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And the bride wore black.
A UK bride was covered in black paint just moments before she walked down the aisle in a shocking “revenge” attack by her spiteful new sister-in-law.
Gemma Monk, a 35-year-old mom of two, was walking with her father to her big day in Maidstone, England, when she heard someone call her name — then saw them throw black paint at her, she told Kent Online.
She grabbed her attacker’s hair, realizing it was her groom’s sister, Antonia Eastwood, 49, who’d been banned from the nuptials over a simmering feud stemming from the sister-in-law’s own wedding a year earlier.
Shocking photos show the crestfallen bride-to-be with dark, mud-like paint covering the left side of her face and chest and spattered across her white wedding dress.
Eastwood fled — but was unable to stop her brother, Ken, from marrying his sweetheart of more than 20 years.
Remarkably, Monk was able to compose herself, clean up, get a second wedding dress — and tie the knot just two hours later.
“We had waited for that day for so long. Nothing was going to stop me,” Monk said Wednesday after her sister-in-law was found guilty of two offences of criminal damage for the May 2024 attack.
“I did not think twice,” she said. “I would have walked down the aisle in my [underwear] and with black paint over my face if I had to.”
Monk said she had banned Eastwood from the wedding because of a feud that started when her sister-in-law accused her of trying to trip her at her own wedding.
The shocking ordeal came after Monk had lost weight over a cancer scare, she said.
Eastwood knew of her health struggles but “still decided to ruin the most important day of my life and put me at risk,” said Monk, who has since been given the all-clear.
Monk choked back tears as she addressed her sister-in-law in an emotional victim impact statement.
”To have paint thrown over me by my brother’s wife changed my outlook on life and made me question whether I had done something really bad, whether I had done something wrong,” she said in court.
“This has turned the most special day of my life into the worst memory I will never forget, and neither will my family,” she added.
Eastwood was handed a 10-month prison sentence, suspended for 12 months, the UK equivalent of parole. She was also ordered to do 160 hours of community service.
“This was meant to be a special day for Gemma Monk and her family. Courtesy of your conduct, it turned into a nightmare,” Judge Oliver Saxby told her in sentencing.
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