15 Beyond Tasteless Weddings Where Guests Weren't Sure Whether To Laugh Or Leave

The BuzzFeed Community and r/weddingshaming gathered hilarious and cringeworthy wedding stories showcasing the most embarrassing situations guests have witnessed. From one guest's dreadful experience at a mid-summer Iowa wedding, where formal attire clashed with a casual setting filled with spoiled food, to another's absurd tale of being sidelined as maid of honor due to poor planning and lack of communication, these narratives underline the chaos that can ensue at weddings that lack organization. Such incidents reflect the varying expectations of wedding formalities and the consequences of neglecting guest comfort and information.

I come from a Chicago Italian family where weddings are very formal, regimented events. In college, I attended a mid-summer wedding in Iowa held in a church. Nice, formal wedding followed by a backyard reception with kegs of coolish beer and warm ham sandwiches. The members of the wedding party and all the guests changed into shorts, jeans, and T-shirts except for me. I didn't know about the costume change and wore a suit in 90-degree heat and 90% humidity while everyone got shit-faced and food poisoned from the rancid mayo in the potato salad, which I skipped when I saw flies on it. People were shitting behind the garage because there weren't enough toilets for all the sick people.

I've been to some pretty tacky weddings, but my stepsister's was the worst one (by far). I don't even know where to begin with that one. When she had initially gotten engaged, she asked me to be the maid of honor. I accepted, and then she promptly went radio silent, even when I asked her what I could do to help. I got no response. Imagine my surprise when I got there, and her friend was now the MOH, and, oh yeah, we had to pay for our hair and makeup. She had to have her wedding in the remote mountains of North Carolina and didn't provide any directions to the guests.

She had apparently left her notebook with all the wedding plans behind, so none of us knew what was going on or who we were walking with until the ceremony. The rehearsal dinner the night before was just dinner, and she asked my plus one to emcee her wedding, even though they had just met a couple of days prior. As it got closer to the ceremony, he got nervous since he didn't know any of what he was supposed to do.

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