Sick on your wedding day?

[TayceOnToast]

Getting married this weekend, only booked it a few weeks ago. It’s been a whirlwind but a magical time, everything going to plan etc and both of us just excited and in such a good place.

Now with a few days to go we’ve both got sore throats and headaches. I’m happy to plough through with lemsip or whatever but I’m a bit worried about DP as he’s got anxiety (diagnosed and on medication) and his biggest irrational fears are being unwell and being the centre of attention…so naturally he’s started to become a bit worried and downbeat.

Does anyone have tales of being unwell on or before your wedding day? How did you pull through?

happy to take any and all advice right now on how to keep these colds at bay!!! My current plan is drink lots of fluid, take vitamin c pills and remain as upbeat as I can for DP. But what do we do if the worst happens and we both feel like dog shit on the day?? Help!

Thanks x

It's only Tuesday - you've both got time to rest up and get better (or at least 'better than this'). Assuming the wedding is Saturday, that's another 4 full days and Friday overnight to recover. Don't panic just yet 🤞🤞

Grate fresh tumeric, garlic, ginger into a jar, with lemon juice and honey. Put a heaped spoonful of this into hot water and drink it a couple of times a day.

it kills loads of germs. And I find it really helps.

Only Tuesday so rest up and take lemsip. Even if you have a couple of rough days you'll be feeling a lot better by Saturday.
Congratulations on your forthcoming marriage

Yes, I was ill.

I was up, sitting outside at 4.00am. Spent the morning not even able to keep water down. Felt awful. Headache, sickness, achy, tired.

I just got on with it TBH. There isn't a choice at a late stage unless totally incapacitated. I couldn't have not gone, left my groom, not married, left my guests who had made long journeys, bought outfits, etc etc. The venue couldn't have delayed ( well only by a year I suppose by their full diary).

I look a bit washed out on the photos. I didn't eat at all. Sipped water. Still partied until then end, including the ceildh we had added as part of the live music.

DP allergic to garlic but I’ll do the rest for him! Thanks 🙏

I felt just like you the week before and had the tingling of a Coldsore coming. Lots of lemsip on the run up and felt much better on the day but full of cold the day after (But that could have been hangover!)

Me! I had the flu. This was last January. I topped up on lemsip and managed to get through having my hair done all the way until about 6pm on what was probably adrenaline. Crashed when my husband and I were having a meal alone, which couldn't taste, and was a shaking mess. Had to give in and go to bed then. We only had a small wedding but I do think the excitement got me through it.

Like others have said, plenty of rest before hand. If you're unwell you're unwell, things rarely go to plan but that doesn't mean they turn out worse

I had period pain, having come on unexpectedly and out of synch that morning. Luckily it was not as bad as it sometimes was .. but my wedding night was spent curled up in bed in agony and flooding ... oh joy!!

I was ill on my wedding day.
I was doped up on painkillers & didn't have any alcohol to make sure I could keep up with the painkillers.
I somehow got through the day, although I'll be honest I barely remember most of it. I managed to party all night but was so glad to get to my room and get my pj's on. Poor MrNcisAgent didn't get much of a wedding night!
A great make up artist made sure my pictures still look great, and despite being ill it was still a magical day as at the end of it I was married!

Plenty rest, fluid and lemsip and hopefully you'll be grand. Have a lovely day!

Rest up and take medication and vitamins. Adrenalin will play a big role in the day to get you through it.

I would be careful to overdo things so don’t do anything very unusual and don’t do too much. Gaggling throat with warm salt water ( 1 tsp for 150ml of warm water) is good for sore throat, paracetamol or something similar during the day and for night, maybe hot water bottle or warm socks for nighttime. Delegate as much as possible to free up rest and sleep.

Had a fairly bad sore throat on my wedding day but loaded up on painkillers and was just fine. Solpadeine Plus or Max (paracetamol, codeine, caffeine) is one of the strongest meds you can get OTC and packs a punch. Regardless of how ill you are, it can make you function perfectly fine for at least a few hours after taking it. Obviously no mixing with alcohol. It's only paracetamol so if things are really bad, you can also combine it with the max dose of ibuprofen.

I completely lost my voice around 3 days before our wedding. I felt a bit tired but otherwise OK on the day but was pretty croaky.
Hope you feel better soon and have a great day

There was a 24 hour bug doing the rounds just before our wedding, I was vomiting for Britain on the Thursday before our Saturday wedding (we had to travel the on the Friday), I took every remedy I could (without overdosing on anything!) By some minor miracle everyone was healthy on the big day, my FIL had to stop on the way home on the Sunday to throw up, my DH came down with it on the Monday but we were all good on the day. It will be fine, you've had time to recover, have an AMAZING day x

My husband was REALLY poorly on our wedding day - he dosed himself up and got through the day (we had festive afternoon tea with 13 guests so we were leaving everyone at 5pm anyway.

Honestly you'll be fine.

Just wanted to update…. The “worst” happened and we were very tired and groggy, both on the day and the days leading up to it (which made final preparations very difficult, and some of our plans fell apart). But we ploughed on with lemsip and pro-plus and STILL HAD THE BEST DAY EVER. It was amazing. Thank you everyone who posted encouraging messages, it really did help me to not spin out in the days prior, and to anyone clicking on this post with the same worries as me…you really will be fine 😍🥰.
Still recovering now but just so happy to be married it really doesn’t matter one little bit xx

Congratulations Mr & Mrs TayceOnToast.

Pleased you managed and had a great day.

Get some First Defence. It's a game changer and really does work.

Fab update and congratulations 🙌

Congratulations . I missed the date of your OP.