Small world

I was at a wedding yesterday and as I moved towards the back of the church I saw a couple waving at me.
I had photographed their wedding a couple of years ago.
There was another couple who had wanted me to photograph their wedding last year but sadly I was already booked for their date.
I had worked with the video man on a wedding at some point and the florist gave me a card and I knew that we had worked together before.
One of the ushers had been a bestman at another wedding.
The wedding was about quite a distance from home they were in Berkshire and I am in Surrey.
During the speeches there was a telegram from a couple who couldn't make it from Australia because they are expecting their first child any day now. I had photographed their wedding too.
As a wedding photographer it is great when couples like what I do enough to reccomend me to their friends and I do love to see them again.

There is a bomb near the church. But don't worry I have a plan.

I arrived at the bride's house nice and early so I decided to do a final run to the church just to make sure that the road was clear.
Well as I arrived at the end of Church lane I discovered that the road was not clear.
The policeman told me that they had discovered an unexploded bomb near the church.
What are the chances of that happening. It has been there for 60 years and they find it on a Saturday morning a wedding day.
I got my map out and quickly discovered that all the alternative routes to the church were also closed.
As I drove off I was thinking of a plan B.
Is it legal to skip the wedding but have the reception anyway? What will the bride say?
Anyway I called the bestman and it was the groom who answered so I told him exactly what the situation was.
I think that I sounded calm and matter of fact.
He laughed because he knew that was just the sort of joke the bride's dad would try to pull and there was no way he was going to fall for it.
So I put on my very serious newsreader voice and told him again that there was a problem and this is what we should do.
Get the bestman to call the church again and again until the Vicar answers the phone. When that happens we will know that the road is clear because the vicarage is at the bottom of the hill, outside the cordon.
When we speak to him we simply ask if his 12.00 wedding is going ahead as planned or will there be a delay. Then we will know if our 2pm wedding will be on time.
Anyway we got the call to say that the road was now open and it only caused a slight delay in the earlier wedding and ours went without a hitch.