"Everything seemed to go fine until 4 in the afternoon, when the bar was closed," recalled Helmar Wolf, co-owner of The Mill on the River restaurant in South Windsor, where the posh Saturday reception was held for guests including Marines just back from Iraq.
Wolf said the sordid saga started when restaurant workers first noticed some members of the tipsy bridal party sneaking behind the closed bar to try and nab one more nip for the road.
They were warned to stop, and they did - briefly, he said.
"But after about three minutes, there was somebody else behind there grabbing a bottle of Grey Goose," a pricey vodka, he told The Post last night.
The pickled pack was chased away again. That's when an irate bridesmaid confronted the staff and griped that they should be allowed to continue drinking, Wolf said.
She then tried to get behind the bar again - even gloatingly making an obscene gesture to the security camera above it, he said.
But what happened next "could have been on 'Jerry Springer,' " Wolf said.
Wolf said he heard screaming outside his window and looked out to see enraged bride Adrienne Samen, 18, of North Haven, spewing obscenities at her "very nice" new husband, a Marine cadet.
"She started taking out the wedding cake [from the car] and smashing it on the ground. She took all the vases out and threw them against the building. There was glass all over the parking lot," he said.
"Then she dove on top of the car, landing on the hood. She fell to the ground."
This is where things "got a little bit out of hand," Wolf said.
An enraged Samen furiously began walking away down the road - with her wedding dress over her head, he said.
Wolf said that's when he called the cops.
But Samen wasn't ready to go without a fight, police said.
Swearing as they cuffed her and got her into a cruiser, the feisty teen then tried to bite the arm of one officer, they said.
Samen was eventually charged with disorderly conduct and breach of peace.
"[The police] provided her with a bridal suite for the evening - at the town jail," Wolf quipped.
The belligerent bride was released later that night after posting $1,000 bond, cops said.
She was reportedly already on her honeymoon with her new hubby yesterday.
http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/3577.htm
August 19, 2003
By DAN UHLINGER, Courant Staff Writer
SOUTH WINDSOR -- If Adrienne Samen ever forgets the details of her wedding reception, the police will be able to provide her with an official account, including a photograph.
The 18-year-old North Haven woman was arrested Saturday night after police said she "flipped out" at the Mill on the River Restaurant, cursed workers who asked some of her guests to leave the bar and then stormed out of the establishment.
According to Helmar Wolf, a co-owner of the restaurant, the bride and groom began to argue in the parking lot, where the bride shouted, "I hate you!" Soon after, Wolf said, the angry young woman "started throwing wedding cake and smashed vases of flowers."
Samen continued cursing and jumped spread eagle onto a car as it was leaving the parking lot, Wolf said. She eventually fell off and the car left.
Police were called about 7 p.m. and found Samen walking along Route 30 in her wedding dress. Witnesses told police she was intoxicated.
The officers tried to talk to Samen, but the woman made an obscene gesture and kept walking along the busy road, yelling at people in a car who had come from the wedding party and were driving slowly beside her, trying to calm her down, police said.
The officers spent about 40 minutes trying to reason with the bride, but finally gave up and arrested her when she started darting into traffic, shouting at people, said Sgt. Matthew D. Reed.
After placing the 5-foot-1, 87-pound woman into the cruiser, an officer questioned the wedding guests in their car. Reed said that during the questioning the officer heard a "thump, thump, thump" coming from the cruiser.
When he turned around, he saw Samen kicking at the cruiser's window and door, Reed said. The officer went back to the cruiser and tried to put a seat belt on Samen, who tried to bite him, Reed said.
Samen was taken to police headquarters, where she was charged with breach of peace and third-degree criminal mischief. She was released about 10:30 p.m. after posting $1,000 bail. She could not be reached Monday.
Reed said Samen refused to cooperate at police headquarters.
"The last thing we want to do is arrest a bride on her wedding night, but this was a situation where she had to be taken under control," Reed said.
Samen is scheduled to appear Aug. 28 in Manchester Superior Court.
http://www.ctnow.com/news/local/hc-jailedbride0819.artaug19,0,3535684.story?coll=hc-headlines-local
This was after the argument with the owner of the establishment where her party guests were helping themselves to the bar after it was closed.
After throwing cake and flipping the bird, she ran outside where her husband was in his pickup and threw herself on the hood. Then strode off barefoot where the cops later picked her up.
BTW - The lovely couple is now honeymooning in Tennessee.
Just damn.
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