This is the heartwarming moment a groom broke down in tears after hearing a surprise message from his young daughter as he waited to marry her mom.
The tear-jerking footage of Elliot Gwilliam’s daughter Evie has gone viral with over 120 million social media views and simply must be heard to be appreciated.
Elliot stood in the aisle at Hawkstone Hall, waiting for his 27-year-old fiancé Emma Beddow to arrive on their December 28th wedding. But when 3-year-old Evie delivered a heartfelt message over the public address system, Elliot said he “just lost it”.
Evie’s beautiful words and Elliot’s reaction were captured on camera as she says “Hello daddy, it’s me, Evie.”
“I’m walking down the aisle and will be with you now because you’re going to marry my mommy—and she looks beautiful. Like me.”
“We love you so so much, to the moon and back,” she added.
Fortunately, as the groom’s side’s party was very well dressed, pocket handkerchiefs abounded and were quickly furnished to Elliot who couldn’t hold back the tears.
“We’d been planning the wedding for about 12 months. I actually wasn’t nervous as I stood there waiting for Emma. I thought ‘nah, I’ve got this,'” Elliot said, according to the British news media outlet SWNS.
“Then I heard Evie’s voice and within moments I was gone. I don’t think I managed to pull myself together until Emma was alongside me.”
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“I did not stand a chance. But I wasn’t the only one. There wasn’t a dry eye in the house, especially when Evie came down the aisle as one of the flower girls,” he added. “She is such a character and always keeps us on our toes.”
The footage was captured by wedding videographer Owen Bloor, of JOL Videography, as he recorded the day for the happy couple.
Bloor told the BBC that he, Evie, and Emma all knew about the stunt, but he wasn’t sure about the rest of the wedding party. All the same, he didn’t expect it to be so impactful in the beautiful acoustics of the wedding hall, much less on screens and phones across the nation and the world besides.
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“It’s really crazy,” Bloor said regarding the virality of the video. “Elliot was really emotional about it; you can tell in the video. He just says, ‘Nah’, and that’s it.”
“I’m so happy for the couple as well, because it’s a moment that people are going absolutely mental for; it’s lovely.”
WATCH the video below and have a tissue nearby…
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