20 Cringe-worthy Wedding Moments to Witness Over a Slice of Cake

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Jesse Kessenheimer • Writer and Editor
Jul 25, 2024 2:00 PM EDT

Weddings are all about tradition. But obviously, when two families decide to join together in perfect harmony, there's bound to be some chafing under the seams of even the most fitted wedding garments. Inevitably, wedding strife can turn to wedding cringe in an instant, leaving their guests heaving with discomfort and awkwardness. 

What's the cringiest thing you've ever seen at a wedding?

For me, the wedding cringe is more than just a couple on stage confessing their undying love for each other in front of their 200 closest friends and relatives. Wedding cringe can be hidden in the fine print of a child-free wedding invitation or brandished blatantly on the center stage when the bride gloats over her single friends. Simply put, if horrified by the concept of a raunchy garter toss display, you're not alone. It should be a beautiful day of love triumphing over all, but a lot of brides and grooms miss the mark. Turns out, there are a lot of ways to ruin a wedding ceremony or to fumble a tasteful reception, but the couples on the following list have really taken the cake this season. 

Keep scrolling for a collection of cringe-worthy wedding moments that'll make you wish you RSVP'd 'No' to this wedding…

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    Cringiest thing I've ever seen at a wedding Cringe When my stepbrother got married at the reception his wife decided to sit in a chair in the middle of the
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    dance floor and have all the guests circle around her pointing at her whilst the song "its all about you" by mcfly played has to be one of the tackiest things I've ever witnessed....Needless to say I did not participate in inflating her ego any further
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    pandoraboxxy • 3d ago Ooh I'd like to add my cringiest one. The priest compared the bride to a fine glass goblet, and then compared the groom to a gas station soda cup.
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    ChiropteraVampira 3d ago I hate the tradition of garter tosses in general, but at one wedding I went to the groom decided to do a " "dance routine towards his wife before he got the garter. Could have been funny, but both the bride and groom were pretty religious/conservative
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    pudg... 3d ago . Edited 3d ago • At my cousins wedding when the priest went on and on about how the man was to provide and protect his wife and the wife was to serve and respect her husband. (We didn't know that he had converted to her ultra religion and were all shocked!)
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    Even weirder when the toasting champagne came around and they asked if you were on the bride or groom side and automatically poured champagne for the grooms side and apple juice for the bride side without asking what you would prefer)
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    rainbow-black-sheep • 3d ago Yeah, when my cousin was getting married, the bride had a song called 'I am the Queen today' played during the reception and danced to it alone. Some people are like that.
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    zacat2020 3d ago At my cousin's wedding the pastor asked the bride if her hymen was intact!!!!!!!!
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    AlexandraTheAmazing 3d ago Bride sang to her husband. Sweet? Maybe. She couldn't sing, forgot the words and it was just weird.
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    Shizeena780 • 3d ago Watched a drunk groomsmen almost drop his toddler on his head while trying to show off how cool of a dad he was... but he was faced... and no one sober was watching that kid... or
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    dad. I caught the kid before he hit the ground when dad's cool swing back, dangle, catch move failed.. But they said I was being dramatic for telling them it was no place for a baby.
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    Soop_Chef 3d ago Maid of Honour (bride's sister) singing (unplanned by the wedding couple) "I will always love you", very very badly, end to end...it just kept going and going.
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    This came shortly after the father of the bride giving his speech, essentially giving examples of how weird and stupid the bride was. Guess we know who the golden child was in that family.
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    tonkatruckz369 · 3d ago My cousins wedding was massively cringe. She wanted a knights and princesses theme for the bridal party, women in frilly old timey clothes, guys wearing capes, tights and swords. on paper i could see
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    where you might think it would be cute but in practice it was really embarrassing on top of costing them an arm and a leg. For my wedding the official
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    forgot our names at the alter. You're only job was to read the same script you do for every wedding and remember 2 people names JANICE, you Jhack.
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    CountingScars94 • 3d ago Went to the wedding of an old classmate. It was the weirdest event I've attended in a long time, or since. The first thing that weirded us out was when the father who
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    was officiating the ceremony started crying and whining about how he was her first love WHILE STILL OFFICIATING, which ok, you love her fine. But he wouldn't shut up about it and kept coming back to it?
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    The next thing we know, a bucket of water was brought out and they just start washing each other's feet (or maybe the bride washed the husband's feet? I can't remember which).
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    Then they have a little auction for funsies where they put her garter up for sale to the wedding attendees, to which the father just goes ahead and outbids everyone to have his daughter's (the bride) garter...
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    funderrated ⚫ 3d ago Watched my friend and her new husband drive separately to swing by the hotel between the ceremony and reception so they could finally have Extremely weird that nearly everyone knew what they were doing.
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    Zorro6855 · 3d ago My wedding. The rabbi was a Had a guest come up during the ceremony with no warning to make sure my ring was worth the biblical five shekels. We are not orthodox.
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    scholarlyowl03 • 3d ago I've got one. At a co-workers wedding her maid of honor made this very long and rambling toast about the bride being the last member of a certain "club." She never mentioned it by name but it was so obvious what she meant.
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    Kitty_has_no_name • 3d ago My husband's cousin had her second wedding a few years ago and the father of the bride gave a speech which included the bride saved a trip to the courthouse because she dropped off her divorce papers when she picked up her marriage license. This was one of many awkward things in his speech.
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    curryp4n 3d ago I went to one of someone at the church I used to go. It was a Baptist church and you could tell the couple was only there because they were forced to be. And because it was Baptist, there was no kissing or dancing allowed. They just awkwardly hugged. The bride cried the whole time. It was really weird
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    Life_Statement_8362 3d ago I've been to a wedding where one of the ring bearers held a sign that said "I'm still single" on it They probably weren't old enough to date yet.
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    Exact_Trash59 • 2d ago Worse than cringe but at my cousins wedding when their Baptist pastor said to reach our hands towards the couple to direct the spirit of the lord or whatever a bunch of the groomsmen did the bad German people arm thing
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    which is bad enough as it is, but also myself, my brother, and my wonderful parents who literally helped raise the groom since infancy are all Jewish and were all a part of the wedding.
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    JambonDorcas • 21h ago Just came here to say there was a big group photo taken of the wedding guests and I crouched down and hid because I didn't want to be in the photo.
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    My husband's cousin had her second wedding a few years ago and the father of the bride gave a speech which included the bride saved a trip to the courthouse because she dropped off her divorce papers when she picked up her marriage license.
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