Paraplegic Vet Makes ‘Dream Come True’ For New Bride On Their Wedding Day

Monica Sanchez | November 13, 2014
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A paraplegic veteran gave his new bride the surprise of a lifetime on their wedding day.

While Michelle Johnson rested in the bridal suite, Sgt. Joey Johnson and his friends rigged a harness system that would allow him to stand and dance with his wife without his wheelchair, New York Daily News reported.

When Johnson returned to the wedding reception and saw her husband standing tall in the middle of the dance floor, she covered her mouth in amazement and burst into tears of joy. Joey Johnson had made their first dance as husband and wife truly unforgettable. 

"Everyone was crying in the room," Michelle Johnson told ABC News. "It was so amazing to be eye to eye with him again and such a dream come true."

As the couple held one another, swaying cheek to cheek to Christina Perri’s “A Thousand Years,” wedding guests smiled and cheered. Michelle Johnson, who actually runs a wedding planning business herself, said she was completely surprised.

"If you know Joey, he cannot keep a secret," Michelle Johnson said. "But he made my dreams come true and I never knew how special our day would really be."

According to New York Daily News, the Johnsons met at a country music concert in 2012, four months before Joey Johnson injured his spine in a motorcycle accident.

“Johnson had recently returned from 10 months of service at the Forward Operating Base Salerno in Khowst, Afghanistan. He suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder when he returned and started riding a motorcycle for an adrenaline rush, Michelle Johnson said.”

“‘Our family and I have been through so much, but we all know that Joey is still the same person, funny and loving guy he was before,’ his wife said. ‘He had to learn a different way of life with him and his chair: from showering, getting dressed and trying to function every day. But we are soul mates.’”

For all the non-believers, that’s what you call true love. 

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