Groom taking wedding pictures on the beach rescues drowning man

The beach.
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Cindy and Zac Edwards of Orange Beach, Alabama, were taking their first photos as husband and wife when they were interrupted.

A woman ran up and told them there was a young man struggling in the water, having a hard time getting back to shore. The surf was strong and first responders were rescuing someone else, so Cindy Edwards urged her husband, a former lifeguard, to help the teen. He jumped into the water, and said the waves beat him and the teenager up. The first responders finished helping the other person on the beach, and assisted Zac Edwards and the young man when they made it back to the sand.

The teen was visiting from Mississippi, and the couple said they've spoken with his family, and while he's a little sore, he was able to attend his first day of school. "It's a story to tell," Zac Edwards told Fox 10. "I told her, 'The grandkids are going to have a story to tell.'" As for his new wife, she feels like she hit the jackpot. "Hero and hubby in the same day," she said.

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Catherine Garcia

Catherine Garcia is night editor for TheWeek.com. Her writing and reporting has appeared in Entertainment Weekly and EW.com, The New York Times, The Book of Jezebel, and other publications. A Southern California native, Catherine is a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.