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priority was making sure her dress was sufficiently different to the one she’d worn during her mum’s bedside ceremony.

“I was thinking of ways to revamp the dress as Mark had seen it at the hospital blessing,” Sarah explained.

“I saw a beautiful lace which could transform it and got a dressmaker to add it.

“Then when I looked in the mirror it was identical to the dress mum originally loved.

“She got her way in the end and I just smiled. That was my mum, always there guiding me through.”

The sun shone for the ceremony at Comrie Croft although proceedings had to be halted for a few moments when Sarah and Mark’s two- year- old son, Cameron, started crying.

The lad, resplendent in a kilt, was lifted into his dad arms for a cuddle and the registrar proceeded. He dropped off to sleep just as the vows were completed.

Sarah’s dad Bobby, 54, a glassworker, said: “It was a hugely emotional day.

“I barely slept the previous night, just worrying about how I would bear up for the wedding.

“Losing the love of my life has been so painful. It’s so easy for men to plunge into despair when their wives die.

“You find yourself waking at 3am feeling so alone after so many years of married life.

“But my kids and grandkids have been a huge blessing.

“Rosanne would have been proud of the way of us all. I am just so sad she didn’t live to see it.

“It meant so much to her to see Sarah and Mark getting a marriage blessing at her hospital bedside.”

Sarah’s brother Robert gave a loving tribute to Rosanne during the ceremony.

“She was the best mum anyone could have wished for,” he told the 100 guests.

Rosanne’s younger sister, Agnes Schroder, stepped in for Rosanne at the top table.

As the reception got under way Sarah and her dad danced to AC/ DC’s smash hit Whole Lotta Rosie, which was talented singer Rosanne’s favourite song.

As a schoolgirl Rosanne excelled in running and even beat Olympic bronze medallist Linsey MacDonald in cross- countr y school championships.

But a painful stomach complaint just after she turned 50 turned out to be pancreatic cancer. She died weeks later. Bobby said: “I asked them to make it as painless as possible. You do anything to spare loved ones a distressing end.”