Hearing how a woman unbelievably went to a cremation she
thought was for her son – only for him to turn up alive and well the following day, reminded me how I once inadvertently gate crashed the wrong wedding party.
However, while I had not met met the bride, and barely knew the groom, it is a different matter when a mother mistakenly identifies a dead body as that of her son.
That’s what happened when Gina Partington, from Urmston in Greater Manchester, believed a dead man’s body she saw was that of her son and went to his cremation on Tuesday.
In my case, it was pouring with rain when my husband and I left for his cousin’s wedding and he dropped me off at a restaurant opposite the church where I planned to have a drink in comfort as we were early.
My husband drove off to park the car and while I was waiting in the bar, I told the waitress who I knew that I was waiting for a wedding. She told me the wedding party was in the next room and took me along to join them.
I was sipping champagne, thinking it was strange that I didn’t recognise anyone, when the bride came over and asked who I was.
Ooops! Talk about having a red face.
Have you ever been to the wrong wedding or funeral?








