A wedding is supposed to be a beautiful occasion for the people getting married and their guests. After all, they spend a lot of time and money to make the day match their vision of perfection. Weddings can also be an incredibly stressful experience for everyone involved because of the potential for mishaps. Sometimes it's something like a broken shoe or a popped button. But other times, it could be something big and unavoidable like a natural disaster or bad weather.
And some wedding mishaps, are purely silly and not a big deal at all. Recently, one bride went viral because her dress caught fire at the end of her ceremony, and it's certainly something she'll never forget.
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The moment was captured by accident.
Shauna Bailey, an artist, was hired to paint the wedding, and was recording herself painting to create a time-lapse video to use later. She had no idea that she was accidentally capturing the wild wedding moment.
"Sooo about the wedding I painted this weekend …" Bailey began the caption on the video she shared on TikTok. "I am SO relieved that no one was hurt. It’s entertaining now, but at the time it was TERRIFYING. I was recording for content to go with the painting timelapse when this happened. I actually dropped my phone and ran to get a bucket of water. Amazingly, the bride kept smiling through it all! We later found out that she had several fire chiefs in the audience and trusted that they would handle the situation. But it was WILD ," she wrote.
The comments didn't disappoint.
One person wondered: "Why… would they put real candles on the FLOOR !? and so close to everyone!"
"Oh man open candles in the floor, paper, and dresses is a perfect storm lol," another person commented.
"PLEASE tell me you added the flames and all the commotion in the painting PLEASE ," another comment reads.
"When the ceremony is just a little too lit," one user joked.
The bride and groom were none the wiser.
Lupe Quijano and her groom Luis Quijano were basking in the joy of having just said "I do," and didn't quite realize what was happening.
"I didn't know anything that was going on until we stopped kissing and I looked up and I saw two of my friends running towards me and I turned back to look to see what was going on and that's when I noticed that my veil and my dress had caught fire," Lupe told Good Morning America.
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The incident was kind of a perfect storm.
Albert Rodriguez, Lupe Quijano's brother-in-law, who also acted as the ceremony officiant, was also initially unaware of the situation.
"It was a beautiful moment but I started to notice there was a little too much chaos going on," he told the outlet. "I heard a scream. It didn't sound like a cheer. It sounded more like a panic."
While they don't know for sure, the family guesses that the fire was caused by the combination of paper streamers and open floating votive candles on the floor.
"We kept telling them, 'Please stop throwing the streamers.' This was all happening from the front to the center of the aisle," Rodriguez explained. "It was the people at the back that still hadn't really seen what's going on, so the streamers kept getting thrown. They were the items catching fire."
There were some quick-thinking guests at the wedding.
Luckily for the Quijanos, they had wedding guests who knew exactly what to do when the fire broke out, and those people quickly sprung to action.
"We don't think about 'Oh, we gotta invite military, firemen, a seamstress,' it just happens that those are the immediate people in our lives," Lupe said. "They literally just jumped into action to save everyone in the situation. So, I don't know, it kind of makes me feel really loved."
