My coworker just got food poisoning a few weeks ago from a wedding... along with all of the other guests that ordered the chicken.  
    Posted by Steph+J[/QUOTE]

    <div>I have heard that as an argument to avoid reception chicken. I would not go that far but just say please make sure they cook it!</div>
  • The wedding I was at this weekend had some really awkward moments.  It was just really unorganized.  The whole ceremony ended up with basically no music and a lot of confusion.  The MOB stood up with the bride 1/4 down the aisle and screamed stop until they got the laptop to play some sort of music.  The officiant kept talking about himself and I don't think the Bride or Groom had any idea what the order was going to be.  Everyone was just looking around confused by the whole ordeal. 
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  • Ended in a 20 man brawl on someone's lawn and about thirty cop cars showing up.

    Fantastic.
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  • My cousin got married on a horse farm in July. It smelled and the flies were awful. It was also a uncoordinated potluck, it was all side dishes and at least 90% potato and macaroni salads. 
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  • NASCAR wedding. Bride told us not to wear shoes and gave us camo rosette necklaces to wear for the ceremony, which was indoors. Our brieesmad gifts were razors because the bride "didn't want to see hairy pits." They served orange kool-aid as their only drink available (as someone with a massive allergy to oranges, I would have appreciated having drinkable water available, even if it was just from the faucets) at the reception, which took place at an empty fairground location. I was the "high-maintenance cousin from the city" because I wore shoes. They then got divorced 11 months later.
  • I remember my aunt's second wedding was awful.  I was like 10 or 12..they only played country music that no one knew and like Dot Dash, only a handful of people were dancing because no one knew the line dances.  My brother and cousin got drunk and tried to line dance, though, and that was fun.  

    My cousin's wedding wasn't bad but she got TRASHED and is busty and had a strapless dress.  Oh, and she had her three year old there, too, to witness mommy falling over and losing her dress.  Classy.
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  • Large weekday weddings confuse me. I had a small weekday destination wedding, but everyone in our little gang was ready willing and able to do that , all 20 of them! I am not judging, just saying when you invite 150 people to a Tuesday night wedding that starts at 8:00 PM with a reception at 10:00 PM, are you expecting many will not show and figuring those who really want to be there will come? I would understand that, I am just wondering why? Does it save a boatload of cash at a lot of venues?
  • During the reception, the bride's mother took the cash gift envelopes to a backroom to count the take. The bride was unhappy with the amount the mom said they collected, and she loudly accused her mom of stealing some of the cash gifts. A nasty argument ensued. The bride then went from guest to guest, asking how much each gave and tallying up what she felt she should have received. It turned out the bride's mom had indeed stolen about half the money. That behavior is one of several reasons why I never see those relatives anymore.
    At another wedding, the young bride and her bridesmaids stood at the bar, downing shot after shot of tequila. A hammered bride is never a pretty sight. I wish non-alcohol weddings would come back into favor. They would save a boatload of money and embarrassing moments.
  • AthseaAthsea member
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    edited June 2012
    I was a bridesmaid in my best friend from college's wedding. First, they flip-flopped on their plans. November camo wedding, surprise cruise wedding (groom was going to surprise the bride) with only 2 months for the invited to plan to attend and pay for, then they settled on June. Bridesmaid dresses went from being any black dress, to a way too expensive red dress that she'd aleady forced two of them to buy even though she never asked our budgets, to any floor length apple David's dress. 

    The bride sent us mass text messages every day asking if we had our dress, shoes, hair appointments, reminding us about how we had to do our nails/hair, etc. Told us to show up dressed for pictures at 1:30 if we weren't getting ready with her. I showed up at 1:35, after being called by the bride and her MOH every 30 seconds about why I was late. I waited 3 hours for everyone else to be ready. 

    Bride was yelling at her FI and his groomsmen on the phone the whole time, barking last minute orders. She even left a voicemail to a groomsman yelling at him to not be late, she didn't trust his sense of time, so she was reminding him. He called her back and said he had no intention of ruining her wedding, and she screamed at him not to be tacky. 

    Ceremony: guests had to remain standing during the first half of the ceremony, slideshow didn't work, guests stood 10 minutes waiting for it to be figured out, 15 minute slideshow, minister began rest of the ceremony, a grandparent asked if they could sit yet, minister ignored and repeated ceremony. Guests sat of their own accord. Minister forgot the whole ring/ I do bit until after he'd pronounced them. Went back and did it. 

    Pictures: Bride yelled instructions at the photographer, groomsmen, and bridesmaids. While she was doing pictures with groomsmen, I went to the bathroom. She sent someone after me, apparently she'd started screaming the moment I left that she needed me. I went back and sat doing nothing for 20 minutes. 

    Reception: Cake and punch at a mealtime reception. Aside from not having forks and being generally unorganized, and the toasts being a rambling free for all, nothing too bad. However, as I was preparing to leave because I was feeling faint and nauseous, she asked me if I would stay and help clean up. She went from table to table and asked this of all of her guests.  
  • They ran out of food and beer....and there was a dollar dance.

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  • I only have two such situations:

    1) Bride brought a date. Not the groom.

    2) Minister kept calling the bride Katherine. Her name is Cristin, and goes by Carrie. Then he repeated kept making references to them being back woods country folk, and how they must be dazzled by Vegas. Now, they are from Iowa, but she's a lawyer and he's a business professional, in a city!
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  • Fi's cousin's "wedding" two years ago.  I use quotation marks because we didn't discover that the two had already gotten married two months earlier until we got there. As the night went on, we discovered that they did a quickie wedding before going on a cruise together, and the reason they did was so that she could drink on the cruise (apparently if you're married, alcohol laws don't apply to you??? I still haven't figured that one out.) 

    The B&G rented out two adjoining rooms at the same venue (a bowling alley). One was for her family, who was super religious and didn't drink, and one was for his family, who... well, do. Nobody on his side of the family was invited to the second ceremony (they held another ceremony that day, before the receptions), and the B&G spent the entire night going back and forth between the two rooms, with no interaction between the two families. The entire night, a slideshow of their actual wedding played, the bride got aggressively drunk and booty danced with the groomsmen, and completely ignored the grooms (FI's cousin). To top it all off, she filed for divore months later, and he had to find out about it on FACEBOOK.

  • kaos16kaos16 member
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    The bride's dad brought a hooker as his guest.  She wore a skintight sparkly minidress and long over the elbow, black gloves. . . . usually on her arms, unless she took them off to use as a hair tie.  They danced inappropriately the whole time, lots of groping and thrusting, etc.  fake boobs popping out from time to time.  Because the dress was so short to begin with, all of the gyrating and "dropping it like it's hot" meant that everyone else in attendance had a good view of her ovaries most of the night as it rode up.  CLASSY!
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    [QUOTE]<strong>The bride's dad brought a hooker as his guest. </strong> She wore a skintight sparkly minidress and long over the elbow, black gloves. . . . usually on her arms, unless she took them off to use as a hair tie.  They danced inappropriately the whole time, lots of groping and thrusting, etc.  fake boobs popping out from time to time.  Because the dress was so short to begin with, all of the gyrating and "dropping it like it's hot" meant that everyone else in attendance had a good view of her ovaries most of the night as it rode up.  CLASSY!
    Posted by kaos16[/QUOTE]

    <div>Oh this sounds special! Mid life crisis for dad, perhaps!</div>
  • In Response to Re: Sunday Night: Question What is the worst wedding you have attended?:
    [QUOTE]My cousin got married on a horse farm in July. It smelled and the flies were awful. It was also a uncoordinated potluck, it was all side dishes and at least 90% potato and macaroni salads. 
    Posted by Spunky414[/QUOTE]


    For the very reasons you mentioned, outdoor farm weddings are usually not a great idea, particularly in the summer. Everyone thinks it sounds romantic (mostly city people!) but yeah... This is what usually happens! Minus the uncoordinated potluck, of course.
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    [QUOTE]They ran out of food and beer....and there was a dollar dance.
    Posted by pillsburyaj[/QUOTE]

    <div>I am not a fan of dollar dances (I understand they are very common in some parts) but running out of food and beer?? Now THAT is a straight up crime!</div>
  • I was once in a wedding where I got food poisoning from the rehearsal dinner so I couldn't eat the wedding food.  But that turned out to be a great wedding.

    The worst one I've been to was for a good friend and his wife who planned the thing in 3 months or less.  It was at a Baptist church where the preacher talked about divorce and the vows discussed that God would strike them if they broke the vows.  The preacher also wanted to save us.

    Then the reception was in the church hall.  No booze. Make your own (over cooked) sliders.  Bad music, and the DJ was THE WORST.  He actually brought up how there was no champaigne toast and then ruined the father daughter dance because the music from amazon wasn't the right volume.  The servers were church volunteers.  However, my fiance who was a groomsman was not told that he was expected to break down the tables and chairs in his tux at the end of the reception.  Good thing the end came early because the power went out and we all had to leave.

    Oh my goodness, glad that's over.
  • what is a dollar dance?

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    [QUOTE]In Response to Re: Sunday Night: Question What is the worst wedding you have attended? : I am not a fan of dollar dances (I understand they are very common in some parts) but running out of food and beer?? Now THAT is a straight up crime!
    Posted by Lenore2010[/QUOTE]
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