Christchurch: A woman pulled from the rubble of New Zealand's earthquake three days ago got married today, in a poignant glimmer of hope for a country coming to terms with the disaster.
Emma Howard wed partner Chris Greenslade in a church just yards from a school hall where the families of the 200-plus missing were told there was little chance of more survivors being found.
As distraught relatives of those missing filed into the hall to be addressed by rescue authorities, Howard acknowledged she was fortunate the wedding was going ahead as planned.
Prior to the service, she said she was lucky to be alive after spending more than six hours trapped in the Pyne Gould Corporation Building after Tuesday's devastating 6.3 earthquake in New Zealand's second largest city.
Emma Howard wed partner Chris Greenslade in a church just yards from a school hall where the families of the 200-plus missing were told there was little chance of more survivors being found.
As distraught relatives of those missing filed into the hall to be addressed by rescue authorities, Howard acknowledged she was fortunate the wedding was going ahead as planned.
Prior to the service, she said she was lucky to be alive after spending more than six hours trapped in the Pyne Gould Corporation Building after Tuesday's devastating 6.3 earthquake in New Zealand's second largest city.
"I'm so lucky I didn't get under my desk," the 23-year-old accountant
told Radio New Zealand. "My desk was crushed by the corner of the
concrete (ceiling) above me that came down."
She is so lucky and he is too too… lucky.
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