(Personal Archive)
Mel and Fred Wedding
Mel and Fred have gained a story for the rest of their lives. When the bride arrived, she was warned that there was no marriage – but there was.
“It was a very crazy, very atypical day.”
This is how Mel begins to tell us the day of his marriage. Hardly a marriage would be a matter in an article Zap – but this marriage took place on April 28, 2025. Yes, the day of Portugal and Spain.
The marriage (civil) has been scheduled since November. This was not the date the bride and groom wanted, but it was the one that was available; It was “the day that gave more way.”
We talked with both: Mel and Fred. Let’s first to the bride’s report.
What is this…?
He prepared at a friend’s house. When she left, she realized she was a bit late (oh yes? A late bride?) But she knew it took 40/45 minutes on a normal trip. He left around 11am, was coming close to 11:45 – the wedding was scheduled for 11:30.
It was precisely at 11am, when it left, which was the last time you managed to talk to the groom In a distance, to warn about the delay.
The trip began, the time provided for in GPS he was increasing. No radio, no sign in the mobile phone, traffic lights off, crossed with accidents on the trip… “I was making an impression, confusion.”
Mel was used to that route and it was not a top time: “It wasn’t supposed to be that traffic!”
When he arrived at the marriage site, the civil registration, still at the door he heard the message: “I don’t know if there will be marriage, there is no light!” “And that’s when Mel realized what was happening.”
But in this, his fiance appears shouting: “There will be marriage, yes! I already talked to the notary!”
“There is marriage!”
We enjoyed and we will know the report of now honey husband.
Fred arrived too early Civil registration: at 10:30 am, one hour before marriage. It’s just that the bride told her that it was at 11am, when she was at 11:30. It arrived much earlier: “She told me that for me not to be late.”
“What was great,” interrupts Mel, who knows Fred is often delayed: “He got there in advance.”
It was 11h19 when the groom went to warn the notary that the wedding was going to start later. There was an understandable answer: “No problem, just lunch at 1 pm, I can wait.”
Suddenly, There is no light.
“People on the street began by saying that the failure was in the entire neighborhood.
On the radio they said it was in Bilbau, then in Portugal and Spain. Then the conspiracy theories: they were Chinese, Russians or hackers“, Remember Fred.
Mel arrived by car to the wedding venue: “I’m going after her, because people were already saying there was no marriage. No, no! You said that us married for paper, in writing, in the old fashion!”.
There was marriage.
And Mel liked it: “It was very cute: we casted, the notary was extremely kind, made a very beautiful speecheven using all that situation of being without light as an argument for our marriage. ”
Party
The party was followed. “We thought: It will be impossible to clear With people, because we can’t talk to anyone, ”says the bride.
There were the bride and groom for the Tagus River with a view of the 25 de Abril Bridge, the place of the party. They had food, all ready… “Let’s go there and we celebrated us our union,” concluded Mel.
There were friends who walked miles To get there, a late. A friend went there even without knowing if something was going to happen; and waited for 2 hours.
This too “was very cute”.
“There are many people who had difficulty, there were bad situations; but our case was really exceptional, but it went well. It was a Wonderful History To tell you that we will take it to our life, ”continues Mel.
Already at the end of the votes, almost at the end of the party, The light came back. The party was even greater.
Mel closes the narration: “It’s a story to take forever”.
Nuno Teixeira da Silva, Zap //
