Boston police save the day by ferrying stranded groom to wedding in harbor

Patrick Mahoney - plus groomsmen, photographer, DJ and flowers - needed help from police harbor patrol to get to Thompson Island

Officers with the Boston police department's harbor patrol unit are used to helping boaters in distress, but last weekend Officer Joe Matthews came to the rescue of a groom in danger of missing his own wedding.

Patrick Mahoney was scheduled to get married on Thompson Island in the middle of Boston Harbor on Saturday, but the boat that was supposed to ferry him to the island where his bride-to-be was waiting broke down, police said in a post on their website.