Several years ago, I submitted several stories that got published in a book from Jeanne Hamilton "Wedding Etiquette Hell".  Two of the stories were accepted.  Here is one of them:

My cousin had a "shot gun" wedding. As a slight background on my cousin "Sam" and his future wife "Diane". Sam met Diane through the internet. She was a housewife with a kid and wanted to leave her husband for Sam (Sam didn't know about the husband part until a little bit later). She moved out here from out-of-state with her child and moved in with Sam. Fast forward a year and a half later when Sam hinted around that things weren't working out with him and Diane and that it would have to end soon. I believe exactly 30 days after that, Diane was 1 month pregnant. Congratulations?

Sam's first impulse was to immediately get married for the sake of the baby but his father convinced him to wait. It was a good thing because plenty of things happened between the announcement of Diane and Sam's expectancy and the wedding day.  Here's is a quick summary:

* Before she was pregnant she was against our family's religion and then miraculously converted (she was grasping at straws to be accepted).

* We only knew and saw her with one child. She had one child with her (a girl) and apparantly left another child back in home state (a boy) and told us that she was only allowed to have the female child as "It was the law in her state."  We didn't know anything about her son until about a month before the wedding. 

*She was still married to her first husband up to 30 days before the wedding

*If all of that wasn't enough to blow you away perhaps the following will knock you off of your chair: there was a big question to whether or not Sam was the father of the baby. The DNA confirmed that it was Sams!

Nevertheless, you can imagine the uproar in laughter when each family member received a very romantic pink card with a castle in the background and a Cinderella looking coach in the front with the caption saying something like "Our love is like a fairy tale come true…"

Update: This story is over 7 years old and "Diane" matured and blossomed to be a very good wife and mother. She's really grown leaps and bounds since then and deserves every bit of credit for how far she's come.