Kemesia and Patrick Ward will have one of those wedding stories that tops everybody else's.

Hours before the reception, they found out the ballroom they booked at the Deauville Beach Resort wouldn't be available after all. Miami Beach officials shut down the oceanfront hotel's ballrooms nine days before due to safety violations.

The hotel moved the reception to the lobby, where about 200 guests were crammed in with tourists milling about the resort. It was not exactly the birds-singing, bells-ringing ideal the Dixie Cups sang about in “Chapel of Love,” Third District Court of Appeal Judge Robert Luck wrote Wednesday.