Guests at a wedding reception in Hawaii had to run for their lives as a huge wave crashed through and destroyed the ongoing outdoor wedding. The wedding reception had to come to an end after the wave destroyed the cake and drove the guests away.
The Daily Mail has the details;
A monster wave crashed an outdoor wedding reception in Hawaii leaving the bride and groom and their guests dripping wet and running for cover.
Despite Mother Nature’s unexpected arrival, the Saturday wedding held at Hulihe’e Palace in Kailua-Kona carried on.
The bride, Riley Carson Murphy, took it all in stride, posting the memorable event on her Instagram. She also added that her wedding cake ‘luckily made it,’ despite earlier reports that it was destroyed, KHON2 News reported.
The high surf ‘swept away half of our reception,’ she wrote. ‘My husband Dillon Murphy and I enjoyed a ‘memorable night’ surrounded by the people we love.’
‘Life isn’t always predictable and I can’t wait to ride every high and every low with my new husband,’ she said, in part.
Hurricane Darby, churning 870 miles south of the islands, brought high winds and high waves to the central Pacific island and was likely responsible for the wet wedding drama.
As others stood by taking video footage of the wicked wave that rolled in uninvited. Guests including Kenneth Bergstrom caught it all on video.
Bergstrom captured the awe-shocking moments the colossal wave surfaced crashing into a sea wall at the beachside resort on Hawaii’s Big Island.
Guests were mingling and enjoying the hors d’oeuvres and cocktails when the colossal wave struck. Seconds before it was about to hit, once person is overheard saying, ‘This is coming for sure.’
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