The film had a world premiere in Palm Springs at the Camelot Theatres on March 10, 2017, grossing $40,000 and received positive reviews.

[2] That November, Beard Collins Shores Productions launched an Indiegogo fundraising campaign to assemble the project and secure investor financing.

[13] Frank Scheck of The Hollywood Reporter wrote that fans of the original would the enjoy the same "raucous, gay-themed humor".

He wrote "Very Sordid Wedding offers some undeniably entertaining moments, and its talented ensemble, clearly encouraged to pull out all the stops, delivers their comic shtick with admirable gusto".

[1] Scott Tobias writing for Variety gave it a negative review, saying "A few of the gags land, most of them don't, but the overall rhythm is stilted and rudderless, flattened further by d.p.