People who work in wedding insurance hear some pretty astonishing claims. Many of them are the sort of account you just couldn’t make up.

For example, if you’re in the middle of planning your wedding, and perhaps have thought about some kind of wedding insurance or backup plan, imagine how you’d cope with the following scenario, which sadly became considerably more than merely fiction for one young love struck couple during the latter part of last year.

It was all going beautifully, the Bride’s dress was stunning, the Groom actually showed up and the Best Man wasn’t too disgraceful with the Bridesmaids. However, although nothing whatever to do with the best Man, one of the Bridesmaids was pregnant. Very pregnant. About nine months pregnant. Perhaps it was the excitement and the emotion of the day, but just as the happy couple announced ‘I do’, the Bridesmaid did.

As it happened, her husband was in the army, stationed in Afghanistan, and so the Groom, whose sister it was, took it upon himself to do the honourable thing and rush her to hospital.

Unfortunately, in the heat of the moment, the Groom forgot the rather generous glass of whiskey he’d downed earlier that day in order to settle his nerves. After he was stopped by the police for a routine breath test, he was promptly escorted to the station.

Of all the wedding night images that had gone through his head in the weeks leading up to the Big Day, almost certainly none of them had envisaged spending the whole night in a police cell whilst his newly wedded wife spent hers in hospital calming her new sister-in-law and singing to her brand new nephew.

Honestly – the lengths some people will go to just to get out of having to sit through the Best Man’s speech.

Still, at least it gave the wedding insurance representatives yet another tale to tell at the next dinner party.