A gravely-ill British 21-year-old made her way down the aisle in a wheelchair with an oxygen tank to realise her dream of getting married.
A few days after the ceremony, Kristie Tancock received the new set of lungs that saved her life, NY Daily News reports.
Ms Tancock suffers cystic fibrosis, a chronic disease which affects the lungs and digestive tract, and never thought she would live past 21.
Just two days before her June 16 wedding last year — filmed for the TLC documentary Breathless Bride: Dying to Live, which goes to air in the US next week — Ms Tancock contracted a life-threatening infection and doctors said she was too sick to walk down the aisle.
But despite being unable to breathe without medical assistance, Ms Tancock, from Devon in southwest England, was determined to go through with it.
She married the love of her life Stuart Tancock with three nurses helping her to the altar and tubes supplying oxygen to her nose.
Mr Tancock praised his wife's determination through an illness he described as: "It's like she's suffocating, drowning".
Just eight days after the wedding, when Ms Tancock thought she was living through her final moments, she received a phone call that a pair of lungs had become available.
"I was just hours from death," she said.
Only six months after having the life-saving double-lung transplant, Ms Tancock's health has rebounded and she has returned to teaching pole-dancing fitness classes.
She said her journey back to health was difficult and she had to relearn how to walk and talk.
Ms Tancock is now training for a 290km bike ride for charity in September.
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