{"id":416996,"date":"2025-09-11T23:26:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T23:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/416996\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T23:26:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T23:26:13","slug":"the-ayrshire-wedding-crasher-mystery-solved-after-four-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/416996\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ayrshire wedding crasher mystery solved after four years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">On that same Saturday in November 2021 Andrew Hillhouse was running late for a wedding. With five minutes to spare, he pulled up at the venue he&#8217;d been told to go to, hurried in, and took his seat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">His partner David was to be among the bridal party, and Andrew was relieved to be there on time. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It was when the bridal party began walking down the aisle that a sinking feeling crept in.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I assumed David was in another room with the bride so the music starts up, everyone turns around to look at the bride and the second I see her I&#8217;m like &#8216;oh no, that&#8217;s not Michaela, what&#8217;s going on here?&#8217;,&#8221; he says. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;But I was committed at that point, because you can&#8217;t walk out of a wedding in progress so I thought I better double down. I&#8217;m 6ft 2in and I&#8217;m taller than everyone else, so I was trying to hunch down a bit and get out the way. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I was just sitting there thinking &#8216;please, let this be over with&#8217;.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On that same Saturday in November 2021 Andrew Hillhouse was running late for a wedding. With five minutes&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":416997,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[748,393,4884,12,1144,712,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-416996","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-northern-ireland","13":"tag-scotland","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115188254916539479","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=416996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416996\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/416997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}