Couple invites black metal band to join their engagement photos

It was a fairytale engagement photoshoot, featuring the happy couple, an idyllic wooded backdrop and a four-member black metal band in full corpse paint.
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It was a fairytale engagement photoshoot, featuring the happy couple, an idyllic wooded backdrop and a four-member black metal band in full corpse paint.

Romantic!

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John Awesome and Nydia Hernandez tell ABC News that they happened upon the band while taking engagement photos in the California woods. The band itself was also mid-photoshoot when the couple approached them and asked if they'd be up for a photo.


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"Super nice people," Awesome told ABC News. "I seriously can't make this stuff up."

The internet's gone crazy for the photo, thanks to a Reddit post that garnered nearly 800,000 views.

As photographer Janet Wheeland told ABC News: "It was a perfect, spontaneous finale to our photo shoot. We couldn't have planned it better."

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Laura Vitto was Mashable's Deputy Culture Editor.

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