What's the worst wedding you ever attended?
I was just posting in the other board about this wedding I went to and realized that I've been to some pretty bad weddings, and here's an example:
The long travel time and no local accomodations were irritating. The ceremony was 2 hours and it was lovely. We went to the reception site and the hors d'eourves were there for everyone to take at their leisure; however, there was a farm nearby and some giant horse flies kept hovering (and eventually dying) in the food.
While dinner was served the guests were harassed by the large flies and we were near the water which equaled giant spiders.
The DJ was pretty bad but we decided to go dance; unfortunately the dance floor had gaps and was on a hill so me and the bridesmaids who tried to have a good time just hit the floor for one reason or another.
My FI had had enough and kept picking the dead flies out of his food and looked at his watch repeatedly. We finally decided it was time to go when a large spider was spotted making it's way to the cake from the tent ceiling. While we were saying our goodbyes the spider had made itself comfortable on top of the cake.
We left but by the time we got home and showered the dead flies out of our hair, we just had had enough of the great outdoors. Most of the other guests had left before us but we assured the bride and groom that we were happy to join them on their big day.
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[QUOTE]In Response to Re: What's the worst wedding you ever attended? : That's pretty pathetic.<strong> If they knew they weren't going to be able to keep their pants on, they should have planned a shorter reception.</strong> I bet their parents were really embarrassed, too. You should invite them over for dinner some night, then after you serve dessert, disappear to your bedroom with your FI. I wonder if they'd get the hint.
Posted by yaga13[/QUOTE]
Exactly! I was surprised that if they waited long enough to wait until their wedding night, why couldn't they have waited a few more hours?! It was so rude..
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[QUOTE]In Response to Re: What's the worst wedding you ever attended? : That's pretty pathetic. If they knew they weren't going to be able to keep their pants on, they should have planned a shorter reception. <strong>I bet their parents were really embarrassed, too.</strong> You should invite them over for dinner some night, then after you serve dessert, disappear to your bedroom with your FI. I wonder if they'd get the hint.
Posted by yaga13[/QUOTE]
What? Why?
Everything the light touches is my kingdom.
This.Is.Hilarious!
My first complaint is that I didn't even get an invitation. I was asked to be a BM and waited for that invite to come in so I could put it a box of stuff that I like to keep (I'm one of those people:) but it never came. I asked her if she mailed it to make sure it hadn't gotten lost and she replied that since I knew where and when it was she figured I didn't need one, plus she had only made 25 or so and didn't want to waste one.
Simple church ceremony at a church where her uncle was a pastor, absolutely no problem with that. The flowers I had to carry as a BM were atrocious. They were fake (not the issue, I don't mind fake flowers) but they were just random stems in her colors that she got from the dollar store the night before and tied together. They were beat up and even my FMIL commented on the bouquet when we came by to pick our daughter up ("She made you carry THOSE?")
There wasn't a huge gap, but there was a big enough gap to where something should have happened. This wasn't all that bad, but just a lesson for me and my wedding.
The food didn't get to the hall until about an hour after is was supposed to. Her brother in law offered to cook the food and while yes, she only paid $300, the food was gross as helll and cold and bland. For $5 a plate, she could have had a local BBQ shop cater and paid about $100 more for it, but I think it would have been worth it.
Cheapest DJ they could find off of Craigslist=enough said. At least make sure you're getting someone who knows what they're doing if you're planning on going this route.
THE BAR. I've never been to an open bar wedding, so I was expecting cash bar, especially since it was a VFW hall and a small budget wedding, no prob. But absolutely nothing was hosted, not even water or soda. Thank goodness they had an ATM otherwise we would have been SOL if we were thirsty. The cash bar also doubled as a consession stand, so we eventually bought chips to fill us up since we didn't eat much.
I'm not ragging on low budget weddings at all (to this day she brags that her wedding cost less than $1000) but if you are going to do anything like the above, please think of your guests! I love her to death and even before TK educated me on what's proper for weddings, even then I knew that there was so much wrong with what was happening.
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- The pastor said a super long rambling prayer about how he hoped God would make the couple "WEALTHY, wealthy beyond belief!" I don't think he was talking about spiritual wealth, considering they then had a dollar dance at the reception that lasted for a good 45 minutes. They also had a basket on the gift table with a sign that said "Honeymoon Fund" where people were supposed to contribute cash for their honeymoon.
- Total cash bar (including sodas and water)
- The dinner buffet was a gigantic bowl of lukewarm spaghetti noodles, and two vats of sauce (red and alfredo). No salad, garlic bread or any other side dishes. The cake was a dry Walmart sheet cake.
- And speaking of the dinner, I heard through the grapevine that the bride was very upset that she had to eat pasta with alfredo sauce (she didn't want to risk spilling red sauce on her dress).
- At one point during the dance, the bride and groom were grinding on each other while their bridal party stood around them in a circle and chanted their names.
Super klassy.
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[QUOTE]In Response to Re: What's the worst wedding you ever attended? : I can just imagine all the relatives asking Mom and Dad where the B&G were for the last three hours of the reception. If that were my kid, I'd be embarrassed that there were all these people at an event to celebrate their marriage, and they went off to go consummate it while their guests were still there.
Posted by yaga13[/QUOTE]
Well Jesus, it's not like mom and dad have to walk around TELLING people the couple left to bang it out.
Everything the light touches is my kingdom.
After the ceremony, the groom and his brother passed around a fake ransom not made out of cut out magazines that said the bride had been "kidnapped" and wouldn't be returned until they raised $500.
They are some really trashy/tacky people. He cheated on her (with his ex girlfriend) two days after she had their first baby.
My bff's wedding was probably the worst. The wedding itself was beautiful, but she was a total bridezilla. Being her MOH, I was the lucky one who had to deal with all of her crazy 'zilla crap! About two hours into the reception, she had a melt down and ended up bawling her eyes out in the bridal room. She was convinced that everyone was bored and not having a good time (totally not the case). After the wedding, she informed me that traditionally it's the MOH and best man's "job" to make sure that everything is running smoothly.
My cousin and his wife are very happy in their relationship, and it's great, but they are dirt poor, and have been even before they got married. He knocked her up about three months after the wedding, so they have never been able to catch up with themselves. Their wedding was a huge testament to this.
My cousin's wife's parents insisted on being traditional and paying for the whole thing. The problem is, they're a big family of failing wheat farmers, so they don't have a whole lot of money. What they do have is a huge money sinkhole of a failed bible camp, which they've tried to get rid of for years but no one wants to buy it because it's the middle of f@#$ing nowhere. So, the wedding was held at this bible camp. In Northern Alberta in April. That translates to=cold, rainy, and mosquito heaven. Everyone except the bride's family (and I mean everyone) had to travel at least five hours to get to this wedding. I had to travel ten, since I was away at school. I didn't mind, because I love my cousin and family is important. But, I at least expected to be hosted somewhat for travelling all that way.
The ceremony was held in a cramped, stinky (it literally smelled like manure) chapel that they used for the campers' daily church services. The poor bridesmaids came shivering down the aisle (there was no heating) in their knee length paper thin dresses and flip flops. The bridesmaids were dressed appropriately formality-wise, at least. They were dressed for a country wedding. The groomsmen wore tuxes that you'd expect to see at the Plaza. It was strange.
There was NO RECEPTION. There was a very strange, out of place cake cutting, and they were going to feed everyone cold burgers, but the MOG (my aunt, god bless her) pitched a huge fit about how no one would eat them. They had apparently BBQ'd them five hours earlier, and when we heard that, everyone made it clear they would not go through food poisoning over a lousy burger. The burgers were donated by the uncle of the bride, so it's not as if they lost money or anything. They were just being idiots.
They bride and groom quickly changed into warmer clothes that they had brought with them, while we were all shivering in our attire (there was a big cross-section of formality in the guests attire. I showed up in a nice halter-sundress, whereas the grandmother of the bride came in a windbreaker and muddy gumboots). They then proceeded to sit on the lawn and held an impromptu (at least it felt impromptu) gift opening, as if that was the reception. "Hey guys, thanks for driving miles and miles to see us get married. Now watch us open the presents you got us!". Yeah, klassy.
After the smarter of the guests hightailed it out of there and went back to the hotel, my aunt and uncle (the groom's parents) hosted us in a very last minute party in their room. They ordered pizza and we drank heavily and all had a good laugh (or cry, if you were my aunt) about the disaster that was my cousin's wedding. It quickly became apparent that my aunt and uncle had no part in planning this wedding. Apparently, the bride and her mom threw it together in about a month. It showed.
I think the worst one I ever went to was also one where no one thought the B&G should be getting married, which I'm pretty sure also contributed to the overall unhappiness of the day. There was a videographer wandering around trying to get all of us to talk about how happy we were for them, after months of listening to the bride bitch about the smallness of her ring, the fact that it wasn't a real diamond, that he chose gold metal instead of platinum and being pissy that his father hadn't given the groom control of his trust fund (which he was supposed to get control of at 21 and they were getting married at 18) because if they had the trust fund money then she'd be able to have the wedding she REALLY wanted... it was a struggle to come up with nice things to say and really annoying to constantly have the camera shoved in your face.
The reception was at 5pm, so they only served light hors d'eurves which, considering the reception went on for 4 hours was not ok. They had a veggie plate, a fruit plate and sandwhiches, all of which was generously provided by the bride's sister, which the bride made lots of snarky and bitter comments about under her breath to the rest of us because she didn't think it was good enough (which it wasn't but still, the bride hadn't paid for any of it and she'd been using her sister for slave labor - ie. day-of-coordinator, the poor girl wasn't even a bridesmaid). The location was a small "mansion" so everything was in separate rooms, and the room for dancing was in between where the food was set up and the room where the tables were set up, which was just bad logistics.
Also, by the end of the reception the bride was also planning her "real" wedding with all the changes she would be making in 3 years when her new husband finally got control of his trust fund. That or a big vow renewal at 10 years (which they didn't make it to) with all the things that make up a "real" wedding.
Ps. the groom did not get control of his trust fund at 21. Their divorce was finalized last month. On the other hand, they made it 2 years longer than anyone guessed in the betting pool that we started during the reception. Yeah, I know, we kinda sucked. But... yeah.
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For the following reasons.
1) Bride fist-pumped her way down the aisle to 'Eye of the Tiger'.
2) Cash bar meant that most people weren't drinking much, but the B&G got hammered as everyone kept buying them drinks
3) They had karaoke for entertainment, which was monopolized by the visibly inebriated and musically-untalented groom.
4) Bride dragged a chair from a nearby table and gave the groom what was bascially a (fully clothed) lapdance on the middle of the dancefloor to 'Pour some Sugar on Me'.
5) When they did the boquet toss, some pre-teen boy intercepted the boquet. Okay, that was pretty cute, except that when an elderly male friend of the family caught the garter... they not only still made him put it on the boy's leg, but the groom was shouting for him to get it higher up for more luck!
I sort of had a good time watching the insanity.
1. Registry info printed right on the invitation. To be fair, I had no idea this was even wrong before I looked at this web site because most invitations we get have registry info on them.
2. Tiered reception. We were invited to the dance part of the reception only, not the ceremony or dinner.
3. WRISTBANDS for bridal party. Seriously. They had wristbands to indicate that they got free drinks from the cash bar and the rest of us suckers had to pay. This led to everyone leaving before 10:00 and the reception was supposed to go until midnight.
4. Dollar dance as a fundraiser for the honeymoon. We did not participate.
5. A groomsman got a DUI right outside of the parking lot and everyone at the reception ran out to watch him get arrested. The reception was 20 minutes from the hotel in an area with no cabs, and the bride did not arrange any type of shuttle/transportation. The groomsman ended up losing his job because of this conviction.
6. A really strange cowboy/seashell hybrid theme. Everyone in the bridal party (including bride and groom) wore cowboy boots, but there were seashells/starfish everywhere.
7. This isn't a huge faux pas, but the bridesmaid dresses did not work for the poor bridesmaids' body types. My friend was a bridesmaid and she has huge boobs, and the dresses were low cut halters. She had about 6" of cleavage out and felt really uncomfortable the entire night.
Ugh. It was BAD.
[QUOTE]My friend's wedding was REALLY tacky/rude. I was bothered by it at the time but didn't realize HOW ridiculous it was until I got engaged and started reading the boards here. 1. Registry info printed right on the invitation. To be fair, I had no idea this was even wrong before I looked at this web site because most invitations we get have registry info on them. 2. Tiered reception. We were invited to the dance part of the reception only, not the ceremony or dinner. 3. WRISTBANDS for bridal party. Seriously. They had wristbands to indicate that they got free drinks from the cash bar and the rest of us suckers had to pay. This led to everyone leaving before 10:00 and the reception was supposed to go until midnight. 4. Dollar dance as a fundraiser for the honeymoon. We did not participate. 5. A groomsman got a DUI right outside of the parking lot and everyone at the reception ran out to watch him get arrested. The reception was 20 minutes from the hotel in an area with no cabs, and the bride did not arrange any type of shuttle/transportation. The groomsman ended up losing his job because of this conviction. 6. A really strange cowboy/seashell hybrid theme. Everyone in the bridal party (including bride and groom) wore cowboy boots, but there were seashells/starfish everywhere. 7. This<strong> isn't a huge faux pas</strong>, but the bridesmaid dresses did not work for the poor bridesmaids' body types. My friend was a bridesmaid and she has huge boobs, and the dresses were low cut halters. She had about 6" of cleavage out and felt really uncomfortable the entire night. Ugh. It was BAD.
Posted by knmd2012[/QUOTE]
Oh yes, that is. The bride should have been smart enough to get that not all women are the same size/shape. It's incredibly rude and passe to make your bridesmaids wear a dress they are not comfortable with. Either find a dress that can fit everyone comfortably, or give everyone the colour, fabric and length. But I'm sure you know that. If I was at that wedding, I would have considered that one of the biggest faux pas's of all.
Also, that DUI situation? Total bad mix of a) irresponsible drinking (nothing wrong with cutting loose, but if you're going to drive, don't drink) b) poor planning and c) cutting budget corners. Shuttling services are a small price to pay for people's safety. Your friend sounds like a real class act. I would have definitely spoken to her later about her rudeness.
I show up as a plus one (of my now fiance) in a nice dress and he's in a suit, everyone else is in cut offs, wifebeater tank tops and sneakers. Luckily we were staying overnight nearby, thankfully we had back up clothing. So we changed into jeans and t-shirts to fit in.
No apps, only water to drink (no bar), but the bridal party did shots with nips they brought.
The bridal party changed into pajamas (seriously I'm not lying) after the pictures were done. The bride had booty shorts on that said "BRIDE" on the butt. They did so many shots that the bride and groom were trashed about an 1/2 hour into the reception and throwing up the entire night. She couldn't even stand up on her own, I just met her and became a crutch so she could walk to go flirt with the best man.
There was a tractor pull at the reception for the cocktail hour that you could take a ride in an upside-down truck cap. They accidently lost a kid out the side and then ran him over with the second truck cap. He was scratched up, but ok.
So this is his cousin and quite a few of the guests will also be at our wedding. I'm a little afraid!
Brilliant.
[QUOTE]I went to a wedding two weeks ago which honest to god had goldfish centre pieces (see attached picture), was held in a school gymnasium (because they wanted to self-cater and all the other venues they looked at required them to use the in-house caterer) with bows hanging from the basketball hoops and was BYO alcohol. <strong>And the registry included a fish tank. For the goldfish centrepieces.</strong> Brilliant.
Posted by lilja032[/QUOTE]
Wow. At least they didn't expect guests to bring them home... I guess?
[QUOTE]In Response to Re: What's the worst wedding you ever attended? : Oh yes, that is. The bride should have been smart enough to get that not all women are the same size/shape. It's incredibly rude and passe to make your bridesmaids wear a dress they are not comfortable with. Either find a dress that can fit everyone comfortably, or give everyone the colour, fabric and length. <strong>But I'm sure you know that.</strong> If I was at that wedding, I would have considered that one of the biggest faux pas's of all. Also, that DUI situation? Total bad mix of a) irresponsible drinking (nothing wrong with cutting loose, but if you're going to drive, don't drink) b) poor planning and c) cutting budget corners. Shuttling services are a small price to pay for people's safety. <strong>Your friend sounds like a real class act. I would have definitely spoken to her later about her rudeness.</strong>
Posted by LittleMissCutiePie[/QUOTE]
Yeah, I definitely know it's bad! I just thought that ettiquette-wise, other things trumped it. At my wedding, the girls are all getting custom made black cocktail dresses of their choosing, any design they want as long as they're knee length. The same girl in the example is one of my bridesmaids and she's so happy to have the option of a modest neckline and straps!
The image of the bride running out to watch the groomsman get arrested is stuck in my brain forever, so we're definitely paying for shuttle services after our open bar reception :)
I never said anything to my friend since honestly, I didn't even know half this stuff was wrong until after I was engaged. We've been to many weddings with at least a partial cash bar, registry info on the invitation, some variation of the dollar dance, etc, and the tiered reception didn't bother us much since we were surprised to even be invited- I just knew the bride as a friend of my poor friend the cleavage-y bridesmaid. I knew for sure that the wristbands were messed up though.That one was pretty obvious.
The bride looked gorgeous and luckily the ceremony was about 5 minutes long so we didn't have to wait much longer to move over to the tent. Unfortunately, the food had been ready for an hour and it showed.
Oh, and they had beta fish centerpieces. Which is normally a bad idea, but don't forget that we were outside in the heat to boot. And a drunk BM put two in one vase.
We never got a thank you note.
Redeeming factors:
Open Bar (THANK GOODNESS)
The DJ doubled as an awkward saxophone player during cocktail hour so our carpooling buddies, H and I got a big kick out of laughing at that while we quickly imbibed to make up for lost time.