Bride’s 94-Year-Old Grandfather 'Grew' All the Flowers She Used on Her Wedding Day
The bride also revealed that her grandfather walked her down the aisle as she sported a bouquet filled with his Celosia flowers
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Stock image of a bride holding a bouquetAn Indiana bride had the floral wedding of her dreams — all thanks to her grandfather.
Cassie Woodard shared in a viral video on TikTok that her 94-year-old grandpa Leo “grew and saved all the flowers” for her nuptials.
In the video, the bride panned the video across her grandfather’s yard to show the bright pink Celosia flowers he grew, which were planted around the expanse of his yard. She then cut to a video of the elderly man, shears in hand, picking the flowers from a patch to transport to her wedding.
Her final shot of the video showed bins filled with Celosia flowers on the back of a pickup truck, preparing to be transported to the wedding ceremony. She set the video to Zach Bryan’s “I Remember Everything.”
Woodard told WFMZ-TV that her grandfather tended to the garden as a tribute to the bride’s grandmother, who died in 2013. As a way to pay homage to her grandparents, the bride decided to use the flowers he grew as part of her bouquet as he walked her down the aisle. The flowers were also used for her groom’s boutonniere.
Additionally, her grandfather's green thumb ensured the sides of the church pews and altar were decorated with beautiful floral accents as well.
She shared that the video was originally taken a day before the wedding, and she decided to shoot it in order to preserve the memory of the two of them picking flowers together.
The bride even revealed in the comment section of the TikTok video that she dried “a bunch” of the flowers from her wedding day in order to preserve them for the future so that when she looked at the flowers, she could remember the special time spent with her grandfather.
Several commenters noted how sweet it was that her granddad did that for her. One person wrote, “What a memory he is giving you ❤️❤️❤️❤️.” Another commented, “This is the nicest act of service I’ve seen in a long time! He was probably so proud to be asked.”
One person added, “Can you imagine how proud he was to do that for you? 🥹,” to which the bride responded, “He was even more proud to dance with me… It was the best!”
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Woodard shared a separate video of her and her grandfather hand-in-hand as they danced the polka together. She noted that he was an “amazing polka dancer” in her video. The bride told WFMZ-TV that her grandfather had been happy to have been able to get up and dance with her at the wedding.
“Look at him go! You’re [lucky] to have this 🥰,” another person wrote.
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