--- title: Paralyzed Bride Walks At Wedding description: Jacquie Farmer taught herself to walk again in order to dance and walk down the aisle at her own wedding. canonical: https://time.com/4455766/paralyzed-bride-walks-wedding/ author: TIME article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-08-17T13:30:07.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T09:03:10.438Z og:title: Paralyzed Bride Teaches Herself to Walk Down the Aisle For Her Wedding og:description: She became paralyzed as a teen after a diving accident og:url: https://time.com/4455766/paralyzed-bride-walks-wedding/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltad8a968a2ea83473/6988a2a4bc6cfc59f43de462/paralyzed-bride-wedding.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1414 og:image:height: 795 og:image:alt: still life of figures of bridal couple og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Paralyzed Bride Teaches Herself to Walk Down the Aisle For Her Wedding twitter:description: She became paralyzed as a teen after a diving accident twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltad8a968a2ea83473/6988a2a4bc6cfc59f43de462/paralyzed-bride-wedding.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Paralyzed Bride Teaches Herself to Walk Down the Aisle For Her Wedding > Sponsored content. 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Family and friends of the bride were overcome with emotion in the moment, but Jaquie’s wedding photographers – couple team [Halie and Alec](http://www.lovestoriesbyus.com/love-stories-1/jaquie-andy) – [caught guests’ reactions](https://www.instagram.com/lovestoriesbyhalieandalec/) on camera for the bride and her groom Andy to go back and look at. “Seeing the reactions now from the photos Halie and Alec captured just brings me to tears every time,” Jaquie told[ Fox 59](http://fox59.com/2016/08/16/bride-paralyzed-in-swimming-accident-stuns-guests-walks-down-aisle-and-dances-at-wedding/). “It’s so easy to forget how miraculous it is that I can walk now since it’s the journey I’ve been going through for eight years. But when people react with such emotion and awe, it reminds me of just how blessed I am.” Jaquie was paralyzed when she was just 17, after diving into a friend’s pool and breaking her neck, Fox 59 reports. Recalling the incident, Jaquie told the network that after her jump she heard her friends laughing as she lay face down in the water, because they thought she was joking. Eventually, she was pulled out of the pool and someone called her mother to pick her up. Once at the hospital, Jaquie’s doctors told her that she was paralyzed, but what she remembers most is being able to feel her limbs, but not move them, according to Fox 59. “I remember looking over at my mom saying, ‘Am I going to be in a wheelchair forever?’ And holding back tears she said, ‘If God wants you to walk, you’ll walk,” she added. After that, and a hint of promise when she was able to move her big toe, Jaquie spent hundreds of hours in physical therapy and the gym as she worked towards building the strength to stand. Nearly five years after the accident, Jaquie met Andy Goncher on a dating app, and he proposed two years later, prompting Jaquie to make it a goal to walk down the aisle at their wedding. Just under a year later, Jaquie met her goal on May 22, 2016, as she was able to enjoy their day “wheelchair-free” as she had hoped. _This_ [_article_](http://www.people.com/article/paralyzed-bride-walks-down-aisle-wedding) _originally appeared on_ [_People_](http://www.people.com/people/)_._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4455766/paralyzed-bride-walks-wedding/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4455766/paralyzed-bride-walks-wedding/"},"headline":"Paralyzed Bride Teaches Herself to Walk Down the Aisle For Her Wedding","datePublished":"2016-08-17T13:30:07.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T09:03:10.438Z","description":"She became paralyzed as a teen after a diving accident","url":"https://time.com/4455766/paralyzed-bride-walks-wedding/","keywords":["motto"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltad8a968a2ea83473/6988a2a4bc6cfc59f43de462/paralyzed-bride-wedding.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Naja Rayne/People"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltad8a968a2ea83473/6988a2a4bc6cfc59f43de462/paralyzed-bride-wedding.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"still life of figures of bridal couple","caption":"still life of figures of bridal couple","creditText":"Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/motto/","name":"motto"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4455766/paralyzed-bride-walks-wedding/","name":"Paralyzed Bride Teaches Herself to Walk Down the Aisle For Her Wedding"}}]}] ```