Bride didn't know a 'killer clown' with a knife photobombed her wedding portrait
Vince Alexander just set the bar very high for future grooms.
How many others can say they successfully had a creepy clown with a knife photobomb their wedding pictures — without the bride knowing?
The Texas groom pulled it off last year and his bride, Manda, didn't find out until last week, when her husband gave her the framed photo as a gift for their one-year "paper" anniversary.
The couple, who met at a Texas restaurant, according to People, got married in March 2017 at the Witte Museum in San Antonio and took their wedding photos just outside the venue.
"After a year of keeping a secret, she finally opened her anniversary gift," Alexander wrote on his Facebook page last week. "I am shocked she never found out ... Happy anniversary sweetheart, I love you to death."
He also posted a video of his shocked wife opening the framed portrait.
"Oh my, oh my God," she exclaimed, covering her face. "How did you do that?"
Apparently the bride and groom are not of one mind when it comes to clowns. He likes them, she's no fan.
"When we were talking about what kind of reception we wanted after the ceremony, I originally told my wife that I wanted a clown to be there," Alexander, a Department of Defense employee who does marketing work for the U.S. Army, told Insider. "My wife was pretty against it, but she said if I wanted to, I could have (a clown)."
He eventually dropped the idea of a clown tying balloons at the reception, but not the clown.
According to Cosmopolitan, Alexander enlisted the aid of wedding photographer Megan Bowling of Pop of Color Images, who apparently didn't think twice about taking a wedding portrait with a knife-wielding clown in the background. The clown was the groom's brother.
"I love Manda and Vince, they are such a down-to-earth couple who know how to laugh and enjoy the little things in life," Bowling told Insider.
"Vince came to me with the clown idea during the engagement session. I really didn't think he was going to go through with it until the day of the wedding when he brought out the clown costume for his brother to wear."
Bowling posted the photo on the Pop of Color Facebook page over the weekend.
The bride thanked Bowling on Facebook "for capturing an amazing photo!! I don't know how everyone kept this from me!"
"Clown or no clown I thought it was the sweetest," Bowling responded. "I love how passionate Vince was about the whole thing. It really shows how much he knows and loves you. He made it happen I just snapped the photo and tried not to laugh."
The photo, declared Cosmo, "is a perfect combination of hilarious and absolutely terrifying. In case you were wondering, the rest of their wedding photos are totally normal and sans clown."
This story was originally published March 30, 2018 at 2:35 PM with the headline "Bride didn't know a 'killer clown' with a knife photobombed her wedding portrait."