Well, the one where the bride said "NO" insted of "I do" was an absolute zoo! I'll start off by saying that I was (and am) a friend of the groom, not the bride.
It was one of those situations where you kept your mouth shut even though you thought the groom was making a HUGE mistake. He met her in Mexico on a beach, they moved in together a month later, were engaged a few weeks after that and the wedding was to take place about 6 months after they first met.
Groom is (and was) a really nice and gullible guy. Think Tom Hanks in Big and you've got the idea. Girl was (in all honesty) sweet as pie with him...blond hair, blue eyes, well endowed, curvy and acted not so bright. Some of us had reservations about her as groom had previously dated a pediatrician and a lawyer. To those of us watching them together, we thought she was manipulative and later, we decided she was a viper, but groom was completely ga-ga. She came across with him as not being too good at managing money or cleaning house but hanging on every word he said and acting like he was her God.
Groom thought she was just so sweet and innocent and was really mad when any of us criticized her. We just about thought we were wrong until one of the other guys found out she was "dancing" at a club when she had told groom that she was waitressing at another place.
The club and the restaurant were apparently owned by the same family and the checks always came from the "corporate" entity rather than the club. Well, she gave groom some sob story about how she was only dancing there for a few weeks to make enough money to pay for her own gown since her mom and dad weren't helping with the wedding and she didn't want him to pay for her dress (yep, a load of you know what)!
Well, as it turns out, one of the son's in the family that owns the club and other (much nicer) establishments, took a liking to the bride and they began a relationship. Apparently, she thought she would marry groom, divorce him a few months later and then go to the other guy with some cash in her pocket. The other guy objected and showed up at the wedding and essentially crashed it, gave her a much larger diamond (while everyone was looking on) than the Groom had so she said no to the Groom and left with the other guy.
To the Groom's credit, we all had a nice party and now, 10 years later, laugh about the one he didn't marry. Lucky guy wound up marrying a nurse who is delightful and that we all adore. I'm just glad that he got off as inexpensively as he did (and so is he!).
It was the single worst wedding (and at the same time the best outcome) I've ever attended!
