Wedding disasters I have known — 2 - Feb 4, 2012

Stop thieves!!

Quite a while ago I did a lovely wedding in quite a well to do area of Farnham. Beautiful bride, the bridesmaids were fantastic  and the parents a very nice couple overjoyed at the wedding of their only daughter. The sun was shining on a really lovely warm spring day. Everything could not have been better. I got the bridesmaids and mother to the church in our lovely wedding car with plenty of time to spare and returned for the bride and father and got them to the church exactly on time, the friendly chat with the vicar and the usual photos making them the traditional few minutes late down the aisle without over stressing the groom. The whole day was everything the bride and groom had prayed and planned for…not knowing what was to befall them.

It was the next day when the family returned back to the house to discover they had been burgled and all the wedding presents had been stolen and the house a total mess. A window had been left open. It was like giving the burglars the keys to the house.

Remember before you leave for the church check and double check that all doors and windows are securely locked and fastened both downstairs and upstairs.

Stop thieves 2!!

At many receptions the happy couple place a posting box in the anteroom/entrance to the main reception area for guests to place cards that the couple can read later. This couple had been together for many years and had no need for presents so many guests were leaving cash in the cards so the couple could have a really great honeymoon. The bride and groom collected the post box which they took to their room so they could read the cards in bed the next day while having breakfast. Everything was fine until they discovered there were no cards from their parents who had previously intimated that they were going to leave a major contribution to the honeymoon. Later it transpired that one of the guests had seen cards scattered on the floor in the anteroom that night and had thoughtfully picked them up and put them in the box. Smelling a rat the grom asked an usher to have a few quiet words with guests that stayed over in the hotel if they had left presents towards the honeymoon. After most of them said yes it dawned on everyone that some fly by night had rifled the box and stolen a substantial number of the cards. With further words with the guests it was realised that over one thousand pounds had been stolen.

The groom reported the theft to the manager of the hotel, a well known hotel based in Frimley, Surrey, and asked for the police to be called, apparently his basic reaction was that it was nothing to do with the hotel so was not going to involve the police. Needless to say the bride and groom were really incensed over his reaction and called the police themselves – and the reaction of the police was to issue a crime number and leave it at that with no investigation. If I was the hotel manager I would have moved heaven and earth to try and find out who was responsible to make sure I was not employing the thief. When I last spoke the the bride and groom they were going to take the matter up withe the hotel owners and ask the chief constable of Surrey why they were not going to investigate such a dispicable crime. Needless to say there was no honeymoon.

The moral has to be don’t trust anyone and if you have a post box make sure it is ther main reception room where evryone can keep an eye on it.

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