ST. LOUIS — Despite what started as a beautiful day, one wedding day quickly took a turn as Friday’s EF-3 tornado swept through Forest Park.

Maggie Holmes, a wedding photographer, captured the destruction and shared it on social media. The wedding was setting up at the World’s Fair Pavilion before the tornado unexpectedly rushed through, sweeping away tables, chairs, and decor.

“It was the scariest day of my life,” Holmes told FOX 2. “You could look up at the sky and see the tornado rotating.”

Holmes said they received an alert at 2:34 about a tornado warning, and just six minutes later it arrived, rushing them into the pavilion’s restrooms.

The wedding party, vendors, and family piled into the two restrooms, and Holmes said they could barely get one of the restroom doors to shut.

“We saw a table fly away right as we got the door to shut,” Holmes said. “I just thought, ‘this is serious.'”

Holmes told FOX 2 the couple had flown all the way from Seattle for their wedding in Forest Park.

“They were surprisingly very calm,” Holmes said. “They were rolling with the punches.”

The wedding continued on despite the downed trees and cluttered decor. Holmes said one of the kitchen doors was even bent in half from the power of the tornado.

Guests were able to arrive shortly after the trees were lifted.

“I can’t think of a more Missouri wedding — Forest Park, an EF-3 tornado + Imo’s Pizza.” Holmes posted on Instagram