{"id":745,"date":"2025-10-24T21:13:26","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T21:13:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianregency.com\/blog\/?p=745"},"modified":"2025-10-24T21:13:26","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T21:13:26","slug":"a-funny-thing-happened-on-the-way-to-the-altar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/24\/a-funny-thing-happened-on-the-way-to-the-altar\/","title":{"rendered":"A Funny Thing Happened On the Way to the Altar"},"content":{"rendered":"

Everyone screws up occasionally. The epicness of your less than perfect moment can often be tied to the significance and size of the event at which it occurs. Stepping on your hairbrush and wiping out in your bathroom can be excessively painful, but the embarrassment factor is rather low. Tumbling down the ramp at your high school graduation can haunt you for the rest of your life, leading the highlight reel at every class reunion.<\/p>

\"Fire<\/a><\/div>\n
\"Engraving
Photo via Wiki Commons<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Kristi here and there is perhaps no grander stage to mess up on than a wedding. Emotions are high, stress abounds, and months (sometimes years) of careful planning is being set in motion. While everyone is praying for four perfect hours of ceremony and reception, that is rarely the case.<\/p>\n

Check around on YouTube or watch a few episodes of America\u2019s Funniest Videos and you\u2019ll be able to start a list of common wedding maladies:<\/p>\n

The Fainter<\/span><\/h1>\n
\"Fainting
Photo via Wiki Commons<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Sometimes it\u2019s the groom, often it\u2019s a groomsman. Every now and then it\u2019s the bride. Funniest one I\u2019ve ever seen? The priest.<\/p>\n

If you go to a lot of weddings, you\u2019ve probably seen a fainter. They start to blink and then sway just a bit and then next thing you know, their knees give way and everyone does their best impression of dominos. (By the way, if you\u2019re in a wedding make sure you eat breakfast that morning and don\u2019t lock your knees. That lessens your chances of becoming the fainter!)<\/p>\n

You can see some great faints in this video<\/a>. Most of them are from weddings.<\/p>\n

The Wayward Kid<\/span><\/p>\n

I have considerable experience with this one. I was one.<\/p>\n

As the flower girl for my cousin\u2019s wedding, I thought I was hot stuff. Unfortunately, I almost became really hot stuff when I became curious about what would happen if I stepped on the base of an enormous candelabra. No, I didn\u2019t burn the church down, but I think I caused a moment or two of horror.<\/p>\n

\"Flames
Photo via Wiki Commons<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Kids\u00a0 are adorable and make for some really cute pictures, but they are also unpredictable. You never know when they\u2019ll decide to eat the flower petals or obtain a massive case of stage fright.<\/p>\n

The Guests<\/span><\/h1>\n

\"WeddingThere are many other opportunities to embarrass yourself at a wedding (and given the propensity of brides to hire photographers and videographers, these moments are captured for posterity). Even if you are only a guest, you aren\u2019t immune to being caught up in the wedding disaster hall of fame. Dance floor escapades, bouquet toss brawls, and unplanned toasts are all fodder for the awkward situation generator.<\/p>\n

Got a few guests who\u2019ve indulged too much at the open bar? The chances of chagrin inducing capers increase exponentially.<\/p>\n

My Altar Moment<\/span><\/h1>\n
\"Kristi
Me and My Hubby, nine years ago<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I have to say, though, that I\u2019ve never heard of someone else having the same experience as I did. I\u2019ve heard of flubbed up vows, tongue-tied grooms, and ministers forgetting their notes, but I think I\u2019m fairly unique in my story.<\/p>\n

Fortunately, it wasn\u2019t me, although I nearly caught the giggles, which would have made the rest of the ceremony very difficult.<\/p>\n

What happened? Well, the minister called my husband a woman. He said, \u201cDo you, Kristi, take this woman…\u201d I very nearly lost it. In his defense, the poor man was very nervous. As a dear friend of the family, he was worried about making a mistake in the middle of the wedding. And then he did.<\/p>\n

His own daughter is getting married this weekend. I don\u2019t think he\u2019s officiating the ceremony.<\/p>\n

What about you?<\/span><\/h1>\n

Have you been to a wedding where things didn\u2019t quite go as planned? What hilarity ensued at your own wedding?<\/p>\n

Originally posted 2012-06-06 10:00:00. <\/small><\/p>

\"Listen<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Everyone screws up occasionally. The epicness of your less than perfect moment can often be tied to the significance and size of the event at which it occurs. Stepping on your hairbrush and wiping out in your bathroom can be excessively painful, but the embarrassment factor is rather low. Tumbling down the ramp at your […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[81,27],"tags":[74,83,82],"class_list":["post-745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-stories","category-weddings","tag-kristi-ann-hunter","tag-personal","tag-weddings-2"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=745"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":888,"href":"https:\/\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745\/revisions\/888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}