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.
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