Jokes are not always funny, especially if it is related to your wedding. The official performing the civil wedding immediately cancelled it after an Austrian bride jokingly replied 'I don't' when asked if she wanted to marry her would-be-husband.

A seeingly harmless joke proved a disaster because the entire wedding had to be cancelled and the guests were asked to leave.

The Austrian newspaper Oberoesterreichischen Nachrichten reported Friday that the prospective bride Tina Albrecht, 27, was to marry fiancé Dietmar Koch, 29, at a castle in Steyr, Upper Austria.

Albrecht, a receptionist, said that she wanted to bring a bit of humour into the ceremony by saying 'I don't', before immediately correcting herself.

However, under an Austrian law, the couple would now have to wait for atleast a further 10 weeks to reschedule their wedding date.

Albrecht said, "We had to send all our guests home and now we have to wait until March before we can try again. In retrospect it was probably not so funny."