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???

Our Best Man soldiered through our wedding with concussion, getting worse as the day progressed and ending up in hospital for several days. We all initially thought it was a hangover from the night before... he learnt a serious lesson about trying to keep up with Army blokes on nights out.

Yep. Had the trots. I was going every ten minutes when I was supposed to be getting ready.

Immodium didnt work and my friends husband (was going from her house) gave me a glass and said "Drink that" and in desperation I did. It was a 50/50 mix of a large brandy and port, it nearly took the back of my head off but within half an hour they had stopped. Apparently it is his "kill or cure" remedy for bugs and works 90% of the time as long as it isnt bad noro or something more serious. I have used it several times since and it does work!

God, getting married in June and this thread is giving me the horrors

@ImInStealthMode

God, getting married in June and this thread is giving me the horrors

Just make sure you get insurance! Sometime things just happen but as long as you have insurance, you dont need to worry so much.

My first husband was so hungover on our wedding day from his stag night that he didn't enjoy anything. Kept running off to throw up, even had to leave the church. I was bloody livid.
Divorced him a few years later for general twattery.

I got my period the morning of my wedding day so that was fun 😂 spent all day panicking that I was going to stain my dress!

On my wedding day I had only 2 hours sleep, had a horrible cough/cold and lost my voice. I think I got through the day on pure adrenaline. I had been up for 24 hours by the time I went to bed and then had to drive to where we were staying on honeymoon.

@CaMePlaitPas

I'm sure I've read this before.

I reckon it is a "journalist."

Yes, my niece got some strange bug the day before her wedding, but recovered enough to still hold the ceremony, however she had to sit down for it!
This was in NZ, so we weren't there but she looked as white as a sheet in the photos - poor girl.

@Sportycustard

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.

I’ve seen that episode of ER also 😉

Wasn't ill on my wedding day but managed to get food poisoning on our post wedding break, then came on on the flight out for our 'official honeymoon' a few months later (work logistics).

Probably fate trying to tell me something as now divorced!

I was taken from my best friends wedding day in an ambulance instead after chocking on a piece of beef from the wedding breakfast and having to have the heimlich maneuver from a quick thinking guest who followed me (I left the table as soon as I realised it was stuck).

She still moans that I owe her a wedding breakfast because I apparently dragged her away from her meal at my wedding to help me tighten my dress and then dragged her away from her own when I was choking 🤣

Jokes aside, it was a near thing. They it lodged partially blocking my windpipe and only came up when I was violently sick (they gave me drugs to induce vomiting after an x-ray and before they progressed to surgery!).

Chew your food folks!

My husband missed being best man for his brother because I had a c-section the day before (premature baby and I was quite ill).

He then had an awful experience at his sister's wedding (he was giving the bride away) as he had terrible toothache.

A friend of ours was, he looks like death in all the pics, really pale and clammy. He said he's never felt so ill, but he had to soldier on. You'd have thought the photographer could have changed his skin tone on the pics to make him look better, it's so obvious he's poorly.

@mbosnz

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.

Good grief, when I had campylobacter I had a temp of 40C, was throwing up every few minutes and shitting through the eye of a needle! I could barely stand unaided, never mind walk down the aisle. And that's without the added horror of shingles, which is really painful.

You must be made of stern stuff, @mbosnz.

Definitely not an illness but I was a guest at a wedding where the fckwit of a groom got battered the night before, drinking whisky til 3am, and the moment the bride arrived at the top (bottom?) of the aisle, he threw up into one of their flower arrangements.

A friend of mine's DH broke his leg just before the day. Had to walk down the aisle on crutches and hide cast behind her dress for the photos!

I was 12 weeks pregnant on our wedding day and had terrible sickness throughout the pregnancy. I threw up twice on my wedding day.

My parents got married towards the end of the war he had recently returned from Africa/Middle East - he was OK during the wedding but that night dm said she was piling blankets on him & he was throwing them off as he had malaria (chills & fevers)

@BiddyPop

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 read this as DH was in bed with the florist! 🤣

I wasn't ill but our 4 month old baby decided not to sleep the night before. We haven't got any photos in the house of our wedding as I look like an extra from the walking dead.

@PyongyangKipperbang Just bought some!

Maybe this thread isn't a journalist at all, but some clever guerilla marketing by Wedinsure

Fortunately not mine but I had jaundice and a inflamed gallbladder when I was a bridesmaid. I was terrified as I didn’t know it was gallstones at the time, I was just in A LOT of pain and had turned yellow! I ploughed on through the day and was ok in between bouts of vomiting and ups/downs Co-codermol gives me! I didn’t tell the bride at first as I didn’t want to worry her but I told the make-up artist who did a fab job of covering me up!

Not me or a wedding but my dear friend who was godmother to DC2 whispered after the baptism that she couldn't attend the party afterwards because she'd started to miscarry that morning and needed to go to hospital. I was horrified for her but, wow, what a friend!

I had a horrible cold leading up to mine. It miraculously disappeared on the day and returned after. The adrenaline might have had something to do with it?