With the recent heavy snowfall causing disruption to peoples everyday lives, it is good to hear that one couples wedding day managed to go ahead despite everything. When they had originally planned a December wedding, Karen Rawlins and Jonathan Lee may have hoped in the back of the minds that it may snow, but never in their wildest dreams did they expect the winter wonderland conditions that engulfed the country last week. Conditions were so bad that the couple, who live near Dartford in Kent, almost had to cancel their big day.

However, thanks to some friendly souls who heard about their plight on a local radio station, soon a small army of 4×4s were on hand to help make sure the day went ahead without problems. A grateful Karen told news stations ‘We have been swamped, inundated with offers of help. It now looks like the wedding can go ahead. I’m stunned and amazed by their generosity. Yesterday evening we envisaged that the wedding would be off. We got up this morning looked outside and decided “that’s it – there’s no way this can go ahead”.’

Thanks to her sister, Tracey’s quick thinking though, the wedding didn’t have to be rearranged at all. Her sister took up the story: ‘When we woke up this morning, my sister said: “That’s it the wedding’s off” and we said: “No, how about we try the radio”. The main problem was transport just to get us there and the response has been fantastic. We’ve got plenty of cars, the registrar is getting a lift, the wedding dress had been brought to the hotel. She’s partly changed the venue; it’s cost them a lot of money, around £4,000. If she’s lost the reception in the village so be it, but we just wanted her to get married today. We got plenty of people bringing their four wheel drives up to us. They’ve all been amazing.’

A happy ending to a potentially disastrous day. Do you have any similar wedding day stories? If so email them across and we’ll post the best of them here!

Posted by mark on Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009