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75 Times Weddings Went So Very Wrong, People Just Had To Vent Online
Occasions,LifestyleAPR 16, 2026

75 Times Weddings Went So Very Wrong, People Just Had To Vent Online

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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!

#41

Groom caught Bride's veil on fire trying to light the unity candle!
15points

#42

I watched the bride and groom smash cake in each other's faces. I hate that tradition, it's trashy.
15points

#43

Put themselves into an insane amount of debt throwing a wedding they simply could not afford.
15points

#44

Woman in orange dress speaking into microphone at a wedding ceremony, illustrating trashy tacky and distasteful wedding stories.
The brides entire family airing her out. Her entire family gave speeches about how shocked they were that she found someone to marry.

Edit: I also felt bad for her at the time but yeah it turned out she does suck really bad.
14points

#45

Worked a wedding where the bride requested to do open bar for those who brought a card with cash or gift.

Obviously we had no idea how to keep track of that as bar staff. So they did open bar for 2 hours, then a cash bar. Which led to her family trying to pourwine in water bottles under the tables to “save” for later & two family members threw up during dinner from being so intoxicated.

One was so intoxicated he couldn’t walk, so we had two other family members hold him up in the elevator to get him out. He threw up in the elevator. Then her maid of honor “hid” the card box because apparently a sketchy cousin was eye balling it. When the bride couldn’t find the card box she accused our staff of taking it. When they “found” the card box the bride took it to the bathroom and started opening the cards.

Then the bride apparently called out specific guests on how much money was in the cards. Bride and maid of honor got into some altercation. Brides family was beyond trashy and the grooms family was appalled. We dubbed it the pink napkin party and no wedding I worked was as bad as that one.
14points

#46

The bride flashing her hairless kitty to everyone yelling here's what he's getting tonite!
13points

#47

I don’t know if this is cringe as much as it was disgusting, but I remember this couple, (This was back in the 90s probably a year before I got married), and the couple had opera type music in the background, and they kept feeding each other everything, like literally everything off their plate, and then, if something dripped, or it was messy, she would either lick his fingers or he would wipe her mouth, ..🤮honestly, I don’t know why anybody would ever think that was appropriate or cute. It’s not.
13points

#48

Bride and groom walking hand in hand in a park setting, part of trashy tacky distasteful wedding stories collection.
He cupped her bum cheek in his hand at the altar and kept it there for the entirety of the ceremony.
12points

#49

Guests at a wedding engaging in a humorous moment, illustrating trashy and tacky wedding stories with playful antics.
The garter thing. He was being very weird about it and she was trying to be modest for her grandma. Such a gross tradition that I'm happy to see dwindling away.
12points

#50

My wife's cousin had a wedding in which there was a weird combination of hyper fundamentalist evangelical Christian stuff like this creepy almost pervy foot washing episode, coupled with their decision to ignore the usual tradition of clinking glasses = kissing and instead every time there was an instance of the clinking glasses they did deadlifts.

I cannot stress enough how strange a wedding this was...
12points

#51

Church wedding where they handed the donation basket around during the ceremony. Like it is what is in normal service, but they hired and paid for the church so I felt it was really cringe to do that.
12points

#52

Got absolutely wasted during their reception, go out to a bar afterwards, and roll around on the dance floor in their gown and tux because they couldn't stand anymore. They ended up being carried to a car and driven to their hotel, and missed their honeymoon flight the next day.
12points

#53

Allow a man to propose to his gf..... it's me, I'm the girlfriend who was proposed to. Tacky af.....
12points

#54

Overhead view of bride and groom kissing on wooden floor near patterned rug in a classic wedding setting for trashy wedding stories.
Kiss at the altar like they were making out in the back seat of a car.
11points

#55

It wasn't cringe, but I thought it was pretty bad luck to walk down the aisle to Fleetwood Mac followed by the Red Wedding music from Game of Thrones 😬.
11points

#56

I just remember that clip of the groom jumping into the reception room and bang his head so freakin hard on the entrance ceiling and try to play it off like he wasn’t in the worst pain of his life.
11points

#57

Groom fist fought his best man /brother in the parking lot because he got cut off at the start of the reception for being too drunk. His brother was trying to stop him from driving drunk. The groom ran on away on foot and left his bride alone for her entire reception and she stayed with him.
11points

#58

Broken gold wedding ring lying on a spotted surface, illustrating trashy and tacky wedding stories.
Get into a fight between the wedding and reception and throw their rings at each other.
10points

#59

Woman with dark curly hair lying on bed looking upset, illustrating tacky and distasteful wedding story themes.
The bride to be had a portrait painted of just her to be displayed at the reception. Think paintings from the 1800s. She also made everyone wait 60 mins in the heat of August in southern Virginia while she finished and got ready. This was her 3rd attempt at getting ready. She had left 2 other men at tge alter.
10points

#60

Parents of the groom talked about their son’s indecent exposure arrest…..the whole room was cringing (the arrest was stupid and charges were dropped - drunk peeing in an alley).

Groom is a wonderful person. His parents.
10points
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