What was the worst wedding you went to?

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My roommate, Dave's. The bride came from money-big money. Dave's family just got by. Her relatives were wearing lots of diamonds, pearls, gowns and tuxedos. His were wearing $12 Kmart dresses and "leisure suits". It was obvious they detested each other. It was like there was a line down the hall making two sides. Nobody crossed that line. Dave and Kate said they just wanted to get out of there.
What was the worst wedding you went to?
 

An outside wedding on a hill next to Lake Superior to accommodate the full force of icy 45 deg F rain off the lake. One person started to go into a state of hypothermia, violently shaking. I have been to two other rainy outdoor weddings that had no indoor option. Such weddings are for the birds, as in seagulls, ducks, and loons!
 
fuzzybuddy said:
My roommate, Dave's. The bride came from money-big money. Dave's family just got by. Her relatives were wearing lots of diamonds, pearls, gowns and tuxedos. His were wearing $12 Kmart dresses and "leisure suits". It was obvious they detested each other. It was like there was a line down the hall making two sides. Nobody crossed that line. Dave and Kate said they just wanted to get out of there.
What was the worst wedding you went to?
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Did the marriage last?
 
Michael Z said:
An outside wedding on a hill next to Lake Superior to accommodate the full force of icy 45 deg F rain off the lake. One person started to go into a state of hypothermia, violently shaking. I have been to two other rainy outdoor weddings that had no indoor option. Such weddings are for the birds, as in seagulls, ducks, and loons!
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My GD has that planned for the end of September. No indoor plans. Just a tent for the evening.
 
AnneTeak said:
It wasn't the worst, but it was tacky. They made an announcement that all guests had to pay $5 to dance with the bride or the groom. Apparently they would use the money for the honeymoon.
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That is actually a time-honored tradition for some ethnicities. Most people give more than $5 though, so that the couple start with a nice nest egg.
Special music and a shot of liquor is part of it too.

Of course, if you don't want to join in the fun, you don't have to dance with the bride and/or the groom.


I have never been to a bad wedding.
 
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I never went to a bad wedding. They were all fun and happy but I did hear about a bad wedding in my hometown of a female classmate. She and her new husband got into an awful fight at their wedding reception over the band? They split up there and then and no one could reason with either of them which makes me wonder. They did not go on a honeymoon or anything together and got divorced as soon as was possible. They became synonymous with failed marriage and horrible weddings. It was really sad. She never remarried. I don't know if he did. I wouldn't have believed this was true about such a nice person as she was. But it is.
 
I know this sounds like something AI would produce, but it's real:

Bride was fairly young (21-ish), had been raised by her father and grandmother after her mother died young, in a wealthy household. She was quite naive and inexperienced.

Groom was a "Mystery Man", 40-ish, and it was very vague how he made his money, but he seemed to have quite a bit of it. He was also "out of town" a lot on equally vague trips. Divorced. No mention of kids. No one knew much about him but the bride was head-over-heels in love. Her father wasn't happy about it but as she was of age, he went along with it.

The wedding was in a fancy hotel. Everyone was gathered for the pre-ceremony cocktail hour, when the groom (who was supposed to be bringing the minister) showed up, in a tux, unknown teenage son in tow, without the minister. There was some talking going on in the corner with the bride's family and Mystery Man.

The group went into another room for about 20 minutes, while people milled around whispering. Finally the father came out, made the announcement that there wasn't going to be a wedding, but please have more drinks and dinner would be served in a while for anyone who wanted to stay. He said he would explain later.

Some left and some stayed to find out what happened. It turned out that Mystery Man wasn't actually divorced yet. He came out later and was talking to people.

Here's where the real "fun" began. The bride's ex-boyfriend hadn't been invited but showed up anyway, quite drunk. He was behaving himself, though, so had been allowed to stay. He walked up to Mystery Man and held his hand out as if to shake hands. Instead, he cocked his arm back and punched the lights out of Mystery Man, who ended up unconscious on the floor. Ex-boyfriend was hustled away, cops were called and an ambulance carried off Mystery Man.

We had another drink and some more appetizers and left. She married someone else three years later.

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Another one was the "shot-gun" wedding of my neighbor's daughter. After waiting almost an hour for the groom, he shows up sh!t-faced drunk with his parents. My neighbor was muttering about going back to his truck, getting his rifle and "shooting varmint". The wedding proceeded. I wasn't sure it was going to happen because the minister was on the verge of refusing to perform the marriage because of the groom's intoxication. Needless to say, the marriage didn't last long.

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Another interesting one I only observed before the actual wedding but I can imagine the actual ceremony.

My niece was getting married at a chapel in Las Vegas, a very picturesque one in a cottonwood grove where a lot of celebrities got married. Very tasteful....especially for a Vegas wedding. You got your 15-20 minutes in the chapel and then it was out and the next party moved in. Being on a Saturday, the wedding parties were lined up through the parking lot, waiting their moment. There were "fancy" groups and everyday groups....and then there was the group behind us.

Bride looked like she was no more than 16, close to 9 months pregnant, in a very short white dress and a veil. Her mother never stopped sobbing and her father, who was wearing denim overalls and a flannel shirt, looked like he was about ready to explode. The groom, who didn't look much older than the bride. was dressed....well, let's say clad...in a tuxedo shirt that was worn completely open, showing off his flabby hairless chest. He had black cut-off shorts that had been hacked off unevenly and had strings hanging down, red-and-white striped knee socks and high-top black tennis shoes with no laces. He was wearing a black ballcap with the bill turned backwards. HIS mother was stony-faced and spent most of the time glaring at everyone.

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If you want an afternoon of unbridled amusement, take a Saturday tour of wedding chapels in Vegas. The year before my niece's wedding, my sister and I went to Vegas to scout locations for the nuptials. We hired a taxi and gave him a list of chapels we wanted to visit. We'd run in, look around and grab info and then go to the next one.

One of them had a drive-thru wedding window. When we pulled into the parking lot, there was a wedding going on there. The bride (dressed in daisy-duke shorts, a shiny gold bikini top and a loooong veil) and the groom (dressed oh-so-elegantly in holey jeans and a black t-shirt that said "F**K YOU" in large letters on the back of the shirt and a cowboy hat) were sitting on the back of the convertible getting their hitchin' on. They then proceeded to attempt to perform what I assume most people do behind doors but the convertible moved and they almost fell off the back.

Oh, my niece's marriage didn't last, either.

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I did go to one, but I don't know if you can consider it a "wedding" because the bride didn't show up. Cold feet.
 
I'm not sure I've ever attended a "bad" wedding, boring yes. Worst I can remember happening is at my buddies reception his grand dad Rusty got drunk and belligerent and tried to rip a guitar off one of the band members. He was upset that the music was too loud so rushed the stage.lol. It was one of those moments that stopped everything for about thirty seconds of dead silence, then ramped right back up into party mode.

There was a wedding I was invited to that was cancelled the morning of (brides decision) but they did get married a year later.
 
It was pretty much a normal simple wedding in a small church, so the wedding itself wasn't the worst I ever went to, but the groom was the center of attention because he had a tattoo in bold black letters across his forehead: BORN TO BE BAD. The marriage lasted only 3 months.
 
I have been only to one wedding, our neighbors' daughter got married. She was couple of years younger than me and we were not friends. I was forced to go to the wedding by my mom, I didn't mind the ceremony, it was the reception I hated. Everyone there was a couple. I was the only single person there, I hated it. And I didn't know anyone there. Everyone was dancing having fun, I just sat there with my parents for the whole evening.

And hubby and I eloped, so no wedding there.
 
jujube said:
I know this sounds like something AI would produce, but it's real:

Bride was fairly young (21-ish), had been raised by her father and grandmother after her mother died young, in a wealthy household. She was quite naive and inexperienced.

Groom was a "Mystery Man", 40-ish, and it was very vague how he made his money, but he seemed to have quite a bit of it. He was also "out of town" a lot on equally vague trips. Divorced. No mention of kids. No one knew much about him but the bride was head-over-heels in love. Her father wasn't happy about it but as she was of age, he went along with it.

The wedding was in a fancy hotel. Everyone was gathered for the pre-ceremony cocktail hour, when the groom (who was supposed to be bringing the minister) showed up, in a tux, unknown teenage son in tow, without the minister. There was some talking going on in the corner with the bride's family and Mystery Man.

The group went into another room for about 20 minutes, while people milled around whispering. Finally the father came out, made the announcement that there wasn't going to be a wedding, but please have more drinks and dinner would be served in a while for anyone who wanted to stay. He said he would explain later.

Some left and some stayed to find out what happened. It turned out that Mystery Man wasn't actually divorced yet. He came out later and was talking to people.

Here's where the real "fun" began. The bride's ex-boyfriend hadn't been invited but showed up anyway, quite drunk. He was behaving himself, though, so had been allowed to stay. He walked up to Mystery Man and held his hand out as if to shake hands. Instead, he cocked his arm back and punched the lights out of Mystery Man, who ended up unconscious on the floor. Ex-boyfriend was hustled away, cops were called and an ambulance carried off Mystery Man.

We had another drink and some more appetizers and left. She married someone else three years later.

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Another one was the "shot-gun" wedding of my neighbor's daughter. After waiting almost an hour for the groom, he shows up sh!t-faced drunk with his parents. My neighbor was muttering about going back to his truck, getting his rifle and "shooting varmint". The wedding proceeded. I wasn't sure it was going to happen because the minister was on the verge of refusing to perform the marriage because of the groom's intoxication. Needless to say, the marriage didn't last long.

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Another interesting one I only observed before the actual wedding but I can imagine the actual ceremony.

My niece was getting married at a chapel in Las Vegas, a very picturesque one in a cottonwood grove where a lot of celebrities got married. Very tasteful....especially for a Vegas wedding. You got your 15-20 minutes in the chapel and then it was out and the next party moved in. Being on a Saturday, the wedding parties were lined up through the parking lot, waiting their moment. There were "fancy" groups and everyday groups....and then there was the group behind us.

Bride looked like she was no more than 16, close to 9 months pregnant, in a very short white dress and a veil. Her mother never stopped sobbing and her father, who was wearing denim overalls and a flannel shirt, looked like he was about ready to explode. The groom, who didn't look much older than the bride. was dressed....well, let's say clad...in a tuxedo shirt that was worn completely open, showing off his flabby hairless chest. He had black cut-off shorts that had been hacked off unevenly and had strings hanging down, red-and-white striped knee socks and high-top black tennis shoes with no laces. He was wearing a black ballcap with the bill turned backwards. HIS mother was stony-faced and spent most of the time glaring at everyone.

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If you want an afternoon of unbridled amusement, take a Saturday tour of wedding chapels in Vegas. The year before my niece's wedding, my sister and I went to Vegas to scout locations for the nuptials. We hired a taxi and gave him a list of chapels we wanted to visit. We'd run in, look around and grab info and then go to the next one.

One of them had a drive-thru wedding window. When we pulled into the parking lot, there was a wedding going on there. The bride (dressed in daisy-duke shorts, a shiny gold bikini top and a loooong veil) and the groom (dressed oh-so-elegantly in holey jeans and a black t-shirt that said "F**K YOU" in large letters on the back of the shirt and a cowboy hat) were sitting on the back of the convertible getting their hitchin' on. They then proceeded to attempt to perform what I assume most people do behind doors but the convertible moved and they almost fell off the back.

Oh, my niece's marriage didn't last, either.

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I did go to one, but I don't know if you can consider it a "wedding" because the bride didn't show up. Cold feet.
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jujube: I had a good laugh about those weddings. It would make a great movie one day.
 
I remember back in the 90's we were invited to my husband's niece's wedding. All went well at the church and then when we got to the reception that's when it all came apart. When it was time for the speeches the Groom stood up and said he had no intention to have his children baptised in the Catholic Church,
The bride's father immediately stood up and said he was going to teach him a lesson but was held back, much alcohol was consumed and then my husband's brother said he wasn't going to sit next to a Greek bast**d and the Greek hit his wife in the face and stormed out. Mother of the Bride was crying and when the Dessert was brought out there were Ants crawling all over the Meringue Trifle. We quickly excused ourselves and said the babysitter had to get home early.

Another wedding we went to was at my good friend's daughter's wedding. The bride and groom arrived at the church in a white carriage with 2 large white stallions. When the groom alighted, he had on a top hat with dreadlocks and looked like a chimneysweep. Mother of the bride was with her new boyfriend and father of the bride was sitting alone. After the Nuptials we went back to Mother's house with a large Marque in the
back yard. We stood around for 1 hour before finger food was brought around and that was it.
Bride's brother was well and truly tanked and said he had written a tune for his sister and attempted to sing it, couldn't understand a word he said. Next minute the Bride and Groom were having
a huge argument in the kitchen and started throwing stuff at each other. Oh, what a night, we left early after that one as well.
 
LoveTulips said:
I have been only to one wedding, our neighbors' daughter got married. She was couple of years younger than me and we were not friends. I was forced to go to the wedding by my mom, I didn't mind the ceremony, it was the reception I hated. Everyone there was a couple. I was the only single person there, I hated it. And I didn't know anyone there. Everyone was dancing having fun, I just sat there with my parents for the whole evening.

And hubby and I eloped, so no wedding there.
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Same here - I don't like weddings, and we decided to elope too..
 
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