This could only happen to us . . . . an unconventional engagement, wedding and honeymoon

This could only happen to us . . . . an unconventional engagement, wedding and honeymoon

I have the best relationship, best soul mate and the best marriage anyone could hope for . . . and it's just as well we have a sense of humor because I'm not sure our engagement, wedding and/or honeymoon story couldn't get any worse.

The engagement was romantic in principle and theory. My partner had been planning to propose for some time, he'd gone out for an evening with some friends and while he was there had some sort of epiphany - He realised he was missing me and wasn't having fun and was miserable without me there . . . so being a man of the moment got up, told the guys 'he had to go see about a girl' (we mocked him for the movie quote later) and came straight home to propose and tell me he couldn't live without me. Only on the way home it started to rain heavily, his flies on his trousers broke, his shoe broke . . . meanwhile at home I'd (after just one glass of wine) fallen asleep with a green/gray facemask on with my hair in a plastic bag due to some dodgy hair treatment ... and I was starting to snore and cover the sofa in dribble. We both looked beyond hideous. But, it was oddly uniquely romantic and unrehersed because we both just really felt it at that moment. Which is just as well circumstances considered.

The engagement period went from bad to worse. We saved up and booked our dream venue . . . three years in advance to get the right date. But six months before the wedding the venue canceled because a eighties rival tour had a corporate contract with them to use the venue exclusively while they were performing nearby . . . basically they were willing to pay more money and the venue had no morals. We got a decent amount of compensation, but the experience had really ruined the venue for us. All in all the engagement lasted five years till we eventually found a (better) venue.

The wedding was wonderful for us. With the small exception that the groom forgot the rings (left them at home), the photographer got sick (1,768 photos all of them horrible), one of the bridesmaids took to stealing stuff and the best man's speech was both rude and extremely odd. . . just as well you can get caught up in the moment and the day really. After what happened prior to this though we were just grateful it wasn't worse!

The honeymoon was wonderful, sri lanka and the maldives . . . for five minutes, until we got there and found out it was the 'rainy season, and then got food poisoning, an attack of fire ant bites and eventually near drowning due to a group of jellyfish while snorkeling left me covered in steroid creme lying down in a dark room in a medical bay.

We've been married a few months now and honestly while we could get upset we just laugh about it. Most of these things are at worst just a few days, our marriage will last the rest of our lives . . . we have had and will have years of happy memories, so if these are the only big bad ones we consider ourselves pretty lucky. Our relationship and everything between us is wonderful so we don't worry about the small external stuff . . . even if the engagement, wedding & honeymoon photos which look like comedy screen shots from the movie 'the hangover'. . .