Hot stuff — US couple have wedding to remember
A bushfire that disrupted a couple’s wedding also gave them the photograph of a lifetime.
A fire truck rolled up in the northwestern state of Oregon with sirens blaring on Sunday and the wedding party was told to evacuate, the reported.
The minister conducted an abbreviated ceremony. Everyone cheered and began to evacuate to downtown Bend’s Drake Park for the reception.
As guests headed for the cars, wedding photographer Josh Newton took some photos of the couple with the bushfire raging in the background.
Michael Wolber called it “the most beautiful ceremony either of us could have ever imagined”. He and his wife, April Hartley, live in Aloha and both work at Nike.
“It’s terrible to be evacuated from your own wedding,” said Lisa Clark, a fire information officer with the Central Oregon Interagency Dispatch Centre. “But it’s a story for the rest of their lives and nothing that could be duplicated.”
The wedding venue was on the edge of the wind-pushed fire and deputies and fire trucks were driving through the area telling people to evacuate as a precaution.
“It is an accurate picture,” she said about the widely viewed photo.