Groom skydives to wedding
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It is supposed to be the happiest day of any woman's life but an Indian air force official decided he could upstage his future wife - by dropping in from 2,100 metres.
Shisir Mishra, an accomplished skydiver, jumped from a helicopter and landed in a sports ground close to the bride's home in Bhubaneswar, the capital of Orissa state.
Mr Mishra - along with three friends - jumped free fall before opening his parachute a few hundred feet from the ground and landing to cheers from hundreds of well-wishers at the wedding ceremony.
"The idea of doing something on the occasion of my marriage struck me after I read about a couple in Maharashtra (state) getting married in a hot air balloon recently," said Mr Mishra, whose bride gifted him a bouquet on arrival.
"Not for a moment was I scared. I was sure he would make it," bride Sweta Prusty said.
Mr Mishra previously won a place in the Limca Book of Records - the Indian equivalent of the Guinness World Records - for jumping free fall from 4,572 metres with the Indian national flag in hand.
- AFP
