I was reading about a woman who was planning her daughter’s wedding. She was a real piece of work, this woman. Her heart was in the right place, but she wasn’t exactly operating with a full deck, if you get my drift. She had come into quite a sum of money — she won the lottery in her state — and she was determined to give her daughter the wedding of a lifetime.

Now even though she was now a wealthy woman, especially compared to before, she still retained a tight fist on her money. So when she saw an ad that said, “special offers for Central Coast brides,” she jumped on it. She’d always wanted to go to California and it seemed the perfect location for her only daughter’s wedding. The woman lined up a wedding planner, who began making all the arrangements.

The only problem was, the mother got everything all wrong. The ad was for the Central Coast of Australia. As I said, the woman wasn’t working with a full deck. It worked out in the end, but the woman couldn’t get a complete refund on all her deposits. It turned out to be a dream wedding for the bride and groom, but not the mother of the bride.