Event Manager Fails To Make Sure Wedding Has Officiant

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Sep 25, 2019 12:00 PM EDT

This event manager experienced a bit of a nightmare, and forgot to make sure that the wedding they were in charge of helping plan, had an officiant! So, naturally they ended up illegally marrying the couple themselves. Hopefully they didn't have stage fright. 

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    Text - r/tifu +JOIN /Tipsy Traveler 7h TIFU By failing to check one of the most important aspects of a wedding, nearly ruining the ceremony. L I used to work as an event manager on a large cruise vessel. The managing staff was Italian, safe for a few, and I was one of those exceptions. The official language onboard was English, but the real official language onboard was Italian, and I did not speak a single word. Miscommunications were part of everyday life.One of my
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    Text - responsibilities was the coordination of weddings onboard. We had several private venues which could be used for a ceremony, but some couples preferred the public reception area. It had a fountain and two beautiful shimmery staircases that went down from deck 7 to deck 5. The open balconies on deck 6 and 7 allowed the other 3000 guests to join in on the festivities, making it a real party. We'd have one junior officer escort the bride down the stairs and one ordained senior officer perfor
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    Text - area for their special day, had often spend a fair amount on the wedding dress and wanted to be seen This story is about one of those couples. On this specific cruise there had been a mistake with the bookings. We had 8 weddings booked in 3 days, which was an almost impossible challenge. I'd somehow managed to convince 7 of the 8 to use the same venue on the second day of the cruise, one after another. We started at 8 am and ended that evening at 10 pm. The only couple left, insisted on u
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    Text - The last day came and by this the time the staff, including the officers and me, were tired. Tired people are prone to making mistakes, which was definitely not convenient for a wedding like this one, so I was running around double checking every detail. The ceremony was scheduled to take place at 9pm and by 8pm everything had been smooth sailing, until I received a phone call. It was the bride, in tears, begging me for help. The back zipper of her beautiful, poofy, strapless
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    Text - dress had broken, and because of all the pulling the dress had also ripped. There was a gigantic hole in the area of her derriere. I grabbed 2 tiny emergency sewing kits and some ducktape and ran to the rescue. Me and the mother of the bride put the beautiful, but sizable, bride face forward onto the bed, and as her mother was holding the dress together, I sowed it shut, trapping the bride into her dress. We secured it with some ducktape, decorated the vail over it and voila - disaster _
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    Text - By the time we'd finished I had only 10 minutes left to get to the venue, check everything and provide both the staff and the guests with instructions. I stormed off and ran into the junior officer, Lorenzo, who was on his way to escort the bride. In my best Italian/English l warned him: 'Lorenzo eh.. listen; the dress is eh.. rotta, broken, so when you escort the bride, please walk slowly. okay? "Va bene he replied.'Okay, va bene, and I put 2 thumbs up. 'And another thing, please wait un
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    Text - to give the rings, and checked the set-up. By this time the other 3000 guests had gathered on the 3 decks, looking out for the bride and waiting for the ceremony to start. I was in the middle of relaying instructions regarding the music to the DJ, when the crowd started cheering. The eyes of the DJ had widened and he pointed up to the staircase behind me. I turned around and there he was. Lorenzo, with the dressed bride on his arm, making typical brisk Italian handmovements that silently
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