unbelievable timing. Amazing shots. Considering the destruction in those pics, "only" 3 missing guests is a miracle.

@kjdragon - 

thanks for your comment...correction, there were 33 guests missing instead of 3.

@lelandwong - 

@lelandwong - 

Ok. 33 is terrible. Assuming that most of their families and friends were gathered here - that's pretty concentrated.

Leland......those would be extreme conditions to be working under. I am sadden by their plight and feel helpless as many people would upon seeing such devastation. You and I also live in earthquake proned locations. We must be prepare for such an occurrence.

wow crazy

Hi,

all of the party survived.

Chinese text: 和当地爱灾的村民一起展开自救不幸中的万幸，在教堂中抽照的三十三人全部脱险。
Bablefish's rough transl.: "And disaster's villagers with the locality launching together helps oneself unbelievably lucky, pull out in the church according to 33 people are out of danger completely."

Such a high death toll would not fit to the fact, that none of the group started to bury out the bodies.

Greets from Munich (Germany)
R.

All 33 members of the wedding party survived.

I wonder at what point do the number of dead become meaningless to the average human? Me, I probably only really know a handful of people intimately, so when you get to figures like "50 thousand dead in China" and "100 thousand dead in Burma" a strange meaninglessness kicks in. I guess it would just be too much for one human to take in... All those people who lay there in the rubble, and never got found. And one disaster out-publicizing the other. Just awful.

For helping those in Burma directly (rather than via the aid the Government allow in) go here:

https://secure.avaaz.org/en/burma_cyclone/

Oh my goodness. I can't even imagine.

"If anyone here has any objections to this couple getting married, let them speak now or forever hold their peace!"

Wow, thanks for pooling the photos together and sharing this.

It's amazing to us, but imagine how tragic for them...

Wow, I would have been terrified!

What a great record of a terrible force of nature...

I actually gasped when I saw these photos, they're stunning and horrific. Thanks for posting these on here.

To answer your first question, no.  A tragedy on that scale is inconceivable, it's so terrible--there's no disaster (natural or otherwise) that's happened in the US that I can compare it to (at least not to my knowledge).

I agree. If I hear a story about 27 students getting gunned down, I'd think, "Oh those poor kids and their families!" But when you hear an absurd about like 50-100 thousand, it's so unfathomable, that you're right, the meaning of human life is just lost.

Wow. Horrible about the earthquake, first.

The pictures are amazing! Perfect timing...

shoot that's so bad.

that is what u call a good day gone bad it is still sad

wow, what an amazing story! At least it seems the people and the photographers were alright...

i never thought about a wedding going on during that time
that's horrible

Wow - thank you for sharing these! I came via Clicked (you're famous!) and am just astonished. That last picture, of the church (?) before and after, just took my breath away. Imagine if they'd been doing those photographs inside... it's a miracle anyone survived, much less the entire wedding party.

that is horrible...epic marriage