Planning a wedding can be a fun – and stressful – time for many. So what about if you have everything other than the dress? This can be the most important part to many couples, but this bride found her dream dress just one month before her big day.

The Beginning

Matt Rek and Charlotte Cortina met in a bar in 2011. Charlotte’s friend had convinced her to go for the night, and was busy talking to Matt, when everyone realized how much they had in common. Matt and Charlotte immediately hit it off and knew they needed to get to know each other better.

The Proposal

The couple dated for five years when Mett decided he wanted to take things to the next step. The pair traveled to Hawaii and embarked on a long hike for the day. They eventually uncovered a hidden waterfall – the perfect setting for Matt to drop to one knee. Charlotte had no idea, and immediately said “yes.”

Planning It All

Matt and Charlotte visited Sunstone Villa in California and knew this was the place they needed for their wedding venue. However, it wouldn’t come easy. The pair had to supply everything from the kitchen to the furniture and everything in between. Thankfully, they appeared to have it all under control.

Preparing Her Dream Dress

Charlotte had worked in fashion for nine years and knew that she wanted a custom-made dress. It looked as though things were going well until a few weeks before the wedding. The team had been working on the dress for ten months, yet it looked as though they wouldn’t get it finished in time.

The Sudden Rush

Charlotte searched high and low until she found one that was perfect. The bride-to-be was forced to put in a rush order as the store had just six weeks to add 36 inches to the train as well as lace detail to the hemline. It was a push, but they pulled it all together in the nick of time.

Thankfully, the ceremony went off without a hitch as the pair said their vows in front of their friends and family while surrounded by the vineyards of the house. The dress might have been rushed, but it turned out to be the perfect rustic yet elegant touch that Charlotte hoped for her big day.

The healing process after surgery takes a while. This poor girl was just 15, and gradually, the pain mounted, and her leg kept swelling after her minor knee surgery. When her temp got up to 102, she went to the doctor, but they just said she was being a drama queen.

After the stitches were removed, all the symptoms stayed present, and she went to get her knee drained. When that was done, the doctor realized she had a staph infection and admitted her to the hospital.

Stomach pain can cause a lot of problems, especially when it is severe. This young woman was in so much pain that she called for help and was taken to the ER. Then the doctor did the bare minimum and said gas.

But the bloating and pain continued, and she had to go back to the hospital. This time the doctor actually did tests and found a huge kidney stone.

The worst is when you have a sudden attack of pain when you are at school. This girl was running at practice, and suddenly pain struck and struck hard. So they called her mom, and she took her to the urgent care.

Instead of asking about the pain, the doctor started asking the girl about school. Once she saw that the girl was wearing a memory pin, the diagnosis became caused by grief. Later they would find out she had an ovarian cyst that had burst.

It is always hard when you can’t figure out where the pain is coming from. But for a doctor to discount what a patient is saying and basically accuse them of being a drug addict, that is just a bit messed up.

Sure there are people that do this, but you have to do the work to figure that out and not just assume. It turns out that this woman, after being mentally abused by her doctor, found out that pain was caused by fibromyalgia.

Time is precious when it comes to your health. But this woman had been telling her doctors for almost a decade that she was in severe pain. But all that doctor kept telling her is that a lot of people have severe cramping during their period and that she would grow out of it.

Finally, she got tired of this, and she went to a different doctor. This doctor found that she was at an advanced stage of endometriosis. That doctor got her into the operating room fast.

The long-drawn-out process of figuring out what is causing the pain can be frustrating. Especially when doctors are dismissive of your pain and don’t follow-through in checking all avenues.

This young girl had to get misdiagnosed quite a few times before she finally found one that would pay attention to her feelings. It turns out she had a bladder condition that was causing all this pain.

Even worse than someone being dismissive of your pain is when they are dismissive in general. This woman was in pain, and the doctor would only talk to her boyfriend. But even after using the boyfriend as a middle man, the doctor still diagnosed her with IBS.

There was something worse, and she knew it. So a few months later, she visited another doctor, and that doctor did their job. She actually had an autoimmune disease.

Not taking a woman’s pain is pretty bad, but it becomes even more serious when more than one doctor does it. This woman went to five different doctors with this pain, and it wasn’t until the final doctor who took the proper steps.

Some of the doctors thought it was intestinal problems. Others thought it could be cysts but still just prescribed pain killers. Finally, the last doctor did an ultrasound and found endometriosis.

This woman found herself having difficulty when breathing and made her way to the doctor. The doctor looked at her and just diagnosed the hardship as asthma. However, after this diagnosis, she still ended up back in the hospital.

The doctor then insinuated that she was just trying to get out of school. But several months later, a specialist looked into it and found a vocal box infection causing problems in her lungs.

After a skiing accident, this young woman hobbled to the clinic and explained how much pain she was in and that she knew something was wrong with her knee. The doctor stepped in and just said that it was a bruised knee and that it wasn’t that serious.

But after two months, the knee was still swollen. She then went to a different doctor, and they found a torn ACL that required surgery.

Shingles are an enhanced version of chickenpox that adults tend to get. This young woman thought she had it, but someone at the student clinic told her that wasn’t what she had. But later, a friend took her to a medical clinic.

Once there, she showed the doctors the rashes and bumps, and they told her that it was definitely shingles. They then took care of the pain and gave her medication to treat it.

Taking an elbow in the face during a concert left this young woman in a severe amount of pain. The eye had swelled up fast, so she took herself to the hospital. The doctor looked at her and immediately told her it was just a black eye.

The eye didn’t heal, and a few months later, she had to go back to the doctor. This doctor found that the eye socket had been cracked and that there was loose bone floating around in her face.

Sometimes there are chronic pains, which can typically be handled once you have them taken care of. But this person seems to have moments of elevated pain in her legs. When these occurred, she naturally looked for help.

But when she went in for this flare-up, she found a doctor who didn’t believe her. Instead of helping, they offered a referral to a mental health physician and facility.

College is pretty stressful but even more so when you have a medical condition that no one will diagnose properly. This young college student found that out after having a seizure and being taken to the hospital.

After finding out she was a theater major, the doctor told her to hydrate. But the problems persisted, and eventually, it was deduced that they were due to a bad reaction to some medication she was taking.

There is typically nausea when you’re pregnant, and there may even be some vomiting. But when it becomes as severe as this young lady was experiencing, it probably is not simple morning sickness. That is what the doctor diagnosed at first, though.

After losing a ton of weight and not being able to keep anything down for several months, finally, the doctor determined it was Hyperemesis. This could have been harmful to both the mother and the baby!

After knee surgery, this young woman began to feel some pretty severe pain and discomfort. These feelings affected her mobility even more than the surgery itself. So she, of course, turned to the surgeon for some help.

The doctor acted like she was being a big baby; after all, it wasn’t a sports injury, right? He never spoke to her directly, and, worst yet, she just had to suffer through the pain.

Any kind of surgery is painful, and that is why you find that the doctor will often prescribe some pain killers. But this woman’s doctor took her off her pain killers just two days after the surgery.

The pain returned, and more powerful than before, the doctor told her she should suck it up. But in the end, she wound up in the hospital with a severe infection that could have killed her.

When a teen feels pain, their parents often react quickly, especially when it is accompanied by vomiting. A situation like this means a quick trip to the ER. Simply sitting in the waiting room is frustrating enough, but when the doctor misdiagnoses the problem, that trip becomes even more frustrating.

In this case, the doctor gave the girl some pain killers and sent her home. But there was still pain, and so she got taken to a new doctor. Good thing because she had two large ovarian cysts that had burst.

After an injury at a swim meet, this girl still was suffering from quite a bit of pain well after the doctor had said she would feel it. Finally, six years later, the doctor agreed to exploratory surgery. It was a good thing!

After the surgery, the doctor apologized to the girl for all these years of ignoring her pain. He had found a tear in the labrum.

After doubling up from major abdominal pains, this young lady was taken to a clinic. But the doctor didn’t take this very seriously, and no tests were done. He listened to the symptoms and then sent her home with antibiotics for a UTI.

The very next day, the young girl was brought back to the hospital and was seen by another doctor who determined her appendix had ruptured.

When you are young and active, a pain like this young woman had seems like a red flag. But the doctor didn’t feel it was something to worry about. They suggest a chest x-ray and some pain killers.

After months of putting up with this, she went to the ER. The doctor there suggested that she had a severe kidney infection. But she stood her ground and made sure they checked for everything. She actually had gallbladder disease.

Sometimes when you have intense stomach pains, the only thing you can think to do is curl up in the fetal position and cry. This woman tried it, and nothing changed in the level of pain. So after about a week, she took herself to the doctor.

But these doctors just told her it was severe gas. Eventually, she wound up back in the ER, and this is where she found out it was Crohn’s disease.

Days after the pain had started in this woman’s arm and underarm, bruises appeared. So she went to her doctor, who said she should go to the hospital and get it to check out. That is precisely what she did.

The doctors there didn’t think it was that serious. Nothing but a strain, they said. She didn’t think that was the case, so she pushed for tests. Good thing because it ended up being a blood clot.

Your body goes through a lot of changes when you are pregnant, so it is understandable that some doctors might disregard pains. But when this woman’s pain in her hip and leg continued after the birth, they should have paid attention.

The doctor she saw said it was nothing, but three years later, the pain was still present. Another doctor did some tests and found a hip problem.

In mid-flight, this woman began to feel sharp and severe pains. She knew it was the appendix, and so once the flight had landed, she rushed to the hospital. But the doctor just looked at her and said it was cramps.

But after she left, the pain continued, and she wound up in the ER. It wasn’t her appendix, but she was passing kidney stones. Even still, the doctor could have caught this with a little more care.

Every woman’s flow is different, but they know when it is too heavy. So when this girl felt this, she visited the ER. Finally, she saw the doctor, and she was told it wasn’t heavy. Go home, take an Advil and if you’re still bleeding in a month, make another appointment is what he said.

Like every good kid does, she called her mom and told her, and then her mom got her to a gynecologist. It turns out she had PCOS, and small cysts were rupturing.

Pain after surgery is always pretty scary. So when this woman felt some pretty severe pain after her gallbladder surgery, she rushed to the emergency room. The doctor looked at her and said it was just cramps and told her to go home and get some rest.

But the pain didn’t go away, and so she went to the doctor again. This time they did some tests and found a gallstone had been trapped in a bile duct.

Years and years of pain, and this woman was thinking she would never be able to enjoy a pain-free day. After years of telling doctors that she felt pain all over her body, they continued to turn a blind eye to it.

15 years finally she was sent to a rheumatologist, and they found that she had fibromyalgia. Persistence pays off is probably the biggest lesson this woman’s story brings with it.

After a head injury in her early 20s, the doctors found a small tumor in her brain. Instead of addressing it, the doctor shrugged it off and said many women have tumors like this.

But 10 years after that, she wound up going into surgery to get it taken out. Even there though she was dismissed when she tried to tell them about a clotting condition. Everything turned out fine, but there were some touch and go moments.

Waking up gasping for breath with a tightness in the chest usually means something. However, that is not all it means, and when this woman went to the ER because of this, she was dismissed quickly. It was just a panic attack!

This happened multiple times, but finally, a doctor dug deeper. After vomiting from him pushing her stomach, the doctor asked for an ultrasound. A busted gallbladder is what she had been dealing with for all these months.

Bedside manner is one of the big things that good doctors need to possess. However, not every doctor does, leading to a lot of doctors not taking women’s pains very seriously. This doctor, for instance.

In the hospital for severe pain due to endometriosis, this woman was in stirrups. Yet this doctor thought it was funny to stroll in and flippantly ask what she was there for.

There are times when your brain and body gang up to fool you. Things like accidents can cause this to happen. However, a good doctor will still check everything and not just push it off as a lesser injury.

This poor lady knew there was something more than a sprained ankle, but the doctor said otherwise. The girl went for a second opinion and found out that she needed three surgeries because she had almost separated her foot from her leg.

There are a lot of different causes for stomach issues to arise. There is the common cold, which is one of the things that doctors told this girl she was suffering from. When it didn’t turn out to be that, they thought it was an eating disorder.

But after pushing through, she finally found a doctor that would listen to her, and they found out she had an aggressive form of cancer.

Sometimes there are holes in the information that doctors have. But that doesn’t mean that they should not listen to their patients when it comes to pain. This girl had a two-week stay in the hospital because she took an antibiotic no one knew she was allergic to.

After all that and another trip to the ER, she found herself having problems breathing and her leg swelling. The doctor she visited said it was just asthma. But another trip to the hospital showed she had a severe kidney infection.

Years of pain and other symptoms kept this young lady from enjoying her high school years. But even with the loss of consciousness and other things, there were still doctors that accused her of faking it to get out of school.

They even said it was all part of puberty. Eventually, the girl and her parents went to another doctor, and this doctor diagnosed anemia. This made the rest of the high school career much better for her.

Early in this woman’s life, she began to feel pain in the knee, making it hard to walk. But because of her age, the doctor shrugged it off as a kid faking an injury. The doctor did offer to take x-rays, though.

Off and on for five years, the girl had to put up with this. Finally, a doctor did the right thing and found out that she had a really bad bone infection.

There is nothing worse sometimes than a cold. You feel achy and blah, but you know you can always go to the doctor and have them help you get rid of it. When her symptoms got worse, this woman went to urgent care.

The doctors there called it a simple cold and sent her home to get rest. But the symptoms didn’t subside, so she went again. This time she was told it was pneumonia and had to spend a bunch of time out of school.

Bloating and pain in the abdomen is uncomfortable and can be the result of many issues. This woman feeling that the pain was more than she could take, went to the emergency room. The doctor called it a UTI and gave her an antibiotic.

The medicine caused her to throw up, and so she wound up back in the ER. That’s when they found out that a cyst had grown so large it had ripped an ovary in two.

Seizures are scary and can be life-threatening. So when this woman had one, she was immediately rushed to the ER. The doctor, having read her charts, dismissed it as stress-related.

But several months after this visit, she had another one. This time she was taken better care of, and they found out she had epilepsy. Good thing that this doctor was very detailed when they were testing her.

The next day after a kidney stone surgery, this woman was released to recoup at home. The following several weeks, she was in severe pain. Of course, she reached out to her physician, who proceeded to tell her that it was normal pain after such a surgery.

After killing the pain with painkillers, it got too much to handle, so she went back to the hospital. The doctor discovered that during the surgery, they had torn her ureter.

Repeated injuries to the same knee instigated a trip to the ER for this woman. After doing a few tests, the doctor told her she had some knee contusions and released her with a few instructions on how to treat it and medication.

But years passed, and the pain would flare up from time to time. She would tell her doctor, and they would ignore her. Eventually, she was sent to a specialist who found a torn meniscus.

It is easy to pick stuff up as a kid. This poor girl contracted a rash, and the pain was pretty intense. But when her mom saw the rash was growing, she knew she had to go back to the doctor.

That doctor prescribed antihistamines and claimed the rash was from bug bites. But the medication didn’t help, so the mom took her daughter back to the doctor. It turns out it was MRSA, and it had infected the young girl pretty severely.

This poor girl woke up in so much pain, all she could do was curl up and cry. But the pain didn’t subside, and so her mom took her to the emergency room. The nurse there looked at her and said it was from PMS.

The girl and her mom went home, but the pain didn’t decrease, so the next day they went back. When they did, the doctor they saw found that she had appendicitis.

Stones can really hurt. For this girl, the pain was so bad she could not even walk to the bathroom to throw up. So her parents called 9-1-1 and had an ambulance take her to the hospital.

Because of her young age, the first thing that one of the nurses said to her was that she was just making it up. But once they took the scans, they had to apologize because they found kidney stones.

For two days, this woman suffered from intense pain and other stomach issues along with a fever. Feeling that something was wrong, she dragged herself to urgent care. But once she was there, the doctor came up with the idea that she was just experiencing menstrual cramps.

So because she was in her cycle, he prescribed Ibuprofen and told her to sleep it off. But then another doctor stepped in and sent her to the emergency room. It turns out she was suffering from E.coli.