The groom who fell from the sky for his bride

Bhubaneswar: Hundreds of people witnessed a bridegroom and his friends coming to the bride’s house for marriage in a unique way on Sunday. They all fell from the sky.
As friends, relatives and neighbours of the bride were anxiously waiting, the marriage priest started chanting the ‘mantras’ to welcome the groom, and finally the groom came from the sky – quite literally with two of his wedding guests.
Thirty-year-old Shishir Mishra, an aircraft technician in the Indian Air Force and a skydiver trainer hired a private helicopter and from a height of seven thousand feet, dived on a ground in Bhubaneswar very near to the bride’s house.
Along with him two of his skydiving friends also jumped from the same helicopter as wedding guests.
“I always wanted to display my diving skills in Bhubaneswar and since my marriage was very near, I thought of making a unique combination of the two and make a record,” says the groom, Shishir Mishra.
Shishir, an ace skydiver has more than ten years of experience in this adventure and has so far completed over two thousand free fall jumps. Though he was very confident of his adventure on the marriage day, his 21-year-old bride – a genetic science student from Bangalore and his in-laws were not very keen on this unique idea. However, finally they too gave up after Shishir insisted.
“It was our wedding day. I was very worried that if something goes wrong, we all will be in trouble. But thank god it all ended well,” says the bride, Sweta Prusty.
15/07/08 Jajati Karan/CNN-IBN

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Categories: Indian Aviation- In General Jul 2008