Bride surprises groom with hilarious first-look photos

Andrew Wright, 25, was waiting patiently to turn around and see his soon-to-be wife, Nicole Smith, 24, for the first time on their wedding day. Little did he know that Smith had another idea.

The bride had organised for Wright's best man, Kye Stachowski, 24, to dress up in a wedding dress – complete with a veil and bouquet of flowers – and surprise him instead.

"My first reaction to seeing Kye was complete confusion," Wright told Indy Star. "For a solid second, my brain was processing what was going on."

You can see his utter bewilderment in the photos, taken by the couple's wedding photographer Belinda Russell.

Smith got the idea for the prank off image website Imgur. "We really wanted to have a fun and relaxing wedding," she said. "I sent the Imgur post to Kye, and he was ecstatic to do it."

In fact, the bride had even shown her fiancé a few months before the wedding but in the nerves of the day, he must have completely forgotten.

Wright was actually becoming quite stressed that his best man had gone missing.

"I was still with the girls, and he was frustrated because his best man had disappeared," photographer Belinda Russell said. "He thought things were falling apart."

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Russell also said she did her bit to make sure the prank went smoothly.

“I said things like ‘Great Nicole! You look beautiful. OK Nicole, move over just slightly and hold your flowers up.’ I told Andrew that Nicole would come up behind him and put his hand around his waist and to turn and see his bride when that happened,” she said to Fox News.

The happy couple are pleased with how the prank photos turned out. Even if it meant their proper first-look photos were interrupted by giggles.

“We still did the normal first look after. When I had the groom turn back around for the real first look, he was still laughing and said he wasn’t sure if he could do it again,” Russell said.

Totally worth it.