Teenage Girl Fulfills Dying Boyfriend’s Final Wish By Marrying Him Before He Died

Amie Cresswell, 16, agreed to tie the knot with her boyfriend Omar Al Shaikh, also 16, when doctors warned he had less than a week to live. The couple met in school at the Four Dwellings Academy in Birmingham and became inseparable. Unfortunately, Omar’s leukemia, which was in remission, returned. He proposed to Amie on the hospital grounds, romantically giving her a flower for a ring. Friends and family gathered bedside for the wedding ceremony, with Amie in a pink wedding dress and flowers in her hair. Amie stayed beside her husband until he lost his fight for life three days later, and she stated the following according to METRO.

“I’m absolutely heartbroken. We had talked about getting married but never imagined we would be 16. We thought we would grow old together. The ceremony was so sad, but really lovely.”

Omar had been diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia after fainting during a football match at Easter last year. The couple had started to date eight months earlier. Amie stated the following according to the Trent.

“I had seen him around school a bit but we just got closer together. When he was told it had come back it was just a massive shock. I knew I wanted to stand by him through it all. As he put the ring on my finger he said he wished he had more time with me. I wish we had, too, but I’m so glad we had the chance to make this happy memory.”

Finding matching stem cells to help Omar unfortunately took too long because of his mixed Arabic and Romanian heritage. By the time matching stem cells were found, doctors confirmed that Omar was too ill for a transplant.

Omar’s mother, Mrs. Mirabela Al Shaikh, was also with him when he died on Monday, June 22, 2015, at Birmingham’s Queen Elizabeth Hospital, and she stated the following according to the Trent.

“The wedding was a very moving ceremony. I felt proud watching him. I have lost Omar but I have gained the best daughter-in-law in the world.”

Amie’s mother, Becky Cook, said Omar sought her permission before asking for her daughter’s hand in marriage, and stated the following.

“I just wanted them to have their big day. You could see how much it meant–his smile told you that.”

The power of love and positive thinking can sometimes work miracles. Danielle Josey Davis is living proof of this. She was married only seven months when a horrible motorcycle crash left her husband, Matt Davis, on life support, in a coma. To make it worse, doctors told her that there was a 90 percent chance that he would never wake up, and that she should let him pass. But she did not give up and then a miracle occurred: Matt woke up, according to an article in the Inquisitr.

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