Weddings are a beautiful thing

My sister, Sherry, is getting married married today. We hope that today goes by with no other problems because already things have been a headache for her.

A friend from college was supposed to fly into Dallas around 8:30 last night. Needless to say, when he called around that time, we thought he was calling to say that he had arrived safely but such was not the case. Not only was he still in Las Vegas, but his flight had been cancelled and the airline was being very incooperative. They could not guarantee him that they would get him here in time for the wedding but refused to put him on another carrier. The interesting thing is that the employees at the ticket counter kept lying to him. They told him that the red-eye flight was sold-out and they could only give him a stand-by ticket but that there were 100 people on the stand-by list ahead of him. The truth was - there were about 20 empty seats on the red-eye flight. He finally accepted a refund on his ticket as there was no way he would make it here in time.

This went back and forth for a while but Sherry called someone with a bit more authority than who our friend was working with. The result - he got on the red-eye flight and ended up only paying $198 for his fare (even though at one point they said it would cost him $1000 to be on that flight).

As Sherry was dealing with all of that mess, she broke one of her nails. I know that any man reading this thinks that is no big deal but when you are getting married, you have your nails done because people are looking at your hands so much. So, breaking a nail the night before is a big deal. We have our fingers crossed that in addition to getting her hair done right now, someone will be fixing her nail soon and she will have no other problems to deal with today.

This all makes me think back to when Justin and I got married and how stressed out I was. I hope for her sake that last night was the end of all the stress and today she will be able to relax and enjoy.