“I don’t think I realized how big it was until I picked it up and I was like, ‘Oh my God the snake is as tall as me,’” Erika Rodriguez tells Inside Edition.
One brave bridesmaid turned into an emergency wrangler after a snake crashed a wedding.
Without hesitation, bridesmaid Erika Rodriguez grabbed the snake after it slithered into her sister’s wedding in Florence, Arizona.
“I don’t think I realized how big it was until I picked it up and I was like, ‘Oh my God the snake is as tall as me,’” Rodriguez tells Inside Edition.
A parade of guests followed along with their cell phones as Erika removed the snake from the wedding venue.
Rodriguez tells Inside Edition she learned the right way to grab a snake from the late Steve Irwin’s show.
“I just grew up watching Steve Irwin, my role model,” Rodriguez says.
