Groom Jacob Akerson and his bride, Maria, had their wedding day all planned out when, out of the blue, the best man jumped ship at the last minute.
One of Jacob’s closest friends, Andrew, in California had just gotten a new job after languishing unemployed during the pandemic, and he couldn’t take time off. “It was a choice of the job or the wedding, so he was unable to make it first. I didn’t blame him,” Jacob, 26, (now wed) told The Epoch Times.
