They say rain is good luck on your wedding day (thank you, Alanis Morissette ) but not if you’re getting married on the beach where you met your fiancee.
For bride Dule Gonzalez her dream wedding became a nightmare when whipping rain destroyed the decorations and sent chairs flying down the sand.
As the bride looked on in dismay, a stranger appeared beside her, pointed to the large beach house above them and said to bring all the guests to their place.
“She said, ‘just give me 10 minutes and I’ll have everything set up,'” Gonzalez recalled. “So we started telling all of our family and friends to go into this woman’s driveway, even though we had no idea who she was.”
When everyone arrived the woman, Cynthia Littlepage Baber-Strunk and her husband had set up dozens of chairs for Gonzalez’s 50 guests in a large room complete with flowers and a golden mirror.
“As soon as I see how everything is set up, that’s when it gets to me,” said Gonzalez, 25. “Here I am blowing my face again trying to hold my tears back.”
“Everything looked like we had planned to do our wedding there,” she said. “That’s how perfectly she set it up.”
And they got their ocean view through the panoramic windows. Gonzalez said the beach was a “sacred spot” for her and her husband, Ariel because it’s where they met up and got to know each other on some of their first dates.
