50 Disappointed Guests Reveal The Worst Wedding They Suffered Through

By Thought Catalog Updated January 12, 2024

42. Went to my cousin’s wedding, in November, in New York, that took place in a barn, with no heating whatsoever.

Everyone was freezing their asses off. The Bride’s dead Father had recorded a message for her. She didn’t know about it. They had to stop the wedding for an hour while she cried. The bridesmaids cried with her. 10/10 worst wedding I’ve ever been to.

(Also the food was mediocre)

43. My brother’s wedding. My family is mormon and he got married inside the mormon temple. You can only watch the ceremony if you are a mormon with a mormon bishops approval. I didn’t have approval and neither did my parents.

So my brothers wedding consisted of me watching kids on the lawn of a mormon temple in the summer heat while my parents openly wept.

Trace the scars life has left you. It will remind you that at one point, you fought for something. You believed.

“You are the only person who gets to decide if you are happy or not—do not put your happiness into the hands of other people. Do not make it contingent on their acceptance of you or their feelings for you. At the end of the day, it doesn’t matter if someone dislikes you or if someone doesn’t want to be with you. All that matters is that you are happy with the person you are becoming. All that matters is that you like yourself, that you are proud of what you are putting out into the world. You are in charge of your joy, of your worth. You get to be your own validation. Please don’t ever forget that.” — Bianca Sparacino

Excerpted from The Strength In Our Scars by Bianca Sparacino.