GROOM BIT BY RATTLESNAKE

A Fort Collins, Colorado, groom was bitten by a rattlesnake while taking photos on Monday evening. Johnny and Laura Benson’s wedding party drove up to Horsetooth Reservoir to take wedding photos. As the wedding photographer encouraged the group to back up to get the perfect shot, Benson’s friends began joking about rattlesnakes and getting bit. After the rest of the bridal party headed to the reception, Johnny, 44, stayed behind to take romantic sunset photos with his new bride. That’s when a rattlesnake bit him. Johnny and Laura went to a hospital for treatment while his wedding guests “freaked out,” according to a friend. Fortunately the groom was able to return to the reception to celebrate his new marriage.
* Let’s hope the treatment didn’t keep any other body parts from swelling that night.
* The groom was fine that night but now he can’t get excited unless he hears a rattling sound.
* The bride was hoping for a big snake, but not like this.
* I guess some snakes just don’t like getting their picture taken.
* The wedding guests “freaked out”? Yeah, they were rattled.
* Have they identified which one in the group is the psychic?
* “Thanks for the warning about the rattlesnake. Now do you have anything on Wednesday’s Lottery numbers?”
* Wow, they almost recreated Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, if the Garden of Eden was in Fort Collins, that is.
* At first, Johnny the Groom thought it was over so he sang his last words: “Tell Laura I love her.”
* Okay, it all worked out but you have to admit, it’s one hell of a bad omen.
* Getting all dressed up and then being bitten by a rattle snake? That’s a pretty good metaphor for marriage.