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Woman bridesmaid to ex-husband and mother
Ananova ^ | 09/16/03 | Staff Writer

Posted on 09/16/2003 8:26:47 AM PDT by bedolido

A woman whose husband left her for her mother was a bridesmaid at their wedding, it has emerged.

Alison Smith discovered her husband, George Greenhowe, 21, in bed with her mother, Pat, 44, just 10 days after their marriage in Angus in November 2001.

The 20-year-old filed for divorce naming her own mother in the papers but then managed to forgive the pair and gave them her blessing to wed.

Miss Smith told Closer magazine: "At first I was disgusted. But I gradually fell out of love with George and realised how happy he and mum were.

"He never apologised for what he did but everyone makes mistakes."

Her ex-husband proposed last year to her mother but the wedding in March at the register office in Arbroath, Angus, was stopped because Scots law rules that a man may not marry his former wife's mother if his ex-wife is still alive.

The devastated couple, who had set up a love nest in a caravan, had to cancel the ceremony and a reception for 50 guests in the Seaforth Hotel, in Arbroath.

They had been planning to go abroad to tie the knot until Closer magazine stepped in and arranged a humanist ceremony, which does not have legal status. Miss Smith finally became bridesmaid for her mother and ex-husband when they exchanged vows at Arbroath's Cliffburn Hotel on September 2.

The 20-year-old said she now had mixed feelings about marriage but remained positive about her unusual experience.

"I think it's a mug's game. I may have lost a husband but I've gained a father," she said.

Story filed: 18:34 Monday 15th September 2003


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bridesmaid; exhusband; mother; woman
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1 posted on 09/16/2003 8:26:47 AM PDT by bedolido
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To: bedolido
Definately not a MILF.
2 posted on 09/16/2003 8:27:58 AM PDT by Clemenza (East side, West side, all around the town. Tripping the light fantastic on the sidewalks of New York)
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To: bedolido
egads!
3 posted on 09/16/2003 8:28:02 AM PDT by steveo (Dogs Eat Barf Slowly On Wednesday's Mable)
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To: bedolido
yug!!!

I smell a Jerry SPring speical in here somewhere!

(Looks like curley!)
4 posted on 09/16/2003 8:29:13 AM PDT by camle (not even a water balloon fight can rouse these dullards!)
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To: bedolido
And the bride wore white, the bridesmaid red.

The symbolism is fascinating.
5 posted on 09/16/2003 8:30:09 AM PDT by Pan_Yans Wife ("Life isn't fair. It's fairer than death, is all.")
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To: bedolido
What a vile, vile story.

I'm pleasantly surprised that Scotland still retains some of the Scriptural marriage injunctions.

6 posted on 09/16/2003 8:31:51 AM PDT by wideawake (God bless our brave soldiers and their Commander in Chief)
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To: Clemenza
MILF????
7 posted on 09/16/2003 8:33:14 AM PDT by camle (not even a water balloon fight can rouse these dullards!)
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To: camle
Yes. A Jerry Springer Special would be appropriate.

8 posted on 09/16/2003 8:35:08 AM PDT by headsonpikes
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To: mhking; dighton; hellinahandcart; Poohbah; BlueLancer; general_re; aculeus; chance33_98
Yoo-hoo, over here!
9 posted on 09/16/2003 8:35:13 AM PDT by Thinkin' Gal (<541>)
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To: bedolido
Oh my God. I mean, just look at 'em. It's a wonder Scots get motivated to reproduce at all.


10 posted on 09/16/2003 8:36:21 AM PDT by Hank Rearden (Dick Gephardt. Before he dicks you.)
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To: headsonpikes
yeah. Curley looks drunk and dumbstruck, Mom looks like "Mighty Matilda" (my daughter can't have anything that I won't let her have!), and Vera (from Alice) looks like she'd been clobbered by mama a few too many times.
11 posted on 09/16/2003 8:37:14 AM PDT by camle (not even a water balloon fight can rouse these dullards!)
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To: wideawake
Has the whole world gone mad? If I were that woman I don't think I could be so forgiving. And what sort of mother does that to a daughter? Then there's the whole cheating husband thing. Yeesh!
12 posted on 09/16/2003 8:37:49 AM PDT by cjshapi
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To: Clemenza
Not a DILF, for that matter.
13 posted on 09/16/2003 8:37:51 AM PDT by Wolfie
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To: Thinkin' Gal
YGBSM!

These three look like they fell out of the ugly tree and hit every branch on the way down!
14 posted on 09/16/2003 8:38:17 AM PDT by Poohbah ("[Expletive deleted] 'em if they can't take a joke!" -- Major Vic Deakins, USAF)
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To: bedolido
Whoa nellie.. that's bad.

The "groom" has a definite "pained look" on his face.

"I married my mother-in-law" - Next Jerry Springer.
15 posted on 09/16/2003 8:38:18 AM PDT by Johnny Gage (Why do we ship packages by Truck, and send cargo by ship?)
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To: Hank Rearden
if he and his new "Bride" have a child, the ex-wife would be her sister... if the new bride cannot conceive, I wonder if the ex-wife would volunteer to have their baby?
16 posted on 09/16/2003 8:39:51 AM PDT by bedolido (I can forgive you for killing my sons, but I cannot forgive you for forcing me to kill your sons)
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To: AdmiralRickHunter
welcome to FR new friend. it isn't always this weird.
18 posted on 09/16/2003 8:40:48 AM PDT by bedolido (I can forgive you for killing my sons, but I cannot forgive you for forcing me to kill your sons)
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To: bedolido
I've seen better lookin' faces on an iodine bottle.....
19 posted on 09/16/2003 8:41:09 AM PDT by Feckless
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To: cjshapi
The jilted daughter is severely emotionally damaged.

Not only did she fall for a man who is clearly a moron and an amoral cad, she stood by while her own mother and husband betrayed her and then assuaged whatever vestigial guilt they may have had by blessing their vile behavior.

She literally hates herself. She believes that she is valueless and is worth less than nothing to anybody. And her own mother has encouraged her in that thinking.

20 posted on 09/16/2003 8:43:12 AM PDT by wideawake (God bless our brave soldiers and their Commander in Chief)
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