Devon Still and Asha Joyce Wedding News: Leah, The Cancer Survivor was The Flower Girl

By Zubera - 14 May '16 15:21PM
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Leah Still was the cutest flower girl at her dad Devon Still's wedding Friday and won all the hearts at the reception with a beautiful speech.

The 6-year-old cancer survivor, who captured the hearts of fans with her brave health battle. She led Asha Joyce down the aisle. She and Devon wed in a romantic ceremony at the New York Public Library in New York City.

Family and friends, including his fellow football players, attended the event, which was livestreamed on Facebook and was selected as The Knot's Dream Wedding of the year.

Devon and his little girl had made headlines two years ago when he revealed Leah had been diagnosed with stage IV neuroblastoma. In March 2015, the family was told she is cancer-free.

"Thank you for everyone supporting me and I love my new family," Leah told wedding guests at the reception, as seen in a video celebrity guest Holly Robinson Peete posted on Instagram. "Now let's party!"

The happy couple entered the wedding to Stevie Wonder's "Signed, Sealed, Delivered." At the reception, they and Leah all danced on "Uptown Funk" by Mark Ronson featuring Bruno Mars, earning applause from their guests.

"After we got engaged, we put off on the wedding because my daughter was supposed to be the flower girl," Devon said in a statement released by The Knot. "When the doctors gave her a 50/50 chance of surviving, we were not sure that we were ever going to get to that point where I was able to watch her walk down the aisle."

"Now that we are going into the wedding, I think it's finally hitting us that we are over that hump," he added. "She really beat cancer."

In addition to Peete, other attendees included Devon's fellow NFL players Carlos Dunlap,Brandon Thompson, Johnnie Troutman and Pat Sims, sportscaster Joe Buck and ESPN's Michelle Beisner.

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