Kate Fotheringham’s wedding plans didn’t include a natural disaster, but even that wasn’t going to stop the ceremony
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When Kate Fotheringham promised her husband-to-be she wouldn’t be late to their wedding ceremony she could not have guessed a once-in-a-century flood might keep them apart.

On Saturday morning, Kate woke up to a nightmare when rising flood waters on the New South Wales mid-north coast left her trapped at her parents’ home just outside the regional town of Wingham.