Hannah Ciabo, age 19 and daughter of Australian swimming champion Tracy
Wickham (pictured at left), was married to her soul mate on October 1, 2007. 
It was the 3-year cancer fighter’s dying wish to marry her fiancé, Tom O’Driscoll, age 20, before passing peacefully 3 hours later.  The bedside wedding was performed by a Catholic minister at Wesley Hospital in Brisbane, and was attended by 20 friends and family. “She knew what was going on, she gazed into his eyes and the love they had for each other was incredible,” says Wickham.  “Tom is the most special person … they were meant to meet. They were meant to get cancer and they were meant to meet because he was her soul mate and vice versa.”  The two met 1 year earlier while both were receiving treatment for cancer.  Both went into remission shortly after, but Hannah’s came back rapidly.  Despite all of this, the couple would not let death interfere with their love.

A funeral/wedding reception will be held this Sunday at 2pm in the chapel of All Hallows School in Brisbane.  Her family and friends are determined to make this a celebration of her life and of the love she shared with Tom during the last year of her life.  It is going to be a beautiful ceremony.

None of us know how long we have on this earth, so if you find love, thank God and hold to it tight. The perfect wedding and reception is more than about elegant wedding favors or bridesmaids gifts even though those are great. It’s all about true love