Have you had a disaster on or near your wedding day? I am personal trainer at the local senior center. One of my clients, who is a delightful 80 year old man, recently proposed to a lady he met there. They are getting married on Monday. Two nights ago she lady fell out of bed. She takes blood thinners and now has two black eyes and a big purple knot on her forehead! The pictures are going to be very interesting!
A week before my wedding, a guy hit my car and did a lot of damage. Then during my outdoor photo shoot, the sprinklers came on. If that wasn't bad enough, the water stirred up fire ants. Hundreds climbed up my legs! There I was with my dress practically over my head with the photographer trying to get them off me. Thankfully, I had on opaque pantyhose and a strapless bra that covered me from the waist up.
Then my husband packed the birth control and our bags did not show up at he hotel!
I was sick as a dog the night before, the flowers were late, there was a tornado the DAY of the wedding , in December , and the day after there was an ice storm. oh and one of my bridesmaids dyed her hair raspberry red , and fell asleep in the tanning bed, she was as red as a cooked lobster. and my dress was too big when I put it on that morning
I stopped at the bakery to pick up my wedding cake on the way to the ceremony and they said "what cake?"..................
My best friends wedding reception, TWO different people caught their hair on fire at the buffet! The Candelabras were just the right height.. Flames were on top of their heads!
As everybody jumped away from them, of course I went towards them trying to pat down the flames.I was too short. Burning hair and ash around the food..
This was in the 80's.. so you moms that are old enough remember all of the mousse and hairspray it took to get those Mall hair do's..
For me, at the reception "for the first time Mr. and Mrs." I come walking in
slip in a small puddle of water, two legs up in the air (literally), two big
holes in my gown, and very wet. I laughed myself silly. Everyone was
petrified. They thought I hurt myself. Luckily, I had enough champagne
under my belt!! The photographer was really great an caugh me going
down, down, getting up and up. Unfortunately in 1975 video cameras
were non-existent. That would have been fun to relive every year. Happily
married for 36 years!
2 weeks before our wedding my husband's best friend and best man was shot and killed. He was a cop on a routine call when the 18yr old boy pulled a gun and shot him. IT was terrible! Then during our reception the band never showed. Luckily had her whole karaoke set in her car. She had just picked it up from loaning it out! Then a baby snake crawled across the dance floor and ever one freaked out! It was not a terrible reception but it was heart breaking not seeing Brandon standing up there with us!
AWWWW @ 80 YEAR OLDS GETTING MARRIED!! :)
My disasters were minor laughable ones. One... I started my period that morning. Awesome. I wrote the entire ceremony. My dad walked me down the aisle... but I forgot to write in the whole 'giving away' part so we stood there like dummies for a while. Then, my husband and I were saying our vows to our friend who was marrying us, because every time we looked at each other we'd start giggling like kids! Then, my FIL, the photographer, thought it would be funny to take a picture of my hubby and I in one of the red neck fishing boats... OMG. Lastly, when we were saying our goodbyes to everyone, apparently I was taking too long, hubby was already in the car, so my little (taller) brother threw me over his shoulder and carried me out of there, LOL!! On the way to the hotel, the bracelet I bought for myself JUST FOR THE WEDDING, flew off my wrist out the car window on the interstate!!.... Like I said, all minor things, we had a blast, and the pictures are literally worth 1,000 words!!
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Let's see...
Our wedding: My father and the best man picked up their suits together and they fit great... too bad they were the wrong suits! Didn't realize that until we were walking out the door for the rehearsal and our best man asked why they were wearing "tails" to an afternoon wedding. WHAT?? Not really a disaster, but really funny watching my mother "deal" with the rental company.
My best friend's wedding: The bridal party did the bouquets the day before the wedding. They were simple, but pretty with pink roses and white orchids. The hotel kindly offered to put them in the cooler (West VA in July) until the next day and my husband offered to drive them to the church so they didn't have to sit in the unairconditioned building. Great- except they put them in the FREEZER instead of the refridgerator. My husband called me on my cell in a panic, stopped at three different grocery stores and bought every pink rose he could find. We "redid" them all one-by-one in the hallway and she didn't notice a thing until after the ceremony. She looked at me and said "I thought we had orchids in these!"
My husband's best friend's wedding: They all decided that it would be a "great idea" to go out for a few drinks after the rehearsal dinner. It was all fun and games until the groom fell off a bar stool and shattered his collar bone. My husband drove him to the ER and they didn't tell the bride until the reception.
My parents' wedding: The got married in Upstate NY the Saturday after a major snow storm, so there were issues all weekend. The funniest of which was the fact that everyone jumped in their cars after the ceremony to go to the reception and left my great grandmother sitting in a wheelchair on the front steps of the church. Everyone thought someone else had her! Ooops!
Oh well, all of the above marriages are happily intact and in the end that's what matters!
My sister's veil caught on fire while she was lighting a candle during the ceremony. Amazingly they put is out quickly and only those of us in the wedding party were actually aware it happened.
At our reception, I heard my BIL mention something about $2 for a Coke. I was like, "WHAT? It's open bar! Free soda, beer, and wine!" So, for almost an hour they were serving free beer and wine, but charging $2 for a soda? I was so irate, I was in tears! I just kept thinking of how everyone probably thought we were nuts!! I went up to the mic and made an announcement that there was a mix up, apologized, and everyone clapped! If that was the worst thing, looking back it wasn't that bad.
My brother and SIL were due to get married in Sept 2001 on the military base my SIL's father retired from. Of course we all know what happened Sept 11th. The military base was on complete lockdown. They had less than 2 weeks to find a new venue, caterer, hotel to stay at, almost a 100% replanning of their wedding. Thankfully everything fell into place and the hotel they found was extremely accommodating and helpful in their hour of need.
We had a few relatively minor things. We had a singer hired by a family member that got laryngitis the night before. My to be husband and I ended up grabbing our stereo and a pile of CDs the morning of the wedding, picking out our music while getting changed at the venue. Thankfully my husband knows his music! We got married at a park. There were several rattle snakes that were found and killed in the immediate area where we were about to have our ceremony. There were numberous gopher holes as well, a dear friend of mine that is the daughter of our officiate stepped in one and hurt her ankle and needed to go to the ER. It was a mad scramble to sign all the legal papers and pay her so she could go be with her daughter to make sure she was OK. I gave my cousin a black eye with the bouquet I threw because I hit her square in the eye with it. Our cat injured his leg somehow the night before the wedding. We left for our honeymoon the day after the wedding so my mom had to take him to the vet on Monday(we got married on a Saturday) to have him checked out and such. There were a few other odds and bits that happened as well. But in the end we all had a ton of fun and 16 years later people still talk about our wedding :)
A girl who was a dear friend and went to my church wanted to date my husband but he wasn't interested in her. After he started dating me, she hated me and then came to our wedding and SOBBED through the whole thing (thankfully we didn't hear her crying during the ceremony), walked through the receiving line bawling into her hands and then came to the reception still crying. Several people tried to get her to go home but she refused. Needless to say, we are not friends anymore!
She didn't ruin our wedding (I don't think anything could have!) but I have no idea why she even came if she was going to be so miserable!
The morning of my wedding my SIL took my hair appt. She told the hair stylist that she was supposed to go a head of me to get done quicker. I was furious when I got there not to mention the style wasn't what we had talked about and it looked horrible! My mom told the stylist that it was the hair style we had discussed with him and he flipped out! Pulled her bobby pins out, threw them on the floor and left the salon!! Also left me, the bride, and 4 bridesmaids with our hair in pony tails!! 30 mins before the wedding my SIL was in the church parking lot (Assembly of God) chugging a bottle of liquor! I know this bc she offered some to my recovering alcoholic grandfather! Ten mins later a police constable comes inside the church to serve my MIL's brother with divorce papers!!
Since my in-laws didn't participate in the wedding planning they offered to give us a surprise honeymoon! We had planned to go to Jamaica but decided to take their offer. Our surprise was a discounted cruise during hurricane season. The cabin was tiny, no window, hardly a shower! We did get to experience the hurricane tho!! No one was allowed on the decks, the boat was rocking so hard that the employees were throwing up and there was no water left in the pools! By the way, we were 20 so no casino's, no bars, etc! We sat in our room for the week miserable!
I was trying to help out a bride throwing a shoestring wedding. The bride forgot he bouquet - I pulled some fake plastic flowers together for her. Her vail had been wadded up in her bag and was all wrinkled, but there was no iron or dryer to pop i t into. The cake never showed up, so, I went next door to the grocery store and bought them a sheetcake. The music never showed up, so, i ran to my car and got a cd player. The groom had a cd of Al Green songs and they decided to let the bride walk down to the aisle to some pretty Al Green song. But the cd didn't work and the cd that was in the cd player was of some R&B guy. Maybe Kieth Sweat or Brian Mcknight or something. I dont remember the song, but it was basically a 'you cheated on me, i shouldve known better, you cant be trusted' song. I was so embarassed for the bride and of course myself. Noone at the all black church knew all the behind the scenes drama. They just knew that I, the only white girl in the building, was playing a really innapropriate song for the bride. They all assumed that I was the wedding coordinator and had done a very bad job!
Oh no!! My disaster was that we had ordered my husband's ring and it didn't come in on time!!! So the jewelry store we ordered it from was very kind & let us borrow a ring that was the same metal however completely different than the ring that we ordered. Our photographer REALLY wanted to take a close-up of the rings so we did it, but the ring in the picture is not the same ring that he has now. The ring we ordered came in about a week after the wedding. It's funny now but at the time.....not so much. :)
Because of all I'd seen as a vocalist in tons of weddings, I chose to elope. My niece's wedding was probably the most "eventful" though. The bakery thought the cake was for a 50th anniversary instead of a wedding, one of the bridesmaids showed up w/o her long slip and you could see right through her dress, the ribbons on one of the candles caught fire and the bride's father burned his tux putting it out. A baby screamed throughout the entire ceremony, so the whole thing was one big fiasco. It was an omen, though, because the marriage hardly lasted a year!
Okay, I thought mine was bad, but not compared to some. We got married almost 16 years ago October. Supposed to be beautiful foliage in CT. It was, but not on my wedding day. Torrential downpour!!! I mean coming sideways! Electicity went out in my house, getting hair, makeup, dressed, even pictures in darkness, using a kerosone lamp (probably not the brightest idea...) Then lightning hit a tree in the back yard and it almost hit the house. We were supposed to have beautiful outside pics taken at a botanical garden, but was at the photographer's studio instead. I think they say it is good luck to have it rain on your wedding to day to make you feel better that it's crappy outside.
But we had some fun points. Hotel rented a school bus because we had so many out of town guests that they couldn't hold every one in the hotel van and get them back and forth. Open bar ;-) And still together!!
Might be a disaster. Relative's fiance called off the wedding one day before the big day almost two years ago. He made it clear he did not want to see her again at that point. No cheating involved with either party just a parting of the ways. They are now getting marriend (we think) in a smaller ceremony in about two weeks. Hope all is going to go well this time
Weding scheduled for Sept 22, 2001. Two weeks prior a close friend's father passed away. As I'm driving out of state to attend the funeral the church secretary called to tell me that the board of directors had cancelled our wedding in their church because we were not members...after being in the planning stage with them for 2 months!!! Then 9/11 happened eleven days prior to our hastily "re-planned" wedding. Then I forgot my bouquet on the day of and had to go back home to retrieve it. After arriving late we had to rush through things because another wedding was scheduled 2 hrs behind ours. I had remained calm through all the mishaps, then as I started down the aisle I started shaking and hyperventilating, almost passed out several times during the ceremony. My groom kept hanging on to me and whispering "breathe baby!!!" the entire time. I just couldn't get a grip until we said "I do" then I was fine and truly enjoyed the rest of the day!!! Ten years later we still laugh about it, we are still deeply in love and having a blast together.
On my way to the church, three fire trucks, several police cars and ambulances blocked the entire road due to an apartment fire. I made it to the wedding, but if I had been smart, I would have stopped to help put out the fire - that would have been easier and wiser than my marriage! I have TOO many stories to tell about the marriage. Needless to say, my second marriage is wonderful, Thanks Be To God!!!!
My husband bought a house a couple of months before our wedding. I lived in another house with some girls. The week before the wedding we were gradually moving all my stuff in. Two days before the wedding we had a bad storm that blew down a huge live oak in the front yard. We couldn't even cross to get my stuff in the house. And we were supposed to spend our wedding night there. We had family staying in the house with him so he and two of my nephews spent the two days before our wedding frantically chopping up the live oak so we could get in and out with all our last minute wedding stuff.
A few years before, my older brother got married in Branson, MO. His bride was in the "Shepherd of the Hills" production there and they thought it'd be nice to dress in all the costumes for their wedding. His best man even had a real side-arm strapped on. They used the old SotH chapel on the property that hadn't been used in years. It was tiny - only held about 20 people comfortably. It was also completely infested with wasps nests. Even though the groomsmen went ahead a couple of hours early to knock them down they were still all over the place. So the entire wedding you could see someone suddenly swat all around their head, or jump up and squeal. I felt one crawling up my leg at one point and it was all I could do not to scream! Talk about breathing a sigh of relief when that wedding was over!
Thanks for getting my morning started off! These are cracking me up!!!
