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RAWDON, Que. — A woman who was being photographed in her wedding dress has plunged into a waterfall and hasn’t been found yet.
A rescue team is looking for the woman at Dorwin Falls in Rawdon, Que.
She had chosen the site as the backdrop for her wedding pictures.
During the photo shoot, around 2 p.m. today, she lost her footing on some rocks and fell into the water.
The rescue team including firefighters and provincial police are still looking for her. (Canadian Press news agency)
 
OMG. What a terribly sad thing to have happened on your wedding day.

Prayers to family and friends who are no doubt mourning this tragic loss.

Ellen
 
I wouldn't be quite so hard on I Love Film. He didn't sense the tenour of this thread, sure. The distance of a shocking event and the anonymity of the internet can so easily draw some black humour. I would be sure that the tea room of the local hospital or the medical examiner's office will see some exploration of the grim irony of this tragic event.
 
It is called humour. It is the way most of us cope with the cruel twists of life.
Whatever some may write or speak, none of us have the capacity to truly grieve for all the sadness in the World.
 
I know the area, and while it's beautiful, people have often killed themselves there either by swimming near the falls, or doing other antics. This is just sad.
 
My wife and I eloped in 10/2010, had the ceremony a year later. We were going to go out with some infrared 120 film and make some photographs of her in the dress in at a cool little restored silver mining town called "Ashcroft" this weekend....

.....needless to say this utterly heart wrenching story has made us postpone that decision. I guess we are just too sensitive and emphathetic like that.

No words can possibly heal those poor souls who are her loved ones those who were hospitalized with grief.....humor has no place here.
 
Quite tragic!

I had a friend years ago who lost her partner on the first day of their honeymoon in North Queensland. He dived into a river somewhere near the resort they were staying at and never surfaced ... horrifically they concluded he was taken by a croc!
 
What a sad story ... but sorry I have to ask the only relevant question :
HOW STUPID CAN YOU BE ? Eeeh?
This includes all involved, the photographer, the assistants, the bride herself - most likely in high heels.

Just yesterday I saw a bride and groom posing for pictures at the corner of a small town park. To get a shot with the path and trees in the background one of the total of FOUR photographers jumped in the middle of the street, kneeling down between the lanes in moving traffic with a small tripod. The others shot with tele lenses (and flash mounted on top bouncing upwards - outside).
Sometimes common sense seems strangely rare.
Why are you risking you life for shot in your wedding dress on a rock? It's a posed picture, staged, nothing original, no emotions and finally a life lost.

Never the less, condolences to the widower, family and friends.
 
icebear said:
Why are you risking you life for shot in your wedding dress on a rock?.
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Well, that's always easy to say in hindsight but they obviously didn't think that they were in any danger. You can say that that's stupid but would you really have thought that getting your feet a bit wet is dangerous? Judging from the article it looks like the key factor here was that her wedding dress got soaked and it's safe to assume that she didn't have lots of experience when it comes to wearing a wedding dress in nature.
 
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