Worst wedding you've been to?

One was an outdoor wedding at a park. It was small, maybe 30 or so guests, but the only food was a single party sub from Subway that had been sitting out in the summer heat for the entire ceremony. Also, it was bring your own chair.

Another was a wedding where the bride and groom each chose a separate color/theme, which were totally unrelated to one another, and proceeded to decorate their reception hall in that fashion. They had way too much sand for the unity ceremony, so they just dumped the rest on the ground. It was self-catered and a family member who was overseeing everything kept yelling at people about reaching over the food, cross contamination (a great reason not to self-cater), and criticizing portion sizes (not enough, too much). No alcohol, no DJ, no dancing. I was at the single's table. Not a great time.

The best mans mother at a wedding we attended dropped dead of heart failure on the dance floor first twenty minutes into the reception. It was horrifying! I felt so terrible for everyone! Entire night was ruined!

One of my family members'. We flew out many states away for it and still had to drive like 4 hours to the middle of nowhere Texas to the venue.

It was a completely dry wedding, as the brides' father is a pastor, they didn't believe in drinking. No meal, barely any food, there was like water and fruit punch which ran out. The reception was in the church's "hall/cafeteria" area and there was literally no music. No dancing. We just stood awkwardly and watched the bride and groom sit at their table taking congrats from guests.

Oh...and during the ceremony/vows, one bridesmaid keeled over and threw up at the altar. Like...alllll over it. People tried not to make a big deal of it, but I still remember it to this day six years later. I felt bad for her. It was super embarrassing.

A future cousin in law’s wedding. The couple are both extremely nice people, but their wedding wasn’t my favorite. The rehearsal dinner was at an arcade/go cart track. The ceremony was nice. The reception was, not fun. My FH was in the wedding party and at the head table. I was sat with my future ILs. Food was a decent buffet (which was disappointing as they’re both amazing chefs). The very small dance floor was filled with children. They had boxed wine and keg beers which they ran out of. Also, it had rained the morning of the wedding and the reception was under a tent with a hard floor. No one mopped up the wet floor so it was slippery.

Cousins wedding. Horrible music, watered down drinks, bridesmaids fighting with her mother and boyfriend. And food wasn't any better. Had to go back to the hotel afterwards and get drunk.

@Amanda OMG! That's bizarre and soooo rude!

My brother's first wedding, her father was a Presbyterian minister, and aggressively anti-alcohol. My family contains a whole lot of alcoholics. They put bottles of wine spaced evenly down the table. Her family all sanctimoniously pushed them away, and my family all gathered them up and drank them.

There were other memorable bits, too. Her father was the officiant. He made a point of talking about how the couple were one--one flesh, etc. Including "one name." She was keeping her name.

I've only been to a handful of weddings, including my own, but the worst by far was one of H's best friends.

We got there a couple days before the wedding (drove for 8 hours to get there mind you) because H was best man and had been invited to stay at the house his friend's parents were renting. The next day we were required to help set up the house for the rehearsal dinner AND help decorate the couple's front yard for the reception (the wedding was in a park across the street from the house). The groom's mom was so demanding that my H got so mad that he walked out and didn't come back for over an hour (and this woman is like a 2nd mother to him). The rehearsal dinner was catered so at least we were able to relax after it all started.

Then there was the wedding. Not only did it start probably half an hour late, with the groom's mother and grandmother showing up with decor for the "aisles" right as they were having the wedding party begin the procession. Oh and there were about 200 people there and maybe 100 chairs so most of us had to stand for the ceremony. Then the reception had a terrible dj that only played Michael buble for the first couple hours (don't know about the rest because we left asap). Also there was no cocktail hour, everyone just kinda started at the buffet as soon as the ceremony was over. But this meant that by the time the wedding party had finished pictures there wasn't much left for H. Oh, and it was a sushi buffet. Not on ice. In Florida. During early September. There were veggie options and that's all H and I ate. Thank goodness it was an open bar.

Went to a wedding where the DJ kept playing synchronized dances (its basically all he played tbh. like chicken dance, electric slide, cha cha slide, time warp etc) and every time he would start one up some people would get in and would be a little wobbly until they catch the point of the song they were at.... and he would "OH NO NO NO YOU DONT HAVE ANY RHYTHM" and get up and "teach" the guests how to do it... it was so rude. on top of it, he would NOT STOP TALKING. he talked between every song and during every song and walking around and talking and introducing people during speeches and ugh i was sick of hearing his voice. then, i kept seeing the bride ask people "where'd the groom go?" he just kept disappearing to get high with his friends and didnt really talk to anyone in terms of guests... she was dancing with her friends for most of the night and thats not how it should be like you just married this girl what are you DOING.

I just went to one that was in their backyard in 30 degree weather. After the ceremony everyone crammed into the house which was not roomy enough for the guest count. It was a potluck so guests had to bring food to share. A lot of it was finger food appetizers. When I went to the bathroom after being there for 2 hours, and eating a lot of food off communal platters that everyone had been touching, I was horrified to find no soap in the bathroom. I almost threw up realizing that no one had been washing their hands all night and handling the food we were all eating. They did have a bar and bartender but they ran out of wine after an hour and a half, and the "mojito" the bartender made me was pretty disgusting and not really a mojito lol I'm pretty sure it was like rum, sour mix, sprite and mint leaves. However their ceremony was lovely and it was all very "them," so I hope they had a lovely evening.

My cousins: dry wedding in a church basement. The church ladies catered the food. No dj. The bridesmaids wore horrible dresses that were way too revealing and looked like they got them at the mall for homecoming. The cherry on the cake was the bride flirting with her old high school crush in front of our whole family and her new husband. Needless to say that marriage did not work out... they separated less than a year in.

My FH's cousins wedding. She didn't want to pay for a caterer and asked my FH and I to help by simply changing their self catered trays. Seemed simple enough so we agreed. WELL that was not the job. We literally picked up, heated, transported, and served the houres dourves, dinner, alcohol and cake. I was excited to meet all my FH family as his future bride but turned into my FH and I catering the whole damn wedding! We did not get to see the ceremony, didn't get a thank you, and didn't get a chance to dance.

Reading all of this is giving me anxiety about how my wedding will turn out..lol

Step brothers wedding... I was a BM, ceremony space was WAY to small for everyone to be inside let alone sit, it was freezing because it was February and had snowed the night before so the dirt path from the ceremony space to the reception venue (which was uneven because of it being in the mountains) was sopping wet and covered in slush so I kept sinking into the ground with my heels, which totally ruined them. I can't remember if there was food or drinks, the DJ was a CD player that the groom was in charge of running. There was no first dance, the bride wanted to cut the cake as soon as we got to the reception because she was hungry (which she kept yelling about) when her new husband finally decided to try and get her to calm down (by yelling at her) and explain to her that other things needed to happen first she lost it and was screaming at the top of her lungs that "this is my wedding and I don't care how things are supposed to go I want to eat MY cake so that's what I'm going to do and if you try to stop me you may as well bring me the divorce papers right now!!! Is that what you want!!!? This was in 2009, The family still whispers about what a train wreck the wedding was.

How are we just glossing over @Krstiann's comment?! Holy shit that is terrible!

I once went to an outdoor wedding in July in Texas at an old plantation style house. Half of the tables were indoors and the other outdoors for the reception. So if you weren't in the wedding party or family, you were stuck outside like peasants. The buffet was indoors and so it took forever for the guests to get food plus there was no alcohol and no dancing. We left to go eat somewhere else.

Not the worst wedding but the worst dj. He played the wrong song for all of the first dances and had to be told which one was right while everyone just watched. Felt so bad for the bride and groom. He then wouldn't take any song requests, including from the bride and her mom.

@aimee, I feel like having your wedding be remembered as one of the worst is karma for having a wedding on a plantation.

We RSVPed for the wedding and when we arrived they had assigned seating at four of the tables with seating cards. We were told to look around and if we weren't on one of the cards we were to find a table and sit around the edges somewhere. After looking at all the tables we discovered we did not make the VIP cut and needed to find a seat on the edge somewhere (not sure why RSVPs wee so important if we weren't going to make the cut anyway). The food was self-catered by church ladies and ended up being very little food - by the time we got there (VIPs first) there was basically salad. There was cake, but only enough for the couple and VIPs (people with place cards). There were two bottles of wine in the fridge if you could get there fast enough to fill your red solo cup with it. After the food and wine, there was dancing for about 45 minutes before we were told the room had to be cleaned up and cleared by 9pm (it was 8:45pm, the wedding started at 7pm). We were asked to fold and stack the chairs on carts and move them to a closet. Then we had to fold up the tables and roll the rounds into their closets. The rectangular ones had to be folded and carried. Lastly we had to empty all of the trash cans - in the room, kitchen and bathrooms. All this was done in nice dresses and heels. This wedding directly impacted ours -- we did not want of our guests to have any of these experiences.

I went with a now ex-boyfriend to his friend's wedding. As soon as we arrive, the groom's brother told us that the caterer didn't bring enough people to serve the BUFFET FOOD out to the guests and asked if we could step in. He was basically asking if the two of us that were dressed up could stand in the buffet line next to all the other properly dressed cooks and spoon out buffet food to everyone in the wedding. We quickly made up a lie that we weren't sure if we'd have to leave due to a possible on-call emergency so it wouldn't be a good idea. After zero organization on how the tables were supposed to approach the buffet line (basically 300 people were told that they could ALL go up when they were ready)... guess what? We got the imaginary call that we needed to leave and tend to our "emergency" which was visiting our favorite restaurant where we weren't asked to serve our own food.