A couple snowed in with 40 of their wedding guests got married in the middle of a blizzard and celebrated with a snowball fight

• Sally and Adam Irujo got married in the middle of a snowstorm slamming the East Coast.
• The couple were snowed into a hotel with 40 guests when they decided to head out into the blizzard.

A Boston-based couple tied the knot in the middle of a blizzard hammering the East Coast on Saturday.

Sally and Adam Irujo met five years ago and told Insider their wedding at Rhode Island's public library was nearly scrapped after a storm blanketed the area in heavy snowfall.

The couple were snowed in with 40 of their guests at the Hilton in Providence as a blizzard carrying 40-mile per hour winds swept through, they said. "There was a no driving ban, so we were literally snowed in, nobody could come and nobody could go," Adam, who works for a power company, said.

Dealing with freak weather wasn't exactly part of their agenda. They'd booked the venue a year in advance when the temperatures were a more pleasant 45 degrees Fahrenheit, they said.

"We were joking for the whole year, there's going to be a blizzard, and sure as can be it's literally the blizzard of the year," Adam said.

On Friday, they said they got a call from the venue advising them to push everything to Sunday, warning that incoming weather was likely going to throw their original plans on Saturday into jeopardy.

They agreed, but as they sat with guests inside the hotel on Saturday, a plan quickly unfolded to head out into the storm to hold the ceremony they always wanted in front of their "favorite people."

"My dad said, 'We got nothing to do, do you want to do a ceremony?'" Adam, 32, said.

The whole wedding party geared up in snowsuits and walked two blocks to the venue for a spur-of-the-moment wedding.

"We had nothing else to do so why not," Sally joked. Adam's dad, who was always going to officiate the wedding and was prepped with the legal paperwork, pronounced the couple married once everyone arrived.

Despite tough weather conditions, the Irujo's still dressed the part. Sally wore a cream skirt she originally used for their rehearsal dinner with a white sweater, and pulled her hair back underneath a cream-colored hat. "I actually had snow pants on my way over for the first 10th of a mile," Sally, 30, said, adding that she wanted to take them off for the actual ceremony.

Meanwhile, Adam surprised everyone at the impromptu altar by unveiling a suit underneath snowboarding gear.

To top off the celebrations, the couple said everyone ended up playing in the snow — they were also keen to start a snowball fight once they'd officially said yes. "Adam actually fired the first shot at me," Sally said. "But it was so hard to do anything out there, if you didn't have goggles it was hard to see, it was crazy."

It's not the first time wild weather played a part in their relationship. Adam said he proposed to Sally a year and a half ago in the middle of a torrential rainstorm.

"We don't have too many days off together so I had to propose that day, I was like a year and a half overdue for the proposing anyways," Adam said. "I wanted to keep having these crazy adventures, I don't know anybody else like her," he added.

While Sally said she pictured getting married "barefoot on a beach in a loose flowy dress" when she was little, both she and Adam were thrilled with how everything came together.

And in any case, the pair hope to enjoy less extreme weather during their honeymoon to Bermuda in February. It'll be perfect, Sally said, "because Adam doesn't do too well in the heat."