This wedding crasher was a snake in the grass
By Farida Fawzy, CNN
Updated 0109 GMT (0909 HKT) June 23, 2016
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(CNN)Cold feet before a wedding, very common. A snake chomping on the groom's ankle? Not so much.
Johnny Benson and his new wife, Laura, were strolling hand in hand through a lush green field in Fort Collins, Colorado on Monday. They said "I do" less than two hours before at a church.
As the sun began to set, wedding photographer Madeleine Wilbur captured their intimate first moments together as newlyweds.
Then their photoshoot was photobombed.
A sneaky rattlesnake slithered up to Johnny and gave him an unwanted wedding present -- a chomp on his ankle.
Ouch!