Firefighters intervene to save a bride from a strange matter

A woman has had her £2,000 engagement ring cut off by firefighters after it cut off her finger the day after her fiancé's request.

Perissa Orumi, 30, panicked when she was unable to take the ring off in the morning, after her partner, Willis Orumi, 28, proposed to her during a romantic ceremony.

The bride spent an hour trying to remove the ring using soap, ice and string tricks she found on YouTube, but nothing worked.

After her finger began to swell and turn purple, the couple rushed to the local fire station for help and firefighters had to carefully cut the ring using emergency ring cutters, to free it from Perissa's finger.

Fortunately, the ring was resized at no extra cost and the couple got married as their big day went by without a hitch.

Perissa, from Beckenham, southeast London, said: 'I woke up in the morning and couldn't pull the ring off.

I tried cooling it with ice and using string to try to loosen it, but it wouldn't budge."

After contacting local jewelers, the couple were advised to go to the fire brigade who would have the tools to cut them.

The bride explained that her fiancé tried to measure the size of her ring from an old ring against his pinky finger because he wanted the offer to be a surprise.

Perissa commented that the current size "fits perfectly now".

The woman told her story, despite the comments of some who suggested that this incident meant that they should not marry, but the two newlyweds got married in an intimate ceremony and live happily.

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