Loads of things can go wrong on your wedding day . Your partner could endure aside from the alter a laThe Graduate . The provide company could dish out poisoned food to your guests . Or , if you ’re a part onGame of Thrones , your marriage could be little more than an elaborate ploy to kill someone . But most masses are n’t fain to be sting by a rattlesnake on their marriage mean solar day , which is what happened to a Fort Collins , Colorado groom .
Johnny Benson , after being marry to Laura Benson for mere arcminute , was bit in the calf by a young rattler as the couple were stimulate their pic taken . " All of a sudden it was like someone kicked me in the shin , " Johnny told theDenver Post . " Then I look over and saw the snake sitting there , and it was rattling . "
Laura and wedding photographer Maddie Mae scrambled to flag down a Larimer County Park Ranger who was driving by . " All three of us started waving furiously at him , " Mae told Thrillist . " He rolls down the window and we yelled , ' He just got bit by a rattler ! ' The ranger , obviously not hearing what we enounce , yelled back , ' Congratulations ! ' "
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Once it was clear what was going on , the parkland fire warden came and kick upstairs Johnny ’s peg while they waited for paramedical to get .
Once the park ranger was aid , Mae went back to snapping pic , commemorating the strange occurrence on Johnny and Laura ’s special mean solar day . " When Johnny first start minute , I did n’t keep shoot , " Mae say . " Once the Ranger was take upkeep of Johnny and had called the paramedic , and the situation as under control , that ’s when I started taking exposure .
" The twosome did n’t ask me to do this … I guess it was my inherent aptitude as a lensman to continue photographing and narrate the story of their day … wherever that took us . "
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It take them to the E.R.
It was n’t clear if the rattler had injected venom into Johnny ’s peg , and that left their status for the rest of the day up in the air , as their guests patiently waited at the receipt for the twosome to arrive . " Not knowing if the rattler had injected venom , the initial prognosis was pretty dire , " said Mae . " At a minimum they said he could be in the infirmary for several hours to evaluate the morsel . At worst , if he needed anti - venom , he could be in the infirmary for several days . " It ’s not how he envisioned his nuptials dark in an idealistic world .
The E.R. sojourn lasted just 20 minutes after it was determined that he had tolerate was a " dry bite " ( no venom ) and , though it likely bruise plenty , the couple were spare to head back to the reception . They hopped into the photographer ’s car and return to their previously scheduled activity .
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Despite everything that happened , the couple wound up being just an hour latterly to the reception . " I ’ve never watch such a worked up ' grand entrance ' as all 184 Guest cheered when Johnny and Laura walked in , and showered them in a ocean of passionate hugs , " say Mae .
The couple are currently out enjoying their honeymoon , presumably arm with a little more entropy about what to do in compositor’s case of a snake pungency .
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