One Wedding and Nearly a Funeral

Yesterday we went to a secret wedding, Phil's friend Andy had brought the wedding forward from May because his girlfriend is ill. She is in the process of being diagnosed with a serious illness and they didn't want to do it later on when she may need treatment. It was last friday when they came to our house and asked us what we were doing next friday and we said "nothing, why?" and they then said, "we're getting married!" we were quite taken back as it seemed very sudden. Andy met his girlfriend on Phil's stag night and she moved in after a month or so. It seems a little quick and rushed and Andy's family don't even know, although his girlfriends family were there. Andy said he will tell his family in a few weeks, but some how i think they are going to be really upset.

After the registration wedding, we went back to their apartment (they didn't book a hall or have a reception party). They had done a buffet in the apartment, so we stayed there for a while and had a few drinks. About 7pm we all decided to go over the road to the local pubs, everything was going good, we were all having a laugh. They had a pool room so we had a few games of pool and i was kicking ass. I won the lads a couple of times and we having a good time. We all decided to move on to the next pub. I swear the pub is about the size of a living room!!! But they were having a karaoke and that is why they wanted to go.

We got there and there was a group of lads, which i am sure were underage, they all stayed around the outside area (where everyone goes to smoke). From when we got there Andy and his new wife, kept having arguements and i seen her slap him at least twice on seperate occasions! I have never hit or slapped Phil and i never would, so it was shocking to see it n their wedding night. We were talking to mutual friends of ours, and they kept saying that the whole day seemed strange and wrong. He said that Andy's new wife called him to tell him that they were getting married and all she wanted to do is "get that ring on his finger asap!", so he had doubts about their relationship.

Anyway, later on in the evening, i was sitting chatting to one of the girls and Phil and we heard a commotion by the smoking area i mentioned before and we saw a lad running round the pub with blood on his face, he had been bottled by those lads i spoke about earlier. The fight spilled out into the pub itself now because people were screaming and there were fighting all over the place. There was glass and bottles flying over the place and we couldn't get out. Finally we saw people spilling outside so we made a run for it. We managed to flag a police car down and just as we did, some lad with a hooded coat came by with a couple of his friends and they threw bottles at us and they were smashing against the shops behind us. They ran after doing that and the police made the peace. All i wanted to do was go home, we saw Andy and his wife behind us and she was kind of bragging that she had knocked some girl out! I was shocked, it was nothing to brag about. Finally, we managed to get home and had a few drinks in our house with our mutual friends. They left about 4am and we finally got to bed, i was shattered. What a day!