A Series of Unfortunate Events - Pre Wedding

When we're asked to describe our wedding the sentence that immediately comes to mind is the best day of our lives, beset with the most incredible series of unfortunate events during, and all around, it. I'll give you a rundown of them all below and when I get back from Rarotonga chat about the big ones in more detail :)

Event #1
Josh's family and friends fly in at midnight on the Tuesday. They've booked two shuttles to take them to their hotels and are greeted by two guys who put Grumpy Old Men to shame who ditch them on the side of the road at the wrong place, take their money and run.

Event #2
After locating them, we proceed to where they are meant to be staying, which we find locked up tighter than a drum. Despite both Leonie and I telling them that they're coming in on the late flight, their reception apparently shuts at 9pm and the only way into the hotel is via access card.

We ring the 0800 number posted on the doors, only to get a "you have reached us out of office hours" message. It's freezing cold, and I'm freaking out, because what are you supposed to do with 20 people at almost 2am when they're locked out of their hotel?

We find a couple of other numbers on their booking and, after spending 15 minutes wending my way through digital voicemail mazedom, finally get the on call duty manager, who (very helpfully) informs me that reception closed at 9pm. Turns out they had rung Leonie while she was on the plane and left a message on her phone with the code to get into the lock boxes with the access cards, really helpful when she couldn't access her voicemail in New Zealand.

Event #3
The afternoon before our wedding, while trying on his suit, Josh somehow manages to smear grease over his pale pink tie. Most drycleaners are still closed, and the one he found that was open refused to do it before the next morning.

Event #4
Our rental car (which we only had for 12 hours) is rear-ended by an old lady with no insurance as Josh is on the way to our wedding rehearsal. Thank God, we had paid an extra $30 to have our excess reduced to $300, instead of the $3,000 is usually is (regardless of fault).

Event #5
We receive word that five of our guests are no longer coming. Which may not sound like much, but it meant me racing into work to rearrange the seating plan (which had taken two months and about 14 versions to get it working!), trying to find five more guests to replace them (since we can't change the numbers at such late notice) and my mother spends our wedding rehearsal up at our reception venue pasting over the existing seating plan with the new arrangements.

(After all of that, one of them, who was actually in hospital is Sydney, ends up making it - but that's a whole different story on the power of social media).