Wedding disaster stories-averted ( or not?)

I don't think you can spoil a wedding day

My parents managed it paddyann

On the morning of my wedding my Dad went to work.

I asked Mum where he was. 'He won't be at the wedding if you insist on wearing that bloody silly white dress and veil.'

They had already forced my intended husband and me to give up the idea of a church wedding ( was a church-going Baptist) with this threat.

My mil had helped me make a very simple white, cotton gown, quite pretty, with a square neck and long sleeves.
I had a long veil, floor length and edges with lace daisies. I was to wear flowers to keep it in place.

The bridesmaids were supposed to by in pale blue but they had to be cancelled as well, when my parents decided it wasn't appropriate to have bridesmaids at a registry office wedding.
No flowers either, not one photograph, no celebration meal.

We came out of the Reg. Off and my inlaws gave my husband the keys to their car; my Dad passed me five pounds, 'to go for a meal somewhere'. No restaurants were open at that time, which he knew.
And everyone walked off and just left us standing there.

My husband, in his naval uniform looked handsome. I was wearing a very old, and much hated navy and white dress from C&A. (Cheap & Awful!)

I looked and felt horrible and the expression on my fiance's face when I got out of the car in that dress and not my wedding gown, haunted me for years.

So, there you are. It certainly IS possible to ruin a wedding day.

To make it worse, my husband and I had weekend jobs as wedding photographers and I cried over many a lovely wedding album as I made it up, thinking about what I'd lost.

The night before my wedding my mother cut her finger to the bone on a tin when pushing rubbish into the bin.

In all the wedding photos she's hiding the heavily bandaged finger behind her.

She didn't go to the hospital until we were on honeymoon.

Our wedding disasters were not averted. Despite our protestations, both DS2 and DD3 married the bad choices they made first time round.

I dont think you can spoil a wedding day .Most Brides panic about things but realise that actually getting married is the most important part of the day
.My best friends daughter walked down an aisle lined with candles,there were candles on the floor at the altar ,as she went to sign the register the dress caught fire .No panic ,my husband who was taking her photographs and the groom managed to put it out ,OH got some scissors and cut the damaged tulle.Photographs outside the church were set up so the damage didn't show . When we reached the reception the hotel staff stiched his efforts together and you wouldn't have known it had happened .
Photographs even when closely examined ,dont show any damage ,We did advise brides after that not to put candles on the floor .

Our DD's wedding was spoiled by her in-laws. I won't go into details but she's our only child. It was a shame.