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After my bride, Debbie, and I left our wedding reception, we headed for a motel. Somehow we got lost. After driving around forever, we stopped at a McDonald's to get directions and something to drink.

As we got out of the car, still decorated with streamers and "Just Married" signs, a youngster looked at the car and then at us. Shaking his head, he said disgustedly, "Mister, you just got married and you're taking your bride to McDonald's?"

—Jeff Scott
Carbondale, Illinois

I had just finished seating guests at my sister-in-law's wedding when my wife, Suzanne, told me the bride desperately needed some cough drops. I had five minutes before the processional started.

Although there were several inches of snow on the ground and the temperature was below zero, I ran out the church door without a coat. I quickly jogged around the area. Two blocks away, I spotted a convenience store.

I skittered along as fast as I could on the unshoveled sidewalks, careful of my tuxedo. Bursting through the door of the store, I met a grinning cashier.

"Fella, I've been watching you all the way down the street. Are you running to your wedding or from it?"

Then he offered, "Any guy in this much trouble needs help. Whatever you need, it's on the house."

I breathlessly nodded a thank you, grabbed a bag of cough drops, and returned to the church, just in time.

—Darrell Holmquist
New Lenox, Illinois

At the spring wedding of an older couple, my parents waited with the rest of the guests for the celebration to begin. The church organist played through her entire repertoire of wedding songs, but nothing happened. Not wanting to repeat herself, she continued with Easter hymns in keeping with the season. Soon the door to the pastor's study opened. A shaky, ashen groom appeared just as the organist completed the first line of "Up from the Grave He Arose."

—Sharon Espeseth
Barrhead, Alberta

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