My wedding story (I'll try & keep it as brief as possible)

background: I've married an Israeli, and visa requirements said we had to marry within 9 months of visa being granted (I had 6 mnths to organise). He's Jewish & I'm not of any religion... so we went with a civil service with a Jewish celebrant. His family couldn't come to Australia.

* 2 days before the wedding, I gave my dress to the drycleaner up the road to 'freshen up' as I had spent weeks sewing all the beads on the dress. The drycleaner BURNT every single bead on the dress!!!
* the day before the wedding: the bathroom pipes burst, and water seeped through the ceiling to the downstairs - and there was a hole in the ceiling! We were going on a 2 week honeymoon, so we needed urgent repairs!
* the 3 tier wedding cake arrived the day before the wedding - and it was BLUE!! I had instructed the lady to make it pink & white... but it was all blue! I was beside myself! That got sent back and she delivered in on the morning of my wedding (6am).
* I sent my hubby to his mates house the night before the wedding, so I could get ready without him there/seeing me.
* We were meant to have our ceremony on a hot air balloon at 7am - but it was a bit windy, and the balloon got cancelled at 6am. Plan B had to be put into place.
* My stepmother locked the keys INSIDE the reception/ceremony place on the morning of the wedding. Rather then phone me, she tracked down the organisers to get another key.
* Naturally I was running a little late for my wedding. What I didn't realise was my hubby was also running late & arrived 1 minute before I did! Thus, he didn't have time to organise the music system for my "entrance".
* Jewish tradition has the couple sign the documents before the ceremony - so the celebrant tried to get us to sign the wedding certificate before actually marrying us! (we should have done a trial run through)
* While we were getting married, my parents home alarm went off & they panicked they were being broken into. Family had to leave to go home & find out dad had left a window open & the curtain set off the alarm!
* as we didn't have a formal sit down reception (it was breakfast) - my sisters were meant to hand out the bonbonierre - they didn't bother - so I've still got 80+ candles!!
* we got married, we got beautiful photos, and had to get to the airport to go on our honeymoon. Running late, my uncle offered to drive us... but drove at 60km on the freeway!! Still have no idea how we got to the airport! Thankfully the plane was late!
* Arrived in Qld - get into the hire car - and realise DH had left both of our mobile phones on the plane! thankfully cleaners were just going through the plane & he found them!
* had to drive miles to our 'resort'. Yariv had a pizza on the way. I didn't like the look of it, so I passed. That night, he had violent food poisoning. No luvin' that night!!
* at our resort (on a golf course) - my husband is puking, and there is the final night of a golf tour... and a HEAP of drunk guys singing karaoke in the club rooms.

* from the NEXT day our marriage was perfect... and I married the best guy in the world!