{"id":836449,"date":"2026-09-04T17:54:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T17:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/836449\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T17:54:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T17:54:14","slug":"watch-couple-weds-waist-deep-in-floodwaters-after-heavy-rains-flood-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/836449\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Couple weds waist-deep in floodwaters after heavy rains flood church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Watch: Couple weds waist-deep in floodwaters after heavy rains flood church<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/ec6af6d0-ba21-421a-ac43-b52368fc69ae_1788456182.file.png\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Brian Wiechert\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>BULAKAN, Philippines \u2014<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">After heavy rains flooded their church, a bride in Bulacan, Philippines, walked down the aisle through waist-deep water to marry her groom.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"1\">The couple had been advised by St. John the Baptist Parish in Hagonoy to postpone the ceremony, but they decided to go ahead. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"2\">The bride\u2019s gown was shortened for the occasion, while portable speakers replaced the church\u2019s sound system after the power went out.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"3\">Guests and members of the wedding party stood in knee-deep water as the ceremony continued. It may not have been the wedding they imagined, but it was certainly one no one will forget.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"4\">Through it all, the couple said \u201cI do.\u201d Congratulations to Mr. and Mrs. Chico!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Watch: Couple weds waist-deep in floodwaters after heavy rains flood church BULAKAN, Philippines \u2014 After heavy rains flooded&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":836450,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[354205,4,450,105580,354204,48822,3088,55809,109772,29965,451,354202,37460,3,3155,354201,354207,24338,354206,452,453,12531,71120,354203,273932],"class_list":["post-836449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-baptist-parish","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-bride","tag-bulacan","tag-ceremony","tag-couple","tag-floodwater","tag-floodwaters","tag-guest","tag-headlines","tag-heavy-rain-flood-church","tag-member","tag-news","tag-philippines","tag-phillipines","tag-portable-speaker","tag-rain","tag-sound-system","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories","tag-watch","tag-wedding","tag-wedding-party","tag-wjcl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=836449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836449\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/836450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=836449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=836449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=836449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}