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Podcast: North Star with Ellin Bessner
Episode: A Hallmark movie gone wrong? How a glass-breaking accident took this groom from chuppah to hospital
Description: “We had a beautiful wedding. Wish you could have been there!”
That’s what Shawna Magence quipped to her new husband, Steven Weiss, about three weeks ago, after a freak accident marred their joyous marriage ceremony in Florida.
Magence, 55, from Toronto, had just stood under the chuppah on Nov. 16 with her husband-to-be, an American from the Five Towns area of Long Island, New York, for the traditional breaking of the glass. Suddenly, people noticed puddles of blood on the floor. It turns out, the broken wedding glass had pierced the groom’s right foot, causing a deep g...