For fun! What is the most boring/weird/random wedding you've ever been to?

The worst I can remember is was of my boyfriend at the time's best friend. It was one of the most lavish weddings I've ever attended and at least half of the people who (I assume?) RSVP'd didn't show. It was a huge room full of empty tables. I felt really bad for the couple. It was during summer in Texas with a looooooong outdoor ceremony in 103+ heat. One of the groomsmen fainted and an ambulance showed up right in the middle of the ceremony. It was so hot that the glue on my shoes melted and when I walked into the reception building, they completely fell apart. I had to drive to a strip mall Payless and buy whatever they had.

Lol, so I was at a softball tournament hanging out with my team on the bleachers. We had a cardboard box full of jello shooters doing what you do with jello shooters when somebody dressed slightly nice asked if we didn't mind moving over to make room. All of a sudden we were part of a wedding ceremony in the beer garden. I guess that was romantic to them.

Holy Crap... We don't mess around in that TX heat. That is crazy Gem!

My experience with my stepdad's niece's wedding and it was so boring! There was a delay in the ceremony to start so we were waiting for an hour. It was in a church so they had the choir try to entertain the so it was weird I felt like it was CHURCH than a wedding. Once we were at the reception the food was cold because there were SOOO many people and they buffet. What made me leave a bit early was the dance floor was absolutely beautiful but no one was dancing.

You know it's a bad wedding when you leave early and hungry and make a del taco or whatever fast food run lol!

I also attended a wedding that was a traditional Indian ceremony- the women could not partake in part of the wedding. I had to sit in a room with a loud speaker to a language I could not understand and for hours I was alone with strangers- all women. Nothing against anyone else's religion but I was so bored and this was back when I didn't have a smart phone to entertain me! By the time the women got to see the second ceremony I was starving. That was definitely very different from what I was used to.

I went to a school friend's wedding. Her now-husband is Jewish and his family is quite well-respected in the Jewish community. The ceremony was lovely but the reception was clearly full of associates of the groom's parents - the bride had two tables out of about 20, and we were at the back near the toilets. The groom's father gave a speech and basically spent the entire time talking about his eldest son (not the groom) and how he was so proud he followed in his footsteps and became an ophthalmologist, and that he and his obstetrician wife were expecting their first child and he hoped his grandchild would become the third generation of medical practitioners. The groom is apparently a bit of a disappointment because he went into environmental law.

The dad also managed to work the Holocaust into his wedding speech, and he dissed the bride's parents, who are farmers. Made a suggestion that the bride was 'lucky to catch' the groom. It was so awkward.

Most random...my FH and I went to a wedding that was featured on TLC's Four Weddings. We didn't know until we got there and saw all the cameras.

Weirdest...my cousin's wedding. One of the BMs changed into high tops with her formal dress after the ceremony. One guest was in a denim skirt. My cousin did nothing but grab her husband's butt during their first dance. Tank God for wine lol.

Hmm prob worst for me was a wedding I thought was going to be a blast if my friends. One bridesmaid wise hooker heels compared to everyone else's modest heels, the minister never had them kiss, it took forever between ceremony and reception(they did pictures before the ceremony), fir the bridal party entrance they did ride a house save a cowboy and the bms were on the gms backs, dinner was served cold and very small and inappropriate music early in the night with young kids around then if course the bride's family stole my friend pitcher of beer(they had one keg that was already tapped out and the rest was cash bar) it also only went till midnight(my area weddings go till 2 and some have street parties in the hotel rooms). I had two girl friends and a guy friend who put a lot of time and money into the wedding. Well the couple basically dropped us a friends after this.

Most boring was my friend's wedding who is mormon. I'm not hating on their religion, but the wedding was not really that exciting. First off, they were married in the temple which means unless you have also gone through the temple you aren't allowed inside to witness it. So I stood outside as a bridesmaid, waiting for them to come out of the temple as a married couple. It was a little awkward not even being there for the ceremony. Then the reception was about an hour drive away, we stopped at a restaurant for some lunch (can't remember if it was paid for or not). Then there was the reception. For their religion there was no alcohol (that was expected at least). They had some cupcakes (that was cute and fun) and then just some cheese and fruit displays. No other sit-down course. I can understand that because of budget but still not that great. They had absolutely no dancing, which was strange because the bride and groom met through a ballroom dancing class. They were planning to put on an iPod for the first dance, then realized their iPod wasn't charged so they danced to the elevator music the venue had and that was it. They had a photo booth but it was so small, the four of us bridesmaids tried to get a picture together and in all the pictures you can only see half of my head.

The weirdest part was that people just stopped by in their jeans and maybe gave a gift or card, ate a cupcake, wished the couple well, and then left. It felt like I was at a graduation party or something. They just invite anyone they know to stop by. We got invited to the wedding by a Facebook event, and in the event it said "If you want an invitation in the mail, give us your address!" even though every one of their Facebook friends were invited.

However, this is the norm for all my mormon friends so I'm not hating on them, it's just something I'm not used to. Hey at least I caught the bouquet :-)

ETA: For those of you that remember, this is the girl who was my bridesmaid but because she treated it like her baby was the next messiah she no longer is a bridesmaid. So...back by popular demand...here is the lovely parachute dress I had to wear as her bridesmaid. Her mom made it for us...so luckily I didn't pay, but you REALLY get what you pay for!!

My cousin had a outdoor wedding that started 45mins late. We were sitting on straw bales in the middle of May. It was so hot! Then the bridal party stood on opposite side then normal. They didn't have a microphone so you could hear the preacher. Then at the reception was in a barn that was too small. You had to wait for someone to finish eating so you could get a seat and eat. Lastly the DJ was playing the music too loud for said small venue so most people just stood outside the whole time.

My DH had to work, so I declined because it was out of town & I didn't want to go without my DH. It was my cousin's wedding and my sister couldn't wait to give me the "T". It started 2 hours late and it was at a dingy hot motel. The Bride & groom had secretly gotten married the week prior to the wedding. A few guests were upset about that when the truth came out during the reception. Also, the food wasn't catered the bride & her mother cooked everything. It was either too salty or just nasty which made it ok with my sister that they ran out of food. The bride's son got into a fight with his ex girlfriend, so the cops were called.

The weirdest wedding was a Serbian wedding that in hindsight was actually pretty cool but I was 14 and completely unprepared so the whole night was total culture shock for me. The Bride worked at our family business which is how I ended up there and she married a Serbian priest of some sort so the whole event was very formal. At Serbian weddings, first off, you don't sit. Period. There are no chairs in this gorgeous ornate church. So we stood through this ceremony that seemed to last at least an hour, completely in Serbian, with no programs or translations and no, none of us spoke a word of Serbian. It seemed nice, lots of talking and rings and crowns and walking in circles and things. Then the reception. The bride, unfortunately, kept introducing me to people at the wedding my the Serbian version of my name (I didn't realize before that night that my name was Serbian) so everyone kept coming up to me, bringing me shots (which the Bride instructed me when I panicked that I was being handed drinks left and right as a 14 yr old, that I should drink because in their culture it's a huge insult not to toast and drink in celebration or something like that) and speaking to me in a completely foreign language. The other crazy part of that night was the dancing. To my uneducated (and let's be honest, probably a little drunk) ears, it seemed like they just kept playing versions of the same song over and over and over all night long. There was even a certain dance they did with it that I ended up learning because apparently I was an honorary Serb that night. It was definitely like no wedding I had ever been to before or since. Not necessarily bad, just totally different and a little crazy.

A friend of both me and my sister got married two Summers ago.

First, she met him online (which isn't a problem but sets the stage for the rest of the story) and had only seen him 4 times in person before they got engaged. They had a 6 month engagement during which they made all kinds of plans for her and her daughter (from a high school BF) to move 9 hours away to where new husband was from. She never cleared it with the courts and found out two weeks before the wedding she wasn't allowed to.

One of the bridesmaids neglected to show up for the ceremony – claimed it was because she wasn’t from around the area and didn’t know where she was going – which is a lie because everyone had been there the night before decorating.

When the Bride was upstairs in the “getting ready” room, she was taking shots before the ceremony – she was marrying a pastor BTW.

The ceremony was outside in the middle of July with no shade - started late of course. We had to move our chairs from the outdoor ceremony to the outdoor reception under open sided tents. Bugs were horrible! Dance floor was actually a tennis court. DRY RECEPTION (we brought in and kept it on the DL). The only things provided to drink were lemonade (which mixed nicely with my Bacardi), iced tea and water. It was a tapas reception - no real meal but no one was told in advance.

My sister and her husband and me and DH drove 9 hours to go and she never came over and thanked us for coming and we never got a thank you in the mail for our gift.

To top it all off, Bride and Groom also left the reception early to the hotel because new groom was a virgin and they didn’t feel like waiting until the party was over before they consummated the marriage.

One of the girls I went to high school with invited us to her outdoor wedding in February, in Omaha NE. It was freezing and the bride was about 30 minutes late for her own wedding so we spent over an hour from the time we got there until the ceremony was over shivering our butts off. They rented out a gorgeous, but insanely expense ballroom for the reception and her dress was to die for, but they made some major cuts elsewhere to compensate for that. It was cash bar only, the dj was terrible, played a few songs multiple times or would just walk away from his gear and not have anything set to go. For food the bride and groom had pizza delivered and her mom baked cupcakes and cake pops for everyone. Bride and groom also set out a honeymoon fund jar on the bar and on the gift table, so some people thought they were tipping the bartenders, when in reality they were funding the honeymoon. Bride later got pissy when she noticed that only $20 or so had been put into their fund so she packed up the gifts and left shortly after doing the first dance. She ended up calling her mom and made her mom make the announcement that the bride and groom have left due to our "lack of appreciation" for the amount of time and money they put into the wedding. I felt so terrible for her mother to have to do that, and it was beyond tacky. Also, they never did actually take a honeymoon, so either it was just a way to make easy money off of their guests, or they didn't make enough off their guests to go. Also, it's been a year now and still no thank you cards have ever been sent, which is a huge pet peeve of mine.

Megan-Which episode of 4 weddings! I love that show. How was it?

I wouldn't say it was the worst, but definitely the hottest wedding I've ever been to. It was the middle of June in Florida (Melbourne). It was an outdoor wedding and they gave everyone a bottle of water and a paper umbrella for shade. It didn't really matter because I was sweating like a friggen pig and my pasty white skin was burning in the sun. The pastor also kept talking about death and morbid stuff from the bible. By the time it was over, I drove back to the hotel because there was a big gap in the wedding and reception. As soon as I got to the hotel, I had to ring my dress out and blow dry it with a hairdryer. Anyways, I hate the heat and didn't realize it was going to be an outdoor wedding til I got there. I don't know what some people are thinking when they plan outdoor wedding in the middle of the summer in Florida!

Lol Sully, our friends just had an outdoor wedding in Tampa last August. I was like "WTF are they crazy??" but because it didn't start till 6 and it was right on the water, it was really nice. You can have a Florida summer wedding outdoors, but the circumstances have to be right.

My step-sister's wedding. 60 or so people in January. She got married in her mother's living room. 1 bathroom. No music. Cheetos, chips, cheese and crackers and soda. Tiny little ice cream cake (no one got any). Nowhere near enough room/seating. And they sat in the middle of the room and opened the cards and gifts as though it were a birthday party.

These are some CRAZY stories lol. My jaw literally dropped reading some of them.

The "worst" wedding I've been to really wasn't awful, but it was the lowest budget so the reception was in a small community centre. There were very minimal decorations: plastic table clothes, no chair covers (just ugly community centre chairs), a few paper wedding bells and balloons hung on the wall and that was it. Buffet dinner (provided by family of the bride and groom) and cash bar. I hate to call it the "worst" because they obviously couldn't afford any more then what they did... it just wasn't very pretty.... sort of look haphazardly put together

ETA: fixing mistakes

My cousin's wedding. Nice Catholic ceremony (we'll ignore the part where my father was chanting the bride's name as she walked down the aisle...), then to a standard event space. Where there was technically an open bar, but when I asked for a glass of white wine I got a confused look and then warm Franzia over ice. Only the bridal party had sparkling wine, which was a single bottle of Andre that the groom shook and then sprayed over the guests during the grand entrance. The food was 100% inedible and basically a plate of mushy candied carrots covered in a pile of salt.

The best, though (and a PSA for how creepy garter tosses can be) was when a sweet 20 year old bridesmaid caught the bouquet and my dirty old man of an uncle (love him, but seriously) caught the garter. The poor little girl was mortified when it was still expected that this guy would have to put the garter on her now.

Oh, and at the bride's sister's wedding a year later, the groomsmen and groom got in a drunken fist fight at the reception and another uncle, who was just trying to separate everyone, got a stray fist to the face and a broken nose for his troubles.

I swear I love my family.

I went to a wedding once that was dry. The bride was 6 months pregnant, so I figured that was why. Nope, it's because everyone there, except for me, the couple had met in AA or NA. Everyone was chain-smoking.

My cousin married a girl and at the RD, her mother basically roasted her. "She would call me crying, wondering when it would be her turn. She met Matt and told me he looked like he was homeless, but we all know that's who she ended up with." They had a 4-hour gap and no one told my side of the family that we should change, so we showed up to the reception (at her sister's house) in the same clothes we wore to the ceremony, EVERYONE had dressed down (ie, the men were all wearing shorts), and as dessert was being presented, her sister realized they didn't have a first dance, so she downloaded a song on her iPhone and played it (no external speakers) and they danced in the kitchen next to the oven.