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Despite the bungle, Benjamin Rastrick and Margaret Fowlie Rastrick managed to pull off moving their wedding with only two days’ notice. The couple and some friends were up working “well past midnight” the night before the wedding and her mum was back to finish setting up from 5.30am the next day. They also managed to wrangle the 164 guests to the right venue, with no-one ending up in the wrong place. “I fell asleep while I was getting my hair done in the morning,” Fowlie Rastrick said.
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At least four urinals, three toilets and two basins were found in the foyer of the original venue, and work would not be complete for another month, builders told the bride.
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Considering her wedding is on Saturday, that was not welcome news. Desperate to sort something out, she phoned the council only to be left waiting for an ultimately disappointing response.
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Fowlie said it had ruined the wedding which they had been planning for more than a year. “If I hadn’t checked in and followed up, I would have arrived today with all my stuff ready to set up and that’s when I would’ve found out,” Fowlie said. “I wasn’t even supposed to know, that’s the worst bit – if they’d cancelled, they’d cancelled, but they didn’t even give me the respect to tell me.