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A bridesmaid has gone viral over a horrifying incident that happened at her best friend’s wedding reception. At the reception, her best friend told her to “get the dance floor going,” and she took this instruction very seriously. She had already done the worm a ton of times, but then she and her husband decided to do a trick that had practiced before. However, it didn’t exactly go as planned, and she landed on her head and her neck.
Luckily, she’s OK, but people are simultaneously finding the footage of the horrifying accident hard to watch and hard to look away from.
The wedding reception footage has millions of views.
@hannah.dlt They said “drop it like it’s hot”… so technically this is my husband telling me I’m hot right? #bestiewedding #wedding #broken ♬ Free Fallin' – Tom Petty
It shows the woman, whose name is Hannah, and her husband trying to do their dance trick. But when Hannah’s husband lifts her over his head, she falls backwards and he fails to catch her, causing her to crash onto the dance floor. Clearly finding humor in the accident after the fact, Hannah set the clip to “Free Fallin'” by Tom Petty.
Obviously, people were horrified. “omg is she OKAY???” someone commented on the video. But others questioned why Hannah and her husband were doing so much at the wedding reception. “Why were you doing all that,” one person wrote, adding a crying emoji. A third person said, “Y’all were watching way too much Dancing With the Stars.”
In another video, Hannah explained what happened.
@hannah.dlt Pain meds were cutting in a lot during this story! 😂
♬ original sound – DLT
The video shows her in the hospital. “Put a finger down if you were at your best friend’s wedding and … the bride came up to you and she was like, ‘Hey, you gotta get the dance floor going,’ and I did the worm so many times that my knees were sore,” she said. At that point, she felt like she was doing the best she could to get the dance floor going, but she and her husband also “did a little line dancing and two stepping” and “learned this really cool trick.” So, they decided to do it at the reception as well.
She added that she and her husband were both “a little tipsy,” and he threw her into the air but didn’t catch her. “I landed on my head and my neck and broke my clavicle and now I’m getting orthopedic surgery the next day,” she said in the video.
The story is pretty scary, but some of the people who listened to it chose to find positive things to focus on. “The good news is you can hold this over him forever,” one person commented on the video, referring to Hannah’s husband. Someone else said, “He will never live this down. Oh, you don’t want to get ice cream? Remember the time you DIDN’T CATCH ME AND I HAD SURGERY?”
In another video, her husband explained himself.
@hannah.dlt Not the bruised ego… 😂 #dwts #aftermath #dancefail ♬ original sound – DLT
Hannah said that some people had been asking why her husband didn’t catch her. He clarified that it was “100% completely an accident,” and they had practiced the dance move “hundreds of times” prior to the wedding reception. Though some people assumed that the couple tried the move because they were drunk, it was actually something they had done successfully many times. “The issue was we hadn’t done it in like two years since she had gotten pregnant and since had the baby,” Hannah’s husband explained. “So, we were a little bit out of practice.” He added that his wife had gotten lighter and he had gotten stronger, so when he pushed her up into the air at the reception, she “kept going and going.”
Some people told Hannah that it didn’t even look like her husband had tried to catch her. But he explained that it “happened so fast” that he didn’t fully realize what was happening until it was too late. He said Hannah was “a complete trooper.”
