Just like snowflakes and fingerprints, no two weddings are exactly alike. Something always happens - whether planned or unplanned - to make each wedding unique. Here are just a few true instances:

The Groom with orange, spiked hair, along with his tuxedoed attendants who wore rat-tails and shaved heads. Their photo in the wedding album will look like a clown show in years ahead!

The amusing sight of an unmarried, older sibling of the Brde or Groom dancing with a broom, because "they ain't got nobody".

The Mother-of-the-Bride who insisted upon dancing with her new son-in-law to the song "I've Got Friends In Low Places".

The Bride who tossed the bouquet high in the air behind her, and it got shredded to pieces in the ceiling fan.

The reception during which the Bride, grinning from ear to ear, sat down and opened all of her presents in front of her guests, looking like a kid under the tree on Christmas morning. Tacky, tacky! Gfts are not opened at receptions.

The Groom who removed the Bride's garter from her thigh with his teeth!

The Groom who was "missing in action" at ceremony time at a certain hall. They finally found him in his dressing room...on the floor...passed out drunk.

The wedding reception at which the tiered wedding cake collapsed as soon as the Bride and Groom arrived.

The many weddings where the Groom rubbed a piece of wedding cake in the face of the Bride when they cut the cake. After meticulously applying makeup for her wedding day, this does not sit well with any Bride (and usually lays the groundwork for their first argument as husband and wife afterwards).

The wedding which included 24 bridesmaids and 24 groomsmen (a florist's and tuxedo shop's delight).

The reception where the Bride and Groom arrived at the reception hall twenty minutes late, and assumed they still had a full three-hour reception coming to them. Some halls allow for late arrival, but their's didn't. The hall shut down the reception at the contracted time. A big argument erupted, and it ended with (believe it or not) the Groom and the Best Man being arrested and hauled away in a police car!

The four-hour reception where the photographer was still taking the preliminary photographs as the four hours came to an end. The hurried last song of the reception was the Bride and Groom's dance. The cake had to be cut after the reception had ended. The Bride's mother was furious.

The money dance at an Italian wedding that racked up over $1500 for the Bride and Groom.

The many times during the money dance where a laughing guy will dance with the Groom, apparently thinking that it was a funny idea no one had done before.

The Bride and Groom who hired a top-notch video photographer to record their wedding, and a baby in the church screamed and cried through the entire video!

The many receptions at which small children ran around and yelled in groups, generally "whooping it up" and having all the fun they usually do at the playground.

The unique weddings where the Bride and Groom, the parents, the wedding party, and other VIP guests are introduced to the crowd in sequence by the band or DJ as they enter the reception hall. The crowd applaud each person announced, and most enter "putting on a few steps," while eating up the attention.

The reception which was held in a certain community facility where the low rental fee called for cleanup afterwards by those renting the room. The reception was over and the guests had gone. And there they were....the Bride in her gown (with a cigarette dangling from her mouth), and the Groom in his tux, along with their parents and children at the hall, pushing brooms and mops and cleaning up.

My favorite, though, was the reception held in a gymnasium. The Bride stood on the basketball free-throw line to toss the bouquet, threw it backwards, and it went through the goal!

Weddings come in all types: large and small, formal and casual, conventional and creative. No two weddings are alike. And that's the way it should be