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Bride misses her own wedding

April 3rd 2010 02:47
lego wedding

A drink with a friend before your wedding is a tradition Siobahn Watson was determined to follow. Now she wishes she hadn't.

Watson, 24, of Manchester, England, a telesales assistant, was engaged to Aaron Todd, also 24, a bricklayer. A white Rolls-Royce had been hired, the bridal party's gowns had been designed, fitted and paid for, guests had been invited and a lot of money had been spent on the function at which everyone would celebrate the happy day.


Unfortunately, Watson's final drink as a single woman turned into something of a final fling as a single woman. Not all the details have been released, but we can read between the sheets.

Some hours before her wedding, Watson went out for that fateful drink with the unnamed "friend". They drank. They drank some more. At some point Watson lost her mobile phone. At some other point, the two stopped drinking and went to a motel.

We know only two things for certain that went on in that motel room. One is that Siobahn Watson went to sleep. We know that because we have been told the other thing that happened: she woke up.

She woke at about the same time that she was supposed to be saying, "I do."

Later, Watson was quoted as saying, "When I realised I had missed my own wedding, I started shaking. I could not believe I had been so stupid."

Aaron Todd, who had spent longer than expected standing, alone, by the altar, while friends and family tried continuously to ring Siobahn on her lost mobile phone, was quoted as saying, "She won't get a second chance.''


dailystar.co.uk; image: firstpersonsingular.org


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Care for a date?

September 9th 2009 01:05
9 september 2009

Good morning, would you like a date?

Okay, good, here it is: today is the ninth of the ninth of the ninth.


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Museum splitting pairs

February 11th 2009 06:42
Some things are harder to spin than others. Take, for example, the Museum of Broken Relationships, a travelling exhibit that features the objects people leave behind after splitting up.

The museum, it was reported this week, is a collection started by a pair of Croatian exes who wanted to honour their dead relationship.

What seems to be missing in this explanation is logic. If they were exes, and if their relationship was dead, where exactly was the attraction in honouring it?

The museum seems to have have overcome these logic bumps in its evolution, however, and become a viable business. It now features exhibits from lost romances from around the globe, including a set of furry handcuffs, love letters, underwear, a wedding dress, some gall stones, an axe and a wooden leg from a Balkan war veteran who fell in love with a nurse in a field hospital.

The Museum of Broken Relationships will cease travelling for two weeks from February 14 and make its home at San Francisco’s Root Division Gallery.

See you there.
www.brokenships.com, www.guardian.co.uk


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