Wedding and Marriages Gone Bad

One wedding breaks out into a barroom brawl, in another the groom's mother dies. Marie Osmond and her husband of 20 years file for divorce, and Britney Spears returns from rehab to celebrate her divorce from K-fed. Weddings are supposed to be a time of happiness and joy and love and sharing, but it doesn't always turn out that way. Recent news stories have emerged indicating that sometimes good weddings go bad.

Take this story from ABC News Online, in which a peaceful wedding reception turned into something akin to a barroom brawl. Several of the guests at the wedding and staff at the country club in New South Wales began to argue, and then a series of fights broke out, increasing in intensity, until the fights sprawled out into the street and resulted in the arrest of at least six people yesterday evening.

In other news, what should have been the happiest day of a couple's life, their wedding day, the Daily Record UK announced the Brenda Sharp, the groom's mother, died in a head on car collision with a buss the night before her son's wedding. Sharp had just attended the couple's wedding rehearsal the night she died. At Sharp's husband's request, the wedding continued as scheduled, with an emotional two minutes of silence to honor the groom's mother's passing.

In other news reports, the marriage and wedding may be going well, until you discover you might not actually be married. According to this article from Post24, many couples who were married at Langtons House, Hornchurch. Apparently, due to a clerical error, couples who were married there during part of 2004 and 2005 might not have actually been legally married. The 193 couples involved all received a settlement amount for the emotional trauma this error caused.