Woman to be buried in dress she planned to get married in

Publish date: 2024-09-18

A bride-to-be who died last week will be wearing the dress she was meant to get married in when she is buried this weekend - on the same day that was meant to be her wedding.

Stacey Evette Bond, from Bluffton, South Carolina, died when she suffered what her husband suspects was a heart attack while returning home from Georgia on August 12.

Bond, a mother-of-four, was set to marry Guy Weaver, from Augusta, Georgia, on August 20 in front of more than 300 friends and family.

Stacey Evette Bond, from Bluffton, South Carolina, who died suddenly last week, will be buried on Saturday wearing the dress she was going to get married in - on the same day

Stacey Evette Bond, from Bluffton, South Carolina, who died suddenly last week, will be buried on Saturday wearing the dress she was going to get married in - on the same day

Instead, they will gather Campbell Chapel A.M.E. Church in South Carolina to say goodbye to the 41-year-old.

Weaver said Bond will be buried in her mermaid-style wedding dress and that he will wear the white tuxedo he planned to marry her in because it is exactly what she would have wanted.

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'She has worked so hard the past year for this wedding. You just don't know,' the heartbroken fiance told The Island Packet of Hilton Head.

'Stacey wanted this so much.'

Bond will be wearing her mermaid-style wedding dress (seen in a video recorded by her mother) at her funeral on Saturday in South Carolina

Bond will be wearing her mermaid-style wedding dress (seen in a video recorded by her mother) at her funeral on Saturday in South Carolina

Bond and Guy Weaver (pictured) were to be married in front of 300 friends this weekend, instead now he has to say goodbye to his fiancee Bond and Guy Weaver (pictured) were to be married in front of 300 friends this weekend, instead now he has to say goodbye to his fiancee

Bond and Guy Weaver (pictured) were to be married in front of 300 friends this weekend, instead now he has to say goodbye to his fiancee 

Weaver said after learning the news of Bond's death, he immediately thought of how he was going to take care of her four children.

'I've got to talk to God... I've got to be strong when I get there for these four kids,' he said.

Bond's mother, Elizabeth Lovell, also said the ceremony will be a wedding ceremony because that's what he daughter wanted.

The funeral will be themed as if it was Bond and Weaver's wedding, because that is what the mother-of-four (pictured) would have wanted, her fiance and family said

The funeral will be themed as if it was Bond and Weaver's wedding, because that is what the mother-of-four (pictured) would have wanted, her fiance and family said

Bond's funeral will take place at the Campbell Chapel A.M.E. Church in South Carolina (pictured) on Saturday afternoon

Bond's funeral will take place at the Campbell Chapel A.M.E. Church in South Carolina (pictured) on Saturday afternoon

'I've got to get through it. She is my daughter. I've got to do it,' the grieving mother told the newspaper.

 She added: 'I'm burying my daughter in her wedding dress, OK?

'But this is not sadness. God makes no mistakes. He brought Stacey here to do a job. She did her job. She was who she was. Her four kids are going to be A-OK.' 

She added that she does not want anyone at the funeral to be wearing black, and will decorate the yard where a wake will be held to look exactly like her daughter's dream wedding would have.

The theme was going to be 'peaches and cream'.

Weaver, who grew up in nearby Hephzibah, was the Georgia peach, and Stacey was the cream.

Hampton County Coroner Ernie Washington Sr. said he will determine a cause of death after getting toxicology test results.

The funeral service is set for 2pm on Saturday, with a visiting on Friday between 6pm and 8pm.

 

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