As a fellow Interesting Wedding Haver, I have to give all the credit in the world to the author for handling this with grace instead of, say, becoming a terrorist. I would have been proud to own the “Tracy did nothing wrong” tshirt.
Credit to her for making the best of a bad situation. “We almost couldn’t get legally married, so we had to bring in Elvis to officiate the paperwork after the ceremony” is going to be a top-tier wedding story for every party going forward.