Arizona wedding brawl

Police officers in a Phoenix suburb had to restrain and arrest a bride who became disorderly at her own wedding reception party.

Gilbert police spokesman Hugh White said Monday that officers had to restrain 28-year-old Angela Davito on Saturday night after she kicked a police officer. Officers responded to an unknown trouble call around at a home in Gilbert, Arizona, around 9:30 p.m. They were told by attendees that people in the backyard were “killing each other,” and officers observed a large brawl.


This entire article is an excuse to post this picture

Police commanded people to stop fighting, but the commotion continued, and White says people became angry and aggressive toward the officers. Officers called for backup, and several other officers were sent to the scene, along with Gilbert firefighters to attend to victims of pepper spray exposure.

Following a short-lived calm, Davito charged a partygoer and had to be restrained. The bride allegedly kicked an officer and was arrested on charges of assault and obstructing governmental operations. It's unclear whether Davito has an attorney.

It is clear that this marriage will most likely end in divorce since she and everyone around her need help for their insane, Chris Brown-style anger issues.

-KB

Lisa's Wedding

It rarely gets mentioned here, but you should know that I am somewhat obsessed with the Simpsons. I pride myself on working obscure episode references into everyday conversation, but every Simpsons fan knows that some of the worst episodes are Lisa episodes. Poor Lisa. She doesn't mean to suck, she's just annoying and shrill. Even so, I'm a fan of Lisa's Wedding.

23 minutes condensed: Lisa goes to a fortune teller who specializes in foretelling the future of relationships where people get jerked around. The medium tells Lisa the story about her future first love, Hugh. He's basically Hugh Grant and Lisa spends the summer with him and his posh family during a break from college (did I mention that the year is 2010?). Hugh proposes, and Lisa has the anxiety-inducing obligation of bringing him back to the US to meet her family before the wedding. Things don't go as planned, Homer is an embarrassing boor, Lisa and Hugh realize the relationship can't work, and the wedding is called off. Let's look at some future memories from that one where Lisa almost got married.


Here's Lisa accepting Hugh's ring. He's English so he's portrayed as terribly smart, clever, and rich.



A shot of the wedding invitation. It's a little plain. I know Marge appreciates delicate tissue paper in wedding invitations, so maybe it was in a particularly beautiful envelope with a nice tissue overlay. The invitation fails to mention a reception, so perhaps this is a separate invitation for those invited only to the ceremony.


Lisa wonders if her dress should be white because of her past with Milhouse. Marge soothes Lisa's worries by telling her that Milhouse doesn't matter, and then they laugh at him. Ouch. Poor, pathetic Milhouse.


These are Homer's prized pig cuff links; they have been worn by every Simpsons groom. Shockingly, Hugh is appalled by the tacky wrist jewelry, but he agrees to wear them to please Homer, and then doesn't wear them.



And here's little Lisa as a bride. She looks like a Disney princess with her veil, crown, pearls, jewel brooch, gloves, and floral waistline. That is, like, A LOT going on in one dress, no? Homer looks like he's been back on the Dr. Nick window-to-weight-gain diet because he barely has a chin, and he's got a neck roll over the collar of his tuxedo jacket. Oh, Homer.

In the end, it all works out. In a different episode we discover that Lisa is the first (straight) female President, and she never could have done that tied to the kitchen sink at Hugh's family estate.

Smell ya later,

Kay Banks

Bride saves woman's life, ruins gown

An Australian bride hitched up her wedding dress and leapt from a jetty into the sea to save a woman spotted floating face down in the water, Adelaide's Advertiser newspaper reported Monday. The wedding party was having photographs taken at dusk Saturday on Glenelg jetty when someone spotted the 55-year-old woman bobbing in the water.


Not the bride; from Flickr user brotherM

The bride, a trained nurse, managed to get the victim breathing again before medics arrived. The injured woman was taken to hospital with spinal injuries sustained in the fall from the jetty.

Shane Daw, a spokesman for Surf Life Saving South Australia, said members of the wedding party worked on the woman for about five minutes before she regained consciousness.

'They did a fantastic job,' he said.

What a story - I'm glad to know that all brides aren't plastic surgery-obsessed loons. At least they're not that way in Australia.

xo,

Kay

Pregnant bride fired on the eve of her wedding

The article is wordy, so I will tl;dr it for you.

Jarretta Hamilton was a fourth grade teacher at a Florida Christian school until the school administration found out that she was pregnant and unmarried. She asked her boss for a leave of absence for her wedding and mentioned that she had just become pregnant.



The school's strict guidelines prohibit teachers from "fornication". Jarretta was asked not to return to the school.

It won't surprise you to find out that Jarretta is suing the school; the school claims they've done nothing wrong.

From the picture of this new family, it looks like Jarretta and her new husband are more mature, so it's not surprising that they'd start trying to have kids right away. The article says that she was three weeks pregnant on the day of her wedding. If the point of the firing is to keep her pre-marital fornication a secret, they could have just said it was a honeymoon baby. Finally, what kind of Christians turn away a pregnant and temporarily-single woman? It's been a long time since the slow, painful torture of private Christian school, but I seem to remember that Jesus was born in a barn because nobody would let a pregnant and unmarried woman stay in their inn.

Good luck Jarretta!

-Kay

Couple stranded by volcano marries in Dubai

A Brisbane couple's wedding guests have watched them take their vows over the internet after the volcanic ash cloud disrupting European flights left them stranded in Dubai.

Sean Murtagh, 24, and Natalie Mead, 30, first tied the knot at a civil ceremony in inner-city New Farm three weeks ago. But Sean's family in the UK could not make it to Queensland so his mother organised a second reception in London. They landed in Dubai on Thursday only to be told, after a 19-hour wait, there would be no connecting flight to England.


This picture has nothing to do with anything. From spike55151.

"Everyone pray to volcano gods that I can get on a plane today, or I am going to miss my wedding!" Natalie posted on Facebook. Then Sean asked staff at the Millennium Airport Hotel if they could get an web-video link-up in their room. Staff pulled out all stops for the stranded couple.

"They have decorated the lobby of the hotel. They made us a three-tier wedding cake, set up a laptop with Skype and a projector," Sean said. With 80 guests watching from London, Sean and Natalie renewed their three-week-old vows in Dubai online.

"Bugger if we are going to let a little thing like a volcano stop us from getting married and sharing it with Sean's family and friends," posted Natalie.

Yay, our first wedding story from the Volcano mess! It's too bad that Natalie and Sean didn't get their "big day" but I'm sure that this is a lot more memorable than the standard vow renewal. And it's nice that instead of price-gouging, the hotel is helping wayward travelers. Though, they probably haven't received their bill yet...

-KB

Bridesmaid's dress stolen hours before the wedding

Not that I don't believe this bridesmaid, but...she is probably full of crap.

Delaware state police say someone broke into a car and stole a bridesmaid's dress just hours before a wedding.


Who me?

It happened Friday morning at a shopping center in Pike Creek. Police say the bride and one of her bridesmaids were in a salon getting ready for the wedding. When they got back to their car, they found that someone had stolen the pink dress [And it's a great color! You'll be able to wear the dress again after my wedding!] the bridesmaid had planned to wear at the ceremony. A bag of accessories was also stolen. [I'm sure the bridesmaid REALLY MISSES her pink gemstone earrings, and pink feathered hair accessory]

The vehicle was not damaged. Police believe the thieves overrode the car's self-locking mechanism.

Yeah, okay bridesmaid. Somehow, someone just broke into your car, ignored the quarters in the ashtray, did NO damage to the car, and this all happened just hours before the wedding. I don't think there's any question about what really happened.

Lock your cars, friends!
-KB

Sex-crazed elephant crashes wedding

A sex-crazed elephant rampaged through a lavish wedding ceremony in New Delhi in hot pursuit of a mate, leaving flipped cars and dazed guests in its wake. The lovestruck pachyderm, one of three hired for the traditional Indian reception, caused more than $300,000 in damage after it went rogue, according the Bangkok-based Thaindian News.



The elephant charged the couple’s guests, stampeding across a lawn and flipping at least 20 cars as it chased a female elephant in heat. The animal was subdued with a tranquilizer after six hours on the lam – but not before it rammed a police truck.

Officials for the Wildlife Trust of India blamed the incident on a case of raging hormones, saying the elephant was in "mast," the mating phase that occurs once a year.

I really hope this poor guy is okay. Sad/man elephants really bum me out. ...And here I am, letting my geek flag fly: Apparently elephants are like Vulcans? This one was experiencing his pon-farr. OMG, I'm a nerd.

There's a video, but I can't watch it. Go on without me.

-Kay

Monday morning snark - wonky windmill wedding

I have no idea why these people are stomping around this fake windmill (yeah, fake - they have American accents), but here is a wedding party at a windmill.



Adding insult to injury...those pink dresses are just awful.

Grumpy Monday,

Kay Banks

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This couple requires a class in communication skills

According to news reports from the United Arab Emirates, an unnamed Arab ambassador had been courting his bride, a doctor, through her veil.

Forbidden to see her face until the wedding day, he relied on a photograph of the woman provided by her mother. It was only when he lifted the veil on the wedding day to kiss the bride that he discovered she was cross-eyed and had facial hair. The photograph of the attractive woman was revealed to be the bride's sister.



The ambassador told an Islamic sharia court in the United Arab Emirates that he was tricked into marriage and deserved compensation. According to reports in the Gulf News the ambassador requested the court refer the woman to a specialist to ascertain whether she suffers from hormonal problems. The specialist found no such problems existed.

The court annulled the marriage contract but rejected a $145,000 compensation claim for gifts he had bought his fiancee.

Earthquake interrupts wedding

If I started writing for the cheesy local news, I'd say something silly like "Couples usually feel the Earth move on the wedding night but this couple had a moving experience on their wedding day!"

Yeah, I'm sorry. Let's move on.


Addie Hauschild-Willis and her husband to be, Ian Willis, were changing clothes just 20minutes before their wedding ceremony on January 9 in Eureka when a 6.5 magnitude quake hit 27 miles off the northern coast of California. The earthquake occurred at 4:27 p.m. It knocked out power in the Eureka area and caused moderate damage to some structures.

While no one in the wedding party was hurt, it wasn't exactly part of the couple's plans. "And I looked at him and grabbed his arm and said, 'Oh my God, we're having an earthquake,'" said Hauschild-Willis. "We thought we were going to fall from the second floor down to the bottom floor."

Hauschild-Willis said the earthquake yanked them left and right, about six or seven inches. "I saw my younger daughter go flying down the hall. She was yelling, 'Where are my children? Where are my children?,'" said LaRee Hauschild, the mother of the bride. The kids were safe. They were sequestered under a table as the shaking seemed to go on forever.



"We were looking out the window and the trees are shaking, the windows are shaking...and then it got really violent," said Hauschild-Willis. Her uncle's store at the nearby Bayshore Mall was a mess. Merchandise was with littered across the floor. But after a quick check, the family decided the wedding had to go on.

"This is our wedding day and we had a major earthquake. How awesome is that?," said Hauschild-Willis. With the power out, family members lit candles and the couple read their vows by flashlight. "It turned out, actually, quite beautiful," said Hauschild-Willis, adding she is not superstitious. "I don't take it as a sign that our marriage is doomed or anything, because there was an earthquake that day."



Her mother said except for a slimmed down wedding dinner, it was everything she'd hoped for, and more. "She certainly had a memorable wedding day. It was one that we will never forget, ever, in our lives," said Hauschild.

As long as there's no damage (and certainly no lost life), the little earthquakes generally don't disrupt anything. Visitors to California always seem terrified that The Big One will strike during their stay, but anything under 5 just makes the day more interesting. The earthquake scene in LA Story is not that far off from some of my experiences. But I don't drink half-caff. Oh no.

-Kay

Couple cut in to styrofoam cake, baker gets death threats

Bride Aimee West bought the three-tier sponge cake decorated with white and dark chocolate icing and flowers for their reception near Llanelli (in Wales). But just before she and new husband Tony cut through a layer of chocolate white polystyrene was found underneath.

They said when they ordered the cake they paid £270 up front to confectioners Creative Cakes. But just four hours before the evening reception was due to start Mrs West said she discovered the cake company had forgotten to bake it. She said: "They admitted their mistake and said 'Don't worry, we'll get you a cake'. They turned up that evening and the cake was put on a table for all to see. We were just about to cut it when someone discovered the cake people had left four layers of sponge cake in the hotel reception. That set alarm bells ringing and when my mother checked the cake she found it was made of polystyrene."


Is it me, or is the groom about twelve? He look so young.

District Judge Marjorie Taylor gave Creative Cakes three months to repay the couple plus their costs. Mrs West said after the case: "We are delighted to have been given our money back. We could have asked for compensation for cutting the cake in front of all our guests but we wouldn't be able to put a figure on that."

Karen Williams, who runs Creative Cakes from her home in Llanelli, blamed it all on a mix-up. She said: "By the time Aimee contacted me it was too late to make the proper cake. I would never have the time to bake a cake and ice it in that time. I explained I would be delivering an artificial cake - they are quite common at weddings these days. I offered them a refund so there was no reason to take me to the small claims court."

Fast forward a few days to this news story

A baker who substituted sponge with polystyrene in a wedding cake is considering winding up her business over threatening phone calls she says she has received after the mix-up hit the headlines. "This has escalated beyond belief. I'm getting threatening phone calls. People have said I should die of cancer. All I did was make a cake." Williams said she was considering quitting. "I'm trying to make a living but at the moment I'm feeling like 'what is the point'?''

When I go places, and there's no cake, I get really agitated. How can there not be cake at a birthday or wedding!? I would push your grandma off the sidewalk if it meant that someone would bring me cake. But I would never wish cancer on someone. I have my standards.

-Kay

Woman discovers she is allergic to her husband's semen

Julie Boyde, 26, discovered the problem when she and husband Mike, 27, had unprotected sexual intercourse for the first time on their wedding night. The couple had been dating for two years when they got married, but had always used protection. As soon as they had unprotected intercourse for the first time she knew something was wrong.

"Before we were always very careful and, you know, used protection, and that time we didn't," Mrs Boyde told ABC News. "So, we figured we were married now, so if we got pregnant, we got pregnant." Mrs Boyde, from Ambridge, Pennsylvania, added: "The pain that I was feeling was inside, kind of like, somebody was sticking needles up inside of me and like a burning, like really painful burning."



Doctors were unable to explain why she experienced pain after intercourse, until a friend of hers suggested she might be allergic to her husband's semen. She was eventually diagnoses with Seminal Plasma Hypersensitivity, which can cause itching and burning. Dr Andrew Goldstein, from the University of Cincinnati Medical Center said: "The body recognizes semen as a foreign protein just as it would recognize a peanut allergen or pollen." "So you have swelling, you have itching, you have inflammation of the nerve endings."

His colleague Jonathan Bernstein developed a desensitization treatment similar to receiving an allergy shot. After determining the proteins in Mr Boyde's semen that triggered his wife's reaction, he created a serum to counteract the problem. Although the treatment works for some couples, it did not for the Boydes. They have now started adoption proceedings.

I'll admit that when I first read this, I laughed. I wasn't laughing at the couple, or at their inability to have children, but being allergic to your husband sounds like something right out of a slapstick comedy. It is really admirable that they're planning for adoption instead of running to every fertility doctor in town only to have a eight kids and a tv show.

-Kay

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Nice work, Zsa-Zsa

Continuing the week of snark...

A bride spent her wedding night in a Spanish jail cell after slapping a cop who was breaking up a fight between guests, according to police. The bust-up happened as the bride and groom were leaving their reception in the resort town of Salou, 90 miles southwest of Barcelona Tuesday.



At least 30 guests were still partying in the hotel when members of the bride's family and relatives of the groom started fighting. Hotel owners called cops after hearing shouts, and as officers attempted to separate the two sides, the bride grabbed one police officer by the neck and slapped him.

She was arrested and detained for several hours, but she was released in the morning so the newlyweds could begin their honeymoon.

A fight broke out, and then the bride slapped a cop? She didn't just slap him, actually, it sounds more like a wrestling move. I have a feeling that they were drinking all night. Alcohol or not, most people know that they shouldn't hit police officers. I have a feeling this bride had some underlying issues before she became a bridezilla.

Grumpily yours,
Kay

Lighten up, Bridezilla

"Some people think the world revolves around me and they have illusions of grandeur. It has to be absolutely perfect. They want at $10,000 wedding for $50," Rev. Faires said. "I should have proofread it before I said it but I didn't and it's regretful but when it happened before, people just laughed about it,"

The Ryders have no plans to sue or ask for a refund. They just want people to know about their experience with Anywhere Wedding Ceremonies of Hazelwood.

"We felt our wedding was a train wreck," Brandi said.

Train wreck - such strong words for a small error during an $80 wedding ceremony. I realize that names are very important, but I would have laughed and moved on. I don't understand the bridezilla call of "It's my wedding!!!" Yes, it's your wedding, but mistakes still happen. I think it's especially odd that they don't want their money back, and they aren't satisfied with the apology, they just want to complain to the entire world.

-Kay

Justice of the peace refuses to marry interracial couple

A Louisiana justice of peace refused to issue a marriage license because the couple trying to wed was interracial. Keith Bardwell, a justice of peace in Tangipahoa Parish, cited concern for children that the couple might have as one of his reasons. Bardwell, who claims most interracial marriages do not last long, came to the conclusion that offspring from those relationships are discriminated against.

"There is a problem with both groups accepting a child from such a marriage," Bardwell told the Associated Press. "I think those children suffer and I won't help put them through it." He supports his decision by saying he treats all interracial couples the same way. "I try to treat everyone equally," Bardwell said.



The justice of peace estimates that he has denied marriage to four couples during his two and a half year career. The latest couple to be denied, Beth Humphrey, 30, and Terence McKay, 32, will look into filing a discrimination complaint with the U.S. Justice Department. "That was one thing that made this so unbelievable," Humphrey said. "It's not something you expect in this day and age." Humphrey, who is white and an account manager for a marketing firm, and McKay, a welder who is black, recently returned to Louisiana.

Humphrey called Bardwell on Oct. 6 to ask about getting a marriage license and learned through Bardwell’s wife that he would not sign for interracial couples. "We are looking forward to having children," Humphrey said. "And all our friends and co-workers have been very supportive. Except for this, we're typical happy newlyweds." The American Civil Liberties Union of Louisiana has already sent a letter to the state’s judiciary committee asking it to investigate Bardwell. "It is really astonishing and disappointing to see this come up in 2009," ACLU attorney Katie Schwartzmann said. "The Supreme Court ruled as far back as 1963 that the government cannot tell people who they can and cannot marry."

But Bardwell insists that he did nothing wrong. "I've been a justice of the peace for 34 years and I don't think I've mistreated anybody," Bardwell said. "I've made some mistakes, but you have too. I didn't tell this couple they couldn't get married. I just told them I wouldn't do it."


This is from another article, and I think it really clarifies everything:

"I'm not a racist," Bardwell told the newspaper. "I do ceremonies for black couples right here in my house. My main concern is for the children."

You guize! He's not a racist, so it's okay. He's even had black people in his house!!! I wonder if he would marry a mixed person to a non-mixed person? Or would that person have had too difficult a childhood to have a successful marriage?

-Kay

Funny/terrible wedding photos

It's FRIDAY! Time for something a little different. Remember the sad story about the terrible wedding photos from earlier in the week? BBC News asked their readers to send in their own terrible wedding photos. Most of them are from amateur photographers, and I think these in particular are pretty funny.


From Jonathan Proud "As a keen amateur, I was designated 'official photographer' for my niece's wedding, as they didn't want a professional who would dominate the proceedings. I'd never photographed a wedding before. There was a driveway between the bride, groom and family members being photographed, and the rest of the wedding party taking pictures and looking on. From time to time traffic interrupted proceedings, like this laundry trolley, causing great amusement"



Photographer Gareth Fudge says "Being a wedding photographer is not as easy as it looks. You get the shot set up and someone dives in. Fortunately I am amateur and was just shooting my friend's wedding. This made it into the album though as a private joke."



This one makes me laugh so much. Says Carolyn Hendry "The atmospheric lighting in the venue was affecting the flash on our camera, so the picture didn't take until a couple of seconds after I pressed the button. The bride and groom looked beautiful - honest!"

Who thinks wedding photography looks easy?!? It sounds stressful to me. And I don't understand why you wouldn't hire a professional photographer. If you don't want a bossy photographer, don't hire a bossy person! The last picture of the pole is so, so funny. It took me a few seconds to even figure out that there were people behind that pole!

Have a great weekend!
Kay

If you want to see all of the bad photos, you can take a look here and here.

Couple sues photographer for terrible wedding photos

A photographer in the UK has successfully been sued by Mark and Sylvia Day for 'woefully inadequate' wedding photos. The photos included headless people, random close-ups, and are described as poorly lit, and odd. The couple paid $2,200 US for these terrible photos and a shaky wedding video in which the operator swears after dropping the camera.



The Days also pleaded with the photographer to take down a photo on his website - a picture of a half-naked, three-year-old flower girl getting ready for their wedding. Creepy!

The photographer Gareth Bowers told the judge he had been in business for four years and claimed to have photographed more than 20 weddings. The judge ordered Bowers to pay back £500 from the £1,450 they paid to him, £450 in damages, £170 in court fees and £100 in loss of earnings to the couple.

I'm sure these photos were really terrible, but it seems like this can't be a one-time offense. Didn't they see a portfolio before hiring him? A man who can't take a decent group photo must have a terrible portfolio. Of course, I feel for the couple because they can never get their big day back, and this debacle will always hang over their wedding day.

-Kay

"Viral" wedding video

I'm going to start out by saying that this video REALLY sets off my BS detector, but I am a cynic. The focal point is a video of a perfectly lovely poolside wedding. Suddenly - oh noes! - the groomsman comes up to give the priest the rings and he trips and the priest and the bride end up in the drink.

Here's their site, and the link that's called "Dealing with the doubters" (currently down). They were on the news this morning looking rehearsed, yet uncomfortable and talking about their wedding. She describes "being shocked" but she never really gets excited or sounds like she's emotional about it in the least. To top it all off, she's on the cheesy local news. I've never seen an internet meme on TV before, well, the internet. The fact that the video only has 300 hits, confirms that this is NOT an internet meme.

Their website says the "Full Video!" will be released September 28. Why? On TV they claimed this happened last year.



I am firmly convinced that this is fake, or a promotion for something. Now that you've seen it, do you believe it?

Pet Shop Boys incite violence at wedding

A DJ hired to spin at a Bedouin wedding in [Israel] was beaten up for playing Western music. Some guests apparently felt the tunes encouraged lewdness in the women, according to a report in Monday’s edition of the Maariv daily. The DJ initially put on Arabic numbers for the hundreds of guests attending the event in Aroer village in Israel’s Negev Desert region.

He then decided to stir things up and put on a song by the British electronic music duo the, causing some women to “dance exuberantly to the foreign music,” the paper said, and angering some of the men.



“The fact that women were dancing at the wedding goes against tradition and is a dishonor to their husbands,” the paper quoted one guest as saying. Several angry young men gave the DJ a “severe beating” after he refused to go back to playing Arabic music. Police later arrested two men in connection with the incident.

The DJ was later heard asking "What have I done to deserve this?" It really seems like he could have predicted the outcome to playing Western music in a strictly religious wedding. If he was intentionally trying to incite them, the Pet Shop Boys were the perfect choice, if you know what I mean...

-Kay

Just to clarify, in NO WAY am I implying that the DJ deserved a beating. Last I checked physical violence is forbidden in most religions, so these people should practice what they preach.

Reverend ditches wedding

An Elyria, Ohio couple almost couldn't get married on their wedding day due to a runaway reverend. The couple was preparing to get married on the beach at Lakeview beach in Lorain. "We were extremely excited," says Erin Kuhns.

But just before Erin went to meet her soon-to-be husband Bret at the alter, the Reverend approached the limo. "She asked if I drank alcohol," Erin explains. "I said yes, we toasted wine at the house." The Reverend Mrs. Gillian Kresila refused to marry the couple. She kept the $50 deposit and left the beach.

It was 4 p.m. and Erin was hysterical and Brett says, "I had no idea what was going on. No one would tell me. I just knew -- wedding -- not happening." Once he learned what had happened, he was relieved that his bride didn't runaway, but furious the reverend did. "I think it's ridiculous. We paid them and to deny service for no good reason, I can't believe a business would operate like that," Bret says.

Reverend Kresila says, "It's illegal to marry people who are under the influence in Ohio," and she could lose her license. She said, "She is not a doctor and can not tell how one drink affects one person or anther person." She said that is why they have a zero alcohol tolerance policy.

But Erin says they would not have had the toast if they had known the full policy. She says, "We were told not to, to drink. She said don't drink before the wedding, but she didn't say don't drink or I wont perform the ceremony."

According to the Ohio Revised Code: No marriage license shall be granted when either of the applicants is under the influence of an intoxicating liquor or controlled substance.

But Erin and Bret signed their license weeks before the ceremony at the courthouse. And Erin says she was not drunk. "A four ounce champagne glass was all I consumed that entire day," says Erin. "We are not partiers we're not that type of people."

The family scrambled and found a backup reverend to marry the couple and the new Mrs. and Mr. Kuhns had a beautiful day. They say, "Boy oh boy -- was it memorable!"

"We'll always have a story to tell about our wedding day to the kids and grandkids," sums up Erin.