Bride marries toothless groom in wedding gone horribly wrong
He kissed the bride — after getting his tooth knocked out.
A series of unfortunate events led up to the union of Cincinnati-based couple Adelia Killian, 25, and her partner Connor, 29, when the groom busted his lip open, lost his front tooth and needed 28 stitches hours before tying the knot in September in Nantucket, Massachusetts.
A day after arriving at the idyllic island off Cape Cod, the bride reportedly got a call from her soon-to-be husband saying he flipped over the handlebars of a bike and cut his lip. He hit the pavement so hard, his tooth fell out, forcing him to go to the emergency room before walking down the aisle.
“I thought we might have to cancel the wedding,” Adelia, a content creator, told SWNS after seeing her groom before her big day. “He looked so beat up and his lip was all torn. But he convinced me that we should still go ahead.”
Connor opted to go for a bike ride with his groomsmen before taking a tumble while Adelia was out shopping. When she got the call, she rushed to the hospital.
“He had a face mask on at first and when he took it off, he looked so beat up. His lip was so cut he couldn’t drink anything,” she told SWNS. “I thought it was all too traumatic and we should cancel the wedding, but Connor reassured me that we’d planned it all now.”
Connor, despite the swelling, was a good sport.
“He just laughed and said, ‘Hey honey, I look like Stu from “The Hangover,” ‘ ” Adelia recalled to the news outlet.
A whopping 28 stitches later and the groom was on the mend, although he wouldn’t be able to have his tooth replaced until after the wedding, SWNS reported.
“He had to have stitches in for the day, but we took photos from the side of his face so you couldn’t see them,” Adelia said.
A toothless grin for the groom wasn’t the only mishap. The bride’s maid of honor, Adelia’s sister Evellyn Symons, 29, nearly missed her flight due to a hurricane, prompting the family to scramble to rebook her flight at the last minute.
“I was crushed,” Adelia said.
And she nearly walked down the aisle without her bouquet when her flowers showed up three hours before the wedding.
“It was a very close call,” Adelia said.
Luckily, her sis made it to the altar, arriving just two hours before the ceremony.
The wedding day was a long time in the making for the couple who found COVID-19 to play an unlikely Cupid. Adelia met Connor, a delivery driver, at the start of the pandemic in February 2020, on a dating app. They moved in just two weeks after dating.
“We thought it would only be for a few weeks. Luckily, we hit it off and lasted,” Adelia said.
Connor popped the question in July 2021 at a park, and the couple instantly started wedding planning. With skyrocketing prices for wedding vendors amid the pandemic, they decided to elope, but their families wanted them to have a proper ceremony.
So Adelia booked the venue, ordered flowers, purchased a dress and booked a photographer ahead of their September 2021 wedding date with 25 guests.
The easy-going gal was hardly a bridezilla about the nightmare nuptials and as the couple nears its one-year anniversary, she put a positive spin on her big day saying she “wouldn’t change a thing.”
“Connor had a tooth missing and his stitches still in,” she said, “but it was funny and didn’t ruin the day.”
