Oh my. What an eventful day. I suppose you could say that the only thing to matter was that everyone was there to celebrate the ceremony in front of the Almighty, but on a materialistic side-what a shame. How could anyone steal in the Lords' house? I am sure that God will bestow a special blessing on the couple for the love and trust they placed in him.

Oh my, That will be one memorable wedding day. But I agree with Susieq, how shameful to steal from God's House! People think no one is watching, and they forget the most important person is watching. May God bless their union in spite of all the mishaps. And I hope you quilt until your hearts content. hehehe... Nothing like finding a project that makes you relax after stressful times. BTW, pix please...

Oh my gosh for all this to happen in one day and on a day that is suppose to be so happy. I'm sure God is watching over them and knows that they are in love & that is all that really matters. I hope everything else went OK & that the bride & groom are happy. Have fun sewing. Arlene

Beth my dear, you have had a weekend that is for sure - I know your daughter had to be so stressed out and the bride & groom as well. Surely those kids are blessed to have so much go on and still have a wonderful wedding and cake - in spite of everything. It is always that way - so much preparation for something that last just a few hours - but the memories and the love will shine through it all. Go get some rest - work on your quilt squares when you are rested - you don't have to have them finished and turned in for another month - Hehehe! I am so happy for your grandson and his bride.

These things usually happen for a reason and what comes to my mind right away is that they were being shown that they will come through ok through anything that may happen in the future! To look at what happened and realize they are actually only small things and not really important - the important thing being their love for each other.
It is a stressful thing to happen on such an important day, but it seems everything came together just fine in the end.

I am sure all of us can come up with one more story to add. I t might be interesting to give the bride and groom to let them know others had trouble. I remember a large wedding in my home town that went off successfully only to find out the wedding presents were all stolen from the bride's home during the ceremony. After that happened most brides used house sitters in the future. You had one interesting story, Beth

Wow, Beth, that was alot of catastropies in a just a short morning! Well, they are just as married as they would have been with all of the flowers, etc in place and I'm sure that God is looking on with great love.

Wow. No wedding ever goes without some little mishap, but this is a lot of major things. I can't believe someone took the flowers and decorations. Glad everything worked out. Get some rest.

O MY GOSH...I have an upcoming wedding in August and my BIGGEST fear (til I read your post) was that it would rain!!

Wow! that's a lot of mishaps.....I'm sure after some time passes all of this will be laughable....what stories they will have to tell....I hope they have a long happy blessed marriage.

Wow--I'd have been going nuts if that was my wedding. What kind of people steal wedding flowers? What is this world coming to?

Years from now it will be something to laugh about, I think God plans it this way. How did you end up communicating with the brides mother?

Holy moley.... a flower for you. So stressful. But in the end they had each other...all that matters.

Later on in life they can laugh about it.

Beth, It will sure be something to remember. Glad you all survived and had a wonderful day. Hugs Yvonne

TTT. I have another cutie friend I want to see this. We both have children getting married soon. You are grace under fire!

It is unbelievable that people would have the guts to steal flowers for a wedding. I guess this is always something that the newlyweds will talk about in the future. I am glad that the ceremony the most important part was beautiful

My goodness, you hear of things happening on wedding days, but ALL of this...unbelievable.
Well it's all over now, I am sure they are very happy...

Oh that was a bummer having her flowers stolen. glad everything turned out all right. they are married, the wedding went through & that is something to be proud of this day in time. *

Bless your hearts. I know from experience that when delivering a wedding cake you hold your breath the whole time, and blame you hubby for hitting every pothole in the road. If the kids got through all of these mishaps without to much trouble they should have a good marriage. Life is going to throw them some curves as we all know and it sounds like they got through the first one. I wish them many years of happiness and Gods blessings. Get some rest, you deserve it. God bless, Judy *4U

So glad that the wedding happened, but sorry for all of the mishaps. The couple is strong to manage those trials without 'losing it'.
I'm hoping you can rest and relax after such a busy weekend.
It would be nice if we could all look on such events with some humor and good will in spite of the circumstances.
Thanks for leading me to this Nancy; I had missed it, but appreciate reading it. I'm praying that our children could face such mishaps with grace and peace.

Let's hope that means all the bad is behind them now and they will have a wonderful long life together! My son is getting married on 10/10/10 and Sunday his fiance showed me a pic of her in the gown she picked out for the wedding. She is going to be a beautiful bride! they are going to Japan for their honeymoon (went 2 years ago for 2 weeks and loved it) so I got a vintage handkerchief and an alpha design from Yoriko that has Japanese fans and bamboo on it for her to carry during the wedding.

Well if this doesn't make their marriage strong, then nothing will....Mariiage isn't about all the material things but the two of them....You are right in 10, 20 30 or more years and they look back, there will be laughter and joy at how things happened and how they still survived....Congrats to your family, may they have a wonderful life together......deanna

My therapist at Wound Care in the Peidmont- Fayetteville Hospital Left Atlanta driving to Indiana on July 8th after she got off from work.She and the groom to be were heading to his parents where they were to be married on the 10th. She is from Brazil and her parents had flown into New York that day and they were renting a car and also heading to Indiana for their daughter's wedding. On the 10th Vanessa and Deron were getting dressed for the wedding and the 1st call they got was from here in Atlanta and their cat had passed away. After all got settled down, they realized that the minister had not arrived. They called and for some reason he could not get there. They had less than an hour to find a minister and get him to Deron's parents house. Good Luck! The parents had a friend and neighbor that was a minister and he got dressed and came over and married them. As they were getting ready to leave to go on their honeymoon, one of Deron's sisters went out to move her car out of the way so the Bride and groom could make their get-away and she back her car into the side door of Vanessa's car and they were there for a long time while one of Deron's brother-in-laws went out and worked on the door so it would open and close. Dhe was happy as could be when I had my appt. with her yesterday B-U-T when they got back to the house that they bought something had happened to one of the lines on the A/C while they were gone and her whole floor and some of the foundation is being replaced as I write this. The central A/C unit had only been installed for a couple of weeks and the man that installed it had left a line loose on it and it was running water into the house and not just a drip. They had been gone over two weeks with water running into the room on the inside wall from where it was installed on the outside. They refused to take care of the mess because the house had been locked up with A/C running and no one there. She was a bit aggitated but nothing compared to what I would have been. Her friend that had given her the cat several yrs ago was the one that kept her cat and Deron's cat for them and she had totally lost it when the cat died. The Cat had surgery a few days before they left but was doing just fine but the surgery was for cancer so it was about a 50/50 chance for him. Other than being a little wired her 1st day back at work, she seemed very happy and only mildly upset for all that had happened . She had already gone to a no kill shelter and got another very young cat. Weddings do not go like they do on T.V. or in the movies but she was very pleased that Deron took everything in stride and did not get upset! Again, love won over the confussion!

WOW and I thought every thing went wrong for me I am ashamed to have gotton so up set after reasing this. The night before the wedding I fell and sprained my ankle and could not wear my shoes. my cake was delivered the wrong color I had baby blue and when my cake was delivered It was turquoise and and was leaning to one side no time to change it . I had bought all clear cups and plater and forks white napkins with silver bells. when I got to the resceptiom my mother in law had sat every thing up and they were purple and pink paper every thing.the girls she hired to serve opened up every thing I bought so I could not take it back. when the cake was cut every time I got a peice of cake some would call me to do something and the girls would grab my plate up and throw it a way I never got to eat a bite of my wedding cake untill a year later and we got to eat the little top layer. on our ann.