By MALI HEGDAHL
It is a day all little girls dream of. It is the day when every friend, relative and acquaintance gets dressed up in fancy clothes to celebrate the biggest day of your life: your wedding day.
After months, and sometimes years of planning, the day arrives. The guests are invited, the food is ordered, the location is scheduled, the license is picked up and the dresses and tuxes are clean and pressed. What could go wrong?
Anything.
Wedding dresses are a problem for many people.
Marie Detro, a sophomore from Longmont, Colo., majoring in nursing, said her LDS Laurel advisor had troubles on her wedding day. Right after the wedding ceremony she started walking down the stairs outside the Los Angeles temple.
'My advisor's heel caught on her wedding dress and she began to fall. So she immediately grabbed onto her husband for help,' Detro said. She caught him off balance and they both tumbled down stairs.
When it was all over, they lay laughing, sprawled out at the bottom of the stairs with her dress up over her head. The guests, who just stared at them, were not amused, Detro said.
Heather Stinson, a senior from Kennewick, Wash., majoring in special education, said her aunt, who works as a lawyer for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, told her about a wedding mishap that one bride had.
As the bride prepared for the wedding, she was troubled by the amount of static that her dress created. She sprayed an anti-static product on the dress to solve the problem.
At that moment a temple worker was walking by. The rubber soles on the worker's slippers caused a static charge and created a spark, Stinson said. The spark ignited the flammable anti-static spray. A flame burst out and her wedding dress caught on fire. Because of quick actions by those around her, the flame was put out and no one was hurt.
Dresses are not the only wedding day problems. Guests are known to cause troubles, too.
Steve Lofgran, a sophomore from Rexburg, Idaho, majoring in biochemistry, said his cousin's wedding was unusual. As the bride walked down the aisle of the backyard wedding, the wedding march was a country-music karaoke song.
'That was weird all by itself,' Lofgran said. It got even stranger when the man who sang the song did not want to stop. When the bride reached the altar, the singer continued to sing, Lofgran said.
After the song was over, the bishop thought he could begin. He was immediately stopped when the singer put in a second song and sang another off-key melody.
The guests sat in amazement as they waited for the singer to stop, Lofgran said. As soon as the second song ended, the ceremony quickly proceeded.
The lesson to be learned from these wedding day bloopers is that it does not matter how much you plan for the 'big day,' some things just can't be prevented. So do your best when planning the wedding, but be prepared for anything.