That day felt like a fairy tale.
Guests had gathered on the open terrace of a cozy restaurant outside the city. The bride, in a lace dress with a long train, walked toward the groom. He looked at her with sincere tenderness.
The ceremony was perfect — vows of love and fidelity, applause from the guests, a shower of white petals. After congratulations, everyone moved into the banquet hall. Guests enjoyed the dinner, laughed, and talked about how beautiful the couple was.
The moment of the first dance arrived. To the sound of a romantic melody, the bride and groom stepped into the center of the hall.
But suddenly, the unimaginable happened. The groom pushed the bride roughly and so hard that she fell to the floor with a startled scream. The music stopped, the guests gasped — a deathly silence fell. Someone screamed in shock, thinking the groom had gone crazy or a fight had broken out.
All eyes turned downward — on the shiny parquet floor, right where the bride had stood a second before, crawled a black scorpion with its tail menacingly raised.
The bride, sitting on the floor and barely able to breathe, saw the terrifying creature and trembled in horror. The groom rushed to her, helped her up, shielding her with his body, and only then did everyone understand that he had pushed her to save her.
If he hadn’t reacted so instantly, the scorpion could easily have stung the bride.
Panic broke out in the hall — no one understood where this deadly guest had come from in the middle of the wedding. The restaurant staff rushed to catch the scorpion while the groom held his still-shaking bride close, whispering calming words.
— I was so scared for you, forgive me, — he said, holding her tighter.
— Thank you… you saved my life, — she replied, sobbing.
At first, the guests saw what happened as horror, but then as a true miracle and the groom’s heroic act.
