Roof collapse throws wrench into wedding

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Gretchen Smith and her family hoped her wedding reception tonight at the Embassy Suites in Hunt Valley would bring the house down. But it happened withouther, and luckily, two days early.

Smith, 26, of Joppa, will marry Justin Amrein, also 26, of Joppa, today and planned to celebrate their union with more than 170 family and friends at the hotel. That was before a huge glass skylight crashed eight stories to the atrium below Wednesday afternoon.

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