Worst Wedding Stories
Feb 17, 2016 12:51:27 GMT -5
Post by ThankfulSnail on Feb 17, 2016 12:51:27 GMT -5
Ohhhhhhh... I forgot about DH's cousin's do-over wedding. They had to get married in a rush so he could get his green card. A year later, they had their "real wedding" (their words).
It was outdoors in a back yard in August, so VERY HOT (obviously not their fault). They only had enough chairs for about 1/3 of the guests and WP announced to everyone before the ceremony that the chairs were for the elderly and those who had difficulty standing, so everyone who was sitting vacated their seats, leaving only about 4 people sitting while everyone else stood for 20 minutes before the ceremony and then the whole ceremony.
They did a dollar dance (not that I have a huge problem with that in and of itself...), plus they did a garter auction (which I've never even heard of before, and ew!), PLUS they had various uncles bar tend for an hour and had a "competition for best uncle" to see who could get the most "tips", with all tips going to the happy couple. Doing just one of those events would have been fine, but all 3 was tacky, especially for a couple who'd already been married for a year.
I was willing to give them the benefit of the doubt and hold back my side-eyeing about their big, poufy white dress wedding when they were already married, thinking that they would really think of that as their wedding day, until the next morning when they were talking about some problems that they had with their room, and I said how much that stunk given they were the special couple, and they told me it was fine because it wasn't like it was their REAL wedding night. I was like, oh. So this really WAS just a cash grab.
It was outdoors in a back yard in August, so VERY HOT (obviously not their fault). They only had enough chairs for about 1/3 of the guests and WP announced to everyone before the ceremony that the chairs were for the elderly and those who had difficulty standing, so everyone who was sitting vacated their seats, leaving only about 4 people sitting while everyone else stood for 20 minutes before the ceremony and then the whole ceremony.
They did a dollar dance (not that I have a huge problem with that in and of itself...), plus they did a garter auction (which I've never even heard of before, and ew!), PLUS they had various uncles bar tend for an hour and had a "competition for best uncle" to see who could get the most "tips", with all tips going to the happy couple. Doing just one of those events would have been fine, but all 3 was tacky, especially for a couple who'd already been married for a year.
I was willing to give them the benefit of the doubt and hold back my side-eyeing about their big, poufy white dress wedding when they were already married, thinking that they would really think of that as their wedding day, until the next morning when they were talking about some problems that they had with their room, and I said how much that stunk given they were the special couple, and they told me it was fine because it wasn't like it was their REAL wedding night. I was like, oh. So this really WAS just a cash grab.