It's supposed to be the happiest day of your life. But Nancy Rogers's wedding day was memorable for all the wrong reasons.
Just as the 32-year-old bride-to-be from Nova Scotia was lacing up her wedding dress and touching up her makeup, she discovered that White Point Beach Resort where she was staying was alight.
Even though smoke was "pouring from the hotel’s main hall", Rogers and her fiancé Michael decided the show must go on and went ahead with the ceremony they'd been planning for months.
“We decided that the most important thing was that we wanted to get married, and we were only an hour late,” Rogers said.
With black smoke and flames shooting 20 metres into the air, Rogers and Michael tied the knot.
As firefighters from 10 units battled the blaze, Rogers held her ceremony in another building at the popular seaside resort.
You have to admire their tenacity. While Rogers and her 45 guests partied, fire ravaged her wedding gifts and flowers. And one of her guests, a Russian woman, lost her passport in the fire.
“It was completely engulfed and everything was up in flames,” she said. “We lost all of that stuff, but that’s not important to us. We got the most important things.”
Mercifully, there were no injuries at the 83-year-old hotel, which was safely evacuated as soon as the fire was detected.
Officials still aren't sure what caused the blaze which provides a dramatic backdrop to many of the couple's wedding photos.
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