Even after months or even years of planning for a wedding, it is inevitable that something will go wrong!! With a good planner, we hope the something wrong is very small AND we hope the bride doesn’t even notice. I favor a few minor hiccups over full blown disasters any day of the week, for sure! What are some of the worst wedding day disasters you’ve witnessed? I thought I’d try my hand at coming up with a few:
Rain….Missing members of the wedding party…Undone chicken…Family drama...3 hr wait time before the reception…..Slower than usual hair stylist that then throws everything else off schedule….Deposits paid twice….Rips in dresses….Inexperienced Deejays….Malfunctioning equipment…Venue bankruptcy days before the wedding…Ever changing tight budgets....you know things like that! Well what if I told you a friend of a cousin of a friend told me the shocker that beat all shockers….wanna read? Ok!
This poor lady has had to endure the most unfortunate of circumstances. Death of parents, drug abuse of siblings, burning down of houses, adoption of nephews and groom’s children, cheating of spouse….with that alone she deserves complete happiness in life, not just her wedding. Sure enough, her fairytale was not as smooth as one would hope! The caterer, for whatever reason, fled the original agreement and this poor “bride to be” was stuffing wedding reception food in her deep freezer and every other deep freezer for miles. Her bridesmaids were slow to plan the bridal shower and when the one bridesmaid with sense planned it, the other maids said it was too expensive (it was a room in a restaurant). The wedding started like 2 hours late because *pause* the poor groom got into an accident where he totaled the car (He’s okay, thank God) AND the hair stylist had to send her niece to the store to get a better matched weave for her wedding do. The wedding venue, of course being 45 minutes away, was too far for the already running late wedding party! The bridal party left their 1st location an hour after the wedding already started, thereby leaving the unready bride at the 1st location, 45 minutes away! The maids decided they needed to get ready, only there wasn’t a planned place for them to get changed at the actual wedding venue! Where they truly beautified themselves is tight lipped leaving me to believe it may have been an average gas station fast food joint! #noshade All this happened BEFORE the wedding…
There was a significant pause (10 mins) after the wedding party came down the aisle and before the bride, so much so, the pastor asked “is the bride even here”….apparently the guests had restless leg syndrome and ventured out to find the guest book instead of letting the 2 hr late bride enter the church. I couldn’t understand why all the guests hadn’t signed the guestbook 4 times a piece already! Once into the ceremony, the pastor asked everyone to have a seat, despite the two wedding rehearsals, the pastor’s request was a complete surprise to the bride and groom. The pastor delivered a sermon…no a REAL sermon…. where he asked the matron and the best man to have a seat…oh and he asked the bride and groom to have a seat tooooo while he delivered the SERMON (not a passage or two) on love. Yeah that was another 45 minutes passed. They got to the reception with 3 hours to do everything as they were just THAT late. My heart absolutely goes out to this bride!!!!! Sheesh!!!! The bride had already purchase a wedding cake, but the mother of the groom demanded she have a traditional wedding cake, typical of the Jamaican culture, and the bride that accommodates everyone else, obliged. Couple of days before the wedding, the mother of the groom asked for half of the money to pay for this cake that was the mother of the groom’s idea<<<---Really ma’am? The 2nd wedding cake was significantly more than the original wedding cake and of course money was becoming more than tight by then! I really hope that 2nd wedding cake was a small piece of heaven because she could use it.
I would rate this wedding pretty low on the minor hiccup scale… but I hear it was a pretty wedding! Lesson of the day, pray for extreme favor and complete the due diligence!
~LOVE
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