Kaitlyn Thompson and Tyler Grant had the perfect wedding this month — just not the wedding they planned, thanks to one of the Tri-Cities’ fierce fall windstorms.

Blustery gusts destroyed their wedding venue a day before the ceremony, but the couple were blessed, Thompson said.

“It was the craziest experience ever,” she said. “ … We just realized so much about our friends and family and how amazing and powerful family values are.”

Thompson and Grant, both 25, became high school sweethearts 8½ years ago when she was a student at Hanford High in Richland and he was a student at Kamiakin High in Kennewick.

They and their families spent weeks creating the setting for the couple’s dream wedding in a Kennewick wheat field that’s part of Thompson’s uncle’s farm.

In the shadow of the towering

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