A couple got an unusual twist to their fairytale wedding this week, when their home town, Bound Brook in New Jersey, flooded.
The night before their wedding, Keisha Jackson, 29, and fiance Jonathan Denman, 24, were in their apartment making final preparations for the big day.
But rising flood waters meant they had to be evacuated to a nearby church where they spent the night.
The next day Ms Jackson got talking to the minister at the church, Reverend Louis Kilgore, explaining that it was supposed to be her wedding, but the venue for their festivities, the local courthouse, had been closed due to flooding.
Luckily for the couple Reverend Kilgore suggested he marry them, then and there.
So Keisha and Jonathan, clad in wet jeans and sweatshirts, with two fellow evacuees as their witnesses, were married.
They did not have rings and the wedding meal consisted of rice and beans, reports the Star Ledger.
Nor did the couple go on honeymoon, but instead returned to their flat to check the damage.
Keisha said afterwards, "We're thinking of leaving New Jersey," preferring instead, "some place high up and dry," reports the Associated Press.
