A newlywed couple died after the helicopter carrying them from their wedding crashed into the side of a mountain in Uvalde, Texas, authorities said.

The couple Will Byler and Bailee Ackerman Byler got married on Saturday evening at the Byler family ranch before departing on the helicopter in front of family and friends. Uvalde is in northwest Uvalde County, about 100 miles west of San Antonio.

The aircraft crashed into a mountainside killing both occupants after it scattered rose petals over the newly-weds in a village in Calabria, southern Italy.

Stunned wedding guests who hired the plane for the stunt said the aircraft suddenly lost altitude and careened across the roofs of several houses in the village of Caccuri, near Crotone, before smashing into a cliff.