Pre-wedding disasters

[Jennasis]

So what trials and tribulations did you suffer through before you tied the knot? My sister is getting married this weekend, and today she developed a wicked virus (puking all over, fever, chills), dropped her cell phone in a glass of juice (now it's broken), and her car was broken into and vandalized.

Poor thing sounds completely frazzled! Luckily I will be arriving tomorrow to help her out.

 

[golfgal]

POOR THING!!!!

I guess I was lucky. The only "near disaster" I had was that I forgot my birth control pills but my cousin is a nurse midwife and she just brought me more (I was staying at my Mom's house the week before our wedding, we lived 3 hours away) .

 

[MiniGirl]

My mom was hospitalized and we had to move the entire wedding from the beach in Key West to the hospital where she was in Baton Rouge.

I hope your sis feels better soon. Remember the wedding is just one day and it will come and go whether everything gets done or not. The marriage will, hopefully, last a lifetime.

 

[RUDisney]

This too, shall pass.

It'll be a story that she'll remember forever.

For me, I psyched myself out so much that I started having panic attacks because of all the stuff that had to be done at the last minute.

At least it's Tuesday and she'll be better by the weekend.

 

[pigletgirl]

Yikes!
I can so see that happening to myself.

 

[wendy46001]

Poor kid

Only issue was our honeymoon got canceled (cruise we booked was put into dry dock) got the call during the rehearsal...just passed the phone over to now DH with a smile...said i cant deal with this right now...Worked out great in the end, DH made new travel plans....didnt find out until our reception where we were going

 

[pilotwife_02]

The church "wedding planner" lost our marriage license that I had given to her the night before the wedding. I get a call about 10 minutes before we (the bridesmaids, my dad and I) are leaving for the church from my DH's brother asking where the license was and I tell him I gave it to the wedding planner and she said she doesn't have it.

I start crying thinking we can't get married, we have all these people showing up to a church, plus we spent thousands of dollars on a reception that we won't be able to have, etc., etc.

Thankfully the pastor of the church said don't worry, we can still have the wedding and when we get back from our honeymoon to get a copy and we'll sign it then, it and file it then. But that's not what a bride needed to hear a few minutes before her wedding

This horrible "wedding planner" the church MADE us get did some other stupid things, but this by far took the cake. I wound up getting the money back from the church that I had to pay to use her (they made us use her, she was just the church's coordinator, but after all she did, I told them I didn't think it was fair for me to have to pay for her).

 

[Darsa]

We prepared our own wedding reception (because I come from a whole family of culinary arts people) and at the reception site the night before I was to be helping... Instead I spent most of the evening in their restroom throwing up what felt like my toenails. I was three months pregnant at the time, so, yeah.

Also, during the ceremony we were lighting a unity candle. The candle I was using to light it fell out of the holder and onto the cloth-covered altar. Everyone still jokes about how I tried to burn down the chapel...

 

[liamsaunt]

I have lots!

Two days before our wedding the pastor called my mother and said my husband and I could not get married in the church because my husband's baptismal certificate was non-denominational. Now we had been engaged for a year, registered for banns and submitted the baptismal papers at least six months prior, and had been to both pre-cana and individual church counseling, and at no time was a problem with his certificate mentioned! If it had he would have gladly been re-baptized! Needless to say my Mom gave the pastor an earful, and he "somehow" managed to get a special dispensation from the bishop, and the wedding went off as planned.

Except...

Despite being engaged for over a year, my DH and I forgot to buy wedding bands until the night before the wedding! We went flying to the mall after the rehearsal dinner, got there with 15 minutes to spare, and just bought whatever they had that fit.

And...

My parents rented an antique Rolls Royce to take me to the wedding. Well, it was antique all right! Halfway up a hill, in the middle of the woods, miles from the church, the rear axle broke, and the back right tire, axle attached, went rolling into the woods! And the driver's cell phone was dead so he could not call for help! So there I was, sitting in the back seat of the Rolls, in a gargantuan wedding gown, with no way to get to my wedding! Thankfully, after a few minutes, a policeman drove by, and stopped to see if he could help. So I asked the policeman if he could please give me a ride to my wedding! I arrived to the church in the back of a cop car with its lights flashing! But at least I was not late!

The rest of the day went off without any more trouble. The wedding was very nice (once I got there!), and the reception was a lot of fun. We've been married for 13 years.

 

[JessicaR]

Everything will be OK once her sister gets there! I hope she feels better very quickly! Have a great time and please tell us all about it when you return. Congrats to the couple!

 

[dolphinrescuegirl]

I have lots!







My parents rented an antique Rolls Royce to take me to the wedding. Well, it was antique all right! Halfway up a hill, in the middle of the woods, miles from the church, the rear axle broke, and the back right tire, axle attached, went rolling into the woods! And the driver's cell phone was dead so he could not call for help! So there I was, sitting in the back seat of the Rolls, in a gargantuan wedding gown, with no way to get to my wedding! Thankfully, after a few minutes, a policeman drove by, and stopped to see if he could help. So I asked the policeman if he could please give me a ride to my wedding! I arrived to the church in the back of a cop car with its lights flashing! But at least I was not late!

The rest of the day went off without any more trouble. The wedding was very nice (once I got there!), and the reception was a lot of fun. We've been married for 13 years.

I've read this story before. Were you in a book Wedding Diasters?

 

[ead79]

My parents rented an antique Rolls Royce to take me to the wedding. Well, it was antique all right! Halfway up a hill, in the middle of the woods, miles from the church, the rear axle broke, and the back right tire, axle attached, went rolling into the woods! And the driver's cell phone was dead so he could not call for help! So there I was, sitting in the back seat of the Rolls, in a gargantuan wedding gown, with no way to get to my wedding! Thankfully, after a few minutes, a policeman drove by, and stopped to see if he could help. So I asked the policeman if he could please give me a ride to my wedding! I arrived to the church in the back of a cop car with its lights flashing! But at least I was not late!

This is hysterical! Now THAT'S what I call an entrance!

 

[SkyGirl]

Everything was smooth as silk. (Or so I thought ....)

I was twenty, the first person in my family to have a big wedding in years and years, and really knew nothing about the legalities like signing the marriage certificate ....

We received a package from the church with our wedding certificate in it and framed it. It was so pretty ....

Eleven years later I went to an attorney to file for divorce and took my marriage certificate with me. Guess what? It was just a pretty keepsake. The priest had never had us sign anything and never filed anything. We were never legally married!

Needless to say, my daughter and I were shocked and never told my soon to be ex. I got divorced without ever being married!

 

[binny]

she'll make it. At least she didnt get sick the night before the wedding!




as for me, I sent my invitations out on December 31st and my dad died later that night. So I dont really remember much after that.

 

[Lisa loves Pooh]

My step mom sat on my coffe table and broke it.

She made my veil and I noticed the headpiece (a circle) was too big. She smugly commented that it was one size fits all. I am not "all" and it did not fit at all. In the end the hairdresser used floral wire to shorten the circumference. She cut the circle and we had to shorten it by 3 inches. Oh....and during all if that, I had a bridezilla woe is me pity party complete with hysterical tears until the stylist got all Macguyver and saved the day.



Oh and at 7 am on my wedding day, I found my mom working on favor #3 of 80. I was livid but was fine with ditching it, but my mom refused to stop working. So I set up an assembly for quick construction only to discover that mom severely underestimated supplies. A quick trip to walmart saved the day, but the situation set a domino effect for the rest if the day.


And the day before, my aunt RSVPd that she was bringing 4 additiional guests..her dd and 3 grandchildren. It was felt as a slap the face to my mo
due to family history (my momhad custody of the oldest child for about 2 years b/c my cousin didn't want him and aunt couldn't care for him). That was quite upsetting.

Actually things were going fine wedding wise until that call just before the rehearsal.

And to finish it off...my sister stated a faux pas during her speech. I was not offended but it greatly upset her stepsister. We are both named Lisa and my sis' had enough to drink to mess up and call me her "real" sister. That caused some unintentional drama.

Then after the wedding at an impromptu get together at the pool... My dad pulls the string on mom's bikini top. They haven't been married since 1975 and his wife of over 20 years didn't appreciate that.

 

[Lisa loves Pooh]

Poor kid

Only issue was our honeymoon got canceled (cruise we booked was put into dry dock) got the call during the rehearsal...just passed the phone over to now DH with a smile...said i cant deal with this right now...Worked out great in the end, DH made new travel plans....didnt find out until our reception where we were going

So where did you go?

 

[Kitzka]

My story either makes brides to be happy (laughing) or they are horrified. The thursday before my Sat wedding i woke up with horrible eye pain. I attempted to put on my contacts but it hurt more with them in. Hubby-to-be stated that my eye was very red.

To make matters worse, my primary eye dr (i have an eye condition) was 2 hours away in Boston. I quickly got an ophthomologist to see me and it turns out that my gas permeable contacts (which at that point i had been wearing for 12 years. not the same pair.) had scratched a wicked bad cut in my left eye. The eye i could see out of (am 80% blind in the other eye).

What could cure this? to not wear my contacts for 48-72 hours. Panic ensues as i did not have glasses that were strong enough for me to see well enough to drive or see more than 5 or 6 feet in front of my face. i have pretty bad vision.

Luckily my maid of honor has perfect vision and she drove me to the rehearsal dinner and to my hair appt. she also satyed with me to help me take care of my then 16 month old!

So, i went through the rehearsal dinner, wedding, wedding reception and wedding night unable to see more than 5 feet in front of me. I almost feel off the foot bridge that we were getting married on (not that smart to get married on a foot bridge over a fairly deep river when you can't swim.)

the ophthamologist was super nice and came into his office sunday morning to make sure my eye had properly healed and then cleared me to wear my contacts for my honeymoon. i would not have been pleased to not be able to see then either.

So in essence i had no idea what happened at my wedding because i spent most of the time in my seat.

Lara

 

[kamik86]

2 Months before the wedding my DH's mom got sick and ended up the hospital. She died 2 weeks later from complications (Brain anerism). Due to the cost of travelin back and forth with the hospital visists etc (we lived 5 hours away she lived where the wedding was, the hospital was another hour and 1/2 from there) We then were not able to make our last planning trip back so we had to get our marriage licence then and also never met our DJ in person (that part wasn't so bad though since he was awesome)

2 Weeks after that my uncle has a stroke which also caused a brain aneurism and he passed away. I couldn't come down for the funeral because we had spent so much on the travell for his mom and his moms funeral since she had no life insurance and a totally upside down estate.

At this point i knew my wedding was going to be no where near perfect so I stopped careing so much. So things like my FG getting her dress at the last minute and her mom not consulting me on it more then it being white with red trim. The hair appointments running over on time. My sister (FG mom) not getting her kids ready so she can socialize with her friends and dumping in on my mom and other sister (who had traveled from further away, made the cake, and her daughter was a bridesmaid yet still managed to pull that off) The woman who couldn't parallel park and almost smashed into my car when my hair was being done. My cousin having an infected ear piercing that swelled so badly she had to leave the reception early to go to the hospital. My annoying sister (same one) deciding to not watch FG daugher at all and start yelling at my neice (her other older daughter who was 15) because my neice was being a 15 year old and not taking care of her sister. And lastly my husband having a cold the day of the wedding all managed to happen without me having a complete meltdown.

 

[wendy46001]

So where did you go?

DH booked us a mediterranean cruise

 

[liamsaunt]

I've read this story before. Were you in a book Wedding Diasters?

Not to my knowledge. But my story did get written up in the local MA papers, so maybe it got cut and pasted from there into a book? I think I have told the story here before too.

This is hysterical! Now THAT'S what I call an entrance!

It was really funny, actually! My Mom had taken me aside the morning of my wedding and said to me "Something always goes wrong on important days. When that thing happens, don't let it upset you." So, I just decided I got my "thing" out of the way early on and laughed it off! It certainly made for unique pictures!