"'I was in complete shock. It felt as if time stood still,' said Sarah Foreland, recalling the moment her father-in-law collapsed on her wedding day.
"The 36-year-old from the U.K. married her husband in August 2022 in a two-day event marked with a small ceremony in front of 20 close friends and family and a larger party the following day. However, tragedy struck what should have been the happiest day of the couple's lives. Foreland and her new husband were married in the intimate ceremony, but when her new father-in-law John, aged just 68, went to drive home, things went badly wrong.
"'He was two minutes from the venue when he collapsed at the wheel,' Foreland said to the charity British Heart Foundation (BHF). 'Incredibly, there were paramedics in a car behind, and they started performing CPR and used a defibrillator.'"