What don't you like at weddings?

Cadbury purple.

Gift/money requests in invitations, poem or not.

Faux church weddings.

'Quirky' bride shoes (and anyway, Converse/DMs are too commonly worn to qualify as 'quirky').

Hog roasts.

Chair covers

organza of any sort- with organza usually brings a colour theme!

People choosing the cheapest possible ceremony venue

mirrors under thecentrepieces

Fruitcake

My biggest issue is when couples agree to get married and do it themselves to save money and then try to rope in family to do literally all the long winded stuff for them including arranging stuff on the day, moving stuff on the day, making nearly everything by hand for the couple and transporting people on the day.

Surely, this no longer makes you a guest?

Canon in D is a musical piece and I'm having a harpist play it at my reception ^_^

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_jy83_YQjQ

THIS!!

Then the gritting your teeth while you have to listen to couples whining that things weren't made the way the wanted!

- plain wedding dresses

- wedding dresses with a bit of colour in them

- children making noise during ceremony/speeches and not being taken out by parents and/or whipped.

- tiaras that look like crowns

I think this is one of the nicest thngs of all! Maybe because I'm part of a large family and we're all spread out around the country, so it's lovely to be asked to be involved!

I have to say that there isn't much I don't like at weddings: what works well for one wedding doesn't always for the next, but I'm choosing things I particularly like rather than not choosing things I don't, if that makes sense! ?

There are many things I am not choosing for my wedding.

But really really hate? Things involving animals (bar in their working/ assisting capacity)

Rude 'guests' (who loudly complain about many things like children, but as this is usually just one of many charms they are usually too racist, sexist, agist, sizist to be invited to family and friend gatherings, so blissfully seem to be happening less and I say 'guests' because you KNOW they were only invited under sufferance !)

I love being surprised at weddings though - the new stuff can be lovely, (just without the above). That is all.

Going to a wedding as a single person and being dumped off at a rear table near the toilets with a bunch of people you have never met

...then being subjected to an organised bouquet throw

Receiving an invitation with the wedding list or something asking for money included in the envelope

Having to wait through a long photo shoot outside in the cold

One of the parents of the bride/groom asking you who you are

Going to the evening reception when no tables or chairs have been allocated to anyone who did not attend the wedding

Plastic gems on the tables

Mirrors under vases

Freezing cold churches

Balloons used as centrepieces

Too much formality

Out of control children

Budget D.J.'s that have no idea what they should be playing as nobody is on the dancefloor

People that won't get up and dance (regardless of budget d.j- get up and have some fun !)

Venues that charge ridiculous bar prices

Wedding Guest Books

Net bags of sugared almonds

Buying a new outfit for the occasion and having a wardrobe malfunction

Cor...that's a long list :-)

Butterfly suffocation / pigeon lobbing / ring delivery by owl or other such large bird

Gift poems

Lack of personality and/or atmosphere

Balloons

Bad food / not enough wine

These..but the children one made me ?

Canon in D. Also known as Pachelbel's Canon. The most boring piece of classical music ever (in my cabbage) but inexplicably popular. I gave my string quartet free rein to play whatever they liked before the ceremony until I arrived, as long as it wasn't THAT!

Other things:

Money poems. Or any other poems.

That dinosaur reading (A Lovely Love Story).

Long gap between ceremony and reception meal. Especially if only one glass of bubbly available.

Anyone talking about being a princess or a celebrity.

Anything involving animals, especially dogs.

Crystals/pearls/confetti on tables. It's messy and I end up stacking it all up/grouping them together!

- Balloons - people don't realise this but helium is one of the earth's most limited resources and it has important medical applications, so why we're allowed to use it at parties I don't know.

- Money poems

- "You may now kiss the bride" and/or when the bride and groom seal the marriage by slipping each other the tongue

- Late weddings - I mean I love all weddings but I feel like everything comes to an end just as you really start enjoying yourself

- Cheese instead of cake

- DJs who play what they want and don't play requests even if the dance floor is empty

- "Summer of '69", "Gonna Be 500 Miles", "Amarillo"

- Fake tan

- Money poems

- Bacon sandwiches/Hog roasts- I'm vegetarian and the smell of cooking pig was the first thing I went off. 20 years later it still turns my stomach.

Orrrrrr. Not even when it's read by a teacher? In Jackanory fashion? In a manner that suggests a particularly stupid class? It's one of my fave wedding video bits, a little bit because it's so stupid. And my BM cries a bit at the end

Oooh THATS canon!!! yes its, er, not my thing.

okay to chirp in again, yes to no fake tan (i'm a ghost!) and i partly agree on dress with some colour. Even though mine has colour is a soft shade, very light purple, but I'm not a fan of the bright blood red or navy you get on most of them.

What's a faux church ceremony? So intrigued.

No canapes - I love canapes.

Moi?

A church wedding where the couple don't believe in god. A church wedding simply to please a family or to get nice photos. A church wedding where the couple have to ask advice on which hymns or readings to have because they don't have clue about church things.

I for one am going to do a very large flounce because I had this reading at my wedding.

ah disappointed. I thought it might be where the priest was really a used car salesman, or something. ;o)

Sorry! But I think I'd like that.... Hey, he's about as much use as a real priest at interpreting an imaginary being's rules....

ha. One of the first conversations I had with my boy was (obviously when we reached *that* stage) was I absolutely cannot get married in a church. Non-negotiable. And my mum would probably refuse to come if I did. I loved our civil ceremony, and not so long that anyone got bored. It was just about us, no third person/imaginary being etc.

I really wanted to post a photo of what I believe is the worst wedding dress in the world (as in a "serious" wedding dress) but was scared somebody might have it here. It seemed to be so popular as saw it in so many wedding dress shops (and I went to a lot).

do it, do it, do it, do it

Don't really understand the "formal sit-down dinner" being on the list.

What's not to like about three courses of food??!!?

...when you only get half a bottle of wine to go with it?

Post, post, post!! ;0)xx

I can't. I'm too scared.

i dont really think this needs to be said does it? there children why shouldnt they feel like princesses.

I think the point of the thread is to disagree with each other, so no harm in voicing our own opinions.

Clarehj, I would love to see the dress you consider to be the ugliest wedding dress out there. I have to admit I hate most wedding dresses I see, and I know lots of brides also have very particular taste when it comes to wedding dresses

I think this thread could be more trouble than its worth lol

everyone is different and like different things but im not having these things at my wedding

balloons

matching groom, father of the bride etc (just tie colour)

speeches

free bar (we've paid enpugh)

confetti

animals of any kind!

spending stupid amounts of money on fancy cars to sit in them for 10mins.

i agree and thats what ive done.

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