A Manitoban bride found that having a 'big white wedding' sometimes means being escorted to the altar by a snowplow.

October 12 is Shania Mierau's wedding anniversary, something she was unsure would happen on the day of. Not everyone remembers their anniversary date but Mierau's will as that day is one marked in the history books thanks to a Colorado Low.

Shania Mierau tells the story of her big day here:

"We got engaged in the spring that year and I was at Bible camp during the wedding planning, so that was pretty interesting in itself," Mierau says. "It was going to be great, there were fall colours, it was going to be beautiful."

Earlier that week Mierau thought the pending snow would melt before her wedding day but the upcoming 33 cm of snow had other plans.

"I wanted a perfect wedding day."

As the storm hit she worried about the storm's impact on her wedding.

"West of Brandon it was not snowing that hard and everyone was like 'oh yeah we can make it' and then as they got past the border they were like 'oh, ok. So the weather reports are true."

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As she stood in her family's living room on Saturday mornings in her PJs with her hair done up watching the snow pile on, Mierau wondered if she could marry her groom.

"No one could go anywhere. I was not even sure if I would get to see my groom on the day of the wedding that we had planned."

Suddenly, someone knew a man with a plan.

"One of my bridesmaids, her dad was the snowplow driver. So she was texting him and getting him to come, telling him which roads we needed to be plowed," Mierau laughs. "He got stuck quite a few times actually."

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As her path to the altar became cleared, her groom was on the way.

"They got down one mile on the gravel roads and I guess the snowplow had gone past one the corner they needed to turn down so they had to shovel."

Mierau says that thankfully the men were not in their suits yet.

After the blizzard of problems, the family made its way to the church.

"Around 200 people had said they were coming and then there was about, I think, 40 people. I was amazed."

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Mierau was and still is amazed those 40 made it to the church. She says everyone assigned to a wedding task, including the minister who drove what normally would have been been a two-hour drive from Steinbach to McGregor, made it before the couple.

"I was like 'let's just do this already."

Safe in the church, Mierau and her husband wed.

Taking advantage of the fresh snow, the newly married couple took photos outside.

"It was still beautiful."