Went to a white tie wedding (fancier than black tie, all the men had to pay to rent tails and gloves) and the couple had only paid for a bottom shelf bar. That was forgivable, but after the cocktail hour they herded us to our tables in another part of the venue where we spent over an hour sitting with no music or food, and the bars were closed. Eventually since there were no bartenders and nothing else to do people started going behind the bars and making their own drinks or stealing bottles for their tables. Such an odd penny-pinching move while meanwhile asking guests to spend money on very specific clothing for their dress code.

Bride and groom did their first dance then left. Didn’t cut the cake, didn’t say hi to anyone, etc. they literally came in, did their first dance, spoke to someone from the venue and bounced. The reception was supposed to be until after midnight, but everyone left by 9. We asked where they went, and no one knew. It was incredibly weird and a couple weeks later we were told the bride injured herself so they went to their hotel room. She never went to the hospital and they ended up not going on their honeymoon, either. It was super weird and we all have our own theories!

I don’t think of design decisions, wedding preferences or budget as tacky. Rather, I think it’s how you treat your guests. For example, I attended one wedding where the bride privately told me that she would not be greeting any of the guests or going table to table as she wanted to “enjoy” the event. There was another with a clear B-list of guests who were seated in a separate room from the rest of the party. They couldn’t see or hear any of the wedding activities. That is tacky.

Tackiest thing I've seen is the best man being nasty to the bride in the speeches - insulting her appearance and intelligence.

If you watch my wedding video, you can see my newphews punch each other (preschoolers) in the aisle and a relative in the back get up to get a beer. I was stupid happy and didn't care. My husband and I still think it is hilarious 20+ years later.

My centerpieces were from Cracker Barrel. No shame in my saving money game. Also, I nailed my demographic as my mom barely managed to save one for me.

Oh...and a family fued started during the reception. Still ongoing but brief peace during funerals. Family is wild.

Went to a wedding where guests were tasked with something to bring for the wedding, flowers, potato salad, a bottle of wine, a bottle of rum, etc. Everyone was assigned something on the invitation, including alcohol for the reception.

So guests were asked to stock the bar, and then, it was a pay bar.

So guests provided the alcohol and had to pay for it.

The bride wore flip flops down the aisle and guests took their shoes off for the INDOOR ceremony, the reception was buckets of kfc chicken for which they had paper plates only (no cutlery, no napkins) and the cake was supposed to be a geode style thing going down it but looked like a demonic female body part.

A girl I went to uni with sold her MLM trash (oils) at her wedding.

I think the “ dollar “ dance with the bride is TACKY, especially with the encouragement to “bring twenties”. Happened at a wedding I attended. Gross.

At a cousin’s wedding, we (my sister and I) caught the groom’s father and brother trying to take the card box and gifts out to the parking lot. As we were staying with bride’s mom and dad (my Dad’s sister and brother in law), we had been asked to help get the gifts at the end of the night to take back to my aunt’s house. Bride and groom had made it known his family was not to be trusted so sister and I got Dad (I was 14 and sister was 12) and he stopped them. In addition, aunt and uncle paid for the honeymoon yet groom’s father went around asking people for money to help reimburse the $$ he put out for the honeymoon.

At my aunt and uncle's wedding it was a buffet, members of her family brought containers with them up to the buffet and were serving themselves a plate and loading up their containers. The food was gone real fast. My uncle's side is Irish and Scottish while she and her family are Jamaican so we wondered if it was a cultural thing we just didn't understand but my aunt confirmed that they were just being rude and she was actually really upset about it.

Mother of the groom gave a speech that did not once mention the wedding the bride or their future together. It was just an ode to her son.

She used the opportunity to hold a show & tell of all the favourite crafts he had made since he was a little kid. She brought them with her to the venue in a huge bag and held them up for everyone to see

Then at the end of the speech she pulled out his high school football jacket and insisted he take off his suit jacket and try it on.

Same woman also threw a fit when some people from my family were seated at a table slightly closer than her to the head table. We’re very close with the brides side of the family but she insisted that because we’re not blood relatives we needed to sit in the far corner of the room.

Her whole attitude at her sons wedding was tacky and really put off a lot of people.

Ceremony and reception were held at the same location and during supper time. After ceremony we were hanging around for over an hour…no music, no food, no drinks, no bride and groom. We decided to leave and on the way out, passed a private room where the bridal party was eating supper! Nothing for the guests though!

A shirtless fight between the officiant and the groom.

People bringing homemade liquor into the wedding which was held at a bar

Someone left their child in the car so they could party at the wedding


All at the same wedding.

Extended family wedding, the officiant was a friend of the bride and groom and wore a pretty low cut dress, which is fine no judgment there. BUT she had her phone in between her girls when she wasn’t holding it to read from and it was vibrating during the ceremony.

Picture this - beautiful rustic venue with a nice refurbished farm, beautiful fountains, rose bushes everywhere, twinkly lights.

The wedding is on the lawn in-front of the barn. The rose bushes are in a circle around us. White chairs lined with soft white fabric and candles down a flower petal walkway. Just gorgeous.

Time for the groomsmen to walk down.

All of them wear denim jackets with jean Jorts (not even shorts) and Walmart cow-boy boots. They all don’t have an undershirt either. So it’s hairy beer belly fest. You can tell they had been drinking because they stumbled down the aisle.

Okay, maybe it’s not that bad. Maybe they were going for red neck chic.

Then the bridal party comes. They were wearing beautiful blue dresses, just gorgeous. Hair had baby breaths flowers in it. Just gorgeous. The bride then comes down, up until this point her dad had her blindfolded because she wanted her first look to be at the alter (forgot to mention the groom also had a blindfold on, and was given assistance by his mom who scolded him the whole time down the aisle).

Bride gets to alter, the blindfold is removed. Then all you see is the brides face fall, you can see her lips say “where’s your tux?”

Then the groom threw up on her.

So yeah, maybe not the tackiest thing, but definitely something odd

Oh also it was a pot luck wedding, and half the guests got food poisoning.

Camo everything. Tablecloths, ribbons on the bouquets, netting used as decorations, wedding attire, etc.

Live Betta fish in tiny bowls as centerpieces.

I just have a pet peeve for when the bride invests in a gorgeous gown and hair/makeup and the groom shows up in jeans and cowboy boots. I grew up with guys like this and I know how they are, they think suits are lame and make fun of their brides for caring about anything. It just makes me cringe that they can’t set aside their “I’m the most rednecky redneck of them all” identity for one freakin day to look nice and put in effort like their bride did.

OOOH I have a good one!

The caterer at my wedding (chosen by my MIL because they were friends) showed up in her bathrobe and pajamas. Her husband came to help in his construction clothes.

But wait it gets worse.

Turns out the husband was a contractor and had actually done work for my old neighbors who were at the wedding. While he was working for them he robbed them. When my neighbors saw him lurking around the gift table they mentioned it to someone (my MIL) that maybe we should have someone standing by the table and guarding the gifts. My MIL, and the caterer blew up thinking some random woman off the street was here accusing the husband of stealing, and threw my neighbor (who was basically my 2nd set of parents growing up) out of the wedding. Not realizing that they had solid reasoning to be suspicious of him.

My neighbor called me in tears from the parking lot apologizing that she wouldn’t be at my wedding and I had to go out and sort out the drama before the ceremony. My MIL still bad mouths my neighbor to this day when it comes up.

My MMA fighter cousin stood near the gift table for us, but there was one gift that went missing at the end of the day still.

Groom's parents held a gorgeous rehearsal dinner at a very nice restaurant. The groom's parents gave 2 beautiful speeches welcoming their DIL to the family. When they were done, that bride's godfather *stood on a table* and loudly proclaimed that we all needed to know that the South will rise again. 😳

Did I mention the groom's family are nearly all Freestaters from Kansas? Yeah. I've never heard a more awkward deafening silence in my life.

Mine is a powder blue and white color scheme (yikes on several bikes already, IMO) with either "Eugene loves Pauline" or "Pauline loves Eugene" plastered all over EVERYTHING -- napkins, chair covers, tablecloths, cake, balloons, centerpieces, favors, candles, champagne glasses and possibly more that I can't remember. Some of the items were printed on and others just had a sticker on them. Yes, stickers. Seriously. The stickers looked like they came from the dollar store, so they made everything they "adorned" look worse.

There was a huge fight with the relative who did the printing because he wanted to charge more for having to produce two different versions of each item. I don't remember how the situation was resolved, but that whole branch of the family never showed up at the wedding.

The 10 year old son of a couple that was in the wedding party sat with my family for most of the wedding. At one point he looked around, turned to me and said, totally deadpan, "Do you think they love each other? Because I'm not sure." 🤣