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•i • •• 3- • . f ■' $ « « V • «• . ■• J . '•Ss* ; . • * • ‘ . ! _ , — > ■ - - - ^ ^ - - .................... . . . r Wantagh wedding paiiy suMves mishaps, even hurricane V . ■ by Connie W ard shoes have already been lold. was t o ' Stan off. the' w eather on along with the husband of Septem b er 16, 1989 w as not very ^natron of honor to rescue the cooperative; cloudy, with occasional ushers and the bridal couple’s light rain and w o rse threatened.-. luggage. .However, a backup plan had been sooner had the rescue party left' devised for the planned outdoor Ijjf but the lost ushers anived. . pictures so it seemed that everything bad thumbed their way from was under control. That was before the mxhincs began to take over the events o f ’The Day.\- Since the wedding party was fairly large, and of course liming was critical, it was decided that the ladies would meet at the bride's home in Scaford for the pre-wedding photo session and be transported the short distance to St. W illiam the A b b o t Church by lim o u sine in am p le tim e for the . scheduled 3 p.m. Nuptual Mass. The - gcmlcmcn .would gather a t the groom’s AmiiyviJIc apartm e n t, also being transponed to the church by limousine. - Since the bride and her father must a ^ arrive by lim o u sine, three were ibc site of the dead’limo. Somewhere , rer^ired, on Long Island are kind people who ’ The photographer arrived early, an^l have a' s tory to tell about saving a all seemed well in hand. Even the redding front disaster. The sight pf-a slightly late delivery o f the flowers group of young men ip wedding attire * ■ .' hitchhiking on Sunrise Highway must have been worth seeing. (Fortunately, one o f the ushers had his camera and ■got pictures.) , _ Approximately thiny minutes late, the cerem o n y began, rescuers and luggage having ittumed. and the two were properly joined. ■ A fter the ceremony, the weather smiled slightly and the planned outdoor pictures were taken on the spot in a lovely, if unplanned, location. U was during this time that the groom missed his kcys,'which he figured were either in the dead limo or in his door. (They were subsequently found in the door.) . j - j j* t .w .u rt e T’hc fourteen members of the . d idn't disturb the smooth flow of events. Then h began (ypu have to pay ; attention now, bemuse it starts td^get complicated): . The photo session was sto p p ^ to await a late arriving bridesmaid. She ; finally arrived over an hour T alc, ^plaining that her husband. Who had to w c ^ k ^ t morning, had run out of gas cn route hom e to dress for the wedding himsdf and to drive to the bride's house. The bride's b roths, who had gone in ,his car to join the other men in the .wedding party, called from a nearby ' convenience store to say that his.car had broken down. He was m ^ u ed and sent on his way Sn his brother's car. . While changing into ^ wedding attire; be d is c o v e rt that h e'd l ^ t his shoes at , home s o h e leium e d for Them, first arranging to meet the other ushers at thechuith, ' The bride's mother left for the church at 2:30 p.m; to b e d a hand when the. . guests arrived. The. larijy bridesmaid w as still hot accounted for, but ■ dqjcctcd momentarily. The now pTQpttly-shod u s t e left for . the churfch jasi ahead.of the bride, father, and the com p leted rosier of bridal attendants,' how safely g ^ c d and photographed and only slightly behind scheduie, ’ . ‘ Wbch the bridal party arrived at the chdteb, they learned that the Umpusine carrying the jgnoomsmen had. broken down. This news came, from the best ynan wfao, along with the groom, had thumbed a ride op Sunri^ Highway to ; get to. the chordr on dmc. The bride’s brother, w h o s ^ ^ jM itg iw e & iW i « » iA > wedding' party squeezed into the two will be remembered by ihany as the day - remaimng Umos and were taken to the hurricane Hugo devastated Guadeloupe reception in Baldwin. The reception • and aimed for Puerto Rico, so there was S* went o'ff without a hitch, but afterwards some concern since their destination & was San Juan. ' ^ Undaunted by worries about major ■'L, weather cvenuV the couple met Dad 'S ' Thc bridc's father had been delegated with the news that the groom’s w^l^i ® ■o t deliver the happy couple from their appcarjMj to have been left in the limo w ovcmighistay at the Garden City Hotel that had brought them to the hotel, and *& to Kennedy A irport for their would he please check on that. 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