
WATCH: Illinois Dad With Stage 4 Cancer Gets Surprise Chance To Walk Daughter Down The Aisle
Here's a warm fuzzy story for you.
If you're planning a wedding, there's a lot you take into consideration. And in the Chicago suburb Arlington Heights, a special consideration was made.
Grace Benway and her fiancé, Thomas Decourcey, were planning to get married in Colorado next month. Grace told NBC Chicago her father, Dan Benway, "did really want to try to make it" but the rapid progression of his Stage 4 pancreatic cancer didn't allow him to go to an out-of-state wedding.
Now lately, Dan's health has been in a decline and the nurses at Endeavor Health Northwest Community Hospital helped Grace plan an impromptu ceremony, a moment that Grace knew meant a lot to her dad.
In a quick wedding that came together in less than 24 hours, Grace and Thomas got married in the garden at the hospital. Dan wanted to physically walk his daughter down the aisle but because of the cancer, he had to roll beside her in a wheelchair.
But Grace and her dad made their way down the aisle hand-in-hand.
Watch the sweet moment here:
Dan thanked everyone who helped plan the ceremony and praised his new son-in-law, saying he is a "great man". He said:
I'm very blessed to have him with her, and they're going to be a great couple. I couldn't ask for anyone better.
Dan has been fighting pancreatic cancer since being diagnosed 2 years ago. Grace said they were "just excited to be able to do something with him" for the wedding.
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