The people at the airport said that we missed our plane. Didn't we confirm our international reservation 24 hours before departure? Didn't we know they changed the scheduled time by three hours?

But why don't you go standby on the flight to Puerto Plata, the airport people said. It's only "three hours away" from Punta Cana, and it would allow us to still make the wedding on the beach.

Fine, we said. We'll rent a car in Puerto Plata and drive to the wedding.

The car rental people in Puerto Plata said - "three hours, no way...you have to drive across the country. It's ten hours!"