Article: Happily ever after disaster ; Everyone hopes for a perfect wedding day, but things do go wrong

Katie O'Brien thought she had plotted out every detail of her wedding so well, it was bound to be the day of her dreams. But there was just one hiccup: The DJ was a no-show.

"When I got to the reception, all I saw was this little boom box sitting on a table," said O'Brien, 28, who married Tyler Morell in October at Jones River Trading in Kingston. "The DJ apparently got the dates mixed up. It was terrible. I didn't know what to do."

With wedding season here, many brides are diligently planning every detail, crossing off tasks on their to-do lists, and, ultimately, saying a few prayers they can pull off their big day without a hitch. Yet no matter how well people plan, a variety of big and ...

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