Bride battling breast cancer dies 18 hours after wedding
A Connecticut bride lost her battle with breast cancer just 18 hours after exchanging wedding vows with her husband.
The former Heather Lindsay and David Mosher said, “I do” Dec. 22 in the chapel of St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center in Hartford. She was dressed in her wedding gown and lying on her hospital bed. The 31-year-old bride died the next day.
“Some of her last words were her vows,” Mosher told ABC News.
The couple fell in love after meeting at a swing-dancing class in 2015.
The Broad Brook, Conn., resident was diagnosed with an aggressive type of breast cancer in December 2016. That night, Mosher of North Haven, Conn., proposed to her as they rode in a horse-drawn carriage.
“Now more than ever, I needed for her to know that she’s not going to do this alone,” said Mosher, 35.
The two planned their wedding for Dec. 30 while the bride-to-be underwent two surgeries and chemotherapy. But a doctor told them to marry “sooner than later,” Mosher told ABC News.
The couple exchanged vows in front of loved ones inside the hospital eight days early. Heather Mosher wore a wedding dress, wig and jewelry while she lay in bed on life support.
“She was dying, and it was clear while we were all there that these were the last moments of her life,” bridesmaid Christina Karas told ABC News.
Her funeral was Saturday, the day the couple initially planned to wed.
“She held on to stay alive for the wedding, a wedding to the man of her dreams,” Karas said.