Priceless Wedding Photo

Photo captures Calgary couple in loving embrace as dark clouds loom ominously overhead on their perfect wedding day. Moments later, the heavens opened and they were drenched.

If rain on your wedding day is a sign of good luck, then a Calgary couple can expect years of happiness ahead.

In a dramatic wedding photo taken just a minute before the skies opened up, Owen Chan and Helen Knight gazed into each other’s eyes as dark clouds crept ominously over the city skyline behind them.

Moments later, they were drenched.

“Yes, we absolutely got caught in that torrential downpour!!” wedding photographer Cassie Molyneux posted on Facebook alongside the well-timed shot.

The group, which included the couple’s groomsmen and bridesmaids, had only two umbrellas to share between them. One went to the bride and groom, and the other to protecting Molyneux’s cameras.

“We couldn't all help but laugh hysterically at what was happening. It was absolutely crazy and definitely an unforgettable moment,” Molyneux wrote.

Everyone piled back to the couple’s home, and the groomsmen dried their suits while the bridesmaids helped fix Knight’s hair and blow-dried her wedding dress.

“In about 20 minutes everyone looked just as spiffy as before the storm . . . just a little on the damp side,” Molyneux said.

“I already knew Owen and Helen to be two of the most amazing, spirited people in the world, but the fact that they basically had buckets of water dumped on them on their wedding day and still came out smiling, happy and full of love just blew me away and I now love them even more!”

The Chans are not the only ones to have had nasty weather interrupt their wedding day plans.

Nancy Rogers was less than an hour from saying “I do” when the Nova Scotia lodge where she planned her nuptials went up in flames in 2011.

Rogers and her fiancé, Michael Rogers, moved the ceremony to another building at the resort, and went ahead with the wedding.

Last year, an out-of-control forest fire threatened to interrupt a wedding in Rock Springs, Oregon. But photographer Josh Newton used the billowing clouds of black smoke as a backdrop for some unforgettable pictures instead.

“I’m an adrenaline junkie and I guess (the couple is) too, we’re all from Alaska so that might be part of it,” Newton told Fstoppers about the dramatic shots.