A young bride from Ontario who was posing for a photo with friends at her honeymoon suite in Mexico plunged to her death when the railing she was leaning against gave way.

Shannon Amy Guy, 24, and her husband, Paul Guy, had left for Mexico on Tuesday, two months after being married in their home town of Carleton Place, just outside Ottawa.

On Wednesday morning, Paul updated his friends: “We Have arrived in Mexico!!!! All is good we are settled at the resort,” he posted on his Facebook page.

By Wednesday night, the couple had been upgraded to a honeymoon suite on the third floor at the Oasis Tulum, a resort in the Mayan Riviera town of Tulum, south of Cancun.

The newlyweds, who have seven-month-old and three-year-old daughters, were hanging out with another Canadian couple they had just met.

The couple asked Paul to take a picture of the group on the balcony of the suite. Suddenly, the railing broke and Guy watched in horror as his wife and the couple plunged three floors.

Shannon was pronounced dead at hospital. The couple was hurt, although it’s not known how seriously.

Paul, overcome with anger, punched a wall and broke his hand, said his mother, Darlene Guy.

“He is in really bad shape mentally,” said Darlene Guy, crying on the phone. “Last I heard he was in the ICU and I don’t know why, we’re really worried for him.”

Paul’s father flew down Friday to find his son, identify Shannon’s body and bring her home for burial.

Darlene Guy is waiting for her son to return. And that’s when they’ll tell his three-year-old daughter her mother is dead.

“How do you tell a three-year-old girl her mother is not coming back from vacation?” Darlene Guy asked. “I don’t know. I don’t know.”

Cindy Guy, Paul’s sister, who was taking care of the couple’s children, is mourning Shannon’s death with the rest of the family and trying to figure out how to explain the emotional chaos in the house to the three-year-old.

“This is such a terrible time, we miss her so much,” said Cindy Guy.

“She was very soft-hearted, very loyal, and just a wonderful person,” said Darlene Guy.

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