By SheelaR

A friend from high school just married over the weekend at her Kentucky home. Congratulations and many wishes for a long and happy marriage, Brianna & Eddy! I wish I could have been there. 

Anyways…

They’ve been having problems with wild critters invading their property. So, to rid their yard of critters, Eddy set traps around the perimeter of their three acre lot. His efforts were met with some small success in the days leading up to the wedding. Wedding day arrived and everyone was feeling confident that no critters would be making an appearance, and Mother Nature had bestowed upon them the most perfect of sunny afternoons. They had no idea that nature  had other plans for them. 

All was well, that is, until Brianna began to recite her vows… Suddenly, her vows were met with the blood curdling screams of a possum that had just been caught in one of the traps. Brianna said that she was “mortified” and cried through the rest of the ceremony.  She could not believe that she had waited all her life for that moment, only to have it ruined in the most horrifying way. Making it all so much worse, the ceremony was being captured for posterity by a videographer, and her guests were more consumed with the welfare of the possum, and not so much for that of the bride and groom. 

Of course, I empathized and tried to comfort her, but the animal lover in me kept wondering why they didn’t use cages. I got off the phone and thought to myself “Next time, trap more kindly.” Lol