Groom Jacob Akerson and his then soon-to-be-wife, 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. Having been left dangling in the wind just days before their wedding, Jacob turned to the one man who’d always been there for him, through thick and thin: his 74-year-old grandpa. It was a no brainer. Harvey “Al” Akerson had done nothing less than raise Jacob like a son after his abusive dad chose not to be part of his life. Still very young, Jacob and …