Most brides are nervous on their wedding day, but Kansas newlywed Amber Mattox had extra reasons to be stressed. She got married on a day when dozens of tornadoes pounded the state.

The McPherson Sentinel reports the April 14 wedding went off as planned at a church in Smolan. But the pastor had just pronounced Amber and John Mattox husband and wife when a tornado warning sent everyone to the basement – except for the groom and a few others who stepped outside to watch a passing funnel cloud.

When they reached their reception hall at a Salina hotel, people were already inside. The hall turned out to be the hotel’s tornado shelter, and hotel guests joined the reception twice more during the night.