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Marriage Partnership, Summer 1999
Wedding
Wackiness
MP readers share their nuptial mishaps
Must Be Time to
Kiss
The preacher said to Todd, "You may kiss your bride." We looked into each
other's eyesso romantic! Todd lifted my veil, leaned in for the kiss,
then BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! Todd's watch alarm went off just as he kissed
me.
Wendy P. Oberlander; Dayton, Ohio
Much Ado about
Everything
The soloist got laryngitis, and the flower girl came down with pneumonia.
The ring bearer had an accident in his blue-velvet pants just before the
ceremony, and the mother-of-the-bride left her dress at home by mistake.
Still, we made it to the altardespite the fact that it was Maryland's
coldest day in 20 years. Things got even crazier after the ceremony. The
borrowed 1941 Cadillac we were supposed to ride away in got stuck in the
ice in the church parking lot, so I stuffed my gown into the back seat of
a two-door compact car. The severe cold caused the water main at the reception
hall to break, so the toilets only functioned because a continual bucket
brigade came through the reception to flush them.
But that's not all. In the apartment just below the reception hall,
the resident had gone out of town and left his oven on to keep his boa
constrictor from getting cold. So we wrapped up our reception with the building
on fire. Of course there was a blizzard on our honeymoon, which trapped us
at the resort. But we figured if we survived our wedding, we could survive
anything!
Melissa and Tim Donnelly; Statesville, North Carolina
Goochy-Goo!
Because my father died before I married, my mom walked me down the aisle
and gave me away. Usually a dad turns over his daughter with a kiss on her
cheek; my mom gave me away with a pinch on Sal's cheek.
Betsy and Sal Sicurella; Sloan, New York
A Glass of
Romanowski
My husband-to-be and I planned carefully how both my pastor and his priest
could officiate at our wedding. But the week before our wedding my pastor
was called out of the country on a family emergency, and on the day of our
wedding my husband's priest was called away to handle a church crisis.
A priest from downtown Miami came as a replacement. Though he spoke little
English, he seemed to have memorized the wedding ceremony. At the end of
the service, he announced before our 400 guests, "I now pronounce you man
and wife, Mr. and Mrs. Rum-and-whiskey!"
Tina Romanowski; Punta Gorda, Florida
Heidi Has to Go
For flower girls, we selected the daughters of our officiating pastor. Soon
after he'd started his message, Heidi, age 3, needed to go to the bathroom.
Instead of telling her mom, though, she marched over to her dad and pulled
on his pant leg. He asked the congregation to excuse him and bent down to
listen to his daughter. Heidi let him know what she wantedright into the
microphone!
Melinda and David Hill; Ebeye, New Hampshire
What'd You
Say?
On the night before our wedding, my husband-to-be stayed up late swimming
with friends. On our wedding day, he could barely hear because he was having
a problem with water in his ears. Then, I was so nervous I lost my voice!
Only the ministers and the best man and matron of honor could hear our whispered
vows. But I know this much: we both said "I do!"
Brenda Barnes; Waldorf, Maryland
Ring
Terror
Without realizing it, I threw away my wedding ring the day before our wedding.
John had left it in the ring box in a white paper sack on his dresser. After
it disappeared, we stayed up late with friends and relatives tearing through
my parents' house and our future apartment in search of the ring. Finally,
I got to thinking about my compulsively neat habitsand considered that
maybe I'd thrown the white paper sack in the trash. We found it outside
in the first bag of trash we opened.
Cindy and John Jarvis Long Beach, California
Pelted with
Petals
Our flower girl was supposed to throw rose petals on the floor as she walked
down the aisle, but unfortunately we didn't show her how to do this.
Instead, she marched down the aisle throwing petals at the wedding guests
rather than on the floor!
Ken and Lori Way Oak Park, Illinois
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Summer 1999, Vol. 16, No. 2, Page 50
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