Connecticut bride battling breast cancer dies just 18 hours after wedding
Cydney Henderson
A Connecticut bride lost her battle to breast cancer just 18 hours after exchanging wedding vows with her husband.
Heather Mosher and David Mosher said "I do" on Dec. 22 at St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center in Hartford.
The 31-year-old bride died the next day.
"Some of her last words were her vows," David told ABC News.
The couple fell in love after meeting at a swing dancing class in 2015.
Heather was diagnosed with an aggressive type of breast cancer last December. That night, David 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," David told the news station.
The two planned their wedding for December 30th while Heather underwent two surgeries and several rounds of chemotherapy.
However, a doctor told them to marry "sooner than later," David told ABC News.
The couple exchanged vows in front of loved ones inside the hospital eight days early.
Heather wore a wedding dress, a wig and jewelry, while she laid in bed with an oxygen mask. She was on life support.
"She was dying and it was clear while we were all there that these were the last moments of her life," one of the bridesmaids, Christina Karas told ABC News.
Heather’s family held her funeral this Saturday, the day the couple initially planned their wedding.
"She held on to stay alive for the wedding… a wedding to the man of her dreams," Karas said.
The Associated Press contributed to this article.
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