Non-profit helps divorced B.C. couple get remarried after cancer diagnosis

In a very realistic love story, a B.C. couple has reunited and remarried.

Kim and Andrew Hopkins of Port Moody, said “I do” for the second time last week at a reception filled with their close family and friends.

According to the Province, the pair first met in 1987 and were married in 1991. They had two daughters and then later filed for divorce.

After a few years, the couple reconnected again. They got engaged again, but then Kim was diagnosed with ovarian cancer and wedding plans were put on hold.

“Life got in the way,” Kim told The Province.

While the couple worked through chemotherapy and other struggles, A Wish to Wed Society decided to get involved. They volunteer to grant weddings to couples who are facing health problems.

“We believe that an illness does not define the human spirit and that we can rise above our physical limitations,” the non-profit’s website reads.

The organization, which The Province reports is the first of its kind in Canada, provided the planning, photography, makeup, catering, wardrobe and decorations.

The community centre in Vancouver’s Olympic Village was decorated in silver and white, with hints of teal – the colour of ovarian cancer awareness.

On the morning of the wedding, Kim told Jennifer Greenman of A Wish to Wed that she was ‘nervous, a happy, giddy nervous.’

“I told her if he still makes you nervous after all these years, it’s a beautiful thing,” Greenman told The Province.

“You have one go in this life, live it each and everyday,” said Kim. “Don’t put things off, do them now.”