Bride's horror story after discovering bloodstains on her wedding dress
<p>A young bride has relived the moment she discovered blood-sucking leeches underneath her wedding dress just moments after her first dance.</p>
<p>Madalyn Wise, from Queensland, said she and her husband Jayden were whisked away to a “sludgy grass” area to take intimate wedding portraits after they tied the knot in the NSW Hinterlands early 2021.</p>
<p>Three hours later, she was on the dancefloor with friends and family when her quick-thinking mother-in-law pulled her into the dressing room after spotting blood on her white dress.</p>
<p>At first, Madalyn thought the stress she experienced in the lead up to her wedding day triggered an “early period”. However - upon a closer inspection, leeches were found including a “fat and thick” one behind her knee joint.</p>
<p>“There were three leeches - one underneath my foot, one in the pit of my knee like the armpit of my knee and there was another one crawling up my leg,” Madalyn said on TikTok.</p>
<p>“The fat one filled up with blood and dropped off my leg on the dancefloor, which is why so much blood started to come out on my dress.</p>
<p>Madalyn said she suspected the leeches crawled up her legs while she was posing for pictures in a wet area.</p>
<p>“In the lead up to our wedding, we had a lot of rain... So during the photo shoot, we did have to go into some really long, sludgy grass to get some nice photos,” she explained.</p>
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<p>“Basically what I think had happened was we went and did this photo shoot in the afternoon, at some point during the shoot, the leeches made their way up my leg while we were going through the sludgy grass.</p>
<p>“The leeches were there from the photo shoot until our first dance. So it was literally on me throughout my whole reception - throughout dinner, the speeches and our first dance.”</p>
<p>Just minutes after dancing with her new husband in front of guests outside, everyone returned to the barn where they “danced the night away”.</p>
<p>“I think I had been dancing with my friends for maybe one or two songs and all of a sudden, my mother-in-law grabs me and she’s like ‘Come with me’... then she starts lifting up my dress,” Madalyn recalls.</p>
<p>Upon checking, they spotted two leeches on her - while the third was found on the dancefloor.</p>
<p>Her wedding coordinator sponged all the blood out of her dress while her photographer bandaged her leg up.</p>
<p>“We ended up finishing off the night just dancing, mingling with guests and I was showing everyone my bandaged leg. I ended up putting my dress back on because all the stains were out.”</p>
<p>Madalyn said everything turned out “fine” after her wedding night - but she did experience itching around the affected areas on her leg.</p>
<p><em>Images: TikTok</em></p>
