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???

No I somehow made a miraculous recovery the day before! I had terrible flu and was bed bound for 10 days. We were living at my in laws at the time and no one would come near me at the worry of catching it and not attending our wedding - I was telling them no one will be attending my wedding if I can’t attend my own wedding!!

But like I said the morning before my wedding I woke up and felt completely fine :)

Both my mum and my gran got food poisoning on their wedding days. I'm getting married in June and am hoping that I won't follow that particular family tradition!

I had a really bad eye infection (uveitis). The make up artist did a good job on me but eyes/ face looks a bit wonky in my wedding photos. My vision was a bit messed up so couldn't see much at all out of one eye.

Both DH and I had colds/flu the whole week before and both on antibiotics.

We got through it though!!

Yes, we did. I woke up in the middle of the night, two nights before our wedding day, feeling dreadful. Almost straight away I had shocking D&V for a couple of hours. DH got me an urgent GP appointment and he gave me two lots of tablets to hold me together for the following day. On the day I was ok but felt weak and tired, and was so pale. In our photos I look so pale and drawn. That evening DH developed a horrendous headache and spent half the wedding evening lying down in the car. It kind of ruined the day (that and the antics of my DM)

I was ill on my wedding day.

I thought I just had a cold and cough but felt absolutely horrendous so dosed myself up to the hilt on whatever I could persuade the pharmacist to sell me. I made my wedding vows while sat down because there was no way I could stand and given how tanked up I was I am surprised it was even legal.

I somehow miraculously made it through the speeches and then ended up being tucked into bed with even more drugs by my mother and husband straight after. By 3pm I was asleep. And woke up 3 days later in hospital with pneumonia.

In the few wedding photos I have I look like a corpse in a wedding dress.

My now ex SIL had chicken pox on her wedding day. She managed to wear her dress to the church, but took it off straight after as it was too itchy. Fortunately she didn’t have any spots on her face.
DD was I’ll with a really high temp before my wedding. I had visions of waking up in a hospital camp bed on my wedding morning.

Not a wedding day but a friend of a friend was seriously ill during labour with a stomach bug, her mum and mother in law had to shower her then she was so ill she just lay on the floor in full blown labour while they towel dried her and she continued running from both ends. It sounded horrific.

A friend of mine had a terrible UTI and was really ill on her wedding day.

I'm sure I read Justin Timberlake had a vomiting bug on his wedding day and had to get himself together for the photos for the magazine deal they had.

My cousin got hit by a car cycling the week before his wedding. He discharged himself against medical advise and stood in church with a portable ventilator as he still had a punctured lung. The guests turned up not knowing whether there was going to be a wedding or not, it was pretty stressful for them!

Years ago, I went to a colleague's daughter's wedding.
She had gone to bed the night before feeling dreadful (headache and aching all over, temperature), and woke up with chicken pox. They went ahead with the wedding, only telling a few guests.
She looked beautiful, but very much not herself at the church. I wasn't at the Reception, but apparently looked worse and worse and was struggling to keep going.
She was obviously too ill to go on honeymoon so they spent the first ten days of their marriage at her parents' house, where she was often delirius.
Dreadful start to a wedding, especially after all the planning.

My friend broke her ankle the morning of her wedding. She'd gone out to vote in a local election!! She never said a word to anyone until she was getting dressed and her sisters noticed she wasn't able to stand properly! A nurse friend strapped her up and she hobbled through the ceremony (tanked up on painkillers) and then excused herself to go to A&E while we all drank champagne outside in glorious sunshine! She returned with one of those big boots and crutches and we were all pie-eyed from all the booze whilst waiting for her

Another couple I know married young (childhood sweethearts, married straight after sixth form), and he had sharp pains during his stag night and the wedding, although only the bride knew.
They made it to their weekend's honeymoon city by train, by which time he felt so ill they took a taxi straight to the hospital where he was admitted with a perforated appendix.
So the young bride had to go to the honeymoon hotel on her own and eventually extend her stay by a week as he was kept in hospital. Her parents posted her cash to pay for the hotel.
They have had their golden wedding, so the marriage survived!

At mine i was rough and look ill in photos but divorced now 😂

I had a terrible throat infection and was on antibiotics. I could barely talk or swallow by the end of the night but the adrenalin kept me going. I ended up having to see a Dr on my honeymoon and was put on more antibiotics. I also came on my wedding day 🤦‍♀️. You couldn't make it up!!! Sadly that was just the beginning.

That should say came on, on my wedding day 🤣

I was in a car accident 3 weeks before my wedding - luckily the swollen forehead went down in time, but I still had the yellow remnants of a black eye for the makeup artist to cover, and my arm was in plaster - I had the dress altered to fit it.
My father missed most of my uncle's wedding (where he was best man) due to me. I was only 8, and accidentally stuck my finger in his eye, and he had to go to A&E to have it treated.

A&E for food poisoning? After D&V for afew hours? Really? Why? @Sportycustard

I woke up on the morning of my wedding to find I’d lost my voice! That was an interesting situation, especially as you do have to say those vows loudly/clearly enough for the priest/celebrant etc to be able to hear them!!! I was also absolutely bricking it, so took a couple of Kalms beforehand (I thought they’d calm me down!) and they got me completely tanked!!! Oops. I’m divorced now (not due to losing my voice or taking Kalms!).

When I was 8, I a bridesmaid for my older brother’s wedding. As you can imagine, I’d been looking forward to this for a LONG time. Peach bridesmaid dress and “grown up” bridesmaid shoes with little heels on them, nice shit in my hair and sparkly makeup. Anyway, about 4 days before the wedding, I did a stupid daredevil stunt on my bike, bombing it down a steep hill. I ended up going over the handlebars and scraping my face and hands down the road. This ripped a couple of fingertips open, and my face was completely bashed up. Luckily, a neighbour came running out to scoop me up and my aunties (both nurses) patched me up. The makeup lady had a right nightmare trying to cover up all the cuts/bruises!

I was incredibly ill with a kidney infection on the day of an important job interview.

Unfortunately, the symptoms of this kidney infection involved pain that only pure codeine could touch, and lots of vomiting. Thankfully I wasn't contagious.

I vomited before leaving the house, on the train platform, in the train loo (several times), in the loos of a bookshop I was passing on my way to the interview, and a few other places besides. It was all I could do to stop myself vomiting over the French polished table in the interview, and basically all my concentration went on stopping myself wretching.

I didn't get the job

2 days before my wedding I was ill with sickness and the runs..... (it was a bug and not nerves, the whole family came down with it!) day before and day of the wedding I was fine, FIL had to pull over when driving home the day after the wedding to throw up, DH had it the day after that! We were so lucky!!! (It was an amazing day )

Husbands with hangovers?

I was 10 weeks pregnant when I got married. Nobody offered me a ride to the wedding venue so I had to take a bus, and I threw up the whole way there. The hair dresser ran over, so I didn't even get time to brush my teeth before being pushed into my dress. I had to breast feed my daughter while the make up lady tried to make a vaguely straight eyeliner in 5 minutes flat, before the poor bridesmaids had to run across a busy road to the church. I was shoved unceremoniously into the back of a mini metro and driven over with my dress covering everything.

Then I was really scared to kiss my husband and worrying the whole ceremony about it.

22 years together now, I'm sure he doesn't remember all that bad stuff.

We went to dh's cousin's wedding - the night before the bride got a chicken bone stuck in her throat, had to have a general anaesthetic to get it out and didn't get home till nearly midnight. There were genuine considerations as to whether she would be fit legally to take the vows. She had to have an enhanced discharge and an early interview with the vicar the next morning. It's a fifty house village with a tiny church, so he came over whilst she was getting ready!

Not my wedding, but my DDs. I had a dreadful UTI and was on three lots of antibiotics. I drank one glass of champagne and that was it.

Still, the wedding was wonderful and I stayed until after the first dance and even danced a bit myself.