Wow, you’ve been married longer than my parents! You have to expect cold and snow in Northern Illinois, but it had been 80 degrees in SA just a couple of days earlier. My father-in-law and my maid-of-honor were iced in on the runway in Dallas. “She’s a substantial blonde, and she’ll be sewing a blue satin dress on the plane,” and sure enough, she was. They were friends by the time they landed!
I spent two nights in the airport waiting on people whose schedules went crazy with the weather. My cousin and his family got stuck in Denver and couldn’t make it. My bridesmaid’s family had an ice-trek by car from Dallas.
I have to laugh about “sewing a blue satin dress on the plane”. My daughter worked in a bridal shoppe when she was in graduate school doing alterations. She had a bridal party that came to Washington State from American Samoa. They had mail ordered their bridesmaid dresses (red satin) and arrived the day before the rehearsal dinner. Luckily the bridal shop owner had had the foresight to order a BOLT of extra red satin. Sure enough, these bridesmaids were hefty, and my daughter had to insert 2 panels down the sides of each dress. She sewed all night, but the wedding party was resplendent in red the following day.