All weddings are memorable, but not typically because the father of the bride was struck by lightning while delivering a wedding toast. Yet, that exact thing recently happened.
All weddings are memorable, but not typically because the father of the bride was struck by lightning while delivering a wedding toast.
Yet, that exact thing recently happened.
J.P. Nadeau of New Brunswick, Canada was delivering a speech at his daughter’s Saturday outdoor wedding when clouds began to fill the sky, notes CTV News.
Nadeau told CBC that he was in the midst of telling the groom he is, “some lucky guy,” when “my daughter's eyes, she was looking at me, and she just, like, popped right out, because all of a sudden there was this lightning flash that hit right behind me. The power went into the soundbooth and came back through the mic cord, and I was looking at my hand, and it lit up. My whole hand — it was like I had a bolt of lightning in my hand.”
He felt an intense shock, but says that moments later he felt perfectly fine and finished his toast.
Though his encounter with the fiercer side of nature didn’t cause a significant interruption to the celebration, the heavy rain that followed did turn the outdoor event into one held beneath a tent.
Nadeau quipped, “Somebody should have built an Ark.”
