But apart from that, it went well

"In 1867, a princess of the Royal House of Italy was married. These were the incidents that surrounded the event: the bride's wardrobe mistress hanged herself; the colonel who was to lead the procession to the church fell off his horse with sunstroke; the palace gates failed to open for the procession because the gatekeeper lay dead in a pool of blood. Though the ceremony itself was not marred by accident, just afterward the best man fired a pistol at his own head. The wedding party then went to the railway station, where the official who had drawn up the marriage contract succumbed to apoplexy. Next, from excess zeal, the stationmaster fell under the wheels of the approaching train. At that point the king refused to allow anyone to board it and the party returned to the palace. The Count of Castiglione, who rode alongside the carriage, was suddenly thrown and the wheels passed over him, injuring him fatally. The occasion being royal, its ill-fated incidents were kept dark."

- From Jacques Barzun and Henry F. Graff, The Modern Researcher