A wedding is intended to be a beautiful event that the bride and groom will remember for the rest of their lives. And if they manage to host a wonderful celebration, even the guests might look back on the day fondly for years to come. So it’s important for the bride and groom to consider how their loved ones will react to their wedding’s agenda. Otherwise, it might be remembered for all the wrong reasons…
Wedding guests on Reddit have recently been discussing the most cringeworthy things they’ve ever seen brides and grooms do. From turning intimate moments into spectacles to forcing eye contact with everyone in attendance, these couples should have run their ideas past someone else before solidifying them. Enjoy reading through this list that will likely give you second-hand embarrassment, and be sure to upvote the situations that you wish you could have seen in person!
#21
THEY WORE MICKEY MOUSE EARS.
The chick was a full 30 year old adult Disney obsessed freak. Like OBSESSED. The man was not. He had no backbone when it came to his wife. She spent I think over 100k of money they didn’t have for a Disney themed wedding. In New Zealand. There’s no Disney anything here.
Anyway you could see he hated it, and was embarrassed, she was thrilled. He kept taking them off all night and she’d get upset and make him put it back on.
It was a train wreck of an event.
They’re divorced now, 2 years to get divorced and that was 6ish years ago. They have to co-parent and they are the most toxic people ever. It was a horrible divorce and a horrible coparenting situation. Their kids are so messed up already.
The chick was a full 30 year old adult Disney obsessed freak. Like OBSESSED. The man was not. He had no backbone when it came to his wife. She spent I think over 100k of money they didn’t have for a Disney themed wedding. In New Zealand. There’s no Disney anything here.
Anyway you could see he hated it, and was embarrassed, she was thrilled. He kept taking them off all night and she’d get upset and make him put it back on.
It was a train wreck of an event.
They’re divorced now, 2 years to get divorced and that was 6ish years ago. They have to co-parent and they are the most toxic people ever. It was a horrible divorce and a horrible coparenting situation. Their kids are so messed up already.
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23points
#22
It was a gay wedding, and both grooms made speeches that were riddled with inside jokes that only their very very close friend group and family understood. All the other speeches also constantly referenced these jokes and stories. Nobody explained. These references were literally the entire speech for every single person who gave one (about ten people).
As someone who had only met the grooms once (I was my ex’s +1, and he knew them in college but even he hadn’t talked to them in a decade), we were very confused and felt super left out. They also only went to talk to the tables of their in-group (maybe 3-4 tables). Never said thank you or even hello to anyone else at all the other tables (about 10 tables).
Why have a giant wedding if you’re only going to pay attention to your in-group? It felt tacky, like we were only invited so they’d get more gifts.
As someone who had only met the grooms once (I was my ex’s +1, and he knew them in college but even he hadn’t talked to them in a decade), we were very confused and felt super left out. They also only went to talk to the tables of their in-group (maybe 3-4 tables). Never said thank you or even hello to anyone else at all the other tables (about 10 tables).
Why have a giant wedding if you’re only going to pay attention to your in-group? It felt tacky, like we were only invited so they’d get more gifts.
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23points
#23
I only saw photos, but the entire wedding party was on horseback. The friend who'd attended told me that most of bridesmaids & groomsmen didn't know how to ride. Yet the wedding couple had planned out what amounted to choreography. Even "You go here and you go there" is complicated on a huge animal you don't know how to control.
Everything took way longer than it was supposed to, because the wranglers had to keep coming out to lead the horses. The bride had still insisted that the bridesmaids carry bouquets, so they couldn't use the reins correctly. And of course every horse took a poos about every 5 minutes.
The pics really looked weird, because the wedding party was in typical wedding finery, but on horses. Everything looked really out of place.
Everything took way longer than it was supposed to, because the wranglers had to keep coming out to lead the horses. The bride had still insisted that the bridesmaids carry bouquets, so they couldn't use the reins correctly. And of course every horse took a poos about every 5 minutes.
The pics really looked weird, because the wedding party was in typical wedding finery, but on horses. Everything looked really out of place.
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22points
#24
The bride and her bridesmaids made up a rap and started rapping for like 20min. I wanted to crawl out of my suit. So I guess it wasn’t the “couple” per say.
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21points
#25
My college boyfriend was in the wedding party of a very Christian couple, so I went as a +1. They were very much people who wanted to “wait til marriage”. Their first dance was set to a very slow, overly earnest song about how close they now were to being able to have intimacy. It was weird.
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20points
#26
Saw a bridezilla force the groom’s divorced parents who did not like each other to sit together in the front while their poor current spouses had to find seats in the back with the other guests. Total red flag. This young lady only got worse as the years went by.
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18points
#27
That tradition where the guy who catches the garter has to put it on the girl who caught the bouquet, except at this wedding the garter guy was this creepy 40something dude while the bouquet girl was like 10 years old.
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18points
#28
The groom gave a heartfelt vows, the bride made Disney puns and at the end, reached into her dress and blew glitter from her palm towards the guests...
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18points
#29
My cousin’s daughter got married in a park—rushed wedding for eager teens. (Gotta be married before having intimacy!)
The bride comes down the aisle chomping on a wad of bubble gum. The wedding commences, and when the pastor said, “You may now kiss the bride,” the groom bent down and latched his mouth onto the lower half of her face. It looks like he was trying to swallow her down like a python.
They disengaged, and a string of saliva pulled as they moved apart before breaking. They turned to face the audience, except now he was the one chomping on the pink gum.
The bride comes down the aisle chomping on a wad of bubble gum. The wedding commences, and when the pastor said, “You may now kiss the bride,” the groom bent down and latched his mouth onto the lower half of her face. It looks like he was trying to swallow her down like a python.
They disengaged, and a string of saliva pulled as they moved apart before breaking. They turned to face the audience, except now he was the one chomping on the pink gum.
17points
#30
Asked for cash only as gifts and then at the family breakfast the next morning counted all the cash in front of everyone.
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17points
#31
I hate the dollar dance. Hello I have a couple of hundred in the envelope already. Now I have to give money to dance for 30 seconds with the bride too? Trashy.
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17points
#32
Years ago I was working a wedding. The bride had this huge picture of herself on the wall. Every table had a picture of just her.
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17points
#33
The bride fake cried like a real obvious fake cry during vows. I had secondhand embarrassment.
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16points
#34
The couple was heavily evangelical and saved their first kiss for the wedding. Groom wore a vampire cape.
Officiant: You may now kiss the bride
Groom: Nobody look!!
Groom: *lifts up cape to cover both of their faces during the kiss*
The bride’s face was bright red when the cape came down. Just so hard to watch. They have a baby now so they must have figured it out.
Officiant: You may now kiss the bride
Groom: Nobody look!!
Groom: *lifts up cape to cover both of their faces during the kiss*
The bride’s face was bright red when the cape came down. Just so hard to watch. They have a baby now so they must have figured it out.
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16points
#35
Groom made his bride do a full choreographed TikTok dance right after saying “I do.” Zero romance, maximum cringe. Still married though somehow.
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16points
#36
I attended a surprise wedding. As in, the groom didn't know he was getting married that day. He was told it was some kind of party and his fiancé would meet him there.
He walked in and we all had to shout "surprise! You're getting married!" Then he was ushered to a back room to put on the suit she had for him and 10 minutes later the ceremony started. Luckily, it worked out but... Can you imagine what would happen if it hadn't? If I remember right, a large portion of the guests also didn't know so they were walking around absolutely flabbergasted when they found out.
He walked in and we all had to shout "surprise! You're getting married!" Then he was ushered to a back room to put on the suit she had for him and 10 minutes later the ceremony started. Luckily, it worked out but... Can you imagine what would happen if it hadn't? If I remember right, a large portion of the guests also didn't know so they were walking around absolutely flabbergasted when they found out.
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16points
#37
Same wedding. The bride insisted that when she began walking down the aisle that no one stand or turn to look at her until she reached the altar. Supposedly it was so that it could be a moment solely for her and the groom. Except…we are all right there.
Then at the start of the reception we were informed that the first dance would just be her. Alone. She performed a modern interpretative dance describing her love and relationship with the groom. So, we all had to watch her do this for like 4 minutes.
Then at the start of the reception we were informed that the first dance would just be her. Alone. She performed a modern interpretative dance describing her love and relationship with the groom. So, we all had to watch her do this for like 4 minutes.
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16points
#38
The bride and groom disappeared after the first dance and reappeared wearing full on mascot style Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse outfits. And wore them for the rest of the reception. They played the hot dog song on repeat. It was a childfree wedding and both of the couple were/are childfree.
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15points
#39
I was just at a wedding where the groom’s oldest friend was the wedding officiant. In an effort to be funny, during his opening remarks he made an off hand joke about the Epstein files. Dude. This thing is being filmed and is forever gonna be tarnished with that dumb joke.
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15points