Michael Wolber was standing at Rock Springs Ranch, near Bend, waiting for his bride, April Hartley, to walk down the aisle on Saturday afternoon. Everything had gone as planned.

"It was like a movie. We saw a fire truck roll up with sirens blaring," Wolber said, reached by phone from the airport in Houston, where he and April were rushing to make a connection Monday morning for their honeymoon in Cancun.

Because of the Two Bulls wildfire outside Bend, the bride was informed, the ranch would have to be evacuated. With tears in his eyes, Hartley's father told the guests that they would have to relocate.

During the confusion that followed, the firefighters must have had a change of heart, because Kelly Louden of Rock Springs Weddings came running into the ceremony with her arms waving. The ceremony – albeit an abbreviated one – could go on.

The wedding minister, Liz Leavitt, quickly married the couple, everyone cheered, and the evacuation began.

"I've had a lot of surprises, being in ministry," Leavitt said. "But I have to say: I've never had this happen before."

Guests began loading their cars as quickly as they could, and the reception was relocated to downtown Bend's Drake Park. While that happened, wedding photographer Josh Newton sneaked away with the couple to take some incredible photos, with the wildfire raging in the background.

Newton uploaded one photo to Facebook, and it has since gone viral – as of Monday morning, it has garnered over 5,100 "shares" and nearly 67,000 "likes." The story has even been picked up by national outlets like Good Morning America.

"The location change didn't affect the wedding at all," Newton wrote. "It was the most beautiful day."

Wolber called it "the most beautiful ceremony either of us could have ever imagined." He and his wife live in Aloha and both work at Nike.

"We showed up to Drake Park as if the whole plan all along was for us to get married and celebrate down there," Wolber said.

-- Luke Hammill