Bride Eva Zimmerman and groom Noah Schreck,join hands as Eva’s stepfather, Jack Shoemaker, officiates their wedding ceremony. (Erich Valo/Magnolia Weddings/Eva Zimmerman via AP)If you go
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With a loving act of kindness, Brittany Peck’s dad made her wedding-day dream come true.
Just before her father, Todd Bachman, walked her down the aisle on Sept. 26, 2015, he stopped the processional and continued down the aisle alone to grab the hand of her stepfather and make a surprise invitation that left everyone teary-eyed.
“He asked my stepdad to stand up and said, ‘You deserve this just as much as I do. Will you help me walk our daughter down the aisle?'” Peck recalls, adding that just she and her groom, Jeremy Peck, and their photographer knew of her dad’s plan.
For Peck, 22, whose parents split up when she was young and spent years fighting for custody of her and her sister, being given away by her father and her stepfather, Todd Cendrosky, was exactly how she envisioned getting married. But after all her family had been through, she never thought her father would share the spotlight with the second man Peck calls Dad.