Wedding Party Dodges Hotel Collapse

A wedding party waiting at a hotel in Hunt Valley, Maryland in the US for a photo session in the hotel’s atrium missed injury when the glass ceiling of the eight-storey building suddenly collapsed. When the debris stopped falling, hotel personnel discovered that the accident had not injured a single person in the hotel, including wedding party members and guests of Ben-Tzion and Rochel Groner.

The bride had not yet arrived at the hotel for the photo shoot when the collapse occurred because she was delayed by a phone call from the florist looking for last-minute instructions. Other guests who were lodged at the hotel, were safely in their rooms. The cause of the collapse was not determined, although the building was evacuated as a precaution.

The groom is no stranger to near-misses. At age 16, he was diagnosed with acute myelogenous leukemia, a rapidly growing blood and bone cancer. The groom, who recovered from the disease following aggressive treatment and a complete bone marrow transplant, was unmoved by either his illness or the roof collapse, thanks to a wedding prediction made by the family’s rabbi when the boy was just eight years old. The groom held onto the prediction as proof that he would live through his illness and marry.

The wedding ceremony itself was scheduled to take place at a hall about a mile away from the hotel, and went on as planned.

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