Rico444
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.....................So finally she is done with her sister, comes back to our room, is feeling absolutely horrible. Puking and fever and sweats and all that.....
Now its time for our car to the castle which is about 20 miles or so outside of Edinburgh. We get in car with Mother of Bride and step father. Give driver address of castle. He is not familiar with it. The bride and groom had a rolls royce right behind us. Everyone else got on busses that were sent to the 3 different hotels everyone was staying at ( actually more, because of the British Open every hotel room in Ediburgh was booked over a year before this wedding, in fact we went there last summer to book hotels and couldnt find rooms anywhere to reserve for the amount of people we had coming over) . Last year on that trip I said to the prospective bride and her mother "hey maybe you should think about changing the date a week or 2 later so we dont get screwed by the open" did they listen to me? of course not.
But now lets worry about getting to the wedding. In the "you cant make it up" department : 3 minutes into our ride we get stuck in a frickin Chinese parade on princes st! Dont move for 20 minutes. We may not make the wedding on time, and my GF has the sliding door of the van open to puke.
We finally get through the parade and out of Edinburgh and get to the castle, we are cutting the time close but we get there, except we didnt. The driver took us to an alternate entrance of the grounds where there was a locked gate. So he doubled back and found another entrance. Also wrong entrance and locked gate. We are then looking at Waze and Maps ourselves because this driver is a genius. We find where the main entrance is supposed to be and it turns out because of one way one lane tiny streets and everything that we are another 20 minutes away by the time we right ourselves.
Now the mother of the bride is crying because we are supposed to get there BEFORE the bride, as the bride is supposed to be the last one there and make her instagram grand entrance getting out of the Rolls with everyone watching. And we had already lost them during the parade stoppage...............
Isn't the whole point of a rehearsal dinner to avoid situations like this?

