An 11-year-old girl in a wedding dress is a strange sight. The only thing missing from the magical day was the groom. Still, like most brides, Josie Zetz claims it was the happiest day of her life, because she got to walk down the aisle with her dad, Jim.
According to an article in the Huffington Post, photographer Lindsey Villatoro takes pictures of terminally ill clients and was contacted by Josie's mother to capture some shots of Josie with her 62-year-old father, who has pancreatic cancer.
Before long, Villatoro became inspired to go one further and stage a surprise wedding—"complete with flowers, desserts, a promise ring and a dress." The idea was to create a positive memory for the girl who will likely have lost her father by the time she is old enough to marry.
The end result was an emotional video entitled, "Walk me down the Aisle Daddy."
"There is going to come a day very soon when he's not here," said Villatoro. "The goal when I do these things is to preserve that person. Most people focus on the death and not the beauty of that person, who they were and the memories that they leave."
Walk me down the Aisle Daddy from Lindsey Natzic Villatoro on Vimeo.
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