A man took part in a beer chugging challenge in order to save his wedding

• On May 5, Anna Herd and Brad Cole got married, and it was great.
• But their perfect day was nearly ruined by a noisy frat party next door.
• In a now-viral Twitter thread, Cole explained that the only way he could convince the frat to quiet down during the ceremony was to chug a beer.
• Cole didn't tell Herd about the situation until after the wedding ceremony because he wanted to keep her calm on their wedding day.
• The couple thinks the story is funny.

On May 5, Anna Herd and Brad Cole got married in Oxford, Mississippi, and it was great. But their perfect day was nearly ruined by a noisy frat party next door.

In a now-viral Twitter thread, Cole said that when he arrived at their wedding venue he found that there was a full-on party happening next door. The noise was so loud that it would've ruined their ceremony. 

But Cole didn't want his bride-to-be to stress about the situation, so he and a few of his groomsmen decided to take matters into in their own hands before Herd arrived.

The men paid a visit to the pool party next door to reason with the party-goers, who were members of Sigma Chi at the University of Mississippi, to ask them to quiet down. But the students' logic was, uh, almost unbelievable.

Cole then very casually returned to the wedding venue next door and the ceremony went off without a hitch. Herd even told INSIDER that she didn't really suspect anything was amiss.

"I had no idea about any of it until after the ceremony!" she said. "I could hear that there was something going on just on the other side of the brush and there was even a moment where the music got turned up during the ceremony that I noticed but it quickly turned back down."

But she did add that Cole made two jokes during the ceremony that didn't quite make sense to her at the time.

"There were two moments during the ceremony that Brad referenced it but since I didn't know what had gone on I was a little confused," she said. "We drank wine as a part of our ceremony and Brad said, 'not the first time I've had to chug for this wedding.' People laughed, but I was out of the loop. Then when we walked down the aisle together as a married couple Brad yelled 'Hey, Sigma Chi, turn it up!'"

Cole told INSIDER that he didn't mind having to deal with the rowdy partiers.

"Since it worked out, I have to say the whole thing was great," he told INSIDER. "I wasn't nervous about getting married but the day of the wedding had been hectic because that is the nature of wedding days. When you're thirty minutes away from the ceremony a cold beer and a good laugh are exactly what the doctor ordered."

The next day, the newlyweds had some leftover beer from their reception, so they decided to give it to the brothers of Sigma Chi as a way of saying thanks. Cole said that he used his thread as a way to get in touch with the fraternity brothers.

Cole's original thread has gone super viral. While many people found the story funny, some skeptics weren't sure if it was real. And to the naysayers, Cole offered this photo proof of his very real wedding day experience.

Now that the dust has settled a bit, the couple thinks the situation is funny. 

"It going viral is just really funny to us. I'd actually joked before the wedding that I wish somehow it would go viral for some reason but I'd totally forgotten I had even said that until after it actually did go viral and Brad reminded me of it," Herd told us. "It's pretty cool seeing people from all over the country getting a good laugh out of it."

Sign up here to get INSIDER's favorite stories straight to your inbox.

Join the conversation about this story »

NOW WATCH: This robot will take your beer pong game to the next level — here's why you need it for your next party