Bride's joke breaks off wedding ceremony

[one...two...tree 2,762]

VIENNA, Austria - Wedding jokes aren't always funny. When a bride in Austria jokingly answered "no" instead of "yes" when asked if she wanted to marry her husband-to-be, the official performing the civil wedding promptly broke off the ceremony.

Not even the bride's sobs could reverse the decision and the couple had to wait two and a half months before they could give it another — successful — try, the Austrian newspaper Oberoesterreichischen Nachrichten reported Friday.

Officials at the registry office in the city of Steyr where the mishap occurred declined to comment directly but noted the incident was highly unusual, according to the newspaper.

http://www.azcentral.com/offbeat/articles/...de-joke-CR.html

[doodlebug 3]

I can't even imagine saying no as a joke. It's the most special moment in a person's life. How ridiculous.

[mRx 16]

thats the wrong time for a joke

[one...two...tree 2,762]

I can't even imagine saying no as a joke. It's the most special moment in a person's life. How ridiculous.

Maybe it was a nervous reflex? I know I've put my foot in my mouth on many special ocassions...it's as if I have Terets Syndrome...sigh.

[Ladylethal 12]

I don't think your wedding is the right place to make that kind of joke, if you want to joke in that way do it during the proposal, not during the wedding in front of the judge/priest, family, friends and most likely a mortified fiance.

[de_sjiem 0]

It was probably done as a knee jerk reaction to being nervous.. lots of people are nervous on their wedding day and then add to being in front of lots of people.. not good.. Inappropriate? yes, but still.. Dont think the ceremony should be cancelled.. Besides.. it doesn't say if it was during the ceremony or before.. If it was before (which is possible, the wording of the story isn't quite clear) its even more understandable.. more of a sarcastic reply.. of course she wanted to get married, why else would she be there?

[heishe 2]

lol pwnt

[Ban Hammer 13,345]

I can't even imagine saying no as a joke. It's the most special moment in a person's life. How ridiculous.

Maybe it was a nervous reflex? I know I've put my foot in my mouth on many special ocassions...it's as if I have Terets Syndrome...sigh.

you too eh?

[mybackpages 0]

I wonder if this was a government offical or a religious official who then refused to continue with the ceremony. Just curious.

[sparkofcreation 0]

I wonder if this was a government offical or a religious official who then refused to continue with the ceremony. Just curious.

Government, it says it was at a civil registry office. (For that matter, I don't even know if Austria allows legal marriages to be performed by religious officials, some countries don't.)

Why does it matter?

[TracyLuis 0]

I don't think your wedding is the right place to make that kind of joke, if you want to joke in that way do it during the proposal, not during the wedding in front of the judge/priest, family, friends and most likely a mortified fiance.

Exactly. Talk about bad timing!

[mybackpages 0]

I wonder if this was a government offical or a religious official who then refused to continue with the ceremony. Just curious.

Government, it says it was at a civil registry office. (For that matter, I don't even know if Austria allows legal marriages to be performed by religious officials, some countries don't.)

Why does it matter?

Yes I know Italy does this. I don't think it matters I was just curious why the offical took such a strong stand even after such strong protest by the bride and refused to continue.

[brnidokiegurl 0]

Maybe just in bad timing, who knows the way the couple had been presenting themselves to the official. Time and place for everything and that wasnt it.

[Mags 112]

I can't even imagine saying no as a joke. It's the most special moment in a person's life. How ridiculous.

Maybe it was a nervous reflex? I know I've put my foot in my mouth on many special ocassions...it's as if I have Terets Syndrome...sigh.

Or maybe you even have Tourette's Syndrome....

[Girona40 0]

During the actual wedding ceremony is not the time to be stupid, trying to be funny! I would suspect that the official thought the same thing and, bearing in mind the woman could be totally insane, or drunk, under the influence of drugs, or just not properly aware of the seriousness of the commitment she was supposed to be making, did he want to be responsible for the marriage. I don't know that I would want that on my shoulders either.