(Photos)Bride-to-be who wanted to surprise groom by arriving via helicopter dies in crash

A bride's childhood dream of arriving at her wedding by helicopter ended in tragedy when it crashed just a mile from the venue.

Rosemere do Nascimento Silva, 32, had planned to surprise her fiancé Udirley Damasceno and 300 guests by swooping in to their reception in a rural area on the outskirts of Sao Paulo in Brazil.

But in an horrendous twist of fate, the aircraft crashed en route to the venue, killing the bride-to-be, her brother, the pilot and a photographer who was six-months-pregnant.

According to Daily Record, Mr Damasceno was left waiting at the altar, unaware of what his fiancée was planning to do, or of the tragic consequences

The distraught bridegroom was told the news at the altar by the pastor and was said to have gone into total shock.

There were 300 guests at the wedding but only about six of them knew about the surprise.Police and air crash investigators are now trying to establish what caused the crash