Depending on who you ask, weddings can be either the most special day of someone's life or just a massive waste of time and money. Whatever your personal opinion is, I think most of us can still agree that being a guest at someone's wedding is pretty fun.
You see your family or friends start a new stage of their life, and get to enjoy free drinks. Maybe even listen to a band.
And I'm not just talking about fancy ceremonies that cost a (mini) fortune. Inexpensive ones with their more intimate atmosphere are often fun as well.
But every now and then, no matter how good the venue or the weather is, things go wrong. From uninvited guests to a cringey best man toast, there are plenty of ways a wedding can take a turn for the worse.
Interested in the worst ones, Reddit user View-Overall made a post on the platform, asking everyone, "What's the trashiest wedding you've been to?" And their call was answered. As of this publication, there are over 6,000 comments under the question, many of which describe one trainwreck after the other.
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My friend group and I talk about this wedding to this day, and probably will for the rest of our lives. The bride and groom decided to do things on a very, very small budget. That's fine! Frugal weddings and budget weddings can be beautiful and nice! There is a difference between a frugal wedding and a cheap wedding, however, and this was cheap. For instance:
- The wedding was in July. They decided to hold it in a non-air conditioned park shelter.
- The decorations were actual trash. The bride decided me and the other bridesmaids needed tiny top hats, which she made from discarded styrofoam cups. Mine had ants in it.
- She asked me to be the MOH. I was flattered but confused. She'd had three MOHs before me, and they all quit for various reasons, mostly baby daddy drama related.
- She wanted live music but wouldn't pay a pianist. My friend Stephen's sister said she'd play the wedding march on a keyboard for 50 bucks. Said sister couldn't actually play the piano, but she did the prerecorded wedding march song. Nobody could tell the difference because the woman in charge of baking the cake got [drunk] the day before and was baking the cake in the non-air conditioned park shelter's little kitchen while listening to the radio. Very loudly.
- The bride and groom tried to write their own vows, got in a fight over it, and didn't tell the officiant until the day of that there were no vows. Fortunately, he was on it and had backup vows ready to go.
- The bride hadn't tried on her dress, which she'd bought from aliexpress, until the day of. It was way too small and we had to rip out the back and safety-pin in some satiny white fabric... which would have been great, if the dress hadn't been off-white. The groom made comments and it turned out that the whole dress thing was based on his mom offering to pay for the dress, then rescinding because she had to bail out his brother. My friend, instead of going to an actual store and buying a dress, picked one off of aliexpress.
This would have been less weird if I hadn't been dress shopping with her like, three times because her mom couldn't/wouldn't pick out a mother of the bride dress.
- The groom's ENTIRE FAMILY including his best man and his two groomsmen left right after the meal (spaghetti, green beans, and McDonalds orange drink) was served. The "DJ" (my friend Stephen and his Bose speakers) didn't know this and tried to announce the groom's dance with his mom... his mom had left. Apparently his family was furious that it was a dry venue. The only member of the family left was the ring bearer... who it turns out was forgotten. We had to take him home because his family wouldn't come get him.
- The groom slept through the rehearsal and showed up to the wedding drunk.
- We had to put another friend on bouncer duty because two of the bride's aunts tried to walk away with the cash envelope. We gave him the envelope because he was the tallest and we figured he could outrun the aunts.
- The bride's brother was originally on envelope duty but we caught him taking a 50 out of the envelope, so we had to take it from him.
- We had to politely inform the best man he couldn't smoke in the portajohn.
- We had portajohns instead of actual working bathrooms.
The worst, though, was the photographer. As MOH, I was informed day of that I had to keep the photographer 100 feet away from the ring bearer and flower girls at all times. He was a registered sex offender, but also the bride's uncle, and he volunteered to do the pictures for free, so... he ended up using a telephoto lens. Because he couldn't get close enough to the wedding party to take the pictures.
They divorced a couple months later after the house they were staying in burned to the ground. I have no idea to this day why they even got married.
Too many things happened in this one. This one takes the cake
Load More Replies...The sexoffender phtographer is just the cherry on top. Out any of this in a movie nad nooen would believe you :-D
Initially I was prepared to disagree with shaming people's weddings, but one this isn't about the wedding, it's about some serious dysfunction. My only question is how/ why is this person close enough to this s**t show to be considered for MOH? Girl, run!
The best man screwed the groom's mother between the meal and the dancing. The groom finds out and punches the best man, breaking his hand. The best man drives away and gets stopped by the police for drunk driving.
Being a wedding photographer is awesome.
You would have to work a lot of "normal" weddings with no interesting stuff before you get a gem like this.
Load More Replies...The photographer is the best role to have at any wedding. Unless you also know someone involved in the wedding.
How many reprints of best mom banging groom's mom. Id pay for a Mug Shot Coffee Mug. Love to hear what bride was up to during this whole mess.
How is this sweet home Alabama? The best man, who could've just been a friend, did it. Not the actual groom.
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Camo print wedding dress that was borderline see-through. Walked down the aisle to the Scooby Doo theme. No, nobody knows why they chose that song, including the couple themselves. They divorced a few months later after they both stopped cleaning the house in an act of defiance against one another.
I see green digital camo. Is this the new black&blue vs gold&white dress?
Load More Replies...That just feels so random. Like "the couple broke up because they couldn't agree on which daycare to send their caterpillar, Woolly Allen, so they cooked him and ate him out of spite." Like who just stops all their responsibilities and lives in squalor just to make a point? It hurts both of them. If you're going to be spiteful and petty, at least be clever enough to make it only affect the other person.
Don't get mad at me but I kind of feel like people that get married in camo are more than likely to be related to one another.
I was actually the bartender but it was a hoot. 1st, wedding was outside and it stormed violently. Groom was hammered pre wedding. Hit on all the bartenders. Then the DJ got hammered, made lewd comments to women in the microphone. Then basically everyone was hammered, knocked over the wedding cake which also happened to be a table with many candles, so the place caught on fire. Good times. Often wonder how that marriage worked out.
Sounds like another typical Friday night on a payday. Why they threw a wedding and vows instead of just charge admission is beyond me.
I was a banquet bartender, then promoted to an event captain at a high end venue. These types of stories are what kept me working there so long. It was always eventful and entertaining 😂😂😂
A wedding on the beach behind Hooters. The officiant stood next to a trash bin. As if it was planned, the trash collector pulled up during the vows. Did he wait to change the bag? Absolutely not. Children at the wedding swarmed the couple like the flies around the trash can just after the kiss, stepping all over her dress. She bent over to adjust her sandal and a pack of Marlboro reds fell out of the bust along with her right breast.
It felt like we were rubber necking instead witnessing a marriage.
"It felt like we were rubber necking instead witnessing a marriage." I'm going to be ill from laughing.
And holding "hooter" that cost her $99.00 in a special twofer deal, the bride managed to dance.the first dance, twerking that Fix a Flat butt implant to the nth degree.
Wedding was in a suburban driveway. The maid of honour stole the bouquet from someone’s garden and the best man proudly announced he had shoplifted the rings. The groom wore a button-down shirt that said ‘f**k off’ in fancy lettering. The bride stopped in the middle of the vows to tell her mother to ‘get that [friggin] kid out of here.’ It was her second kid by the previous bloke.
When it was over, we apologized to the celebrant. He said he’d seen worse.
… He’d …seen worse. Sweet hot chili pepper Jesus on a bodypainted pony.
A celebrant is the poor sod who "marries" the happy couple. God bless america.
Waitress at a bogan wedding. The night ended with the chef and I rounding up the kids and barricading us all in the kitchen and locking the doors to prevent the melee of fighting adults outside from A) accessing MORE weapons (Some of them BYO’d knives) and B) hurting the kids. They ranged in age from toddlers to preteens. It was just the chef and I, 2 women and a whole bunch of screaming and frightened kids until the police came and carted everyone off to jail. Wedding photographer showed up the next morning for the scheduled photoshoot. I had to tell him he could find the wedding party at the local jail. The chef and I are still friends, but we both quit that place shortly after that epic wedding.
Wedding at abt 3pm at the courthouse. By 10pm both in jail for a mutual domestic. 3pm the next day in court for their bail hearings
Both of my middle sister's weddings.
Don't get me wrong, she's the sane one of my sisters and I actually really love her, but she has a, shall we say, unique sense of style.
Wedding #1 was while she was working as a carnie, and was held after closing time on the midway at some podunk county fair. I may well have been the only sober person there, and there were definitely more tattoos than teeth in attendance. She wound up leaving him when he turned out to be an abusive self-centered twat who contributed nothing to taking care of their kid.
Wedding #2 (just last year) was mostly okay, and BIL is a really stand-up guy. But y'all, the whole wedding theme was camo. My sister wore a camouflage wedding dress and matching crocs. BIL wore jeans and a dress shirt with a camo vest. The frigging cake was covered in camo-patterned ribbons and IDK where the hell she got camo patterned silk roses but the cake had a pile of those too.
if I had as many teeth as I do tattoos I'd be the thing if nightmares lol. I doubt 100+ would fit only in my mouth they'd be everywhere
Load More Replies...I'm not going to shame people for camo, since it's just a preference, but I do hate camo so very much.
It's just so trashy when it's used outside the hunting arena.
Load More Replies...The second wedding actually sounds super fun! Who doesn't love a theme!
I can't take it... this is a hilarious summation of trash weddings - "there were definitely more tattoos than teeth in attendance".
I don't see nothin wrong with camoflage. The first was definitely worse pft
I don’t even know where to begin.. ceremony was comprised of immediate family then followed by a reception with all guests in a relatively nice hotel banquet hall. An hour in at 7pm the open bar was completely closed down because MULTIPLE guests were throwing up in the bathroom sinks causing flooding, the groom was so wasted even before the ceremony but was blackout by the time of reception. During the first dance he kept his hands in his cargo pant khakis the entire time and ate dinner sitting on the floor in a corner of the hall while the bride sat at the head table alone. About two hours in, the groom randomly left and slept at their house while the bride stayed in the newlywed suite by herself.. they are now separated as you may have assumed by this point.
Why do some adults get drunk so badly and so quickly just because there is free booze? Can't you afford your own alcohol?? This is just such infantile behaviour.
Alcoholism is a real thing. That is my opinion as why, one is too many a thousand is never enough right.
Load More Replies...My first job was on a construction crew that was mostly made up of “old school” African American men from the rural Carolinas. One of the many great quotes I have from those days is: “ Free liquor will kill a man “.
The most important evening of my or my friends' lives? I think I'd rather remember it than vomit through it.
Yeah, alcohol. You drink too much, you get alcohol poisoning.
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A friend's wedding. She was walking down the aisle and had to pause to put out her cigarette. It was a small wedding and her friends thought it was hilarious. Married less than 2 years. She married him because he was in the military and she thought she was getting cash for life. He chose deployment to a war zone over staying with her.
So, this explains why *she* wanted to get married to him, but why did *he* want to get married to her? So many of these have just got me scratching my head over the Why?
Sounds like my older brother and ex-SIL. He went into the service with a medical doctorate so that 1. The military would pay for him to continue schooling so he could specialize in Otolaryngology (ENT surgeon) 2. He could use said skills to help wounded soldiers. The ex-SIL saw $$$$, and although we warned him, they still married. My brother ended up choosing deployment to Afghanistan in early 2002 rather than taking a promotion and assignment in the U.S. just to get away.
Some people just need to bite the bullet on divorce, get a good lawyer and prepare for it if it's that bad, life's to short to be afraid of going home.
Load More Replies...Military personnel do not get to "choose" deployment. But if new wife did not get that after marrying a military guy, yup divorce is definitely in picture
A wedding where they had a flag that said “I had my wedding on Friday because Saturdays are for the boys”
So he's a literally telling her he's going to be a bad husband on the day of their wedding and even showing off about it. Nobody deserves to be married to someone like that.
At first, I thought flowers were sprouting out of her head, and thought "that's an unusual headpiece", but then I realised they were in a vase behind her.
I had to go back and look again. I thought it was her headpiece and thought it was the least trashy part of it.
Load More Replies...If her self esteem is low enough to hold that sign, maybe they’re still together. She’s probably convinced herself he’s as good as she can get.
I can't even imagine how anyone could think that this was in any way a good, or even mediocre idea.
We got married on a Friday, because it was half the price of the Saturday.
Is that supposed to be the flag of Egypt or are they holding the old German Reichsflagge upside down?
Exactly my thoughts…. Thinking of frat douches like that… the second 🤮
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The mother in law took a swing at the bride on the dance floor. Still blows my mind thinking about it.
I'd be willing to bet that it's a string of stories that culminated in that swing.
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I used to work at a place that had a very large tent-like building that was often used for weddings, receptions, celebration of life events, etc. It was on a local lake in a beautiful area. It was very expensive to rent out ($3,000-$5,000 depending on how much work from staff is required). Well one family rented it out for the trashiest wedding I had encountered there.
The wedding was "peacock themed" and the decorations consisted of black and teal paper plates, random peacock feathers, and teal paper cups. They wanted to put all this stuff out the night before the wedding. The owner warned them that this is basically a tent on the lake and things left out will get dirty and spider webbed overnight. They ignored this advice and then pitched a fit when they returned the next morning.
Next, the bride had neglected to try her dress on since she purchased it and had gained weight. She couldn't zip it. She ended up buying a white tank top to wear under it and left it unzipped.
Then after the ceremony, everyone was very inebriated and the bride's mother set up a chair on the middle of the dance floor had the groom sit there and cheered her daughter on as the bride gave the groom a very very vigorous lap dance.
Was it Hera's and Zeus's wedding? (The peacock is one of Hera's holy animals)
With the lap dance Hera pretended to be like Aphrodite one last time before becoming the motherly type
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My own. In a Mississippi judge's office with a bag of Cheetos on her desk. She wiped her hands on a napkin, grabbed a Bible, and did her thing with orange crumbs on her lips. Her work heels were not on because she was in her office. It was extremely rush. I understand that she was on her break but we didn't mind waiting. Idk why they rushed us thru.
We were married by a justice of the peace. We had an appointment. Judge acted irritated and the entire thing took 5 minutes. Even so, I don't understand why people spend thousands on a wedding ceremony. That money can be used for so many other things. To each their own, I guess.
Load More Replies...Had civil celebrant wedding, just the two of us in a small quiet room at celebrant's house with his mother and a cat as witnesses. Was exactly the kind of private ceremony we wanted. Marriage lasted 33 years until my husband's death.
That's so disrespectful. I hope you filed a complaint because that's just downright rude.
Judge's are generally super busy when they are presiding which is who would handle a last minute wedding BUT it would have been nice for that judge to ask a colleague to cover it or have asked for a bit of time to be presentable.
These things are booked ahead of time, with appointments. There is no excuse for this kind of behaviour, it just shows how ignorant and nasty the justice of the peace or judge is.
Load More Replies...In a lot of JOP style officiated marriages, it seems to me that the preconception is the folks getting married have already been married (to others) multiple times and don't care about the ceremony or some such. We had a JOP wedding. Just us two, no fuss no muss. The JOP and his people got MUCH friendlier when they found out neither of us had been married before.
That's really unfortunate that someone treated your special day so non-cholant. I understand maybe to them this is an everyday thing, but extremely rude and unprofessional to treat you both that way. My husband and I were married at the courthouse. It's already a very quick process, and then to actually rush your few minutes is plain ignorant. I'm very sorry this happened to the both of you. I hope that you are doing well and still married? I haven't read all the way through every comment yet. Best wishes to you, and thank you for sharing. Many blessings.
Jeez... then she should have turned them away and informed them to make an appointment.
Load More Replies...I did catering. I ran the FOH and this included set up. Everything was from a rental company, including the linens—so tablecloths and, in this case, napkins. The family was Russian and they were insane. The whole event was super swanky reception considering they chose BBQ as their preferred entree but we played our roles. They busted out a sword to open booze with. They busted my bosses s**t. And the worst? The worst was when a lady went and urinated in the woods (despite a perfectly good and accessible bathroom readily available), used the linen napkin as TP, AND TRIED TO HAND IT BACK TO ME WHEN SHE WAS DONE. Thankfully, my boss was as horrified as I was. To this day, I can’t even.
To be fair, opening alcohol bottles with a sword is a thing in europe. But the tp lady was gross.
I've heard of sabering for wine, but the peeing in the woods thing....yikes.
Grooms best man went around with a naked photo of the groom. Showed everyone including the bride and grooms family. The worst part was there were kids at the wedding including the brides very young son and it wasn't a small photo either like on his phone it was a huge canvas of the groom nude.
Some people don't understand that what might be funny at the bachelor party, is not at all funny at the wedding
And why would the best man have a canvas-sized picture of the groom naked, anyway? Hmm? Methinks he and the groom were "friends with benefits" - perhaps college roommates? And he wanted to sabotage the wedding to get the groom back. (Just sayin'. I'll see myself out).
Load More Replies...Talked my wife out of giving my sister a penis-shaped lollipop at her shower. She got like ten of them, including one from the groom’s mother.
Haven't been to the wedding (was before my time, and in my wives family): At the reception, somebody decided to play a joke on the groom by pulling his chair when he sat down after greeting the guests. He fell, and broke his neck on the chair.
Breaking your neck isn't funny, certainly. Falling down because someone moved your chair, however, can be funny
Load More Replies...You probably meant "my wife's family", unless polygamy is legal where you live. Stupid prank with the chair though. There was a case in the Netherlands, decades ago, where they cut out the floorboard just behind the front door. Guy walks in, carrying the bride over the doorstep, they fall down, he breaks his back and is in a wheelchair for the rest of his life.
Wow what a terrible thing to go through. My old boss did something similar to a guy he used to work with. They worked a job monitoring a large bank of screens in a server room with a raised floor. The monitoring area was around 20 feet across and one of the guys used to give a big push and roll all the way across to check things on the other side rather than get up and walk over. My former boss and a coworker thought it would be funny to pull a 2'x2' tile off the floor and cover it with a "standing mat". They thought he would just sink down in and get stuck. Instead, he fell down in the floor (around 18" drop) and broke his leg and wrist. They both got fired and were lucky to not have criminal charges as well. How are these things ever considered "pranks"?
Load More Replies...Not necessarily fatal, some people walk around with broken necks and don't realise until later.
Load More Replies...Oh my dear Jesus! This is a horrible story! I feel like I need to know what happened after the chair pull/neck break. Damn!
Each time we tried that "prank", my dad would be soooo mad. We stopped doing this at a young age.
Ceremony was in a park - not booked or decorated, just showed up and found a spot.
Reception was at a scout hall. No decorations again, and for catering the brides family went through Red Rooster drive thru and got a bunch of whole chickens and chips. Like, 5 different cars went through one after the other and ordered, they didn't even pre order.
Groom and all his friends were high as kites and only reason bride wasn't is because she announced she was knocked up.
Groom and his mates bought their dirt bikes and after eating went out and rode them around the hall. Was so loud and muddy.
True, it definitively SOUNDS a lot more enjoyable than everything above.
Load More Replies...Wedding on a budget. Apart from the drive through without preordering thing and the drugs it sounds ok to me. This is what birde and groom wanted: a small and informal party.
Sounds like, a fun, relaxed wedding. My grandparents got married at the courthouse and stopped by a convenience store to get snacks before their honeymoon. Wise potato chips and RC Cola. At their 50th wedding anniversary celebration, they gave out Wise chips and RC Cola. It was affordable and absolutely precious. You don't have to spend a fortune to make a commitment and a memory.
Some friends of mine got married at their cottage on the spur of the moment, drove back into the city, told some friends. A relaxed get together followed, and we even found an open pastry shop ( long weekend, Monday) with a one layer wedding came, still undecorated, but no one cared.
Load More Replies...I doubt the other people at the park enjoyed it! Bunch of guys driving dirt bikes around stoned!
Half Mormon half not Mormon wedding. The Mormon half was ultra Mormon, the non-Mormon half was a good amount recovering addicts. The mother got her daughters attention by just standing in front of whatever she was looking at including the groom, the photographer, the DJ, didn’t matter. Mom was also pretty high most of the wedding. 22 people in the bridal party, only 2 girls were the brides bridesmaids from before she met the Mormons. They kept getting frustrated because the Mormon bridesmaids kept pulling the bride away from them whenever they saw them all together alone. No alcohol served so the non-Mormon side went to the liquor store across the street and served their own. Cake smash fail, went straight into the bride’s hair. Mormon side started to talk crap about the drinkers and so the drinkers tried to pick fights with the Mormons. Wedding ended early, lots of tears. Such a hot mess wedding. The couple are both dentists.
Alcohol laws in Utah are insane and make for difficult weddings when non-mormons want to drink. I was part of the wedding party at a Utah wedding and being from out of state the laws were shocking. The restaurant for the rehearsal dinner had a bar, but you had to order food in order to drink at it. The bar had a 7 foot barrier around it called a Zion screen so kids in the restaurant couldn't see the drinks being made or drunk. When few days before the wedding the non-mormons went out to a bar and the liquor was electronically controlled and shut off in the middle of pouring 5 shots because it turns of automatically RIGHT at 1:00am. I also found out that beers higher than 5% alcohol can only be bought at state liquor stores and you can't have wine shipped to your home address offline.
Watch Mormons and Addicts, Season One, on Prime TV, coming this fall!
Thats sad, most members of the church of Jesus Christ of latter-day saints, (Mormons) are not like that.
I just attended a half Mormon half non-Mormon wedding. There was a cash bar for drinks and wine on the table. It was the best, liveliest, friendliest wedding I’ve ever attended. You really couldn’t tell who did or didn’t drink and everyone was dancing the night away, dressed to the nines. Classy and cool.
Load More Replies...Wouldn't have ever expected putting teetotalers with druggies becoming a hot mess.
But nobody was making assumptions-the disastrous parts were spelled out for us nice and clear.
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There were no tables and chairs. Like none. They had an open bar but no chairs. Everyone had to put their drink on the ground and hold their plate to eat. It was crazy.
Everyone just assumed that some sort of terrible thing happened where the tables and chair people didn't bring them but afterwards I asked her (the bride) what happened and she just said "Oh we would have had to pay extra for that."
I've been to a wedding like that, really odd, everyone standing, dozens of drinks and finger food spilled as children were running around, everyone left within a couple of hours. Later found out that was the reception for the "general public" and close family and a handful of friends went to an actual sit down posh reception afterwards. Weird but made sense economically
That's really chintzy. They invited the 'extras' solely and simply for their gifts without letting them know that they weren't really invited to the wedding at all.
Load More Replies...For your next wedding, and there will be another, just put "in lieu of gifts, bring tables and chairs" on the invitations.
The bride and her sisters did a strip tease/lap dance on the groom immediately following dinner. In front of his grandmother.
The bride should have saved that for her honeymoon and what the hell was her sisters doing?? Time for an exit on that performance.
I witnessed a wedding at a naturist leisure park. Everybody, including the grandparents, was just wearing their birthcostume. (The bride had a small veil and the groom a laurel wreath)
Oh, why did they wait? Should've twerked during the ceremony when all eyes would've been focused on them.
Reception held in (essentially) a metal pole barn. While the DJ plays the wedding classic hits of "Who's bed have your boots been under?" and "Who's cheating who?", the piss poor air conditioning and insulation causes the guests to figuratively melt. Unfortunately, the wedding cake literally melts and the top 2 layers topple onto the floor. The cake is rebuilt into a frankencake off of bits on the floor by a couple of guests hoping to save the bride trauma. Fortunately only a handful of guests are served this cake before it is replaced with sheet cake. We sat at our school cafeteria style tables and tried to drink away our misery one cup of Busch Light at a time, but the hand tap on the keg leaked like crazy, requiring a full body calisthenic workout to squeeze out a cup of foam every few minutes.
Probably going to get buried, but went to a fancy wedding at a beautiful venue, it was an incredible outdoor ceremony, with the reception inside a super fancy lakefront venue. All went well, until the brides dad stood up to give a toast. The brides dad, and her mother had been divorced since she was little, so at least 25-26 years they’ve been divorced. The brides side of the family is VERY well off, and with about 200 people in attendance he essentially roasted the brides mother for 10-15 minutes. He was talking about how she used to f**k the tennis instructor he paid for, then he went down the list naming the guys she dated after him, how she couldn’t hold a job and just used his money. The mom had her current husband there and then he turned his attention to that guy and was roasting on him for being the flavor of the week and how he won’t be around when his daughter is back from her honeymoon. He then moved on back to the mother and really laid into her again. I mean he was off the rails, it was like a Comedy Central roast of the brides mom but fueled by his apparent hatred for her. I had been drinking a lot, so at first I thought I was mishearing things, but the longer it went on I was sure I wasn’t. I have no idea how no one stopped this, but they literally let him go on until he was done uninterrupted. He did not mention his daughter or the groom once. He just roasted his ex wife the whole time.
In the end, he just embarrassed himself, not th eobject of his hatred. After 25 years - Jeez, move on!
I have to wonder what mom said about him over the years while he stayed quiet to keep the peace. I'd think the bride would have stopped him if she didn't agree.
Load More Replies...This sounds like someone I know...they let him talk trash like this because if you make him mad, you will get cut off at inheritance time
Proof positive that you can have all the money in the world and still be completely bankrupt of both class and simple human decency.
Honestly, I'm amazed someone, ANYONE, didn't yank the mic out of his hand.
How sad for the bride. That's why I've known several brides that agonized over their decisions to not invite one of their parents. One day of truce is all he needed to provide.
Isn't the new tradition for the husband of the woman being defamed to go up and sock the defamer in front of very many people?
I was at a really fancy wedding for my husband's childhood friend and the best man came up to do the toast and proceeded to tell stories about him and the groom banging chicks and going to strip clubs. He even brought out a poster board with super embarrassing photos of them doing those things on it. This friend was marrying a lovely doctor and those days had been many years prior before he even met her. Super cringe. I have no idea what he was thinking. The bride handled it with class and it didn't ruin their day, but YIKES!!
I had one of my friends from highschool get married in a trashy way. His fiancé at the time invited him to lunch at Buffalo wild wings and she had also invited the whole family (they where in on it) and once my friend showed up he found out it was a surprises wedding (just like you would do a surprise birthday party) The even trashier part is they didn't like reserve the restaurant or anything so in his wedding photos (standing in front of the bathrooms by the way) you can see complete strangers coming out of the bathrooms.
How absurd. They could and should have reserved a section. They could have still carried on with the surprise wedding without the strangers popping in and out. (Not my cup of tea but I'm happy for anyone that wants their wedding at Wild Wings or KFC, it's a whole lot cheaper that way.)
We all know how much men love a good surprise wedding! How could he not be delighted??
The bride made a speech thanking her in laws for financial assistance for the event. Her mother was not thanked and she was furious. There was a long head table for bridal party and parents. It was made out of small tables pushed together covered by one long tablecloth. The mother pulled a small table out of the arrangement, catching the table cloth, and nearly destroying the head table set up. Now the bride got angry and there was much back and forth with various family members attempting to make peace. The mother refused to push back her table and began to invite others to sit with her, all people who were not meant to be seated at the front. Mother of bride continued to sit there and talk s**t about her daughter, the bride, to anyone who would listen.
👀 This doesn't sound like a one-off behaviour. She's obviously a narcissist and was pissed off that the attention was on the bride instead of *her*! I bet she didn't even help financially or in any way at all. The bride probably regretted inviting her. Hope the groom's family are lovely and can make up for the sh!tty bride's mother.
Did the mother make any financial contribution? If she did and wasn't thanked, I can understand being thoroughly pissed off. Doesn't excuse the infantile behaviour though.
Yes, very poor behaviour but I think you've hit the nail on the head. Daughter thanked the new in-laws and left her mother out. I'd be a wee bit annoyed myself.
Load More Replies...What's missing from all these trash weddings is security. They all needed security.
A family member of mines 2ND wedding reception was held INSIDE a indoor gun range. The groom was obviously an avid hunter because the entire wedding party was wearing camouflage suits and the bonus was the "open bar" consisting on two kegs of coors light sitting trash cans filled with ice.
To say nothing of the apparent mines that were there...
Load More Replies...Exactly! I'm confused at how this was even legally allowed. I'm not sure where they live but in most States if you're under the influence of anything you can't even enter a gun range. Maybe they had some type of an arrangement? I wouldn't have wanted to attend that one. You may end up shot or dead from an "accident." Take care
Load More Replies...Not likely, that sort of thing would definitely have made the news!
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I worked at a high-end golf club in Seattle that held extravagant weddings on a regular basis. This wedding in Samoa is perhaps my favourite:
-All of the guys wore lime green vests and snapbacks that matched.
-As mentioned in the contract, the wedding party must order food from the golf club's restaurant. Instead, they order Domino's, and the pizza delivery man serves them pizza while they sit in a beautiful restaurant.
-Right before the marriage, the bride and broom groom had a fistfight, which caused the ceremony to be postponed until bruises could be concealed with cosmetics.
-A live band was engaged to perform at the event, but they were not fed. The lead vocalist decides to speed down the hill during their first break to fetch a drink.
This is the best I could find on "broom groom"- "One who is about to be married or has just been married at a same-sex wedding. Comes from combining 'bride' and 'groom.' With his mother planning every detail of his wedding to Steve, John only had to show up and kiss his broom"
what does a wedding in Samoa mean. Like they flew to Samoa?? Or did they mean a Samoan wedding.
broom groom is probably an autocorrect disaster, i assume OP thought they'd deleted the autocorrect but just typed it again.
It's also means bride groom, which sounds like this was two men getting married who got into a fight.
Load More Replies...Officiant was a friend of a friend. He tried out standup material during the ceremony and was visibly intoxicated. Best man gave a speech that involved a very bloody injury and fake cried at the end. Like movie level comically obvious fake crying. At the end, one of the barn walls where the party/dancing was, collapsed and hundreds of acorns spilled onto the dance floor…it was insane!
The visual of acorns on the dance floor was accompanied by a visual of the squirrel from ice age
A friend of the family is a wedding photographer. We went to dinner with her family a few weeks ago and she explained the most bizarre wedding she had ever been to (which happened to be that same day, and involved someone we all know)
Wedding was behind a trailer in a trailer park
Folding chairs clearly labeled "Property of [school]," there were two church pews, and several 5 gallon buckets turned upside down
Some of the wedding party arrived on riding mowers
The bride was wearing some screen-printed t-shirt, jeans, and a veil made from cheesecloth
The groom was wearing a jean vest with no shirt underneath and torn jeans
The bride had met the groom just over 3 months prior, as the groom was still married to his 1st wife at the time. Divorce takes 90 days here. Do the math.
Most of the guests were dressed like they were in the middle of doing yard work
Reception was in the same area. Several cases of PBR and Miller Lite, supermarket pre-boxed cheese and cracker spreads, and a few Bojangles fried chicken boxes
She doesn't mention the guests behavior so I assume they behaved. Basically this is a poor person's wedding and shouldn't be shamed.
Agreed completely. Just because it's not your cup of tea, doesn't make it shame worthy. And the divorce thing, they could have been separated for a while but he didn't start the divorce process until he had a reason to.
Load More Replies...This sounds great, no need for high heels and shapewear and a new dress, and hairdressing and makeup for the photos, just comfy clothing, the great outdoors, and some fried chicken. I am in.
I live in a trailer - which I own outright, and it is actually quite nice. I have decent manners and have enough sense to actually wear pants in public, but more importantly, I have ZERO debt. How many homeowners can say that?
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It was at a Holiday Inn, the groomsmen all were brightly colored prom vests and jeans. I was a +1 to one of the bridesmaids, I just wore a regular suit, nothing fancy. I was still dressed better than the groom and I got dirty looks for it
I don't know about getting married at the Holiday Inn, but I think people should wear whatever they want a wedding... If the bride and groom are happy in jeans, then good for them. :)
Sure, wear what you want. Just don't get mad at someone else for dressing up more than you did if you didn't tell them first.
Load More Replies...Marriage is a serious event as shown by the previous events. It is only decent to look smart at someone's wedding.
Went to a wedding for one of the wife’s coworker’s kids. I was the only person wearing a suit besides the groom, and his was obviously a loaner. Got a lot of dirty looks from other guests. Didn’t stay for dinner.
I went to a wedding that had a Matrix theme. The groomsmen all wore floor length leather jackets and tiny sunglasses. The MC made a slideshow of images from the movie with the groomsmen’s faces badly photoshopped on. They insisted on calling each other “Neo” and “Amorpheous” while high-fiving each other. It was painful.
There was a lot of tension at the wedding and it turned out that the groom had cheated on the bride a few weeks earlier but she had still decided to marry him. His family was really trashy and took the view that their son had cheated because the bride wasn’t good enough for him. The bride’s family was not trashy but pissed that she took him back and obviously hated the groom and his [lousy] family. The sister was the maid of honour and her speech was very sarcastic “just so glad to welcome you to the family… Greg” but it went over the head’s of the groom’s relatives. Everyone who knew the story was cringing.
The groom’s Dad was loaded. He stood up and told a long and convoluted story about a wife giving teaspoons of sugar to God which made no sense and seemed to have very sexist undertones. They cut quickly to the music and the drunk groom’s father hit the dance floor and started grinding with some woman who wasn’t his wife. His wife sees and has a s**t fit and starts screaming at him. They won’t stop fighting so they cut the music and have the four piece, high school band play classical music badly. It includes a squeaky clarinet.
Like a terrible foreshadowing from above, it starts pissing with rain and people start trying to politely leave. Last thing I see, is the groomsmen running to their cars with their trench coats folded up over their heads to protect their tiny sunglasses, while the band plays the squeaky Matrix theme song. It was amazing.
a coworker of mine got married in her driveway. on the invitation it said that everyone had to wear the color purple and they served KFC and hostess cupcakes for dessert. music was a boom box with the local light rock station playing. the worst part was that she let her dogs crap all over the driveway during the reception so no one ever picked up the poop. we all just kinda weirdly hopped around it in our variety of purple hues.
Probably my dad's 2nd marriage. Along the banks of a river with trailer homes in the background. He's wearing a tuxedo Tshirt and rainbow mirror sunglasses. The ceremony took place at noon: he'd been drinking since 5AM. I had to walk one of the bridesmaids down a flight of steps as she was legally blind, and someone asked me if I was going to bang her. sighs
I'm so glad I can share this story again.
In my early 20s a childhood friend's sister was getting married. I was friendly with the family and all the siblings so I agreed to go. When I got the invitation it said on the invitation "no gifts please just money". This didn't seem like the bride. She would be fine with either. I then get contacted by bride's mother who tells me to get them a physical gift because the grooms mother is planning on taking any money they get as compensation for planning the wedding.
I get to the venue which is a church but the wedding is not actually in the main part of the church. It is in the church basement. So bizarre. It looks like the set up of a high school dance. My friend who's sister is getting married tells me that her sister never got her dress altered so they had to use safety pins. They walk down the "aisle" to a Metallica song playing on a boom box.
The ceremony was quick thankfully. No alcohol at the wedding. Ok, it is what it is. There was sparkling 99 cent grape juice at each table. I know it was 99 cents because the stickers were left on the bottles. Brides mother comes over to me and said I wouldn't eat the food. It was actually food that was supposed to be for meals on wheels and some of it was frozen leftovers of food that wasn't used. This was the groom's mother's idea since she was "paying" for the wedding.
I gave the bride and groom my gift. They said thank you and seemed perfectly happy with getting a physical gift. Groom's mother comes over to me and asks me why I didn't get them cash or a check for a gift. That it said that right on the invitation. I played dumb and said I must have missed that. She was pissed.
Lastly there was a guy there who took a liking to me. He was dressed in a white tank top, backwards hat and sweatpants. You know, some proper wedding attire... He told me he just got out of jail for drugs and that the bloods and the crips wanted him in their gangs. I told him that's interesting because he's white and I thought they didn't usually recruit white guys. He said they just really wanted him and that he hung out with black people all the time. He then told me that you could cure AIDS by injecting dish soap. It cleans out the blood. He asked for my phone number. I declined. Shockingly the marriage only lasted a few years. Groom has full custody of their two kids because bride is not capable of taking care of their children. She had social services called on her multiple times.
Whoo boy, this is my time to shine. So my uncle was a preacher but also owned a restaurant. A 16 year old got married to her 17 year old boyfriend in the back room. Her name was Candy. After the ceremony she opened her wedding gifts like it was her birthday. One of the waitresses (Brenda) had given her her old lingerie as a gift. I remember during the reception, Candy went out back to throw the lingerie into a dumpster while Brenda sang “These Boots Were Made for Walking” on karaoke. For their honeymoon, her mom bought them a room at the Holiday Inn around the corner, but they got bored so they came home.
Not if they were bored on their honeymoon. lol
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The bride had a little too much to drink. She was on her hands and knees throwing up on the front lawn of the reception hall while people were arriving.
It was in the middle of absolutely no where. It was a 5:00pm wedding and there was no food served and we couldn’t just run out and get McDonald’s or something because there was nothing around. We had to help set up tables. We had to fill out our own thank you cards. They even had an example for us to follow, “Dear ——-, Thank you for the [blank]. We’ll use it to [blank].” Then, they asked us to help take down the tables as well. I refused to help and got the hell out of there. Also, no cake.
Are you sure it was a wedding? Maybe you showed up at the wrong place, wrong time, wrong something . . .
The bride could not be found about 2 hours into her own wedding reception. She was finally located, in the backseat of a car with the best man. Groom goes ballistic. The military transfers him overseas immediately the following morning, before he did something stupid.
Sounds like a John Cena movie, a sudden military transfer to keep him from doing something stupid... Is it that easy to get a transfer to happen immediately because someone found their wife with another man?
I went to a wedding in a funeral home once. Drove by it three times before realizing that is was in fact the correct address for the venue. Reception and ceremony were there.. completely dry wedding too.
I was staying at a really massive hotel about a decade ago and a group of what I can only describe as "rough looking hippies" were having a wedding reception in the ballroom. I was sitting at the bar ready to order when one of the groomsmen invited me to eat and drink. They apparently had too much food and alcohol. Of course, I obliged. Free alcohol and food? Why not. When I walked in the ballroom all I could smell was body odor mixed with a hint of food. It was so damn hot in that room. Some of them weren't wearing shirts (male and female alike) and almost none of them had on shoes. Only a handful of people were dressed somewhat casually...It was just humid, sweaty and warm in there. When I say "rough looking hippies" just picture that stereotype in your head and I s**t you not that's how most of them looked. Instead of a DJ they had a dude on the stage with drums, bongos, a guitar, a rain stick and I'm pretty sure a digeridoo. I didn't want to be rude so all I grabbed was grilled asparagus and then I left as soon as the guy walked out of sight. It was so disgusting in there. The next morning I noticed they had cordoned off the ballroom area and they had a good portion of their housekeeping staff stacking trash bags into those rolling garbage bins. I felt so bad for them.
They met and married within months. He was 40's, she was upper 20;s or low 30's. I was shocked she was getting married, shocked this was the guy, and shocked that I was invited. Felt like I had to go. He had like 3 pre-teens that did whatever they wanted and lived in the backwoods. Wedding was at his cabin/property, potluck style. Wedding was just them standing in the yard. No seating, no grouping of friends or families or sides of an aisle, just hang out and watch them do their thing. No photographer. When they kissed, everyone pulled out guns and shot them off. I hadn't noticed the guns or seen that anyone was carrying, so it was a shock. Then the "happy couple" rode off on an ATV into the woods for a victory lap. They came back and we all ate swamp people food and everyone was sloshed. I left early with a friend and on the drive home we were like "So... what the [hell] was that?" They obviously divorced shortly after.
This sounds similar to my wedding (except for the guns and atv). We got married 6 months after we met, on my parents lawn, with 20 people gathered around us - mostly family and a few close friends. No chairs, music, alter etc - just a cluster of family on the lawn. Then inside the house for a potluck. It was ~2pm so just cake, finger sandwiches, cut veggies, etc. It was so relaxed, low-key, and wonderful. Married 10 years this June.
This does not seem as bad in comparison to some of what I read here. At my cousin's wedding they had a "sandwich bar" for dinner. It was packages of white bread with lunch meats that you made yourself.
That sounds unsanitary to me. I wouldn't be able to eat after a couple random hands touched the items, especially not knowing where they'd been and when they were last washed 😅...
I got married at a drive through in Las Vegas. The only photo I still had my seat belt on.
Comedian Christopher Titus talked about his father getting married in Vegas, which was performed by a lesbian Elvis impersonator, whom his father hit on, in front of the bride.
Load More Replies...I got married at the welcome to las vegas sign.(pictured above) It was nice and simple.
Ooh, I LOVE that place . . . there's a menu with everything: rings, video, music. In a convertible this is GREAT!
So much camo. Camo tux, camo dress, bride pregnant OF COURSE. And a keg of busch light. The bride walked down the aisle to stairway to heaven. Nothing made sense.
This was my ex boyfriends cousin’s wedding, they were a bunch of hicks. The bridesmaids and groomsmen were wearing camo dresses/suits, and the best man was even wearing a baseball cap backwards during the ceremony. The wedding arch was constructed of deer antlers (that part was kinda cute tho). The maid of honor (the brides sister) said in her toast that she would get her pink camo gun and shoot the groom if he ever hurt her sister. And then we toasted to that with a glass of Mountain Dew instead of champagne.
An arch made of deer 🦌 antlers, I would have been so heartbroken over the arch. I completely agree that it's ethical to kill and eat deer, and many people do. I think just seeing several antlers in front of me would be sad. If they were retrieved after being shed, it'd be a total game changer for me.
I did handgun training and had to pick out a pistol. I was shockingly surprised with how many pink and pink camo handguns exist. Every manufacturer makes them.
I once worked a wedding where come time for the first dance no one could find the groom. Turns out, he went to the resort’s shooting barn to shoot clay pigeons. Upon learning this news, the bride reacted by cursing up a storm on the dance floor.
Can’t remember the full meal at the reception (which was held in a recreation centre) but I cannot forget that the accompaniment was very obviously frozen peas and carrots… and the meal was served by children. Like, under 10 years old. An army of little children. Had to have broken some kind of child labour law there.
Backyard wedding c. 1989-91. Many guests wearing various rock/metal t-shirts. Groomsmen in black jeans, tuxedo t-shirts, and IIRC, no shoes; at least one appeared late still visibly hung over. MTV’s top-20 countdown could be heard playing inside the house during the vows (ceremony was on the back porch). One attendee overheard remarking that this was a classy wedding because “they had a keg of [some random beer].”
Albanian wedding at a place I worked. There was fighting, people just smoking inside the venue despite me telling then they were gonna set off the smoke alarms, culminated in the brides unwear being removed and set fire to in one of our champagne buckets. Weird day.
Definitely a tradition you want all of your friends to watch at your wedding! /s
I was visiting my cousin's sister, she took me to her friend's wedding. A small ceremony with very few people most of them were family members of bride and groom. The bride's father probably didn't like the groom, they started arguing in the middle of the wedding then started fighting. They were rolling on the ground and punching each other, the bride was in tears and half of the guests were laughing and cheering and the other half were standing like idiots me included. Soon they got exhausted and stopped fighting and after sometimes the wedding continues.
For anyone confused, OP´s edit: "Looks like I've created more confusion, she is my cousin's step-sister, I usually introduce her as my cousin's sister."
I was like 12 and still remember this vividly. My brothers friends wedding. It was held in like a public cafeteria. The bride was barefoot the entire time. He picked her up and her feet were absolutely filthy. The food was spaghetti or meatloaf served on styrofoam plates with plastic forks. That’s all I cared to remember.
I DJ weddings. Nowadays I have my own company, but years ago, I was hired out by another company. This wedding was from them. The cake topper depicted a bride dragging a groom by the scruff of the neck. The groom and his groomsmen were all in baggy ill-fitting suits and dirty running shoes. They at least waited until after the ceremony to put on their (also dirty) baseball caps. At one point there was supposed to be a special dance, but no one could find the groom, so that dance didn’t happen. The bridesmaids were drunk enough that they both loved and hated every song I played and expressed this to me as I dropped each tune. I don’t take gigs like that anymore.
I personally find that cake topper amusing! Granted, it probably isn't a great sign for the relationship...
I went to a relative's wedding and it wasn't that trashy until his wife's brother got drunk and started talking about how they were going to bang a lot during their honeymoon. It was especially weird because they've been together for at least 8 or so years, have kids and the wife's brother has known that. It wasn't even like he lives far away. They're a close family as I've been to my relative's kid's birthday parties.
My cousin's daughter's wedding was camo and the bride paid almost $8,000 for a custom camo wedding dress, as a surprise for the groom. His face fell when she walked out in it. He was embarrassed for her. He had expected a white gown (this was a huge, southern church wedding) and she walked out in a ball gown covered in camo with high vis orange ribbons everywhere.
I wonder why she did it,"as a surprise for him"? Did she think he would like it? Our did she just really like it, and he was shocked by it? If it was either of those, I think they didn't know each other very well. That's not a good start.
Load More Replies...Trashiest wedding was when the minister mentioned divorce 13 times in the sermon. We counted. He somehow made the whole thing incredibly tawdry and awful, and the bride was not crying from joy.
Trashiest one I was at can be summed up in one small portion of the event. The groom was supposed to take the garter off the brides leg and he announced to the room “I’m not going up there, she’s bleeding like a b***h!”
Load More Replies...I was part of a Halloween wedding in a remote forest. Sound like a horror movie? It was. Only half the guests got the "costume" theme, so dressed up relatives were mixed in with panda bears, Elsa-s, clowns, Bevis and Butthead and a bunch of dudes that came as a six pack of Heineken. The walk song was played on a cellphone and kept stopping. The meal was a cruel joke. The FOTG picked up the kegs, but forgot the taps, so the crowd went at the champagne for the toast and drank it all before the reception officially started. There were no bathrooms, the well dressed were carpooling to the local ranger station, everyone else was going in the bushes. There was no one, and I mean no one on staff for this event, the bride set up her catering trays of sloppy BBQ with her 8 month old baby crying on her hip. The groom actually walked around apologizing to guests and throwing his new wife under the bus for the whole disaster. It was, just, wow.
Poor planning might make for a funny story, if it weren't for the groom being childish and taking no responsibility - as if he wasn't perfectly capable of communicating, and planning.
Load More Replies...Lol I've been married three times. All of them with a justice of the peace at my house or my sisters' house and only me, my spouse and my sister as witness. $30 for the licensing $50 for the justice of the peace and 30 minutes later we're heading to a nice restaurant for a $100 meal. $180 for a marriage, no BS. My current marriage has lasted 15 years. 3's a charm.
I said it before, the most expensive part of my wedding was the parking ticket at the court house, my meter ran out. $50 for the wedding, $80 for the ticket :)
Load More Replies...Moved to a different country for the love of my live in December 2000, got married a year later. At the wedding were the president, the prime minister, the leader of the opposition, the chief justice, and some assorted ministers. It's a very small country, and my father in law was a lawyer and used to be in politics - and he paid for the wedding, as tradition prescribed. There were also some people that I actually knew, like my relatives and colleagues. Nice wedding though.
It's nice the opposing leaders didn't get into aheated debate!
Load More Replies...What is it about Busch Light that adds an extra level of..... class to these proceedings?
It's hard to do an event like that tastefully if they are too constraint financially. I get that. But there is simply no excuse for those idiotic inappropriate speeches, drunken melees and answering nature's call or bonking in the bushes. You don't need a loaded wallet to be proper and civilized. That I think, is the difference between an event and a fustercluck.
My cousin's daughter's wedding was camo and the bride paid almost $8,000 for a custom camo wedding dress, as a surprise for the groom. His face fell when she walked out in it. He was embarrassed for her. He had expected a white gown (this was a huge, southern church wedding) and she walked out in a ball gown covered in camo with high vis orange ribbons everywhere.
I wonder why she did it,"as a surprise for him"? Did she think he would like it? Our did she just really like it, and he was shocked by it? If it was either of those, I think they didn't know each other very well. That's not a good start.
Load More Replies...Trashiest wedding was when the minister mentioned divorce 13 times in the sermon. We counted. He somehow made the whole thing incredibly tawdry and awful, and the bride was not crying from joy.
Trashiest one I was at can be summed up in one small portion of the event. The groom was supposed to take the garter off the brides leg and he announced to the room “I’m not going up there, she’s bleeding like a b***h!”
Load More Replies...I was part of a Halloween wedding in a remote forest. Sound like a horror movie? It was. Only half the guests got the "costume" theme, so dressed up relatives were mixed in with panda bears, Elsa-s, clowns, Bevis and Butthead and a bunch of dudes that came as a six pack of Heineken. The walk song was played on a cellphone and kept stopping. The meal was a cruel joke. The FOTG picked up the kegs, but forgot the taps, so the crowd went at the champagne for the toast and drank it all before the reception officially started. There were no bathrooms, the well dressed were carpooling to the local ranger station, everyone else was going in the bushes. There was no one, and I mean no one on staff for this event, the bride set up her catering trays of sloppy BBQ with her 8 month old baby crying on her hip. The groom actually walked around apologizing to guests and throwing his new wife under the bus for the whole disaster. It was, just, wow.
Poor planning might make for a funny story, if it weren't for the groom being childish and taking no responsibility - as if he wasn't perfectly capable of communicating, and planning.
Load More Replies...Lol I've been married three times. All of them with a justice of the peace at my house or my sisters' house and only me, my spouse and my sister as witness. $30 for the licensing $50 for the justice of the peace and 30 minutes later we're heading to a nice restaurant for a $100 meal. $180 for a marriage, no BS. My current marriage has lasted 15 years. 3's a charm.
I said it before, the most expensive part of my wedding was the parking ticket at the court house, my meter ran out. $50 for the wedding, $80 for the ticket :)
Load More Replies...Moved to a different country for the love of my live in December 2000, got married a year later. At the wedding were the president, the prime minister, the leader of the opposition, the chief justice, and some assorted ministers. It's a very small country, and my father in law was a lawyer and used to be in politics - and he paid for the wedding, as tradition prescribed. There were also some people that I actually knew, like my relatives and colleagues. Nice wedding though.
It's nice the opposing leaders didn't get into aheated debate!
Load More Replies...What is it about Busch Light that adds an extra level of..... class to these proceedings?
It's hard to do an event like that tastefully if they are too constraint financially. I get that. But there is simply no excuse for those idiotic inappropriate speeches, drunken melees and answering nature's call or bonking in the bushes. You don't need a loaded wallet to be proper and civilized. That I think, is the difference between an event and a fustercluck.

