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Omaha, NE (WOWT) — Travel was not advised Saturday as Omaha got pounded by another round of snow.
“It was just a little snow. It wasn’t going to slow us down,” said Jake Bridge.
Nine inches of snow is more than just a little, but no amount of snow was going to stop the new Mr. and Mrs. Bridge on their big day.
“Let’s have a blizzard, you know. Let’s do it,” said Jake Bridge.
The newlyweds got hitched at Tiburon Golf Club on the anniversary of their engagement.
The couple saved the date last April.
“I’m like, ‘I hope we get a blizzard for this deal but that was just more being sarcastic,’ but sure enough that’s what we got,” said Jake Bridge.
Be careful what you wish for.
Seven to nine inches of snow in Omaha, Saturday, and dangerously high gusts created white-out conditions for drivers.
The days leading up to their most important one, Jen and Jake’s phones were buzzing around the clock – friends and family wondering if the ceremony was still a go.
“Hell yeah it’s going to happen,” said Jake Bridge.
And so…it did.
“When we woke up that morning I was like, ‘Alright, it doesn’t matter what it’s going to do outside. We’re doing this and we’re going to have fun so we did,’” said Jen Bridge.
They embraced the ‘brr.’
Both wedding parties dressed to the nines, in nine inches of snow, and took wedding photos on the terrace at Tiburon in the midst of a snowstorm.
“I couldn’t feel my hands,” said Jen Bridge.
“We knew the people that could make, we were going to go and have a good time with whoever was showing up,” said Jake Bridge.
Not even a blizzard could break the Bridges.
The bridges are making up for their blizzard wedding with a six-day honeymoon in Saint Lucia.
The couple flies out Monday morning.
The low temperature there tonight…75 degrees.
The couple say there were about 100 guests that couldn’t make it.
They’re thankful for everyone that was able to celebrate with them.
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