BROOKLINE, N.H. (CBS) – When things went awry on Angelique Arsenault’s wedding day, the bride decided to take matters into her own hands. 
 
 Arsenault, a Brookline, New Hampshire resident, says her limo got a flat tire on the way to their venue in Milford. 
 
 “It didn’t even seem real at the time, but it happened,” Angelique told WBZ-TV. 
 
 Angelique had waited 11 years to marry her groom, but on a breathtaking Saturday afternoon, she quickly realized she was going to have to wait longer, because on the way to the ceremony, just five minutes from her house, the limo carrying her bridesmaids and family abruptly pulled over. 
 
 “The limo driver gets out of the car, I’m like, ‘it’s fine. Maybe he just hit something,’” recalled Katie Queen, the maid of honor. “He gets back in, opens up the back window, and says, ‘you’ve a flat tire.’” 
 
 The champagne helped. 
 
 “We just laughed about it,” Angelique said. 
 
 Russell Hill Road in Brookline, New Hampshire isn’t exactly well-traveled. 
 
 “We actually had cars driving by us and they just took pictures and left and then finally someone actually stopped to see if we needed a ride,” Angelique said. 
 
 The driver who stopped was a man named Jay. He had a car full of kids but he was determined to help. So he dropped them off, returned, and asked the bride, “where to?” 
 
 He declined an on camera interview, but said he was just happy to help. 
 
 The Mile Away venue wasn’t a mile away. It was seven rural miles away, where Jarrod Dunning was patiently waiting and worrying. 
 
 Thirty minutes late, Angelique and her bridal party arrived. 
 
 Now on her honeymoon, she realizes Jay didn’t just save her big day, he was the punctuation. “It pretty much made the whole day,” Angelique said. “Everyone was laughing all night about it. It’s going to be a story we’ll remember forever.” ||||| BROOKLINE, N.H. (AP) — After waiting 11 years to marry her groom, a flat tire wasn't going to stop a determined New Hampshire bride from walking down the aisle on her special day. 
 
 With her limo rendered inoperable along an infrequently traveled road in Brookline, Angelique Arsenault stuck out her thumb and hitchhiked to the wedding venue in nearby Milford on Saturday. 
 
 Arsenault says her bridal party just laughed after receiving word of the flat tire from their driver. 
 
 With confidence fueled by champagne, Arsenault in her white dress was able to flag down a passing motorist who gladly helped get her to the altar — albeit 30 minutes late. 
 
 Despite the small hiccup, Arsenault says the rest of her wedding was "amazing" and she now has a story her family will remember forever.
– "For richer and for poorer, through broken-down cars and in health" is how Angelique Arsenault could have rewritten her vows after a pre-wedding roadblock in New Hampshire. The AP reports Arsenault was in her limo with her bridal party on Saturday, on her way to say "I do" in Milford, when suddenly the car came to a halt on a somewhat-deserted road in Brookline. "I'm like, 'It's fine. Maybe he just hit something,'" the maid of honor tells CBS Boston, adding that he then informed his passengers that the limo had a flat. The bridal party decided to take the incident in stride, indulging in some of the limo's champagne and then sticking their thumbs out to hitch a ride to the wedding ceremony and Jarrod Dunne, Arsenault's waiting fiance, at the Mile Away restaurant (which was actually seven miles away at that point). That's when a Good Samaritan named Jay pulled over with a car full of kids, heard their story, ran to drop the kids off, and returned to offer his chauffeuring services. The bride tells WCVB she arrived a half-hour late to the ceremony, but she says her wedding day still turned out to be "amazing." (A Tennessee bride helped out at an accident scene, dress and all.)