What was the tackiest wedding you ever attended?

Question

what made it so?

Mandi F

are you stating that the mil bought everything DURING the reception?

Bluegirl do you see how ironic it is that you've told this story and now your own avatar is named "Bluegirl'?!!!
lol!

May I ask, what year did this take place?! rofl

dang chocolate,
I'm surprised you admitted you hadn't bother to take a gift!

I mean nothwithstanding the fact that no one interacted or socialized with you...

umph, umph, umph

what prompted your SO to even want to attend?!

Answer 1

I haven't gone to a tacky one yet but my parents did so I'll share that. When my uncle got married, they had everyone pay for their own dinner. Not much of a story but its sad. If you can't afford to pay for the people you invite, have a smaller wedding. duh! Sheesh =)

Answer 2

One had a bride with a $3K wedding dress, but a no host bar and terrible food, and no taking care of the guests while the B&G were taking photos. You could't hear the incredibly long ceremony because it was next to a freeway, it started an hour late, and the seating arrangements were completely lame. Another was a 'budget' wedding with a head table and terrible seating arrangements. The wedding started 45 minutes late because the minister didn't show on time. The bride seemed to be acting her way through her vows - putting on a show for the guests. During the reception, the groom didn't get chance to toast, the bar was no-host, the food was dreadful (no one ate it), the music was for 15 year old wanna be rappers, and the place was just tacky. Even the groomsmen were leaving right after dinner it was so bad. The groom ended up apologizing to *his* guests for it being so bad as the bride danced the night away with her other friends, completely oblivious to how *his* guests were being treated. The third was a bride who had a huge fancy wedding dress, over 200 guests, many of whom she had only met once or twice, and the food was served on styrofoam plates from a costco type cold cut tray.

Answer 3

My friends wedding (actually I dont even see her any more) I was bridesmaid and had to wear the most disgusting powder blue water pattern taffetta dress, with huge puffed sleeves with a little matching hat with netting over my face. It was soooooooooooooooo ugly. Must of been some kind of revenge thing I think! She had a gorgeous gown, but we looked like something out of the 80's and I even saw people scoffing and laughing at us.
They wanted a garden wedding but her mother demanded a Catholic wedding soooo we trapsed off to the Catholic curch, even tho they never even go there. The groom fainted during the ceremony.....the brides veil caught fire when they were lighting one of the million candles they lit. Then when that long and boring ceremony was finally over we went to the gardens, which were full of duck and goose poop. Got attacked by geese, so they could have a 2nd ceremony in a Garden. AAARRRGGGHHH. My shoes were caked in crap, guests were whinging and whispering behind their backs.
Got to the reception in a hall, and all the food was powder blue, they had coloured the potatos and all. Nobody was really very hungry, looking at that. Even the cake was blue, not just the decorations but the sponge, icing and all!
Then at the wedding they announced that they were expecting a baby (we'd all guessed that due to the quickness of the wedding planning, and also the fact that her pot belly was straining at her dress) and they had found out it was a boy. Hence all the blue. Tacky

Answer 4

I don't know if this qualifies as tacky but it was definately redneck. The bride has DD or more breasts and they put her in a strapless gown. Nobody told her that trying to hold up the "ladies" without a bra had the top of her dress so tight she had a muffin top. Poor thing also had some serious razor burns under her arms from using the freebie razor in the hotel because she forgot hers.

She's cajun so they had a crawfish boil which would have been tons of fun except the place didn't mow the grass the day before so there was alot of chiggers in the grass and some of the younger immature kids started throwing crawfish heads at people.

The wedding had a tight budget which was totally cool because not everybody has a ton of cash to blow on one day so they just bought kegs of beer since nobody drinks wine anyway. The problem came in when they didn't hide them and had it like a college party where theres the keg and a stack of plastic cups next to it and everybody serves themselves. She toasted with Boone's Farm but thought it was still classy because she got a flavor to match her wedding colors. The invitations also had BYOB on them because it was only going to be the few kegs of beer with their budget.

Answer 5

I was a waitress at a reception hall: I've seen many tacky set ups.

The worst was a Detroit Red Wings themed wedding. Although I am a big fan of the team (shame on them losing tonight...), turning your wedding into a shrine of your favourite sports team?? Ugh. The table numbers matched the player numbers, and there were biographies about that player on the table. To get the bride and groom to kiss during dinner, you had to either take a slapshot at a hockey net set up and score, or answer trivia about the team.

Another tacky wedding that I attended: the reception was in a BARN. BLECK!!

Answer 6

My husband and I were invited 2 hours away from our house to an acquaintances (at the time he was our friend) wedding reception. Nobody except for the brides family was allowed to attend the wedding (we're friends of the groom) During the reception the groom's mother had to buy everything because she had 3 jobs and missed the shower. During the reception the couple only talked to the brides family. I tried to talk to the brides family but got nothing but stuck up noses at me. After the brides family left then and only then would they talk to their guests. The groom was a groomsman at my wedding (I'm female I would never have him in my side of the wedding party)

Answer 7

Well at first I was going to tell the time the father of the bride changed into more comfortable clothes straight after the ceremony... and danced with the bride in cutoff frayed jeans, Tshirt, and bare feet...
But that does not hold a candle to the stories on here-- especially Sparkleys! I actually laughed out loud some of these. Great question!

Answer 8

I went to one that was held on a state fairground site, which was fine, except we went by the night before to see where it was (we were from out of town)...and saw a rat running around in the hall where the reception was to be held! That wasn't tacky-just gross....at the reception, the bride and groom hosted 500 people, which I guess was too many for them, so they held 2 "dollar dances"-(dance with the bride & give a dollar or so for the couple)--I felt like I was being extorted ( I expected the first one, as it is traditional-it was the second one I objected to)--during the second dance, they actually walked around with their cowboy hats out looking for donations!!!!! I don't know if other people though that was WAY tacky, but the people at my table sure did---this was after I drove 5 hours to get there, had to stay in a hotel, and buy a gift--then they pass a hat for donations???? Cut me a break!

Answer 9

the tackest wedding I was ever at was one of the most expensive I ever videoed. For one of the Zale family. The sent over $300,000. the center pieces were so big you could not see enyone on the other side of the table. The brides cake was 5 feet tall. The wedding look like a soap operas wedding. $40,000 on the decirations at the service. It was like we have money and I am showing you I do.

Answer 10

I wouldn't say the wedding itself was tacky, but rather the place they held their reception, it was in a motel, you know one of those ones that puts up truckers? Like that!! The rooms stank of smoke, the sheets had cigarette burns in them, there were pubes everywhere (including in the breakfast!!) and the walls were so thin that you could hear the guy in the next door room snoring like a pig all night. We had to share a bathroom, the shower was cracked and dribbled and the shower curtain kept sticking to my legs in the cold breeze that blew through the room, and the room they had booked for their reception was "unavailable" on the day itself. It was supposed to be in their conservatory but upon investigation of the motel grounds we discovered the conservatory was flooded and stuffed with old garden furniture and engine parts. The food they had ordered was also "not available" and we ended up being served fish and chips, not the nice kind but the mass produced, thin fish covered in bright orange bread crumbs and the chips were cold, not that I could eat anything after seeing pubes in the beans at breakfast time!! For dessert they served tinned fruit salad, the type that looks like cold sick. I felt very sorry for the couple actually, what a shame for them.

Answer 11

I went to one where everything was purple. Don't get me wrong, I like the color purple ... in moderation. There were purple bows on the pews, purple flower petals down the aisle, purple bridemaids's shoes and dresses, purple groomsmen's shirts, purple decorations at the reception. And the weirdest thing about it was every single thing was a different shade of purple! Everything from so dark it was almost black to so light it was almost white. It was just horrid. Another weird thing at this one was it was a smaller wedding, about 75 people. But the cake at the reception (decorated in purple) was made to feed about 500. What's the point of that?