Six and a half years ago, my husband and I got married at Disney World. The pomp and circumstance surrounding the wedding provided me with lots of fodder for stories. But this is one of the best tales I have from the wedding:
I’m in my dress, I’ve been up since 4 a.m. and running on three hours of sleep. I’m sitting in Cinderella’s carriage and we’ve pulled over into a shady spot to cool the horses and wait for the last few moments before pulling up to where the ceremony will take place when the carriage coordinator looks at me and says:
”If you want to bail, we can have you at a bar in ten minutes.”
Jigga what?
The driver leaned down and nodded his head. “Some brides get jittery, if you’re ready to get out of here, we can take care of it.”
Do brides really do that?
Apparently, they do. The coordinator was smooth in his reassurance. After all, planning a Disney wedding required covering all contingencies. I may have been sitting there in my six hundred dollar wedding dress and overheating despite the hour of the day, but here they were all set to help me bail out on an event that took over ten months to plan.
Wow.
I started to giggle.
I mean really giggle.
“Are you ready to go on then?” The coordinator asked.
“Oh sure.” I replied, still laughing. The hilarity of being in the middle of the fairytale and being offered the loophole out the door was like one of those record screeching to a halt scenes in a film. It left the rest of the day slightly askew and all the funnier for it.
It’s one of my best stories from the wedding day. I remember telling my husband about it later and his jaw dropped. Then it snapped closed and he laughed. “I guess when you pay for all the amenities – you get all the amenities. Even the one that offers you a way out.”
Go figure!