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Unstoppable: China couple forge ahead with wedding despite floods, use boat, fire engine
- Fire engine takes 20 minutes to drive 20km to get bride to her groom as boats deployed for ceremony
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Fran Luin Beijing
A couple in China were so determined their wedding would go ahead despite severe flooding, that they used a boat and a fire engine as transport.
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They planned to hold their ceremony in their hometown of Guilin in southern China’s Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region on the morning of June 19.
Then came the heaviest rainfall since 1998, and as the bride was on her way to the wedding, the area began to flood.
Video footage taken by locals show the bride’s father and the groom pushing a home-made boat as the bride sits inside holding an umbrella.
![The deluge began just as the wedding participants were about to get the celebrations started. Photo: Douyin The deluge began just as the wedding participants were about to get the celebrations started. Photo: Douyin](https://img.i-scmp.com/cdn-cgi/image/fit=contain,width=1024,format=auto/sites/default/files/d8/images/canvas/2024/06/24/301e3512-6c1f-4916-a456-99af5fb5688e_310f4318.jpg)
“It is the first time I saw a bride going to her wedding on a boat,” an observer told the mainland news outlet Jingshizhibo.
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