December 3, 2024

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There’s a fairly well-established list of the things that wedding guests detest. Overly long ceremonies. Overly long toasts. Cash bars. A bachelor or bachelorette trip that sends its attendees into credit-card debt. A destination wedding in a remote locale that the couple has zero relationship to and that plunges its guests into further bankruptcy. But what about all the other less-discussed aspects? If you’re a couple planning a wedding, every decision can feel like trying to telepathically sense the preferences of a mass of people who have strong opinions but are too polite to share them. You might wonder: Do people really care if I have the wedding over Thanksgiving? Or whether we do it outside, even though it’s a bit late in the season?

We did the work for you. We asked almost 150 seasoned wedding guests about the aspects of weddings that they secretly hate. The responses were fast and wide-ranging, touching on everything from timeline planning to transportation to vow delivery.

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