A bride’s walk down the aisle is always a touching part of a wedding ceremony. It was definitely the most emotional one in this case. Bride Chelsie Hill, who has been paralyzed from the waist down since 2010, surprised her wedding guests by using a wheelchair to walk down the aisle.
Chelsie Hill told Insider that her husband-to-be Jay Bloomfield “hates” surprises. But that didn’t stop her from planning a major surprise for him on their wedding day. Hill knew she wanted to walk down the aisle at her wedding
Since she was paralyzed, she became the CEO and founder of the Rollettes, a wheelchair dance team in Los Angeles. She is also an advocate for wheelchair users and has more than 167,000 Instagram followers.
She has been with Bloomfield since 2014. Their wedding was at the Hyatt Regency Huntington Beach and was planned by The Wife of the Party.
Hill told that she’d always dreamed of walking down the aisle on her wedding day.
“I want to stress that there’s nothing wrong with sitting down in your chair,” Hill said to Insider. “But for me growing up, I always imagined myself walking down the aisle.”
“And I just wanted to feel that — not that my disability has taken anything away from me — but I just wanted to feel that heart to heart and stand up there eye to eye with him,” she added. “That was just really something really important to me personally.”
To make her dream a reality, she used leg braces and a walker. Her custom Galia Lahav wedding dress had a removable skirt that made transitioning from standing to sitting easier. She paired the dress with a coordinating veil from Galia Lahav and rented jewelry from Verstolo. Taylor Livesley did her hair, and Landyn Alexa was her makeup artist.
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Hill said Bloomfield’s jaw dropped when he saw her walking
Hill arranged it so that Bloomfield had his back turned to the aisle before she entered the ceremony. He turned around to see his bride-to-be walking with her father.
“As soon as I saw Jay, his jaw dropped,” Hill said.
“He was just in shock that I was walking because he had no idea,” she added.
The couple’s wedding photographer, Asha Bailey, made a TikTok that captured Bloomfield’s reaction.
“I just felt like that whole time our souls were locked in on each other,” Hill said. “I didn’t see anybody else around me. I just saw him.”
“After my accident, I wasn’t sure if I would ever find someone who truly loved all of me. You have accepted me fully, honored me, and adored all the parts of me,” Hill told Bloomfield in her vows, as she shared on Instagram.
“For this moment today, I wanted to do something I had always dreamed of. Stand eye to eye with you as we promise our lives to each other,” she went on to say.
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Hill’s surprises didn’t stop at the altar
She decided to incorporate surprise, choreographed dances into her wedding day too. She and her dad shocked guests with a dance choreographed by Phil Wright, and Hill and other professional dancers performed a number choreographed by Brinn Nicole for Bloomfield. She also used her leg braces during her first dance with Bloomfield, which she said was “special” for the couple.
“That was so amazing,” Hill said of the dance.
“I love that no matter how hectic my life can feel, Jay will always make me feel like I have time to still stop and smell the flowers,” she added.
Source: insider.com
