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COUPLE RECREATES WHOLE WEDDING CEREMONY FOR SICK GRANDMA

Newlyweds, who had gotten married two weeks previously, traveled 360 miles to re-stage their entire wedding ceremony for a second time — so that the bride’s ill grandmother could think that she was attending the real “big day."

Childhood sweethearts Will and Rebecca Heppell, both 26, tied the knot the first time in front of 60 guests in a picturesque ceremony in the English Cotswold Hills last month.

But the couple then re-enacted the whole wedding service and the reception in a more unusual setting exactly two weeks later—at the elder care home where Rebecca Heppell's grandmother, Peggy Dracup, is currently a patient.

The grandmother is 91 and has Alzheimer’s. She was not healthy enough to attend the first ceremony, so the couple repeated the whole thing in detail 164 miles away, in order to make grandma part of their big day.

Rebecca said, "It was a really special day and it was great that grandma could be part of it. She was overjoyed and did not know the difference."

She added, "Her memory is not great, but she knew who we were, and she kept saying how beautiful my dress was."

The newlyweds are both teachers. They met as teenagers and got engaged in Iceland last March.

When it came time to plan their first ceremony, the couple wanted to make sure the grandmother could be a part of it. But the staff at Osborne House, where Peggy Dracup is living, felt she would not be strong enough to make the long journey to the Cotswolds venue.

Undeterred, the couple arranged to recreate the whole day in the grounds of the care home with the grandmother in attendance.

The second ceremony was an exact duplicate of the first — it was even decorated exactly the same way.

The couple was careful to go into "great detail" to recreate their special day, right down to imitating their very same moves on the dance floor at the reception, afterward.

Bride Rebecca said, “It was great. Grandma did not know that it was not the real ceremony, and she loved it. And we were not as nervous the second time round. It was much more relaxed."

The bride said the people at "the care home were absolutely amazing. The events manager went above and beyond and created a magical setting with a spectacular wedding cake covered with handmade sugar roses."

Rebecca’s mother added, "It was delightful to see my mom interacting with so many people, smiling and laughing and having all her family around her.”

One thing is for sure: that grandmother must be a very special lady, to deserve such amazing effort from her relatives.

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