FeaTURe
was then that i realised my brother- the room. luckily, my dad had a
in-law to-be had been cowering in the habit of collecting safety pins in a
bathroom the whole time, afraid to show dish on his bedroom windowsill so
his face amid the hysterics and now i picked these up and returned to
completely aware of the state of my the bedroom and my now furious
bikini wax and my underwear antics! and confused sister! i told her the
Lauren, Wicklow problem and, before she had time
to react, whipped her around and
toaSt nUMber tWo started pinning the train on. arriving
My girlfriend’s aunt and uncle had at the church over half an hour late,
a marvelously well-trained dog that my poor brother-in-law was in a state
would bark whenever he needed to of panic – he thought he was being
go to the toilet. While we were at stood up! Dee, Limerick
a wedding, the dog got loose and
sniffed us out, arriving just in time
for the toast. he barked through all
the speeches and, as he was being
ignored, resorted to relieving himself
under the groom’s seat!
Gavin, Cork
alWaYS HaVe a Plan b!
Over the course of planning our wedding
my wife and i began to think we were
the kiss of death for wedding-related
companies. The hotel we booked closed
down, the suit-hire shop went out of
business and, one day, while doing our Car-taStroPHe
shopping in the local supermarket, we The beautiful car that we booked for
saw that our fl orist had shut up shop our wedding day was stunning... until it
without even a word!” broke down a mile from the church and
Francis, Waterford left us sitting on the side of the road in
“
roCK tHe boat
the lashing rain! i just had to stay calm
“I knew a bride and groom
CriSiS train-ing (and drinking some champagne helped!)
who decided to have their
My sister’s wedding dress consisted while my husband of twenty minutes
photographs taken on
of three parts – skirt, corset and tried to fl ag down some passing guests!
train – and, while getting her We ended up sending two bridesmaids
Lough sheelagh. While
ready, the last thing we had to do with my in-laws, while we jumped in
smiling for the camera in a
was attach the train. When she to the second car with the fl ower girls!
little row boat, it began to
turned around i saw that the train naturally enough, no one at the hotel
wobble and the poor bride
and the dress both had the same was expecting us to arrive in a different
was tipped into the lake!”
kind of fastener so there was no car and i’m sure we were a sight when
way that the two could join up. we arrived!” Emily, Dublin
Aisling, Meath afraid my sister would fl ip out, i
made my excuses and fl ed from
Under WHere?
On my wedding day, my soon-to
be brother-in-law dropped me off
at the hotel to get dressed. he then
disappeared into the bathroom to fi x his
Wedding CraSHerS
hair. as my mother helped me into my
“When some friends of mine received the photos
dress, i noticed that you could see the ed by the
line of my slip through my very sheer
from their big day, they were mystifi
gown. already braless and debating regular appearance of a couple whom, to this day,
the ramifi cations of starting off my
nobody recognises!”
Amy, Galway
marriage sans underwear, i opted to go
without – much to my mother’s horror.
as i walked out of the hotel room, it
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