What Is The Trashiest Wedding You've Ever Been To? - REACTION
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My friend Damaris technically had "trash" as one of her main focal points, but it was beautiful. Her husband kept every receipt/ ticket/ note that they ever had from dates since being together. They made paper cranes out of them and that was hung as like a little garland at the altar. It was really special.
🥺 Staaaahp 😭
Ok that is GOALS
Aww that's cute
Those weren’t trash. They were memories!
That's adorable.
I'm the youngest. I witnessed my siblings costly wedding disasters (destination weddings, too) that cost them easily 50K minimum each. Everything that could go wrong, went wrong including several ER visits during the receptions, including my own visit to the ER when I picked up a centerpiece and it shattered in my hand needing 12 stitches and the grooms mother who slipped on the dance floor breaking her arm.
I was reluctant to plan our wedding after some of these extravagant weddings ended in disaster. Five years after our engagement my husband asked me AGAIN to marry him. I got the point but explained I didn't want a wedding.
We waited for all our family to arrive into town for Christmas and surprised them with the news that "we're getting married tomorrow". We eloped at the courthouse on "doomsday" 12-21-2012, fitting considering my family's traditional disaster wedding theme. The judge said before the vows "If the world doesn't end today, you know you're still married, right?" It got a big laugh from all of us. This year is our 10 year wedding anniversary and officially we've been together 20 years total, as of our anniversary.
I wouldn't have changed a thing. It didn't cost us a dime as my family took pictures, bought a bouquet and paid for the license, my father took us all out to a fine dining restaurant afterwards and we went back to our home drank and danced the night away. The best part of all was the wedding gift we received 9 months later, our beautiful daughter.
Goodness! ER Visits?!?
@@DrawciaGleam02 Yep, the wedding was in Hawaii at a resort. For a state known for taking their time, the ER visit was extremely timely. Though when I got back the wedding was shutdown. Apparently, after the mother of the groom exited after me for her ER visit, the resort came in and had everyone signing waivers.
I went to find my fiance and was told he was in the honeymoon suite with my drunken sister, the bride! 😳"WTF!" My brother-in-law, the groom, had to take his mother to the ER. My family asked my fiance to carry my sister, the bride, to her suite. Yeah, my husband carried my sister over the threshold after she threw up on his tux, of course. 🤦♀️
@@so5502 No one else volunteered to go with the mother of the groom? I'm not saying the groom shouldn't have cared, but choosing your mom over your new bride on your wedding night seems wrong.
This is awesome!
What a sweet story 💕
I am here to stand up for the cheap weddings!!! Our wedding cost $150. This was for the marriage license ($99), the magistrate ($25), and my wedding dress ($20 on sale). I made my bouquet out of wired Christmas ribbon from my Nana, wore a borrowed cardigan from my cousin, and my mother gave us a ring. We’ve been married for 23 years.
thats a good example of a wedding using what u have for love, instead of just getting it over with like some of the ppl in this vid.
@@ahahahahahahahahahahahahah7766 thank you for saying so. We loved our wedding and still reflect on it fondly. We were so young and so poor. It was perfect for us.
Lovely story ❤️ long may your marriage continue.
I think that is the difference between "inexpensive" and "cheap".
Inexpensive doesn't equal trashy, i think there have been plenty of expensive weddings that could still be considered trashy 😅😅
My wedding was in my in-laws yard, was cheap, and I was 4 1/2 months pregnant...it sounds kinda trashy, but it really was beautiful! I bought my dress from Sears for $25, my sister's MOH dress for $30, Walmart fake lavender wisteria over a homeade arbor, and my mom made one of the most beautiful and delicious cakes of her pastry chef career....the most expensive thing in my wedding was my boquet because I wanted those flowers to be fresh (white roses and white daisies). We had the ceremony and then a big BBQ. It was a HOT Saturday in June in Natchez, Mississippi and everyone had fun!♡ The funniest thing about the wedding were the gifts... we were both military and lived in dorms until the wedding and we each owned an iron (because we had to iron our BDUs back then)... and we received FIVE irons as gifts. It was coincidence that they all picked basically the same gifts without knowing, and useless gifts because we ended up with 7 irons total 🤣🤣🤣
Anyway, I guess irons for wedding gifts are good luck, we've been together almost 25 years now. ♡
We had some rough times, but we IRONED THEM OUT 🤣
Hey at least you know that if you ever break or lose any iron you have like 6 more😂
@@kaliwilson4 oh we gave them away to new people in the dorms. The funniest thing is that we've been married 25 years now and I broke our last iron and had to run out and buy one for the first time in 28 years for our date 🤣
Lol about the irons! Congratulations on 25 years of marriage! Cheers to more!
@@jennifermontgrain6208 it's hilarious!♡ thank you 😊
I love it! I’m from Brookhaven Ms and got married 5 years ago in July. It was hot but lovely and we had the best reception in a barn venue.
It was the bride who was trashy, not the wedding. Her elderly, fiercely Scottish, uncle took a big box up to the bride's table. It contained a stunning full Scottish outfit for a woman, made in their family clan tartan. It was beautiful. The bride took one look at it, shoved the lid back on and literally pushed the box onto the floor before launching into a tirade about how this is the first day of her future and he's trying to drag her back into the past and essentially disowned most of her blood relations before shrieking like a banshee. screaming that he'd ruined her day, and running into a back room. I stopped speaking to her a few months after that. She tried to contact me through her brother online about 15 years later only this time apparently I am the one who ruined her wedding. I shut that crap down quick. The joke's on her though. That uncle had actually put a cheque for $20.000 in the sporran of the outfit she threw back at him. THAT was his actual gift to her. The tartan outfit was just his sentimental way of delivering it. That money could have changed their lives. This was back in the late 80s. The bride was truly named Karen. She was one of the originals.
Oh wow. I instant Karma 😅
How can you be so ungrateful, when someone gives you such a personal gift. Never mind the 20.000,-, it's the personal touch that counts.
A full traditional outfit in family tartan is worth a couple over a thousand dollars already! Oh my gosh I wish I could have something so sentimental.
As a Scottish descendant, I would've cried tears of joy had that been given to me. I love everything about my great-grandparents' culture, and I'm proud to carry on the family names and clans. Where I live it's mostly Scottish immigrants/colonizers, so our Celtic heritage, traditions, etc still go VERY STRONG here. We have our own version of The Highland Games ffs. I couldn't imagine being that ungrateful towards one's own culture.
As someone who's family has no real roots or traditions (except like Christian holiday stuff) I'm baffled. Had I been lucky enough to have a meaning to my name and heritage I'd embrace it all the way. Never mind the money, sure that is also kind and the uncle must have really cared for that OG Karen. But how can you get offended by your family always having something to remind you of them? Basically they're saying, they want to be with you always. In the most positive way. If they were Jehovas Witnesses I'd get wanting to cut ties but then why even invite them to your wedding? I feel like this isn't a Bridezilla, she needs a whole new category
My husband and I got married in our living room. We played Cards Against Humanity while eating cake with friends afterward. Then we rounded it out by going for sushi. Honestly it was a great time.
Wow! Sounds awesome fr - much better than all the stress of a “traditional” wedding. A celebration can take many forms! 🥳
Cards against Humanity + Sushi is perfection
That sounds awesome!!! I love that game.
Awesome!
My husband and I also got married in our living room. We all then went out to dinner, then came home and all played House of the Dead.
That was in 2001, and we're still married, with 2 kids. 😊
This...is my perfect day...❤
My fiancé and I moved out of state from our families. We tried several times to plan a wedding but kept getting waylaid by relatives that couldn’t/wouldn’t make it. Finally said screw it and went to the justice of the peace one day before work and got married. Celebrated our 35th wedding anniversary yesterday. Still love that guy like crazy.
At some point if family won’t show up for you, show up for yourself
I feel you. I moved to another state, then to another country. I'm still too close, though. I'd rather an ocean between us.
I was the MOH at my friends wedding. Her fiance begged to plan the wedding promising it would be a magical event. So, this was her magical event. He rented an elementary school gym and theu said their vows under a basketball net. The wedding was supposed to start at 2pm. But, the DJs equipment wasn't working to play the wedding march. Finally, after waiting 3 hours the grooms grandfather ran home an got his ukulele and strummed the wedding march. He had had their food catered by this hole in the wall restaurant that was inside a gas station and that had a roach problem. Their wedding cake was knocked over by one of the kids at the wedding, so the best man had to run to walmart and get a sheet cake, and the only thing they had available were birthday cakes. Due to the 3 hour delay, everyone basically ate, the cake was immediately cut and everyone left. The marraige lasted a whole 2 months after the bride found out her new husband snuck his girlfriend along on the honeymoon. I will say that 2 years later she remarried and that wedding was well indeed magical, beautiful, and went on with no issues. She has been happily married to her second husband for 14 years. Her ex- husband is currently in prison for his 3rd drunk driving offense.
I used to work at the most high-end country club in our city and worked countless fabulous weddings. One wedding was all McDonald’s themed! The bride and groom were senior citizens and had first met at McDonald’s. It wasn’t trashy due to the venue but so silly and cute for them.
Exactly. The red solo cup/tailgate could have been cute. Maybe they met at a tailgating party for a favorite sports team. But the rest of the story didn't sound so cute though.
I think if it's done to commemorate a part of your relationship together, it can be more wholesome than trashy.
It's not really wedding related, but my dad's side of the family would have a family picnic every summer (pre-covid of course). My grandpa, dad and uncle were usually the first there to set everything up and my grandpa was known for always grabbing breakfast and a coffee from McDonalds most days. My dad would always stop at McDonalds before the picnic to pick up food for the 3 of them and any of us kids if we decided to tag along. Since my grandpa passed, it's still been the thing to go early to set up and grab some McDonalds on the way.
Nieces wedding was basically free.
Dress white satin w/red trim (it was beautiful) she bought at David's Bridal after prom sale for $50, location was a gazebo by the beach (Galveston) . Chairs and tables were borrowed from the bar I worked at as a DJ so I was also their DJ and photographer for the ceremony, they asked all the guests for copies of the photos they took of the reception, my sister and I made the cake, best man's dad was the officiant. It was BYOB but it turned out nice. You can be cheap without being trashy. They were married for 15 years.
Mine was like hers until my MIL changed it.
We did our wedding, had church, priest, best-man and woman, flowers, rings, organist, singer, and a meal after the wedding for everyone for 1,000. One way we saved money is we did the wedding when the church was decorated for Christmas.🙂
Just visited Galveston with my kiddos not to long ago. It was awesome 👌
Beautiful! I love Galveston!
I think there is a way to have a small cheap wedding when the families are lovely and fun, but what we saw in the video were just Jerry springer's guest.
Vows aren't supposed to be "I love you so much you're so amazing." They are supposed to be vows because you WON'T always feel that way about eachother and people change and you need something greater than how you felt that one day, holding your marriage together.
Found the hidden gem, deep in the comments section!
I think all vows should be followed by, "until further notice", "until we change our minds", or "until we don't"! 🤣 Oh, excuse me, that's the UNSPOKEN part. Everyone knows it though.
@@jeffrykopis5468 that isn't a vow...
@@kkinner2762 well DUHHH...But half or more of all marriages fail, which means half the people didn't mean the vows when they took them, or changed their minds along the way. Hell, many couples, like my ol' lady and me (11 years now) don't even bother getting married, cuz a piece of paper doesn't determine we are committed to each other. Nor does a ring, or a "vow". That's just words. Hot air. Actions speak louder. I know this: life is too short to go thru it unhappy. If you are unhappy, words, rings, or GUNS shouldn't stop you from doing what you can to GET happy.
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My BFF got married a month before me (there's drama around that, but that's another story). She had the full church wedding, fancy reception hall dinner, but that's about where "fancy" ended. Our bride's maid dresses had been handmade and ended up reminiscent of Little House on the Prairie. And there was lots of tension because the bride's parents were divorced (for like, 10-ish years at this point) and it was not a pretty divorce and after all this time and a remarriage of one of them, they couldn't act like adults for one day. I had been so against this wedding from the get go, just had a real gut feeling, but no amount of talking, even pleading with my BFF would change her mind. Sadly, I was right, things weren't good, but she stayed until his death from his vice.
A month after her wedding, was mine. He's my high school sweetheart, I was fresh out of college and we were flat out broke. With the help of family, we managed to have a wonderful wedding at around $5,000. We used the 'k.i.s.s.' method (keep it simple sweetie), we got married in my grandparent's gorgeous backyard garden (so, venue and flowers = free), my cousin's wife who caters made an amazing simple, but elegant buffet (she only accepted payment for food), my mom made our cake (she was known to make cakes and probably could've owned her own business), and our officiant was a family friend of my grandparents and had known me since I was born, so he offered for free. My dress, I stumbled upon accidentally, while dress shopping with my BFF. I had fallen in love with a dress in a magazine, but being a designer dress, knew it was just a dream. As I was waiting for BFF to try on a dress, I was just casually browsing through their clearance rack next to the changing rooms. And right there was my dress. $1800 marked down to $350 because it was "last season". It wasn't my size at all, but I had time to get it altered, so I bought it on the spot. The seamstress that altered it was amazing and made this tall, skinny dress so if perfectly fit my short, not so skinny body. Needless to say, 24 years later, we are still happily married, and people still talk about our wedding as being the best ever.
Aww, congrats. I’m so happy for you two!
It sounds lovely and like you got lucky with a lot of help, while your friend was not so fortunate. It's weird that you're comparing... and not at all humbly or compassionately, but good for you?
@@jellicle77yes, the story of her friend wasn’t needed
Sounds fantastic ❤❤❤❤
I attended the wedding of my ex sister-in-law and when she walked in, my jaw dropped. She was wearing the same dress she wore to marry my brother!
@@TheCwtchWitch probably but if you've remained friendly with them then they invite you, what can you do? gotta go I reckon
LOL
Shut the front door! Oh my goodness! 🤦🤦🤦
@@TheCwtchWitch is known her since I was four. And baby sat her kids. It wasn’t awkward at all coz my brother was the jerk! Haha.
That is called recycling.
I went to a nudists wedding once yep you read that right I’m a normal kinda of man so I never read the invitation properly 😂 so I turned up dressed in a suit oh well it’s something I will never forget for the rest of my life. FYI people dancing naked is hilarious 😆😂😆
Oh wow, 😆
But... didn't you take off your suit and join them?
@@mmmmmmolly of course 😂 they had the no clothes no go rule 😂😂😂
@@AllanDeal good for you! I aspire to have the body confidence nudists have!
@@mmmmmmolly I’m not the most confident person as well no one really is and I have never done anything like it before, this is going to sound a bit shallow but it makes you feel better when you figure out you haven’t got the worst figure there 😂😂😂
My beautiful wife and I had a small wedding in the church, a cake-and-coffee reception afterward, and we actually REMADE all the bridesmaids dresses because the tuxes we picked up clashed horribly with the existing dresses. Everyone pitched in (I cut out patterns and pinned them to material) after a fast run to a fabric shop 20 miles away - small-town Iowa. Getting out of my Opel GT to enter the church, I got grease from the door latch on my tux pants, giving my future MIL the "vapors", though I was able to cover it with the jacket! We're on our 45th year together, have four beautiful grandkids from two wonderful sons, and two terrific daughters-in-law. You need not spend a lot of money to have a nice wedding for two people who truly love each other.
I love how you speak of them all. Feeling the love down to Germany. You're a lucky man and they are lucky to have you!
I'm honestly surprised my friend went through with the wedding. Her fiancé argued with her for everything. She had saved up for years to have some money aside for a wedding. Her mom helped pay for her dress. Her husband kept trying to make her feel bad - he has a visual impairment so he kept saying they didn't need a photographer at all. She said she wanted pictures - for her, and their family. They spent about 3 weeks arguing over it before he finally gave him (his mom had to tell him to stop being an ass).
From trying to get my friend to make all the table cloths (and only changed his mind when he realized it wouldn't save any money), to demanding they have the church around the corner from them (despite the fact most of her family went to another church that was close and that the priest there was a friend who would give a discount...) for no reason, to gas lighting my friend, saying that his mom found an 'amazing' place at half cost for a venue.... and put a deposit down.
It was a dingy, half falling apart community centre. He even cancelled the 'wedding planner' the centre provided - who was supposed to just get everything ready the night before. It saved $100... so the night before the wedding, just after we drove 2 hours to get there, me & 2 of our friends went to help ...we spent 4 hours decorating the place the night before.
He didn't want to spend a lot on a cake so demanded to get a sheet cake. My friend tried to tell him it wouldn't be for enough people but he started saying they didn't have any money etc. They did 3 of us offered to chip in and he refused. My friend said she had put aside $800 for a cake so there were other options. But they went with the sheet cake from a supermarket he liked... he arranged it. She told to him to at least get 3 or 4. He got one.
So day of:
Tiny church didn't fit everyone, no A/C... the elderly relatives had to leave to stand outside for awhile so they could breathe before going back in. Church smelled like sweat. During the hour break after the ceremony, 3 of us had to take the flowers from the church and rush them over to the community centre and set them up. Two big vases had tall arrangements that wouldn't fit into the tiny car so we had to play musical chairs (cars) with the flowers until we could get everything over there.
The groom's speech was 20 minutes whining about how he didn't have a father (sorry but it WAS whining, his father died 20 yrs prior...and the wedding was right after my friend's brother died). Groom never once talked about anything happy or about his new wife. It was super awkward.
Then because he thought it was more 'orderly' he had the MC call people up one table at a time to get food. My table was last and we only started eating dinner when the waiters tried to take them away. One of the couples at the table had to tell them to get lost. As for the cake, it not only only served about 30, but the fondant was gross. It was about 1/4 inch thick. My date and I got a piece - we had to peel back the fondant like peeling a banana.
When had to use the ladies room, the stalls didn't lock properly so people were basically getting an eyeful walking in when someone was using it lol One door fell off the stall. The bride's sister made sure no one told the bride anything bad that happened, to try to make the day as pleasant as possible.
The groom apparently had also told his side of the family that the wedding was 'casual' despite what it said on the invites. He literally told them there was no dress code. So most of us were dressed up and his buddies and relatives were wearing ripped jeans and t-shirts. (I've NEVER seen anyone wear that to a wedding... I've been to a picnic wedding where people wear business-casual but never ripped jeans!)
Oh and for the alcohol. My friend paid to have someone come in and to provide unlimited alcohol for the night. Her husband had gone behind her back and changed it to one free drink for people then we'd have to pay for the rest. She wasn't happy, especially because paying for the alcohol was one thing that her father was able to actually afford to pay for. There was ZERO reason to change it as it was already paid for!!
Yeah...I know it wasn't outrageous but considering how sh*tty, controlling & underhanded the groom was, I think it's pretty bad. I've always had issues with that guy. My friend is amazing so I have no idea why she chained herself to that a-hole. They're still married but probably only because my friend doesn't believe in divorce unless there's physical abuse involved...that would be the only way she'd ever get divorced
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Sounds like the jerk's eyes went ding ding when he heard she had set all that money aside for the wedding. I bet he wanted to spend it on more important things like his car or something.
when I married my wife 37 years ago we where told it would last 3 months, it was a decent spend at the time sit down meal and free bar, id still be married to my life partner if leukaemia hadn't of taken her away from me
I'm so sorry you lost your love Paul
I'm so sorry for you, dear, but I am glad you had a marriage filled with love.
A “friend” bought her dress from hot topic. It was a costume dress. They said vows. It was done at the park. The man she married had invited both of his ex wife and his ex girlfriend. They both showed up. Not at all awkward. He continues to stay In touch and he sends flirtatious and suggestive texts and emails. This woman continues to take it. The whole thing was just weird and continues to be weird.
He’s pushing the boundaries to test what he can get away with. Def a red flag.
@@sarahhunter1114 oh yea. And clearly she is letting him do what he wants. He still sends inappropriate texts to both. It’s gross. Sad.
Wow, what a man 🤮
Feeling sorry for ALL THE GIRLS, but why would someone let it happen? That's beyond me....🤷
Hi from Austria 🇦🇹
@@therealdachshunddjangosmom hi from Wa. State. Unfortunately none of these women have particularly high self esteem. My friend was so happy that someone actually asked her that she would turn a blind eye to whatever. I am or was friends with both the bride and the ex girlfriend. Both settled because I guess they figured they couldn’t get any better. He’s pretty scummy. I don’t understand it either.
Listen, I think "standards" have gotten out of control. Every man now wants a virgin, who's a size 4, and created her own cookbook and every woman wants a 6' tall man, making $200,000/year, and with 6 pack abs... but ex's... ex's are always off limits to all parties. Male or female respect yourself more people. What a disaster.
All of these make me feel so much better about my cheapskate wedding. LOL
I got married in a park on a lake beach (there's a little amphitheater and it's free to use), reception at the VFW hall since my father-in-law was a member so we got a discount, no music since the band I wanted to hire had to back out when the guitarist broke his arm. I just put a speaker on my phone and ran Pandora the whole time. Most everyone in the wedding party wore thrifted outfits, and a retired florist friend volunteered to do my flowers if I provided them (and she suggested artificial as they last!) Another friend did the cake. A journalist friend of my husband was our photographer, another volunteer. He wanted a change from just crime scenes and school board meetings.
We fed everyone and sent them all home with leftover submarine sandwiches.No fights broke out, nobody got weird or creepy or rude. (besides my grandmother, but that's her schtick...insult the oldest grandkid at every opportunity)
If anyone had any complaints, I never heard them,
That was ten years ago this coming Thursday. So I think we didn't do too badly. LOL
That actually sounds laid-back and fun. My kind of venue.
@@AmandaVieiraMamaesouCult it really was nice. We had perfect weather. Warm, but not hot, with a slight breeze. The mountains across the lake were visible and make a lovely backdrop for the photos!
I worried for a long time that my wedding was going to be trashy but we did the best we could on our budget. I wore my prom dress (red velvet sweetheart neckline with black lace sleeves) and did my own hair and makeup. We made our own handfasting ribbon. I made the cake. We had it at a courthouse and people dressed nice for it. Then, we moved to the buffet he worked at. It was a pizza buffet and they offered it to us as a wedding gift (discounted of course). It was about 30 people. We took the rest of the money we saved up and went to a convention for our honeymoon.
We both worked at pizza places at the time. So, we did what we could... I wouldn't have changed a thing.
There is nothing wrong with that. Not everyone is made of money. I wish you lots of joy.
I was in high school and one of my classmates asked me to be her maid of honor. She was 7-months pregnant and her wedding dress was a white housedress that she had sown on lace to "dress it up". She was 17-years-old at the time and the groom-to-be was 15-years-old. At the wedding, family members were drunk from drinking beer all morning, and they continually smoked cigarettes, even through the ceremony. Her groom was stoned and could barely form words. Her drunk dad stood by with his loaded shotgun (literally). It was a bit surreal. By the time we graduated high school, she was still married and had at least two kids. Her husband was in jail for dealing drugs. I never stayed in touch after high school, but from what I understand (it's a small town), she divorced him, went to college, and really has a good life. Congrats to her in spite of a trashy wedding!
15. He was 15...
That is how things used to be. If there was a baby on the way. You "had to" get married. I am 64, and I get so irritated with people my age who want to go back to these days.
Lemme guess, SWEET HOME ALABAMA!
She learned her lesson, glad she got out.
Frugal weddings can be inspired, beautiful, and elegant, but ONLY if the bride and groom are. Trashy people result in trashy weddings, no matter HOW much they spend!
This!!
My parents were hippies, so their wedding was outdoors in the front yard of their trailer on a gorgeous July day. It actually had snowed the day before--unusual, even in Truckee, California. It could have been super trashy because they were dirt poor, but was actually a beautiful and very frugal ceremony, but the disaster was when they went back inside the trailer to find their Great Dane had eaten their wedding cake. They stayed married for nearly 20 years, until they grew into two very different people, but have kept a fondness for each other.
I'm reading some of these budget wedding horror stories and I just had to put in my two cents on the wedding dress thing. I HIGHLY recomend doing research on quality consignment shops for bridal gowns. My sister got hers at a consignment place and it was a great experience. A percentage of the proceeds went towards a charity that helped fund weddings for families in poverty.All of the employees were very professional and knew exactly what they were doing. It was a very casual intimate experience too. We were even able to find an alterations specialist through them. I think with alterations included, she payed around $700. To me it's still a big chunk of change, but it's far less than you would pay if you bought it new, and also the money was going towards a very worthy cause. After hearing about some of these budget weddings not going very well, I would highly recommend looking into a consignment boutique, or even taking the time to learn how to make a simple dress yourself! You can even find white dresses at some department stores that are not marketed specifically as bridal gowns, but still can look elegant and special. There are ways to avoid sacrificing the feeling of being special and beautiful on your day without breaking the bank.
My husband and I got married on Halloween day back in 2018, we wanted a Gothic Victorian wedding, so just for the heck of it to try to balance our budget a bit I went on eBay not thinking seriously about getting lucky and actually finding anything decent and to my surprise I not only found my husband’s suit in black and silver Victorian, I also was drawn to this absolutely gorgeous jet black Gothic Victorian Lace wedding dress with angel wing sleeves. Something just drew me to this dress, so I bought it and gave my correct size etc. etc. not even 24 hours later I got an email from the lady who hand makes these dresses, an Asian lady who told me that because I was American and bigger she wanted my exact measurements. This sweet wonderful lady gave me the exact things I needed to measure in her email and I emailed her back with the measurements she wanted, she also wanted the date of our wedding to make sure she got it to me on time. Not only did she get it to me on time but she got it to me a month before our wedding! This dress is the most beautiful Gothic Victorian wedding dress I could’ve ever dreamed of!
The wedding itself was at my brother-in-law‘s apartment in a Victorian building and he was ordained online and saw over our wedding. There were smiles and laughter and silly little things that happened like when my son was walking me down the aisle to give me away my brother-in-law and his wife had a little plastic knight statue that somehow managed to get caught on the train of my wedding dress lol, when my son got the knight statue off of my dress, it somehow managed to decapitate the single red rose he had been carrying ( I gave everyone in the wedding party a single red rose that matched my Bouquet of red roses) the head of the rose ended up hitching a ride on my train for a couple feet before my son saw it and grabbed it lol! 😂
The reception was held at my in-laws beautiful home and I forgot about throwing the bouquet lol! I still have it to this day. It was honestly the most beautiful and best wedding we could have ever dreamed of having, with laughter, silly Oopsies and just overall happiness to be had. 🥰😊😂🥰♥️ oh! And our wedding photographers were our young nieces and nephews and my sister-in-law who is also my MOH. The pictures and videos turned out adorable and beautiful!🖤❤️🖤❤️
Is that lady still making suits and dresses? I’d love to have one for my partner and I’s wedding
Ooooh, I would die to see some photos of this. 🥰🥰
@@greasypizza4837 I don’t remember who we got the suit from but I should be able to find both people from my purchase history.😊 Will look it up tomorrow for ya.
@@Stopthisrightnow560 I wish I could link the pics here, all my pics I have are on my Iphone.
Did you have truly gothic music or are we talking Panic @ the Disco & NIN?
My parents wedding was hilariously terrible, and they are still in love 40 years later. (one of those annoying love at first sight couples. ) Highlights- It was 111 Fahrenheit and they had no cold water so everyone was drinking the iced beers to stay cool. Lots of tipsy people- by necessity not choice. Grandmother of the bride had baked a beautiful cake, but when she entered her kitchen the morning of the wedding to ice it a big chunk had fallen out! She ended up replacing the fallen piece with styrofoam and iced over it. Forgot to tell anyone. Mom and Dad go to cut the cake and can't get the knife through the foam. Wedding cakes don't resist or squeak when cut very often.
Bahahaha! Styrofoam...! 😅 Oh, Lord, ha' mercy!
That's hilarious
My wedding was a complete disaster, won't go into the details but I cried a lot!! That was 13 years ago and the husband and I are still together and very happy. Guess we got lucky!!
I mean I bought my wedding dress from Amazon, but the trick is order it at least 2 months in advance, read the reviews, and look at more than one. Buying online is a gamble, but can look great if you “DO YOUR RESEARCH”
You can 100% have a frugal wedding without it being trashy. My mum's (second) wedding was frugal. My sister and I made the cake, the venue was at a beach house on my mum's favorite beach, My sis got discounted drinks from where she worked, the Photographer/Officiant was a friend, and the DJ was her brother. Was a beautiful wedding.
Some of the best ones are the cheap ones.
The wedding venue was a tar paper shack, the home of the grooms friend who’s last name was Parson and also the officiant, so we called him parson Parson. The groom wore jeans and a flannel shirt, the bride torn leggings and an oversized sweatshirt, all black.The witnesses were the grooms two daughters, they were curled up on a ratty sofa giggling. The vows were made up on the spot, groom went first, it was sweet and the bride just said ditto. Afterwards the party went to have pizza and beer at a nearby establishment, no reservations made. After the meal the happy couple went their separate ways, as they didn’t live together, or even in the same town, she got her period as well. This was my wedding, it was 26 years ago and we’re still madly in love, I wouldn’t have had it any other way, I hate weddings.
This just proves that it doesn't matter how much money u spend, how many ppl attend, or even where a ceremony is held... Ur celebrating love. I love this story!!! Continued blessings to u and ur husband
I'm really not trying to be sense, but was the wedding a just in case situation (before you got your period)? And did you later live together? None of my business, I understand. Just curious.
@@poietes7337 Ha! No, it was not a just in case situation, he had already had a vasectomy, so there were no babies in our future. We did move in together a year later when I sold my house and secured employment in his town where we still live.
@@clytemnestracloset3124 thanks for that even though I kind of put you on the spot 🙄. Love your user name, by the way. Unfortunately, Clytemnestra was always overshadowed by her sister sister, but I've always viewed her as being stronger than Helen, but other of them hadthe best taste in men.....
@@poietes7337 No worries! I just added the period tidbit because I thought it was hilarious. And thank you about my name, I use it for my Etsy shop, so why not here too? Be well!
I got married in my husband's country with his giant family and my parents were there. He got my engagement ring and dress at a flea market. It was a nice wedding, nothing huge but I loved the outdoor venue with stray dogs and cats making random appearances.
We celebrated 10 years earlier this month.
My wedding was in our backyard. Had 25 guests, we made our own food, did our own decorations (you can see some of them in my profile pic) had a canopy, got my beautiful wedding gown from David’s Bridal pretty inexpensive. Everything for $1,000 it was beautiful! Been married almost 10 years now. You can have a beautiful inexpensive wedding like we did. My husband and I had a rule that we were not to get drunk. We wanted to remember the entire day. We had just one glass of wine the entire day. It’s stupid on how people get so drunk on their wedding day. I don’t get it.
I attended a wedding with horsedrawn carriages, white doves flying off after shitting on everyone and helicopters. A 9 pound 8-ounce baby was born six months later to the "proud virgin bride". A divorce followed within twelve months and the father had wasted £45K. LOL
omg!
Oh that’s beautiful. Apparently if you were to ask my granny she would deny it but funny thing having a full term baby three months after you get married ;). That ended in divorce too about a decade later. Turns out when you’re comforting your dead best friend’s widow you should leave your clothing on
We used to call those “Catholic Premies.” I guess they’re also Baptist Premies these days.
Wow!!! Imagine spending tens of thousands of pounds on a wedding only to have the marriage end in divorce?
I'm kind of confused - what were the helicopters for?
See, I’m kind of agreeing with your assessment: If the wedding goes horribly wrong, there might be some issues, but…
My wife & I have been married for almost 22 years & the worst thing that happened to us was the mystery of the missing wedding ring… My wife’s sister was the maid of honor & was responsible for keeping track of my wedding ring (no cute kids in our family at that point, so no ring bearer). We get to the ring exchange & my best man hands the ring for my bride to the preacher, he says a few things, hands it to me, & I slip it onto her finger, repeat after the preacher, yadayadayada. Then he turns to the maid of honor & her face goes pale, but she hands “something” to him anyway. His eyes go wide, but he shakes it off, says a few things, then hands “something” to my wife & mouths “don’t react”. She looks at her hand & quickly stands up straight, but locks eyes with me, slides “something” onto my ring finger, & repeats after the preacher.
Then she pulled her hand back & I felt my naked finger. No ring. We went on with the rest of the wedding, I even played guitar & sang a song I’d written for her. After we walked out of the wedding, my wife & I were in the foyer waiting for the rest of the bridal party to join us. The maid of honor hits the foyer & BOLTS for the dressing room. She comes sprinting back & hands my wife the actual ring, which was very sweetly slipped onto my finger (it was a very cool moment). But the best was when the preacher came out, took the hand of the maid of honor with great concern & says, “You know, since there was no ring, they’re not ACTUALLY married…” She was panicked but everyone else was crying laughing.
So I would amend the assessment: If you react poorly when things go wrong at your wedding, that may not bode well for the marriage.
That's a very sweet story :)
Well put!!! It's all about the perspective.
@@asthajindal5275 right?! It gave me tears.
I LOVE THIS SO MUCH!!!! 😭♥️🙏🙏 How long have you been married?
@@angelicaduncan9694
We met Saturday, July 1st, 2000 (she knew that night we would get married).
Had “the talk” (defining the relationship) Tuesday, July 4th.
I figured out she was the rest of my life Friday, July 7th (I was boarding a plane & realized I had zero desire to be anywhere she wasn’t).
I proposed on August 21, 2000.
We were married on March 17, 2001.
So we’ve been together almost 22 years, married for 21. Lived in 2 states, 4 cities, 2 apartments, 3 houses, & we now have 3 kids & 3 dogs. Life is crazy but we’d have it no other way!
I actually bought my wedding dress off of asos, the quality was decent and I paid less than $400. I ended up buying like 8 dresses I liked to try on and see what suited me/I liked and then returned the others. I also was going to do any alterations it needed myself but luckily it fit perfectly. You CAN be frugal with your dress and still end up with a nice outfit!
Here's a short on the trashiest wedding that I lucked out not having to go to. My best friend's mom absolutely hated me. Not sure why but I think it was because every time my friend had gotten in trouble over the years the blame was always placed on me, sometimes I wasn't even there but suffice it to say we were pretty crazy teenagers. Anyway, apparently her mother refused to pay for the wedding after it was planned unless I was disinvited. I was the maid of honor. The replacement Made of Honor was so drunk she could barely stand up during the ceremony. Some of the other bridesmaids we're drunk too. The groomsmen or hungover and looked at and from what I understand smelled it. Also, there was a lot of cocaine going around because this was the '80s and during the reception there was a fist fight with a bunch of people ending up in the pool. So glad I wasn't there!
One of the best destination weddings. A golf course on the beach in a gazebo right before sunset. As 'cousin Mike' , was giving his speech as to the sanctity of their vows that they had just given, the sprinklers came on. Some seem to panic and tried to turn the water off. As he said I now pronounce You man and wife, the last blast from the sprinklers hit the roof of the gazebo . . . and the resulting rainbow over it was magnificent.
After all of the weddings I have witnessed: if one of the parties was drunk before the reception, the person has an alcohol problem or they for sure divorce. If you really have the need to be “absent” on your wedding, something screams out at me that maybe you shouldn’t go through with it?!?
Why is this still legal at this point? How is it that wasted people can still legally be married if they have no recollection of what is going on?
It's not legally binding if one or both people are intoxicated when signing the documents before the actual ceremony. The day of the ceremony, if they've already signed those papers while sober then it doesn't matter.
Some people overly drink from nerves and stress. They don’t realize how much they have had until it all kicks in. Champagne is one of those that really sneaks up on you. I don’t think it always has to do with needing to be drunk to get married. Also some peoples way of celebrating something happy is to get drunk. Especially in some cultures.
These stories make me glad I got married at a justice of the peace. I was 19, husband was 22, and we're still married 19 years later. all that wedding drama was 100% not on my list of things to do. lol
The drunk baker was priceless!😂
Bailing out the brother? Nope.
My husband and I got married the tattoo studio we own, while getting tattooed with our initials (exact same initials, so it works no matter what hahaha). I dont like public speaking so our vows were each others phone numbers, because no one remembers phone numbers anymore. Oh, and our official was another tattoo artist/friend named Francis and he dressed up as the Pope 🤣. We are indeed still married 4 years later and I still find every moment hilarious to look back on. 🤣
The phone numbers hahahaha love that
The "solo cup" wedding sounds kind of fun LOL But what do I know? We had a barbacoa taco truck on our wedding and unlimited beer and tequila... It was very fun!
I agree. That wedding, and yours, sound like a lot of fun. We had a pig roast at our wedding. We’ve been together for 32 years now, so I think there’s a lot to be said for fun, casual weddings.
Now THAT'S my kind of wedding! If there was a mariachi band it would be perfection!
The most fun wedding I ever attended was near Mexico City, and I swear, the whole town must have been there. The band was a 9 piece band who were well known in Mexico. The reception was in a huge hall where they had concerts. The bride was my Aunt Conchita's niece, and her dad was some important government official and it seemed money was no limit.
I've never danced that much in my life! Oh, to be 17 again.
There's a very sweet tradition they did, the best man took off his jacket and walked around the venue as we all pinned money to his shirt. After he made the rounds and his shirt was completely covered in $$, he walked up to the groom, took his shirt off and handed it to him in a symbolic gesture of, "I will always give you the shirt off my back, friend!"
That sounds bomb!! Way better than a tiny portion of $100 steak with a cold potato 🥔 👑
@@LazyIRanch LOL we don't like Mariachi music that much XD
@@schatzeeone6230 Mmmmm pig roast...
As to vows, when the late spouse and I got married, it never occurred to us that the judge didn't have the book with "Dearly Beloved" written in it. We hired the judge, never met him, he showed up and did the best extemporaneous marriage ceremony ever! He was great.
😂😂😂 Oh, Lord! I was the +1 where my then- boyfriend was a groomsman.
The reception was to be held at her mother and stepfather's house, which wa😢s lovely and had a huge backyard surrounded by trees. Several of her relatives volunteered to skip the wedding so they could set up the tables in the backyard. Instead, the tapped the keg and proceeded to get rip-roaring drunk, laughing like loons as the entire bridal party plus me worked to set up the tables and cover them with paper....on a windy, hot summer day. day.
The mother of the bride absolutely refused to let anyone in the house WHERE THE FOOD WAS because she'd just had her white carpeting cleaned in preparation for the reception, not even to use the bathroom, then was raging because the guys were peeing agains 5he trees, and because they were getting drunk.
I ended up walking into the house to blast her, telling her that they were drunk and peeing on trees because she wouldn't let them into the house to eat or to use the bathroom, and wh6 the heck didn't she put down runners to protect the carpets if she was so concerned about them.
She finally relented and let people in to eat all the 'lovely' deli food from a grocery store, which i realized 2 days later, when I came down with food poisoning, had been sitting out on the dining room table, unrefrigerated (yes, i was stupid). I heard that many of the attendees also contracted food poisoning.
I happened to be walking by the bride and heard her bitching to a couple of her friends about the ugly, cheap bath set she'd been given. I stopped in my tracks and told they were from my SO and me, and I'd bought TWO sets from HER bridal registry, not the one set she'd requested, because any idiot knows you need more than one set.
She didn't apologize, nor did we receive a 'Thank You' note.
Marriage ended within a year.
My parents' had shitshow of a wedding even by Indian standards. My dad's guests ruined a lot of stuff and ate like feral animals, discarding paper plates full of food on sofa cushions and filling up their pockets with sweets. There were fistfights and illegal underaged drinking leading to 2nd degree burns. Electricity being messed up due to rampant abuse of firecrackers lol. My parents have actually evolved into a good caring relationship considering that this was a total arranged marriage. My mom was so angry because her brother arranged it all so well and ny dad's guests just stormed through her village.
What a party 🤣
Oh people stormed into a wedding? Same with my parents' wedding 😅
I cant help but relate, I swear indian weddings are a different breed lol
My parents had a very small potluck wedding. They were married in my grandparents’ backyard (the guests were seated in the shaded parking garage) and my great uncles played the Wedding March with fiddle and accordion!
31 years strong!
Weddings can be inexpensive without being "trashy". This sounds lovely.
Walking down the aisle to the scooby doo theme song made me laugh so hard! I could just picture it in my head.
I still die a little on the inside when I think back at my wedding. I had written a pretty decent speech, but because I had an anxiety attack the day before the wedding, I ripped it up and flushed it down the toilet. Spend the rest of the day thinking that I wouldn't need any speech cause my husband-to-be would probably not even show up to the wedding, and if he did, he would probably not have a speech ready either (it was a very small wedding with only closest friends/family. 19 in all).
When my husband got up and did his speech I totally freaked out. So I decided to wing it.. worst decision ever. I still get anxious every time I think about it
I got married in Reno it cost 75 dollars, took fifteen minutes. My marriage lasted 16 years but I wish I would have woken up a lot earlier he was a bad man, a drunk and verbally beat me down to the point I didn't think I was worthy of love. You can only hear ( you're nothing but a worthless woman ) for so many years that you end up believing it. But I'm out of that hell and happy now. Love your videos Peace and love to you and your family 💙💚💙
Jesus. I’m so sorry you had to go through that for 16 years. Co-dependency is so insidious. I’m struggling with that now. It’s only been 7 months but it’s been 7 months to long. I’m 39 and I know better. But that doesn’t make it any easier.
@@P3rmissionD3ni3d prayers for you. There is help and from a survivor of physical, mental and emotional abuse, you ARE worthy and please get out. It was the hardest thing I've ever done and it took some time but I'm alive and enjoying life and know that I'm worthy
@@P3rmissionD3ni3d just keep reminding yourself that you deserve better, then start doing your favourite things alone (again) and you will (hopefully) break that cycle. Create that space between the two of you: less home visits especially in your space, more self prioritisation.
That’s actually funny. You were worthy of sticking around you for 16 years! If you were really unworthy he’d have left the first year!
@@P3rmissionD3ni3d yeah just because we know better doesn't actually make it easier to get out of those situations. I would always tell my friends that I would never be in a relationship with someone who treats me badly, but then it happens and you can't see it. It's like you get stubborn and don't want to admit that you're in a bad relationship. I hope you know that you are worthy of love and being with someone who knows your value.
My fam had frugal weddings. They were really nice and actually fun. Edit: WHO doesn't know you have to DRESS the animal before cooking it?! WHAT?!
Wooooo that first story was an actual rollercoaster! And the different laughing sounds I had come out of my mouth were absolutely unearthly
That first wedding is a prime example of why you should also look at your significant other’s family before getting married.
I went to the wedding of a junior staff member. During the vows, the bride's drunken father rose to "speak". I couldn't understand a word he said. He tripped and fell on his daughter, ripping her dress from the waist down. He was helped out, shouting his anger. We managed to repair the dress (somewhat) and the vows continued. Didn't see the father again but the atmosphere was sad because the poor bride felt her day had been ruined.
Poor girl.
I don't understand why many people consider a wedding as THE best place to get completely drunk. And if they can't get drunk at a wedding, they get angry. I'm single and I don't drink, so I really don't get it, sorry. And sorry for that poor girl, wedding ruined by her own drunk father.
@@francklie6568 I'm literally in the same boat as you. I don't drink at all, and I don't understand the cult-like culture we have surrounding drinking and getting plastered at events. If I ever get married and actually have a wedding (unlikely as I'll probs just go to the city hall and sign a paper), I'm not bringing alcohol. If people want drinks, they can bring their own. And if they get shit-faced, they can leave. I'm not having a romantic day ruined by someone who thinks their borderline alcoholism is more important than a fun day with friends and family.
These are hilarious. Now mind you I got married in a park in July....on a covered bridge. I was beautiful. We only spent a $1000 on our wedding but my hubs had a suit already, I got my dress on sale cuz it was from "last season". My bff's dad had a church so he lent us the chairs and my mom bought our cake. We asked everyone there to bring cameras and take pics for us. We got some amazing pics btw. I used silk flowers for bouquets and the bridal party dresses I got from Ross dress for less during prom season. It was a beautiful day and turned out amazing. You can be frugal and keep it classy too. 😉
My baby loves hearing your voice! She is starting to talk and she tries to sing the outro. Seriously it’s the cutest
New quote for future episodes 😊 "If the Wedding has no Class the Marriage won't last" 😂
As a former Wedding Singer here (mostly just ceremony songs), I did not stay for the receptions most of the time. But I did see 2 best men pass out during the ceremony... falling on their faces. LOL AND I have had a Groom throw up during the ceremony and a Mother-of-the-Groom burst out crying and screaming about her "baby boy"... and being drug out of the Sanctuary. I always got my check BEFORE the ceremony, just in case I need to make a run for it. LOL ♥ Saw some funny things and some great things too.
So it took me all of my years of life to finally pice together the story of my parents wedding since my mother absolutely forbids anybody from talking about it in her presence. Thank god for my menagerie of uncles.
So first up the „legal“ wedding three months before the „church“ wedding and wedding party: My Mom had caught a cold, still went to work that day and almost wasn’t allowed to leave in time to get to her own wedding because there was a big project coming up and her boss needed her for that. She managed to explain everything and got to the wedding just in time.
Now the real fun starts: So one day before the „church“ wedding my Dads friends realize he never had a bachelor party. So all those 40 something guy went at it. (My parents got both married really late. Neither of them was married before.) They get back home around 4 to 4:30 am. The guys how were supposed to wake my dad up and help him get ready for the wedding came at 6am. He just told told them were breakfast was and managed to get a whole two hours of sleep. Because church started at around 8 am. So we have a trashed groom who got next to no sleep. Sometimes he wonders if it even counts because he was intoxicated. But only to annoy my mom. They get the church part over and head to the venue. Everybody’s having good time. All is fine and dandy. Until my dad falls asleep at the table. Next to his freshly baked wife and in front of everybody they care about. So yeah. I kinda understand my mom. My dad always says everybody says it was a great wedding except my mom and my grandmother (his mom). They are still married and made 25 years this year. 😅☺️
There are so many ways to save money on a wedding dress. Facebook marketplace, goodwill, some towns even have free dress shops. I got my dress from a free dress shop, you barrow the dress, clean it, then return it. OR leave a donation if you want to keep the dress. I decided I wanted to keep my dress so I donated $300. I paid $300 for a beautiful mermaid style dress that was brand new with tags on it.
My husband and I got married officially at the DMV in Colorado and had a "ceremony"/celebration a few months later. We were poor, so it was in my MIL backyard, "officiated" by hubby's best friend who had brought a mic and amps with him, I got a wedding dress that fit me like a glove for $30 at Goodwill, the dinner was a potluck kinda deal where multiple people chipped in with food, MIL and my grandmother helped with decorations, I made a bunch of origami cranes with our names and ribbons on them, my grandma made our wedding cake and my maternal grandfather played photographer, and we played Cards Against Humanity in a big group in the party garage. It was so much fun. Going on 8 years now.
Also! Weirdest wedding i went to took place beside a hotel pool. The pool was open to residents during the wedding and there were kids loudly playing Marco polo while the vows were being read. Maid of honor finally had enough and started yelling at the kids to quiet down as the vows were still being read (almost being shouted to each other at this point). The kids ended up splashing water at her, and she ended up falling in the pool..... the couple are still together though.
😂👏👏👏😂
Kids be can rebellious sometimes....and some don't hesitate to push back at an adult they think is rude!😈
Bride shouldn't have done her vows by the pool.....
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Should have told them there was free icecream some where random in the hotel .... they would bolt and by the time they get back vows are done... you can get them that icecream later lol
Not really trashy but I once went to a wedding where it was obvious that over half the wedding budget went to the dress. It was this beautiful strapless mermaid gown with a long train, but the venue was our small town community hall and the decorations were lovely but cheap, not to be judgemental because it really was pretty, but just in comparison to the dress - she looked very out of place, even for her own wedding. For example for the decor, the flowers were made out of tissue paper.
No shame to her or the wedding decor though, by the way, they were lovely people and didn't have a lot so if having the dress of her dreams meant having to save elsewhere, all the power to her, but this context makes what happened during the ceremony all the more tragic.
In the middle of the ceremony, the bride's gorgeous strapless mermaid gown of her dreams burst open at the back and her mother spent the entire ceremony literally holding it closed and up and in place to keep it from falling off her completely and it was clear the dress was heavy. I felt so bad for her, I'd feel bad for anyone if that happened to them but it was the only thing they really splurged on for the wedding.
THat poor girl!
I hope she went back to that dress shop and gave them a piece of her mind!
Weddings can be cheap without being trashy. My husband and I were married in 1992. Since the two of us were paying for everything (we didn't want to burden our parents with a big wedding bill) and myself still in college, we had to really watch what we spent. Our whole wedding was under $2k. That included invitations, the wedding dress, bridesmaid dresses, tux rentals, church decor, paying the officiant, pianist, and soloist, and everything for the reception. Our wedding was beautiful and exactly what we wanted. It's outrageous what some people spend on weddings today. My friend's daughter got married a few years ago and the cost of her wedding was MORE than the cost of our first house (our house was small, but still).
Sister's wedding was remembered horribly by all three of us sisters for YEARS because I was told the bride specifically didn't want to see me before the wedding (I'm the oldest sister and had already been kicked out of the wedding party for dumb reasons), youngest sister (who was a bridesmaid) was told that she could come see the bride but wasn't allowed to talk, and the bride (middle sister) was told that I refused to come be supportive and baby sis was refusing to speak to her in solidarity with me for having been kicked out of the wedding party.
That all happened September 2011. Imagine our surprise during our first pandemic-fueled long distance sister video chat when we found out what ACTUALLY happened. Bride had a panic attack and couldn't get herself to leave the room and go get ready in the space set aside for the whole wedding party, so she asked our mother to pass the word on and ask for her sisters to come support.
Our mother lied about the entire thing. Made us all angry with one another (she's also the reason I'd gotten kicked out of the wedding party) and barely speaking to each other for YEARS. Joke's on her. We all cut her out of our lives October 2020 (she's a Qtrumplican) and for the first time in 5 years, Christmas 2021 was the sisters together in one place (plus the hubby and their kids).
Oh wow....what kind of mother turns their own kids against eachother?? Did you find out why she did it?
@@mmmmmmolly She is a big fan of triangulation and placing her own thoughts/opinions/feelings onto someone else she can blame. She didn't want me to bring my female partner to the wedding, but as a bridesmaid, I of course would have been able to bring my partner to the destination weekend. So she talked my sister into kicking me out (supposedly for being super into a TV show).
She was bullied by her older brother and determined that her second child would be the darling and never be bullied. This resulted in me being the apple of her eye for exactly 2 years minus 10 days, when middle sister (the bride) was born. At 6 years old, someone recommended therapy for me. "No, she's just a bad kid. The church will sort her out."
Baby sis grew up in a totally different generation than us and never cared that big sis is queer among other things. So she got lumped with me and treated like that. Middle sister has only in the last few years really come to understand what was done because as the only married one (and mother of the two grandchildren on both sides of the family), our mother sold her house and moved to build a new one 10 minutes from her home. She's been the golden child all her life and it's only now that she truly gets it.
@@blueashke I'm happy you and your sisters got to reconnect and find out the truth, and hope all of you are in a good place now. It's not fair you had to go through that, wishing all of you the best. ❤️
@@mmmmmmolly Thank you! We are. Sis and hubby are 10.5 years married with 2 awesome kids. Baby sis and I both have happy relationships, and this generation's family unit is solid.
The father of the bride's speech reminds me of my dad's at my confirmation. I literally have a picture of me making a face saying "omfg" - he spoke only about things in my childhood and embarrassing things I did years prior (like I used to- USED TO - forget myself in books and burn cakes I made. I hadnt done that since I was 8-9, now 13) and nothing current. He didnt know me in any way shape or form
To be fair, some "portajohns" are nice. For my cousins wedding last fall she had one those those big trailer bathrooms. Four stalls in the women's room with two working sinks. Not to mention someone in the wedding party (not sure if it was my cousin or the bridesmaids) had a basket full of goodies. Tampons, liners, chapstick, travel hairspray, etc. it was definitely helpful for some of us lol.
I got my wedding dress off a website for Quencinera dresses; granted we had a Halloween wedding! I was Bell and my husband was the Beast which meant he grew out his beard and wore a Prince costume. Everybody else was free to dress up in whatever they wanted too. Lmao that was the best wedding ever because everyone had fun. My favorite part was the coffin with candies, everyone got a bag to put them in like trick or treating. 😁
I despise that I will never get to see these exact weddings, no matter how many weddings I force myself into, they will not be THESE WEDDINGS.
Ain’t that the truth 🤣
I ordered my wedding dress from Amazon when it arrived it was the WRONG dress lol but luckily I ended up liking it alot better than what I originally ordered. I took it as it was meant to be lol.
I could never understand why guests of a wedding thinks its an invitation to get totally drunk. Like this couple spent a lot of time and money planning this event but you think it's a Saturday night out at the club and a right to act foolish. It's a good reason to not have an open bar along with a limited variety of alcohol.
Because for some people the highlight of their year is that they can drink unlimited alcohol for free, which is sad.
there are people who get pissed if there is no alcohol at all in wedding and it's not "real wedding" and some even refuse to go because of that. I'd say they have problem with alcohol that point.
my wedding had alcohol but everyone stayed civil. one guy from husband's side was drunk on arrival (3pm) and was being bit gross to some women, like my sister... and his wife being there next to him.
That bridesmaids lap dancing the groom thing brought a whole new meaning to the Sibling Dance... 😳
Oh I've got a trash vow renewal for ya!! Ok little back story here- couple were both married to other people when they got together- so they were both not exactly high on that class threshold. They did the whole court house thing when their kids were young and then for their 10-15 year anniversary did a vow renewal. Now the bride lost like 80lbs for this ceremony and so did their teen/preteen daughter. Guys in sand colored suits and like lime green ties, bowties, vests and other touches. Only dad and sons dressed in suits. Mom is in a wedding gown tiara and all. Daughter in cheap dress that is like a mini of mom's dress. At a moldy mildewy tiny church they have the ceremony and then you walked blocks (6-7) in middle of summer heat to a tiny "venue" for reception. Like think a long hallway that's like 8ft wide and 30-40 feet long. That's the venue. Buffet style food mostly made by brides family including cake. Like no lighting in the venue and ac not working well. Three times as many people as should probably be in the space with chairs in tables crammed everywhere. We were told it was formal by groom but we were more formally dressed than even the bride and groom and officiant. Passed around offering plate prior to service. It was super awkward as ppl in tank tops smelling like chewing tobacco and stale beer and BO were everywhere. Bride was catty and rude to everyone and husband was blitzed and high off his prescription pain meds and they just meandered around to all the tables separately. We were in this podunk town that smelled like trash and sulfur, nothing open after bc it was pretty much a dead town and no one else we knew was there. Heard ppl talking about how we upstaged the couple and I had had enough I looked right at them and said not everyone is willing to lower themselves to other ppl's standards for a do over wedding and that they said formal not my fault they didn't know what that word meant. 🤷♀️ We left and went out to eat with friends and then went dancing.
We also had a simple and inexpensive wedding. My future mother-in-law sewed my wedding dress. It was gorgeous! She also made my bouquet and other flowers. And the bridesmaids dresses! She was so talented! A close friend's mother made our cake. It was fabulous! We did not have a bar at the reception; it was a church wedding and reception. Forty two years later, we are still happily married! When our daughter got married, she wore my wedding dress, with some adjustments in size, again performed by my MIL! I could not have hand-picked a better Mother-in-law than her! She was wonderful! Needless to say, a wedding does not have to cost a lot to be a great one! Just saying...
Ok answering your question before watching lol. Trashiest wedding i ever went to has to be my cousins in 2005. The grooms family hid in the basement of the venue doing hard drugs. One of his aunts stole about 20 centerpieces for a wedding she was going to in NFLD. Grooms father was completley wasted, trashed the buffet, tried to punch my mother, when i steppin in, threatened to punch me. RCMP showed up, grooms family tried to blame ouur side for everything. RCMP could tell they were wasted and reeked of pot. Some of them rooms side were arrested, the rest were ALL kicked out.
Married for 37 years now, and the only reason we didn't do a courthouse wedding, is my Husband knew my Mom would never forgive me. My identical twin sister, that I was forced into letting her be the maid of honor (by my Mom) showed up (an hour late) screaming about her hair not being right, despite the fact that it looked like any random Tuesday. My twin had already insisted that we wear the exact same white wedding dress, of course, my Mom called me selfish when I said no. Mom was pissy the whole day, Dad was giddy because he was losing another Daughter, and the whole family accused me horrible things because he drank at my reception. I found out that some of them were taking bets on how long my marriage would last!!! Too bad for them...37 years later and going strong, while the betters are all divorced...at least once LOL! They lost, I won, and we had a super fun day today doing the grocery shopping lol. We make anything a fun date. In a couple days, we are packing a picnic for our fishing trip. Don't bet against us lol!
Got married at 18, had a beautiful wedding still married 22 yrs later and my church, family , and friends pitched in and paid everything. Had cable labras, beautiful flowers from ok m family friends florist, fo ou d by family, dress bought by family and we were and still r so appreciative. Thinking about renewing at 25 yrs and being very small and cheap lol . So happy with our wedding memories and 22 yrs of life memories
I went to a wedding once where the bride walked between 2 cars as her “aisle” wore a bikini coverup as a dress and the groom wore camo and was high AF. The snacks after the “wedding” was a cheese platter from Walmart. It was also October at 7pm and cold. They divorced 6 months later
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Oh no
The one about the best man sleeping with the groom's mom made me think "that wouldn't have been too bad at my cousin's wedding," but that's because my cousin (the groom) had his dad as his best man (so the best man and groom's mother were a couple; lol).
That first story took me right out. After all that insanity, the house BURNT TO THE GROUND.
I had my wedding in a park shelter 13 years ago. We had absolutely no money for anything more. It was an amazing day! I wouldn't change anything for the world, that's a little offensive, a lot of people can't afford to rent banquet halls or don't want to for a big wedding. Honestly even now that we can afford a big wedding, when we renew our vows, I wouldn't be opposed to going back to that same park shelter. We drank, played Kan jam, then went to the bar. And here we are all these years later, still happily married. My one friends parents spent 30grand on her wedding, she was divorced 7 months later....
One of the most beautiful and memorable weddings I have ever attended was very, very low budget. The bride did have a beautiful traditional white wedding dress; the groom a nice suit. It was held under a grand old fir tree in a beautiful local park at dawn.
No decoration required. The officiant was a Buddhist priest. There were only about 10 guests. We each were given a sheet with phrases in Japanese (beautifully wrtten, calligraphy style). We were asked to just phonetically pronounce the words as written on the page. I do not know the meaning of the words we were chanting, but It ended up becoming a powerful and rhythmic song, in the park, at dawn. We were then asked to toast the couple with sake three or 4 times, repeating another phonetic phrase in Japanese.
Poof, they were joined.
We walked to reception which was breakfast & mimosas at a nearby breakfast hotspot.
I am happy to have experienced it with my friends.
It was truly beautiful, joyful, low cost and low stress.
Was the chant Nam-myoho-renge-kyo? You can youtube it and find the sound. It's amazing, especially done together! I say this because the ceremony reminds me of the "ceremony of the cups" which is a buddhist wedding ceremony. I'd love to get married in the woods too, thank you for sharing your experience
With personal touches that sounds like a dream wedding to me.
@@Moretzification that does sound like it.
It was a very special experience. I am glad to have been a part of it.
Kelly’s edits always have me in hysterics! That port a potty shot was outrageous! 🤣😂
A friend told me about a wedding she went to that was ridiculously frugal. The reception was held in the social activity building of the apartment complex the bride lived in. She had a full time job as a teacher and got her apartment and use of the activity building for free as she was the manager of the complex. The only food at the reception was a small bowl of nuts and a few pitchers of ice tea. They ran out of the tea!
Heck, Amazon has some nice white dresses that could easily pass as a wedding dress for under $100
A relative had literally had a pig slaughtered during the ceremony. (The ceremony was outside, very pretty in her backyard, sweet little arch covered in colorful flowers, her dress was gorgeous and flattering, his tux was a camo tux, which was weird but they were both very happy so who cares, ya know?) And since we were outside, we heard every squeal of the pig and the thuds from the action of slaughtering, while they were saying their vows. My father helped with the slaughtering and still had the blood all over his hands for the wedding photos. (I typed this at the beginning of the video, the fact that a pig roast while improperly gutted just happened to be read while finishing this, that's amazing.)
What, and I cannot stress this enough, the FUCK?
Yes that sounds terrible.
Wedding photographer here of over 20 years... I've definitely seen a thing or two but what comes to mind the most is when I photographed the wedding of a couple that was a part of the motorcycle group, Hells Angels. It was an older crowd and the best man was one of the founders of the group. As you'd expect, it was a wild, older crowd and everyone partied pretty hard. It wasn't until I got back home and was going through the photos that I realized MANY of the older biker ladies did not wear underwear and had on very short dresses/skirts. I've never had to filter images by if a vagina was showing or not. They were great people and left a very memorable impression.
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That’s funny 😂 low hanging fruit 😂
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my mom's second wedding was small w/ close family and friends and cheap. we were using my aunt and uncle's backyard on my stepfather's side w/ simple yet beautiful decorations. i (then 10f) walked my mom down the "aisle" and gave her away to my stepdad. it was a simple but beautiful and fun wedding day; like i said, nice, small wedding w/ those we loved most then we ate BBQ and wedding cake and finally jumped in the pool to relax in the summer sun. i dont recall my parents hiring anyone fancy outside of catering for the wedding cake, everything else as i recall was bought cheap or we had family pitch in to help w/ the food, music, etc. there were many laughs and fun memories. when we got home, i took all the pictures, sifted through them and put together a photo album in star spangled album (the wedding was on the 4th of July). i put it together for my parents, but they said i did such a good job that i should keep it for my memories since they had their own album of pictures of the special day. not all cheap weddings are trashy and a disaster ☺️
Showing up to your wedding hammered is same as showing up to a job interview in shorts. The marriage does not last because they were not serious about it.
This is just more proof that being single is the best thing ever! Hilarious video hopefully more gems to come.
I regret many things, but being single isn't one of them.
I went to a wedding where a friend of the bride was making the bridesmaid dresses. On the day of the wedding she suddenly announced that half of them hadn't been made yet. We all sat in the church for an hour while the bridal party went to a department store to find sort-of-matching dresses to wear. It was embarrassing. When the wedding finally finished we came out of the church and a homeless man was peeing on the front steps.
Lol…wth. What was she thinking not saying anything before the wedding day?
@@mindyschocolate Idk inconsiderate AF
I got married during covid at the court house. No witnesses, just me and my husband.
The Stolen Pig wedding was THE BEST!! 🤣🤣
The closest to a ''trashy'' wedding i ever attended was my cousins. the couple lived together for 10 years before getting married, which isnt a big deal to me but she had been pushing to get married for years and he kept putting her off. Outside the venue was a huge sign that said something like ''after ten years its about time!" Also, after the first dance the best man asked for the military people to stand and be recongzied for their service and then everyone was asked to stand for the national anthem. Lovely gesture right? He played God save the queen! The groom and his party played British soliders in a revolutionary war reenactment group.
Our whole wedding and reception, dresses, grooms clothes, cake, drinks, food ect was less than 500 bucks. It's been 15 yrs and still going strong. We just had our 3rd kid so we did 1 night at a hotel and went to an amusement park nearby for our honeymoon so we could come back to our baby but we had a blast. All our family and friends had a great time and we will always remember it.
You should start a GoFundMe that's just to buy the videos of people who go to these weddings.
Think of how amazing it would be to see all of this unfold before our eyes Charlotte. We need it!
In that first story, you said they couldn't find a pianist. However, what I heard was 'p*nis'. My head popped up and I stared at my tablet shocked. How could they not find one? I assumed the groom had one. 😂
Probably my own 😂 just kidding! We eloped and went to a tiny church off route 66. It was perfect for us. Wouldn’t change a thing
My wedding was on a budget and went off well, only we had the hardest time tracking down my MoH. She was pissed off cause her baby-daddy didn't do what she wanted. She complain about having to deal with him and yelled at her mother during pictures. Once we found her to do the MoH speech all I got was "SUP, Congrats". I had people saying I should've made her go back up.
My other brides maid was such a huge help all the way for both me and the husband.
“Show us, i demand it” 😂😂 i love you so much hahaha❤
Some of these were absolutely hilarious, especially the story with the styrofoam top-hats and the story with ceremony by the trash bins.