re: Tackiest/trashiest/most poorly planned wedding you've ever been to?

Who cares.

Dude that I know married a mail order bride from southeast Asia. Ceremony was in his apartment building courtyard, followed by a reception at a low end TexMex restaurant.

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It was the LSU/Bama game.

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At least tell us you were streaming it on your phone....

I can't recall being at any truly "trashy" weddings. Though I suspect some of the weddings for blue collar rural folks I've been to wouldn't meet the OT's high standards for lavish events.

Maybe the oddest was a beach wedding in Gulf Shores, Pensacola, or somewhere along the Gulf coast (I can't exactly remember where).

First, I don't think the couple told anyone beforehand that the wedding would actually be on the beach itself (seating and all). Most thought it would be on the deck of the beach house. It wouldn't have been an issue but for the fact most of the guests all wore suits and nice dresses clearly not made for walking through sand on the beach.

That aside, the wedding was fine. However, there was another wedding happening literally next door. So while one couple has nicely dressed guests and a guitarist playing while the bride is walking down the aisle, the next door wedding has some CD playing on a shitty boombox for the bride to walk down the aisle. And I'm pretty sure the groom was wearing a "tux" with no sleeves. In any event, the CD starts skipping and panic/shouting ensues at the next door wedding, while the wedding I'm attending is simultaneously taking place.

To make matters worse, there was an amateur bikini photo shoot taking place on the beach right behind the "altar" where the bride an groom were standing. So basically you have redneck chaos taking place on one side and a dozen 12 year old boys crowded on the beach behind the bride and groom to look at some hair dresser in a bikini being photographed by some "professional" photographer who was probably just taking pictures for his his home spank-bank collection.

I felt bad for the bride and groom and their families. They had worked hard to plan a nice, fun, event (and it was) only to have the general public ruin it. Moral of the story: Don't have a beach wedding unless it's at a secluded area of the beach.

I don't know that I'd call it trashy, but overly religious weddings are odd too. My friend married a Pentecostal dude and herself converted to their religion. His family is the nicest people I've ever met, but weddings without alcohol or music are pretty different.

The flower girl stood up with us bridesmaids and she started peeing on herself. Like seeped down her stockings onto the floor I guess she thought she had to stand up there with us no matter what so she wasn't risking going to the bathroom and getting in trouble.

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but weddings without alcohol or music are pretty different.

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No music?! I've heard of dry weddings which is bad enough, but that sounds awkward. What do you do? Just eat quietly and go home? Make small talk for 3 hours? I dont understand

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No music?! I've heard of dry weddings which is bad enough, but that sounds awkward. What do you do? Just eat quietly and go home? Make small talk for 3 hours? I dont understand

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Basically, yes. The church is MASSIVE and every member of the church attends your wedding if you go there, so there were enough people that it wasn't totally silent. But still. Just odd.

It was basically like attending a banquet.

Thinking about my extended family: Going pot luck style for food when you're having an actual wedding at a venue that's not your backyard is weird to me too. I could see it being classy if it was like a chef or someone who works for Bon Appetit getting married and all their talented chef friends contributed a dish, but a pot luck wedding in Louisiana means some pretty redneck food.

The average person cooks like shite.

I don’t have a problem with dry weddings as long as they are indoors and the ceremony itself isn’t long. Nobody has any expectation that the reception will go on for very long, so I can go back to doing something I actually want to do.

Let’s see... I went to this wedding for my GFs best friend here in Oregon. I’m a little biased because I’ve only really ever been to southern, mostly catholic weddings. Well the ceremony and reception were at this guys house... we spent all morning getting ready in his double-wide. The groom and one of the men were out and about cutting down madrone trees to make the standing area for the bride and groom (actually was very cool). All the bridesmaids were in bright purple Barbie dresses

what felt like forever passed and it was time to start the ceremony after a morning of dab rips and joints. The house was up on a hill so watching the girls walk down in heels, as well as the brides disabled dad was cringey to say the least. The music was on a tiny speaker so you could barely hear it... I believe there was only one person there in a suit , and it wasn’t the groom. Most people were in jeans and were smoking cigarettes during the ceremony.

There were 75 pot plants behind us because the homeowner was a grower.

Ceremony was quick. Bride and groom disappeared for almost two hrs taking pics at the river in an old truck... it started POURING and everyone crammed up under 3 small tents. I think it goes without saying that we had to help take down the tables and chairs when all was said and done. They served tacos.

I’m actually going hang out with these people now