Elizabeth Smart, whose kidnapping in 2002 riveted the country, married her boyfriend, Matthew Gilmour, in a private, spur-of-the-moment ceremony yesterday in Hawaii.
Smart met her 22-year-old fiancee while both were doing Mormon mission work in Paris, France.
“To be in one of her favorite places with her family has made for a dream wedding. It’s been an absolutely beautiful day,” said her spokesperson, Chris Thomas. “She is positively radiant. And Matthew couldn’t be happier.”
Smart, 24, and Gilmour, 22, will honeymoon at an undisclosed location before returning to Salt Lake City, Utah.
In January, a family member revealed that Smart was engaged and would get married over the summer.
The couple instead decided upon an earlier wedding to avoid media attention.
Smart’s father, Ed Smart, said, “We’re just thrilled that she’s married,” adding that the Maui wedding was “kind of a spur of a moment thing in a way.”
Smart was taken from her parents’ home at knife-point in 2002 at the age of 14. She was found in March 2003, about 18 miles from her home with Brian David Mitchell and his wife, Wanda Barzee.
Mitchell was sentenced to life imprisonment in May of last year after being convicted of kidnapping and rape.
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