Wedding guests flee in terror as tornado crashes the party: ‘This is not where we wanna be!'
Sure, most lovebirds like the idea of a whirlwind romance.
But when a whirling tornado is bearing down on your big day venue, the thrill of a head-spinning courtship goes flying out the window — along with everything not nailed down to the ground.
3 Guests at the Indiana nuptials were forced to take cover inside the wedding venue as the funnel spun towards the establishment.
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'There's a tornado,' and 'Here it comes!,' screeched guests at recent Bloomington, Indiana hitching, per a chaotic post shared by the groom's sister, Morgan.
She assured social media worrywarts that the twister petered out shortly before reaching the venue — and everyone stayed safe.
However, frightening footage of the fête, which has scared up over 6.3 million TikTok views, featured a large gray funnel swirling towards a wedding — as freaked out folks ran inside a rustic establishment for cover.
But rather than sheltering in place, a few terrified attendees wanted to high-tail it home.
'We're not forced to stay in a death barn,' one well-wisher said as the cyclone neared. 'If we want to leave, we can leave.'
'This is not gonna save us from that if it hits us,' another guy noted in the vid, doubting the sturdiness of their hinky hiding place when pitted against a severe squall.
3 Severe weather has threatened to destroy several 2025 weddings.
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'This is not where we want to be,' yelped an equally spooked bystander.
And it's true. Facing off with an potentially deadly tornado — which can travel at speeds exceeding 60 miles per hour, according to The Weather Channel — is the last place most people (especially newlyweds and their loved ones) would ever want to be.
For Janai, a March 2025 bride from Washington, a devastating downpour lead to the downfall of her big day.
3 A string of recent weddings have been thunderstruck by intense hurricanes, tornados and superstorms.
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After the superstorm washed out her outdoor wedding décor, the reception venue experienced a power outage, her maid of honor suffered a seizure and a guest's dentures fell into a toilet.
A monstrous tornado leveled the home of Trendall and Darby Russom, a Missouri couple who recently tied the knot, in April.
Miraculously, a water-damaged, yet salvageable photo album from their November 2023 wedding was recovered by Good Samaritans who lived two-miles away.
'I never expected to ever find anything that we lost,' said Darby of the keepsake. 'And seeing how far it went was really amazing.'
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