Post date: Feb 25, 2011 3:51:55 PM
A Christchurch couple marry only days after one of them was pulled from the rubble of Tuesday's devastating quake.
NEW ZEALAND-QUAKE WEDDING - Love undeterred even by grave disaster.
Emma Howard and her fiancé Chris Greenslade survived New Zealand's 6.3 magnitude tremor on Tuesday and went ahead with their wedding plans and got married on Friday.
Emma, was rescued from a collapsed building after being trapped for over six hours when a concrete roof
crashed down on her work station.Her fiancé rushed to the scene immediately after the quake struck.
GROOM OF EARTHQUAKE SURVIVOR EMMA HOWARD, CHRIS GREENSLADE, SAYING:
"I got out of my building after the big shake, checked on a few people and then I was just making my way to Emma's building thinking I would be just getting her and taking her home, thinking she would just be a bit upset on the sidewalk and I just came round the side of this building and saw her destroyed building, and that's just horrifying and honestly the worst thing I have ever felt in my life and yeah it was just terrible and I know how some of these people have felt and at least I've got a happy ending to it all."
The couple decided to go ahead with their wedding day which had been planned for months.
GROOM OF EARTHQUAKE SURVIVOR EMMA HOWARD, CHRIS GREENSLADE SAYING:
"We lost our suits and we lost the cake and that's it. Everything else has gone to plan and this is incredible, just so lucky."
The disaster has so far claimed 113 lives, and authorities warn the death toll is set to climb, with more than 200 still missing.
But despite the backdrop of continued tragedy, all the guests who were originally invited turned up to participate in an occasion of hope, and a celebration of the future.
Travis Brecher, Reuters.