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Elizabeth Smart's wedding was moved up to Saturday because of attention given to the couple her father said.
By NBC News, msnbc.com staff and news services
Elizabeth Smart, who was kidnapped at age 14 from her Salt Lake City home and held for what she described as "nine months of hell,"?married her fiance in Hawaii on Saturday, her father told a Salt Lake City newspaper.
Ed Smart told the Salt Lake Tribune that his daughter wed Matthew Gilmour at the LDS Laie Hawaii Temple. The Tribune said a July wedding appeared to be in the works but the date was moved up because of attention the couple was receiving.
"The bride and groom were beaming as they left the LDS Temple," family spokesman Chris Thomas said in a statement, the newspaper reported.
Smart is now a 24-year-old advocate for missing children and occasional TV news commentator.
Smart was abducted at knifepoint from her bedroom in June 2002 by a homeless street preacher, Brian David Mitchell, and was repeatedly raped and forced to wander with her captor from town to town for nine months.
She was freed after being spotted by passers-by in a Salt Lake City suburb in 2003.
Mitchell was convicted in 2010 of kidnapping and unlawful transportation of a minor across state lines to engage in sexual activity. He was sentenced in May to life in prison.
Smart testified during Mitchell's trial, describing her time as his captive as "nine months of hell."
Mitchell's wife, Wanda Barzee, was sentenced to a 15-year prison term in 2010 after pleading guilty to conspiracy and cooperating with prosecutors in the case against Mitchell.
ABC News announced in July it had hired Smart as a contributor on stories about missing persons.
This article includes reporting by msnbc.com staff and Reuters.
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