What Was Your Worst Guest Experience?

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I think if you alert your ushers in advance, no one else will notice!

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GEEZ. That is crazy. Like you wouldn't know if you were coming or not? And he wouldn't book a room? So rude.

My worst guest was probably my MOH. She stood at the front rolling her eyes at scoffing through the ceremony. It was to the point GUESTS mentioned it to my parents and I apologized profusely to my MIL after for any offense she may have taken to it.
Then she left the reception after she gave her speech. If I hadn't stopped by the table where she was a bump on a log the whole night in doubt she would have even told me she was leaving.
Never mind the fact that anytime somebody complimented my DIYs and she was in earshot she felt the need to interject and say "Well *I* made the jewelry for everybody!"
We aren't friends anymore

View Quoted Comment He literally booked a plane ticket at the airport that morning and flew done. And worse yet he was pissed he couldn’t get a room. We had our wedding at a beach resort in May which means they were SOLD OUT! It was fine I ignored him all day and night and still haven’t spoken to him. Oh....and he didn’t bring a gift, card or anything after we paid a lot of money for him to eat and drink.

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That is so sad! Why did she do that??? I am so sorry it ended up that way, but at least you know who your true friends are now!

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That is crazy! And so rude. I can't believe he didn't even bring a card after all that!

We have one guest that started dating someone right before we sent invitations. This person is so vulgar, and since they had just started dating we did not include her on the invitation. They are now living together already and the guest we actually wanted there will not RSVP. My worst fear is that our friend will show up with this vile woman and embarrass us in front of our families. I'm also concerned that others may "tag along" because these people didn't really grow up and think weddings are house parties. I will not have room for 10 extra people with their coolers!

But the wedding hasn't even happened yet so hopefully all this worry is for nothing. I'm so sorry that happened to all of you. Some people are extremely inconsiderate.

My FFIL has Type 1 diabetes and both he and his wife make sure to have something handy at all times. No excuses.

For the 3 adult children- I could see mom saying she'd cover the gift from everyone and still do something small thinking that would cut it.

Not married yet, so no guest stories. The only issues we have right now are with my FBIL. He and his wife (who we absolutely LOVE) are going through a divorce and he's making everyone miserable. He won't answer calls from FH or FFIL. He's forbidden FSIL and their kids from mingling with the family. Well of course this has led to some details being up in the air until we know who is coming. And to make matters worse, FSIL parents (who again we love to spend time with) may not attend either. So because of FBIL antics, we're missing out on spending our wedding day with FHs nephews and extended family we cherish.

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Oh no! I'm sure everything will be okay, don't worry!

My wedding hasn’t happened yet but I’ve have had a few people stress how much they wanted to be invited to the wedding. I sent the invites bc they are family. Then they RSVP that they will be here. One cousin even asked if she can bring her new BF that I’ve never met and I said sure.

So I add them to the guest count only to see that they (this whole branch of cousins) is throwing a house party on my wedding day and they started inviting guests via facebook who are invited to the wedding. They even asked my uncle (who is a DJ) to come DJ their party. So now that I know they aren’t coming (Thanks to Facebook) I removed them from the guest count but not a single one of them have bothered to tell me that they have changed their minds about coming.

Also I have a half sister (That I didn’t know existed until I was in high school) who I sent an invite to. We aren’t really close but she is my fathers child and wants to get to know us as a family. So I invited her hoping to get all of my siblings in one place at the same time for photos. She is incredibly different from us. No manners, loud etc. She RSVP’s that she is coming so my dad is happy. Then she called me upset that I didn’t invite her daughter to be a flower girl and now she doesn’t want to come. I’m having NO BRIDAL PARTY at all and she just didn’t get it.

My dads brother and his wife and children (2 of whom are adults) declined the invitation. And now with less than two weeks to the wedding they want me to arrange transportation and lodging for them because now they want to come and will bring my half sister along as well. My dad is stressing bc they are his only family besides all of his kids and he wanted them represented at my wedding.

At this point I’m hoping they don’t show up. I’m not arranging anything. They had plenty of time to RSVP and decided to RSVP “No”.

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I would understand if we really had NO food until 8 or 9 PM or something. But we had SO MUCH FOOD. And a huge catering staff, venue staff, DOC, etc. that all would have got him a plate of dinner immediately if it was an emergency. I still think the kids should have brought a card even if it was empty.

Oh no! That is so sad. I hope the day goes okay!

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OMG really? WHAT?! That's insane! Literally so rude.

That is rude of your half sister, you are under no obligation to include anyone in the wedding!

It's not your responsibility to arrange that for guests!

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Exactly! My cousins announced their party happening during our wedding just a week ago after we had everything set in stone bc the wedding is in 11 days.

The half sister threw a fit and decided she wouldn’t come early enough that it didn’t make a difference to me. Her thinking she can just add herself back to the guest count at the last minute bc she RSVP’ed yes the first time is insane!

The uncle and cousins who want me to make arrangements are out of luck. I did have rooms for my out of town guests but they are all now full and accounted for and it was a pain in the neck to arrange. I’m not doing it again. They think I should pay for their rooms bc I had paid for some rooms and offered them to family who may need them (and maybe can’t afford them) when the invitations were sent. They declined the invitation and the room. It’s been given to someone else and now they are upset but THEY DECLINED!

I haven't had my wedding yet but at my sister's wedding, she had so many people show up who didn't RSVP and instead of the venue telling her that there wasn't enough seats to accommodate the people, they just found more tables and seats and food for them all while she didn't know. They then turned around and slapped her with a bill for almost $2000!!!! She was so hurt and embarrassed. She had to take her money from her wishing well and still had to do a bride dance to raise the rest of the wedding. I felt so bad for her so needless to say, she is on it when it comes to my guest list. She has even volunteered to take names at the door to ensure no one comes who isn't supposed to lol

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Ugh, that would suck! It's so rude not to RSVP. We tracked down every single person that didn't RSVP even if we had to call/text multiple times, so that's probably why we only had one true no show. We had to have our guest count in advance, so if extra people showed up they would not have been fed haha! That would be awful though!

I think the guests that did come were all really great - they had a good time, behaved (lol) and no one got rowdy or anything. It was a miracle lol. I have no guest horror stories, BUT I have to say that I was truly peeved by the few that DIDN'T SHOW UP. One who told us "wouldn't miss it for anything," asked if he could be at a table with certain people, etc. and then as the date got closer started just ghosting us for no reason...then no showed the wedding and we haven't heard from him since. Another no-show completely avoided the RSVP at all. Was a close friend of my husband's and when he was late with the RSVP, we checked in. He avoided the question. Would answer every other question and talk no problem about literally anything else, but when my husband would straight up ask "are you coming or not," he would just change the subject or stop responding to texts. Needless to say we weren't surprised he no showed, but we were a little upset. But the one I think that hurt (hubby) the most was the groomsman who dropped out last minute. His reason? "Well, see my girlfriend and I took this vacation, and now her parents want to take one, and I know I said I'd be in your wedding, but I have to use my last vacation day to go on this vacation." That really made my husband mad - you knew about this a year ahead of time. Had plenty of time to plan around the date and work your vacation time. So, really, you have just chosen to take a trip with your girlfriend's parents instead of stand up in the wedding of one of your closest friends. (And then this friend got married and invited us and from what I heard, he got PISSED when we couldn't go.)

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That is so weird! I can't believe you haven't heard from him since, so random! That sucks about the groomsman, I'm sure it damaged their friendship.

My first wedding, we had a "rehearsal dinner" the night before, and invited all the people who indicated they would be in town by then. One aunt and uncle had said they were staying somewhere else the night before, and just coming in the day of for the wedding, so we didn't invite them. Well, they heard about it from another guest, and decided to come anyway, not even telling us they were doing so. They restaurant had prepared just enough food for the guests we said were coming. So when the aunt and uncle ate two of the dinners, two of our invited guests just ended up with hamburgers, which is all the restaurant could do at short notice.

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OMG! That would annoy me so bad. I don't know why it's so hard for people to plan in advance and be considerate knowing how expensive weddings are!

View Quoted Comment My only guess is she kept complaining about having to wear heels and how her wedding ceremony was only 5 minutes. But A) I only asked for comfortable silver shoes. Didn't say heels were required at all. B) our ceremony was 30 minutes tops! My SIL was tempted to smack her upside the back of the head. There wasnt a single photo of her smiling during the ceremony! Like full on meanmugging the entire time.