Groom misses wedding reception due to 'nerves' - that turn out to be something far worse

Nathan Vaughan, 30, from Cambridgeshire, missed his wedding reception aft helium was struck down by the 'painful' migraine that near him 'writhing' successful agony successful bed

A groom missed his ain wedding reception and blamed 'nerves' for giving him a horrendous migraine - lone to observe 2 days aboriginal that helium had a 'huge' tumour.

Nathan Vaughan, 30, joined Katie Glass, 26, connected May 4 astatine St Thomas Church, Holywell, Cambridgeshire, and the mates held their reception astatine The Old Ferry Boat Inn. The bridegroom started experiencing a 'painful' migraine successful the aboriginal hours of the greeting connected his large day, but the mates assumed helium was conscionable 'feeling the pressure'.

However, consecutive aft the wedding vows, the 30-year-old 'passed out' successful his edifice for the full time with the 'worst headache of [his] life', leaving his 'gutted' caller woman without a archetypal creation oregon barroom cut. After Nathan's migraine persisted for 3 days, Katie drove her hubby to A&E earlier they were told by doctor's helium had a tumour adjacent his encephalon and needed surgery.

Despite the 'crazy' find disrupting the couple's £5,000 celebration, the brace are 'grateful' the tumour was identified and removed truthful quickly. Nathan, a fiscal transgression researcher who lives successful Manea, Cambridgeshire, said: "[For it to be] the wedding time of each days, it's crazy.

"Everything anterior had been fine, nary problems astatine all. The greeting of the wedding I woke up with a cracking headache astatine 2am and couldn't spell backmost to sleep. I took symptom killers, migraine tablets and assumed it was wedding time nerves, feeling the unit a small bit. But it wouldn't displacement and progressively got worse during the day.

"The ceremonial came astir and I enactment each my effort into being contiguous for the ceremony. We got done the ceremonial and we had immoderate photos. The lensman noticed I was a spot disconnected and said 'are you alright?' - I unopen my eyes without adjacent realising.

"I popped to the reception and said 'I deliberation I've got to spell to furniture oregon something. I consciousness perfectly awful'. It was the worst headache of my life, conscionable changeless symptom successful the apical of my head. I ended up conscionable going to the edifice country and fundamentally conscionable passing retired for the evening. I was reasoning 'I'm ne'er going to unrecorded this down'. I had to spell disconnected sick connected my wedding day.

"My archetypal thought was 'my woman is by herself connected our wedding day'. I'm laying upstairs wrapped with guilt that I'd near her alone. My woman did brilliantly and held it each unneurotic and kept the reception going. It was similar having a monolithic hangover without touching a azygous driblet of alcohol. It was awful.

"I'm truthful grateful I got to spot my woman locomotion down the aisle. It was a beauteous ceremony. I bash retrieve it. It was inactive a large day, each things aside." The recently wed was driven to A&E by his spouse connected Monday 6 aft his migraine hadn't cleared up earlier being rushed to hospital.

Doctors informed Nathan helium had a haemorrhage successful a benign tumour the size of 2 thumbnails and therefore, required country to region it. Nathan said: "The Monday deed and I said 'I'm not feeling right'. I mightiness request to spell to A&E oregon something'. We got into the car and I got truly atrocious shakes and it wouldn't stop. Katie ran maine down to A&E and they ran tests and thought it might've been meningitis astatine first.

"They did a CT scan and said I had swelling connected my pituitary gland, which sits connected the brain. I thought it was conscionable swelling and that they'd springiness maine thing to bring it down and disconnected I'd go. But I got whisked disconnected to infirmary and astatine 2am oregon 3am I was told I had a immense pituitary gland tumour.

"It haemorrhaged successful the greeting [of my wedding] truthful I was bleeding successful my brain. I was going to person country successful a fewer hours. They had to run due to the fact that it was pushing against my optic nervus and that was wherefore my imaginativeness was off. The adjacent time I had a 4 hr cognition to region this tumour. They told maine I'd astir apt had it my full life. I wouldn't person known astir it. On the time of the wedding, of each days, it decided to popular essentially.

"It was a benign tumour convey god. It was a spot of a interest that it wasn't going to be. It's benignant of a champion lawsuit scenario. It could've been a batch worse. As soon arsenic you perceive the connection 'tumour' from the doctor's you presume the worst. I don't deliberation Katie realised however soon aft saying 'in sickness and successful health' that she'd beryllium looking aft me. It's a agelong betterment process."

The hubby, who projected to his spouse connected December 22 successful beforehand of St Michael's Mount, Cornwall, admitted the find was 'crazy' arsenic helium had conscionable dismissed his symptom arsenic a migraine. Nathan said: "It's a spot brainsick however I had each the symptoms of a migraine but it was thing acold much serious. I didn't adjacent deliberation astir getting it looked astatine until it carried connected 3 days later.

"I tin ideate a batch of radical would enactment it down to a headache and not deliberation to get it looked astatine really. If it happened the time before, the wedding wouldn't person gone up and if it happened the time aft I would've enactment it down to a hangover from drinking and astir apt wouldn't person got it looked at.

"It's acold amended to get it looked at. I didn't person immoderate hint astir pituitary glands up until this point. Apparently rather a batch of radical would person it and not realise it. They could spell done their full beingness and not person symptoms but successful my lawsuit it got truthful large it was causing maine issues."

The couple, who person been unneurotic 10 years aft they met moving astatine WHSmith, are readying to re-do their wedding reception connected their 1 twelvemonth day and person booked a honeymoon to Kos, Greece. Nathan said: "We're readying connected our 1 twelvemonth day to invitation everyone backmost and fundamentally everything we missed we'll bash connected the anniversary.

"Do our archetypal creation a twelvemonth aboriginal and bash my code and a barroom cutting. Better precocious than never. Luckily we didn't program a honeymoon. I wasn't capable to alert aft that operation. We've booked it present for adjacent year. It's thing to look guardant to. Blue skies, beaches and hopefully migraine free."

The caller bride admitted she was 'gutted' she didn't get to acquisition her wedding reception with her hubby but is 'grateful' Nathan's tumour was removed truthful quickly. Katie, who is simply a constabulary officer, said: "At archetypal I conscionable thought he'd stressed himself retired truthful overmuch he'd made himself sick.

"I was gutted. I sent the lensman disconnected and helium said he'd bash different photoshop for free. A period aboriginal we got each dressed up and took immoderate much photos astatine the venue. I told the room 'you mightiness arsenic good chopped the cake' and I'd conscionable get connected with it. My dada did a creation with maine astatine the extremity of the night, bless him.

"We felt incredibly blameworthy erstwhile we recovered retired what it was. I thought it was conscionable ticker and wait. We thought it was a migraine. It was a weird time. I similar looking astatine the pictures but astatine the aforesaid clip it was a truly weird day. Not what I imagined for my wedding day. I'm truthful grateful helium was seen truthful early. If we had near it it would've truly impacted his sight. We're rather fortunate successful that way."