Went to the cheapest wedding of my life this weekend. Not just budget friendly wedding but cheap as fuck. I wouldn’t be mad about it if it wasn’t a destination wedding requiring 10 hours of driving and 2 days worth of formalities that weren’t actually anything?
We wanted to go up Saturday morning and leave Sunday. Nope - there’s a rehearsal dinner friday(my boyfriend is in the wedding so we had to go for that). Not only did we have to pay for our own dinner - there was no rehearsal… so the $500 for the extra night at the hotel plus time off work was for nothing.
Then the bride punched my boyfriend in the face because she fell into a car while hammered and he said “watch out there’s a car there” while trying to catch her. (I took some money out of the card for this lol).
The wedding was a shit show. They had no music for the ceremony… the groom played it off his phone which didn’t sync to the speaker so we just listened to his phone. There were no decorations whatsoever. Because there was no rehearsal it looked so sloppy and awkward for those in the party.
The dinner was fine. But there were still no decorations! It felt like we were just eating dinner at a restaurant. There was no open bar until one of our friends opened a tab for everyone and made it an open bar on his dime.
They also invited a ton of people to their shower and bachelor(ette) who weren’t invited to the wedding and expected gifts and money from them. (Literally wrote “monetary donations accepted in lieu of gifts” on the invitation) Even though they weren’t invited to the wedding. It gave off the impression of a money grab and was sooooo tacky. Then to see their wedding come off as extremely cheap was kind of a slap in the face. They bragged about making enough money from their shower to pay for the whole wedding(why is this even being discussed the day before the wedding is asinine to me). So I took all the money out of my card after hearing that considering we paid $1800+ on the hotel, driving, suit/dress and their shower. And we threw them a $300+ bachelor party that the groom refused to ask others for money for. So my boyfriend ended up covering the whole cost. They didn’t pay for any of their bridal party’s rooms or clothes which is insane to me as every wedding I’ve been in at least something is covered. They didn’t even give party gifts??
fuck these people. They are genuinely the most insufferable assholes I’ve ever met and their wedding was the laziest, cheapest event I’ve ever attended. I’m not going to miss the money but I hate that I spent it on those fucks