(CNN) It was a wedding-day nightmare. The sky was dark, thunder rumbled, lightning cracked across the sky and large raindrops soaked the flower-petal pathway and chairs waiting for wedding guests on a beach in Pascagoula, Mississippi.

The bride, Dulce Gonzalez, said she had spent more than a month planning the wedding and was relieved that morning when the forecast said the chance of rain was only 10%. Hours later, she was holding back tears as she saw her decorations fall apart in the downpour. She didn't know what she was going to do.

"We were just really praying for the rain to calm down," Gonzalez told CNN. "At that moment I felt like I was about to have a breakdown."

That's when a stranger jumped into action and saved the celebration.

Pulling it all together

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