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

The worst I've ever been to was my cousin's wedding. It was in the middle of summer in Florida. The ceremony was outside and we sat on itchy hay bales with nothing over them. We were literally sitting on plain hay bales. I had a rash on the back of my legs by the end of it and was sweating down my back. The cocktail hour was also outside and there were Mosquitos everywhere. The sweet tea (the only drink they served during cocktail hour) ran out and everyone was dying of thirst. By the time the reception rolled around everyone was crowding the bar to get a drink. They served bud light out of a can (no glasses, everyone drank out of the can) and had no fans in the barn. They closed the doors to the barn and there was absolutely no air flow. My fiancé broke 2 of the programs on a stick trying to fan himself.

The bridal party was completely drunk when they were doing their entrance. All of the professional pictures have the bridesmaids carrying bud light cans behind their bouquets.

To top it all off, they announced they were pregnant at the end of the ceremony. Not trying to step on anyone's toes, but in my family that is a huge no-no lol. I thought my grandmother was going to have a heart attack.

At least it was entertaining...

We actually tried to sneak out of a wedding once for one of FH's ex-coworkers. The service was at a church and took 2 hours, from 3 to 5. We drove to the venue and the cocktail hour was from 6-7, but they weren't allowed to serve alcohol until 8 (not a big deal, just thought it was weird). There wasn't enough food at the cocktail hour, so we basically just sipped diet coke for an hour. The introductions of the bridal party took an hour - literally from 7 to 8 - they introduced everyone, godparents, great aunts, etc - met them at the door and danced down the aisle of the venue with each and every introduction. It was fun for the first 15 minutes, then got old fast. They took a break at 8 so we could eat. Then at 9 they started with the remainder of the introductions and speeches. At this point, we were done, there was no dancing - they weren't doing the first dance until like, 10:30 and we tried to leave unnoticed, but saw the groom, said our goodbyes and left at quarter to 10. We stuck it out for nearly 7 hours, so I felt no guilt.

I've told this story on here before, but the weirdest wedding I've been to was the wedding of one of my best friends about 3 years ago. We always knew he was religious, he was even going to school to become a minister (this is all we knew at the time), but I didn't expect the wedding to be nearly as creepy as it turned out to be. I convinced my FH to come with me telling him that it would be religious, but not in your face and long, probably just 40 min at most with prayers. We got there and the moment it started it felt weird.

My best friend sang his bride down the aisle to a song he wrote (he's a musician) with lyrics like "Come to me my beloved and we will be one." Not too terribly weird yet. Then he left her at the altar to go play the piano and lead everyone in a church service. The bridal party and many in the audience were on their feet with their hands in the air swaying. Little bit creepy. Then the songs went on FOREVER!! Like a good 15 minutes of church hymns and swaying and crying. I kept glancing at my FH to make sure he wasn't mad or as creeped out as I was. Finally the ceremony started and they had readings from Revelations (wtf?!). Then the priest explained that my friend did not want the ceremony to be about the couple, but about God, but that he had to say one thing about the couple. That was weird.

So the ceremony went on forever (like a little over an hour) and part of that reason was because at the end, everyone was allowed to go up and say a prayer. So we had our heads bowed for about 15-20 min. Finally my friend's mother came up and prayed that she could not wait until my friend put a baby in his wife's womb. Really weird. We felt like they were about to bring a bed out so we could watch them copulate. Finally it ended and we went to the reception where we then had to sit through another 20 minutes of prayers (these were the toasts). I had an anxiety attack and ran out halfway through it. Then my friend took his wife on their honeymoon after the first dance and we left right after that. We spoke to my MOH's mom and she was creeped out, too. Well two months later the wife was found dead in the back of a van and then all this stuff came out about my friend possibly being the leader of some deranged cult. It was weird. The case got dropped last year. I don't think I'll ever be in a more messed up situation.

The wierdest... A "pot luck wedding" held in a very small, NOT decorated reception room. (This was a friend of my ex btw). The wedding was VERY low budget which is fine but the food was truly skimped on and looked so so so disgusting. None of it made sense either.. Tuna casserole and meat loaf and pasta etc etc. Lets just say her guests were no where close to being chefs! Someone brought their small sound system to play music and about 3 people were smashed, dancing and singing while the rest of us were just sitting and watching. Awkward. The couple left in a limo, which took them down the street.. to their home.... Sorry but why even take the limo!!?? There were plenty of other places to invest that money lol.

MelissaV - wow.

I went to a very lavish, very expensive wedding. Ceremony was at four; we were told to get there at 3 pm. When at 10 pm we went to say our goodbyes, some in the family were quite insulted that we were leaving "early." I'm thinking....we've been here for 7 hours, we aren't dancers, and you aren't being gracious as we're leaving??? !! We were one of the first to leave, but my goodness...I drove 400 miles the day before to get there, and have to leave the next morning and drive 400 miles the next day (Sunday) to get home for work on Monday, and you're getting upset??? It's your wedding, but I have to get back to work!

The worst wedding I never actually attended. I was supposed to be MOH for this ex-best friend of mine until she went all bridezilla on me and I told her to kick rocks. She had 4 other girls drop from her wedding party too. And she replaced them all. On of my BM's attended (she was also one of the girls who dropped out of her wedding but she wanted to see how awful of a train wreck her wedding was) and she was my informant. LOL all night I got lovely pictures of this disaster. Plastic table cloths taped everywhere, crock pot food made from the bridal party and FMIL. The dj (who is my dj) was ONLY allowed to play country music and couldn't take any requests. It was a Thursday wedding at 5 pm so she only had a turnout of about 30 people and that included the bridal party. She invited about 85. He husband got pissed about their bridal party entrance song and yelled at her. She spent about an hour in the bathroom crying about how no one cared about her and no one showed up to her wedding. She told the dj at like 9 pm to announce that she was shutting down the reception early to have a Bon fire at their house.

I don't feel bad for this girl one bit. Just weeks before she was a guest at my BM's wedding (the informant), got wasted, was overheard that she was going up to the bar and getting as many drinks as possible just to run up their tab, she actually shoved a wine bottle up her vagina at the bar, ANNNND then proceeded to plow down girls during the bouquet toss which landed her and another girl on the floor fighting, legs wide open and exposing her vagina. It was a terrible series of events and my BM who was the bride, somehow kept her cool.

LOL! Yeah my FH joked after the wedding that we should keep their program as an example of what NOT to do when we got married. Of course at the time we had no idea what was coming, but I'm glad that's all he said about the wedding. I apologized profusely for dragging him to the wedding. Oops!

Thank you for this. Now I know that, no matter what horrible things I do during my wedding, I am still better than the chick who shoved a bottle of vino up her vag. It's good to have goals.

@SB821 - LMAO!

SB821

Haha yes it's great to have those goals!

This is a great thread, 1.I worked one where the bride had a peg leg and the grooms ex wife turned up during the speeches, knocked over the cake and started a fight with the bride. Police were called it was a wreck, her peg leg got broken during the excitement. 2. The pastor who was conducting the wedding, his false teeth flew out his mouth, landing on the floor. Everybody started laughing, he bent down picked them up and put them straight back in his mouth. 3. last year I worked at one where the groom turned up in dirty sweaty jeans and tee shirt, muddy shoes, not shaven. He looked a mess and the woman married him. She's stood there in a bridal gown, best man, groomsmen and bridesmaids all looking lovely, The whole crowd were speechless, photo's looked strained. For the cake cutting, he was outside having a beer and cigarette, she cut the cake on her own. He left early to go to bed. said he had a headache. The whole evening she spent making excuses for him, then 2 weeks later the bride calls me, complaining it was my fault the guests did not have a good time, and wanted a refund for the food. Excuse me.... they ate it all and complimented me on my food. Look to your husband for that, I heard she'd done that with all the vendors, trying to salvage this disaster of a wedding.

@happy in Hawaii the first wedding I was ever in was the dry wedding and she was Mormon too: she made me wear a shawl because she said I was too chesty lol I was 21 and I remember being so upset because she was a former drug abuser in high school and then went the opposite. The dress was that awkward ankle length in a raspberry color and the shawl had to be tied so my chest and arms didn't show. At least she made the other girls wear the same! I wish I had a photo of it to share.

@jaklyn I was laughing at the honeymoon/tip jar hahaha that is hilarious and just sad. One of my hugest pet peeves is when brides don't send thank you cards. Especially when people go out of their way to pick a special registered gift, throw a bachelor party or shower and no special extra gift or thank you card. This whole wedding planning process has really opened my eyes to my previous experiences!

All of these stories are so great to read but I have never heard of a woman sticking a bottle of wine up her whoo ha at a wedding I'm def telling my FH that story! @futuremrsdickinson I would have dropped out too what a mess!

I have two stories: First one was not a bad wedding due to the wedding or the couple, but by her family and some guests. FH was the BM, and we flew across the country to go ($1300/ticket). There were two other guests that we knew who traveled out too. The couple were living with her parents in a beautiful stone mansion and said we could stay with them because we had already spent so much to get there. Well, turns out staying with them meant sleeping in the yard in tents because her mom didn't want people she didn't know staying in the house (even though there was lots of room). We were not fed at all while we were there, and when we finally were so hungry we were asking for food, we were told to not take too much because it was her moms. They had the ceremony on the grounds and it was a really nice ceremony, except half way through a taxi full of drunk latecomers arrives and interrupts the ceremony. By the time the reception came around, the drunk friends were completely sloppy. The venue staff actually took the wine off the table and threatened to kick them out. I was at their table, and was told if I gave them any booze I too would be kicked out. trying to eat dinner when the person next to you is so drunk they can't keep the food on their plate and keep falling into you is really irritating. After the wedding, we were helping to clean up. The couple had left, and a few friends were packing everything up. The parents didn't help at all, and didn't even take anything back to their house, meaning we had to do two trips. Then back at the house her mom got mad at me because (as per the bride's instructions), I had thrown out the centerpiece flowers and just kept the vases (they were grocery store flowers that we had arranged the day before, so nothing special). I later overheard the mom bad mouthing me to some other family that was staying at the house. We were all so pissed at the way we had been treated that we raided their kitchen of chips and beer and had a little party in the yard.

Second one was my parents wedding, which (from what I remember/have been told) was a complete blast, but about as un-etiquette as you can get. My dad and step mom got married at my granny's retirement home. it was the early 90's, so you can imagine the dresses. They charged everyone $5 for dinner and I believe it was take out food. They had a huge party in their hotel room after, and my brother and I spent the night in their hotel room while they partied with their friends in the next room.

In family lore, my parents' wedding was apparently so fun that one of my uncles (father's little brother), who was in high school at the time, got so plastered he wandered off and passed out in a VAT OF CORN in the kitchen. His other brothers stripped him and hosed him down before heading home.

Are you sensing a theme with my family here? Love 'em, but seriously.

I and my husband were asked to bartend at an outdoor wedding reception, at the last minute, with an open bar. Like the morning of. We are not bartenders, lol. Couldnt rally say no, with the way they asked us. They put out a tip jug for us, and many people put lots of money in there knowing we had missed out on the wedding setting up the bar, and spent most of the reception working. Like we were brought a plate of buffet stuff to eat in between serving her 130 guests. Then, they took the tip money to pay for the booze! Never even got a thank you note. Another one, was when my best friend from highschool got married because she was pregnant. They eloped in SD, and her MIL, who owned a motel, threw a reception for her in parking lot for them a week later. Lol Friend\bride calls me the morning of the party and says groom got a dwi the nite before and was in jail for the weekend. Begged me to go be her shit deflector, so i did. Lame cake and punch reception, sitting on metal chairs eating home made 13 x 9 inch yellow cake with duncan hines frostingc, in the parking lot. She told everyone that he was sick and couldnt make it. That day was definately a gift grab.....oh and they were divorced within 6 months.

Worst one was actually a hell of a lot of fun. My friend had her wedding in a mountain cabin in Gatlinburg, TN. Most of her about 50 guests stayed at the cabin all weekend, but her parents rented a separate cabin up the road. Saturday morning we all woke up to a surprise 8 inches of snow and no power or water on the entire mountain. The bride had to literally move trees out of her way to get to her hair & makeup appointment. There was one point when the caterer was trying to get out of coming to drop off food and we didn't know if the photographer was able to make it up the mountain. The owner of the cabin dropped off a bunch of lanterns and candles to light the place. They cooked their own appetizers on the grill and put them in crock pots to keep them as warm as possible. All of her guests were recruited to help out (I made some amazing moonshine drinks, hand squeezing limes), but we didn't really mind about that. The ceremony was on the balcony and there were some STUNNING views and even though it was freezing it was short and they had blankets for everyone. The caterer did end up coming and the food was fine. But the bride had planned to use the cabin's sound system for music, so that kinda backfired. She used music she had downloaded on her laptop until her laptop died, and her guests took turns playing music on their laptops/phones for the rest of the night.

The bride was a freaking champ through all of this (until the next day, when they couldn't find the marriage license...). And it really goes to show you that all you need for a good wedding is the right people and it'll be a blast. Well, the moonshine didn't hurt either

I was working a wedding when the FOB told the DJ to announce last call to the guests. A groomsman (who was cut off for being drunky pants) came up to the bar, started yelling some nonsense on how we are ridiculous because we were shutting it down and puked ALL OVER THE BAR. The party ended right then & there. The bride & groom were furious & humiliated. Apparently, he had a bottle of Jack in the parking lot he was sharing with the other groomsmen.

A lesson learned - Just because you don't want your guests to get schmammered and its the bartenders job to cut people off, doesn't mean its not going to happen.

I went to a wedding as a preteen. My dad was the best man. It was at a church. The church sanctuary was huge and easily accommodated everyone. Turns out the reception was in the church foyer. Not nearly big enough for everyone. There were about 100 people there and enough tables to seat 40. The only people fed were the bride, groom and their immediate family. I think my dad was fed, but not my mom. They ate while the rest of us stood around the foyer waiting, or talking to each other. Then it was over. That was the end. I used to go to that church when I was younger and I know that they have a big room that could have accommodated everyone. It was strange and weird. They will be coming to my wedding and I am hoping to show them a thing or two.