31. A Misfired Joke
The groom tried to ‘prank’ the bride, and when the wedding vows happened, he planned to say ‘no’ to the question: ‘Do you take this woman as your lawfully wedded wife’. For some odd reason, the way he thought it would go down was that people would realise it was a joke and start laughing. Well, the result was quite the opposite. The bride started crying and had to be escorted off the venue. Fortunately, they ended up getting married after all, but for everyone there, we had to wait for a full hour before the bride was consoled by her family and the actual wedding vows happened.