Wedding crashers are not usually a good thing. However, for one Michigan couple, an uninvited guest made that day even more special.
Luke and Morgan were celebrating their nuptials on the Felt Estate, in Saugatuck, Michigan, when photographer Laurenda Marie Bennett stole the couple away for “golden hour portraits.”
The friendly deer greeted the couple and spotted the bride’s bouquet. That spray of flowers was too tempting for the animal to resist.
Once the initial shock of the wildlife encounter wore off, Bennett began snapping photographs of the bride and groom.
As it turned out, this deer is a bit of a celebrity in the area. He has even made it to the news for photobombing a few engagement photoshoots in summer 2019.
The deer would stop nowhere to get the flowers, so the bride decided to give the hungry animal her bouquet. She borrowed one of the bridesmaids’ arrangements for the bouquet toss — but it was worth it for the funny photobomb.
Videographer Patrick Hellenga, of Patrick James Films, was there to capture the sweet encounter on video:
When the pair returned to the field later that night, they discovered that the deer had left something for the bride — a small wedding gift.
“When we walked back to the area where we dropped the bouquet, the deer was gone, but there was one white rose still intact,” said Bennett. “She picked it up and joked, ‘It’s the final rose.’”
Image source: Laurenda Marie Photography
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