After spotting a tornado looming on the horizon, a wedding photographer in Canada was giddy with excitement, calling it an opportunity of a lifetime that she just couldn’t pass up. Neither could the newlyweds.
So photographer Colleen Niska of Saskatoon began taking pictures of the happy couple as they kissed and walked down a gravel road with the tornado in the background.
“I’ve dreamed about a day like this!” Niska posted on her Facebook page late Saturday night. “Could NOT wait to post these! Pretty sure this will only happen once in my lifetime!”
The couple from Davidson, Saskatchewan, agreed.
“Epic wedding!” the bride named Chandra, who didn’t want to reveal her last name, said on Facebook, according to The Globe and Mail on Monday. “We captured a once-in-a-lifetime moment and feel so lucky to have it as a memory of how in such chaos you always have each other!”
No doubt she was referring not only to the tornado but heavy rains that flooded basements, yards, and roads in Saskatchewan the week before Saturday’s wedding.
“We just happened to be at the right place at the right time in good old Saskatchewan, Canada,” Niska told BuzzFeed. “We went out to take pictures, just me and the bride and groom, and happen to spot the funnel cloud close by.
“We were a long ways from it and so we weren’t frightened or anything, and it wasn’t heading in our direction. We were pretty excited as none of us had witnessed a tornado before and thought it was a pretty cool opportunity. I wasn’t going to pass on it!”
The groom was just as excited, though the bride less so.
“If anything I was probably a little bit leery about it, but the photographer was super excited and so was my husband so we got out,” Chandra told The StarPhoenix.
“It was pretty windy. I had to hold my hair back for most of the pictures, but we were able to stand, so it wasn’t that crazy.”
The same could not be said about the reception where a tent in the backyard of Chandra’s parents was blown down by strong winds. So, yes, it was a bit crazy.
As it turned out, two tornadoes touched down in Saskatchewan on Saturday, dropping golf-ball sized hail and destroying two buildings, according to The Weather Network, but nobody was injured.
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