What is the worst wedding you have ever been to? (ring, dresses)
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Never been to a bad wedding. There have been incidents at some of those said weddings that some people won't look back on with pride. But that's about all.
I was a wedding photographer for several years, normally shooting about 20 weddings per year, so yeah, I've been to a few less than stellar weddings. But the worst is easy. I'm going to leave out a few details for the sake of those involved, but in a nutshell....
The groom was already approaching middle age, was financially successful and about to retire after 20 years with a major worldwide corporation. I knew the groom's whole family well; in fact, I attended breakfast at the parental home the morning of the big day. The bride was in her early 20s and an exotic dancer. I didn't hear of any objections relating to her "profession", but there was skepticism of the success of the marriage. During breakfast this was light-heartedly discussed (groom wasn't there), and a pot was started with guesses as to how long the marriage would last.
The ceremony was to be at a small country church, probably an hour's drive from the city both called home. We'd planned to do formal photos before the wedding, and everyone showed up on time. Except that the groom had forgotten the rings. This little wrinkle didn't bother the bride, it infuriated her. One of his friends left to get the rings, but he could have just as well gone, because the bride refused to cooperate with any photos that involved both of them. She was all smiles with everyone else, but putting him next to her brought on a scowl that could have broken my lenses! Seriously, she showed hate!
Somehow or another, formal photos were completed, the rings arrived and the ceremony took place. (I didn't get a photo of them outside this iconic church (You've all heard of it) following the ceremony, as the bride wouldn't hesitate for one second. She was hell-bent for the car to leave. Which they did. No receiving line, no waiting for the wedding party. They were gone.
Unfortunately things did not improve at the reception. She wouldn't sit with the groom. Nor dance with him. Nor speak to him. Nor even accept a ride home from him, even though it was raining cats and dogs. She walked home. I offered. Others offered. She walked 2-3 miles in the rain.
I'm not privy to what happened on the next day, Sunday, but on Monday he returned to work and she had a yard sale. He'd purchased a new home and furnished it with expensive furniture. Sold! I think I heard the dining room furniture, which cost him $12K a week or two earlier, went for $200. His salary was well into 6 digits so he didn't wear cheap clothes. His $50 dress shirts, still in their wrappers, went for 25 cents each. Not content yet, she took his new Caddy to Chicago to sell. But it was titled in his name so she didn't find a buyer.
Not surprising, he kicked her out on Monday night. Or attempted to. Again, I'm not sure of the details, but apparently there was a little scuffle and they both spent a night behind bars, then faced a judge the next day who placed a restraining order on both of them, ordering her not to visit "their" home. Well, she brought some friends that night and busted down the front door. He remained and called the police. They both spent another night behind bars. It seems, because there was also a restraining order on him, that he was supposed to leave through the back door if she busted in the front door.
I don't know who won the pot that was started over breakfast, but whoever guessed the shortest time span for the marriage got some easy money!
I was paid for my shooting time and for the proofs -- no reorders! I took the cash to the closest casino and lost every penny of it playing blackjack. I guess when things go that wrong, you shouldn't profit from it.
[quote=WeHa;45928423]Was at one where a bridesmaid, while standing, passed out and hit the floor. Wedding kept going like nothing happened, Priest never even paused.
A friend told me of a wedding he had attended in which the groom fainted during the ceremony and had to be roused to finish the ceremony. That marriage only lasted a few years; guess the groom had a premonition.
Freezing cold, rainy June day at a lake on northern IL where the bride's parents kept their camper. The wedding location was a cinder block picnic shelter without a lick of decoration in the middle of a trailer park. The ceremony pics looked like they married in a prison. No music for the ceremony. The guests hummed "here comes the bride". Cold burgers and hot dogs served while the wind howled through the shelter. It was miserable.
It was probably the one where this bi-polar husband of a bridesmaid took over the wedding coordinator's job during the ceremony. He had the groom's cake cut (and eaten completely up by guests) before bride and groom saw it!
He also stole and donned a boutonniere meant for the bride's beloved uncle.
Yeah, that guy was nuts. And IMO, the bride was nuts for not having him killed or killing him herself!
My sons' first marriage vows..Wedding.
Lovely venue in a summer meadow. Beautiful weather. Then comes the bride being hauled in by a muddied up Jeep. Her entourage were more hillbilly then a scene from Deliverance. That was the biggest red flag ever to know which way this marriage was headed. The gals brothers were loud and disrespectful during the reception. My 500$ investment of table gifts were demolished . She was a bridezilla ..And carried that false air of supremacy thru out the short lived marriage.
Wasn't the wedding but the hotel after. Bride orders ten rooms for out of town guests, but fails to get a room for herself and the groom. She thought it was assumed one of the rooms would be hers.
We made the deadline for actually finalizing the room, and as we were checking in, there's the bride, (dressed in white,) screaming at the staff for not having a room for her. They were fully booked at that point.
We offered her our room, but she wouldn't put us out. It was the principal. Even though she was in the wrong, and the hotel offered her and her new husband a beach-front room at a sister hotel, she refused, going down believing the hotel "should have known what she wanted."
Stan up... Sit Down... Kneel... Stand up again... Sit down again... Kneel again. I wasn't sure if I was at a wedding or a fitness center.
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