Not So Great Weddings

My MOH told me about her brother's wedding which was not very well planned at all. They forgot to hire a Day of Coordinator and recruited a friend to do it last minute. Not all the guests were able to go to the ceremony because they were pulled in last minute to decorate the Reception space. Everything was so disorganized that when it was time to sit down for dinner, my MOH did not have a seat because they forgot to include her in the seating chart. She was part of the wedding party and it was her brother's wedding!

The really sad thing? No one that is planning cheap catering, friendors, outside in the summer, cash bars, dry weddings.... will change their plans. No one thinks their guests will be horrified and none of their guests will tell them because they're too polite.

A back yard wedding that guest were asked to BYOB, a dish to pass and own canopy and chairs ( it was July or August-cant remember). The couple's ceremony was on a flat bed trailer with chicken wire with beer cans tied to it as their back drop. And there was a fishing boat near it that people actually sat in to watch the ceremony and a bucket of fish that had been caught that day for the kids to play in.

For fuck's sake really! it was family so out of respect to my grandma, I went.

A back yard wedding that guest were asked to BYOB, a dish to pass and own canopy and chairs ( it was July or August-cant remember). The couple's ceremony was on a flat bed trailer with chicken wire with beer cans tied to it as their back drop. And there was a fishing boat near it that people actually sat in to watch the ceremony and a bucket of fish that had been caught that day for the kids to play in.

For fuck's sake really! it was family so out of respect to my grandma, I went.

Someone FH and I know got married yesterday. We weren't invited because we aren't close, but in the pictures people posted there were people standing at the ceremony because they didn't have enough chairs!

Ceremony started late it was hot and raining so everyone had to stand up all seats were wet had a dj but no ceremony music and byob dry wedding!

@Celia. That's not true! We were originally going to hire friendors, but WW made us decide against it. I've made lots of changes based on advice from here!

Our worst experience was a 2-hour ceremony (no exaggeration) when it was really windy outside and we couldn't hear or see anything and it was in a foreign language. Sitting silently for that long is rough—especially when you can't even tell what's happening so you have no entertainment and are super cold! It would've been fine if it were 30 minutes but 2 hours was just too much.

Everyone out of the building by 9pm. Literally no dancing.

Bad food, cash bars, dollar dances, running out of booze...

The last point made me way more inclined to pick an all-inclusive venue.

Having 1 bartender for a ceremony with 140+ guests. Took 45 minutes just to get a drink!

I have multiple from the same wedding.

1. The BP had to set up the entire reception hall for 200 guests the night before with no notice. We were told we were just doing the rehearsal and then going back to the hotel. Not sending hours doing manual labor. And then not even getting free food. We went to Dennys afterwards, but it was pay your own way. Not cool.

2. They had a cash bar with only 4 options. 2 beers and 2 wines. For a cash bar! If you're doing a cash bar, at least have a range of options.

3. No seating chart for 200 guests. My FH says it was a cluster fuck.

4. BP and their dates were split up. BP was sat at a long table next to the bride and groom, their dates had to find a seat in the general seating.

5. The BP also had to break down and clean the entire hall before we could leave! The reception ended at 10pm and we didn't finish until midnight. Then there was a 2 hour drive home, after a *quick* half hour detour to drop off all of the wedding presents at the bride and groom's apartment.

I would no longer be friends with this couple if it wasn't my sister and her husband. I'm just going to blow them away with my wedding where they don't have to lift a finger.

Outdoor weddings in the hot summer. I sweat so easily. Bad music/terrible DJ

Cold food. It was horrible and she spent a shit load on catering and the food sucked. The chicken wasn't cooked all th way and the vegetables were cold and hard. Yuck!!!

Super-short ceremony. Like 10 minutes, including the processional and recessional. It's my main wedding pet peeve, actually. I had flown across the country to see these people get married. I wanted to have an emotional experience and it was over before I could begin to absorb the moment. The reception was fine, but without much of a ceremony, it felt I'd paid $1,000 to attend a nice birthday party. Impersonal weddings in general bug me, unless they are religious. Along the same lines, a wedding where I couldn't hear anything!

Weddings with lame dance floors. I know you can't always control it, but it just makes me sad and leaves a bad taste in my mouth when no one dances.

Weddings with nothing to do. I live in Utah and have been to a lot of dry weddings, so they don't really bother me though I would never do one and I don't like them as much as weddings with booze. The main issue with dry weddings is that they are boring. The ones I've been to rarely have dancing or anything else to do. Even games would be preferable to just sitting around.

Outdoor wedding in Palm Springs on a summer day. The worst.

I attended a wedding and they had a 20 minute or more slideshow. It was boring and not entertaining.

A wedding cake that was so dry and hard we couldn't cut into it

Omg. I'm taking so many notes for my wedding.

Anyway, I went to a wedding once and it took us 3 hours to eat after the ceremony. They made us wait until the bridal party finished taking pictures. I was starving by the time the food started. Plus the venue was an hour away so most people hadn't had lunch either.

July wedding outdoors on the Mex/Ca border. No A.C. in the reception room. Self catered and no alcohol.

Waiting an hour in the heat for the bride to come out.