My wife’s family has a story from the early 1900s, in which a bride and groom had courted mostly by mail. The day of the wedding, the bride got cold feet. The family was trying to figure out what to do when the bride’s sister piped up and said, “I’ll marry him.”The groom thought about it for a few minutes and decided he was in. The wedding proceeded as if nothing had happened, and they allegedly were married 50+ years and produced a big, happy family. The bride’s best friend decided the wedding was the perfect time to announce that the bride was secretly pregnant. Problem is, the groom was religious and saving himself for marriage, and the bride agreed to it. Turns out she had been cheating on him for most of the relationship because of this. I believe she planned on waiting until after they married to tell him the child was his.

Turned into a very interesting situation where the groom’s parents were very upset, thinking he broke his promise of abstinence to them. The bride’s parents were celebrating the pregnancy. Meanwhile, the bride and groom both had looks of absolute horror.My friend was engaged to a guy from a very well off family. The wedding was very posh, very expensive. But the MIL was always mean to her. Right at the beginning of the reception, the MIL came up and said some unkind things to her in whisper, thinking she would just take it again.