Ill on wedding day

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It is our 20-somethingth wedding anniversary and our plans to go out for dinner have been scuppered by a horrible flu-type virus (although thankfully not Covid).

The way I've felt today, there is absolutely no way on earth I could have dragged myself to do the school run, let alone been dressed to the nines and in the spotlight at a wedding all day.

Which got me thinking... has anyone ever ended up being really unwell on their wedding day? I don't mean serious, life-changing illness, just crap cold / flu / tummy bug things???

Not at my own thankfully but I felt rubbish at DB’s as I’d had a tooth out in the week leading up to it. It didn’t spoil it but wished I’d times the extraction better!
Also felt really poorly at a friend’s wedding & had to leave the reception early which was very disappointing.

Get well soon OP 💐💐💐

Thankfully not, although I had the most amazing bridesmaid who made sure all the wedding party took some Immodium the day of the wedding 🤣

My husband missed his only siblings wedding....sister
He had the most horrific migraine and couldn't even sit up in a dark room
It was very stressful as I was there with our daughters who were bridesmaids ages 3 and 4 !!
Kept popping back to see how he was ....
So sad

@Yellow85

Thankfully not, although I had the most amazing bridesmaid who made sure all the wedding party took some Immodium the day of the wedding 🤣

Why?!

@Useranon1 nervous tummy!

I'm sure I've read this before.

[quote Yellow85]@Useranon1 nervous tummy![/quote]
Oh! In my head immodium was for constipation, but it's not is it! That makes more sense now

Not wedding day but I ended up having emergency surgery 18 hours before my mums funeral. I discharged myself to go and the funeral director dropped me back at A&E against my will straight after.

@Useranon1 I always have a stash of Imodium I am terrible for a nervous tummy. Took two the morning of my brothers wedding where I was bridesmaid for SIL 😂

I got knocked over by a car days before my brother's bar mitzvah and was in hospital on the day - I still feel sooo guilty every time I look at photos as I know everyone was in bits about it.

Stinking cold added to worst day of my period! Ibuprofen just about got me through the day, several double vodkas and orange juice through the evening...

Yes. Both worn out, run down and caught bugs. DH was in bed when florist dropped at his house (en route to mine) about 2 hours before service. I was in a daze just putting 1 foot in front of the other. Luckily we had a simpler day planned than many - early afternoon ceremony, photos, dinner at 5 and trad session in sitting room of the hotel after that (no additional guests in evening). So we were able to chat to people and slip away about 10pm.

Got up at 7, on road by 8am for driving 3 hours to airport, and just did nothing for first 2 days of the single week in Canaries in Feb as our honeymoon.

I woke up with a migraine on my wedding day. Dosed myself up to the hilt and ploughed on, despite visual disturbances and thumping head. Fortunately the drugs (and champagne- probably not wise!) took the edge off but my lasting memory of my wedding day is feeling crap

Still happily married over 20 years later

No, but I did fracture my ring finger three weeks before my wedding. We aren't very traditional though, so I just wore the ring on my right hand on the day.

Are piles considered an illness?

I got a cold 4 days before my wedding. I was due to work the whole week apart from the Friday but on the Wednesday morning I felt crap at work so sent myself home to rest. Helped that most of my team where coming to the wedding.

I had a stinking cold at mine. Couldn't breathe through my nose at all! And my sil was ill at hers and it turned out to be pneumonia!

Yes, me. Couldn't sleep, dozed off early hours of the morning and woke at 4am. I couldn't even keep water down. Sat outside on the back step from 4.30am until hairdresser opened at 9.00.

Had to plough on. Didn't eat any of my meal and didn't start to feel any better until about 6.00pm, when I started to relax.

I think it was nerves rather than an illness.

I spent the entire year prior worrying that I would get the sickness bug for my wedding day. Luckily - not a word I associate with vomiting - I caught it 9 days before (along with my child at the time who was in nursery). Feel like someone was watching out for me and I finally relaxed that day and didn’t think of it 👼

Bonus I was also less bloated as appetite was not great that week 😬

Not my wedding day but my Dsis. I think I had food poisoning from the restaurant the night before. I had excruciating stomach pains, D and V. I had to take Imodium just to get through the ceremony. I ended up passing out when having the photos taken. I was dropped off home and the rest of the family enjoyed the rest of the day.

My poor friend came down with gastric flu on her wedding day. She made it through the ceremony and as far as the speeches, and then scuttled off to bed. She is awfully pale in the wedding photos.

I had camphylobacter (sp) and shingles for my wedding day. We joke that it wasn't legal as I was too hopped up on drugs! I couldn't eat the food we'd so carefully and lovingly planned. Still, 26 years later, I guess it went alright in the long run. . . but oh man was I crook.

Years ago I worked in a city centre hospital. On one notable Saturday we had an entire wedding party - about 80 people in all - attend A&E over the course of a few hours with food poisoning from the wedding food. At one point, the hospital had to enact the emergency plan because A&E was overwhelmed.