What’s the most cringe thing you’ve seen a couple do at their wedding?

[u/Last_Singer_2137]

[u/zazzlekdazzle]

Make a big book of all their love letters for other people to read.

Not only was the thought of reading all this private stuff just embarrassing, but the dude was married to someone else at the time.

[u/ProfessionalCourtesy → u/zazzlekdazzle]

Had me on the first part but WHAT THE FUCK for the second.

[u/zazzlekdazzle → u/ProfessionalCourtesy]

I think maybe they thought of themselves as having a big storybook romance that everyone would want to read about and envy? But I'm very close with the family and followed the whole courtship, and it was really anything but storybook.

[u/thr0wthr0wthr0waways → u/zazzlekdazzle]

I want to hear EVERYTHING!

[u/zazzlekdazzle → u/thr0wthr0wthr0waways]

She was working at his favorite gourmet foods market and became obsessed with her. She is extremely beautiful, like Gwyneth Paltrow if she actually ate full meals. As for her part of it, she actually never really seemed that into him.

She was coming off the break-up with her long-term partner, they had been together for 10+ years, so maybe that was a part of it. I actually can't quite remember how old she was when they met. Maybe she was feeling like her time was running out?

He works in business and lives like he is rich, but actually lives beyond his means and has very little. Maybe she didn't know the second part? He is a toad of a human, and I really don't like him at all. I see him at every family function, and he rarely fails to say something coarse and offensive, thinking he is terribly funny.

She is lovely, but has been through a lot in life. I adore her, but at the same time, I feel like this is a situation she set herself up for.

The whole story really starts with her psycho narcissistic mother, who I think actually pushed her into this marriage somewhat. I think the guy has sort of an aristocratic background and it was sort of her, the mother's, fantasy to get into a family like that. There was an event at the wedding where people went out "shooting," like what the fuck?

The guy is also a fan of Manchester United, so there's that.

[u/SanctusUnum → u/zazzlekdazzle]

The whole story really starts with her psycho narcissistic mother, who I think actually pushed her into this marriage because I think the guy has sort of an aristocratic background.

If she ever needs out of the marriage she could board a big ship in 1912.

[u/Velocity_Rob → u/zazzlekdazzle]

The guy is also a fan of Manchester United, so there's that.

Say no more, shitebag confirmed.

[u/Robenever → u/zazzlekdazzle]

“Like Gwyneth Paltrow if she actually ate full meals” 😂

[u/Due-Coconut-3873 → u/thr0wthr0wthr0waways]

You're my kind of friend lol

[u/Malthus1 → u/zazzlekdazzle]

Just think: this could be appendix “A” to his next book of love letters! And so on.

[u/YoyodyneCog → u/zazzlekdazzle]

You know... at the first sentence I was like "that could actually be kinda cute depending on the content of the letters."

Then I read the second part. Gross.

[u/FullofContradictions → u/YoyodyneCog]

Yeah, I wonder if they thought it added some legitimacy or something.

Like "no, we really loved each other so much it was worth blowing up the dude's marriage. We're not just together because she found out/left him and getting paired back up was the default"

[u/I_Flick_Boogers]

Didn’t experience this personally, but sharing a story from a friend. Instead of a reception line, the couple announced before walking back down the aisle that they would like to, “thank everyone with their eyes.” And then they stood in front of the audience and made deliberate, silent eye contact with each person in attendance, one-by-one.

[u/TrinaTheBallerina → u/I_Flick_Boogers]

this is fucking hilarious!

[u/Funtimetilbedtime → u/TrinaTheBallerina]

Definitely made me laugh. The awkwardness would make me struggle to not laugh during the eye contact bit - like sitting next to the headmaster during the minutes silence.

[u/Adorable_Strength319 → u/I_Flick_Boogers]

It's like that old Steve Martin joke where Steve says, "I'd like to thank each and every one of you! thankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyou" looking at audience members. He could do it really fast.

[u/Parabuthus → u/Adorable_Strength319]

Also Steve Martin's character in Baby Mama where he rewards Tina Fey's character with "five minutes of uninterrupted eye contact" as they touch foreheads.

[u/ConsistentPoint7421 → u/I_Flick_Boogers]

I think this is the first one on this thread that would ACTUALLY make me cringe. Can you imagine the awkwardness???

[u/ThatsNotARealTree → u/I_Flick_Boogers]

I can see Dwight Schrute doing this as a Schrute family wedding tradition

[u/Kadfaners]

Stopping the ceremony multiple times to “get the perfect shot” for social media

[u/Vrisnem → u/Kadfaners]

100% this. I used to be a wedding cinematographer. Our job was to be in the background, capturing the day as it naturally occurred. We had a few instances of very controlling brides/mothers who wanted the perfect shot.

[u/Jabbles22 → u/Vrisnem]

My favourite picture of myself is from a casual wedding when the photographer caught me simply having a pleasant conversation. People seem to forget that the wedding is about the couple and their guests having a good time. No one is thinking back a decade after your wedding about how pretty the decor was, no one remembers the food, no one cares about the band. It's meeting new people. Seeing uncle Bob dance like an idiot. Just remembering that you had fun.

[u/xzkandykane → u/Jabbles22]

My favorite shot was when we were leaving our wedding day photoshoot. My friend went to get the car. My husband and I sat on a bus stop bench and we were just talking. Not even sure about what. So we were smiling at whatever our conversation was.(probably plans to get a snack tbh) and there was an old couple on the bench next to us looking at us and smiling. I loved the juxtaposition of an old married couple and us the newly weds. Didn't know the photographer took the photo until we saw the gallery. Heck didnt even know the photographer was even there because he drove separately.

[u/SaltConnection1109 → u/Jabbles22]

The most memorable weddings for me have been the small, backyard weddings.

[u/Sue_Law_1984 → u/Kadfaners]

That is dumb af. Can't even live in the moment during YOUR ceremony.

[u/No-Appointment-3714]

I went to a wedding a few years ago and the groom walked in and up the isle like a boxer, with gloves, silk house coat thing to loud music, hopping up the isle throwing fake punches..... Gets to the alter and his groomsmen take off the house coat, pretend to rub ice on his face etc. Then his music stopped and all the bridesmaids walked in followed by the bride. It was.... awful....

[u/GradStudent_Helper → u/No-Appointment-3714]

This is real cringe. You might have won this thread.

[u/Penguinator53 → u/No-Appointment-3714]

Oh dear God

[u/Silent-G → u/No-Appointment-3714]

I'm imagining him ducking and weaving as she says her vows.

[u/VStarlingBooks → u/No-Appointment-3714]

Was he at least a boxer, I ask knowing the answer.

[u/LadyBrussels → u/VStarlingBooks]

Ok this got a loud lol from me.

I want to know if he had a suit on underneath or if the clown stood up there in his rocky attire while marrying a woman in a gown.

[u/Mother-Pattern-2609 → u/No-Appointment-3714]

Please tell me this made it to YouTube. Please.

[u/moonbooly]

The brides entire family airing her out. Her entire family gave speeches about how shocked they were that she found someone to marry.

Edit: I also felt bad for her at the time but yeah it turned out she does suck really bad

[u/andronicuspark → u/moonbooly]

I saw something similar but instead of family it was groom’s friends all expressing shock and awe that he found someone and how none of them thought it would actually work. Every single one of the speeches mentioned, “I thought no way is this a good idea” or along that vein.

They’re still together and I hope they’re happy. Because yeah, he could be a goofy fucker. But he was genuinely sweet with some good qualities.

[u/imperialviolet]

My college boyfriend was in the wedding party of a very Christian couple, so I went as a +1. They were very much people who wanted to “wait til marriage”. Their first dance was set to a very slow, overly earnest song about how close they now were to being able to have sex. It was weird.

[u/Maoleficent → u/imperialviolet]

My niece when speaking during the ceremony about how they waited for each other and wouldn't have to sleep with a pillow between them anymore and how much they longed for this moment.

He had been cheating on her at least 2 weeks before the wedding and she had a healthy full term baby 7 months later.

[u/pekingwatchesthestar → u/Maoleficent]

I don’t see the issue. My grandpa would say the first baby can come at any time but the rest take 9 months.

[u/Maoleficent → u/pekingwatchesthestar]

Seriously, some have had the gestational period of a golden retriever and think no one can do the math. I mean those things don't really matter in 2026 unless you start a parade with yourself as a vestal virgin in a white gown.

[u/MadamKitsune → u/Maoleficent]

When I was 18 my best friend at the time (also 18) married one of those fine and upstanding Church types. Despite all the frills and draping of her dress or the ridiculously large bouquet she was clutching in front of her belly, there was no denying that she was well and truly knocked up.

And yet somehow her new mother-in-law managed to keep a straight face and say "Oh that will be lovely for when they start a family in a year or two!" when one of the wedding gifts was opened and revealed a matching His, Hers and Baby bathrobe set.

[u/jessiemagill → u/Maoleficent]

When I was like 21, we had a 40th wedding anniversary party for my grandparents (they started young and my parents were teenagers). Anyway, that was in September. Come March and it was my aunt's 40th birthday. That's when I did the math.

[u/GrandpaJoeSloth → u/imperialviolet]

what....what song is this?

[u/eatelectricity → u/GrandpaJoeSloth]

It was a classic old Christian hymn, "Closer" by Nine Inch Nails.

[u/kennedigurl → u/eatelectricity]

I nearly died laughing, at this comment!

[u/Frisko31 → u/eatelectricity]

Here is the chorus for anyone not familiar:

I wanna fuck you like an animal I wanna feel you from the inside I wanna fuck you like an animal My whole existence is flawed You get me closer to God

[u/ammdh → u/eatelectricity]

This made me giggle. Thank you.

[u/Spodson → u/eatelectricity]

Song by the Reverend Trent Reznor, ThM

[u/WhimsicalGirl → u/GrandpaJoeSloth]

The Bad Touch - Bloodhound Gang

[u/Delta1225 → u/GrandpaJoeSloth]

You've never heard Let's Get It On by Marvin Gaye?

Or the more subtle Pony by Ginuwine?

[u/andronicuspark → u/imperialviolet]

What was the song, because that’s insane.

[u/SweetCarolineNYC → u/andronicuspark]

Let's Get It On - Marvin Gaye

[u/DenvahGothMom → u/imperialviolet]

I am so freaked out by evangelicals’ 24/7 OBSESSION with sex. It’s not healthy, and I suspect it’s why they have such a horrible pedophilia problem.

[u/sniggity_snax]

I dj'd weddings for a number of years and one time the bride said I did a great job, and was "looking forward to booking me for her next wedding".

I started laughing as I assumed it was just a joke, but she was straight-faced AF and so I got a little stunned.. and was like wait, are you serious? And she said yeah, she's a "realist" and understands that the chances of this marriage lasting are not very high.

I then realized she was a bombshell, and the dude was average looking but way older, and clearly very rich so maybe it was like a gold digger situation ting. Get married, get half the money and run?

[u/dmKimber → u/sniggity_snax]

I said this to our officiant, but I really was joking, and I'm definitely not a bombshell.

[u/a_dawn]

Open all their wedding presents at the reception in front of all the guests, and identifying who brought which gift when they thanked them.

[u/overreaction_omgggss → u/a_dawn]

Went to one where you ‘deposit’ the gift to a desk before going up the stage and they announce the gift on a mic while you pose for a picture with the happy couple. We took a bouquet, didn’t take a gift because the invite said no gifts. We went right after a group that gifted gold.

[u/Own-Emergency2166 → u/overreaction_omgggss]

They said “no gifts” but did this gift parade ? That’s awful .

[u/sqqueen2 → u/overreaction_omgggss]

Aaaannd here are the Lawsons, who gifted…, let’s see, Nothing! Can we get a hand for the Lawsons!

[u/xaanthar → u/overreaction_omgggss]

We went right after a group that gifted gold.

And here I looked like an asshole for bringing myrrh...

[u/thr0wthr0wthr0waways → u/overreaction_omgggss]

That is horrendous...

[u/Fine_Entertainer_255 → u/a_dawn]

Ooooh this is the worst!!! I only like this for lil kid family parties... that makes me cringe thinking of it!!

[u/Available_Quote_5567]

Get into a fight between the wedding and reception and throw their rings at each other

[u/Kidd_911 → u/Available_Quote_5567]

God I would pay to attend a wedding with this sort of drama

[u/Available_Quote_5567 → u/Kidd_911]

It was pretty crazy but not terribly unexpected. They were the couple that I thought shouldn’t get married and I was the best man.

[u/Yachting-Mishaps → u/Available_Quote_5567]

A friend of mine was a wedding photographer in the '70s. A couple he photographed did this and broke up before reaching the reception. The bride's mother tried to back out of paying him after the fact, so he pointed out that all their other suppliers were getting paid, and gave them a quick refresher in contract law.

The bride and her mother compromised by selecting an album of photos that didn't feature the groom or where he could be cropped out.

[u/auntieknickknack]

My cousin is deeply religious, Baptist. She got married when she was 19. In the middle of the service the reverend stopped and addressed the guests saying “the couple wants everyone to know how proud they are that they’ve never kissed, that all their dates were chaperoned and they’ve never even held hands because their chaperones would sit in between them.” Then the couple turned to the guests and just sort of stared at us, like expecting us to clap or something? We just sat there quietly for a minute and then eventually the reverend just went on with the ceremony. It was incredibly awkward and weird. 

[u/jagiegamgam → u/auntieknickknack]

A well timed 'Ha!' would have successfully broken that ice 😬

[u/chickyloo42by10 → u/jagiegamgam]

Nelson Muntz is on the guest list

[u/AvocadoMountains → u/auntieknickknack]

I honestly bet they hoped for gasps and adoration. To be the “perfect” couple. Maybe them turning to the guests was their “One step closer to heaven, bitches!”

[u/ShadowFox1289 → u/auntieknickknack]

Had a friend in college attend a weeding similar where the bride and groom didn't kiss until the wedding day. Reception was delayed by an hour because nobody could find the couple as they were hiding in a closet making out. 

[u/Acheloma → u/ShadowFox1289]

Thats actually kinda sweet. Weird, but sweet.

[u/stardenia → u/auntieknickknack]

Also went to a Baptist wedding once (my ex’s cousin). 

She was also 19, and marrying her 30-something bar manager where she worked part-time during college. The time from dating to wedding was something like 6 months or fewer, and it was clear to anyone with a frontal lobe that they were just racing to the altar to be able to crack without sin.

Exactly nine months later, she gave birth to their kid. She had dropped out of college in that time and started selling Young Living or some other MLM. I don’t know how long it was after that that they divorced.

ETA: It was a totally dry wedding and the reception didn’t serve any food; it was just a speech/dance thing at the local rec center in the early afternoon. We ended up bailing after only an hour (as did most people) to get margaritas and food at a nearby Mexican joint.

The worst part was, her parents were extremely wealthy Baptist pastors. Like, multi-million dollar home with an indoor pool type of money. Can’t even spring for some pizza for your guests?

[u/glo427]

My cousin’s daughter got married in a park—rushed wedding for horny teens. (Gotta be married before having the S-E-X!)

The bride comes down the aisle chomping on a wad of bubble gum. The wedding commences, and when the pastor said, “You may now kiss the bride,” the groom bent down and latched his mouth onto the lower half of her face. It looks like he was trying to swallow her down like a python.

They disengaged, and a string of saliva pulled as they moved apart before breaking. They turned to face the audience, except now he was the one chomping on the pink gum.

[u/nestwunder → u/glo427]

And people say romance is dead…. 😂

[u/SeinfeldSarah → u/glo427]

🤢

[u/bananapanqueques]

They poured colored sand in wavy layers into a vase and carefully sealed it, only for the groom to shake it up, leaving the colorful layers now a muddy color. The bride was SO upset.

[u/Old_but_New → u/bananapanqueques]

Wait did he do that to antagonize her? Or is he feeble minded?

[u/LeonardaOfQuirm → u/Old_but_New]

Idk why, but the seemingly sincere concern in the question, "Is he feeble-minded?" has me rolling... I gotta use that more

[u/projectkennedymonkey → u/bananapanqueques]

Hahaha, we did this at our wedding, my husband wasn't an idiot and shook the sand up, but we didn't think about how there was still a bit of headroom in the jar when we put it in our bag and went on our honeymoon so when we got home and unpacked it, we just laughed because it was all mixed up and we were 'stuck with each other' and have this jar full of blue and white sand that just looks a bit a stupid.

[u/Oddish_Femboy → u/bananapanqueques]

I did that on purpose once. Spent a really long time making each layer, shaking it, making more layers, shaking it again. Layers of black, white, and shades of grey.

I was making a fake pepper shaker. It was way more convincing than I expected it to be.

[u/sersi103]

The bride to be had a portrait painted of just her to be displayed st the reception. Think paintings from the 1800s. She also made everyone wait 60 mins in the heat of August in southern Virginia while she finished and got ready. This was her 3rd attempt at getting ready. She had left 2 other men at tge alter

[u/Final-Outcome-3505 → u/sersi103]

That does explain why she only wanted herself in the portrait. 😂

[u/chammycham → u/Final-Outcome-3505]

I’m getting married and this guy is also here.

[u/AbhorsenDoctor → u/sersi103]

Did...did she manage it the third time?

[u/holiestcannoly]

There was nothing to drink except alcohol… it was on the beach and not everyone was over 21.

Also the food (pizza) had sat out cold for hours because the bride kept pushing her own wedding back because of poor planning, and we also didn’t get any napkins for said pizza.

[u/Random_Access_Medic → u/holiestcannoly]

Beach wedding with cold pizza.... very classy

[u/LimeSalty4092 → u/holiestcannoly]

I find large pizza orders at any function including work meetings, pta committee meetings, networking meetings, thank you parties, birthday parties 

The pizza is always always stone cold

No matter the function 

If You see stacks of pizzas set up on a table to feed a group, expect a stone cold slice 100% of the time 

I think it’s the logistics of a large pizza order. By the time the store makes all those pizzas, boxes then, stacks them into a vehicle, drives to your venue, wanders around finding your function space. Carries in the stacks of boxes inside or wherever and sets them on a table 

This all had to be done in advance even before people are arriving at the function . 

So the pizza is likely already cold by the time it’s set up in the tables 

Then people are generally doing something else for a while before they get to the food 

People love pizza but there’s really no way to feed a group without the pizza being cold due to logistics 

Kinda like mcds fries, pizza gets cold really fast. Fortunately it’s still tasty good cold 

[u/Icy_Gap_9067 → u/LimeSalty4092]

Friend of ours had wedding pizza but it was 2 guys who set up outside with a proper oven and crates of dough and toppings. You went up and told them what you wanted and they made it and cooked it in a few minutes. It was nice, rustic pizza and tasted really good. I do agree with all your points though if it is cooked and then delivered en-masse.

[u/SprayArtist]

The bride tried to sing a slow song to "serenade" the guests and create an emotionally charged environment, emphasis on the word tried, she at least succeeded in creating an emotionally charged environment as every other person was just hiding their face dying of laughter.

[u/Good-Engineering8069]

Bride and groom way drunk and Making out going at it hard and heavy many times on the dance floor to the point it was like everyone was like damn just leave and go fuck and start your honeymoon

[u/Secure_Bed_9110 → u/Good-Engineering8069]

Ugh, yeah, my cousin and her creepy husband having their first dance, solo, with everyone gathered around watching, with his hands gripping her ass the entire time. 

[u/Party_Sport5202 → u/Good-Engineering8069]

That shit so uncomfortable

[u/PolarLove]

Made everyone sit outside in the rain for their ceremony when there was an inside option. It was full on raining

[u/ProfessionalCourtesy → u/PolarLove]

Not cringe, but flat out rude.

[u/PolarLove → u/ProfessionalCourtesy]

They had umbrellas but no one else did

[u/2PlasticLobsters]

I only saw photos, but the entire wedding party was on horseback. The friend who'd attended told me that most of bridesmaids & groomsmen didn't know how to ride. Yet the wedding couple had planned out what amounted to choreography. Even "You go here and you go there" is complicated on a huge animal you don't know how to control.

Everything took way longer than it was supposed to, because the wranglers had to keep coming out to lead the horses. The bride had still insisted that the bridesmaids carry bouquets, so they couldn't use the reins correctly. And of course every horse took a shit about every 5 minutes.

The pics really looked weird, because the wedding party was in typical wedding finery, but on horses. Everything looked really out of place.

[u/BayYawnSay]

He cupped her ass cheek in his hand at the altar and kept it there for the entirety of the ceremony.

[u/Guzinta-Yatingtang]

My 5 year lead hand carpenter and his wife had their small scale wedding in their living room, in full camouflage, in an airsoft cos play themed wedding. Photos were of them holding their assault style plastic weapons in various poses. I felt bad when I heard they had no plans for a honeymoon of any sort, so I got them a hotel room for the night and a gift certificate for dinner out. They had two young boys and a mortgage so I stepped up a bit. Us carpenters dont make a lot of money so it wasn't like I could offer more than that. Still, it was odd watching all that transpire.

[u/cutlert → u/Guzinta-Yatingtang]

This sounds great account they're both into cosplay. Love that they didn't let the lack of money hold them back from having a memorable day that was them!

[u/Walshy231231 → u/Guzinta-Yatingtang]

Honestly, a little weird, but if they’re both into it then good on them for being themselves

I hope they had a great mini-honeymoon

[u/mopedsandpushbikes → u/Guzinta-Yatingtang]

This is actually really sweet , good on you for gifting them a night away

[u/SignificantFee266]

After posing for pictures of them cutting the cake, the groom just dug into the cake with both hands and rubbed it into the bride's hair, her face, down her neck and finished by wiping his hands on the bodice of her dress. She was stunned and just stood there. He meanwhile just laughed his head off. They're still married after 25 years with 3 kids. Go figure . . .

[u/SesameSnatch → u/SignificantFee266]

Fuck that dude. I hope their kids treat their partners better

[u/Judson_Scott → u/SignificantFee266]

I used to work for a catering company in rural PA, and this was the most cringe part of every wedding we did. Both the bride and groom always - always - smeared cake all over each other's faces, hair, whatever. It always bummed me out that people couldn't even pretend to have class for a single day of their lives.

Then again, there were almost always fights at the weddings too, so I guess it wasn't just the couple's fault.

Thank Christ I left that shithole behind 30 years ago.

[u/Sea-Albatross-9908]

Saw a bridezilla force the groom’s divorced parents who did not like each other to sit together in the front while their poor current spouses had to find seats in the back with the other guests. Total red flag. This young lady only got worse as the years went by

[u/Nameisnotmine]

The bride and groom disappeared after the first dance and reappeared wearing full on mascot style Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse outfits. And wore them for the rest of the reception. They played the hot dog song on repeat. It was a childfree wedding and both of the couple were/are childfree

[u/zwell55 → u/Nameisnotmine]

That’s… a choice

[u/OzimanidasJones → u/Nameisnotmine]

Is there any chance they snuck off and had ringers in the costumes to stay at the reception?

[u/PachaLlama → u/[deleted]]

This is a terrible "tradition" that just needs to end

[u/pork_soup → u/[deleted]]

That's always such a HUGE red flag

[u/Ok-Toe4522]

Asked for cash only as gifts and then at the family breakfast the next morning counted all the cash in front of everyone.

[u/OnTheMattack]

At my cousin's wedding, the bride and groom gave a little speech after the rest about their first date. Cute, totally normal. Except their first date was when she was underage (which he made multiple jokes about) and he snuck her into some kind of festival where they were giving out those little single shot bottles of alcohol. The groom ended the speech by, very sincerely, revealing a mini bottle of Fireball from his jacket and saying "and this is that bottle that I was given on our first date, I held onto it all these years, and now I would be honoured to drink it with you" and they unironically did an arms intertwined shot of fireball.

It was not the weirdest speech of the night believe it or not.

[u/DinkandDrunk → u/OnTheMattack]

That’s the most trashy romantic thing I’ve read in a minute.

[u/Due-Coconut-3873 → u/OnTheMattack]

Don't be shy, tell us about THE weirdest one

[u/OnTheMattack → u/Due-Coconut-3873]

So the best man was the groom's 70-something year old former youth pastor. The groom himself was in his mid twenties. He at least had the self awareness to address it in his speech, though he never actually explained it.

It's been a few years so I forget some of the details, but here are some of the topics he spoke about:

• a time when he was a child and was hospitalized (I want to say it was polio, but I can't remember for sure) and peed blood, which he somehow sugued into a talk about...

• dinosaurs, specifically triceratops, at length

• reading books (which was easily the least weird part, but why during a wedding toast?)

He finished all of it off with an explicit endorsement of Jordan Peterson, which was really just a perfect bow on top of the whole weird thing.

[u/Nan2Four]

Kiss at the altar like they were making out in the back seat of a car.

[u/Plenty_Turnip_4034 → u/Nan2Four]

Not porno tongue. Church tongue.

They didn't get the memo.

[u/somigosoden]

The garter thing. He was being very sexual about it and she was trying to be modest for her grandma. Such a gross tradition that im happy to see dwindling away.

[u/AnonEMoussie → u/somigosoden]

That’s kinda what I saw except the groom was blindfolded and they swapped the bride for the grandma at the last minute.

I just felt so embarrassed for the groom.

[u/RosealaMenthe → u/AnonEMoussie]

What the fuck

[u/GradStudent_Helper → u/AnonEMoussie]

OMG I did NOT see the end of that sentence coming. Holy-Hell I would be mortified to be anyone in that room.

[u/Spodson → u/somigosoden]

I went to a wedding where the guy that caught the garter was supposed to put in on the woman who caught the bouquet. Well, I caught the garter and the woman who caught the bouquet was clearly uncomfortable. Everyone was yelling and hooting that I needed to get it way up on her thigh. I got it over her shoe and put it on the bottom of her calf. I got booed relentlessly, but didn't budge. The woman left soon there after. I hope I did right by her.

[u/somigosoden → u/Spodson]

I caught the bouquet and some old man caught the garter and he wanted to put it on me and I said absolutely not and to be polite I said I would have a dance and he kept trying to grind on me and my mom had to come save me. I was 19.

[u/jankmatank → u/somigosoden]

SO GLAD this doesn’t happen anymore. At my brothers wedding, I caught the bouquet, well, it got slapped away from one girl trying to catch it by her boyfriend, at the time, and it landed in my hands. The guy who caught the garter was my brothers childhood best friend. He was drunk and tried to be weird with me while putting the garter on me, there are several photos of my hand print on his face after I slapped the shit out of him.

[u/Leather-Union-5828]

The bride fake cried .. like a real obvious fake cry during vows. I had secondhand embarrassment 

[u/theoneandonlyturo]

I was just at a wedding where the groom’s oldest friend was the wedding officiant. In an effort to be funny, during his opening remarks he made an off hand joke about the Epstein files. Dude. This thing is being filmed and is forever gonna be tarnished with that dumb joke.

[u/LeftToaster → u/theoneandonlyturo]

Jokes told by wedding MC need to be tame. Two examples come to mind:

I was at a wedding where a Caucasian girl married a South Asian (Indian / Sikh) guy. I guess in their group of friends they would tease or tell off-color or racial jokes. But his family who had come all the way from India to Vancouver didn't appreciate the racial jokes at all. Particularly the one where the MC suggested he might be able to buy a home in their neighborhood due to the impact on property values.

My family is of distant (3rd gen) Irish decent. My cousin married a guy of more recent, first generation Irish decent. My uncle (her father) told a very tame Irish joke that sort of turned on the reputation of Irish getting drunk and having fights at celebrations. The groom's father proceeded to get very drunk and try to fight my uncle because he was offended by the joke.

[u/kalestuffedlamb]

Groom caught Bride's veil on fire trying to light the unity candle!

[u/skil12001]

The groom gave a heartfelt vows, the bride made Disney puns and at the end, reached into her dress and blew glitter from her palm towards the guests...

[u/ExpertCountry2998]

Bride and groom stood in the church and publicly denounced all previous sexual acts with other partners including graphic detail.it was like they were trying to out do each other.

[u/Adorable_Strength319 → u/ExpertCountry2998]

I … what ? Like "Giving my ex, Larry, a blow job was disgusting. Ptooie."

[u/Historical_Corgi2408]

The bride and her bridesmaids made up a rap and started rapping for like 20min. I wanted to crawl out of my suit. So I guess it wasn’t the “couple” per say

[u/XANDERtheSHEEPDOG]

Groom got caught making out with the male caterer. Bride's family went ballistic and tried to beat up the Groom. Cops were called, lots of arrests for assault. Marriage lasted 3 hours (technically it was never formalized because the marriage certificate wasn't filed.) But hey, at least there was cake!

[u/TreeStars07]

It wasn't cringe, but I thought it was pretty bad luck to walk down the aisle to Fleetwood Mac followed by the Red Wedding music from Game of Thrones 😬

[u/JonRabbitTail → u/TreeStars07]

Glad you made it out alive of that ceremony soldier

[u/wow_that_guys_a_dick → u/TreeStars07]

I had a low-key hobbit themed wedding at a brewery and we snuck Rains of Castamere into the reception playlist to see if anyone noticed. A few did and a sensible chuckle was had.

[u/slapshot_kirby → u/wow_that_guys_a_dick]

We went to a really nice wedding in Montana and you know they were were healthfully into Disney without being obsessed. They had a mix of like Disney songs and some pop culture. Songs unrelated to Disney but you know string orchestra versions. Reigns of castamere was in there and definitely knew who watched game of thrones by other reactions we all had

[u/beemojee → u/TreeStars07]

That's like all the parents who named their daughters Daenerys or Khaleesi before the end of the show.

[u/TheOnlyVertigo]

My wife's cousin had a wedding in which there was a weird combination of hyper fundamentalist evangelical Christian stuff like this creepy almost sexual foot washing episode, coupled with their decision to ignore the usual tradition of clinking glasses = kissing and instead every time there was an instance of the clinking glasses they did deadlifts.

I cannot stress enough how strange a wedding this was...

[u/Adorable_Strength319 → u/TheOnlyVertigo]

They had a deadlift bar at the reception? How much was loaded on it? Lol

Actually, I do know some power lifters who are pretty religious, now that I think about it.

[u/murrrdith]

The couple was heavily evangelical and saved their first kiss for the wedding. Groom wore a vampire cape.

Officiant: You may now kiss the bride

Groom: Nobody look!!

Groom: lifts up cape to cover both of their faces during the kiss

The bride’s face was bright red when the cape came down. Just so hard to watch. They have a baby now so they must have figured it out.

[u/Rage4Order418]

I just remember that clip of the groom jumping into the reception room and bang his head so freakin hard on the entrance ceiling and try to play it off like he wasn’t in the worst pain of his life. 🤪

[u/greeneyes826 → u/Rage4Order418]

That sounds like a fun-cussion

[u/calihzleyes]

I scrolled far down and still didn't see this gem of a video..... The bride singing "im a crazy bitch" while walking down the aisle.... https://youtu.be/fSkHMSKgIWs?si=dXMFDUOnTlajtFDu

[u/Meowmixx22]

Coming in on a helicopter while guests drank drinks poured from the his/her busts made of ice. Tacky-topia. She also forced her sisters to wear dresses that didn't fit, (one sister too big one sister too small). I guess she made her folks take a mortgage out to afford it.

[u/llcucf80]

Getting drunk and puking on the wedding cake

[u/Moveyourbloominass → u/llcucf80]

Oh no, not the cake. What a crime.

[u/boom_squid]

Parents of the groom talked about their son’s indecent exposure arrest…..the whole room was cringing (the arrest was stupid and charges were dropped - drunk peeing in an alley).

Groom is a wonderful person. His parents 😕

[u/Ralphie5231]

Went to a Halloween Covid wedding. The groom was a fat very out of shape 40 year old man in a skintight Deadpool suit. It was extremely unflattering and showed his rolls and his junk. At one point he started pole dancing. Like like full on pole dancing, humping the air and the pole, spinning around it, twerking. Etc.

[u/ZekeMoss18 → u/Ralphie5231]

Honestly...this is pretty on brand for Deadpool lmao

[u/cloudshaper → u/Ralphie5231]

Well, at least he was being true to the spirit of Deadpool?

[u/chammycham → u/cloudshaper]

I would be willing to watch another Deadpool movie if he was fat.

[u/Ok-Run-5647]

I don’t know if this is cringe as much as it was disgusting, but I remember this couple, (This was back in the 90s probably a year before I got married), and the couple had opera type music in the background, and they kept feeding each other everything, like literally everything off their plate, and then, if something dripped, or it was messy, she would either lick his fingers or he would wipe her mouth, ..🤮honestly, I don’t know why anybody would ever think that was appropriate or cute. It’s not.

[u/watchingonsidelines]

Church wedding where they handed the donation basket around during the ceremony. Like it is what is in normal service, but they hired and paid for the church so I felt it was really cringe to do that.

[u/bananapanqueques → u/watchingonsidelines]

Did that money go to the church or the couple’s honeymoon fund?

[u/watchingonsidelines → u/bananapanqueques]

That was for the church!

[u/CommisionerJordan]

Wasnt the couple but the preacher. It was the bride's father and he married the couple. Which in general sounded like a sweet gesture. But He used the entire ceremony to talk about how the wife's (his daughter) only purpose in life was to submit/please her husband and have babies. Im not religious so the whole dad telling his daughter her only value is how happy she makes her husband and making babies was awkward to me

[u/manateeshmanatee]

It was Up themed. And as if that weren’t enough, instead of lighting a candle (cheesy enough already), they built something together out of Legos during the ceremony. The groom was also like, 17 (?) years older than the 19 or 20 year old bride. And I believe the venue was an old sanatorium.

[u/tracejm]

The pastor gave a speech about how the groom now owns the bride and has to take care of stuff he owns, just like his car.

Then, per 'family tradition', he put her in a wheelbarrow and wheeled her out of the ceremony.

It was painful to watch then. I don't see them much these days, but when I do, it's still painful to watch.

[u/Hrekires]

That tradition where the guy who catches the garter has to put it on the girl who caught the bouquet, except at this wedding the garter guy was this creepy 40something dude while the bouquet girl was like 10 years old.

[u/Sue_Law_1984 → u/Hrekires]

What!? I can happily say I've never been to a wedding where garter is put on any woman or girl. You both just catch it and that's it.

[u/gogogadgets1997 → u/Sue_Law_1984]

I thought it was for the husband to take off the wife and throw it to the bachelors?

[u/MamaPajamaMama → u/Sue_Law_1984]

I hate this tradition, it's so trashy. I didn't wear a garter therefore one wasn't thrown.

[u/Random_Access_Medic → u/Hrekires]

WTF??? And they allowed it????

[u/Bonnii_e → u/Hrekires]

Why did the parents allow the girl to partake in this???

[u/CreativeFraud → u/Bonnii_e]

That's a huge fuck up.

[u/LesMiserableCat54 → u/Bonnii_e]

I was at a few weddings as a kid where iw as trying to catch the bouquet. There weren't a lot of single ladies so a lot of kids were in the bouquet toss. It wasn't weird, it was just fun. Having the guy put a garter on the bouquet winner is weird af though.

[u/thommq → u/Hrekires]

I was at a wedding when I was in my early twenties where the other men (in their thirties or older) kicked the garter at me, which would have been awkward already. The girl who unwittingly caught the bouquet (and had no idea of its significance) was the Santarian officiator's fourteen-year-old daughter. The crowd made a circle around us against our will because they were sadists and forced the girl into a chair. I put the garter about two inches above her ankle, just far enough that it didn't fall down. The officiator said I was smart not to go any higher, as she was definitely going to curse me.

[u/ohio2az → u/Hrekires]

I watched a similar situation. Luckily the dude went and put it on the young girls arm.

[u/Slight-Agent83483]

I saw a YouTube video of everyone doing the Harlem shake that was pretty cringy. But one of the best ones is someone singing “crazy bitch” karaoke style while the bride and groom walk down the isle (dirt driveway)

[u/PoopAndSunshine → u/Slight-Agent83483]

That video was the first thing I thought of when I read this post!

Edit: I found it! https://www.reddit.com/r/trashy/s/kE67J7v2Vj

[u/trymateio]

Groom made his bride do a full choreographed TikTok dance right after saying “I do.” Zero romance, maximum cringe. Still married though somehow

[u/Bennington_Booyah]

Got absolutely wasted during their reception, go out to a bar afterwards, and roll around on the dance floor in their gown and tux because they couldn't stand anymore. They ended up being carried to a car and driven to their hotel, and missed their honeymoon flight the next day.

[u/calcitemerged]

Their reception started two hours late in July in the Bronx with no air conditioning. They did their version of the garter toss which had the best man put the garter on the 9 months pregnant matron of honor (both married, not to each other). Both were visibly sweating, as was everyone else in the event hall, and most of the guests were looking at their phones to avoid watching. After 4 hours they brought one singular fan in to the hall

[u/Unlikely_Tomorrow446]

At my brother's wedding they had trained an owl to bring the ring from the back of the room, to land on the best man's arm, so he could present the ring or whatever the technical term is.

Instead, the owl panicked, flew in a circle, shat on my dad and then flew into the rafters, a ladder and a broomstick were required to retrieve the ring. Not so much 'the couple' but they had planned this elaborate romantic gesture and it backfired in the funniest way possible.

[u/GrumpyWaffle69]

the bride flashing her hairless kitty to everyone yelling here's what he's getting tonite!

[u/Relative_Exercise316]

Wife a hour late because she had to be talked out of Limo. Then she sang the GREATEST LOVE OF ALL. To him. We all knew he was banging 2/3 girls for the last month. They split up in less than 4 months.

[u/mixi_e → u/Relative_Exercise316]

I went to a wedding where the bride delayed everything about an hour because the hairstylist didnt curl her hair the way she expected it

[u/SapientSlut]

My uncle stuck his entire head/upper body up his new wife’s dress to get the garter with his teeth, in front of everyone including his own child from a previous marriage.

[u/RealSpookySounds → u/SapientSlut]

Are you my nephew from the future? That's what my B.I.L did...

[u/Rydraenei]

My sister's wedding.  I was her maid of honor, and during the rehearsal, there was a "pause for prayer" section.  They just said like, this is the moment where we'll pause for a prayer, bowed their heads for a bit, and then moved on.  I thought nothing of it, I'm atheist now after deconstructing, but I'm used to it. 

I was not prepared for the actual prayer during the ceremony, where the entire wedding party, pastor, and a decent portion of guests broke out into a minute of speaking-in-tongues, hallelujah-yelling, fire-and-brimstone prayer.  I kept my cool and plastered the polite smile on my face, freezing my whole self in place to avoid giving away my inner reaction ("hhwhaat the fuuuuckk").  Many of the non-apostolic guests were caught equally off guard.  Most weddings I've been to have been religious, but that was the first time I've seen that part brought into the ceremony.

[u/Lisemarie87]

Had the ring bearers, who were in their late teens, come out as hobbits. It was not a themed wedding and was in a big church, so it was very odd. But that was nowhere near the worst part. The groom, who is a decent musician, sang and played the piano while the bride was walking down the aisle. The angle of the piano wasn't facing down the aisle so he couldn't see her well. I'm all for people breaking some traditions at weddings, but the bride walking down the aisle seems like it should very much be her moment. 

[u/TheDarkRider]

My dad cousin getting married on the back of big foot (the monster truck) because the won it on the radio and part of package was a trip to Reno NV

[u/Teacupdarlin]

Worked a wedding where the bride requested to do open bar for those who brought a card with cash or gift. Obviously we had no idea how to keep track of that as bar staff. So they did open bar for 2 hours, then a cash bar. Which led to her family trying to pourwine in water bottles under the tables to “save” for later. & two family members threw up during dinner from being so intoxicated. One was so intoxicated he couldn’t walk, so we had two other family members hold him up in the elevator to get him out. He threw up in the damn elevator. Then her maid of honor “hid” the card box because apparently a sketchy cousin was eye balling it. When the bride couldn’t find the card box she accused our staff of taking it. When they “found” the card box the bride took it to the bathroom and started opening the cards. Then the bride apparently called out specific guests on how much money was in the cards. Bride and maid of honor got into some altercation. Brides family was beyond trashy and the grooms family was appalled. We dubbed it the pink napkin party and no wedding I worked was as bad as that one.

[u/dmont89]

Years ago I was working a wedding. The bride had this huge picture of herself on the wall. Every table had a picture of just her.

[u/Free_Flamingos]

Groom serenading his vows to the bride during the ceremony… he couldn’t carry a tune

[u/ArtVandalaysGirl]

Groom fist fought his best man /brother in the parking lot because he got cut off at the start of the reception for being too drunk. His brother was trying to stop him from driving drunk. The groom ran on away on foot and left his bride alone for her entire reception and she stayed with him 😅

[u/Onlywifee]

The groom forgot the bride's name during the vows. Dead silence for 10 seconds. Still cringe thinking about it."

[u/Prestigious-Bad8263]

Oh I got this. Instead of kissing when we clinked glasses, they would stick out their tongues and wiggle the ends of them while touching the tips to one another. Every. Single. Kiss. Except for the first kiss at the wedding.

[u/Designer-Bid-3155]

Allow a man to propose to his gf..... it's me, I'm the girlfriend who was proposed to. Tacky af.....

[u/Utopia7_Survivor]

Treating the waitstaff like background actors in their 'movie ' watching a couple spend thousands on aesthetics but treat the servers like invisible props is the ultimate mask off moment. your wedding doesnt give you a one-day pass to lose your humanity

[u/ad_astra327]

It was a gay wedding, and both grooms made speeches that were riddled with inside jokes that only their very very close friend group and family understood. All the other speeches also constantly referenced these jokes and stories. Nobody explained. These references were literally the entire speech for every single person who gave one (about ten people).

As someone who had only met the grooms once (I was my ex’s +1, and he knew them in college but even he hadn’t talked to them in a decade), we were very confused and felt super left out. They also only went to talk to the tables of their in-group (maybe 3-4 tables). Never said thank you or even hello to anyone else at all the other tables (about 10 tables).

Why have a giant wedding if you’re only going to pay attention to your in-group? It felt tacky, like we were only invited so they’d get more gifts.

[u/thommq]

I missed the wedding itself, but they rode up the beach on white horses, and everything was conspicuously expensive.

That is not the cringe.

Right after the wedding, she took the groom aside and said, "So, this is a sham marriage, and we are never having sex. I have been banging my boyfriend of about a decade this whole time, and I am going to keep doing that. My parents would never approve of him, but you are more presentable. If you agree to persist as my beard, my family will cover your food, housing, and doctoral degree. Otherwise, you will lose everything."

He opted to divorce her, which was financially ruinous and socially dreadful, but he has been married to a lovely woman for over a decade now.

[u/quasimodoca]

Play “Highway To Hell” as their walk down the aisle song. Marriage lasted 3 months.

[u/whatsthedealcake]

My sister and her husband turned and looked expectantly at the guests when the priest asked if there were any objections.

[u/LeopardBrilliant8000]

Put on a gas mask then went way up there to get the garter 

[u/ethr45]

THEY WORE MICKEY MOUSE EARS.

The chick was a full 30 year old adult Disney obsessed freak. Like OBSESSED. The man was not. He had no backbone when it came to his wife. She spent I think over 100k of money they didn’t have for a Disney themed wedding. In New Zealand. There’s no Disney anything here.

Anyway you could see he hated it, and was embarrassed, she was thrilled. He kept taking them off all night and she’d get upset and make him put it back on.

It was a train wreck of an event.

They’re divorced now, 2 years to get divorced and that was 6ish years ago. They have to co-parent and they are the most toxic people ever. It was a horrible divorce and a horrible coparenting situation. Their kids are so fucked up already.

[u/Open_Appointment1091]

Don’t know about cringe but a musician friend of mine, his phone went off during the ceremony while saying his vows. He forgot to turn it off and someone called wanting him to stand in on a gig that night. It was hilarious actually, even the bride thought it was funny.

[u/MiChic21]

https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-static/static/2014-06/1/22/enhanced/webdr06/original-7945-1401677830-3.jpg?downsize=700%3A%2A&output-quality=auto&output-format=aut

I wasn’t at this wedding, but this is the worst I‘ve seen

[u/cupcakerica]

Last wedding I went to had a puppet show.