Pilot looks out for bride-to-be's wedding dress by buckling it up in the cockpit: 'The safest place'

If someone says their wedding celebration took place without even a little drama or chaos, they are probably lying. Every bride might face at least a minor hassle while trying to navigate their wedding as planned. That is where bridesmaids come in handy. After all, only a woman can comprehend another woman's concerns. But for 28-year-old bride-to-be Jordan Giorgio (@jordan..giorgio on TikTok), it was a pilot who lent a hand with a wedding dress hassle. When Giorgio panicked when her wedding dress wouldn't fit anywhere on her flight from Florida to Italy, pilot Christine found a unique solution.

In a since-deleted 8-second video (later reshared by The Knot), Giorgio captured her wedding dress safely strapped up in the cockpit. "Traveling to Italy for my wedding and this woman pilot insisted on putting my dress in the cockpit with her and buckling it up," the text overlay on the clip reads. The pilot was incredibly happy to help Giorgio and the bride-to-be said, "You are so cute. Thank you." The video went viral instantly and people were glad to see a woman being there for another woman. 

Giorgio, a sports broadcaster from Tampa, Florida, and her now-husband, Anthony Paolini, had planned a destination wedding at Villa Balbiano in Lake Como, Italy. The bride wanted to ensure that there would be room for her dress during her flights and the airline let her take the wedding dress on board. While it went smoothly until their layover in Paris, their connecting flight from Paris to Milan posed the real challenge. The Air France plane was too small to fit Giorgio's gorgeous but huge Leah Da Gloria wedding dress. "We boarded first and attempted to use the coat check, but the dress wouldn't fit. Then, trying to stow it in the overhead bin proved futile—it was too small," Giorgio told PEOPLE.

When she started panicking, the flight captain, Christine, came to her rescue. The pilot herself carried the dress to the cockpit and secured it with a seatbelt. "I wasn't nervous one bit because she made me feel like it was the safest place to put it and she showed me exactly how it was secured. We sat in the first row of the plane and I didn't check on it once," the newly-married Giorgio said. She wanted to share this unique and wholesome incident with the world. "It was unlike any other destination wedding dress travel story I have ever heard. On most flights, you don't even get to meet or see the pilot who is getting you safely to your destination, so to have that kind of personal attention was incredible," she added.

What touched Giorgio about this experience was how the woman pilot ardently looked out for another woman who was nervous about the "biggest day" of her life. After Giorgio's video went viral, Christine reached out to her through Instagram DM's. "She sent me a DM saying, 'Hello, I was your pilot on your flight to Milan. A friend sent me the video on TikTok this morning and I just wanted to thank you for this great video. Have a wonderful day and wedding, of course, I can't wait to see this princess dress,'" her message stated.

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