We’re late in the game, I know, but Tacky Weddings has now joined the world of Twitter.
Tacky Wedding All-Star: Mini-me bride and groom, neon orange showgirl bridesmaids, AND super fugly wedding dress!!
July 8, 2009First, let me thank Eva for sending me these pictures. These, my friends, are the good stuff, the reason why this little blog exists. I don’t think I have laughed this hard in a while. Just when I think I have seen it all… the worst of the worst, the most tasteless, over the top, godawful spectacles around… one of my fabulous readers sends me this wedding, and I am proven SO wrong. I love this wedding. Very, very much.
BEHOLD!
This is the creepiest thing I have ever seen at at wedding, ever. Mini-me matching child bride and groom!!! Ahh! Not okay. Not. Okay.
Yeah, Mom, get a nice handful of bosom for the family photo op. Don’t be shy, go for it.
Oh man, oh man, oh man….
Seriously, WTF.
Star Wars/ Star Trek/Sci-Fi Weddings
July 1, 2009These weddings look like they were a lot of fun, especially ones where the guests dress up.
This Star Wars wedding is my favorite:
From the Bride, Jennifer:
“The story behind [the wedding] was that we’d been married before, and I told my husband the only way I’d get married again is if it was with Elvis in Vegas, and he said the only way he’d do it again is if it was on the bridge of the Enterprise. Luckily, Vegas is the only place where one could have done that, so that’s where we went. To date, that’s the only Star Trek wedding with Elvis. It was fun and entertaining (we had a fantastic Elvis), and definitely a once in a lifetime event.”
See the rest of her photoset HERE!
Wedding cake face smashers
June 30, 2009
Red Velvet cake…. gruesome yet yummy!
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Don’t get any cake on that Miller Lite hat…
Richard Branson! Behave yourself!
Bride and Groom get tasered at wedding AND on honeymoon
June 30, 2009
From Don Surber’s blog on the Daily Mail:
Andy Somora and Anna Pastuszwska were made for each other.
They cannot hold their liquor and when the police come, they keep acting up until they get tasered.
On July 19, they were married and had a wedding reception at an art gallery in Lakeside, Mich.
People drank too much. A metal lamp went through a window. Cops were called. Stun guns were pulled.
And the bride and the groom were tasered.
But wait. There’s more. The honeymoon was just as bad. The Chicago Sun-Times reported:
“The short version of the story is they didn’t want to quit their partying,” said Mike Sepic, Berrien County, Mich., chief assistant prosecutor. “If you put this in the class of wedding receptions gone bad, I guess this would take the cake.”
And the story didn’t end after the reception. Two nights later, the bride and groom were again arrested in Michigan — and again shocked by a stun gun — after struggling with police investigating a noise complaint, Sepic said. The groom was charged with pushing his new wife down during that incident, but the charge was later dropped as part of a plea bargain, Sepic said.
Disneyland Musical Marriage Proposal
June 30, 2009In this viral video hit, a guy proposes to his girlfriend with a highly choreographed routine at Disneyland. Many (like the folks over at Jezebel) think that this is just a staged publicity stunt for Disney, but either way, I just threw up in my mouth a little bit.
Fun with photoshop wedding invites
June 30, 2009I came across these photoshopped wedding invites quite by accident, but I’m glad I did. All done by the groom’s sister. They are really silly, and I think its a fun idea. ”Young love” is my personal favorite.
“So, sometime in December my brother Daniel is getting married. Congratulations Daniel! – To help celebrate the occasion, and because they didn’t ask me to help, I am going to make a new wedding invitation for them every week until they get married One can see right away that these wedding invitations are not going to be good in any way. In fact, they are going to be as terrible as I can make them. So stay tuned. (So, I’m not really that bitter or anything, I just want to make silly wedding invitations as an attempt to haze my brother a bit) “
So, sometime in December my brother Daniel is getting married. Congratulations Daniel! – To help celebrate the occasion, and because they didn’t ask me to help, I am going to make a new wedding invitation for them every week until they get married.
This is the first one.
One can see right away that these wedding invitations are not going to be good in any way. In fact, they are going to be as terrible as I can make them. So stay tuned.
(So, I’m not really that bitter or anything, I just want to make silly wedding invitations as an attempt to haze my brother a bit)
Patriotic/July 4th Weddings
June 30, 2009In honor of the upcoming holiday weekend!!
Ralph Archbold, who is a Benjamin Franklin impersonator, married Linda Wilde, who portrays Betsy Ross at different events. Mayor Michael Nutter officiated the ceremony. Ben and Betsy exchanged rings engraved with a kite and key and the stars and stripes The crowd reportedly gasped as Wilde, dressed in a 18th Century-era wedding dress, walked down the aisle of Independence Mall escorted by family members dressed in period garb. Not to be outdone, Archbold’s best man was a guy who plays Thomas Jefferson.
Their wedding cake, adorable!
More photos of this wedding HERE on flickr!
Um, that’s none of your beeswax mister!!!
June 29, 2009This is from one of my all time FAVORITE blogs, Passive Aggressive Notes.
” At a recent wedding that Allison in Raleigh, NC attended, the bride asked that, instead of signing a guestbook, wedding guests write their wishes for the couple on fabric squares that would later be made into a memory quilt. When Allison saw this one sitting on top, she couldn’t resist snapping a photo.”
The fabric swatch reads:
“One can only hope that you saved yourself for your wedding night. -Jennifer + John”
Man, I hope they put that one front and center on the quilt. Classic.
Dear Jezebel, Love Tacky Weddings….
June 29, 2009Last week, the extremely popular website Jezebel featured a piece about Tacky Weddings, titled “Who Do We Feel Entitled to Mock Other Women’s Weddings?” It was an editorial by Sadie Stein based on an article that appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald about Australian bride Yanna Elfes’ wedding becoming an unexpected internet phenomenon. Yanna’s wedding photos were pulled off of a friend’s Facebook page and quickly went viral over a period of a few weeks, and Yanna was apparently so upset by the comments people were making, she contacted the police, who of course told her that anything uploaded to Facebook is part of the public domain. I had over fifteen people email me pictures of that wedding over a period of a few days, the most I have ever had , and I posted the pictures with minimal commentary. Of course, my site gets singled out by Jezebel as a life-ruining hate machine. Now, I think it is terrible that strangers contacted her personally via Facebook and were ugly to her, no one deserves that. However, even though she hadn’t planned on the publicity she received, I don’t think that her situation is a negative one at all. Jezebel argues that her privacy was invaded by the photo leak, but I think she should be proud that millions of people have seen her wedding. That’s the beauty and the curse that is the Internet. Newspapers are interviewing her, blogs are writing about her, and she’s even been offered money to appear on television. I’m sure that in addition to the negative comments, she has received an outpouring of support from people around the world. There are several positive comments about her wedding on the post that appears on this site; a lot of people think her wedding was really neat! There is no such thing as bad publicity.
When I first read Jezebel’s negative write-up, I admit I was a little angry because I thought it was incredibly hypocritical and heavy handed of the author to make moral judgements about me based on my blog but they are just as entitled to voice their opinion as I am. Do I think aspects of Yannas wedding were tacky? Yes, I do, and I’m not apologizing for thinking that. Is it the worst I’ve seen? No, not even close. But Sadie, if poking fun at someone for choosing Playboy-tagged champagne flutes, pink hummer limos, and a pink crystal-encrusted white boobie dress with a mini-skirt inspired by a Guns-N-Roses video qualifies me as a person who is “dismissing someone’s cultural and familial expectations or the context of her life,” then so be it I guess! This is a blog where I post pictures and comments based my own personal aesthetic, it’s not hard-hitting journalism. It’s not meant to be mean-spirited or to be taken seriously. The internet has become the most amazing apparatus for self expression ever invented, and this tiny little blog is my slice of that. Do I ever worry that I am hurting people or question myself? Of course I do. Whenever I do though, I always look at all the emails and comments I get from people that say they really enjoy my website and I carry on.
There is a website devoted to practically anything and everything under the sun, and weddings are certainly no exception. Weddings have become a multi-billion dollar industry with innumerable websites devoted to praising and showcasing pretty weddings, and others that are devoted to poking fun at them. Cake Wrecks, Ugly Dress and Etiquette Hell, are all great websites devoted to weddings gone wrong that I frequent daily. I started this blog in February of 2008 while I was planning my own wedding as a way to share some of the funny/ridiculous things I was finding on the internet with my girlfriends. I created an email address for submissions soon after that and the blog took off from there. I don’t spend my days trolling the internet for other people’s wedding photos. In fact, I spend very, very little time on this website. Every single photo or video on this site has been emailed to me by a fan, and I’ve never been contacted by a bride that was upset that her photos were on my site. The website has evolved considerably since it’s inception. I have often wished that I could change the name of this blog, because people assume that I don’t like every wedding I put on here. I post weddings that I think are interesting, funny, unique, and yes, tacky. If I think my readers will enjoy a wedding, or if it will spark a dialog, I post it. Most of the time, unless I feel utterly compelled to comment, I let the readers decide what they think about the photos or videos that I choose. Without fail, if there are 10 people that say they don’t like a wedding, there are 10 other people that counter back with positive comments.
Ultimately, I am grateful to Jezebel for writing about my little website, I went from a lowly 5k hits per day to over 45K in referrals after the article appeared. I’ve had to deal with rude and snarky comments in the wake of the article, but that’s totally okay. This is a public forum, and I don’t expect everyone to agree with me.
I think the Jezebel post failed to include the most important part of Yanna’s interview in the original article:
Yanna said she could understand why people would perceive the wedding as outrageous but “at the end of the day all of my family and friends know that’s Yanna, I don’t want to change it because people will think different of me. Everyone walked in there and saw me and said Yanna, this is you, no one could pull this off like you have. From day one I said to my mum, `this is how I want to do it’ and my mum was like, `that’s great, that’s you’, why would you want to change that?”
It doesn’t sound like Yanna is regretting any of the choices she made on her wedding day, I think she was really happy with the way it turned out, and isn’t that the most important thing?
Your wedding is your day, do what you want, do what makes you happy and to hell with what anyone else thinks. Be proud of your day, shout it from the mountaintops!! What one person thinks is tacky another person may see as fun and innovative. My opinion is no better (and no worse) than anyone else’s. It’s not the end all be all, me liking or not liking a perfect stranger’s wedding does not change a thing. The moral of this story? Who cares what I think about your wedding Yanna, I am nobody. Just rock it.
Last week, the extremely popular website Jezebel featured a piece about Tacky Weddings, titled “Who Do We Feel Entitled to Mock Other Women’s Weddings?” It was an editorial by Sadie Stein based on an article that appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald about Australian bride Yanna Elfes’ wedding becoming an unexpected internet phenomenon. Yanna’s wedding photos were pulled off of a friend’s Facebook page and quickly went viral over a period of a few weeks, and Yanna was apparently so upset by the comments people were making, she contacted the police, who of course told her that anything uploaded to Facebook is part of the public domain. I had over fifteen people email me pictures of that wedding over a period of a few days, the most I have ever had , and I posted the pictures with minimal commentary. Of course, my site gets singled out by Jezebel as a life-ruining hate machine. Now, I think it is terrible that strangers contacted her personally via Facebook and were ugly to her, no one deserves that. However, even though she hadn’t planned on the publicity she received, I don’t think that her situation is a negative one at all. Jezebel argues that her privacy was invaded by the photo leak, but I think she should be proud that millions of people have seen her wedding. That’s the beauty and the curse that is the Internet. Newspapers are interviewing her, blogs are writing about her, and she’s even been offered money to appear on television. I’m sure that in addition to the negative comments, she has received an outpouring of support from people around the world. There are several positive comments about her wedding on the post that appears on this site; a lot of people think her wedding was really neat! There is no such thing as bad publicity.
When I first read Jezebel’s negative write-up, I admit I was a little angry because I thought it was incredibly hypocritical and heavy handed of the author to make moral judgements about me based on my blog but they are just as entitled to voice their opinion as I am. Do I think aspects of Yannas wedding were tacky? Yes, I do, and I’m not apologizing for thinking that. Is it the worst I’ve seen? No, not even close. But Sadie, if poking fun at someone for choosing Playboy-tagged champagne flutes, pink hummer limos, and a pink crystal-encrusted white boobie dress with a mini-skirt inspired by a Guns-N-Roses video qualifies me as a person who is “dismissing someone’s cultural and familial expectations or the context of her life,” then so be it I guess! This is a blog where I post pictures and comments based my own personal aesthetic, it’s not hard-hitting journalism. It’s not meant to be mean-spirited or to be taken seriously. The internet has become the most amazing apparatus for self expression ever invented, and this tiny little blog is my slice of that. Do I ever worry that I am hurting people or question myself? Of course I do. Whenever I do though, I always look at all the emails and comments I get from people that say they really enjoy my website and I carry on.
There is a website devoted to practically anything and everything under the sun, and weddings are certainly no exception. Weddings have become a multi-billion dollar industry with innumerable websites devoted to praising and showcasing pretty weddings, and others that are devoted to poking fun at them. Cake Wrecks, Ugly Dress and Etiquette Hell, are all great websites devoted to weddings gone wrong that I frequent daily. I started this blog in February of 2008 while I was planning my own wedding as a way to share some of the funny/ridiculous things I was finding on the internet with my girlfriends. I created an email address for submissions soon after that and the blog took off from there. I don’t spend my days trolling the internet for other people’s wedding photos. In fact, I spend very, very little time on this website. Every single photo or video on this site has been emailed to me by a fan, and I’ve never been contacted by a bride that was upset that her photos were on my site. The website has evolved considerably since it’s inception. I have often wished that I could change the name of this blog, because people assume that I don’t like every wedding I put on here. I post weddings that I think are interesting, funny, unique, and yes, tacky. If I think my readers will enjoy a wedding, or if it will spark a dialog, I post it. Most of the time, unless I feel utterly compelled to comment, I let the readers decide what they think about the photos or videos that I choose. Without fail, if there are 10 people that say they don’t like a wedding, there are 10 other people that counter back with positive comments.
Ultimately, I am grateful to Jezebel for writing about my little website, I went from a lowly 5k hits per day to over 45K in referrals after the article appeared. I’ve had to deal with rude and snarky comments in the wake of the article, but that’s totally okay. This is a public forum, and I don’t expect everyone to agree with me.
I think the Jezebel post failed to include the most important part of Yanna’s interview in the original article:
“Yanna said she could understand why people would perceive the wedding as outrageous but “at the end of the day all of my family and friends know that’s Yanna, I don’t want to change it because people will think different of me. Everyone walked in there and saw me and said Yanna, this is you, no one could pull this off like you have. From day one I said to my mum, `this is how I want to do it’ and my mum was like, `that’s great, that’s you’, why would you want to change that?”
It doesn’t sound like Yanna is regretting any of the choices she made on her wedding day, I think she was really happy with the way it turned out, and isn’t that the most important thing?
Your wedding is your day, do what you want, do what makes you happy and to hell with what anyone else thinks. Be proud of your day, shout it from the mountaintops!! What one person thinks is tacky another person may see as fun and innovative. My opinion is no better (and no worse) than anyone else’s. It’s not the end all be all, me liking or not liking a perfect stranger’s wedding does not change a thing. The moral of this story? Who cares what I think about your wedding Yanna, I am nobody. Rock what you’re gonna rock, and flip everyone the bird.
