Couple Misses Their Own Wedding Reception After Being Stuck On Hotel Lift For 2.5 Hrs

Weddings and the functions leading up to it and after it are primal for the bride and groom to attend, without a doubt. In most cases, the bride and groom arrive early, before the other guests, for the events. However, nowadays, couples want to make a solid entrance after everyone else has arrived to make the event more memorable.

Sadly, a desi couple in the US named Panav and Victoria Jha couldn’t attend their wedding reception because they were stuck inside the hotel lift for 2.5 hours till they had to be evacuated safely by firefighters.

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According to Times Now, the couple along with 6 other wedding guests were on their way to the event on the 16th floor. However, their lift got stuck between the ground and the first floor. The incident happened at Grand Bohemian Hotel in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Firefighters of the Charlotte Fire Department arrived and tried to fix the lift. But it would take a lot of time and effort. So they had to go ahead with the next best option – a rope rescue. One by one, they were put on a ‘hasty seat’ (a normal seat with hooks around it to be pulled by a rope rigging system) and pulled out of the lift.

Here’s a look at the video of the incident:

“WEDDING NIGHT RESCUE: First, congratulations to Mr. and Mrs. Jha on your wedding day. Although Charlotte Fire wasn’t formally invited, we weren’t exactly wedding crashers either. Early this morning, our crews responded to an elevator entrapment,” the fire department wrote on Facebook. Here’s the post:

It’s so sad that they missed their big night. But glad they’re looking at the bright side!

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