Newly-wedded groom died just four months after his wedding


A newly-wedded groom had his funeral on what was meant to be the happiest day of his life.

Solomon Chau, 26, had originally planned to marry his fiancée, Jennifer Carter on August 21, the same day his funeral was held. The couple started planning the wedding in April 2014, when Chau was diagnosed with liver cancer in December.

They moved the wedding up to April 11, just four months before Chau died from his eight month battle with terminal liver cancer.


"He fought until his very last breath, and had all of his doctors shaking their heads in disbelief at just how much he could handle," Carter wrote on her Facebook on Aug. 17.

A video of the wedding shows the loving couple in April happily tying the knot, without any signs of sadness of the tragedy that would unfold. Photos from the ceremony showed the couple in each other's loving arms, with an album caption, "I have to love you as much as I can, for as long as I can, and I can never stop loving you, not even for a second."


While the marriage lasted four months, Carter writes she had enough love to last a lifetime.

"You and I should have been able to live the next 60 years of our lives together, but I'm still forever thankful that God gave us eight incredible years," she said.


Chau learned his liver cancer had spread and became terminal when he was rushed to the hospital with severe stomach pains in late March, according to a GoFundMe page for the wedding. In just a few days, more than 600 people raised $52,431 to support the couple's wedding and Chau's dying wish, "to have one last trip with Jenn."

Carter met Chau at his 19th birthday party, but she originally wasn't interested in him, according to his obituary in the Toronto Star. The two started dating after Chau moved to Toronto, and were dating for six years before Chau proposed.


They married at Casa Loma in Toronto, and it was described as "the wedding of a lifetime."

Their wedding album was captioned with a promise: "I love you. I'm always going to love you, til the end of my days and beyond. You'll see."

Source: Nydaily





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