Imagine frolicking in the sea only for your wedding rings to slide off your finger and disappear.
That's what happened to 26-year-old Jodie Brown Clayton as she went for a dip at Canford Cliffs beach in Poole, Dorset last weekend.
Poor Jodie thought she'd never see the platinum and diamond rings again after they came off her finger.
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But miraculously, she managed to retrieve them that very same evening with a little help from local metal detectorist Richard Higham.
Beautician Jodie and her scaffolder hubby Oli Clayton had both feared the worst after combing the sea-beds frantically and diving underwater to search for the rings.
Jodie, from Poole, Dorset, said: "I just love those rings and was devastated when I lost them.
"Even though it's 'only' jewellery they're so precious to me and my wedding ring was blessed, it was absolutely heartbreaking.
"I was so gutted, I ever thought I'd see them again. Unfortunately we lost my nan six days before our wedding, she absolutely loved my engagement ring and that all went through my mind - that she saw it and loved it too.
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"It was horrible even saying what had happened to my parents, I just kept going over and over the moment they slipped off and blamed myself.
"It still makes me feel sick thinking about it now to be honest."
The couple had been enjoying the glorious weather alongside two pals when the incident took place.
Jodie added: "I didn't take my rings off before going into the water as I thought they were safer with me than being left somewhere.
"We had our honeymoon in Mexico and I was in the pool and the sea there all the time and it was absolutely fine.
"We'd been in the water about 20 minutes and this one time the foam ball came at me towards my left hand.
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"I hit it and I was pretty sure I felt them come off, I looked down at my hand and I was just in complete shock.
"I turned to my husband and our friends and said 'my rings, my rings, please get them, they're gone, they're not on my hand'.
"Then I just started crying. We both put our heads under the water trying to see them hoping the diamonds would shimmer.
"We found someone on the beach with goggles and a little net that we tried to sieve the sand through.
"We looked for 20 minutes but then I was too upset and I just had to leave. It was so hard to get out of the water and leave them behind, it was horrible."
As a last ditch attempt, the couple eventually reached out to metal detectorist Richard, who lives in nearby Swanage and specialises in reuniting people with their lost jewellery, and begged him to come to the rescue.
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Richard - whom a family member had recommended - methodically swept the area with his Minelab CTX3030 metal detector and used beach hut markers as the starting point on his hunt.
The couple managed to work out they were about 50 metres out to sea using the beach huts as markers, and then Richard went hunting.
"He started off very shallow and used the scoop to mark out where he was going," she said.
"He didn't dig at all for ages, he just kept going out further and did a sweep of the area.
"I stood on the shoreline with my mum and step mum just hoping and praying and crying."
Around 20 minutes after Richard starting hunting for the rings he was in luck, and beckoned over a tearful Jodie to see the wedding ring for herself.
"I was in bits, I couldn't believe it," she said. "He found it in waist-deep water. It makes me shiver now just thinking about it."
As she showed her loved ones the rings were back on her hand once more, Jodie said the moment was "like something in a film," and everyone screamed and united for a massive hug.
"I put it on my finger, turned around and showed my mum and my step mum and it was like something in a film - we screamed and I ran to them and we had a massive hug.
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Two minutes later, her husband also presented her with the retrieved engagement ring, too.
"It's a miracle, it's unbelievable. It was just an incredible moment, we were all overwhelmed," she said.
"When Richard found my rings I went out into the water in my dress and I just jumped on him.
"You could see on his face he was absolutely thrilled for us. I really think someone was looking down on us that day."