When Disaster Strikes Your Wedding Day

These have actually happened at our weddings. We've seen every one of them with our own eyes.

• The hotel shuttle took the out-of-town guests (most of the guest list) to the wrong reception hall, 40 minutes away

• A banquet hall power outage during a near-tornado — and the backup generator failed

• A broken zipper while getting the bride into her dress — more times than we can count

• The limo doesn't show — again, more times than we care to mention

• A bride walks down the aisle to find her groom got into a fight the night before and has a black eye

• Guests in a fist fight during the reception

• A bridesmaid dress doesn't fit — so many times

• The bridal store sends the wrong color bridesmaid dress two weeks before the wedding

• A bride dislocates her knee during the first dance and an ambulance is called

• Groomsmen too drunk to walk down the aisle

• An officiant too drunk to perform the ceremony — because the groomsman got him drunk before the wedding

The absolute best thing you can do is plan before the wedding for potential problems — the most common of which is inclement weather. Plan A, plan B, plan C. Be mentally prepared for the day not to be 100% the way you pictured it.

When the day comes, you have to just go with it. There will be many things out of your control. Plan as well as you can up until your wedding day — and when it comes, don't let anything stop you from enjoying it.

The couples that have the best time at their wedding — and consistently get the best photos, because their relationship shows through — are the ones who care about nothing on the wedding day except each other.

You can insure your wedding — and it's probably cheaper than you think.