Elizabeth Smart, who was once kidnapped and held captive by using a street preacher, has married her Scottish fiance inside of a private Hawaiian wedding ceremony.
The 24-year-old wed Matthew Gilmour Saturday for a Mormon temple on Oahu's Northern coast, according to family members spokesperson.
Smart's nuptials come on a monthly basis after her engagement. The bride and groom reportedly planned to wed in the summer, but moved the ceremony up resulting from ballooning media attention.
"She decided, regarding a week ago, the ultimate way to avoid significant distraction ended up being to change her wedding plans in order to get married within an unscheduled ceremony away from Utah," spokesperson Chris Thomas said inside of a statement.
Just a small group of members of the family were present should the couple tied the knot at the Laie Hawaii Temple in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, he explained.
Smart, who is a music student at Utah's Brigham Young University, met Gilmour while doing Mormon missionary work in Paris. Gilmour is originally from Aberdeen, Scotland.
The pair plans to embark on an extended honeymoon within an undisclosed location.
Marriage is but one aspect of what Smart once said are the "beautiful" next chapter of her lifetime. At age 14, she was in the middle of an Utah-wide search when she was kidnapped from her family home and repeatedly raped over the course of nine months.
She was obtained from her house in June 2002 by Brian David Mitchell, a nomadic Salt Lake City street preacher. Smart later told a court that Mitchell forced her right polygamous marriage, forced alcohol and drugs on her, and raped her daily.
"I realize that you know that what you did was wrong," Smart told Mitchell at his sentencing hearing not too long ago.
"You did it with full knowledge ... but I contain a wonderful life now no matter what you choose to do, you will never affect me again."
Convicted in 2010, Mitchell is serving your life prison sentence without parole.
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