This newlywed couple’s married life got off to a rough start when their house was blown up mid-ceremony, forcing them to leave their wedding early.

Eleni Vrettos has described how she dashed to her Cicero, Chicago, home “in her wedding dress” with her husband, Tom Davis, after hearing about the explosion.

Surprisingly, authorities have now discovered that a visitor that the couple had invited to their wedding is responsible for the tragic crime.

Vrettos married Davis on February 15, and as they said, “I do,” their two-story suburban home caught fire.

According to authorities, the intense flames that devoured the pad also set fire to a nearby structure and damaged another.

“We weren’t sure if it was us, obviously, but either way, we were devastated to know it was near us,” the bride previously told WGNTV. “My niece exited the church and confirmed that, sure, it was our house.

“I hurried here in my bridal dress, down the alley, and watched from a neighbor’s yard. “Everything was just smoke at that point.”

Davis made the following remarks to ABC 7 Chicago: “Once we realized that there was nothing we could do, we returned to the reception where we could at least be around people that loved and cared about us.”

Initial reports indicated that no one was inside the building at the time of the explosion; however, authorities later revealed that a man’s body had been discovered amid the wreckage.

Authorities identified the dead as Anthony Avila-Puebla, 31, on Saturday (1 March).

According to investigators, Avila-Puebla had a relationship with one of the persons who resided on the property and was at Vrettos and Davis’ wedding when the bomb occurred.

Police claimed camera footage showed the late 31-year-old parking his car a short distance away from the property before taking numerous containers packed with a flammable substance into the building.

Avila-Puebla went on at least three of these excursions, according to CBS News.

Police said he set fire to the house and never came back out, but his motivations are presently unknown.

The bride believed her house, which had been in the family for over 40 years, was unoccupied at the time of the explosion, implying that Avila-Puebla was still present at her wedding.

It is thought that he slipped away during the ceremony to carry out the blast.

“It’s difficult,” she explained two days after the event. “He had medication that he needed in the home too, so that’s hard.”

Tragically, the blast killed Vretto’s six cats—Bambi, Tucker, Reya, Graham, Old Boy, and Grey—and she revealed that her home lacked insurance.

The newlywed described her dogs as “the perfect little bunch, like they all got along.” Due to their youth, I expected to keep them for years and consider them my home.

“So now I don’t have a house, and on top of that, I don’t consider them my home. It’s most upsetting because they comfort me in the dark.

“My father died a few years ago, so we no longer have the house to remember him. “There’s a lot to mourn.”

A GoFundMe page put up for her and Davis has generated over $57,000 in only a few weeks.

It states that the newlyweds were ‘remodeling’ and ‘transferring house insurance, meaning they had no coverage to assist them in recovering from this heartbreaking loss.

Police are still investigating Avila-Puebla’s reasons behind the explosion.