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Dad Tells Stand-In, 'I'll Take It From Here'
LEHI, Utah -- Something borrowed, something blue. Something old, something flown back from Iraq.
Tessa Flitton received an unexpected wedding present Saturday.
Just as the procession started, her father, David Flitton, a Utah National Guard member on duty in Iraq since January, stepped in to escort her down the aisle.
"I think I'll take it from here," David Flitton told his brother and stand-in, Lawrence.
The astonished bride gasped, put her hand to her mouth to suppress a scream and started crying. Father and daughter embraced. Neither knew what to do next.
"Take your dad's arm," her mom, Renee Flitton, coaxed.
Wearing a dark green class A uniform with a white shirt, black bow tie and a huge grin, Staff Sgt. David Flitton walked his happily sobbing daughter to the front of the hall where she and Brandon McClellan were married.
"It was the last thing I ever thought would happen. I wanted him here so bad," she said.
So did Renee Flitton, who with help from her friends and co-workers, brought her husband home and kept him stashed away for four days.
"He needed to be here for his one and only daughter," she said.
LEHI, Utah -- Something borrowed, something blue. Something old, something flown back from Iraq.
Tessa Flitton received an unexpected wedding present Saturday.
Just as the procession started, her father, David Flitton, a Utah National Guard member on duty in Iraq since January, stepped in to escort her down the aisle.
"I think I'll take it from here," David Flitton told his brother and stand-in, Lawrence.
The astonished bride gasped, put her hand to her mouth to suppress a scream and started crying. Father and daughter embraced. Neither knew what to do next.
"Take your dad's arm," her mom, Renee Flitton, coaxed.
Wearing a dark green class A uniform with a white shirt, black bow tie and a huge grin, Staff Sgt. David Flitton walked his happily sobbing daughter to the front of the hall where she and Brandon McClellan were married.
"It was the last thing I ever thought would happen. I wanted him here so bad," she said.
So did Renee Flitton, who with help from her friends and co-workers, brought her husband home and kept him stashed away for four days.
"He needed to be here for his one and only daughter," she said.
