What are the real chances of you needing to make a claim through a wedding insurance policy?

What are the chances indeed… but you would be surprised at just how often the most unlikely things seem to happen. Weddings, it would seem, are like ‘Fate Magnets’, drawing in the most bizarre twists of fate like a moth to a volcano.

Take Mike Speck, for example. His wedding day certainly saw sparks fly, and there was no doubt about it – the day was an electrifying experience.

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Mike had just stepped out of his house on the morning of the Big Day. There seemed to be a lot of tension in the atmosphere. So much so that a bolt of lightning cracked through the sky, struck the roof of his neighbour’s house, leapt across to a power line and ended its journey somewhere around Mike’s third toe.

“Hello, is that the wedding insurance company? Yes, I’ve had to postpone the wedding as my fiancé has just been struck by lightning.” It’s certainly one for the book.

They say lightning never strikes in the same place twice, and when Mike and his fiancée finally did manage to make it safely across the surface of the earth without discovering what it feels like to be a slice of toast, at least someone somewhere else was presumably taking ‘charge’ of fate for them.

From escaped bulls to lightning, earthquakes to toads falling from the sky… if you only knew the full extent of the tales written in the records of wedding insurance companies you might remain single forever.

But if it’s of any help, I’d advise you to avoid having a medieval themed wedding with everyone in metal suits of armour standing around in a field in a thunderstorm, unless you’re either really brave or seriously can’t stand your prospective inlaws…

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Article written by Adam. See his profile.