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Married on September 11th Nikki and Barry planned to marry in New York. Little did they know their choice of date could not have been worse, as mum Jenny recalls... Jenny and Peter were already planning to be in New York on September 11 when their daughter rang to announce she would be marrying Barry in Central Park on that day.
So come September, family and friends gathered in and around New York, and Jenny spent the 10th wondering around Central Park getting to know Barry's mother.
When Jenny turned on the telly on the morning of the 11th, she didn't believe her eyes. Her first reaction was that it must be a 'movie'.
Then the Best Man rang to say that he and his wife would not be able to get into Manhatten for the wedding.
The couple were encouraged to go ahead with the wedding and decided to do so. Their wedding co-ordinator fixed for them to marry in the room where they'd been planning their wedding breakfast. A friend, Paul, went out and found a hairdressers for the 'girls', and stood in as the Best Man. And when they needed a cab, they couldn't find one so another friend arranged a Limo.
The service of conducted by a stand-in too. He was enormously caring and sympathetic. He'd found messages from people who'd married during the blitz. They too had married in a period of great uncertainly and were still together.
After the service and a lovely meal, they went to a bar. The people there were traumatised, but they were coming up to wish Nikki and Barry good luck. One man said that their wedding had been a positive sign - that life goes on.
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