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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Cate Edwards is tying the knot with her long term boyfriend this weekend, but without her beloved mother by her side.

The pretty brunette daughter of John and the late Elizabeth Edwards, who passed away on December 7, 2010, after a six-year battle with breast cancer, is marrying Dr. Trevor Upham at the North Carolina home her parents built, and she spoke lovingly of her mother and the wedding plans they made together.

“In the year since I said goodbye to my remarkable mom, so many things have changed,” Cate said in a heartfelt article she wrote for Glamour magazine.

“Many of those changes—like my upcoming wedding—were rooted in the days when she was still wonderfully, mischievously alive. On the Friday after Thanksgiving 2010, just before we learned that Mom’s cancer had spread to her liver, my boyfriend, Trevor Upham, surprised me by flying in to visit my family in North Carolina.

Cate Edwards' upcoming wedding day is gearing up to be a bittersweet time.

The daughter of former presidential candidate, John Edwards, is getting ready to walk down the aisle with fiancé Trevor Upham and although it will, without a doubt, be one of the happiest days of her life, one person will be sadly missing from the celebrations -- Cate's mom Elizabeth.

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Elizabeth, died in December 2010, age 61, after a long battle with cancer, but although she is gone she is not forgotten.

"We got engaged shortly before she passed away, and we got a chance to really talk about what the wedding would be like," Cate, 29, told NBC news.

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"[My mom] was so happy because she loves my fiancé and knew that I was on this path that she was happy with and comfortable with. We talked a lot about the wedding and little details, and I'll obviously be thinking about her a lot that day."

Cate has created the Elizabeth Edwards Foundation, in honor of her mom. The organization will support high school students who have limited resources but "great potential."

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"Her outlook was 'Nothing is impossible,' " Cate said. "She never gave up hope even in her last week of life; she never gave up hope that a cure could be out there and that she could beat this.

"Big choices that I make … little choices that I make, sort of everything I do, I hear her voice, the same way I did when she was alive."

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