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<p>Weddings are supposed to be joyful and fun. But we&#39;ve all been to one or two that have fallen flat.</p><p>A <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/iz8hp9/what_is_the_worst_wedding_you_have_ever_been_to/">recent Reddit thread</a> asked people to recall the worst weddings they&#39;ve ever been to. From shipwrecks to food poisoning to drunken fights, this is the wedding hall of shame.</p><h2>1. This couple charged their guests an entrance fee, then skipped town.</h2><blockquote> <p>Wife&#39;s friend was orphan and had financial difficulties. Everyone pitched in for their wedding, but it ended up being a pretty simple as f* ceremony. We thought that maybe the newly weds had played only a few of us, charging us for attending (which I was fine with in the beginning, actually felt happy I could help them out). Turns out they vacuumed everyone&#39;s money to make down payments for a new house, in a different country. She left a lot of debts behind and used the wedding guests as a piggy bank. - TudoCasual</p> </blockquote><h2>2. Yeah, you&#39;re not really supposed to *ask* for money.</h2><blockquote> <p>My friend made us pay for drinks. And also asked for money as a gift.</p> <p>It felt like extortion. - KittyGurl212</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>3. At least it&#39;s cheap.</h2><blockquote> <p>Every mormon wedding, including my own.<br /> Note: still happily married. That ceremony though.</p> <p>You have to have a temple recommend. So any non Mormons or lazy mormon can&rsquo;t attend the ceremony. You have to pay your 10% tithing to get a recommend too. So then you wear bizarre temple clothes. Not sexy. And no vows. So very generic. Also wife obeys husband.</p> </blockquote><p> </p><blockquote> <p>The reception after is in a church, usually an indoor basketball court. No charge for facility and you get what you pay for.</p> <p>It isn&rsquo;t all bad: for example, very affordable. - jerdamac</p> </blockquote><h2>4. Wedding food is rarely good.</h2><blockquote> <p>The food gave EVERYONE really severe food poisoning the next day. Some even started feeling it a few hours in. Picky eaters won that day. - nicoledr</p> </blockquote><h2>5. Oreos have no place at wedding recepion...</h2><blockquote> <p>Wedding was for a co-worker, who got married in Vegas. The wedding was cheesy AF, the organ player, was a very old woman, with a tip jar on the organ! The reception though. Now that reception was a &quot;party&quot; that sucked every bit of energy out of you. At an American Legion in a bad part of Vegas.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p> </p><blockquote> <p>It was in a large room, with the cheapest looking decorations. Now, I don&#39;t care if you don&#39;t have or want to spend money on your day, no problem. But geeze, One balloon tied to everyone&#39;s chair, and a balloon arch in the back of the room, for some reason. It really looked like a kids birthday party.</p> </blockquote><p> </p><blockquote> <p>Then the appetizers...sigh. They had a champagne fountain, full of kool aid, and plates of oreo and store bought chocolate chip cookies. Finally, food arrived...from a local Italian restaurant...in large pans...room temperature. They started to play music from cd&#39;s...very old, depressing, and craptastic music, &quot;Johnny Angel&quot;, &quot;It&#39;s My Birthday, And I&#39;ll Cry If I Want To&quot;.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p> </p><blockquote> <p>My friend and I decided to bail early. We went out of the wrong door, into a very small, smokey bar, filled to the brim with little old American Legion men, drinking and staring at us. They were basically stuck in there because the only door out, was into the sad reception. We found the right door, and didn&#39;t look back. Horrible day. - WyldBlu</p> </blockquote><h2>6. Ah, young love.</h2><blockquote> <p>My cousin&#39;s wedding. He was 19 and the bride was 16. Both of them are from dysfunctional families who hate each other. Relatives from both sides constantly tried to insult each other. The bride had a grandfather with dementia, who rode around the hall in a wheelchair and did not understand what was going on, who all these people were and expressed strong disapproval of what was happening.</p> </blockquote><p> </p><div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> <p>The bride&#39;s brother had recently been released from prison and he was really close to starting a fight with different guests at least twice. To register their marriage, we had to go to another part of the city and just before the ceremony began, my cousin said that the rings fell out of his pocket at the bride&#39;s house, but for some reason he did not pick them up and there were no rings for the ceremony. It was a disaster - Lilysnek</p> </blockquote><h2>7. Why do people fight at weddings?!</h2><blockquote> <p>We were young... Buddy got married because she was pregnant... His brother (notoriously a piece of crap) shows up at the wedding smashed out of his mind.. Big fight.. Had to help escort him away... What a s*** show. - crashcosbo1976</p> </blockquote><h2>8. Yikes.</h2><blockquote> <p>Groom was flat-out wasted, Bride was catty to everyone around her; this &#39;Happy Couple&#39; was anything but and looked like they wanted to claw each other&#39;s eyes out. Fun times. - Shadow-strife</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>9. Why even have a wedding?</h2><blockquote> <p>They were broke 20-something year olds, the dude was just starting med school and the girl was a freespirited artist type. Well, neither of them really wanted to plan a wedding... so they did the minimum possible. They held it in an old schoolhouse with no decor, not enough seating, and in the sweltering hot Florida sun. Neither of them live in Florida but since his mom was the one who was basically planning everything, they held it in FL.</p> </blockquote><p> </p><blockquote> <p>However, that meant a majority of his friends didn&#39;t come, and it was just his mom&#39;s friends (my parents + me being three of them). The bride basically had no one, her own dad didn&#39;t show. During the reception, they had these weird sesame seed taffies at everyone&#39;s seat and a glass of champagne. We didn&#39;t get food for 3 hours and just sat there since the dance floor wasn&#39;t open. I got chicken which I could barely cut because it was so dry.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p> </p><blockquote> <p>Also, there was no garnish or anything on the plate, just chicken. The dance floor was tiny because, ya know, this is in a schoolhouse. There was also no cake. Overall, 0/10 wedding, would not recommend. - discorporating</p> </blockquote><h2>10. This sounds like an SNL sketch.</h2><blockquote> <p>Friend was a theater major and invited all of her theater major friends to her wedding...then had an open toast section. Four hours later we were probably halfway through the people who wanted to speak but didn&#39;t have any real personal connection to the bride or groom.</p> </blockquote><p> </p><blockquote> <p>Even she admitted having an open toast with that crowd was a huge mistake, but she didn&#39;t want to hurt feelings by cutting people off. - IAmASolipsist</p> </blockquote><h2>11. Six is too young to be subjected to the horrors of bridesmaid dresses.</h2><blockquote> <p>My cousin&#39;s first one. I, aged six, was forced to be a bridesmaid. I despised wearing dresses, and was extremely shy. I had to wear a hideous, itchy dress and shoes that hurt my feet. I&#39;d met my cousin about twice so she was basically a stranger, and I was forced to travel in a car with her and a bunch of other strange adults, which was terrifying for me. Then had to walk down the aisle with them, being stared at by yet more strangers.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p> </p><blockquote> <p>Then stand there bored out of my skull while they said their vows (I had to stand behind the other bridesmaids, so my view during this time consisted entirely of arses in unflattering dresses). I hated every last second of it.</p> <p>They got divorced six months later. She was married twice more, thankfully without my involvement! - Frantastic79</p> </blockquote><h2>12. If you&#39;re getting a deep discount on your venue, there&#39;s probably a reason for that...</h2><blockquote> <p>My friend&rsquo;s.</p> <p>As millennials, we have to accept that we simply cannot have the costly, traditional weddings our parents and grandparents had when owning a home is our next step after marriage.</p> <p>But...she insisted on having her rustic wedding anyway, but to cut costs of venue hire they had it in the beginning of winter. Btw, we don&rsquo;t live somewhere warm like California.</p> </blockquote><p> </p><div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> <p>Cut to the wedding day, it&rsquo;s in a barn. But it&rsquo;s raining the whole time, the ground is muddy and all of us were thinking about how we&rsquo;d have to throw away our shoes after the night as they were now ruined. You had to walk through the mud to get from the outdoor bar or to the parking lot (a field of gravel that was also up a hill). The bathroom was a tin shed that was also outside.</p> <p>It was still lovely to see our friend get married. But it definitely wasn&rsquo;t wise to have the wedding at that kind of venue in winter. There also wasn&rsquo;t enough food for everyone. - KittyGurl212</p> </blockquote><h2>13. It doesn&#39;t really seem fair to judge a wedding you weren&#39;t actually invited to, but okay.</h2><blockquote> <p>my synagogue&#39;s rabbi was doing a private wedding ceremony and needed witnesses. So me and some other guys around the synagogue sat in on the ceremony. It was literally the bride, groom, rabbi, and about 6 random teenagers. It wasn&#39;t a bad wedding, but there was no cake. The other two weddings I went to had cake so those were better. - nowhereman136</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>14. Whoops.</h2><blockquote> <p>It was my cousin&#39;s wedding. After the ceremony they went to a different location to take pictures leaving my alcoholic family with an open bar that did NOT have a real bartender. The drinks were strong and everyone was wasted by the time they got back. My dad was almost arrested because he was walking down the road banging on doors looking for my mom. - jwolfe728</p> </blockquote><h2>15. Imagine how people who were raised Catholic feel.</h2><blockquote> <p>A catholic one.</p> <p>Way too much ritual going on there, chant this, stand up, sit down, chant that.</p> <p>Was very tempted to walk out. - i_like_spice</p> </blockquote><h2>16. As long as they liked it.</h2><blockquote> <p>They wore their karate uniforms and walked down the aisle to the Halo theme song. Okay maybe it wasn&rsquo;t all THAT bad, but it was very non-traditional. They were happy though so that&rsquo;s what counts. - bmh2os</p> </blockquote><h2>17. Eight at night?! This was ballsy of the couple.</h2><blockquote> <p>It was a sunset wedding in the keys. Sounds pretty, but the sunset didn&rsquo;t happen till 8pm. We didn&rsquo;t have dinner till 11pm and I left around midnight before desert happened. It was just too long and late.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>18. A shipwreck and a groom in a Speedo? This is the mother of all bad weddings.</h2><blockquote> <p>The bride and groom have known each other for about 8 months from when they met to wedding I think? To start, we were told about 1 week before the wedding that it was happening. Also, the time changed three times on us. First it was at sunset, then a couple days later it was at 6pm. Day of WHILE WE ARE DRIVING OUT THERE bride lets us know &quot;hey, I got stuck at work, will be more like 7pm.&quot;</p> </blockquote><p> </p><blockquote> <p>Then we start getting severe storm warning on the radio. About every 5 minutes. The wedding is supposed to be on a boat.....s***. Also, I get motion sickness on boats.....and I didn&#39;t grab Dramamine because I&#39;m an idiot.</p> <p>Then we get to the pin drop that the groom sent us. [It was on the] opposite side of the lake [from where everyone actually was].</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p> </p><blockquote> <p>Finally get to the place. Total attendance 9 people. Including the wedding couple and the officiant. [ ...] <span style="font-family: BlinkMacSystemFont, -apple-system, &quot;Segoe UI&quot;, Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, &quot;Fira Sans&quot;, &quot;Droid Sans&quot;, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.1rem; letter-spacing: -0.01em;">So we&#39;re sitting on the boat while the owner is piloting it out near the island in the middle of the lake. The owner&#39;s wife I&#39;m pretty sure uses it more than he does though, she&#39;s warning him &quot;hey, it&#39;s shallow here&quot; and he&#39;s completely ignoring her. He drags the prop through the bottom of the lake for a good 10 feet.</span></p> </blockquote><p> </p><blockquote> <p>So then they stop, and put down sea legs (kind of neat actually, basically stilts that sit on the bottom of the lake) and start setting up to actually do the ceremony. All pictures and video were done on a couple cell phones. Also, the entire ceremony I&#39;m sitting there and the damn rear legs of the boat are sinking into the lake bed, so we are just slowly rocking back as it sinks in to the lake.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p> </p><blockquote> <p>Well we finally get to go back to land. Bring up the sea legs, start up the boat.....and the thing is beached. Exactly like the one dude&#39;s wife said it would be. Boat dude decides to dig a deeper hole with the prop thinking that will help. Groom strips down to a speedo (why the hell was that under what he was wearing for a wedding?) and hops off the boat to push.</p> </blockquote><p> </p><blockquote> <p>Boat came unstuck and we start boating back. Also, it starts drizzling, but it never rains hard so whatever. [...] So we get back to the house and my wife and I are antsy because we aren&#39;t getting home before 11pm and I had a 4am wake up for work the next day. Did I mention the wedding was on a f****** TUESDAY?! Cake was pretty good at least and then my wife and I leave.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> <p>We think the bride and groom forgot the marriage license stuff in the glovebox of the bride&#39;s car. Don&#39;t know whether that ever actually got signed. Never asked. As far as we know it hasn&#39;t been filed though. Could be interesting, but we&#39;ll see what happens. - SteevyT</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div>

18 people remember the most hilariously bad weddings they've attended.

Weddings are supposed to be joyful and fun. But we&#39;ve all been to one or two that have fallen flat.A recent Reddit thread asked people to recall the worst weddings they&#39;ve ever been to. From shipwrecks to food poisoning to drunken fights, this is the wedding hall of shame.1. This couple charged their guests an entrance fee, then skipped town. Wife&#39;s friend was orphan and had financial difficulties. Everyone pitched in for their wedding, but it ended up being a pretty simple as f* ceremony. We thought that maybe the newly weds had played only a few of us, charging us for attending (which I was fine with in the beginning, actually felt happy I could help them out). Turns out they vacuumed everyone&#39;s money to make down payments for a new house, in a different country. She left a lot of debts behind and used the wedding guests as a piggy bank. - TudoCasual 2. Yeah, you&#39;re not really supposed to *ask* for money. My friend made us pay for drinks. And also asked for money as a gift. It felt like extortion. - KittyGurl212 3. At least it&#39;s cheap. Every mormon wedding, including my own. Note: still happily married. That ceremony though. You have to have a temple recommend. So any non Mormons or lazy mormon can&rsquo;t attend the ceremony. You have to pay your 10% tithing to get a recommend too. So then you wear bizarre temple clothes. Not sexy. And no vows. So very generic. Also wife obeys husband.   The reception after is in a church, usually an indoor basketball court. No charge for facility and you get what you pay for. It isn&rsquo;t all bad: for example, very affordable. - jerdamac 4. Wedding food is rarely good. The food gave EVERYONE really severe food poisoning the next day. Some even started feeling it a few hours in. Picky eaters won that day. - nicoledr 5. Oreos have no place at wedding recepion... Wedding was for a co-worker, who got married in Vegas. The wedding was cheesy AF, the organ player, was a very old woman, with a tip jar on the organ! The reception though. Now that reception was a &quot;party&quot; that sucked every bit of energy out of you. At an American Legion in a bad part of Vegas.   It was in a large room, with the cheapest looking decorations. Now, I don&#39;t care if you don&#39;t have or want to spend money on your day, no problem. But geeze, One balloon tied to everyone&#39;s chair, and a balloon arch in the back of the room, for some reason. It really looked like a kids birthday party.   Then the appetizers...sigh. They had a champagne fountain, full of kool aid, and plates of oreo and store bought chocolate chip cookies. Finally, food arrived...from a local Italian restaurant...in large pans...room temperature. They started to play music from cd&#39;s...very old, depressing, and craptastic music, &quot;Johnny Angel&quot;, &quot;It&#39;s My Birthday, And I&#39;ll Cry If I Want To&quot;.   My friend and I decided to bail early. We went out of the wrong door, into a very small, smokey bar, filled to the brim with little old American Legion men, drinking and staring at us. They were basically stuck in there because the only door out, was into the sad reception. We found the right door, and didn&#39;t look back. Horrible day. - WyldBlu 6. Ah, young love. My cousin&#39;s wedding. He was 19 and the bride was 16. Both of them are from dysfunctional families who hate each other. Relatives from both sides constantly tried to insult each other. The bride had a grandfather with dementia, who rode around the hall in a wheelchair and did not understand what was going on, who all these people were and expressed strong disapproval of what was happening.   The bride&#39;s brother had recently been released from prison and he was really close to starting a fight with different guests at least twice. To register their marriage, we had to go to another part of the city and just before the ceremony began, my cousin said that the rings fell out of his pocket at the bride&#39;s house, but for some reason he did not pick them up and there were no rings for the ceremony. It was a disaster - Lilysnek 7. Why do people fight at weddings?! We were young... Buddy got married because she was pregnant... His brother (notoriously a piece of crap) shows up at the wedding smashed out of his mind.. Big fight.. Had to help escort him away... What a s*** show. - crashcosbo1976 8. Yikes. Groom was flat-out wasted, Bride was catty to everyone around her; this &#39;Happy Couple&#39; was anything but and looked like they wanted to claw each other&#39;s eyes out. Fun times. - Shadow-strife 9. Why even have a wedding? They were broke 20-something year olds, the dude was just starting med school and the girl was a freespirited artist type. Well, neither of them really wanted to plan a wedding... so they did the minimum possible. They held it in an old schoolhouse with no decor, not enough seating, and in the sweltering hot Florida sun. Neither of them live in Florida but since his mom was the one who was basically planning everything, they held it in FL.   However, that meant a majority of his friends didn&#39;t come, and it was just his mom&#39;s friends (my parents + me being three of them). The bride basically had no one, her own dad didn&#39;t show. During the reception, they had these weird sesame seed taffies at everyone&#39;s seat and a glass of champagne. We didn&#39;t get food for 3 hours and just sat there since the dance floor wasn&#39;t open. I got chicken which I could barely cut because it was so dry.   Also, there was no garnish or anything on the plate, just chicken. The dance floor was tiny because, ya know, this is in a schoolhouse. There was also no cake. Overall, 0/10 wedding, would not recommend. - discorporating 10. This sounds like an SNL sketch. Friend was a theater major and invited all of her theater major friends to her wedding...then had an open toast section. Four hours later we were probably halfway through the people who wanted to speak but didn&#39;t have any real personal connection to the bride or groom.   Even she admitted having an open toast with that crowd was a huge mistake, but she didn&#39;t want to hurt feelings by cutting people off. - IAmASolipsist 11. Six is too young to be subjected to the horrors of bridesmaid dresses. My cousin&#39;s first one. I, aged six, was forced to be a bridesmaid. I despised wearing dresses, and was extremely shy. I had to wear a hideous, itchy dress and shoes that hurt my feet. I&#39;d met my cousin about twice so she was basically a stranger, and I was forced to travel in a car with her and a bunch of other strange adults, which was terrifying for me. Then had to walk down the aisle with them, being stared at by yet more strangers.   Then stand there bored out of my skull while they said their vows (I had to stand behind the other bridesmaids, so my view during this time consisted entirely of arses in unflattering dresses). I hated every last second of it. They got divorced six months later. She was married twice more, thankfully without my involvement! - Frantastic79 12. If you&#39;re getting a deep discount on your venue, there&#39;s probably a reason for that... My friend&rsquo;s. As millennials, we have to accept that we simply cannot have the costly, traditional weddings our parents and grandparents had when owning a home is our next step after marriage. But...she insisted on having her rustic wedding anyway, but to cut costs of venue hire they had it in the beginning of winter. Btw, we don&rsquo;t live somewhere warm like California.   Cut to the wedding day, it&rsquo;s in a barn. But it&rsquo;s raining the whole time, the ground is muddy and all of us were thinking about how we&rsquo;d have to throw away our shoes after the night as they were now ruined. You had to walk through the mud to get from the outdoor bar or to the parking lot (a field of gravel that was also up a hill). The bathroom was a tin shed that was also outside. It was still lovely to see our friend get married. But it definitely wasn&rsquo;t wise to have the wedding at that kind of venue in winter. There also wasn&rsquo;t enough food for everyone. - KittyGurl212 13. It doesn&#39;t really seem fair to judge a wedding you weren&#39;t actually invited to, but okay. my synagogue&#39;s rabbi was doing a private wedding ceremony and needed witnesses. So me and some other guys around the synagogue sat in on the ceremony. It was literally the bride, groom, rabbi, and about 6 random teenagers. It wasn&#39;t a bad wedding, but there was no cake. The other two weddings I went to had cake so those were better. - nowhereman136 14. Whoops. It was my cousin&#39;s wedding. After the ceremony they went to a different location to take pictures leaving my alcoholic family with an open bar that did NOT have a real bartender. The drinks were strong and everyone was wasted by the time they got back. My dad was almost arrested because he was walking down the road banging on doors looking for my mom. - jwolfe728 15. Imagine how people who were raised Catholic feel. A catholic one. Way too much ritual going on there, chant this, stand up, sit down, chant that. Was very tempted to walk out. - i_like_spice 16. As long as they liked it. They wore their karate uniforms and walked down the aisle to the Halo theme song. Okay maybe it wasn&rsquo;t all THAT bad, but it was very non-traditional. They were happy though so that&rsquo;s what counts. - bmh2os 17. Eight at night?! This was ballsy of the couple. It was a sunset wedding in the keys. Sounds pretty, but the sunset didn&rsquo;t happen till 8pm. We didn&rsquo;t have dinner till 11pm and I left around midnight before desert happened. It was just too long and late. 18. A shipwreck and a groom in a Speedo? This is the mother of all bad weddings. The bride and groom have known each other for about 8 months from when they met to wedding I think? To start, we were told about 1 week before the wedding that it was happening. Also, the time changed three times on us. First it was at sunset, then a couple days later it was at 6pm. Day of WHILE WE ARE DRIVING OUT THERE bride lets us know &quot;hey, I got stuck at work, will be more like 7pm.&quot;   Then we start getting severe storm warning on the radio. About every 5 minutes. The wedding is supposed to be on a boat.....s***. Also, I get motion sickness on boats.....and I didn&#39;t grab Dramamine because I&#39;m an idiot. Then we get to the pin drop that the groom sent us. [It was on the] opposite side of the lake [from where everyone actually was].   Finally get to the place. Total attendance 9 people. Including the wedding couple and the officiant. [ ...] So we&#39;re sitting on the boat while the owner is piloting it out near the island in the middle of the lake. The owner&#39;s wife I&#39;m pretty sure uses it more than he does though, she&#39;s warning him &quot;hey, it&#39;s shallow here&quot; and he&#39;s completely ignoring her. He drags the prop through the bottom of the lake for a good 10 feet.   So then they stop, and put down sea legs (kind of neat actually, basically stilts that sit on the bottom of the lake) and start setting up to actually do the ceremony. All pictures and video were done on a couple cell phones. Also, the entire ceremony I&#39;m sitting there and the damn rear legs of the boat are sinking into the lake bed, so we are just slowly rocking back as it sinks in to the lake.   Well we finally get to go back to land. Bring up the sea legs, start up the boat.....and the thing is beached. Exactly like the one dude&#39;s wife said it would be. Boat dude decides to dig a deeper hole with the prop thinking that will help. Groom strips down to a speedo (why the hell was that under what he was wearing for a wedding?) and hops off the boat to push.   Boat came unstuck and we start boating back. Also, it starts drizzling, but it never rains hard so whatever. [...] So we get back to the house and my wife and I are antsy because we aren&#39;t getting home before 11pm and I had a 4am wake up for work the next day. Did I mention the wedding was on a f****** TUESDAY?! Cake was pretty good at least and then my wife and I leave.  We think the bride and groom forgot the marriage license stuff in the glovebox of the bride&#39;s car. Don&#39;t know whether that ever actually got signed. Never asked. As far as we know it hasn&#39;t been filed though. Could be interesting, but we&#39;ll see what happens. - SteevyT 

Weddings are supposed to be joyful and fun. But we&#39;ve all been to one or two that have fallen flat.  A recent Reddit thread asked people to recall the worst weddings they&#39;ve ever been to. From shipwrecks to food poisoning to...