Runaway Bride!

A panicked bride flees her lower Manhattan wedding yesterday as the Big Apple was jolted by a Virginia-centered earthquake. Weddings along the East Coast were the only apparent casualties of the quake. Talk about having the last minute jitters! Consider all those brides and grooms standing at the courthouse at approximately 1:50 EST who were in for a shock of a lifetime.  Actually, the presumed pre-nup shock was not coming from the bridal couple, but swelling from beneath the surface of the earth as it gave off a 5.8 magnitude earthquake. An East Coast quake is a rare event. This was one of the largest, the last three happening in 1737, 1783, and 1884.

Bridal Twitters, Texts

Yesterdays quake, in many cases, not only took their breath away, but, in all cases, sent them dashing to the nearest door for safety, and a few minutes reprieve and a quick call to family and friends. It was Twitter, text, messages and calls until the iPhone and Blackberry networks were conjested and overloaded, and often pausing to recoup.

Quake & Late

According to the New York Times today, Amy Noller and Steve Mutton, were standing in the park, in line for their marriage ceremony, and they were told to leave. We were just getting ready to go into the chapel when we were told that we had to evaculate the building, Miss Noller said. weve got to call the caterer and tell them that were going to be late.

40,000 feet above Washington, D.C.at 1:36 p.m. EST, my birds eye view of the Capitol. Fifteen minutes later aquake hit, and rattled buildings and brides. Whether it is the Berlin Fashion Show, in July, as I happen, by pure luck, to run into. Or, to be minutes ahead of, or thousands of feet above, an earthquake, a rare East Coast event, I always see the wedding written all over it. For instance, raising cane behind me, is, Irene, the first big hurricane to hit the United States in three years. The last major storm was Ike, which entered Galveston, and pounded Houston and the Texas coast in 2008. Living in Houston,Texas like other coastal cities and states, we are always, during the hurricane season, expecting three hundred unexpected guests in the form of a hurricane.  Nothing you can do except to face the music and dance, if asked. So, like the bride and her wedding guests, poised at an lovely outdoor venue with not a cloud in the sky, 80 degrees temperature, we all in the NYC area await the uninvited guests to arrive, or perhaps, to get news that it has just turned right, when it was expected to turn left, and will not be attending the festivities. To all the East Coast brides, this weekend of August 26th, I wish you the best of luck and hope it is blue skies all the way.

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