A woman married the man of her dreams and her best friend since college, only to have him die just six weeks after she walked down the aisle.

Bethany Schmidt met future husband, Ryan Smith, when they were both students at the University of Oregon in 2005, and after graduation they moved into a small one-bedroom apartment in Eugene, where she got a job in graphic design and he worked in finance.

Jessica Vega was determined to get the wedding of her dreams, even if it meant pretending to be dying from cancer, conning well-meaning donors and lying to her fiancé.

Now the bride-turned-jailbird has been told by the Goshen, New York, court that she has to reimburse the $13,368 she scammed from people who thought they were helping a sick woman achieve her dying wish, reported the Times Herald-Record.

A bride who claimed to have cancer to get the wedding of her dreams has walked down the aisle and into a prison, after being indicted for five counts of felony grand larceny and one count of scheme to defraud.

Jessica Vega, 25, of Montgomery, New York, tore at the heartstrings of both friends and strangers two years ago when she told them all she was dying of acute myeloid leukemia and that her last wish was to marry Michael O'Connell, the father of her young daughter, before she died, reported the Times Herald-Record.

A British bride-to-be who dreamed of walking down the aisle despite a long-term battle with cancer lost her fight for life 90 minutes before she managed to say, “Til death do us part.”

Jemma Webb, 32, had been due to marry fiancé Alex Bradford, 30, at a beautiful English country house next month, but the date was brought forward as her condition worsened, reported the Telegraph.co.uk .

Anne Hathaway is deep in the planning stages of her wedding, but it isn’t turning out to be the blissful time she had hoped.

The 29-year-old beauty has been focused on the big day since her November engagement to actor Adam Shulman, 31, but she’s starting to bicker with her husband-to-be about the nuptials Star magazine is reporting.

For those who think they've lost their chance at happiness, a Kansas City couple proves that it's never too late to find true love, RadarOnline.com has learned.

Despite their combined age of 179 years, Fern Schurr, 96, has tied the knot with her 83-year-old boy toy, Paul Tredo, and the newlyweds are looking forward to a long and happy life together, KPHO in Missouri reported.

"Tonight means that I am starting a whole new life," said white-haired Fern from her wheelchair on her wedding day.

Cate Edwards, the daughter of disgraced former Sen. John Edwards and the late Elizabeth Edwards, was married in North Carolina on Saturday.

Cate, 29, wed Dr. Trevor Upham, 30, at the United Methodist Church in Chapel Hill, and then celebrated at a reception hosted by her father at the family's estate.

Cate's sister Emma Claire, 13,  was her maid of honor and her brother Jack,11, was a groomsman.

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One of her mother's favorite poems by Maya Angelou was read during the service. At the reception, a trio played during cocktails and a rock band took over after dinner and got everybody on their feet dancing.

"We want this to be really happy and joyous and that's what my mother would want," Cate told People.

Cate's parents were in the process of divorcing when Elizabeth, lost her long battle with cancer last December, just two weeks after Trevor popped the question.

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“I feel so lucky to have shared that joy with her, to have had the time to leaf through bridal magazines together and talk about the wedding,” Cate wrote in an article for the November issue of Glamour magazine.

As RadarOnline.com previously reported, Cate has said that her mother is never far from her thoughts.

“That willingness to give of herself is why mom feels so alive to me today. I think about her constantly. I hear her voice in every choice I make, big and small," revealed the new bride.

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Cate stood by her father's side in another more somber occasion earlier this year when he appeared in court facing six felony charges that he illegally used campaign contributions during his failed Presidential campaign to cover-up his affair with Rielle Hunter, reported Radar, with whom he fathered a child.

With his trial set for January, Edwards is scheduled to be in court on Wednesday in an attempt to get the case thrown out.

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