BHUBANESWAR, India (AFP) — It is supposed to be the happiest day of any woman's life but an Indian air force official Sunday decided he could upstage his future wife -- by dropping in from 7,000 feet (2,100 metres).
Shisir Mishra, an accomplished sky diver, jumped from a helicopter and landed in a sports ground close to the bride's home in Bhubaneswar, the capital of Orissa state.
Mishra, along with three friends jumped free fall before opening his parachute a few hundred feet from the ground and landing to cheers from hundreds of well-wishers at the wedding ceremony.
"The idea of doing something on the occasion of my marriage struck me after I read about a couple in Maharashtra (state) getting married in a hot air balloon recently," said Mishra, whose bride gifted him a bouquet on arrival.
"Not for a moment was I scared. I was sure he would make it," bride Sweta Prusty said.
Mishra previously won a place in the Limca Book of Records -- the Indian equivalent of the Guinness World Records -- for jumping free fall from 15,000 feet with the Indian national flag in hand.
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