The 60 Worst Wedding Stories We Found In This Online Thread

"Not the worst wedding, but a wedding which changed how I prep to be a guest at a wedding for the rest of my life...

Beautiful outdoor summer wedding at a vineyard, on a sunny afternoon, with a lovely meal served on the veranda after the main event and then everyone moves inside for dancing and whatnot until late into the night. Open wine bar. Hosts graciously arranged shuttles back to the hotel so the only people who drove themselves to the venue were those who planned to leave before the reception - ie there isn't a sober guest in sight after the first hour. The day has been hotter than hell with beautiful blue skies...

No water. The venue absolutely does not have cups, or carafes, or even an orange gatorade jug on standby. Wine glasses and rieslings sure, but water? They're inexplicably stymied by the demands of the guests for simple hydration.

At one point, a couple of hours into the reception, as I stood with my face shoved under a bathroom faucet gulping water, so I didn't, you know, die or something, I made two promises to myself 1) from this day forward, I'm smuggling a liter of water to every wedding I attend, and 2) if ever I wed, water availability is point one on my to-do list. I will forego a cake if necessary, but never water."

"My uncle’s fifth or sixth wedding (I honestly don’t remember which because he’s been married and divorced so many times. He’s even about to remarry a past wife for the second time soon) and he fully expected wedding gifts of cash only. During the reception, he gathered all the envelopes and set himself up at a middle table with a notebook and calculator and counted all the money he got. Instead of enjoying his reception, he was greedy, seeing how much money people gave him. I was barely 20 and I had scrounged up twenty bucks to give him. But when I saw him counting everything up with his damn reading glasses and calculator, I just kept it."

"After the dinner, where the groom got trashed and made a speech about getting the bride pregnant in her parents' basement, we had to go up the the ballroom and watch a slideshow.

It was 45 minutes of slides of the couple growing up individually, when they met, their animals, their child. All set to emo music. The bride's sister really put her soul into this.

This was THE activity. For 45 minutes. The bar was blocked, my drink was empty. Never have I suffered so."

"I went to a wedding without a bride. The groom’s family belong to a family that has a tradition to not allow the bride to come to her wedding. We had to go upstairs to greet her and wish her a happy life. She looked sad, dressed beautifully in a gorgeous white gown. She was sitting alone in a dim room listening to the far away music of her wedding. It was the strangest wedding ever! The guests and the families were having fun eating and dancing the bride was deprived of all that!! The groom never showed up too."

"Mine... I was 20. My ex convinced me to do it 'because I want to take care of you, sweetheart.' I had to take care of literally everything except the $400 venue and his suit.

We ran out of food, it rained but the wedding was outside, everybody left. His immediate family on his moms side showed up, but the rest of his family 'didn’t approve' since we lived together before being married. Also, he had already been cheating on me the whole almost 3 years we’d already been together. Most of the pictures and videos got lost.

I blocked most of the memory out. Honestly I felt traumatized by my own stupid wedding. Happily divorced for a couple years now."

"An eastern-culture wedding in the US. The bride wasn’t allowed in the main room of the venue until after the wedding ceremony was performed. Her dad was representing her.

I respect all cultures but I thought that was really antiquated and sad. I reserve the right to say so because it’s my culture.

Plus the energy was so off. It was an arranged marriage and it was just so depressing. No love no joy.

The marriage didn’t last long either."

"It was over 100° out in an open lot…The drinks and 'donut wall' were melting… No ice for drinks… Alcoholic and non alcoholic served in the same cups (no ice) and the cake was on of those hipster 'Naked Cakes' which was dry as a bone… Well at the tables my 3 year old granddaughter drank out of what she thought was her cup... I smelled it and discovered to my distress it was NOT hers and had vodka in it. So we had a buzzed 3 year old. About 80% humidity (which I forgot to mention earlier) and hot sweaty people with no ice, stale donuts and dry cake... No... It was miserable."

"Day before the wedding, the groom had made several remarks to my husband about not wanting to marry this girl, said he was getting married because his friends were so obviously it was time, etc.

The wedding itself was held on the shore of a reservoir, which sounds lovely except there was a dock for wakeboard and wakesurf boats directly behind the ceremony spot, and boats were going in and out and driving by loudly during the whole thing (I don't blame the boat drivers at all, this is a recreational spot for people to do that stuff). Between the noise and the glare off the water (sun was at just the wrong angle) and the heat (August), one of the groomsmen turned green and lost consciousness. They carried on with the ceremony while my husband awkwardly helped the groomsman into a chair.

We didn't hang around terribly long after that, basically long enough to eat dinner and have the groomsman seen by EMTs.

The "happy" couple is still married and still hate each other to this day."

"The worst for me was a friend of mine; she absolutely brow beat this poor man into Marrying her. He went from sliding into her DMs to being forced to propose in a matter of under a year. She decided she wanted to be Married and he just happened to be the poor schmuck she was dating. So she orchestrated his proposal to her; she got the ring, she told him how and when to do it.

Then comes the day of the wedding; she’s a Disney girl and this Wedding was Disney Princess themed. It was embarrassing to be honest; there were zero traces of them as a couple or any nod to the Groom being there at all. It was HER day; HER Disney Princess Party. The Grooms Mother gets up to make her speech and she says what everyone in our friends group has wanted to say “this was rushed. You need to take a moment to get to know each other before you have babies… etc.” I can’t remember it all exactly but it was a combination of awful and it’s what needed to be said. So that ends. We eat “dinner” by 3:30 and everyone is out the door by 5:30. No dance, no party, nothing. The Bride and her Groom head to the local mall in their wedding attire and she shops at the Disney Store for the rest of the night. Awful."

"12 groomsmen, 12 bridesmaids, 3 flower girls, 2 ring bearers, no alcohol, and no dancing."

"They won a free party on the radio at a showing of Batman vs Superman, so naturally they used it for their wedding. Their baby cried like half the movie. Nobody ever believes me when I tell this story."

"My cousins wedding. She got engaged to her ex-boyfriend before his divorce was even finalized (and after less then a month of speaking to each other long distance) and then got married 2 months later. It was a Mormon wedding so I didn’t see the actual ceremony but after the ceremony she had her bridesmaids and family decorate the reception hall while in dresses and heels and the bride was yelling at everyone. They did a second ceremony for the non-Mormon crowd where the vows included something like “the groom messed up in their previous dating experience by breaking up with the bride to marry another woman, but through the atonement/forgiveness of Jesus Christ the bride was able to forgive him for his past transgressions”. The other speeches also eluded to the groom messed up but how they are still meant to be due to “signs” they have seen. I still feel bad for making my ex sit through the cringiest wedding ever."

"I'm a wedding videographer, and at one of the weddings I shot, the bride's father collapsed with a heart attack on the dance floor before dinner had been served and died."

"It wasn't the worst in terms of actually being horrible, but the style and refreshments decisions were... questionable.

It was a Hawaiian-themed wedding, in that the guests were asked to wear tropical/floral prints, and the wedding party was in red hibiscus-print attire. But also the groom wore a replica of the Prince Charming outfit from Cinderella? The bride wore this huge ballgown with big puffy sleeves and heart-shaped cutouts down the back-I'm all for people making their own style decisions and owning it, but it looked like a dress someone would have worn to a Halloween party as a parody of an 80s bride. The dinner was the bride's favorite foods: Chicken nuggets and macaroni and cheese (not, like, gourmet stand-ins for those things, I mean straight up Kraft boxed mac and cheese and chickie nugs that came out of a microwave). It was also a dry reception.

And it's not like this was a casual backyard wedding--this was held at a really lovely (and probably very expensive) venue. All told, though, I think everyone had a pretty good time. And the couple had exactly the kind of wedding that they wanted, which is the most important part."

"My bf’s friend was getting married and they did it in someone front yard, in the middle of no where. The only music that played was from a old boom box that sat in the window sill inside the house so no one could really hear it and it only played music when the bride came out. I was told that 3 bridesmaids quit the day of and a girl that barely knew the bride was asked to be her maid of honor within 30 minutes of arriving. The bride was a 'bridzilla', she flipped out on someone for eating a cupcake before her, she screamed at her now husbands family for wanting to take a couple pictures together before the wedding bc they all live in different states and never get to see each other. Then she got upset and started yelling at her uncle bc she wanted to take pictures in the middle of the woods but her uncle who was in a wheel chair couldn’t get there... She threw a fit calling HIM selfish when he physically couldn’t get there even with someone helping him. It was all super awkward and we left right after the ceremony lol."

"At cousins wedding we were all standing outside in costume getting ready to go inside the hotel when she comes out and says "the wedding is off and he is calling the cops if our family doesn't leave." Turns out she slept with his best friend so it was her fault. I agreed with the groom though-my cousin and my family can be crazy so threatening cops was a good call.

Years later he married my sister... We love him and ignore my crazy cousin."

"My mum's ex-friend. She's about 10 years younger than my mum.

A theater troupe performed some kind of mime life story about the woman. It took over 30 minutes and all the kids (I was 16ish but there were many small children) were expected to pay attention to this entirely silent display of literal clownery. After that, no fewer than THREE people did an ABC (a is for awesome, and Bride is awesome because... Etc.)...

Worst of all, my mum's ex was there. A guy who emotionally tormented me when my mum and him were together. He kept trying to make conversation with me (didn't have the balls to go talk to my mum) and eventually I couldn't ignore him any longer so I told him something along the lines of "your energy is so unruly and dark right now, I cannot be in your presence" (homie was a bit of a self-proclaimed shaman). At least he shut up after that.

Also, I had a blast with the kids because it was a petting zoo wedding so we just went and vibed with the goats. My mum is no longer friends with this woman."

"Not a horrible wedding, but a reception with bitter guests who left the bride in tears. A friend from church was getting married and her friends from the singles ministry were bitter about it. They spent the whole reception making loud, rude comments about her, the groom, the ceremony, and the reception. I was so disgusted they couldn't keep their sh*t together for a single afternoon to be happy for a friend. If they were too upset to watch their friend get married while they were still single, they should have stayed home rather than bringing everyone around them down with their bad attitude. I felt so bad for her and reconsidered my friendships with them. There's really no excuse to be mean like that."

"It was the wedding of my friends mum (I was there as my friends friend)

During the speeches the bride's dad had a stroke. An ambulance came and he was rushed off to hospital. The wedding came to a very abrupt stop and the family was devastated."

"My cousins wedding. They’re in a « church ». The pastor was the one deciding who was invited and he invited random people. I did my cousin’s make up. My sister helped her get her dress and was a maid of owner. We helped her that day to get dress and all that wedding thing.

At the reception, she decided to not give food to all her cousins but instead give it to the pastor’s people.

That was 5 years ago and I have seen only once since then. I stopped caring about her, her sisters and her parents. They’re new family is the 'church'."