Wedding hates and dislikes

<Cough> I know a way of avoiding this...

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Oh god I Hate chair covers too, but I can't afford to hire chairs and our venues chairs are revolting and I've got a great deal on chair covers so I think I might have to. AGRHHH!!

By that time my dress will probably be wrecked with gravy and wine! Haha!! No cheesy music?!? I don't think I'd cope!! Though my H2B has drawn the line at me having the string quartet version of Mmmmbop as my entrance song...which is a shame as it sounds great ?

I feel the need to do this! H2B gave me "the look" earlier while little one was listening to his Disney cd and "You've got a friend in me" from Toy Story came on. The look that says "don't even suggest it or I'll be serving divorce papers before we're even married". He never said no Mmmmm bop though.

Oh no, we do have some actually! forgot our pop hour!! Mmmbop is one of them, as well as backstreet boys, britney spears, 911, one direction, westlife, take that and the ten minute long 5ive megamix

When I said cheesy I meant macarena/ hey baby/ amarillo/ saturday night dj-esque choicees. 90's boy and girl bands are most definitely NOT vito-ed!!! YAY!

And you've got a friend in me is being played whilst people take their seats for the ceremony! There is a micheal buble version which i got him to agree to when randy newman was a no go haha! Seriously everything else. cake, flowers, colour scheme, favours, invites he is like "not fussed i will leVe it to you" but with the music.... he is such a music snob! But we have finally agreed on it all.... phew!

Haha you got a friend in me is quite cute! And goldpants - I'm glad you've got some 90s boybands in there!

Oh my disco will have lots of 90s pop cheese. Gets me and my girls dancing. I love TT, BSB etc.

Perfect! I was really struggling to find a song for the guests taking their seats. I think it's appropriate. We (rather sickeningly) always sign cards/texts etc to each other "Love you to Infinity and Beyond" so it works.

Aw that's lovely. Gag!! ?

Me and my OH often say we love each other infinity times infinity (stole it from Revenge). Gag again! ?

Yes. Those are the real fake ones as we don't even know that why are they doing this and in what utmost good faith.

Royal Blue or Forest Green schemes

Any form of chicken breast for the main course

Themes...football, bands etc. I don't get what that has to do with a wedding.

Balloons

Sweetie buffets

'Beige' buffets

Ring Cushions

Displaying random old items to make it a vintage theme i.e. a typewriter..

Using jamjars as glasses..you wouldn't do it at home, why make your guests do it at your wedding?

Cartoonists

Magicians

Brooch bouquets

Cartoony cake toppers

Beige buffets made me laugh

Just as aside, does everyone generally hate magicians? We haven't booked one, but I have considered it to keep the kids entertained during the speeches. It was suggested to me but part of me though thinks the kids should be at the speeches as a few of them are part of the bridal party. Maybe just some garden games for during the reception and a bag of little things to do at each of their place settings will suffice. What's everyone else done about that?

I don't!

Not everyone likes magic but it always goes down well with the vast majority of guests. I did a wedding for a Hitcher (Watfordlass) a couple of weeks ago and she has written a review on my Hitched listing.

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I do love a good wedding, although I do a have a few pet hates:

Red/burgundy

dresses with the line of colour down the back - mainly red

Ill fitting wedding dresses - if you are spending so much on a dress, surely you would want it to fit properly

too much cleavage on show

Swirly waistcoats

buffets as the main meal

BALLOONS!!! OH finds it funny how offensive I find them :/

Receiving lines - boring and pointless imo

throwing the bouquet - Im having a brooch bouquet and reeeaaallly don't think people will appreciate me launching that at them!

'funny' first dances - wheres the romance?!

rubbish DJs who think they are the worlds greatest comedian

people not dancing/no atmosphere (my biggest fear aswell!)

I am excited about wearing my lace dress to my dusky pink wedding with birdcage & candelabra centrepieces, sweet buffet, photobooth and vintage suitecase cardbox though

but I did draw the line at OH wearing pink, I love my wedding colours but feel its unfair to put him through that so he chose silver

i did the same! i said he could use any other colour and silver would be good but he wants purple. my love for the colour is infectious (apparently)!

I felt it was very unfair to dictate what her wore, plus I like that he will look different to the rest of the bridal party.

...another pet hate....brides smoking! even when I smoked I always said I wouldnt on my wedding day.

I am also part of the oop's upside your head gang...may have to ban it for my own dignity haha

Oh god...

I had the following:

*pink bridesmaids

*cup cakes

*the dreaded chair covers.. The swirly carpet clashed with the green chairs..

*ivory shoes

*strapless dress

*colour scheme

Actually didn't do to bad lol. I dislike..

*people getting married in churches because it looks pretty

*rubbish DJ's/no one dancing

*funny first dances

*and finally people who wear cream/white to weddings!

This is truly vomit inducing!

I don't like wedding cakes. I find them cringey.

This is a new discovery for me

I like the cake...its when couples feel the need to ram it in each others faces in what I can only assume is what they perceive to be a display of affection that I hate. Why would you want to be picking icing off your face for the rest of the day?!

Seriously why do people do this? Do you think they get really fed up with their new husband/wife that quickly that they feel the need to shove cake in their face?? Soooo don't get it!

Nobody needs to 'shove' cake in my face.....I'm perfectly capable of doing it myself.......ask my slimming world group!

Conference type rooms for ceremony/rest of day

Swirly waistcoats, top hat and tails (which is exactly what I had pictured for so long but hate it now!!)

Red, especially winter/xmas weddings with red (again precisely what I had always imagined!!)

Sweet buffets/chocolate/fountains/ice cream vans

Getting obsessed with 'being different'. If you think it's different that probably means that it's actually really fashionable right now!!! Just choose things you like surely?

Dove/butterfly releases

Cheap weddings that aren't actually cheap. By this I mean: crap venue, cold buffet for food, crap DJ, dress from china etc and then finding out they still spent £10k. There are some really good deals to be had if you shop around!

Crap food. I expect to have something hot and enough of it to soak up the alcohol I will be drinking.

Those ugly squared off/pointy satin bridal shoes that so many of the bridal shops still stock (mentioned by a few already) they make me vom.

Staged photos, especially when they take forever and the TOG is shouting stupid words at you to try and make you smile. Awful.

Balloon arches or centrepieces. In fact balloons anywhere, unless they're those giant ones that are all over pinterest atm- I love them!!!

Guests wearing a dress that clearly resembles a wedding dress. Not all white/cream dresses are a problem, but a cream maxi dress is taking the p a little.

Receiving lines, I think these are generally moving out of vogue now.

People who will sit there and say "we'd rather spend the money on our honeymoon than other people" meaning we are left poorly fed and entertained.

That hideous dress that has been flashed with the red band. It is the stuff of nightmares for me!

Lace-up wedding dresses. Which unless my seamstress can work wonders I will be wearing at my own wedding :/

I'm not a fan either. Don't get me wrong they can look lovely but just not on me. Sadly I may b in the same boat as you. Dress currently zip up, may need to be changed to lace up. Don't want it to! Love the dress though argh!

currently my problem, for my 'cheap' 8k wedding were doing a civil ceremony in the hotel (were not religious, a church despite how much mum wants. it would be a hypocritic choice) fortunately they 'naturalised it' hard wood floor, cream walls, mirror where the canvas was but trying to think of how to 'jazz it up' with out balloon/flower archies, bloody chair covers, sashes etc etc. But big 90cm and 90cm balloons are turning my head but it'll need a touch more.

I also hate the cake in each others faces..paying a fortune for hair & make up to be smothered in a bit of sponge cake, so pointless and if OH did that to me i'd punch him in the face haha.

16 pages and still friendly, i'm impressed

The flooring has definitely saved you!!! They always choose such hideous dark blue/green/red carpets for meeting rooms which is just awful!!

You should of seen it before! it was mid grey walls and grey and ORANGE carpet!

its went from this:

to this

NO U

Hahaha!!

I love these threads :-D Hate is such a strong word!

I like a wedding which reflects the couple. So I suppose this makes me 'hate' weddings with a formal feel if the couple aren't usually formal. If they eat in smart restaurants a lot then fine. It's the reflection of the poeple that i really like.

The idea of wedding dresses is odd, now I come to think about it. Several people on this thread have said that morning dress looks odd on men as it is too formal (even though it is theoretically the correct attire) and yet almost all of us are splashing out on a formal long dress in white/ivory.

I love weddings. I am going through my second tranche: I went to all my friends' weddings and now I get to go to their children's. The only thing that I don't enjoy is when there are huge gaps of time with no information what to expect so everyone is just standing there. This is doubly bad if there is no food/drink and quadrupally bad if we are all outside. For example if there is nothing for the guests to do while photos are being taken, or if something overruns and no contingency is in place, or the photographer goes a little mad and the breakfast gets put back and back. The only person who doesn't know that the Chef is about to kill someone is the bride herself (the photographer doesn't care) and we all end up eating dessicated food which the chef takes the blame for.

My favourite weddings are always a really good fit for the couple and family. Ultra chic in a boutique hotel eating tiny portions of exquisite delicacies, or boogying to a jazz trio in a garden in rural Lincolnshire eating mini burgers and cheesecakes. It's all good as long as the couple are having a great time and are not out of their comfort zone.