Joy turned to tragedy as a young new bride drowned in her wedding dress trying to complete the fun and symbolic "trash the dress" trend for social media.

When a young woman died in tragic circumstances just weeks after her wedding, local police sergeant Ronald McInnis warned “this is a story that is going to go all around the world .”

Maria Pantazopoulos, 30, tied the knot with her sweetheart Billy on June 9, 2012. Within a couple of months she was dead, gruesomely drowned in her own wedding dress after uttering some harrowing last words. The Canadian-Greek real-estate agent had been hoping to take part in the viral “trash the dress” trend at the time of her death, in which new brides wreck their wedding dresses in elaborate fashion for their social media feeds.

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