Like this, but with brides and people |
Salt Lake City, UT—Last Saturday morning lines of family and
well-wishers wrapped nearly all the way around the Salt Lake temple, causing
delays of more than an hour for some. The longer than usual backups were
apparently triggered by an early morning four bride pileup.
“People just don’t seem to be moving at all” reported the
KSL Eye-in-the-Sky Temple Traffic Copter over the weekend. Helicopter reporter
Rip Jorgenson told listeners to the temple traffic update that “we are used to
20 to 25 minute delays between the entrance and ornamental exterior doors, but
today bridesmaids and mission buddy groomsmen are looking at 60 to 75 minute
waits.”
Salt Lake Temple Wedding Picture Transit Authority (SLTWPTA)
personnel explained that the four bride pile up was caused by “a perfect post-temple
sealing photography storm.” Explained one official, “well, the first bride
involved was delayed in getting out for pictures because she had to redo her
hair and makeup twice, and the second bride…well…let’s just say she ‘had a
moment’ before she was ready to go out and join her family.” These delays were
then compounded when the third bride was moving at a regular, normal pace, but
the fourth was moving at a rate much higher than normal. “Yah, that fourth
bride,” continued a SLTWPTA source, “was pretty much racing to get out for
pictures!”
The resulting four bride pileup was a horrific collision of wedding gown trains, mothers-of-the-bride, helpless new husbands, and
tears that took emergency responders quite some time to untangle. “It is usual
for us to have, you know, a few brides moving slowly with others right on their
tails, but this was huge, and especially on a Saturday,” exclaim an SLTWPTA
official.
The delays impacted everyone, people who were already overdressed and uncomfortable. Reports circulated of many impatient siblings already bored with “playing on
the Ipad,” uncles using the time to tell unfunny jokes or stories of dubious
appropriateness, and a number of grandmothers who “are just going to go sit
over here and wait and you can come and get (them) when its time.”
A sister of one of the brides involved in the backup was
heard to say, “wow, look at this mayhem—thank goodness I’m getting married in
the Fort Collins Temple—no photo traffic headaches there!”
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