An Arizona couple's wedding photos are going viral when the soon-to-be husband was greeted by his brother-in-law rather than his bride!.
Valentin Zherelyev was just a little nervous about seeing his bride Heidi in her wedding dress for the first time. So she came up with a creative way to calm his nerves.
"We're just seeing him interact with everybody on the day of the wedding, he's just so stressed," said Heidi. "So we were like, we have to do this."
The "we" in the situation was Heidi and her brother Eric, who she asked for the ultimate wedding favor.
"Can you dress up in Chelsea's old wedding dress and go surprise Val for the first look photos?" Heidi asked her brother.
"And I hear these gentle footsteps behind me," said Valentin. "And the most gentle touch on my should, and then I look back. I'm like, there she is, so pretty, so beautiful and I look back..."
It was not the blonde he was expecting.
"I just lose my mind, so funny," Valentin said. "All the emotions kind of start flowing out and I was just totally calm, hilarious."
The wedding photographer shared the photo on Facebook and the post has thousands of shares.
"It was hard to photograph because my eyes were watering," said photographer Nichole Cline. "I was laughing underneath my breath as much as possible. Val's reaction was just timeless. It could not have gone any smoother."
"He's one of those macho men, so seeing him in a dress was totally out of his character," Val said of his brother-in-law, Eric. "It was amazing."
And Heidi said the picture-perfect moment calmed her nerves, too.
"It was a really great start to the beginning of our story," Heidi said.
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