Very Bittersweet Wedding

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Tehachapi wedding brings smiles, tears - Today's Paper > Local News | Bakersfield.com - Kern County news, events, shopping & search

During her wedding ceremony Saturday, Darlene Moriarity leaned over to her husband-to-be, Scott Slota and whispered, "I feel like a shooting star."

Soon, maybe today or tomorrow, Darlene's light will dim and die.

But in a touching fulfillment of the 48-year-old Tehachapi woman's final wish, she forever will be Mrs. Slota.

"He means everything in the world to me," she said of Slota — a 45-year-old Florida man she met some eight years ago through the Internet.

After being escorted in by her father, Larry Moriarity II, Darlene married Slota wearing a white dress and tiara in front of a small group of weeping friends and family in her living room in Stallion Springs.

Doctors say Darlene will soon succumb to cancer that has metastasized in her liver.

But on Saturday, she was alive. She wept and smiled through the ceremony, blowing kisses to everyone in the room.

She and Slota exchanged rings, and their long kiss brought cries of "Get a room!"

They cut cake, which they fed each other without shenanigans, and took care to spend time with all of their well-wishers.

The Rev. Wayne Meade, chaplain at Hoffmann Hospice, officiated the short ceremony through tears.

"We are very happy in the love that they found in the discovery of each other," he said. "This bond of marriage, as short as it may be, is still going to be so awesome."
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:( This gives me mixed emotions. I am sad for her in her medical state.. but so happy for her getting to have one of her dreams come true before her life is over....
 
:aw: very touchin' story! :tears: She deserves it before her candle is bein' blown away.
 
This is such a happy and sad story in one :( -:D (<- hence not sure which emotion to use) LOL...

She got the white wedding she always dreamed off I guess that stands for something!

I'm sure every member of the family attending the ceremony must have been torn between feelings.... I hope their time together will be one of the best!

JamieLynn
 
:aw:

This story would be a good heart-tugger. At least, the bride is going to be given a chance to live her life to the fullest despite of her illness.
 
Wow, that literally means in sickness and health. I wish them only the happiest memories to come. Good on the groom that chose to stay rather than to run from a woman that was dying and cared for him.

Im not sure how many men would have stayed in a relationship like that, or at least stayed honest to the relationship.
 
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