Ill on wedding day

[Inesyoucantbelieveawordshesays]

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???

I had a really bad stomach upset the evening of our wedding. We were on honeymoon in the Cotswolds (thankfully, we’d been booked a short trip abroad later in the year as the honeymoon ‘proper’ courtesy of my in-laws) and I suddenly started to feel very unwell.

Rather put a dampener on things. There’s a delightful photo of me sat on the 4 poster bed scowling in pain and dismay. Marriage wasn’t much more of a success either tbh.

Getting married soon - third attempt, after it was originally scheduled for Spring 2020... We now have a toddler DD and I'm absolutely petrified that she's going to have a nursery bug on the day. Honestly no idea what we would do!

I was starting to MC an ivf pregnancy (ridiculously early on, I'd only had a faint positive test) and it started on the morning of the wedding.

It was so grim. I managed to get through, but it mentally impacted me and I always associate my wedding with it, so I don't look back too fondly of it

My friend's husband had a really bad cold/'flu on their wedding day. He struggled through the ceremony, speeches and dinner and then went to bed. I don't blame him, he looked awful!

Not my wedding, but I was a hairdresser and had a drink (I only had two) spiked the night before with something that made me hallucinate. We had done a practise run of the bride’s hair, and there were also several bridesmaids. I literally couldn’t lift my head off the pillow, and my husband had A&E to see whether I needed treatment, but I was so worried about this bride.

She was a vet, and had been diagnosed with scarlet fever the day before. The wedding was postponed. I was a mixture of relieved and absolutely gutted for her!

I think it’s quite common to be ill on your wedding day, with the build up of stress and high emotion. It’s an exhausting day. I have a friend who had a horrendous migraine and had to miss her night do.

Not ill, but I was in the early stages of pregnancy and began bleeding fairly heavily. I'd had some bleeding on and off but I suppose the stress of the day (it had all been planned very quickly so my terminally ill mother in law could attend) made it worse. Thankfully, it was not a miscarriage and everything was ok. I told my parents about it afterwards and my mum said she would have been taking me straight to the hospital, which is exactly why I wouldn't have mentioned anything! There would be nothing that they could do anyway and it'd cause a huge fuss on my wedding day.

Not mine but I was a bridesmaid at my friend's wedding and had a very dodgy tummy. Managed to be alright until halfway through the reception then had to go back to my hotel

Not myself thankfully. On my husbands cousins wedding the mil fell quite seriously ill. It was an asian wedding so 3 events with a few days in between she missed the wedding day but said she wanted it to go ahead as the girls side had spent money and couldn't rearrange at such short notice. She discharged herself from hospital to attend the grooms do which was welcoming the bride into their family. She got dressed up but didn't talk to people much as she couldn't manage it. Her daughters were holding on to her arms when she walked and she spent a lot of the evening sitting down. I felt for her, he was her only son so she won't get to host that event again and she couldn't enjoy it fully.

I felt ok on my wedding day and the the day after but the day we were heading off on honeymoon I couldn’t move with flu & spent 7 days in bed rough as fuck, never been so Ill before or since, that was 19 years ago.

I was sick at my own wedding. Had barely slept the night before (excitement/nerves + a 3 month old non sleeping breastfed baby) and I do tend to be sick if I'm too tired. I also think it was the onset of mastitis/blocked duct which I started vomiting, realised I hadn't fed baby for hours (he took the occasional bottle but nothing like the time he was away from me as he was passed around relatives) and managed to go to our hotel room, dangle fed him a massive feed and then sent him and DH back to the party and slept for a couple hours until the evening do and went back to cut the cake and have first dance, then joined back in the party feeling pretty ropey!
I think it was a mix of tiredness, the relief of the day being here and all the planning etc coming to fruition and then as I said the start of mastitis. I was pretty gutted and know my DH was too. So annoying because you can never have that day back. We also had a white bouncy castle (for the kids...and also for us!) And me and DH never even got a turn on it! It was being packed up when I came out after a sleep!

I caught a stomach bug at my wedding from a guest. Her husband couldn't attend as he was ill, but unfortunately my friend passed it onto me. Thankfully it didn't set in until the following evening 😅

Yes, I got horrific norovirus. At first I thought it was food poisoning from a fancy meal the night before but as half the guests duly got sick 3 days later we worked out it wasn't that. Thankfully I got the vomiting out the way before the ceremony but I was regularly having to run to the loo with awful diarrhoea and couldn't eat or drink a thing all day. Spent the meal shivering in a coat while everyone else was getting steaming drunk having a great time! Luckily this was my 'legal' wedding with only a few family and friends as we were having our big party and blessing abroad. Would have been devastated if I had been sick for that one!

Pneumonia. I ended up in hospital two days later.

Half of one of dh's molars fell out on the morning of our wedding. Fortunately the ceremony wasn't til 4pm so he went to our local dental hospital and begged them to take the rest out. Luckily they managed to fix it up with a temporary cap /filling thing which got us through wedding and honeymoon. Gawd bless 'em!

Yes, I had a stomach bug on mine. Spent my wedding night throwing up while DH slept off his early drinking!

I felt so sick the whole day and everyone kept telling me it was nerves! I don't really get nervous like that, so I knew it wasn't. Thankfully, our wedding was a 6 guest register office job with an hour at the pub after for cake and sandwiches, so it wasn't a huge deal. I'd have been gutted if I'd paid for a fancy day.

I felt awful at mine, a combination of stress, not sleeping and a bit of a bug. Genuinely could have stopped the whole thing at 6pm and sent everyone home. Red bull helped but I didn’t really enjoy the whole day to be honest. Seven years on the whole thing feels like a big waste of energy!

Had horrendous tonsillitis on my wedding day. Only slept 4 hours the night before because I was in so much pain. Couldn’t drink alcohol and could hardly eat any of the amazing food we had ordered. Managed to get through the day and spent the mini moon afterwards recovering/slowly dying.

My SIL was really poorly at her wedding. Such a shame. She got through the ceremony, looked beautiful and you can’t tell in the photos, but she didn’t even make it through the meal before going to bed - must have been before 6pm. The wedding went on until the wee small hours but she wasn’t able to come back

I had a kidney infection on my wedding day the worst thing ever!

I vomited early in the morning & later completely lost my voice. My vows were said but unheard.

I should have really listened to my body - it was never going to work.

I had terrible period pain on my (first) wedding day. It arrived sooner than expected and I had undiagnosed endometriosis which often resulted in passing out through pain. Horrible.

My friend, the groom, planned a beautiful outdoor summer wedding. He had a nasty bug in the days leading up to the wedding. Then on the day, he woke up with a raging fever. And it was a heatwave! He made it through most of the ceremony before passing out at the altar. Just dropped like a sack of spuds. Thankfully he was OK and can laugh about it now.

@Inesyoucantbelieveawordshesays

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???

Yes! Not me! I'm not married yet!

I went to a wedding around ten years ago. Invited to the evening part. When I got there, the groom was no where to be seen.

It turns out he got absolutely wasted the night before the wedding and ended up in a n e with alcohol poisoning!!

I had a vision impairing migrane. It lasted the entire day. Couldn't eat or drink anything. I just wanted to curl up in a ball in the dark.