It's been too long since The Unsinkable Titanic Bride Story was revived yet again, and I'm revisiting it because a recent conversation about horrible weddings reminded me. I tried to describe it to friends, and then just had to google and read the whole story.
This time, I'm particularly struck by the inconsistencies with the timeline. Okay. So Jenn knows she's pregnant in the first month, and William immediately proposes. Possible, not probable, but sure. However, it seems like we're expected to believe this all takes place in Jenn's first trimester, certainly before she starts showing. And yet this mega-detailed, labor-intensive Titanic wedding comes off in, what, a matter of weeks? Retrofitting a boat and, hell, even just getting the route ok'd? All of the dresses and era-appropriate clothing? The guests clearing their schedules? A planned and destroyed bridal shower? Travel and accommodations to England? Along with all of the usual wedding-planning stuff, from menu-planning to legalities and registrations? We're supposed to believe all of this took place in a matter of six to eight weeks, based on the story.
It also seems like we're expected to believe that Jenn intends to get knocked up asap to secure her ties to Prince William and make her story stick. If it took, minimum, a couple months to retrofit the cruise ship and order the ice sculptures and have dozens and dozens of items of period garb custom-made, were Jenn and William celibate during this time? Because if not, it's likely Jenn could be pregnant by the time the wedding happens. Apparently, only "lesser" seed than Prince William's will stick to Jenn's evil, corrupted womb.