What was your worst wedding experience ever?
was it your own? was it someone else’s? what made it bad?
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it was someone else’s. they had some candles around the altar and one fell into the flowers, which caught some drapes one fire. which led to a complete evacuation of the church seeing as the whole front of it went up in flames. being an atheist, i found it sort of ironic.
@JONESGH you found their wedding catching on fire ironic?
It is my experience, but not my wedding. My friend is getting married and she is a complete Bride-Zilla, I was trapped in David’s Bridal for seven hours. I am not the romance girly wedding type and she talks about this stuff constantly, I have no escape.
@Simone_De_Beauvoir no no, i didnt word that well. i felt sorry for the couple, but i found it ironic that one of the few times i was in a church, it caught on fire.
@JONESGH oh, :) well it was clearly because you were in it
this is not the worst but for my mom….its two days before the wedding and I am sure there is sooo much to do…my husband (future husband at the time) and I decide to go to an amusement park for the day….I’m certain my mom must have been ready to kill me, but she never said anything…what was I thinking?
Watching a girl who I cared very much about marry a guy who was a total sleaze – one who bragged about conquests non-stop. It lasted eleven months with most of it heartbreaking for her. He cheated on her the day before the wedding but she refused to believe it. He was an adept conman.
The music was bland and the food was bland. But I still stayed there because it was my friend’s wedding, and it would be extremely rude to leave just because of that, and I still tried to have a fun time.
The times when I got so drunk I threw up. Once in New Orleans when I was 33 and once in Delaware when I was eight.
As a teenager, I was in a wedding. The morning of, I decided to dye my hair (at home). Instead of turning a lighter color of blonde , it turned blue! So I had to rush to the beauty parlor to get it fixed. They couldn’t completely fix it so I had to be in the wedding with a tint of blue in my hair. Its a good thing one of their wedding colors was blue!
Also..
A couple of summers ago, my bf’s brother got married. I was really against it because I really do not like his (now) wife. Two months after everyone else was asked to be in the wedding, she asked me. I’m pretty sure she only asked because she thinks it will secure her a place in my wedding party…so not going to happen! I felt obligated to say yes so his family wouldn’t be upset and because she asked me in front of a lot of people. Of course, at the wedding everyone was emotional. Thank God people can’t read minds because then everyone would have known my tears weren’t ones of happiness.
Honestly, to think of a “worst wedding moment ever” I’d have to think of a wedding I’d attended as a negative experience. I have been to many weddings but none were bad experiences.
the bride is a close friend of my wife. the bride wanted all the other married couples in the bridal party to process in the church with the song the wedded couple picked as “the love song.” i couldn’t find that recording, so the bride picked a generic song for my wife and i to walk in on. twenty minutes before the wedding, i spoke to the DJ and said stop the already programmed CD so a musician friend of mine could play the song live.
he did indeed and the musician played “that song” of our wedding, but unbeknownst to me, the pre-programmed CD could not pick up where it left off, leaving the other couples in the procession behind us to walk in to nothing but dead air.
it was all F’d up. oops, my bad. it’s all in the past; everybody is still friends, but that day was oh so dark,
A friend of mine began crying uncontrollably, and could not respond with his I do’s.
He never did, so the pastor just said that he acknowledged it.
I have always felt bad about that moment, and my not stepping in to make sure this was what he wanted.
Given him a moment not in front of the entire congregation, and asked him if he wanted to stop the ceremony.
@filmfann oh, i see. well listen, you can’t always do what you manage later to figure out you should have done.
I once went to a wedding where almost everything went wrong. The bride was a very close friend of mine in college, but a few months before the wedding we’d started growing apart. She turned out to be a very selfish person, and I didn’t want to be her friend anymore but couldn’t bring myself to back out of being Maid of Honor. So, there we were, 4th of July weekend in southern Indiana. The bride was a complete Bridezilla, being nasty to everyone. Wouldn’t let any of us pick up breakfast on the way to getting our hair done. Refused to let anyone eat lunch, saying there wasn’t time (as we all stood around the church for over an hour, early for the photographer). The groom was so hungover he kept puking in the church bathroom before the service. The piano player for the service stunk and kept hitting all the wrong notes. The groom’s brother, a pastor, was supposed to lead most of the service but got really sick and didn’t even show up.
We got to the reception, at a hotel, and learned that due to an electrical malfunction the reception room couldn’t support both the DJ’s equipment and AC. It was 96 degrees that day, and the bride chose the DJ over the AC. She also refused to let those of us in the wedding party change because she wanted the pictures to look nice. She insisted the men keep their jackets on, and the bridesmaids stayed in their floor-length heavy satin gowns. The food sucked. The music sucked. The bride’s stepfather refused to dance with her. The bride locked herself in a bathroom crying for almost an hour. When she finally got around to tossing the bouquet, almost all of the guests took that as their cue to leave and the place emptied. I almost felt bad for the bride, but she had been so nasty to everyone before the wedding (not to mention her behavior to me when she was supposed to be my best friend), that it was hard to muster up some sympathy. OK, fine, I admit it. I secretly enjoyed everything that went wrong.
When my first husband told e on the way to the honeymoon that he said to a high school female friend, “You know, that could have been you up there.”
lol My son cried during our wedding, my father had to leave the church with him. Also, my husband was sweating profusely…he chose such a thick suit when he knew we were getting married in August, in freakin’ Vegas! I told him it was too heavy, but he didn’t listen. He was wiping sweat the whole time. Oh and I forget what happened, it might have been what the guy was saying (I don’t know what he was…it’s a chapel in Vegas, so it’s not like he was a priest or anything) but something made us start cracking up and we could not stop giggling. We have a video of our wedding that no one will see haha. I think a renewal ceremony will be done eventually though.
I’ve only been to a couple weddings, as an attendee but attended a lot as a server. I never saw anything too outrageous…just some ugly weddings though. (like the one we had to put hot pink everywhere my gosh, I don’t know what that girl was thinking)
My brother, a serious Catholic, married a serious Lutheran girl in a serious Lutheran church-what I remember is every church window had nothing but dead flys, and everyone was way too serious. But he is still married after 20 years, despite the stern warning of the potential conflict from our grandfather who had done the same thing.
My Lutheran daughter married a nice Catholic boy. We love him a lot.
Of all the weddings I’ve been in and attended, I’ve only seen anything go wrong once, and it was the one time I was sure nothing would.
Two of my best friends were getting married. The whole experience was really great because both sides of the wedding party were made up of high school friends. We’d all known each other since we were in elementary school. The bride was awesomely accommodating, I’d never seen a groom so excited to be getting married, everybody agreed on all the arrangements… It was completely amazing. The night before the wedding, we combined the bachelor and bachelorette parties and had an awesome time together.
One of the groomsmen got especially drunk. He overslept the next day because of it. His hangover wasn’t too bad, but he was running late. He only had just enough time to get ready and get where he needed to be. It was a summer wedding, and it was hot inside the church, and for some reason it was even hotter at the altar. This guy’s face started looking kind of ashy. One of the other groomsmen asked if he was okay. He nodded that he was, but he promptly passed out and crumpled to the floor. We paused for a minute while a couple other guys half-carried him into the back and then proceeded. He was able to come back and resume his position before the end of the ceremony, and he managed to walk out of the church on his own steam. But his color didn’t come back for more than an hour. I’ve never seen another person who was quite that shade, except for a couple of dead ones.
@MacBean this is why you always gotta carry kefir around
I hate all weddings but mine had to be the worst, partly because I was in it so I couldn’t leave and partly because it was just crap: too big, too noisy, too hot, the food was boring and the music was unbearable.
@Jack79 Sounds terrible. I hope I don’t feel the same about my wedding!
I just went to a wedding last month that didn’t have dancing or cake. they had gelato. Wedding gelato. WTF is that?
It was on a Friday and over by 8pm. lame.
”they had gelato. Wedding gelato. WTF is that?”
That’s awesome, that’s what that is. The worst gelato is a thousand times better than the best cake.
@MacBean not when it’s melted by the time it gets to your table. at least cake AND gelato. c’mon.
I’ve never had a bad experience at a wedding. Some funny ones, but nothing bad. Seems to me if people just try to relax and have a good time, then a “bad” wedding experience is pretty hard to have. I did have a friend’s wedding where after everyone rose for the brides entrance, they never sat down again. I’m not sure how that happened. The pastor didn’t gesture or say “be seated”, and no one in the bride or grooms family led everyone to sit down, and everyone just remained standing. It was pretty weird and funny, but it certainly wasn’t a bad experience. I think it all had something to do with the groom’s father being the pastor.
Yes. I think weddings that are perfect are boreing. The best weddings are the oneswith stories of how things went wrong. They make you laugh and create family folklore for years to come.
A year after high school, one of our friends from church got married. My brother and I were invited to attend. They had it in their front yard (complete with a picturesque “crick”). When we arrived, the bride’s mother ran up to us, completely trashed, and grabbed my brother, saying he had to be in the wedding. The original plan was to have only one attendant on each side, but then three of the bride’s friends (who had all just graduated high school) bought matching dresses and declared themselves bridesmaids. The groom (who we’d met once) had not invited any friends, so my brother had to be a groomsman. They had no flower girl, but two ring bearers, who spent the ceremony trying to push each other into the creek. The ceremony was led by a retired justice of the peace, who took it upon himself to give a brief homily, complete with sexist and dirty jokes. During the reception, the groom and the bride’s brother took off on their motorcycles for a while – no one’s sure where they went – and the 18-year-old “bridesmaids” got drunk on wine coolers and either puked or cried on each others’ shoulders. A girl punched someone in the face during the bouquet toss.
I left thinking for sure, it was never going to last.
They’ve been married seven years now.
@zephyr826 All I can say is WOW. Nothing like a redneck wedding.
@gussnarp I was blown away. I’d never been to something like that before, and I hope to never experience it again.
@zephyr826 ; Now that’s a wedding whose story will be told over and over again at family gatherings! Wedding should be memorable. No one will say THAT was a boring wedding!!
I have two:
I was maid of honor at my cousin’s wedding. The reception was held in the basement of the church, and no music was allowed (bible belt Baptist church). It was the deadest party I’d ever seen. Apparently, the groom agreed. He left after half an hour and went home to watch a football game, leaving the bride (my cousin) to manage the reception by herself for another four hours. I felt sure that marriage wouldn’t last, and it didn’t.
The other was the wedding of close friends, not big church goers, who had basically picked a church at random, and knew nothing about the minister. Unbeknownst to them, he had a little ‘surprise’ planned.
He was a “fire and brimstone/tent revival” type of Baptist preacher… very enthusiastic. During the ceremony, he said that the greatest wedding gift we could give our friends was to open our hearts to Jesus and asked if anyone wanted to do so that very moment. “Raise your hand now if you want to be born again!!!” crickets “Anybody?” crickets “Come on, now! Come on!” crickets ”No one at all?!?” absolute silence It was the most uncomfortable few minutes you could imagine.
Clearing his throat, he finally continued on with the ceremony. We were all mortified, including the bride and groom.
@augustlan I went to a wedding and reception in a Pentecostal church once. It was like both of your experiences combined, but at least the groom stuck around for the entire completely boring reception.
@zephyr826 LOL – epic! This is the stuff movies are made of!
My first marriage was a dreaded experience. cost me a few million dollars in alimony, angst and acrimony. Made my lawyer rich, though. He still sends me nice Christmas cards.
@augustlan Great story, I once went to a funeral like that. I guess at least the deceased was part of that church and would have approved?
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