Terminally ill Jade Goody married on/off boyfriend Jack Tweed in the UK on Sunday. Jack proposed to Jade on Valentine’s Day, shortly after doctors announced they were unable to stop her cancer from spreading.
The couple married in front of 200 family and friends at a 14th century estate in Essex. Although Jade struggled with pain, she was able to make it through her vows.
Goody had endured a difficult night before the wedding and needed heavy medical assistance to cope with the severe pain the cancer is causing. She had arrived at the venue by helicopter with medical staff on standby.
Despite the pain, Miss Goody was determined to battle through standing for some of the 40 minute ceremony. But she was forced to ask for a chair towards the end as exhaustion set in.
Her £3,500 dress donated by Harrods had to be specially adapted with a pouch to keep her cocktail of cancer drugs in.
Tweed, 21, knelt beside her for the period she was unable to stand so that they could maintain eye contact.
Spokesman Max Clifford said: “They are now man and wife. It was an outstanding heart-rending ceremony with lots of tears and laughs. They are a couple very much in love. They are very happy to be married. This is their one night together and it may be their only night together, compliments of Jack Straw.”
He added she had been in good spirits during the ceremony but the couple wept as they exchanged vows.
Later, as they signed the register, her sons from her relationship with television presenter Jeff Brazier, Freddie, four and Bobbie, five, sat on the couple’s lap.
The boys then helped carry their mothers train as she and her new husband made their way out of the church to a standing ovation.
Ten white doves were released as the couple left the building.
A British tabloid documented the wedding, so we should be seeing photos of the ceremony sometime soon. According to the Daily Mail, Jade sat for a two-hour photo shoot immediately after ceremony, and then slept for a few hours before joining the reception party.
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