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| Elizabeth Smart |
Ed Smart confirmed the news to People, telling the site that the family is “very excited for her.” He said that she broke the news to them last Saturday, admitting that he was not really surprised. “They've been very happy together. We're just thrilled. We're looking forward to her moving on to this next stage and leading a very happy life,” he said.
Smart’s father added that the family wants to keep the wedding a very private affair. He would not confirm Gilmour’s name to People, adding that Smart "wants to keep it very private and feels very strongly about that right now.”
However, The Salt Lake Tribune did some digging, reporting that online wedding registries at Williams-Sonoma and Pottery Barn list a July 1 wedding date for an Elizabeth Smart and Matthew Gilmour.
The Tribune reports that Gilmour is from Scotland and the two may have met last year when Smart was in France for a Latter-Day Saints mission.
The Los Angeles Times reports that Smart was the victim of a self-proclaimed preacher who abducted her in the middle of the night and repeatedly raped her during the nine months she was held captive. Smart testified in the trial against her kidnapper, Brian David Mitchell, which lead lengthy prison terms for him and his partner, Wanda Barzee.
As the Tribune notes, the Brigham Young University senior has been making more public appearances lately, including a November press conference in Salt Lake City to talk about the Penn State University child sex abuse scandal. Deseret News also reports that Smart has advised kidnapping victims to “not to let it hold them back” in their lives.
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