Stunts at Indian weddings are popular, but they may also be disastrous. According to accounts, something similar occurred at a wedding in Maharashtra. A video of a bride's wedding-day shooting trick that ended in tragedy has gone viral online. So the bride and groom were posing for a photo while holding glitter pistols. The ruse, however, did not go well for the bride.
Bride Pulls Off Gun Stunt On Wedding Day Goes Wrong
The footage shows the bride's glitter pistol bursting and smacking her in the face. She was seen instantly dropping the weapon and scrambling for safety, removing her varmala in fear that it had caught fire. When guests rush to the bride's rescue, the video abruptly ends.
Junnar Times, a regional news channel covering topics from Maharashtra's Junnar city in the Pune area, originally published the footage on YouTube yesterday. It quickly spread to Twitter, where the stunt was panned. Aditi, a Twitter user, posted the video.
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She tweeted the now-viral footage of the incident. A bride and groom can be seen posing on the stage in the 13-second film. The caption of the post read, "Idk what's wrong with people these days. They are treating wedding days more like parties and this is how they ruin their perfect day." So far, the video has received over one lakh views. The video also elicited several responses from Twitter users. One user wrote, "Except the rituals that are there in the marriage...do all those things...the rest has to be done...The cutting of the cake is yet to be done….the sword may have come for that too…
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In December of last year, a couple stumbled on stage while posing for pictures during their wedding in Jaipur. A video widely circulated on social media shows a couple on their wedding day just starting to dance beautifully for a picture session when the groom falls on the bride's lehenga and both of them come tumbling down, turning the entire occasion topsy-turvy. Jaipur Pre Weddings, an Instagram page, published the footage. The video was initially shared on December 15.