Here's an amazing story that will give you chills. It's apparent, because of the way the butterflies behaved (oddly) that they were in fact being guided by the Groom's late sister.
Here's the story:They Released Butterflies For The Groom's Late Sister, Then This Happened
The groom's parents wanted to honor their daughter, who died in a car accident.
ByBrittany Wong07/10/2019 05:25pm EDT |
Max Van Gorder lost his younger sister
Vanessa in a car accident on Christmas Day a few years back. Vanessa was
special to him and just as special to his girlfriend, Lydia.
When
Max and Lydia married in their home state of Pennsylvania last June,
they knew they wanted to honor Vanessa in some way. Their plan was to
have Max’s parents release a flurry of monarch butterflies in their
daughter’s memory during the ceremony. (A fitting tribute, given that
the name Vanessa is also a species of butterfly.)
As
“Somewhere Over The Rainbow” played, Max’s parents did just that, but
then something surprising happened: The butterflies didn’t want to
leave.
“After they were released,
about half of them flew off above our heads, while the other half
hovered over the groom’s parents and clung onto them,” photographer
Jessica Manns told HuffPost. “Max’s dad had a butterfly perched on his
finger for the entire ceremony. It just clung to him.”
Jessica Manns Photography
The
beautiful photos, captured at Fox Hill Farm, a barn in Honesdale,
Pennsylvania, quickly went viral when Manns posted them on Facebook late last month.
Jessica Manns
In her post, Manns said the moment was “probably the most emotional thing I’ve witnessed at a wedding.”
“The family’s reaction seemed to be a
mixture of awe that they were hovering around them so closely and
reverence for the butterflies and what they were witnessing,” she told
us. “There was just a lot of emotion as they thought of Vanessa and her
spirit.”
Jessica Manns Photography
Two
of the butterflies landed on Lydia’s wedding dress as she walked down
the aisle after saying “I do” ― and when cocktail hour rolled around, a
few flew onto the bride’s bouquet and chilled there for a bit.
A
few hours later, during the speech portion of the reception, a single
monarch swooped into the barn, seemingly out of nowhere, and landed
right on Lydia’s neck.
Jessica Manns Photography
“Everyone
in the room who could see gasped and Lydia had such a surprised
reaction,” Manns said. “It stayed on her face for the remainder of the
speeches. It was pretty remarkable since the reception happened hours
after the ceremony inside an enclosed barn that was a good distance from
the ceremony spot.”
On Facebook, the bride thanked the photographer for capturing “such a special and loving moment” during her big day.
“Vanessa was with us there and throughout the night,” she wrote.
See more of the stunning photos below.
Jessica Manns Photography
Jessica Manns Photography
Jessica Manns Photography
Jessica Manns Photography
Jessica Manns Photography
Jessica Manns Photography
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