Groom Shock by Bride’s red wedding dress (exclusive)

• Tyler and Amanda Dufford had a “Victorian, Gothic, Viking-esque” wedding on October 19
• In a viral TikTok, the 31-year-old groom has a priceless reaction when he sees his 32-year-old bride walking down the aisle in a red dress
• The couple’s romance began after she broke his nose in the mosh pit

One groom couldn’t contain his shock when he saw his bride in a striking wedding dress on their big day.

When Tyler Dufford, 31, saw Amanda Dufford, 32, walk down the aisle, he immediately smiled and shouted “Yes!” as he threw his hands in the air. As Amanda came closer so Tyler could get a better look at her red wedding dress, he leaned over with his hands on his knees and his mouth open. He maintained his mesmerized expression until she reached the altar, and at one point even covered his open mouth with both hands.

“My reaction was a mixture of two different emotions. Number one was relief,” Tyler tells PEOPLE of his reaction, which is now going viral on TikTok. He explains that he was told Amanda would be wearing makeup for the ceremony. This worried him because he had rarely seen her wear makeup in the almost six years they had been together.

“I was shocked that she would come out of those doors and it wouldn’t look like Amanda,” he continues. “Because sometimes makeup does that. But the bridesmaids did a fantastic job of keeping it very subtle, keeping it very minimal, so that it still looked like my current wife. So when I was cheering, I was super relieved for her. She still looked like herself. And when I laughed about it, I said, ‘I don’t know why I was scared of that,’ so I just laughed it off.”

At first, Tyler could only see Amanda’s face and hair because a photographer blocked his view of her wedding dress. But once her red dress was in view, Tyler was shocked.

“When I got back up and the photographer stepped aside, my jaw dropped,” says Tyler. “I was absolutely stunned at how beautiful she looked and how perfect that dress was for her. And I literally sat there and thought, ‘That’s my wife.'”

For Amanda, Tyler’s reaction will be a memory she will cherish forever.

“I was like, ‘Yes, that’s my husband,’” Amanda tells PEOPLE. “I was so excited to see him at the end, so happy and we are still so in love, and it felt like we were meeting for the first time again and I couldn’t wait. I couldn’t help it. I almost wanted to run there, but I was still trying to remember how to walk.”

She adds, “I was smiling so much, but I was also trying to hold back the tears at his reaction, at how handsome he looked. It was a lot of nerves and it just ended: all I can do is just stare at him and realize how happy and how we are doing this.”

The couple, who both wear a custom-made ‘Mr.’ and “ma’am.” The black Converse with the words ‘Always’ and ‘And Forever’ on the soles were married on October 19 at The Castle at Wildwood Gardens in Georgia. The idyllic, fairytale-like woodland setting was complemented by a “Victorian, Gothic, Viking-esque” décor.

During the ceremony, Tyler and Amanda engaged in an ancient Celtic custom of tying the couple’s hands with rope, symbolizing their commitment to each other. This is where the expression ‘making the decision’ comes from.

As for Amanda’s dress, she says that red is an important color in Viking culture.

“We’re not traditional. Tyler knew I wasn’t wearing white, but he didn’t know exactly what I was wearing,” she says. “It was just something that suited us more and definitely gave it more of a gothic feel. And it’s something that I fell in love with for two years after seeing so many other dresses.”

The newlyweds’ meet-cute was just as unconventional. Before heavy metal music lovers fell in love, Amanda broke Tyler’s nose in a mosh pit when they met by chance at a concert in March 2019.

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“We were in the crowd moshing and suddenly, out of the corner of my eye, I thought, ‘This guy is hilarious. He’s wearing a chicken onesie,'” Amanda remembers of seeing Tyler for the first time. “And I actually came up to him, just messing around with him and dancing and moshing during Of Mice & Men. I went up to him and just looked at him like, ‘I like you. I want to keep doing this.’ But no words were spoken.”

She continues, “We go our separate ways and wait for the band, Nothing More, to start, and off to the side he lands right behind me. And I get super excited. I actually grab him by the wrist and I say, ‘Pit.’ ‘ I drag him into the crowd and try to find the perfect spot to start moshing. I push him into the crowd and give him an elbow and a shoulder right in the sternum.”

One thing led to another and the pair physically clashed.

“Somehow I ended up breaking his nose and breaking my lip,” Amanda says.

The now husband and wife continued their fairytale romance by honeymooning in a Hobbit-inspired tiny house in Tennessee’s Mountain Shire.