Wedding guests share cringiest things they've ever seen - including singing vows
A wedding is meant to be a day full of joyful memories for all the friends and family - and especially the bride and groom - who attended it. However, there are some marriage ceremonies that are recalled in horror thanks to an unsavory incident or two.
A post on Reddit asked users to share the most cringeworthy things they've ever seen at a wedding, and the answers didn't disappoint. The probing question garnered a whopping 22,000 responses from those eager to spill the wedding confetti, from terrible singing to an over-excited pastor.
It's become something of a wedding cliché over the years - just look at the umpteen viral videos on YouTube - for the main couple to surprise their guests during the traditionally slow first dance by breaking out into a choreographed routine. As one user explained first-hand: "My cousin and his wife are super religious and maybe the two most awkward people I've ever met.
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"They did one of those 'fake out' first dances where it starts with a slow song then transitions to a dance number with an upbeat song. Not only is that naturally cringeworthy, the upbeat song was five minutes long and they just kept repeating the same moves over and over for what felt like eternity."
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The onlooking cousin didn't even have the chance to block it out as they added: "There was no alcohol allowed at the wedding, so there was nothing to dull the pain." The bride and groom were clearly to blame for that forgettable moment but at another wedding the fault lay with the minister presiding the ceremony.
One user wrote: "Not the groom and bride’s fault. But the pastor marrying them, talked about his marriage and his kids for 20 minutes. He was obviously going for something of showing what marriage will be like."
The cringe levels cranked up even more as he then began delving into uncomfortably personal matters concerning his daughter: "But he full on was talking about how his daughter, Kelsey, learned to walk this way, and his other daughter’s first words were this and that. And that he and his wife make love throughout the house because that’s what you do when in love, etc. Bride and groom had to stand there holding hands for 20 minutes right in front of him as the other 150 of us had to listen about his sex life and his kids."
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Going to a wedding often means a chance to enjoy a good sing-song with everyone at the venue. But one couple took this to the extremes and decided to turn the main chunk of the ceremony into an entire song. One user said about the bride and groom: "They sang their vows to each other. Neither had a singing voice.
"Vows were generally bat s*** crazy, like submissive in the bedroom, and not asking about where she was going. The autotune microphones were a terrible idea. Their vow songs shared a chorus and it was awful and they expected the guests to sing along with the chorus. The vows singing lasted 20 minutes. Pure cringe.
While an experienced wedding insider advised: "I'm in the wedding industry. I've been to over 3,000 weddings. The singing-your-vows thing is never ever going to work out like you think it will. Never sing your vows. Never attempt to sing any part of your wedding. It will not go as you visualized it."
One user who exchanged vows even spoke of their embarrassment their mum and mother-in-law caused them at the wedding thanks to a traditional Dutch tribute. They wrote: "My mom and mother-in-law insisted on doing a 'stukje', a bit of theater often to mock the bride and groom by showing embarrassing pictures from their childhood. Cringe worthy all by itself, but we explicitly asked them NOT to and they went against our wishes.
"So when they performed their 'stukje' everyone was annoyed and embarrassed. When we finally made it through that ordeal we wanted thd party to resume, but my mother-in-law did another 'stukje' and we were about ready to kill her." One user sympathised and replied: "Ahh yess the stukje, the most feared part of any wedding or gathering. Very rarely is it actually funny or entertaining, most of the time just so goddamn annoying."
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