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Wedding “Disasters” and How to Overcome Them
A Bride's Story By Gina Bailey
4 Weeks Before the Wedding:
- Wedding ring lost
- Caterer canceled
3 Weeks Before the Wedding:
- New ring ordered
- Only hotel in the area has “NO vacancy” due to construction workers
2 Weeks Before the Wedding:
- New ring not in
- New ring not really ordered
- New ring reordered
- Informed that reception cannot be outside due to “circumstance”
- Informed that church does not allow dancing
- No other place for reception
- No response from already booked videographer
- No response from already booked photographer
- Dress not returned in time to be cleaned and pressed
Day Before the Wedding:
- Tuxes all messed up
- Plans to Busch Gardens canceled because of tux mess
- Groomsman’s luggage lost
Morning of the Wedding:
- Cake cutter misplaced
- Servers didn’t show up
- Second hairdresser couldn’t make it
- Town festival blocked off main road that the church was on
- Grandmother of the groom was late which delayed the whole wedding
- Flower girl yelled and ran around and up on the stage during the ceremony
- Many guests could not attend due to participation in the heritage festival
This all happened after two long years of planning. Everything was done before the wedding planners said to have them done. But this is an illustration, my real life illustration, of what can happen all in the last minutes before the wedding.
I got married a few weeks ago and it was the most beautiful and wonderful day of my life even though it was not exactly how I had planned.
I was the happiest girl on this planet. You might be wondering how I could be so happy when almost everything went wrong. Well, it’s because I remembered what was really important: our families were there, our closest friends and family were standing by our sides as we made our sacred vows together, and by golly I was looking the best I ever had!
It was okay that I made my flower girl cry, the cake almost fell over, my ring was two sizes too big, and my grandma blew bubbles in my eyes -- because we were married! No one really knew of all the stuff that went “wrong”. Many people complimented us on our ceremony because they felt it was so personal. That is really all we wanted.
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