The bride who doesn’t show up at the wedding because she got cold feet at the last second is a familiar one from romantic comedies. Katie Demko also didn’t come to her wedding ceremony – but completely involuntarily and for a different reason. The American missed her wedding because her flight was canceled at short notice.
Demko lives in St. Louis, Missouri, USA, and she and her fiancé, Michael, were planning to get married in Belize. Such a wedding in another country requires a lot of planning, so her fiancé had already flown in to organize everything. Demko was to follow a few days later. But nothing came of it – and in the end even their entire wedding fell through.
The flight with the airline Southwest Airlines did not take place at short notice. “We went to the airport, our flight was on time, we got ready for boarding. Suddenly the captain came out and explained that the flight was cancelled. I was shocked! I was with some family members and we tried to find another one Getting a flight. Not a chance,” Demko told CNN.
She wasn’t the only traveler whose plans were thrown into turmoil – weather conditions, including a heavy snowstorm, wreaked havoc across the US at the end of the year. But for hardly anyone the flight cancellations had such consequences as for Katie Demko. The bride did everything she could to get to Belize in time, after all there were still three days until the wedding. She contacted travel agencies, relatives scoured the internet, and even considered taking a bus to Belize from another airport.
But all in vain: All other travel options were either fully booked or not feasible. Only two days after the actual wedding date would she have received a plane ticket again. A disaster for Demko: On the day she was supposed to get married, she “cried all morning,” she told Business Insider. She wasn’t even able to spend New Year’s Eve with her fiancé, who was supposed to be her husband at the time.
All the more bitter that the couple was not only deprived of their dream wedding, but also suffered a major financial loss – around $ 70,000, says Demko. The resort where the wedding was supposed to take place and where all the guests were staying is refusing to refund the cost. The money for the flight was paid back to her, but that hardly makes up for her loss – Katie Demko is still waiting in vain for an apology from the airline.
Sources: “Business Insider” / CNN
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