A soon-to-be married couple in Kerala’s Alappuzha sailed to their wedding venue in a cooking vessel as heavy rain inundated the southern state of Kerala.

A video, that is making rounds on social media, in which the bride Aishwarya, a resident of Ambalapuzha, and the groom Akash, a resident of Thakazhi, are seen sitting in a round cooking pot, which is being pushed by two men as a cameraman attempts to capture their unusual trip down the aisle.

“It has turned into a wedding which we never imagined,” Hindustan Times reported Aishwarya as saying.

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Locals can be heard laughing and expressing their bewilderment at the unusual scene that greeted them on Monday. “Should have booked a boat instead of a car,” a man can be heard saying in the background.

Meanwhile, the gates of Idukki dam on the Periyar river were on Tuesday opened by the Kerala government to ease the pressure on the structure in the wake of heavy rainfall in the southern state. As many as thirty five people lost their lives in the rain-battered state.

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As soon as the gates opened, one lakh litre of water gushed out of the dam that is the backbone of the state’s hydel projects.

This is the fourth time that the shutters of Asia’s largest arch dam were opened. Before today, the gates were opened in 1981, 1992 and 2018.