A newly married couple were unable to enjoy their wedding night after the bride sustained an ‘injury’ that left her ‘hours’ away from losing her life.
Sarah Wintrip, 38, noticed a pain in her groin during the flight to Jamaica to marry partner Luke Wintrip, 36, earlier this month.
She didn’t think much of it and her friend apparently reassured her it could have simply been a ‘gym injury’.
The wedding went ahead as normal despite the mom-of-three being ‘uncomfortable’ – a feeling she ignored to stop her guests from suspecting anything out of the ordinary.
As well as being unable to have her first dance with Luke, Sarah experienced ‘huge amounts of pain’ during her wedding night.
However, her health deteriorated after she flew back home to the UK on May 20, as she was rushed to hospital by paramedics who met her off the plane.
The pair got married in Jamaica (Kennedy News and Media)
It was there that doctors found a ‘huge’ cyst in Sarah’s groin which had exploded during the flight and turned septic, so she had ‘life-saving’ surgery to remove it.
The woman, who lives in Essex, UK, now has an open wound in her groin while doctors wait for the abscess to heal.
Sarah said: “I would never have expected this to happen on my wedding day. We’ve still not consummated the wedding. We’ve really tested the wedding vows in sickness and health.
“We were on the plane flying over and I felt this pull in my groin. It felt like I’d been in the gym and I’d been doing lunges and I’d lunged a little bit too hard.
“My friend who’s a personal trainer said ‘Have you been in the gym?’ I laughed and said ‘I haven’t stepped inside a gym for seven months; it’s definitely not that’. In my gut I knew something wasn’t right.”
Sarah was in ‘huge amounts of pain’ on her wedding night (Kennedy News and Media)
Sarah stayed up on the night that followed her wedding to watch the sunrise with her friends, but became immediately concerned once she spotted a ‘visible lump’ that became ‘hot to touch’.
“I was waking up in the middle of the night in huge amounts of pain. I was having fever dreams and was delirious,” she added.
The marketing chief executive had an ultrasound and a CT scan when she was admitted to hospital, where the potentially fatal cyst was discovered.
The newlyweds were unable to consummate their marriage (Kennedy News and Media)
She continued: “I knew that if I went into a Jamaican hospital I’d die in a Jamaican hospital. I wanted to see my children again. I knew something was really bad and I was trying to hide it from my friends.
“In my head I was thinking ‘I just need to get on that flight and get back to England’. I told everyone I felt really sick and everyone thought I was just hungover.
“[On the flight] I woke up an hour before we landed in excruciating pain. I think there was an abscess and a cyst had grown in the abscess and it had a casing round it. It started to go bad and the air pressure had made it explode.
“One of my friends by pure luck had antibiotics. I was two hours from death and if she hadn’t given me those antibiotics, I would’ve died.”
Sarah said she nearly lost her life (Kennedy News and Media)
Sarah has since urged others to ‘go with their gut’ and get checked out if they feel something may be wrong.
She admitted: “It’s been very tearful. You get married thinking ‘I’ve got years and years to spend my life with you’. When something like that happens it’s a jolt to reality.
“Go with your gut because my gut the whole time was saying ‘go back to England’. Knowing now how rare it is and how difficult it was to figure out I was right, I would’ve died in Jamaica.
“Do not delay. I had no choice because I had to go back to England. But if there’s something up and there’s something you’re worried about, just get it looked at, don’t sit on it. You know your own body.”
Featured Image Credit: Kennedy News and Media
Topics: Weddings, Sex and Relationships
Callum Jones
Bride reads fiancé’s affair texts out loud instead of saying vows at wedding
It was certainly a wedding all those in attendance won’t forget in a hurry
When you think of a wedding day, you often associate it with being the best day of a couple’s life – but that doesn’t mean there aren’t any wedding horror stories.
While this particular wedding day didn’t go to plan, it was certainly a memorable one for everyone in attendance.
The bride explained how she had been in a relationship with her husband-to-be for several years before they set a date to tie the knot.
It had the makings of a wonderful day, but things took a sour turn a matter of hours before the ceremony.
Casey, who used a fake name for herself and her fiancé Alex, was with her bridesmaids when she got a text to her phone that made her heart drop.
The night before she got a message from an unknown number showing screenshotted messages of her husband speaking to this mystery woman.
It was certainly an eventful wedding day (Getty Stock Image)
The screen grabs were accompanied by a message that read: “I wouldn’t marry him. Will you?”
The messages were very incriminating for Alex, who had evidently been having an affair with another woman in the months in the run-up to the wedding.
“This weekend. You and I. It is on, hot stuff. Bring your A game,” one racy message read.
Another read: “Your body is f**king incredible. And s**t do you know how to use it. I wish my GF had half the skills you do.”
A third text went on: “I miss you so much. I can’t stop thinking about L, S, F’ing you. I’ve never had this kind of connection before.”
Reading all of those messages turned Casey’s world upside down.
“I burst into shamed and broken tears,” she wrote in an essay for Body+Soul. “My girls were threatening all manner of violence against him. They insisted I call him immediately and call the wedding off.”
Casey continued: “But I loved Alex. I wanted to marry Alex tomorrow. I was too shocked and sad to be angry. I didn’t call him.
The bride read the texts out loud (Getty Stock Image)
“Eventually, we tried to go to bed. I didn’t sleep a wink and when dawn finally broke I awoke the girls and told them my decision – I was going to go ahead with the wedding as expected, and ‘out’ him in front of our friends and family.”
As a way of ‘outing’ her then-husband-to-be, Casey proceeded to read out the text messages to all their wedding guests instead of her vows.
“It seems Alex is not who I thought he was,” said the bride. “I love all of you and as horrible as this is I’m glad you all are here.
“There will not be a wedding reception today, but instead, there will be a celebration of honesty, finding true love and following your heart even when it hurts.”
Color apparently left the groom’s face as his private messages were read out loud, and he eventually ‘stalked out of the church with his best man trailing behind him’.
Casey concluded the essay: “It was certainly not the wedding day I had planned but to our credit, it was one hell of a party.”
Good on her!
Featured Image Credit: Getty Stock Images
Topics: Sex and Relationships, Weddings
Callum Jones
Bride speaks out ‘devastated’ after groom is killed in horror crash just hours before wedding
The groom had been celebrating his bachelor party when the horrific accident took place
A woman who was supposed to be getting married at the weekend has described her heartbreak after a wrong-way crash in New York resulted in the death of her husband-to-be.
Groom Kirk Walker and his cousin, Rob McLaurin, were driving on the Henry Hudson Parkway in Harlem, New York, when a pickup truck came towards them, barrelling down the road in the wrong direction.
The pair had been out celebrating Kirk’s bachelor party when the incident took place at about 2:20am local time, and both men were killed as a result of the crash.
Kirk, who was just 38, had been supposed to be meeting his fiancée, Shauntea Weaver, at the altar of the Royal Manor wedding venue in Garfield, New Jersey, just one day later.
Speaking to The New York Post about her devastation, Shauntea said: “I’m supposed to be in my wedding dress right now — not in mourning.
“I feel like this is a TV show and I’m going to wake up any minute and go back to my real life. Every hour since it happened, I’m having a different emotion take me over.”
The wedding was supposed to take place at 5pm on Sunday (August 25). A catering hall representative confirmed to The Post the ceremony had been canceled due to ‘a fatal crash’.
Both Kirk and his cousin died in the crash. (Eyewitness News ABC7NY)
“He died 24 hours before our wedding,” Shauntea said. “It’s devastating, and not just for me. He has three children that loved him immeasurably. They are heartbroken that their father’s been taken.”
Shauntea described Kirk as a ‘generous, hard-working man’, saying he had a ‘heart of gold and would do anything for anybody’.
After they met, the couple had started a successful car rental business.
“He put his blood, sweat and tears into it — we both did,” she continued.
Shauntea described being ‘devastated’ over the loss. (Eyewitness News ABC7NY)
The driver of the pickup truck, and a passenger who was inside at the time, both fled the scene after the incident.
Police managed to track down the passenger, but they are still investigating who was behind the wheel on Saturday morning.
Shauntea made clear that she’s looking for justice to be served, saying: “The detectives looked me right in my face and said that they were going to do everything they could to get justice.
“They told me the driver left his DNA on the airbags. So they have that. Also the passenger is in the hospital with broken legs and he needs to speak up.
“Two lives were lost in a reckless car crash,” she continued. “They need to pay for killing two innocent people.
“Nothing will bring him back. But we are seeking justice.”
Featured Image Credit: NBC New York
Topics: Crime, New York, Weddings, Sex and Relationships, US News
Emily Brown
Bride left horrified after discovering the incredibly dark meaning behind her married initials
The woman was horrified to discover the sinister meaning of her new initials
When naming your child, you’re conscious that you don’t want their initials to spell out something they could be bullied for.
I’ve had a child so I know the thought process, you don’t want to call them a nice name like Richard in case they’re called Dick at school, or Tucker because it rhymes with… well, you get the point.
These are things parents have control of and can look out for, but once you marry and agree to take someone else’s second name – that’s when unfortunate acronyms can come about, which is exactly what has happened to one bride.
The bride was left horrified after realizing her new initials meant something sinister (Getty Stock Image)
‘Unfortunate’ might not be the right word for this influencer, who took to TikTok to share her new initials.
She captioned the video: “What I tell people what my initials after wedding will be.”
It’s only when you go on her profile that you realize the issue.
Her first name is Kathryn, middle name is Keller, you can probably see where this is going already, her husband’s second name is Keith.
So upon marrying him this year, she took on his surname and so her full name is now Kathryn Keller Keith.
I mean talk about bad luck, I think she could now be donning the darkest initials of all time.
They spell out KKK and sadly, many of us will know what that stands for – the notorious name for the the Ku Klux Klan.
For those not in the know, the KKK signifies numerous American white supremacist, far-right terrorist organizations and hate groups that date back to the 1800s.
Kathryn then felt the need to qualify in a follow-up video that she has absolutely no connection to the white supremacist group.
“I’m obviously not affiliated with them at all, it’s just a very unfortunate circumstance,” she said.
“I’m thinking to change my middle name but I don’t even know what I should change to – there are so many options.”
Users online came to the rescue suggesting some alternative names.
Klu Klux Klan members pictured in 1922 (HUM Images/ Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
One wrote back on the social media platform: “If middle name is Keller, what about Ellery or Elle to keep as many letters similar as possible?”
Now, I know they’re trying to help but I’m pretty sure KEK is an alternative for crap, you know the saying ‘kek your pants’… but I guess it’s better than being named after a racist organization.
Kathryn replied: “Ok wait, I love this. This might be my favourite idea. I hadn’t thought of that.”
But personally I don’t think she would need to change her name, it’s clear she is not a member of the Klu Klux Klan.
Featured Image Credit: TikTok/@keiththebride / Os Tartarouchos/Getty Images
Topics: Weddings, US News, Sex and Relationships
Joe Yates
Boomer dad labels his son ‘spoiled’ for refusing to throw a wedding under $7,000
A dad has revealed his son said his $5k wedding contribution ‘wasn’t going to be enough’ but the situation is more complex than it seems
A dad has sparked heated conversation online after telling his son he’s ‘spoiled’ for saying his $5,000 contribution ‘wasn’t going to be enough’.
Nothing comes cheap these days – we are in a cost of living crisis after all – and weddings in particular are rarely a cheap affair.
While one couple weren’t exactly splashing $156 billion and hosting the likes of Kim K when planning a ceremony to proclaim their love, a dad has spoken out about his son’s plans and his offer of a $5k donation not being ‘enough’. Although, the situation’s not quite as straight forward as it first seems.
A 57-year-old dad – under the username u/throwR-7746 – took to Reddit thread r/AmItheAsshole to explain his 23-year-old son is engaged to a woman named Peggy, aged 22 and has been ‘for five months or so’.
His post continues: “Our culture dictates that Peggy’s father and I share the costs for their wedding. He (her father) said we should provide $10k each, a total $20k budget.”
While the dad notes he ‘could afford this,’ he explains the figure ‘seems insane and extravagant’ so he offered to ‘give $5k and [Peggy’s dad] could give whatever he wanted’ – Peggy’s dad later also putting up $5k.
The dad states: “I told my son this and he told me outright it wasn’t going to be enough.”
However, this is where things get more complicated.
A father fell out with his son over his contribution to his wedding (Getty Stock Images/ Tetra Images)
His son replied he didn’t ‘mind’ about getting less from both of the fathers and said he ‘figured [he] and Peggy would have to pay for some of the wedding’ themselves because ‘no way would they be able to do their wedding in under $10k’.
The dad argued his own wedding ‘only came out to be around $7k’ after ‘haggling’ and making some ‘deals,’ but his son pointed out that wedding ‘was 40 years ago and prices were different’ going on to note ‘the cheapest venue he could find was $5k and food alone was going to be $2.5k’.
The son emphasised ‘again’ he ‘didn’t mind’ and ‘thanked’ his dad for the money, but the dad was left feeling ‘hurt’ that his son ‘thought [he was] not giving enough,’ suggesting they change their food plans and offer ‘pizzas or sub sandwiches’ instead.
When his son ‘looked at [him] like [he] was crazy,’ he suggested offering less to a photographer or decorator, but was told ‘that isn’t how things are done’.
The dad resolved: “I said it is how things are done, and maybe if Peggy and him weren’t so spoiled and expecting the best of the best for everything then $10k would be plenty.”
The dad argued $10k should ‘be plenty’ (Getty Stock Images/ Matthew Troke)
The son reacted to being branded ‘spoiled’ by ‘closing his eyes’ and thanking his father again, before ‘basically [telling him] to get out’.
“I was complaining about this instance to my wife and she told me I was being a stick in the mud and it’s his only wedding. My friends agree with me though. AITA?”
And it’s not taken long for people to weigh in, most resolving the dad is, in fact, the a**hole.
U/allaboutbird wrote: “Yes, YTA. He thanked you for the money and is planning on paying for the rest. How they spend their money isn’t your business. Can you seriously not envision that prices have increased over several decades?”
Reddit users pointed out prices have drastically increased since 40 years ago (Getty Stock Images/ Stephanie Nantel)
“YTA. $7,000 in 1983 is about $24.5k now, so by your logic you should be giving him $12k, not $5k or $10k.
“Obviously you aren’t obligated to give him any money, but he kindly accepted the $5k you offered and you had no place to then berate him about how he was overspending, and you have no reason to “feel hurt” over this,” u/poeadam wrote.
U/Special_Respond7372 resolved: “YTA. An average wedding these days is about $25k, depending on where you live. Your son and future DIL aren’t spoiled; they handled this gracefully by making it clear they don’t mind paying for some of the wedding themselves and thanking you multiple times for contributing. You calling them spoiled was out of line and you should apologize.”
So, what do you think?
