Army skydiver jumps 5,000ft into own wedding… then dances the night away with a broken leg

AN Army skydiver parachuted into his own wedding — then did his first dance with a broken leg.

Cpl Eddie Rudd, 31, and four military pals jumped from 5,000ft the night before the ceremony.

On the big day, an RAF jet treated the wedding party to a flypast and Eddie enjoyed a first dance to a country music ballad with Texan bride Cassandra.

It was not until a day after the North Yorks wedding that an X-ray revealed his leg — swollen from a night of dancing — was actually broken.

Fusilier Eddie — a member of the British Army’s parachute display team The Tigers — said it was the first time he had broken a bone in a decade of skydiving.

But it has not put him off skydiving in future.

Eddie, from Wiltshire, said: “Our honeymoon’s in Hawaii and I’ll absolutely be doing some jumps.”;

The soldier, who has chalked up almost a thousand drops since his first in 2015, said he had the idea to parachute into his own wedding months ago.

Eddie — who met Cassandra on a Disney cruise holiday in 2021 — told Flying Eze: “I think I had always joked about doing it. When we got engaged I said I thought it would be fun to jump in.

“I said it as a joke and it snowballed into, ‘How much will that cost?’”;

Cassandra, 31, said: “I was hesitant initially.

“But I guess over the last three years of watching him do it, it was to be expected. I remember encouraging him.

“So much of wedding preparation is about the bride, so if this was something he wanted to do I thought it would be really cool.”;

Eddie admitted he had no idea anything was seriously wrong until the hospital X-ray revealed he had ­broken his right fibula.

He said: “I’ve got a high pain threshold, but there had been no pain. Nobody thought it was broken.

“And my brother was happy — he got to say, ‘I told you so.’”;

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