PlayFirst Grapevine

Wedding Disasters, real and virtual

By Nemone
05/14/2008 08:00AM In Wedding Dash® 2: Rings Around the World, Quinn faces off against a slew of wedding disasters, including crying babies, choking guests, firecracker frenzies, catering sabotage, love-distracted servers, wedding band rock-star wannabes, hungry birds at the buffet, and even the all new Groom-Kong.

We asked our loyal PlayFirst forum members if they had any wedding disaster stories to share, and laughed ‘til we cried over this post from Lattegato:

It was my best college friend's wedding. I was the bridesmaid though (never the bride, cuz XtL_ won't ask me! Sad.) in my best Laura Ashley (never wearing this darn thing again!) bridesmaid dress, with dyed hot pink satin high heels. During rehearsal, I had pondered the chances of my heels getting stuck between the slate walkway of the public outdoor garden that the wedding was to be held in...but then I let that concern carelessly drift away.

Fast forward to the next day....as the music starts, the best man takes my arm and we proceed down the path past friends, family, and acquaintances....until I took a step and my shoe didn't come with me. Looking back, there it was, heel in the mud wedged between the slates. What to do? What to do? Keep walking like nothing happened and have the bride trip over my shoe or interrupt the flow of the processional and go get my shoe...? I decided to go get my shoe. Okay, great. Finally up at the alter. Whew! The pastor is saying his remarks while I look at a butterfly on a nearby flower. Then I feel eyes on me. I look up to notice everyone stopped and looking at me. Where are the rings? Oh, was I responsible for them? Geez, um, well, I never saw them! They must be back at the apartment? So the pastor pulls his own ring off and offers it to the groom for his bride's finger.

Right at that moment, the groom's mother bursts into loud sobbing tears, because she hated the bride and was conflicted as to her son's ability to have "done better." Then, as we're all trying to pretend like she isn't wailing up a storm, we hear Click, Click, Click...a lot of times...

…While we had been distracted by the mother-in-law's sobbing, a charter bus of Japanese tourists had pulled up and unloaded into the garden. They didn't realize they were interrupting a wedding, and we couldn't explain the situation to them due to the language barrier. After a myriad of mistakes, we just all started laughing hysterically, because there was nothing else to do. We all have funny memories of that wedding...and I still have an ugly pink and purple floral bridesmaid dress if anyone needs fabric for curtains??? Anyone? Please?

Feel free to add to the thread here to share your favorite wedding disaster stories, or just to boast about your new High Scores. And remember, when something does go wrong, just apply the following phrase: WWQD?

What WOULD Quinn, do, Latte? ;-P

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