Watching the Wedding this morning, and thinking that Jack actually looked proper ill..

[BertrandRussell]

...not just nervous, I was wondering if anyone has ever been to a wedding where the bride or groom were too ill to go. I've never heard of it happening in a long life of wedding going, but it must happen..

I thought nervous, but maybe he was poorly?

I suppose he usually wears contact ts, but couldn't for some reason, so that fits with the poorly idea?

I always wonder what would happen if at a royal wedding the bride or groom were unwell...not as in just a cold, but proper flu or a stomach bug? Would they cancel/postpone/search the world for a miracle cure?!

I've also wondered about what would happen if they were really unwell.

Nobody? All brides and grooms managed to stagger to the altar clutching a bucket?

I read an article in Take a Break about a bride who had to do just that, Bertrand, but I don't know anyone to whom it has happened in real life.

I'm sure I read somewhere that adrenaline has powers of temporarily staving off illness, so I wonder if wedding excitement and nerves usually serve to fend off minor to moderate 'bug' type illnesses, at least until the day is over.

We thought it looked as though he had the stinking cold which is going around at the moment, poor chap.

What wedding is this and who is Jack?

I did attend a wedding where the groom had to run out half way through the vows to vomit 😬

Most people feet married in summer don't they and most colds and bugs are eater or winter.. You're right though, I got married in February and do look back and think what if I'd had a cold. No big deal but coughing and blowing my charmingly red nose at the altar would have been attractive.

The coronation of Edward VII was postponed as he had appendicitis!

I’ve attended a wedding where the best man contracted food poisoning the day before. The poor guy soldiered on but had to do his speech sitting down.

I went to a wedding where the groom was really really hungover. My DH was the best friend we went his house and he was still in bed at 10. He managed to get dressed and go to the wedding but did look ill.
The marriage lasted less than a year. We should have left him in bed!

I know someone who's child was in hospital on her wedding day she got ready came to the hospital then went onto her wedding and I have known a fair few cases of wedding tummy! But never anyone to ill to attend

I knew a bride who had a raging temp the day before. She was staying with her fiancées family and they left to pick up the grooms sister from the airport. She was feverish, turned up heating and piled two duvets on bed as she felt cold. By the time they got back she was pretty delirious. Fortunately the grooms sister was a nurse and swept into action reducing the temp. She made it to the church.

One of my friends was desperately ill on her own wedding day. She managed the vows but spent all of the speeches and meal in the bathroom

I had bad morning sickness the day of my wedding (classy I know) which wasn't helped by staying up all night doing last minute wedding bits of pieces (so organised). It completely went away when I needed it to - I think there's a lot to what ScreamingValenta said about adrenaline temporarily staving off sickness. A bit like how you can "sober up" really quickly if something stressful happens when you're drunk.

That happened to me Screaming Valenta. We got married in December and I was sick as a dog in the days leading up to it, with a cold/chest infection. On the morning of the wedding I was lying on the couch and couldn't move - honestly, and I'm no hypochondriac at all, I felt terrible. I dragged myself upstairs to get ready, and once I was at the church and it was all going on, I felt fine! Spent the night do on the dancefloor, stayed up til about 2am drinking with everyone etc.

I reckon it was definitely the adrenaline that got me through because the next day I felt terrible again! We were supposed to have a champagne breakfast and I ended up ordering honey and lemon from room service And spent our honeymoon coughing my head off!

I totally think adrenaline kicks and and prevents illness.

I'm a farmer and I never get ill at
Harvest. September however when I have time to be ill you can guarantee I'll have a cold.

I went to a wedding in 2009 where the groom had swine flu, it was a mild case and he carried on as Usual just feeling rubbish

I wasn't great on my wedding day.

We had it on at work with no sound. I said at one point, that he looked like he was about to keel over.

I felt wonderfully cheerful and heady on my wedding day. One day into Honeymoon found me curled up in hotel room with raging flu. I did nothing more adventurous than sip ginger ale and walk out to the balcony for the first week.

Friends of mine went to a wedding in the Netherlands. Between the civil service and the church wedding the groom felt unwell so had a lay down. He died 😢

friend of mine.
the groom felt ill the night before
felt worse in the morning, at 10 am his best man called an ambulance, at the point they should have been walking down the aisle, he was having his appendix out.

It was too late to tell everyone, who all turned up to the church.
They decided to go ahead as planned with the reception, and a great evening was had by all.
The vicar was lovely, and the hospital very understanding, and at 11 am the following day, the groom, with an IV drip and nurse in tow, appeared at the church, and they got married in front of all their assembled hung over guests.

They laugh about it, as the best wedding story ever.

My BIL got more and more sick looking as his reception went on, and had to leave about half way through.

and I went to wedding where the groom went white as a sheet and the ceremony was stopped when he fainted. 15 minute break and then they continued with him sitting down.

He then went back to hospital.

We had it on at work with no sound.

I thought for a minute you meant your wedding had been televised at work!

Wondered about that!