After the newlyweds had a fairytale wedding astatine Natalie's household workplace successful Georgia, the duo's happily ever aft deed a large velocity bump successful customs of the Turks and Caicos Islands' airport, wherever they had planned to walk their celebratory vacation.
"We're connected nary sleep, benignant of back-to-back nights," the Bachelor Nation prima explained successful a May 2 occurrence of The Viall Files. "The cause stamps the passport, is astir to manus it back, and goes, ‘There's a leafage torn here.'"
And portion Nick—who had been utilizing his passport arsenic recognition since helium mislaid his driver's license—initially thought it was his passport, it turned retired to beryllium Natalie's.
"I've utilized this passport, I've ne'er had an issue," she explained. "I person nary thought what's wrong."
The customs workers informed Natalie and Nick—whose 2-month-old girl River was besides with them—that they would person to nonstop Natalie backmost to the U.S. implicit concerns astir her documents.
And since the mates had spent weeks prepping their girl and mother's passports truthful they could articulation them connected their trip, the quality caused the surgical tech to burst into tears, and the Bacheloralum to statesman "radiating with anxiety."
"I'm telling myself, you're 2 days connected the f--king job, clip to beryllium a husband,'" Nick added. "‘Time to measurement up. You enactment calm. Everything's going to beryllium fine.'"
Although helium was giving himself an interior pep talk, Nick emphasized that it was a hard acquisition to spell through—given the wealth they were astir to suffer from an costly and nonrefundable trip.
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"It felt similar a nightmare," helium added. "I'm like, ‘This is not happening.'"
Luckily, the edifice the mates had booked "graciously" refunded their rooms. And done the nightmare scenario, Nick and Natalie were capable to find metallic linings.
As Natalie enactment it, "This was the archetypal happening we had to conquer arsenic hubby and wife."
Nick besides recalled a saccharine facet of going done the question headache.
"I got truthful galore opportunities to telephone Natalie my wife," helium gushed. "That was great."
While their honeymoon wasn't the getaway they dreamed of, Nick and Natalie person had plentifulness of idyllic moments passim their relationship. Keep speechmaking for a afloat look backmost connected their romance.