The Pastor Thought He Was Kidding
My pastor once officiated a wedding. He had done all the premarital counseling for the couple, and they seemed good to go and fine. When they got to the altar, he did his opening prayer and welcome.
Then he gets to the part when he says, “Do you take this woman to be your wife” and the guy looked at her, back to him, and said “No.”
The pastor laughed a little and repeated the question, thinking he misunderstood, but the guy stopped him and said, “No, I don’t.”
So the pastor took the groom aside to a back room, where the guy essentially said that he couldn’t do it, that the bride and her mother had manipulated the whole wedding,
And he had been too chicken to stand up to her before, but that he couldn’t throw his life away. They brought in both families and had a very real conversation,
And then the pastor had to go back out and explain to the very uncomfortable congregation that there would indeed be no wedding today, that the guests could help themselves to some refreshments,
But that the rest of the evening’s events were canceled. Big ouch on that one. iRedditWhilePooping