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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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To: aculeus
Someone tell Arlen Specter about this feature of Scottish law.
41 posted on 09/16/2003 9:07:12 AM PDT by fishtank
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To: Clemenza
They all deserve each other.
I would have guessed that "mum" to be 60 - not my age. But I would have guessed the daughter to be much older, too. I hope they are all infertile at this point.
42 posted on 09/16/2003 9:15:40 AM PDT by ValerieUSA
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To: fishtank
Someone tell Arlen Specter about this feature of Scottish law.

ROFLMAO!!!

43 posted on 09/16/2003 9:20:03 AM PDT by ppaul
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To: bedolido
Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!
44 posted on 09/16/2003 9:28:31 AM PDT by Moosefart ("En ma fin git mon commencement.")
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To: bedolido
Looks like Drew Carey hit the mother lode!
45 posted on 09/16/2003 9:28:43 AM PDT by b9
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To: Tree of Liberty
and I just HAD to ask!!!
46 posted on 09/16/2003 9:35:29 AM PDT by camle (not even a water balloon fight can rouse these dullards!)
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To: doodlelady
When the guy sobers up - watch out!

I'm a victim of coicumstances!!

47 posted on 09/16/2003 9:39:52 AM PDT by camle (not even a water balloon fight can rouse these dullards!)
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To: Clemenza
Definately not a MILF.

Nor a DILF ;-)

48 posted on 09/16/2003 9:43:18 AM PDT by varon
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To: bedolido
"I think it's a mug's game. I may have lost a husband but I've gained a father," she said.

That.... that's just not right.
49 posted on 09/16/2003 9:46:42 AM PDT by kenth
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To: bedolido
I guess I'm just not that forgiving. I did forgive my sister for having a brief fling with my ex-husband, but my mother? That's a whole new, reeking, disgusting kettle of fish. At least I didn't have to see my sister and my ex together at family gatherings.
50 posted on 09/16/2003 9:52:29 AM PDT by Not A Snowbird (Tag Line Expired: Resubmit)
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To: bedolido
Unless "mom" is on the right, this guy's head should be examined! Eeeew.
51 posted on 09/16/2003 9:53:38 AM PDT by Registered (Gray Davis won't be baaaaahhck)
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To: bedolido
You know, you expect to hear stories like this coming out of West Virginia, But England?
52 posted on 09/16/2003 9:56:11 AM PDT by exile (Exile - proudly ticking off the Left since 1992)
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To: tubebender
...or, my personal favorite:
If I had a dog that ugly I'd shave his butt and teach him to walk backwards.
53 posted on 09/16/2003 9:56:41 AM PDT by Feckless
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To: camle
HA! Poifect!!!
54 posted on 09/16/2003 9:58:43 AM PDT by b9
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To: Poohbah; dighton; hellinahandcart; aculeus; BlueLancer
These three look like they fell out of the ugly tree and hit every branch on the way down!



55 posted on 09/16/2003 10:07:30 AM PDT by Thinkin' Gal (<541>)
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To: bedolido
I read the post in disbelief ... but then I saw the picture and understood completely. Scotland has slack-jawed yokels too.
56 posted on 09/16/2003 10:11:16 AM PDT by tx_eggman
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To: camle
Re: Post #47

Poifect!!!!!

57 posted on 09/16/2003 10:17:48 AM PDT by albee
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To: Thinkin' Gal
You guys are grossin' me out man!
58 posted on 09/16/2003 10:18:34 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Uday and Qusay and Idi-ay are ead-day)
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To: albee
hee hee. daughter has possibilities, but Mighty Mom lokos like she can hold her own against Gorilla Monsoon!
59 posted on 09/16/2003 10:19:26 AM PDT by camle (not even a water balloon fight can rouse these dullards!)
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To: bedolido
I hardly ever post here, but I couldn't pass this up. This is the kind of stuff which inspires SONGS:

I'm My Own Grandpa
( Lonzo & Oscar )

It sounds funny, I know,
But it really is so,
Oh, I'm my own grandpa.

I'm my own grandpa.
I'm my own grandpa.
It sounds funny, I know,
But it really is so,
Oh, I'm my own grandpa.

Now many, many years ago, when I was twenty-three,
I was married to a widow who was pretty as could be.
This widow had a grown-up daughter who had hair of red.
My father fell in love with her, and soon they, too, were wed.

This made my dad my son-in-law and changed my very life,
My daughter was my mother, cause she was my father's wife.
To complicate the matter, even though it brought me joy,
I soon became the father of a bouncing baby boy.

My little baby then became a brother-in-law to Dad,
And so became my uncle, though it made me very sad.
For if he was my uncle, then that also made him brother
Of the widow's grown-up daughter, who, of course, was my stepmother.

Father's wife then had a son who kept him on the run,
And he became my grandchild, for he was my daughter's son.
My wife is now my mother's mother, and it makes me blue,
Because, although she is my wife, she's my grandmother, too.

Now if my wife is my grandmother, then I'm her grandchild,
And everytime I think of it, it nearly drives me wild,
For now I have become the strangest case you ever saw
As husband of my grandmother, I am my own grandpa!

I'm my own grandpa.
I'm my own grandpa.
It sounds funny, I know, but it really is so,
Oh, I'm my own grandpa.



60 posted on 09/16/2003 10:25:47 AM PDT by blackbeanburrito
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