Smart, kidnapped at 14, marries boyfriend in Hawaii
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February 20, 2012, Monday
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ELIZABETH Smart, who was kidnapped at age 14 from her Utah home and held for what she described as "nine months of hell," exchanged vows on Saturday with her boyfriend of the past year at a private wedding in Hawaii, her uncle said.
Smart, 24, and Matthew Gilmour, whom she met while she was serving on a religious mission in Europe for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, tied the knot at a Mormon church overlooking the Pacific on the island of Oahu, her uncle, Tom Smart, said.
A spokesman for her, Chris Thomas, said the couple were accompanied by a small group of immediate family, and he described them as "beaming" as they left the church.
They were to depart on an "extended honeymoon" after the day's festivities, Thomas said. Gilmour is 22, according to People magazine.
Smart, now an advocate for missing children and an occasional TV news commentator, said last month she was engaged to be married, with a wedding for early summer.
But facing media attention that was growing "increasingly invasive," Smart decided about a week ago "the best way to avoid significant distraction was to change her weeding plans and to get married in an unscheduled ceremony outside of Utah," Thomas said.
Smart, 24, and Matthew Gilmour, whom she met while she was serving on a religious mission in Europe for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, tied the knot at a Mormon church overlooking the Pacific on the island of Oahu, her uncle, Tom Smart, said.
A spokesman for her, Chris Thomas, said the couple were accompanied by a small group of immediate family, and he described them as "beaming" as they left the church.
They were to depart on an "extended honeymoon" after the day's festivities, Thomas said. Gilmour is 22, according to People magazine.
Smart, now an advocate for missing children and an occasional TV news commentator, said last month she was engaged to be married, with a wedding for early summer.
But facing media attention that was growing "increasingly invasive," Smart decided about a week ago "the best way to avoid significant distraction was to change her weeding plans and to get married in an unscheduled ceremony outside of Utah," Thomas said.
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