Martin Chambers Ecuador Trust

The prize for the craziest event of theweek goes to yesterday's wedding between Fatima and Oscar. We had done months of talks and preparation, filling forms. The usual. So when they came for Tuesday's rehearsal and giggled their way through, I thought it was just pre-wedding nerves. The wedding was set for 3pm on Saturday. I was shocked, then, when Fatima phoned late on Friday to cancel the wedding ... as a result of some family member that was seriously ill. Are you sure you want to cancel? Yes. Oh well, I thought, I will just get on with my other Saturday activiites. So I was stunned when they then phoned up at 2pm on Saturday to ask if the wedding could go back on? What, are you joking? No, seriously, Padre! So there we were, we had an hour to get everything ready: flowers, readers, music etc. Well, we actually had more than an horui because naturally enough she was about forty minutes late causing a near motorway crash in my Saturday religious activities with eight Baptisms at 4pm followed by two Masses. Another occasion when I just had to smile and realise ---- the only person anxious about all of the craziness was me, the grino priest!