This London couple's gender reveal descended into 'chaos' when their smoke cannon set off the fire alarm - leaving guests standing on top of each other to try to turn it off for almost an hour. Mum-to-be Stonney Sabinorio, 29, and husband Francis Sabinorio, 27, had invited their closest friends and family members to a gender reveal party on 1st June.
However, the party soon descended into 'chaos' when pink smoke from the gender reveal cannon set off the fire alarm at the rented hall in London Borough of Brent, North West London.
Side-splitting footage shows the moment the smoke makes contact with the fire alarm on the ceiling, before emitting an incessant high-pitched warning sound.
The happy couple can be seen posing for sophisticated photos - while panicked party guests get creative by forming a human pyramid and wafting the alarm with a towel in a desperate attempt to turn it off.
The content creator claims that she thought the gender reveal cannon contained confetti, and wouldn't have set it off indoors if she knew it contained smoke.
Stonney claims that the siren continued for so long that they just 'got used to it' - and even kept dancing as the shrieking persisted in the background.
Luckily, after almost an hour of grappling with the stubborn alarm, a party guest flipped a switch in the main power system downstairs - and peace was restored.
The expecting mum claims that the scene was 'chaos' and that she was scared that the fire brigade would have been called if they hadn't quietened the noise in time.
Stonney, from London Borough of Brent, North West London, said: "Popping the cannon was such a happy moment. We were given 5-10 minutes to enjoy it, and then the alarm started ringing.
"We thought that they were confetti. If we knew that they were powder, of course we wouldn't have used them because we were indoors. I really saw everyone's teamwork. They were carrying each other, and everyone was coming over to us to take pictures but my eyes were just on the alarm.
"Everything in my head was chaos. I was smiling on the outside for all my friends that wanted to take pictures of me, but my head was really on that alarm. I wanted it to turn off - there's nothing I can do as well. I'm pregnant so I couldn't even do it myself.
"No one knew how to stop it. We were trying to figure it out. We were scared that firemen would come if we didn't turn it off. We were trying to blow air on it with a towel and carry each other.
"A lot of people tried to help us. There were people carrying each other who didn't even know each other - they were just trying to fix it. Then after the DJ saw that the alarm won't be turning off soon, he started playing disco music and people started dancing over the top of the alarm. We just got used to it.
"Eventually, we found the main power, which turned it off." Despite feeling as though the alarm disrupted the big reveal, Stonney still sees the unfortunate incident as a 'funny memory' to look back on.
The soon-to-be mum-of-one is now looking forward to the birth of her baby girl in August. Stonney said: "Me and my husband were so happy, especially when we knew about the girl.
"It was just annoying because the momentum stopped when the alarm started ringing. After we turned it off, we just carried on with the party.
"Some people went home, and some people stayed and enjoyed the rest of the music. It's a good job that the alarm went off at the end, after the gender reveal, because what if that happened midway through? It would have ruined everything.
"It was good timing, it was late evening anyway - so it made other people go home, or else we would have been staying there until midnight. "It's a very funny memory to look back on. It's very memorable. Me and my family designed everything from start to finish, and everyone had a great moment [together] as well."
