Wedding celebrations move to bomb shelter after rocket siren crashes the party

Guests dance in the bomb shelter as Loren and David's wedding is interrupted by rocket fire, May 19, 2021 (Screen grab, Channel 12)
Guests dance in the bomb shelter as Loren and David's wedding is interrupted by rocket fire, May 19, 2021 (Screen grab, Channel 12)

A newlywed couple tell of their experience of getting married in a celebration interrupted by rocket sirens, which at one stage saw dancing take place not in an elegantly decorated wedding hall, but instead in a bomb shelter.

The couple say that guests were briefed in advance of the procedure if there were sirens during the event.

“We hope there wouldn’t be a siren during the ceremony, says Lauren. “When it happened [after the ceremony] we all just went into the shelter. It didn’t matter. Everyone was happy to celebrate with us.”

Her husband David explains that they decided to go ahead with the wedding because they had already previously postponed it due to the coronavirus pandemic.

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