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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.

#1

30 People Describe The Trashiest Wedding They’ve Been To 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.

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    30 People Describe The Trashiest Wedding They’ve Been To 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.

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    #3

    30 People Describe The Trashiest Wedding They’ve Been To 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.

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    #4

    30 People Describe The Trashiest Wedding They’ve Been To 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.

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    #5

    30 People Describe The Trashiest Wedding They’ve Been To 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.

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    #6

    30 People Describe The Trashiest Wedding They’ve Been To 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.

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    #7

    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.

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    #8

    30 People Describe The Trashiest Wedding They’ve Been To 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.

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    #9

    30 People Describe The Trashiest Wedding They’ve Been To 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.

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    Katinka Min
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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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.

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    30 People Describe The Trashiest Wedding They’ve Been To 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.

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    #11

    30 People Describe The Trashiest Wedding They’ve Been To A wedding where they had a flag that said “I had my wedding on Friday because Saturdays are for the boys”

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    Ally MacMann
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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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.

    Mouse
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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Well that was her first clue, don't you want to marry a man, not "one of the boys"!? How embarrassing

    SoozeeQ
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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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.

    Anne Edwards
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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I had to go back and look again. I thought it was her headpiece and thought it was the least trashy part of it.

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    DDmaybeandor
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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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.

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    I mean, look at her. She's a large overweight frumpy bride in an unflattering dress, holding a sign meant to humiliate her and remind her she's always second best. Insecure for sure

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    Anne Edwards
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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I can't even imagine how anyone could think that this was in any way a good, or even mediocre idea.

    Ian Reynolds
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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    We got married on a Friday, because it was half the price of the Saturday.

    Trillian
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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Is that supposed to be the flag of Egypt or are they holding the old German Reichsflagge upside down?

    Rez Fidel
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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Exactly my thoughts…. Thinking of frat douches like that… the second 🤮

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    You mean "anything" not "nothing" right?? Based on your sentence structure, you'd probably hold that sign. You know the one meant to humiliate you, belittle your self worth and remind you that you're always second best? That sign?

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    ElenaK
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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Tacky, but it might as well have been a joke. I hope so...

    Bj Burns
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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is definitely the worst one. She's helping hold that horrible sign

    Kel
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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Something my ex fiance would have done. Obviously, kicked that trash to the curb

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    I just knew a fat insecure bride would be in the photo. No women with self esteem would allow this s**t.

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    #12

    30 People Describe The Trashiest Wedding They’ve Been To The mother in law took a swing at the bride on the dance floor. Still blows my mind thinking about it.

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    #13

    30 People Describe The Trashiest Wedding They’ve Been To 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.

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    Party Poison
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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Was it Hera's and Zeus's wedding? (The peacock is one of Hera's holy animals)

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    #14

    30 People Describe The Trashiest Wedding They’ve Been To 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.

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    #15

    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.

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    #16

    30 People Describe The Trashiest Wedding They’ve Been To 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.

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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Some people don't understand that what might be funny at the bachelor party, is not at all funny at the wedding

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    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.

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    30 People Describe The Trashiest Wedding They’ve Been To 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.

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    #19

    30 People Describe The Trashiest Wedding They’ve Been To 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.

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    30 People Describe The Trashiest Wedding They’ve Been To 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."

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    #21

    30 People Describe The Trashiest Wedding They’ve Been To The bride and her sisters did a strip tease/lap dance on the groom immediately following dinner. In front of his grandmother.

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    Debbie Barnes
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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The bride should have saved that for her honeymoon and what the hell was her sisters doing?? Time for an exit on that performance.

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    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.

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    NinaRosario
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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Okay but the sarcastic commentary just made this so much funnier

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    #23

    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.

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    Katinka Min
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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    In the end, he just embarrassed himself, not th eobject of his hatred. After 25 years - Jeez, move on!

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    30 People Describe The Trashiest Wedding They’ve Been To 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.

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    30 People Describe The Trashiest Wedding They’ve Been To 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.

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    SoozeeQ
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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    👀 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.

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    30 People Describe The Trashiest Wedding They’ve Been To 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.

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    30 People Describe The Trashiest Wedding They’ve Been To 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.

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    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!

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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Some squirrel was lurking somewhere, watching and pissed off that idiot humans broke the stash spot

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    30 People Describe The Trashiest Wedding They’ve Been To 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

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    Deborah Barron Brown
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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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.

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    #30

    30 People Describe The Trashiest Wedding They’ve Been To 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

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    Debbie Barnes
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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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. :)

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    #31

    30 People Describe The Trashiest Wedding They’ve Been To 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.

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    #32

    30 People Describe The Trashiest Wedding They’ve Been To 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.

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    #33

    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

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    Me Oh My
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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Poor OP. Poor first wife. Poor second wife. Just all-around pity for everyone involved here.

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    30 People Describe The Trashiest Wedding They’ve Been To 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.

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    #35

    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.

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    30 People Describe The Trashiest Wedding They’ve Been To 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.

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    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.

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    Octavia Hansen
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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Are you sure it was a wedding? Maybe you showed up at the wrong place, wrong time, wrong something . . .

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    #38

    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.

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    30 People Describe The Trashiest Wedding They’ve Been To 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.

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    #40

    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.

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    #41

    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.

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    Justme
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    2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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.

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    #42

    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.

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    Cold Contagious
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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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 😅...

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    #43

    30 People Describe The Trashiest Wedding They’ve Been To I got married at a drive through in Las Vegas. The only photo I still had my seat belt on.

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    #44

    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.

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    #45

    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.

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    #46

    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.

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    #47

    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.

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    #48

    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].”

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    #49

    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.

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    Lawrencium
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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Definitely a tradition you want all of your friends to watch at your wedding! /s

    #50

    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.

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    Jayne Kyra
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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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."

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    #51

    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.

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    #52

    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.

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    Lawrencium
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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I personally find that cake topper amusing! Granted, it probably isn't a great sign for the relationship...

    #53

    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.

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